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Ya, it's cold
It's been a while, I had to wait for my fingers to thaw in order to type a blog, somehow -6C feels 'warm' now. Actually I couldn't think of anything interesting to write about, and I still don't, but thought I'd throw a training update out there and let y'all know I'm racing a half marathon next weekend.
Earlier in the week I had an over-distance run of 44km with an 11km pickup from 28 to 39km. It was -13C, almost no snow on the roads, little wind and sunny so it was actually quite nice out, relatively speaking. We had to put our bottles in a insulated bag (with a hot water bottle in there) in order to keep our drinks in a liquid state. With all the gear one typically wears in frigid temps I know I'm not going to see the exact paces I would like and I just have to trust I'm getting in the appropriate effort.
I've contemplated going somewhere else to train but I'm actually dealing with the cold weather fine. As long as it doesn't snow much in the next 7 weeks it will be alright in Guelph. It's good to be running with the Speed River guys as a bunch of us are focused on the same mid-April marathon. Since returning to low altitude in late January I've upped my weekly volume, hitting a high of 220km this week.
Yesterday four of us did a 32km run on snowy roads. The footing wasn't too bad in the beginning and we were chatting a lot. The whole time it was snowing quite a bit and the footing got worse as the snow piled up. In the final third of the run our legs got heavy and the chatter died down. With less than 2km to go a snowplow came by and cleared the road. It was crazy how different, and good, it felt to run normally again. Those are the runs that we tell ourselves are making us tough, anything to justify slogging along for that long.
Tomorrow it's supposed to plunge back below -20C, which means another treadmill session.
Next Sunday, March 1, I'm going to race the Chilly Half Marathon in Burlington, ON. This is going to be a fitness test and a chance to get on closed roads in a race atmosphere. Right now the weather looks like it will warm up a bit, maybe I'll be able to actually run marathon race pace outside.
On March 15th a bunch of us from Speed River are going to High Park for a Harry's Spring Run-off free training run put on by the fine people at Canada Running Series. There are 8km and 5km group runs planned for all levels.
Here are some random pics I took on my flight from Nairobi to Amsterdam a month ago.
Lake Turkana (Kenya) in the distance
Nile through outskirts of Khartoum, Sudan
Nile, just North of Khartoum
Lake Nasser is a man made lake on the nile, close to Abu Simbel, Egypt.
Crop circles in the middle of Sahara Desert
Nile in the distance, close to Luxor, Egypt
Mediterranean Sea, about 125km East of Alexandria, Egypt
Hannut Lotto Cross Cup
It had been a long time since I've raced and I got quite a re-introduction with a XC meet in Belgium. I chose to race the Hannut Lotto Cross Cup on my way home from Kenya. I previously raced here in 2011 after training in Kenya and had a great experience, finishing 5th.
Once again I planned a race on the way home from Kenya to offset the two long flights (Nairobi to Europe 8 hours, Europe to Toronto 7 hours) and test my fitness.
After rain and snow in the days prior to the race the Hannut course was really muddy and I had to borrow some 12mm pins before the race (which were still on the short side). I was confident in my fitness going into the race, although not so much in my ability in sloppy conditions.
When the gun went off I couldn't keep up with the leaders even though my plan was to go out hard. It felt like I was just spinning in the mud. I didn't even make it into the top 20 as the course turned right into a bottleneck. At that point I had to slow down because of the traffic. Right off the bat I made it a lot harder to hit my goal of top 3.
At first it was hard to pass guys because there were a lot of bodies fighting for these positions but I knew if I could just pass 10 guys then I would be clear of the masses.
I was making decent headway until about 1500m into the race when I went down on a corner. A few guys went past me and I lost precious ground to the leaders. When I got back up to my feet my gloves were caked in mud and heavy so I chucked them.
By 3 km into the race I was in the top 10, not too far behind a pack. The top 2 were pulling away from everyone else. When I was able to run on areas with less slop I would gain on the pack. Other times I would stay constant, or lose ground through muddy patches.
During the race my breathing and energy felt controlled but I still had trouble closing the gap to the guys in front of me. As the race progressed to the last few km I could tell other guys ahead were struggling and I was gaining. From 8km to 9km I went from 8th to 4th with my sights set on the Kenyan in 3rd. I was making ground on 3rd place but with 200m left to the finish and in some heavy slop I knew I wouldn't catch him. Perhaps I let up a little thinking I could do no better than fourth and all of a sudden I was in a race for the fourth spot.
The Kenyan-born Belgian whipped past me with only meters to go and then let up ever so slightly before the line and I tried to out-lean him to no avail. Four years on and I finished 5th, once again, in Hannut.
