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5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. | 5 And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." |
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Life is too short to eat fat-free cheese
Wednesday, November 30, 2005Not quite up to the challenge
The Badgers B-Ball team fell to #22 Wake Forest last night 88-91 as they could not find an answer for Justin Gray (37 pts). Tucker (27 pts) and Butch (19 pts/ 10 rbs) played outstanding for the Badgers. The fact that the Badgers hung with a good program on the road is very encouraging. I did not think the Badgers would win the game, but they responded very well to two 10 pt defecits during the game and almost won it. The Big 10 is currently tied 3-3 with 5 games to go in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge which the ACC has owned for the last 5 years. Iowa and MI State should win their games, Indiana is going to be crushed by Duke (I f*cking HATE them!), MN will get spanked by Maryland and NW will probably lose to Virginia even though it will be the closest game of the 5. ACC will most likely win this series (again) 6-5.
Get that shit outta here! The Bucks pulled off a glorious victory last night over the now 10-4 Dallas Mavericks at the Bradley Center 113-111 in OT. The Bucks were without Redd and Smith for the game and the rest of the crew came through big time. The game was sealed when Andrew "ROY" Bogut (19 pts 14 rbs) blocked Jason Terry's last second shot (see above photo from the JS). Comeback Player of the Year TJ Ford also was huge with 24 pts and 7 assists. An equally big contributor was Bobby "don't call me Russell" Simmons with 26 pts and 7 rbs. Unsung bench player Mo Williams dropped 16 pts to aid in the offensive onslaught. I talked about the depth the Bucks had at the beginning of the season and it showed in this game with 2 starters out. The Bucks are 7-6 and once again outrebounded their opponents. Like I said on Monday, they keep doing that and the wins will keep coming. |
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Special Days and Events
Throughout the year you have many opportunities to participate in local or worldwide events to provide further community awareness and outreach.
Diabetes Screening
Partner with local health care providers to provide screenings at health fairs, places of worship, community centers and other locations.
Your Strides Event
You can sponsor a Strides event any time of the year or during any of the special days or months designated for awareness of diabetes and diabetic eye disease (retinopathy).
Diabetes Recreational Camps
Camps offer an array of service opportunities for Lions who want to support children and adults living with diabetes. You may want to serve on a camp committee or get involved with hands-on projects. Access the LCI webinar, "How to Get Involved in Your Local Diabetes Camp." Contact your nearest camp to find out how you can help. View or download the list of Lions-supported recreational camps.
World Diabetes Day: November 14
The World Diabetes Day campaign is led by the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and its member associations. It is a popular event for Lions and it engages millions of people worldwide in diabetes advocacy and awareness. The theme for 2014-2014 is "Healthy Living and Diabetes".
- Download the World Diabetes Day 2014 Guidebook for more project ideas.
- Access LCI resources to help you plan a community project to commemorate this special day.
Diabetes Awareness Month: November
Each year during November, Lions worldwide join together to promote awareness of diabetes. This month helps to keep Lions and their fight against diabetes firmly in the public spotlight.
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- Vision screenings
- Distribution of educational materials
- Support of diabetes camps and foundations
Access the 25 Project ideas for Diabetes Awareness and Action for additional ways to participate. Use PR tools to help you publicize your project.
Diabetes Alert Day: USA
Diabetes Alert Day, sponsored by the American Diabetes Association, is held every fourth Tuesday in March. It is a one-day "wake-up call" asking the American public to take the Diabetes Risk Test to find out if they are at risk for developing type 2 diabetes.You can distribute the risk test to family, friends or fellow Lions, or choose another diabetes service project to commemorate this day.
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The Workbench Cutting Board measures 22 inches by 14 inches, which gives you enough space to chop just about anything. But it gets way better than just surface area. Also included are three stainless steel measuring cups into which you can directly scrape whatever it is you're chopping for easy measurement. It features a disposal bin as well, so no worries about the ends of your onions or your tomato cores getting mixed into the parts you actually want to eat. There is a hole in the corner of the board where you can scrape the parts you don't want, then a stainless steel drawer catches them. The drawer slides out for easy disposal.
But wait, there's more! You also get a stainless steel scoop to easily transfer your chopped items into either the measuring cups or the pan or bowl you're using. If you're like me and normally try to do it with either your hands (which often mashes the chopped ingredients) or your knife (which dulls your knife), you know how fabulous that is. The board itself is made of Victorian ash, which is a hardwood grown on an eco-sustainable plantation, and will not damage your knife's edge. Being hardwood, it's also pretty hard to scratch or cut its surface. All pieces are removable for easy cleanup.
I really, really want one of these. Unfortunately, at $300.00 US it's just a little too spendy for my budget. But, it would be worth saving up for if it's really as wonderful as it looks on paper.
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Breakfast is brain food for kids. While skipping breakfast is a bad idea for anyone, kids will feel the impact more. They have a higher ratio of brain weight to liver weight, which means that their brains' overnight demand for glucose more quickly outstrips the supply stored in the liver than it does in adults. Thus, refueling with the right breakfast is vitally important.
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This article originally appeared in Signs of Times magazine, October, 2010.
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- Conference date: 23-27 Aug 1999
- Location: Chicago, Illinois (USA)
We review first the principles of the X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) which will be used to investigate the magnetic properties of Europium Chalcogenides. These compounds are good models of magnetism in solids and were selected to illustrate the potentialities and limitations XMCD at high excitation energy. A thorough analysis of the Eu L-edges XMCD spectra allowed us to identify several effects which, if they are not properly taken into account, may cause the failure of the magneto-optical sum rules at the L-edge of rare-earths. These effects include: (i) the exchange splitting of the core states; (ii) the crystal field splitting of the final states, and (iii) the strong quadrupolar contributions to the XMCD spectra. It is also shown that Magnetic EXAFS measurements at the Eu L-edges combined with XMCD studies at the Chalcogen K-edges produce strong evidence that the highly localized moments of Eu are indirectly coupled via the magnetically polarized p-states of the anions. This is the first time that such magnetic interactions mediated by the anions are unambiguously detected by X-ray absorption spectroscopy.
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Where Do You Keep Laundry in a Small Space?
Earlier this month, Colleen Quinn over at Apartment Therapy: DC admitted that she keeps her dirty laundry in a basket in her bathtub. (See her post here.) I've always been a keep-my-laundry-in-the-closet kind of girl, but I'm not sure I'll be able to anymore since my closet is narrower than I'm used to.
I would love to get a laundry sorter like this one from the Container Store:
Being able to sort my clothes when I take them off would make it so much easier when I'm facing a trip to the laundromat. I just have to measure to see if it would fit in my closet (and figure out when it will fit in my budget!).
I'd love to hear where you keep your dirty laundry, and if you have a sorting system that's worked for you.


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NEC video wall gives The Fabulous Palm Spring Follies a little extra kick
May 9, 2011 12:00 PM
"It had to be bright enough to withstand the high-power stage and spotlights we use, yet we didn't want it to be so bright it was jarring," said Markowitz. "The NEC LCD displays fit very comfortably into the show. Instead of looking like something you would see on an outdoor billboard or in a ballpark, they were bright and colorful enough to see without becoming intrusive. When the show is on you don't notice the bezels, either, which help us create more of the old-time stage look."
Having found the right screens, Feudi now needed to find the right partner to install them. On a recommendation from NEC, he selected Fluid Sound, a San Diego-based specialist in the design and integration of commercial audiovisual systems. The project was planned for the next time the Follies went on hiatus from performances.