Although the conditions didn't suit my strengths it was a lot of fun as I've never raced in mud like that before. The inside of my legs are bruised just from my feet flailing into my calfs and knees from the unpredictable terrain.
On one hand I think it may have been better for me to choose a race that's more similar to racing a marathon on the roads. But this race ended up challenging me in other ways, which may also be beneficial to the marathon. One challenge was that I had to be mentally engaged the whole race. Any little lapse and I was slipping or losing ground, there was no cruise control. Every step had to be deliberate.
After the race I stayed with my friends, JP and Steph, and we watched the broadcast of the race. They only used stationary cameras but it was perfect, much better than one camera on the leader(s). You could see the whole race play out and caught most of the top 15 during each race.
On the course there were three little hurdles, which we encountered six times. The hurdles make the race more interesting for spectators and athletes. Now that I was a spectator, watching the recoded broadcast, I could catch all the action. In the beginning my arms were flailing up in the air while seasoned veterans were not even breaking stride over the hurdles. By the end my technique improved a lot.
Here are the first and second finishers going over the hurdles
The Kenyan training camp was one of my best in terms of developing fitness. I started off with less fitness than most years but I came out feeling the best I ever have after a stint in Iten. I think I found the right amount of volume for me when training at a hilly 2400m (8000 feet). In the previous two years I was running too much and although not feeling too beat up because of the soft running surface I think I was digging a hole. This time around I was executing the tough sessions a little better.
With Vincent Rousseau after the race (PB's of 13:10, 27:23, 2:07:20)
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Gord Dickson, 1932-2015
This week Gord Dickson, a legendary Canadian runner, passed away at the age of 83. Obituary.
1960 Olympic Marathon (Rome)
1959 Boston Marathon, 3rd
5-time winner of Around the Bay 30km
6-time Canadian marathon Champ
3-time Canadian XC Champ
1959 Pan-Am Games Marathon, 3rd
2:21:51 marathon PB – 1958 (when Gord set his PB the WR for the marathon was 2:17:39)
I first met Gord Dickson at a road race in Fergus, ON over 10 years ago. He had driven a couple of Kenyans from Hamilton to the race. I suspected he was once a runner himself but I had no idea of his accomplishments, he wasn't one to boast.
In 2008 I moved back to Hamilton and started running with a few Kenyans (Thomas Omwenga, Josephat Ongeri and David Karanja). Since I was the only Speed River athlete training for the marathon in 2009 I decided to stay in Hamilton longer than the three months I had initially planned for. Over the next few years I would run into Gord many times.
The Kenyans referred to Gord as 'coach' but he was much more than just a coach for these guys. He would also act as their agent to get them into races, drive them to races and help them out with many of life's challenges for a Kenyan immigrating to Canada.
Gord also coached many other runners and you could usually find him at the McMaster track in the evenings with a stopwatch. I would do my easy runs and pass by there to chat for a bit. It was during these conversations where I was privy to great running stories of the 50's and 60's as well as encouraging words about my own running.
A few stories that stick out…
There used to be a 30 mile race from Guelph to Hamilton that Gord won (perhaps more than once). This intrigued me as I've made that drive countless times and biked it a few times as well. It was common for Olympic level marathoners to dabble in road races longer than 42km back in the day. It's fascinating to hear about the racing schedules runners did back then.
Within half a year of moving back to Hamilton I broke my foot and didn't run for 3 months. Gord was relieved that I didn't have a plaster cast and had a removable air cast. When he was in a cast he got in the pool for exercise and, naturally, some water seeped in. When he finally got the cast removed he said his foot looked like a "dead fish". It had been waterlogged for weeks and, on top of that, atrophied. To strengthen his foot and test it out Gord walked the 30km from Hamilton to Brantford. After that he was ready to resume training.
I can't remember the length of the loop (about 120m) and the exact distances (LONG) but when the snow or ice piled too high he would run in the underground parking lot at these apartments in Hamilton. He had training partners to accompany him for these long runs.
Gord had many stories about hot races where everyone would run much slower than what they were capable of. This is because these guys rarely took in more than water, if even water. There wasn't much out on the courses in the 50's and if they were lucky enough to get some refreshments it was rarely enough. Since then much more is known about hydration and fuelling. The way these guys had to slog it to the finish line would make for good TV these days.
Gord was always very supportive and encouraging about my running and would often give advice, but never in a "I know what's right" kind of way. It was more learning from his career and how I could use that info to further mine.