"We had roughly three weeks to get the video wall installed, configured and running before the next show opened," said Phil Borkowski, a partner with Fluid Sound. "It was an immovable date. You know the old showbiz motto—the show must go on. So we worked around their rehearsal schedules to get it ready in time for the curtain to go up."
Most of the project went as planned, thanks to the combined efforts of Feudi, NEC and Fluid Sound, but there were still a few surprises—starting with the concrete wall to which they were planning to affix 3000lbs of display screens.
"When we were first looking at it, we drilled some holes in the wall and found it to be solid concrete," Feudi said. "As we got into the installation, though, we discovered that wasn't entirely true. Apparently, building codes in Palm Springs weren't as stringent back in the 1930s. But the Fluid Sound guys checked it out and assured us it would still work. They knew what they were doing, which made us feel a lot better."
The video wall was completed on-time and on-budget, which were the two key metrics for the project. Once the calibration of the 25 screens was completed, it created the perfect effect.
"I always want our audience to be focused on the performers and the material," said Markowitz. "Their eyes should always be on the talent, not the movie going on behind them. I don't want the audience to go out humming the scenery. The NEC video wall allows us to set the stage and keep our show the warm, intimate, human experience it's meant to be instead of a rock and roll extravaganza."
The content shown on the video wall ranges from a mix of photorealistic backdrops, with and without movement, and more artistic or conceptual renderings, depending on the mood they're trying to set. For example, a New Orleans jazz number might have the performers singing and dancing in front of a photo of Bourbon Street, while a Christmas tune will show snow falling in the forest. For a vaudeville-style number, however, the video wall might show the type of painted backdrop used for stage shows back in the day.
"We weren't sure how much we would use it at first," said Feudi. "But as we got into it, we started incorporating it more and more. The video wall gives us an infinite variety of looks we can use, much more than we ever could achieve before. It's become a tremendous enhancement to the feel we're always working to convey."
Markowitz has also been pleased with the payback the Follies has received on the investment.
"We're now spending a great deal more time doing video research, capturing and editing, and then incorporating it into the music," he said. "We're using it more creatively and constructively throughout the entire performance, not just here and there."
Feudi and Markowitz had high marks for Fluid Sound and NEC as well. They liked the professionalism and expertise both companies exhibited, as well as their willingness to go out of their way to make the technology work for the Follies—something Markowitz says you don't often see from a large corporation.
"NEC talks about solutions on its website, but a lot of companies say things like that," he stated. "We needed a solution, and that's what they actually delivered."
As for the future, Markowitz has never been one to dream small, as those who have seen his show can attest.
"We always strive to draw our audiences into the show, and make them feel like they're a part of it," he said. "Eventually we plan to expand the video wall to fill the entire stage background, side-to-side, and top to bottom. Now that will be a Vegas-style experience!"
Quick Facts
- Facility: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies in the Plaza Theatre
- Location: Palm Springs, California
- Challenge: Create a video wall to serve as a background/enhancement to the live performers on a very small stage
- Solution: 46" NEC X461UN in a 5x5 configuration
- Date: Fall 2010
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SnagFilms and Indiewire is looking for an analytic and movie savvy product management intern to derive consumer insight, provide input on upcoming product roadmaps, and assist in the live operations of our world-class website and movie viewing platform. Unpaid for a trial period but will likely become paid if you're good at what you do.Responsibilities
- Updating and analyzing data to derive insights and report back to the product management team- Conduct user acceptance testing, competitive analysis and provide detailed feedback on current development priorities
- Give some additional feedback on newly released product and features
- Looking for creative ways to improve metrics on our catalog of live films
- Partner with product management team to improve collaboration and process
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The Packaging
NZXT packages the HAVIK 140 in an attractive white fronted box with a large image of the cooler using most of the space. At the bottom are four features that NZXT wants to address first.
This side of the package has a brief statement explaining why this cooler should be your choice over the others. Under this statement there is a side shot of the HAVIK with both fans on it.
On the back the six featured highlighted around the full cooler images are zoomed in with brief descriptions about what you are looking at. At the bottom there is a full list of specifications.
Along with another image of the side of the HAVIK 140, the top of this side holds the processor compatibility list.
I just liked the top of the box, so I figured I would show you too.
Removing the cooler from the box is pretty simple. Just open the large flap and invert the box over a table and lift it off. This leaves three high density foam trays and a box on the right containing the hardware.
The three layers of foam hold the body of the cooler, which is also wrapped in plastic for transit, and the other two trays hold one of the 140mm fans, each.


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British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History
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Reebok, which endorsed a baby basketball player, Mark Walker, with a straight face. "He's a threat from anywhere on the court, and he's only 3 and a half years old."
--From markwalker.reebok.com
"His head popped out from between Pam's legs, and he glared angrily around the room, resembling nothing so much, it seemed to me, as an old man looking for a waitress he thinks is avoiding him."
--From Housebroken, by David Eddie, the tale of a stay-at-home dad
--From Women by Women, a new photo book
"Martinis are like breasts. One isn't enough, two is just right, and three is more than enough."
--From Skin, Fox's new show about a porn king
"One swallow does not make her my girlfriend."
--From NBC's aggressively racy new sitcom Coupling
"Ringo is beneath contempt. He used to be lovable because he was inept and knew it and turned the whole thing into a good-natured game. Now he is marketing that lameness in a slick Richard Perry-- produced package, [and] the whole thing reeks. It is a bit as if Peter Max were designing stage sets for Hee Haw's Archie Campbell."
--From Mainlines, Blood Feasts, and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader
"I imagine there are people out there who got a dog when what they wanted was a baby, but I wonder if there aren't other people who had a baby when all they really needed was a dog."
--From Ann Patchett's "This Dog's Life," from the charming anthology Dog Is My Co-Pilot
"David Paich will not be able to take part in Toto's summer tour. . . . David will be missing the summer tour due to a sex change operation. . . . It will be our pleasure to introduce 'Davida' in the Fall."
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Confusion has most often been the name of the Saints backfield, with handing a ball to a running back treated like an obligation down in the Big Easy. But saddle up those frowns, kids, because with the one certainty — Darren Sproles — temporarily out, so too is the single outcome we knew to be true about the Saints backfield every week.
Sproles would catch passes, and run and dance and score a touchdown (he has four receiving touchdowns), and those dinks and dunks would essentially be the New Orleans running game. Everyone would be happy, and everyone would win. Except probably the Saints.
Now the smiles are scarce, and confusion is even more widespread than usual. Because as we saw last night, there's so very little certainty in the Saints' backfield without Sproles.
During the Saints' 28-13 win over Philadelphia that was largely a product of Michael Vick having a large man in his face the second he touched a football on every play, New Orleans actually seemed to acknowledge that running the ball is normal in football. They handed off to a running back 24 times, a slight uptick from their weekly average of just 20.5 carries.
Progress? Progress. But the problem for fantasy purposes lied in how those carries were distributed. Namely, the problem was Chris Ivory.
Ivory was active for only the third time this season, and yet he led the Saints in touches, receiving 10 carries and converting them into 48 yards and a touchdown, with his longest run a 22 yarder. That will be enough to make him one of the top waiver claims tonight, which is really swell of him. Yep, we're sure he's a nice man and all, but he did absolutely nothing for anyone this week, since Ivory was started by about two guys who live in Iceland (he was started in 0.3 percent of ESPN leagues).
But it gets worse, or better, or something. No one expected the muddled mess that is the Saints backfield to be wiped entirely clean just because of Sproles' absence, mainly because his skillset is so unique, and he doesn't get many carries. He has 26 carries this year, while Pierre Thomas leads the team with 64. Still, the absence of one key body could have and should have sprinkled at least a small helping of clarity, amiright?
Nah. While Ivory will get the attention because he emerged suddenly and was highly effective after receiving exactly zero carries this year prior to last night, Mark Ingram was only slightly behind him in yardage, with 44 rushing yards on seven carries, and Thomas also had 44 yards, and he needed only six carries. All three busted out a long run too, with Ingram rumbling for 23, while Thomas ran for 19. Hell, even some guy named Travaris Cadet had a carry.
Thomas was widely pegged as the likely candidate to see the increase in touches and opportunities with Sproles out, as he was started in 33.5 percent of ESPN leagues, and Ingram only saw fake fields in 12.3 percent. There was a small victory for those who are still otherwise seeing little more than confusion when Thomas was on the field for the most snaps, participating in 21 while Ingram was featured in 17, and Ivory actually brought up the rear with 15.
But does that mean Ivory's looks will increase now and he'll be featured more prominently with Sproles out because he was more effective with fewer touches? Or will Thomas still maintain his edge in usage since he's established himself more throughout the season, with his 4.7 yards per carry on 64 attempts overall this year?
Impossible questions are great fun. But since purely speculative guessing is also entertaining and it's what I'm paid for, here's my stab: the status quo will continue to suck. Thomas will indeed maintain his edge in snaps, but it'll get so very, very thin, and with Sproles out Ivory will now be given a nearly equal workload after he impressed with his rumbling last night.
The problem is that Sproles was the linchpin, and the change of pace, and with him temporarily gone the Saints' backfield consists of three running backs who function in nearly the same capacity: they run hard and straight and hit people, meaning the frustrating and unpredictable three-way split we saw Monday will likely continue, reducing all three to flex plays at best.
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Manchester City legend Bert Trautmann dies aged 89
Bert Trautmann, the German goalkeeper who won the FA Cup with Manchester City in 1956, has died at the age of 89.
Trautmann is best remembered for playing the final 17 minutes of City's Cup final win against Birmingham City with a broken neck.
He played more than 500 times for City between 1949-64, having first arrived in England as a prisoner of war.
Bert Trautmann factfile
Born: 22 October 1923 in Bremen, Germany
1949: Joins Man City from non-league St Helens Town
1956: Wins FA Cup with City, but breaks neck 17 minutes from end of final versus Birmingham City
1964: Ends playing career after 545 appearances for City
2004: Made OBE for Anglo-German reconciliation work
Trautmann, who had survived two heart attacks this year, passed away near Valencia in Spain on Friday.
Bob Wilson, the former Arsenal goalkeeper and BBC Sport presenter, paid tribute to Trautmann in an interview with Radio 5 live
"I just adored what he did," said Wilson, 71. "I don't think I could have chosen a greater hero."
Wilson said Trautmann's bravery - "diving headlong at people's feet" - won him over, as did his "thorough decency" and "humanity".
Francis Lee, the former Manchester City player who later became the club's chairman, said: "He was one of the all-time great keepers.
"I knew Bert wasn't keeping well for the last six months but it has still come as a shock that he has passed on.
"I made my debut as a 16-year-old for Bolton against City with Bert in goal and I scored a header after a quarter of an hour. It convinced him, he later told me, that it was time to pack up."
Born in Bremen in 1923, Trautmann fought as a paratrooper in World War II before being captured on the Russian front.
Trautmann escaped captivity and returned to serve in France, but, after escaping from the French resistance, he was captured for a final time by the British Army and interned near Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire.
Remaining in England following the the war in 1945, Trautmann began his English football career with non-league St Helens Town.
He signed for Manchester City in October 1949, but, with memories of the war still fresh, initially faced hostility from some supporters.
However, his bravery in the 1956 FA Cup final saw Trautmann become a hero to many fans after he broke several vertebrae in his neck when he collided with Birmingham's Peter Murphy with City leading 3-1.
The German was unaware how serious the injury was and played the rest of the match, only learning he had broken his neck three days later.
"I don't think he knew he'd broken his neck, not until they had the scans and X-rays," Lee added. "There was no way he was coming off because there were no subs in those days. He was as brave as a lion.
"He was on the Western Front as well the Eastern Front, so he saw a bit of action and a broken neck was not going to put him off."
Trautmann made a full recovery and, following his retirement in 1964, went on to manage Stockport County.
He also helped the German Football Association promote football development in Africa and Asia.
In 2004, he was awarded the OBE for his work with the Trautmann Foundation, which promoted sportsmanship and exchange programmes between young and amateur players in Germany and the UK.
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21st July 2013 - 21:43When I was 10 I was a goalie. I went to see Charlton Athletic v Man City at the Valley..Sam Bartram in one goal, Bert Trautman in the other. I was in Heaven! Both one-club men throughout their league careers whose memory is revered by older fans of their clubs and football in general.
Both great characters.Evrey generation hs its own heroes.RIP -
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21st July 2013 - 15:49An exampel to all the pre-madonnas in today's game...
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21st July 2013 - 12:36My dad, also named Bert, couldn't speak highly enough of Mr Trautmann. I was honoured to meet him at a book signing about 8 years or so ago in a Manchester pub. His book is a must read for all football fans and/or those with an interest in recent history. Fascinating read and a strong, fascinating man.
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21st July 2013 - 10:38I read Berts book recently, a fantastic insight of a truly inspirational and remarkable life. Bert should be remembered as a warrior on and off the pitch. An excellent Solder, Goalkeeper and Family Man, RIP Sir.
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21st July 2013 - 10:23Sounds like a great human being, football is much maligned in some quarters but I don't know of any sport that can bring together people of different backgrounds or former enemies. Trautmann lot many Germans from that time were just doing their duty in serving their country and it's unfortunate that he faced hostility. Still it sounds like he won them over in the end. Time now to Rest In Peace
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In Abortion Battle, the Tie Went to the Congress
Legal scholars and historians are going to be fighting for decades over the scope and meaning of yesterday's big abortion ruling. Journalists already are offering their own perspectives on one of the biggest cases of the term and certainly the biggest victory for anti-abortion advocates in a generation. And of course the rest of you already seem to be fighting over it (if the comments to my last post are any indication).
Me? Putting aside the emotional nature of this debate for partisans on both sides, I find the most fascinating aspect of the ruling to be the way the Court's majority upheld the federal ban against these sorts of abortion procedures despite the fact that no fewer than three different trial judges, and three separate appellate courts, determined after three hotly-contested trials that the procedure in question often is the most appropriate medical procedure. In other words, when given the choice between the suspect Congressional findings that purported to support the law (I say "suspect" because every court but the Supreme Court said so) and the findings of the federal judges who held long and complicated trials, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Company chose the former over the latter.
And whereas the Court seven years ago in its earlier ruling on this issue declared that a lack of unanimous medical consensus on the necessity of the procedure required the law to continue to recognize an exception allowing the procedure where the woman's health was at stake, the Court yesterday declared that this lack of medical unanimity meant the precise opposite-- that Congress could ban the procedure outright. Justice Kennedy wrote: "The question becomes whether the Act can stand when this medical uncertainty persists. The Court's precedents instruct that the Act can survive this facial attack. the Court has given state and federal legislatures wide discretion to pass legislation in areas where there is medical and scientific uncertainty."