In late November Gord emailed me about Kenya. We talked on the phone for a while about him and his wife taking a trip to Kenya this winter. He said he always wanted to go and in the past few years his health wasn't good enough but he was feeling better and saw a window for overseas travel. We talked about staying in Nairobi for a couple of days to rest from the travel and see the Giraffe Centre and other sights. Then travel to Iten to check out a Kenyan running hub and watch some track and fartlek sessions. Once in Kenya I emailed him some information about Nairobi and his wife, Sheilah, responded that Gord was in the hospital with very aggressive pancreatic cancer. One week later Gord passed away. He will be missed, RIP.
Here are portraits of Gord Dickson taken decades apart. (courtesy of George Aitkin)
Gord winning the 1964 Around the Bay 30km
Mwezi moja katika Kenya tayari
This was a tough week of training and a little chaotic.
Evans Zakaria Ruto left for Mumbai Marathon and since he is the leader of the group guys splintered off to other groups as the next guys in line aren't that fit right now (apparently you need to be fit for runners to listen). That meant on Tuesday when I was warming up for a fartlek session I saw many guys I normally run with cooling down. Luckily 5 other guys didn't get the memo and I had some company for 25 x 1 min / 1 minute rest.
On Wednesday I got wind of one group doing 7 x 5 min and another doing 17 x 2 min on Thursday morning. I wanted to do the 7 x 5 min session but wasn't sure which group was doing what. I was able to meet up with Gilbert Kirwa's group at 8:35 and realized they were doing 17 x 2 min so myself and a couple other Kenyans ran 4km down the road to meet up with "Mwisho Wa Lami" ("End Of Tarmac") group for 9:00 start. This particular morning there were at least 150 runners lined up for the session.
The 7 x 5 minutes with 2 minutes rest session went really well. I was typically 50-80m back of the leader but got right up to the front for the last two, which were uphill. In order to catch the leaders for the first few intervals I had to run about 3:50/km, and guys were catching up and passing me on these 'rests'. By the end there were about 20 of us in the front group and since we were running uphill the last 2 minute rest was a real 'pole pole' rest at 6:53/km.
Face post fartlek vs. post rinse.
Friday morning I did 18km with 60 other runners. The last 6km were uphill and guys started to push the pace. There were a few of us who were tired from the fartlek the day before but we stubbornly followed the 3:30/km for the last 4km. This was probably due to the lady in the pack and not wanting to get dropped by her. The lady ended up being Florence Kiplagat who has run 65:12 for a half marathon (the WR). After the run a few guys were complaining that the guys pushing the pace hadn't done a fartlek the day before but there's no one forcing us to stay with the pack.
After the run Gilbert told me he was planning on 30km, not too fast but hilly. That sounded prefect.
I met at 6:00 sharp for the run. 1km into the run I realized this was going to be a very hilly run as we were heading down the Great Rift Valley. After 5 years in Iten I've never run down the Valley.
We ended up descending for 9km until we started to climb up to a hilly forest. From km 15-16 we ascended 80m and then from 16-17 we ascended 97m (318 feet). During those 2 km the group of 30 exploded and there were only 5 guys at the front with me 10m in tow, and a line of guys making their way out of the Valley in my wake. Once it got flatter the group swelled back to 10 or 11 guys and I was dropped towards the end.
It was one of my most memorable runs ever, and the hilliest. Over 31.5km I ascended 630m (2066 feet) in total. We started out descending into the Great Rift Valley to a beautiful sunrise in front of us. The villages along the dirt road were really interesting showcasing quintessential mud houses with thatched roofs. The temperature changes were drastic as we descended down and then came back up through Bugar (Singore) forrest. On top of that, struggling hard for breath while running 4:33/km was a new experience.
Here you can see the elevation chart with pace (blue line). The pace was very slow at the start, which is smart because you can't see anything for the first 5 minutes until the sun starts to show…
Kenya 2015 – New Year
I'm halfway through my training stint here in Iten, Kenya. So far it's gone well and I feel my fitness improving.
I've been training with a marathon group most days, which includes Gilbert Kirwa (2:06), Evans Ruto (2:07), Josephat (2:09), Silas Kipruto (59 half). There are about 20 core guys and the group swells to about 50 on some runs.
Here is their typical week:
6:00AM – 8-10km easy (~5:00/km)
9:30AM – 18.2km hard (3:22-3:32/km average)*
6:00AM – 8-10km easy (~5:00/km)
9:45AM – Fartlek (something such as 13 x 3 min / 1 min jog)**
6:15AM – 19km (~4:00/km)
PM – some guys run easy
6:00AM – 8-10km easy (~5:00/km)
9:45AM – Fartlek (something such as 20 x 1min / 1min jog)
6:15AM – 20km (~4:00/km)
PM – I suspect some guys run easy (?)