In her stinging dissent, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg focused upon this methodology. She wrote that Kennedy's assertion is "bewildering. Not only does it defy the Court's longstanding precedent affirming the necessity of a health exception, with no carve-out for circumstances of medical uncertainty, it gives short shrift to the records before us, carefully canvassed by the District Courts. Those records indicate the the 'majority of highly-qualified experts on the subject believe [the procedure] to be the safest, most appropriate procedure under certain circumstances.'" For me, this exchange begged the question: what was the point of the three trials, and the three appellate court rulings? Hopefully history, or a future ruling, will help answer that question.
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For me, the most fascinating part of the decision was Justice Scalia's concurring opinion (joined by Thomas). His four sentences, particularly the last two, say volumes:
"I also note that whether the Act constitutes a permissible exercise of Congress' power under the Commerce Clause is not before the Court. The parties did not raise or brief that issue; it is outside the question presented; and the lower courts did not address it."
Given the Rehnquist Court's tightening of the Commerce Clause in U.S. v. Lopez (invalidating the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990) and U.S. v. Morrison (invalidating the Violence Against Women Act of 1994), it is hard to imagine that the Partial-Birth Abortion Act of 2003 would survive the same scrutiny.
If Counsel for Carhart, et al. were writing a law school exam, give them a C- for missing a huge issue.
Posted by: Nellie | April 19, 2007 09:48 AM
I would suggest that another point is the more crucial part of the decision: Justice Kennedy's apparent assertion that the woman's right to choose is circumscribed by the state's right to protect life, and the implication that the Supreme Court in recent decisions has not paid sufficient deference to that state obligation. Kennedy seems to be saying that recent decisions explaining and defending a woman's right to choose have given too much deference to the woman's right and too little to the States obligation to protect life.
Kennedy refers to the three-part rule ennunciated in Casey: 1)the right of a woman to have an abortion BEFORE viability without undue interference or creation of a substantial obstacles by legislation; 2)the confirmation of the state's power to restrict abortions AFTER fetal viability if the law contains exceptions for pregnancies which endager the woman's health or life; and 3)the fact that the state has a legitimate interest from the ONSET of a pregnancy to protect BOTH the health of the woman AND the life of the fetus. Justice Kennedy's goes on to declare that these three rules are complimentary and are NOT in conflict with each other. Perhaps.
But the language used by Justice Kennedy in making sure all three guidelines are in balance opens potential doors for the right to life proponents to use to further restrict abortion rights. Some examples: a) He declares that laws whose incidental effect is to make it more difficult or more expensive to procure abortion may not be so restrictive as to invalidate the law, b) the better rule should be that when the medical community disagrees as to whether a proceedure does or does not minimize significant health risks to women, Congress can make its own reasonable determination to ban a procedure if there are reasonable alternatives; and c) the health exception cannot be used to prohibit the government's responsibility to protect life.
We probably can expect therefore that efforts will continue to incrementally restrict the ability to choose abortion, and that those efforts will find ammunition in this decision to support those efforts.
Posted by: John G. | April 19, 2007 09:54 AM
The unanimity of the lower courts is most probably a direct result of Stenberg v. Carhart. The factually identical law upheld in Stenberg makes it pretty difficult for a lower court to have ruled differently. If that wasn't on the books, the lower courts could have split on the issue.
Posted by: dc law student | April 19, 2007 10:20 AM
Nellie and others,
I have been wondering the same thing. In fact in my first year of law school, my constitional law final gave us a copy of this very Act and asked if it would be upheld from both a Commerce Clause perspective and a due process perspective.
I do know that Planned Parenthood and others considered the Commerce Clause approach but rejected it. I am not sure why though. Anyone want to shed light on this?
Posted by: veryafraid | April 19, 2007 12:02 PM
Why do lawyers and courts think they should dominate every issue in human existence?
Lawyers don't do medicine. How would they like physicians doing law?
There are certain bubble boundaries in professional practice, into which non-professionals in that field should not insert themselves. Women's health care is one of those bubbles.
Posted by: On the plantation | April 19, 2007 12:35 PM
Kennedy implied in his right to life of the fetus analogy what I have been saying for a while, Congress can dictate when the benefits of citizenship begin. This was the threshold test in Roe, before any right to privacy was addressed. The reason a right to health and a right to privacy are allowed to dominate is because the majority in Roe v. Wade found that there was no protection under the constitution until birth, given the plain language of the 14th Amendment. Of course, Congress could change this explicitly under the 14th Amendments's enforcement provisions. Kennedy allowed the Congress, in enacting the PBAA, to do so implicitly. Of course, a future Congress can change its mind and either give explicit protection to all fetuses, all fetuses after the first trimester or all fetuses in the third trimester. They are not likely to do so starting at conception, since doing so would make doctors liable for not only not terminating these pregnancies, but also for taking measures so that these pregnancies do not terminate naturally - which would result in the end of obstetrics or at least of pre-natal care. The point is, the Congress has the final say in the matter of when citizenship under the constitutiona begins, not the Court and not the states. I offered this line of reasoning to the Respondent in this case and they did not want to use it, since if they had won with it (and there is doubt that, given Kennedy's dissent in Cahart v. Stenberg, it could have gone the other way) it would have given the other side a modus opporandi to restrict abortion in the way I just described.
Posted by: Michael Bindner | April 19, 2007 01:56 PM
To On the Plantation: I guess the simple answer as to why lawyers and courts stick their noses into any issue is because the people ask them to stick their noses in.
The slightly more complicated answer is they are involved in abortion rights because they either created the right out of whole cloth(if you are a strict constructionist) or clarified the right (if you believe in a living constitution). Given this it is a little late to tell them hands off. Besides there are plenty of civilians more than willing to use their own bought and paid for attorneys to argue for what they want--on both sides of the issue.
Posted by: John G. | April 19, 2007 02:02 PM
I think when the case began, PP and the pro-choice side believed they would win on the merits of the health exemption and that was the precedent they were after, another ruling reaffirming Stenberg and making the precedent that much stronger against future attacks. The loss of Rhenquist and his replacement by Roberts was predictable, but I think they thought they-d still have O'Connor on the court. To add a separate appeal of Congress' authority would have needed to start the process again at the lower court anyways to my understanding, and it will probably be the next step. In short, I don't think they wanted the law thrown out on a technicality at first, but they'll take it now.
Posted by: Michael | April 19, 2007 02:56 PM
If this Supreme Court decision is so egregious why doesn't Congress simply change the law? Democrats obviously hold the majority and if it is "true" that the American people are outraged then there would be principled political advantage for Democrats taking this course. This would require ingnoring the fact that many Democrats voted for this ban when the law was passed but that would just be business as usual.
Posted by: Erick Blair | April 19, 2007 03:13 PM
Erick Blair is correct. Congress and President Clinton 44 will likely change the law, although I don't think there will be an out and out repeal, since the vast majority of the public hates the banned procedure. If the facts were our there on the remaining legal second trimester procedure they would be against it as well.
The question of what is next is timely. The question is no longer when will Congress redraw the line of protection for the unborn, the question is how and when. Will it do so implicitly or explicitly? Currently, it does so implicitly and unevenly - banning termination coincident with delivery but not prior to it. It is safer for women, given the danger of the other procedure, to ban it as well (which is likely in the minds of the sponsors if they had the votes).
So the question is, where to explicitly draw the line of constitutional protection?
Posted by: Michael Bndner | April 19, 2007 03:41 PM
There are a few options on when to draw the line. Conception is not a good place, since drawing the line there means that parents could sue their doctors if their embryos die, either before or after implantation.
The start of the fetal heart beat is another option, since it mirrors the rule of thumb for death, its cessation. The problem with this point is that many miscarriages occur naturally after the heart starts - and this is a good thing because in the majority of cases the embryo is genetically flawed. Making these embryos subjects of law would give parents a cause of action against doctors who could not prevent their loss, even though this loss natural and beneficial to all (even if it is heartbreaking - which brings up an interesting point, the statistics on abortion and how many lives were lost ignore the fact that half of first trimester abortions would have ended up as miscarriages anyway).
Note to all the pro-lifers, I am not talking here about the moral value of the fetus, I am talking about legal recognition. There is and must be a big difference.
An apt decision point is still viability, meaning the point where the child can fully function outside the womb. While neonatology has rendered this distinction almost meaningless, it is possible to recast it in terms of an obvious bilogical marker, the development of the lungs. If the lungs are well enough developed to sustain life, the child should merit protection. If intubation is required to sustain life (exception the normal intubation required due to a cesarian section), the child should not be subject to the law, for the simple reason that physicians should not be held accountable for its preservation. In other words, a child should be legally protected if the parents can sue the obstetrician if it dies. I can think of no eminently sounder legal test. The venue for this determination should be the United States Congress. State legislature, which are not sovereign, should not be allowed to make this decision. Neither should activist conservative courts.
Posted by: Michael Bindner | April 19, 2007 03:53 PM
The question of how far the Court will go has been the subject of much jubilation on the right and much hand wringing on the left. I think the facts of the decision show the answer - as far as Justice Kennedy will take it. Absent further congressional action, I do not believe he will take it any farther than he already has. Until Congress acts to further restrict abortion, this case is not the start of further action on abortion. It is the end of it. Kennedy seems to have implied that if the fetus is out of the womb, it is protected by the Constitution (even though he did not use the 14th Amendment language specifically). If the child is within the womb, it is not born, so that an equally developed child may in fact be aborted as long as it does not emerge first. Unless Congress acts further, the debate is over. Kennedy is unlikely to sign onto any reveral of Roe, so until another Justice like Alito is added to the Court (and this won't happen under this President) this debate is done.
Posted by: Michael Bindner | April 19, 2007 04:00 PM
To: On the Plantation
It has been said far more elequently that I am about to put it, but at the time when lawyers were writing the Constitution, doctors were applying leeches to their patients to cure a headache. In fact, George Washington's doctors almost bled him to death.
Posted by: Nellie | April 19, 2007 05:00 PM
"Kennedy implied in his right to life of the fetus analogy what I have been saying for a while, Congress can dictate when the benefits of citizenship begin."
No, not the benefits of citizenship. The 14th Amendment makes it pretty darn clear (much to the anger of many ocnservatives on both this issue and immigration), Birth is where citizenship begins. The issue here is where does life begin and how much does the state have an interest in protecting it at various levels. The common rule in the past has been the right to privacy of the woman outweighs the rights of the fetus prior to fetal viability in all circumstances, and after that it is a balancing of rights as life outweighs privacy, but health and life of the woman outweighs life of fetus after that point. Kennedy is saying, in this case, viability is no longer the standard, the trimester system is (which strikes me as pretty odd and weak). The nature of when the birth process begins and what constitutes "born" under the law would probably have been a better legal argument, thus the fetus could have citizenship rights bestowed upon it at that point.
I still think the major point here was to set future precedent for state law, and it's pretty clear the court is reaffirming that Casey does give the right to the states to limit second trimester abortions, so long as there is a viable alternative and it doesn't place an undue burden on the woman, which to me seems perfectly fair. I also think, by that reading, that if a state enacts a similar ban, and then also tries to ban one of the other procedures mentioned, by the reading of this case the second ban would be struck down not because of the nature of the method, but because of the lack of alternatives it would create.
And as for the law, I don't think it is going to last regardless of Congress. I'm pretty sure it will be appealed on the grounds of Congress exceeding their authority, and will be struck down by a wide margin. The point was, without that appeal heard in this case, the court had a chance to revisit Stenberg and Casey, clarify them for the states, before next time striking down the federal ban. If that's the case, both sides win pretty big, as the left will almost guarantee there will never be any federal abortion bans (and 20 or so states will always keep it legal) and make it a critical issue in swing states, while the right can make gains in various red states.
Posted by: Michael | April 19, 2007 06:52 PM
If citizenship (or more broadly, personhood) were bestowed upon an unborn fetus, regardless of its stage of development, wouldn't an inherent conflict of interest be created? It would seem to me that every sexually active woman, from the moment she ovulated every month, would have to have a guardian ad litem appointed to represent the interests of the potential "person" she might be hosting within her body.
Can I go skydiving during the second half of my menstrual cycle? Can I have a glass of wine? Can I seek medical treatment for anything other than a possible pregnancy? Who decides--me or the guardian of my unborn "person"?
Posted by: Abby | April 19, 2007 09:48 PM
I have been trying to understand the reasoning of Justice Kennedy and just can't make any sense out of it at all. Each time I re-read it, I am more confused than ever in trying to find a logical answer.
Posted by: lylepink | April 19, 2007 10:26 PM
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Hey, Dan:
This may seem like a naive question, but where in New York can one take a friend for a discreet lay? Central Park? The city appears to be specifically designed in order to prevent privacy (most frustrating: the Ramble). My place or hers? We are each involved with significant others we both care about. A friend's place? Nobody knows about us, and we want to keep it that way. A hotel? The ones that don't ask for identification are too sleazy. Surely we're not the only people in Manhattan who have this problem. Any suggestions?
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Let me get this straight: You're so desperate that you contemplated having sex in Central Park--you even checked out the notorious Ramble--but your ass is too good for the sheets at a sleazy hotel? Listen, sleazebag, sex in Central Park is a lot sleazier than sex in even the sleaziest hotel in Manhattan. I suggest you check into the sleaze-o-rama Howard Johnson Hotel across the street from Madison Square Garden.
Speaking of sleazebags, earlier this month, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning an article that appeared in Psychological Bulletin, an obscure journal published by the American Psychological Association. Like most everything in Psychological Bulletin, "A Meta-Analytic Examination of Assumed Properties of Child Sexual Abuse Using College Samples" was little noticed outside pointy-headed circles--that is, until a very large and pointy knot formed in Dr. Laura's burlap panties.
According to the New York Times, the study concluded that the effects of childhood sexual abuse, or CSA, "'were neither pervasive nor typically intense, and that men reacted much less negatively than women.' They [also] argued that treating all forms of sexual abuse equally presents problems that...'are perhaps most apparent when contrasting cases such as the repeated rape of a 5-year-old girl by her father and the willing sexual involvement of a mature 15-year-old adolescent boy with an unrelated adult.' The authors also suggested that the term 'adult-adolescent sex' or 'adult-child sex' be substituted, in some cases, for 'child sexual abuse.'"
What's the problem here? Researchers reviewed the data and discovered that just how much CSA fucks people up depends to a great extent on how old they were, what they did, and with whom. Why is this controversial? Speaking as a survivor of CSA--sex at 14 with a 22-year-old woman; sex at 15 with a 30-year-old man--I can back the researchers up: I was not traumatized by these technically illegal sexual encounters; indeed, I initiated them and cherish the memories. My experience is not at all uncommon, especially among men, and it's absurd to think that what I did at 15 (and what was done to me) would even be considered "child sexual abuse" or lumped together by lazy researchers with the incestuous rape of a five-year-old girl.
What most upset Dr. Laura about the report was that those unlovable losers at the North American Man-Boy Love Association praised the study on their Web site. Well, all sorts of things are mentioned favorably on NAMBLA's Web site: Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Little League, Hanson, the Backstreet Boys and Hanes undergarments, among others. If Congress is going to condemn everything those creepy ol' boyfuckers praise on their Web site, well, Congress isn't going to have time to get much else done.