6:15AM – 24-38km ***
Day off for most (or easy run)
*On Monday for the 18.2km loop the group can be as large as 50 runners and when they average 3:22/km there's only about 8 left by the end. Most will finish within 6 minutes but there are also many who fall off and jog home. The loop mainly descends for the first 6km and finishes at a higher point than the start. It has 200+ meters of climbing and at 2390m it's quite tough.
**On Tuesday fartlek they'll say they're only going to run "60%" or "75%" "speed" depending on how hard Monday was. However, there are always a few guys who didn't have a good one the day before to push the pace. On the cool-down walk sometimes arguments ensue about who pushed the intervals, or rests, too fast.
Tuesday will change to a track session come February, and if I remember correctly the Monday run isn't as fast before a track session.
***The long run usually gets down to 4:00/km after a few km and either stays around there or gets down to 3:20/km if it's supposed to be a hard one that week.
I usually place myself at the back of the pack as many Kenyans shuffle in front of me because they don't like being behind a mzungu. I wait for the uphills to pass the Kenyans as they can't do anything about it if they aren't fit enough. Today, Arne Gabius (German 13:12, 2:09:30) ran in the pack and towards the end of the run he was funneled out the back with me.
The problem with the back of the pack is there is a lot of dust. The other option is staying tight to the runner in front but that comes with the risk of twisted ankles on the rough roads. Every once in a while I'll just meet with a couple other guys (or solo) so I don't have to inhale so much dust.
Only the core group meets for the fartlek sessions and they know me, which means I can stay in the pack without being passed and funneled out the back, if I can manage hang on. So far I've barely hung on to the back of the fartlek sessions, which means I need to pick up the pace to re-group after the interval. There are a bunch in the same boat as me.
I didn't bother showing up for the Tuesday fartlek yesterday after running hard for over an hour on Monday. After talking to some of the guys I wasn't the only one to skip it.
This week is going to be a bit different because Evans and Silas are running Mumbai marathon on Jan 18 and they are tweaking the training to peak in 11 days. Some of the group will do one last long run on Thursday and the rest of us will do a fartlek session (supposedly 2 min/1 min).
I'll post this now and then hopefully add photos if internet is good enough…
Asbel Kiprop doing some 800's at the track.
Cheploch Gorges are a 50 minute drive from Iten.
Christmas in Iten
I arrived in Kenya on Dec 17th and spent a couple days in Nairobi. Marie and I did some tourist stuff before flying to Eldoret.
Elephant orphanage in Nairobi
Giraffe Centre in Nairobi
The plan was to take it easy for 5 days and I managed to get four easy days in before a fairly hard 18km run with the group I trained with last year. I didn't stay up with the leaders, they were four minutes ahead of me at the end of 18.2km but I still went a little harder than planned.
On December 24th Shoe4Africa put on a women's 5km in Iten. Entries were free, came with a t-shirt and limited to the first 800. Needless to say it filled up fast. Marie helped out with registration for quite a while before I showed up after my morning run and helped pin numbers to t-shirts. The course was not easy and because the prize money was good there were a bunch of impressive performances.
Before the start of the Shoe4Africa 5km.
Handing out race shirts
Christmas day fell on a Thursday and I decided to give the 'big' fartlek session a go. The Thursday fartlek sessions in Iten can see upwards of 300 runners. Because of Christmas the numbers were reduced. Many of the local runners come from nearby villages and spent Christmas day at home. On top of that it rained pretty hard the night before and the trails were still muddy in the morning, which may have reduced numbers as well.
I ran to the fartlek with a few other Wazungu from HATC and met up with 40-50 Kenyans. Someone decided on 20 times 2 minutes with 1 minute rest. Geoffrey Rono (59 minute half marathoner) was in the group. For the first 7 intervals or so I was able to get back with the lead group by running the one minute 'rest' a little harder (the guys around me were doing the same). At that point my average pace was 3:30/km. On one trail the mud was bad and my shoes were really heavy. At this point a second group formed and we slowed our rest down (~5:30/km) as we weren't trying to re-group with the leaders anymore.
After 10 intervals or so a bunch of guys dropped and we got on a new path without any mud. I found my rhythm again and stayed with three other guys. After a while we could barely see the first group, which was down to three guys.
On the 17th interval I lost contact with the guys I was running with, but when I finished I realized they were stopping at 17. I continued on and one of the guys decided to keep me company. Towards the end of the 20th interval the two of us flew by the three leaders, who were walking. Afterwards we walked with them and they realized they miscounted because they thought they did 20. They had their watches on 1 minute timer whereas I had a running time (59 minutes, 16.3km, 3:38/km). In the end only 3 Kenyans out of about 50 were planning on completing the prescribed 20 x 2 min session.