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Four years ago, I accidentally joined the GOP, and since that time, mash notes from Republicans have clogged my mailbox. During the '96 campaign, I supported Pat Buchanan in the primaries, and when Republican pollsters called my house, I gave the hardest of hard-right answers. Ban abortions and throw women and their doctors in jail. Lock up homosexuals. Sextuple defense spending. Life sentences with no chance of parole for, well, everything. I don't believe these things, of course, nor do I believe Pat Buchanan should be president--I was just doing what I could to push the GOP further to the right, costing the R's votes and elections. Like sensible people everywhere, I voted for Clinton in the general election. With the 2000 race for the White House practically upon us, I started looking over Republican "presidential hopefuls," as they're called in the New York Times, wondering which hard-right nutjob I should support this time out. Unable to chose between Bauer, Keyes, Quayle, Smith and Buchanan, I decided to support the first candidate who sent me a letter asking for money.
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If you don't want to have to worry about tracking a moving target, and just want something that works, you'll probably prefer using the stable releases. If you want to get the latest features, the development releases are the obvious choice.
If you want to ship a binary that is usable out of the box on a Linux distro that ships botan, you'll probably want to match versions with that distro; as of this writing most ship with 1.8 though some are moving to 1.10.
If you're building an application that will embed botan into it (without relying on a shared library), you want to use an amalgamation build, which basically turns botan into a single header and a single source file which you can easily include in your existing application build. This feature is available in all versions of 1.10 and all later branches.
Why do I get a SyntaxError when I run configure.py?¶
The configure.py script in 1.10 and later versions requires Python 2.6 or higher. In Python 3 the exception catching syntax changed, and while 2.6 and 2.7 understand both syntaxes, 2.5 does not. If you see an error like this:
File "./configure.py", line 62
except OSError as e:
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
Then you are using Python 2.5 (or earlier). For Python 2.5, a Perl one liner can fix the syntax:
perl -pi -e "s/except (.*) as (.*):/except $1, $2:/g" configure.py
or in Python:
import re
lines = re.sub(r"except (.*) as (.*):", r"except \1, \2:",
open("configure.py", "w").write(lines)
However Python 2.4 is missing a number of features and cannot be used to configure the build in 1.10; you'll need to upgrade to at least 2.5 (or preferably 2.7 or 3.1).
The self-test program can't locate the library¶
Are you sure either the current working directory ('.') or the directory botan is building into are in the dynamic library path? On many Unix systems this is controlled by the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable. You can add the currently directory to the list of directories to search with this Bourne shell command:
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:.
If you install the library into a well known location like /usr/local/lib, then probably no particular LD_LIBRARY_PATH needs to be set.
My program aborts with any message¶
Does your main function wrap all code inside a try/catch block? If an exception is thrown and is not caught, many C++ runtimes simply crash the process without providing any sort of diagnostic.
Is the library thread-safe?¶
Yes, botan is thread safe. However, because mutual exclusion depends on OS specific code, you must load a module to help. POSIX threads and Win32 critical sections are both supported out of the box, other thread libraries are very easy to add. To enable thread safe operation, include "thread_safe" in the string you pass to Botan::LibraryInitializer constructor. If for whatever reason a working mutex implementation cannot be found, LibraryInitializer will throw an exception rather than continue operating in a bad state.
In 1.11.0 and later, the C++11 std thread library is used and the library always serializes access.
How do I load this key generated by OpenSSL into botan?¶
The encrypted key format used by the openssl command line tool is undocumented and apparently specific to OpenSSL. The easiest approach is to convert it to the (standard) PKCS #8 format, using:
openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -in my_key.pem
Add -nocrypt to the command line if you want the resulting PKCS #8 file to be unencrypted, otherwise it will ask you for a new password to use.
For unencrypted keys, you can also manually decode the parameters using the existing PEM and BER support; see this post to the dev list for an example.
Is botan FIPS 140 certified?¶
No version of botan has been certified under FIPS 140. This is unlikely to happen unless/until an organization is willing to fund and shepherd the validation process, which typically requires several months and many thousands of dollars.
Is this thing safe to use?¶
The primary author/maintainer (Jack Lloyd) has 5+ years of experience reviewing code for security flaws, and has additionally performed several FIPS 140 validations of hardware and software crypto implementations. However the library has never undergone an impartial third-party security review, and thus it is entirely possible/probable that a number of exploitable flaws remain in the source. (If your company is interested in handling such a review, please contact the maintainers).
There has been one known security flaw. Between versions 0.7.8 (released Feb 2002) and 1.3.7 (released Dec 2003), the es_unix module, which runs Unix programs to gather entropy for seeding a random number generator, ran programs by invoking the popen library function with commands with no leading directory names. This means setuid or setgid programs that used this entropy source could be tricked into executing arbitrary programs via manipulation of the PATH variable. Later versions will only search through specific (presumed safe) directories like /usr/bin; the list of directories to search can be controlled by the application.
Is botan vulnerable to timing attacks?¶
Botan's public key implementations do make some attempt to defend against timing attacks; random blinding is used to protect all RSA, Rabin-Williams, ElGamal, and Diffie-Hellman private key operations.
Public key algorithms implemented using the Chinese Remainder Theorem (RSA and Rabin-Williams) are subject to a catastrophic failure: if a computational error (either induced by an attacker or merely accidental) occurs during the private key operation, the private key can be revealed. Other, more subtle, fault attacks are possible against other schemes. For this reason, private key operations are checked for consistency with the public key - if the results are not consistent, then an exception is thrown indicating an error has occurred rather than release information that might compromise the key.
AES implementations are usually quite vulnerable to timing attacks. The table based implementation of AES included in botan uses small tables in the first and last rounds which makes such attacks somewhat more difficult. Alternate implementations of AES using SSSE3 and AES-NI instruction sets are also included, and run in constant time, but of course require a processor that supports these instruction sets.
I think I've found a security flaw. What should I do?¶
You can do any combination of:
- Contact the current lead maintainer personally; currently Jack Lloyd (personal PGP key)
- Email the development list
- File a bug in Bugzilla
Does botan support SSL/TLS, SSH, S/MIME, OpenPGP...¶
The latest development (1.11) releases support TLS up to TLS v1.2. The 1.10 releases support up to TLS v1.1 using a different design and API; new applications intending to use TLS should use 1.11.
NetSieben SSH is an open source SSHv2 client implementation that uses botan.
There is currently no support for OpenPGP, CMS, OTR, or SSHv2 servers.
Will it work on my platform XYZ??¶
The most common stumbling block is a compiler that is buggy or can't handle modern C++ (specifically, C++98). Most any recent release of GCC, Clang, Intel C++, Visual C++, etc are all fine. It is tested most heavily on Linux but especially the stable versions are built and tested across a range of Unices as well as OS X and Windows.
Versions 1.11.0 and higher require a C++11 compiler as well as Boost filesystem (plus optional use of Boost asio). GCC 4.7.0 and Clang 3.1 or higher should work. Visual C++ 2013 seems to support all the required features, but probably needs a bit of work, as Windows has not seen much attention.
I'm not feeling this, what can I use instead?¶
- NaCl (and portable derivatives such as libsodium) provide a small selection of algorithms for ECC key exchange (Curve25519) and message encryption and authentication (XSalsa20+Poly1305) carefully implemented for performance and side channel security. It is an excellent choice if you do not need compatability with any other software.
- OpenSSL is written in C and mostly targeted to being an SSL/TLS implementation but there is a lot of other stuff in there as well. BSD plus wonky advertising clause.
- Crypto++ is a C++ crypto library which is roughly feature comparable to botan but with a very different approach to the API. Boost license.


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Great job, Christirei!! The last 10k sound really painful. Good for you for not stopping to walk; the temptation must have been huge.
At least one burning question still needs to be answered: What did you end up wearing???
Also, it seems like you didn't take any gels or other "fuel" (gah I hate that word...) during the race - do you think that might have helped with the cramping? I honestly have no clue, it's just something I wondered while reading.
And how are you feeling now? Any DOMS?
Just left out that info! I did take two gels, they were only offered twice on the course, at 9.5 miles and at 15.5 miles. I kind of wish they were offered more often, but i also hate to carry stuff so I didn't bring any with me. At mile 23 they had bananas and oranges and I tried to munch some banana bites, but it was mostly just to take my mind off the pain and think about something else. I did alternate water and gatorade and they had more than enough fluid stations. And the volunteers were sooooo great!! Our names were printed on our bibs so they called out our names and were really encouraging even as we were splashing water all over them!
I ended up wearing shorts and tech t-shirt, but I grabbed a pair of my hubby's socks as we were heading out the door and sliced open the toe. at the corrals i wore them like arm sleeves and kept them on until i felt warm, about five or six miles in i think. thank goodness i did that, otherwise I would have been frozen solid!!
Feel pretty good. One good sized blister on a little toe that isn't horrible. some soreness going up and down steps and standing/sitting down but it's manageable and i don't think it will last much longer. definitely not the completely torn down feeling from the first time i attempted a marathon. in fact, i even feel like going out for a jog today, but my hubby is leaving for work and i don't think i'm motivated enough to jog on the treadmill...probably will wait til the weekend and just enjoy a week of sleeping in! I have gotten up out of bed at four thirty in the morning almost every morning since mid-May - sleeping in til seven for a week sounds like heaven!!
Really great work, Christirei. Training definitely paid off. Congratulations.
My training is winding down; I am in the middle of my taper right now with my goal race just a week away.
I went out this morning for a 5k "time trial" because I was too cheap and lazy to go run a race. The RW plan says that I should try to run that in 24:42, or about 30 seconds faster than the 5K that I ran in June. That was the race that I used to setup the plan.
It was cold this morning.. 39 degrees with 12MPH winds gusting to 20MPH. This is exactly the kind of weather that I hate! Chilly and windy, but not chilly enough to be really bundled up, and too windy to dress down. I set the Garmin up for a warmup, 3.1 mile interval, then cooldown. The warmup wasn't long because I figured my legs would start to cool off after going outside!
I started off running at a comfortably fast pace, and noticed after about a 1/2 mile that I was running a 7:46 pace. That sounded fast. I decided to try to dial the speed back a little bit, but I was still near the 7:50 - 7:55 range each time I looked at my watch. I felt like slowing around the 2.75 mile mark but I managed to hang on and finished the time trial in 24:20 for a 7:51 pace. That was 48 seconds faster than the 5K I ran in June, though still 30 seconds off my PR (Maybe I can hit that on my turkey trot in a month, in a real race setting?).
So I decided to see what speed McMillan predicts for a half marathon based upon this time trial - 1:52:40. And what did Running Wizard predict at the start of my plan? 1:52:28. Wow. It seems that my training has all come together.
Run Perry
Well, after running three practice races on consecutive weekends, and injuring my right foot slightly in the 5k last weekend, I opted for a different approach and did my own 5k time trial this morning on some local streets. Result was a time of 21:40, not my best, but acceptable. It was my first attempted time trial and felt odd to be running at such an aggressive pace for that distance outside of the context of a race. Not sure what is wrong with my foot...it hurts more when my shoes are off after a run than during. The pain is in and around the pad beneath my pinky toe. Feels like a bad bruise that won't go away but there's been no swelling. Hopefully the issue will be gone by the time I run my goal race in a couple of weeks. I'm really looking forward to an 8 mile trail run I have planned for tomorrow. A nice change of pace, some nice fall scenery and less impact on my foot ( I hope!)
P.S. Good run perryw, especially in those less than ideal weather conditions.
Not a bad time trial for you, slothful. This was the first time I've ever really tried a "time trial" and it was strange, indeed. Nevermind that the nasty weather had everyone inside (only saw one dog walker, and I stayed inside my neighborhood), but pushing myself while I was all alone did seem weird. Seeing how closely the McMillan calculator comes to my RW predicted time is pretty neat... that's all theory, so now all that's left is for me to have a good race next weekend. I'm still nervous about maintaining 8:35 for 13.1 miles, but at least I know I'm ready to do it on paper.
I've lost a bunch of weight since last winter and I've been shopping for smaller cold weather clothes. My windbreaker has a ton of extra fabric around front, and my long sleeve shirts are real baggy now. Time to warm up the credit card! I'm also thinking of trail shoes so I can play in the woods this winter.. did a couple trail runs during training and had fun.
Perryw -- Glad I'm not the only one who finds time trials to be a weird experience. I got a couple of funny looks from passers by when I did the final sprint towards the imaginary finish line, LOL.
Yeah, that need to shop for smaller clothes is a great problem to have. I loved doing that. I saved a couple of XL T-shirts that I used to wear back in my sedentary, fat years. When I put them on now, it's amazing how enormous they seem since I wear a size Medium now.
Best of luck with the HM race next week. It sounds like you're ready for it.
Nice work, perry and sloth. I like doing the time trials, and the weird looks don't bother me too much anymore. Or maybe I don't notice them anymore.
I hit a nice milestone today -- 2000 miles for 2013. I've never run that many miles in a year before, so it's kind of cool. I also started my buildup in mileage for my next marathon training cycle, which starts in about another week. This month was threatening to drop below 100 miles for the month, but with the buildup, I was able to keep a "streak" of sorts alive. 2013 has exceeded my running-related expectations, and I'd like to sustain some momentum as the year comes to a close.
I'm reading "You (Only Faster)," by Greg McMillan. He's a Lydiard disciple, and the book is well-written (in my opinion, at least), so most of it is consistent with what I've learned from Running Wizard. However, the focus is more about modifying and optimizing a training plan for individuals based on a self-assessment of your running type. In the end, it may not change how I use the RW plans much (if at all), but it is a good read.
Any racers with reports?
Seems like everyone is having a pretty good fall so far! Good races, good training, easy tapers. JML is running New York City this weekend right??
SubDood, congrats on hitting 2000!! that's awesome. Amazing to think you are going to start your Boston training in only a week. Most of my friends and family are not runners and have limited knowledge of the sport, so it's been funny talking about my marathon with them. Once I tell someone that I ran a BQ time they all ask if I am going to run it this spring!! AAHAHAHAHAHAHA I wish I am looking at running the 2015 Boston but still have to convince my husband it is worth the trip!
JML is running New York City this weekend right??
Well.....attending the marathon might be more accurate. I will be running it in support of the team that I coach and fund-raise for, and will likely pace some of my first time marathoners. One of them has had some injury trouble so I probably pace her to make sure that she gets over the finish line safely. My goal race is Philly on November 17th so I am going to run NYC as a (very) long jog. I plan to high five every kid that I see on the course and just enjoy the day. It is kind of odd to go to a race without the intent to run for a time but i am not complaining. I will be at the expo at the charity booth (Team Shoe4Africa) on Friday in the event that any other forum members are coming to NYC (jerseyrunner?).