Later Christmas day we visited some friends for a late lunch, although I only had chapati because I had already feasted at HATC. We also gave out a bunch of school supplies to local kids we saw walking around. For dinner the kitchen prepared a big cake that was really good. We finished off the night with a game of charades with our Irish friends.
Other than HATC, Club Iten and Kerio View there wasn't much in terms of Christmas decorations but we did manage to buy a small tree for our room.
Our room decorations
And where do we go?
Earlier this week it was reported that five Track and Field events are under threat to be discontinued from the Olympic program. The events are the 200m, 10,000m, triple jump, shot put and one of the men's walks (20km or 50km). My first reaction is that this is a shame and, it is. I imagine many casual TnF fans wouldn't care too much if there were a few events taken off the table. The same thing is being considered for swimming and, as a casual fan, I don't think it's a bad thing to consolidate that sport.
If athletics was forced to downsize and become more relevant here is my take on the five events in question.
The 10,000m has seen some amazing championship races, Billy Mills, Lasse Viren's fall, Geb vs Tergat, Mo Farah… It's sad to think some of these fantastic races could never happen again. Except that there is talk of including a 10km road race in place of the 10,000m on the track. Perhaps that race could even finish on the track(?). And, as the article points out, the 10,000m is rarely run these days anyways whereas 10km road races are ubiquitous.
If the 10km road race had big KM markers for splits that run off chips on the athletes and some neat features in the course, such as hills, it could be very entertaining. Perhaps more so than 25 laps around a 400m oval. Mind you, if it's a numbers game then I doubt they would just switch the same bodies over to the roads.
Shot put doesn't look that impressive, if only fans could pick up a shot and see how heavy those things are then people could really appreciate a 20m
throw put. But in reality a 22m huck doesn't look that exciting and there are more sports competing for attention these days than ever before.
Triple jump seems like a random event and I can imagine casual fans have a hard time relating to it. Long jump and high jump are straight forward and as kids many of us tried to jump over something in length or height. But did you ever try and hop, skip, jump anything in the playground?
If they took out one men's race walk then there would be an even amount of men's and women's Athletics medals at championship events. To me, one of the men's race walks seems the most obvious to cut for equality reasons. Not to mention 50km around a 2km loop!
If you cut out the 200m I bet the vast majority of 200m runners could gravitate towards the 100m or 400m and have equal performances after specific training. Perhaps cutting out the 200m doesn't even cut out that many athletes seeing as many might compete in the 100, 400 and 4x100m anyways.
As much as its disappointing that Track and Field, as we know it, could be cut down maybe it's what the sport needs to appeal to more people and stay relevant. There are meets being discontinued around the world due to lack of money (sponsorship and fans), something needs to change and perhaps that means a streamlined event line-up? I'm sure there are many other ways to make athletics more appealing but this could be one direction to entertain.
In the end there are many more sports/events that should be cut before any athletics event if they need to make room at the Olympics. Athletics is rich in history and should have a permanent place in the Olympics.
Many people get lapped in the 1964 Olympic 10,000m final. No one has to get lapped in a 10km road race.
At the Sydney Olympics the winning margin in the 10,000m was closer than the winning margin in the 100m.
My personal favourite, 2009 Berlin WC 10,000m
A little update:
Over the past 5 weeks I've averaged over 140km/week and have been improving my workouts. Lately I've incorporated some shorter intervals (such as 500m, 1000m) and some strides. Every time I touch faster paces it's a clear reminder that I still have a lot of work ahead of me. At the same time it's encouraging because I see improvements from session to session. It's been tempting to jack up my overall volume or jump into track workouts with the group but I believe it's important to be smart with my progression, especially at this point in my build-up.
I head to Kenya tomorrow for five weeks. Kwaheri!


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Xander, Andrew and a Magic Wand
A HP/Buffy the Vampire Slayer Crossover
Summary: Xander has had a lot of stuff happen to him over the years but this was something new...what is Xander going to do with a Toddler? And what is poor Andrew getting into.
Disclaimer, I do not own any of these Characters associated with the world of Hogwarts is the property J.K. Rowling. The others associated with Sunnydale is the product Joss Whedon, so don't worry I'm only playing with them… and the authors can have them back when I'm done…
AN this story is going to be a bunch of Ficlet's If someone wants to take my idea and do something with it, I think that would be awesome… thank you to everyone that reviewed, it meant a lot to me ^_^…. Just to clarify some stuff this will most likely be AU, I don't really know about time lines (they give me a headache), Tara will still be alive, and Kennedy/willow Never happened (I don't Like Kennady) and as far as Dumbledore knows Harry is still with Petunia, Now how the Family Relation thingy works. Jessica's Older Brother is Lily and Petunia's Father, Making Lily and Petunia Xanders cousins and that makes Harry Xanders second cousin. And since they both have the same Grandfather it makes them blood relatives, (Granted not as strong as if he was with Petunia.)
Other Notes, This Chapter is Mainly about Andrew and Xander, with Xander learning about Andrew past… I thought this was important for later chapters to help explain the Friendship that grows between them.
Chap 3 Xander, Andrew and a Magic Wand
Andrew was excited and nervous; Mr. Giles package would be coming today. There would be books on magic theory, Potions, Transformations, and Simple spell's for beginners. Plus a wand, his very own wand, Andrew could hardly sit still. Xander had to send him out of the office because he was getting a headache.
Walking around outside Andrew remembered when he was 11 years old and his letter from the San Francisco School of Witchcraft and Wizardries came. His parents thought it was a joke from one of their friends. Even when the Headmaster from the school came Andrews parent did not believe and told the Headmaster to shove it.
When the postman came with the package Xander had to apologize to him because Andrew almost pounced on the guy, he immediately began opening the box and pulling out books. Inside a smaller box was his wand. Xander sat down with a sleepy Harry on his lap and picked up one of the books.
"Potions for beginners?" Xander looked at Andrew who was looking at his wand in wonder. "Andrew why are these books for beginners? And is that a wand? I did not know you needed a wand for magic, now that I think about I have never seen you use a wand before."
"I never had a wand before, and the magic I know was taught to me by…." Andrew paused took a big breath and said "taught to me by Jonathan and Warren."
Xander winced those two were not talked about. Anytime they were brought up Willow would glare Tara would look pale and Andrew would look ready to cry. In fact this was the first time that Andrew ever brought them up.
"Andrew..." Xander said not sure how to continue.
"They didn't start off on the Dark side, Warren moved to Sunnydale in my junior year from Salem, after his mom died, to live with his dad." Andrew just kept looking down at his wand that was still in its box.
"Jonathan lived with his Grandparents that owned the book store on the old Main Street, In Jr. High, he saw me do magic after one of the jocks locked me in the janitors closet. I… err… teleported out." Andrew let out a small laugh. "It made such a loud sound I thought the whole city heard it. But Jonathan just wanted to know how I could Apparate while still under age." Andrew was smiling and looked lost in his memories. "But then everything change, I think the Hellmouths dark powers got to Warren, Jonathan and I grow up with its evil influence all around us so we never knew the deference or saw the effects it had on people that weren't from there. But slowly Warren change he went from talking about Stargate vs. Star Trek, to how the normal people where useless and nothing more than sheep."
Andrew looked Xander in the eye, "I killed Jonathan, I killed my best friend Because Warren said too, and I was so scared of Warren that I did what he said. But the worst part is that when Jonathan was laying there dying he said he forgave me." By this point Andrew had tears running down his face. "I'm a coward Xander, I couldn't stand up to Warren, and I'm not brave like you or the others. Xander I haven't done any magic in months. How can Giles want me to teach Harry magic? He sent the books so that I could learn from them… But I'm scared that I'll do something wrong again."
Xander was not sure what to do, most of the other's thought Andrew was an annoying geek that used to be a bad guy. Did anyone every really just sit down and talk to him? No at best Willow and Buffy tolerated Andrew, and Giles helped him because Andrew reminded Giles of his own missed guided youth.
Xander moved a now sleeping Harry to a more comfortable position, reaching over he put his hand on Andrews shoulder "it's not your fault Warren was the one that did the spell, as Giles would say Youth and mistakes go hand and hand. In the end just like with Darth Vader you went back to the light side so…." Xander faulted for a moment it was so easier to talk to his girls "and I don't think Jonathan would have wanted you to stop using magic. Plus if Giles thinks you should do magic again and then teach Harry when he's a little older then I think you should, plus if you ever need to talk I'm here."
Standing up Xander put Harry down on the couch.
"Now then what's the what with the wand thingy." Xander said trying to be cheerful.
Andrew stood up as well wiping his face, "well before I came here Giles took me to this wand maker to have a wand made for me cause at this other wands shop the wands didn't work cause of the Hellmouths tint. That guy said I had to have one custom made and that it took months to make them."
Xander tried to hide his sigh, Andrew was acting normal again. "That's cool so are you going to try it out?"