Disclaimer: Two marathons in 14 days is a stupid idea. As a Lydiard coach, I should (and do) know better. If I wasn't committed to the charity, I would not be doing this. That being said, this is an interesting experiment for me and will test my recovery abilities before Philly.
SubDood - another great book about Lydiard style training is "Healthy Intelligent Training: The Proven Principles of Arthur Lydiard". Nobby and Lorraine use this book during the certification class and it is an excellent read. Congrats on 2K by the way.
Shameless fundraising link for the charity: http://goo.gl/bS1jSf
More about Shoe4Africa: www.shoe4africa.org
2015 goals: run a bunch....race some.....repeat...
Nice work, perry and slothful! I took the race route and had a good tune-up 5k last weekend. I decided to run in a local race instead of attempting a time trial on my own since the park where I like to do time trials was hosting a race anyway. I didn't hit the RW predicted time, but didn't expect to (that would have been 26 seconds off my PR). I did come within 14 seconds of my PR time from last May and it was good for an AG win -- gotta love these local races. The course measured a bit long on my Garmin (3.13 miles) and if I calculate my time based on an exact 3.1 mile course, it would have been a few seconds below my PR. So all in all, a good race and a confidence booster.
Also had a good 1-mile up tempo run this morning. I'm not sure how this short, fast running will help me in the marathon, but it does make my MP seem easier. Not sure if I'll feel the same way around mile 20.
I'm planning to get to the Expo on Friday -- Saturday will be too crowded. I'll look for you, JML!
2015 goals:
1800 miles; 5k < 25:00; 10k < 51:00; HM < 1:55; finish a 70.3 Half Ironman
NYC Half Marathon 3/15; Unite Half Marathon 4/12; Escape the Cape Sprint Tri 6/14; NJ State Oly Tri 7/19
The NYC marathon would be a classic case of good news / bad news:
Good news - One of the runners that I coach using the Lydiard approach took his PR from 3:12 to 2:57. It was a tough day to run in very windy conditions and he ran an incredible race with all splits within 7 seconds. Simply an amazing performance. Many of my other runners had solid days as well:
-first timer running a 4:10 with a second half 6+ minute negative split
-first timer coming off a stress fracture 14 weeks ago and running a 4:10 on a very customized program
-first timer running a 3:26
Bad news - One of the other runners that I coach came into the race with bad tendonitis. With Doctor's clearance, we set out on a plan to run / walk our way to glory for this runner's first marathon. The injury trouble started at mile 8 and took hold in earnest at mile 14. The result was power walking the last 8 miles of the course to guide this runner to the finish line. I am very proud that they finished but am less thrilled by the 6+ hours that I spent on my feet. Time will tell what this does to my race in Philly.
JML, I was wondering how your group fared on Sunday -- seems like mixed results. Some really solid performances, though! Too bad it was such a long day for you. Since you were walking or running easy most of the time, it may not affect Philadelphia too much. I hope you had a chance to enjoy the day and high five lots of kids along the course.
Will you be manning a booth at the Philly expo? I couldn't find the TeamShoe4Africa booth at the NYC expo.
SubDood, congratulations on reaching 2000 miles! Boston training already?I plan to start my training after the Philly HM on Nov. 17. I'm following the advice I read somewhere about what to do after a marathon:
1. Tell all your friends and family that you will return to your normal self and promise them that you will never do anything so stupid again.
2. Register for your next marathon.
Looks like Nov. 16-17 is another big race weekend!
Thanks Jerseyrunner.
It was a pretty good day for us. A total of 64 runners started and finished for Shoe4Africa, and we raised a significant sum for the charity. Other than finishing the day feeling very cold, I cannot complain. The legs are a bit creaky after 26.2 miles even though I walked more than I ran. The real test will be the short O+B and the time trial this weekend. How I feel during these runs will guide my time goal for Philly. The 3:05 quoted by RW is off the table but I think that I should still be able to have a pretty good day.
The expo in NYC was insane. I actually had trouble finding our booth on Friday even though it was fairly large. We have a corporate sponsor (Pepsico) that provided the booth and also handed out free samples of snack products. As a result, we had a lot of interested people. In my experience, the combination of 'free' and 'food' is a siren call for runners.
No booth in Philly.....this race is all mine. NYC is our big annual event although we are talking about fielding a team for the NYC half in March. If anyone is interested in getting into this pretty cool race, let me know and I will save a slot for you if we decide to put a team together.
I'm bored, you guys. I'm tired of noodling along building my aerobic base (or, uh, maintaining my aerobic base - not like I've really been challenging myself lately) and I need a new goal. And now it's winter and there are no races until next year and soon it will be all icy and snowy and we won't be able to train properly anyway...So what did I do just now? I googled fall marathons in 2014. Munich is on October 12th. And it only costs like 70 euros (Berlin is close to 100, I think, so 70 is a total steal.)
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A Productivity Paradox --Dickeson
August 2003Can we just call a halt to improvement? Stop generating the over-capacity? No. In an economy where price is competitive we must constantly improve or die. If we don't continuously improve our efficiency, our competitor will, and we'll be lost in the dust.
Those who guess right on the demand for certain products, buy the appropriate equipment and constantly reduce prices win the survival race. At the same time, those winners constantly and carefully trim away at staffing and fight to increase market share. That's the winning path. It takes good information, keen intuition and lots of luck.
Unfortunately we're not all equally gifted, positioned or lucky enough to make it into that winner's circle. All men (and women) are NOT created equal in talent, position or good fortune.
Our choice of information has been deceptive. We know that Budgeted Hourly Rates (BHRs) are false and misleading. Yet everyone in the plant sort of believes in them. "Drink the Kool-Aid," says the preacher, "and we'll meet in Heaven." "Buy the new machine," says the sales rep, "and it'll reduce your costs 40 percent." What the rep didn't say was, "Buy the new machine and you can fire three people," even though that was what he meant. We expect suppliers to deceive us because they use the same words to create a never-never-land that we use to deceive ourselves.
It's not deceit, really; it's telling half the story. We're telling the Abbot of the monastery that if he installs this new press it will cut the per copy cost of books 80 percent. We didn't say that if he installs the new Gutenberg he must fire all of his manuscript illuminati monks.
No Bad News, Please
The management system supplier doesn't tell us that if we install the new server we can discharge all of our data processing staff. No, we only want to hear good news—the good stuff. We hate to let people go and upset families, keep kids from college. We avoid it with every excuse we can think of. We look at falling job costs and say, "WOW!" Now we can cut our prices." That's half the story. The other half is to call in Joe and Sally and say, "Hey, that new gizmo you fought for and worked so hard to get going has made you obsolete. Write when you find jobs."
It even hurts to write this down. We just don't find people saying this kind of thing aloud, do we? But it's true. We know it's true. We just don't want to hear about it. Let's go look at our job costs and BHRs and make like fat, dumb and happy. But just remember: increasing productivity is both a blessing and a curse. It'll sneak up and bite you before you know what happened.
Funny, isn't it, how the whole scene changes when we look at people payments as defining "capacity" rather than machine speeds? That's what we did a few months ago when we found that for the past 10 years the top group of printers actually paid out 10 percent less of their manufactured value-added as people payments.
We have to increase efficiency—productivity—or fail. We must also struggle to lower our prices. If possible, increased marketing efforts and sales will help. Much as it hurts, capacity must be reduced. Every task and person not required for saleable results must be eliminated.
—Roger V. Dickeson
About the Author
Roger Dickeson is a printing productivity consultant based in Tucson, AZ. He can be reached via e-mail: email@example.com.
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