Andrew picked up his wand and swooshed it. Xander looked around "was something supposed to happen?"
Andrews's eyes were large and he started to back away slowly. "You know I think I'll go check on dinner or see if the mini-slayers need any help… Bye Xander." As Andrew practically ran from the room Xander had a sinking feeling, turning slowly to the mirror, Xander saw that his Hair was the brightest pink he had even seen.
End chapter…
Well it turned out a little different than I thought it would, but I think you can get what I was trying to have happen. Also If anyone wants to be my beta that would be awesome…
Also tell me what you think… and let me know about any mistakes…


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a resident of another community
on Sep 25, 2012 at 9:07 am
What about all of the shots heard lately in East Palo Alto, that seem to be from both sides of the freeway? Are they related?
a resident of Menlo Park: Downtown
on Sep 25, 2012 at 10:27 am
Thanks for reporting on what happened. I was riding home to Menlo Park last night around 8pm from a meeting in East Palo Alto and Belle Haven was cordoned off at Willow with police cars at every entrance.
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on Sep 25, 2012 at 11:35 am
Although the police presence kept me from getting to a friend's home last night, I want to express my appreciation to the Menlo Park police for being responsive to this matter.
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Below are the top Runs Created* totals in the Pittsburgh Pirates' farm system from the last week. The rankings include every hitter who had an at-bat for a Pirates' minor league affiliate, not including DSL teams, and with no limitations on whether the hitter has prospect eligibility. Only players with a 3.0 RC or better are included on the list below. Players who spent time at different levels are counted multiple times, once for each level, rather than combining their stats. Notes on the top ten players from the last week can be found below the chart.
*Runs Created is a stat created by Bill James used to estimate how many runs an individual contributes to his team. There are many formulas for runs created. For these purposes the basic formula is used. That formula is ((H + BB) * (1B + (2*2B) + (3*3B) + (4*HR))) / (AB + BB).Player Team AB H 2B 3B HR BB K RC Eric Avila West Virginia 26 11 4 0 4 4 4 13.50 Brock Holt Indianapolis 24 12 2 0 1 1 3 8.84 Dilson Herrera GCL 23 11 1 0 0 3 3 6.46 Jose Osuna West Virginia 31 10 3 0 1 2 5 5.82 Andrew Lambo GCL 10 6 2 0 0 2 1 5.33 Alen Hanson West Virginia 17 7 2 0 0 6 3 5.09 Junior Sosa West Virginia 21 10 0 0 0 1 0 5.00 D.J. Crumlich State College 18 7 4 0 0 2 4 4.95 Max Moroff GCL 20 7 1 0 1 3 5 4.78 Wyatt Mathisen GCL 20 8 2 0 0 2 2 4.55 Andrew Lambo Altoona 7 3 0 0 2 1 1 4.50 Elvis Escobar GCL 19 7 1 1 0 2 4 4.29 Dan Grovatt Bradenton 16 4 1 0 3 1 2 4.12 Dallas McPherson Indianapolis 20 6 1 1 1 1 10 4.00 Jesus Vasquez State College 18 6 0 0 2 0 5 4.00 Matt Hague Indianapolis 25 8 1 10 1 0 1 3.84 Tyler Gaffney State College 18 5 1 2 0 3 1 3.81 Taylor Lewis West Virginia 25 8 2 0 0 0 9 3.20 Jin-De Jhang GCL 10 4 0 0 1 1 2 3.18 Jacob Stallings State College 17 4 0 1 1 3 9 3.15
Eric Avila homered in four consecutive days to wrap up the last week, and end up on the top of this week's rankings.
Eric Avila dominated the rankings this week. Avila is currently on an eight game hitting streak, with seven of those games in the last week. He has also homered in each of his last four games, giving him eight on the year. Heading in to the 2011 season, we had Avila as the number 24 prospect in the system, due to his power potential from third base. He didn't do much last year in West Virginia, hitting for a .216/.275/.289 line with four homers in 380 at-bats. He's been hot this year in his return to the level, hitting for a .285/.329/.562 line with eight homers in 137 at-bats. Since the All-Star break he has a .299/.349/.590 line in 117 at-bats, with all eight of his homers. The success could be due to Avila repeating the level. It could also be the 22-year-old adjusting to the level. Or it could be a hot streak, since five of his eight homers have come in the last week. At the least, this display puts Avila back on the prospect radar as a candidate who could crack the top 50.
Brock Holt was hitting for a .322 average with Altoona, and looked ready for a promotion. He hit the ground running in Indianapolis, and is currently hitting for a .404/.431/.532 line in 47 at-bats. That includes an eight game hitting streak, with six of those games taking place in the last week. Holt did hit two doubles and a homer, although he doesn't profile for much power, which makes him more of a utility option down the road.
If you're looking for candidates to be next year's Alen Hanson, then Dilson Herrera should be on your list. The Pirates signed Herrera in August 2010 for $220,000. He made the jump to the GCL this year after one year in the VSL. He's been hitting well so far, with a .287/.342/.483 line and seven homers in 178 at-bats. That comes in a pitcher friendly Gulf Coast League, which makes it a bit more impressive. He did slump a bit in July, hitting for a .238 average and a .670 OPS, but he's rebounded in August with a .373 average and an .899 OPS, including his hot streak last week, which was part of another eight game hitting streak. For another Hanson breakout candidate, check out Elvis Escobar, who also made this week's list.
Speaking of Alen Hanson, he returned this past week from a hip flexor injury and went 7-for-17 with two doubles and six walks. One of the impressive things about Hanson this year — aside from his .313 average, 16 homers, and .925 OPS as a 19-year-old in low-A — is his plate patience. Hanson has struck out 20.5% of the time, while walking 9.7% of the time. Typically top international hitters are more free-swingers with high strikeout totals and low walk totals. Hanson could use work in each department, but right now he's around average, which speaks well for his chances of performing in the upper levels.
Jose Osuna hasn't had the same breakout numbers that Hanson or Gregory Polanco have seen, but he is doing what he does best: hitting for power. Osuna's homer last week gave him 16 on the year, which ties Hanson and fellow West Virginia teammate Willy Garcia for the minor league system lead. Osuna also hit three doubles, giving him 34 on the year in 454 at-bats. He has a .280 average and a .786 OPS, with the OPS mostly due to a lack of walks.
Andrew Lambo appeared twice on the list. He finished dominating lower level hitters in the GCL, then returned to Altoona and hit two homers in his first game back. Lambo is recovering from hamate surgery, but obviously hasn't been told that the procedure usually saps players of their power for a year.
With Gregory Polanco out, Junior Sosa got extra playing time. The speedy outfielder hit for average, but he's more of an organizational player as he has no power.
2012 draft picks Wyatt Mathisen (2nd round) and Max Moroff (16th round) both had good weeks this week. Moroff hit his first professional home run, while Mathisen continued his hot hitting this year. On the season, Mathisen has a .310/.390/.397 line, which includes today's game where he hit his first professional home run (not included in the rankings above). Moroff has a .339/.453/.424 line in 59 at-bats, which also includes today's game where he went 2-for-3 with a walk and his seventh stolen base of the year.
D.J. Crumlich was also taken in the 2012 draft (9th round). He hit well in the last week, but on the season he's hitting for a .275/.336/.368 line. He was drafted higher to save slot space, and is an organizational player in the lower levels.
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Aliases for FGFR1OP Gene
Aliases for FGFR1OP Gene
External Ids for FGFR1OP Gene
- Entrez Gene: 11116
- Ensembl: ENSG00000213066
- UniProtKB: O95684
Summaries for FGFR1OP Gene
This gene encodes a largely hydrophilic centrosomal protein that is required for anchoring microtubules to subcellular structures. A t(6;8)(q27;p11) chromosomal translocation, fusing this gene and the fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 (FGFR1) gene, has been found in cases of myeloproliferative disorder. The resulting chimeric protein contains the N-terminal leucine-rich region of this encoded protein fused to the catalytic domain of FGFR1. Alterations in this gene may also be associated with Crohn's disease, Graves' disease, and vitiligo. Alternatively spliced transcript variants that encode different proteins have been identified. [provided by RefSeq, Jul 2013]
GeneCards Summary for FGFR1OP Gene
FGFR1OP (FGFR1 Oncogene Partner) is a Protein Coding gene. Diseases associated with FGFR1OP include steroid-induced glaucoma and 8p11 myeloproliferative syndrome. Among its related pathways are Signaling by FGFR and Signaling by FGFR1 mutants. GO annotations related to this gene include protein homodimerization activity and protein tyrosine kinase activity.
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In filibuster deal, a glimpse of how the Senate could actually work
The filibuster deal to avoid the Senate's 'nuclear option' showed that when senators actually talk to each other (a rare thing nowadays), theyŌĆÖre not so bad at figuring things out.
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The ŌĆ£worldŌĆÖs greatest deliberative bodyŌĆØ may have found a partial cure for gridlock: actual deliberation.
True, this weekŌĆÖs SenateŌĆÖs showdown over the ŌĆ£nuclear optionŌĆØ that would have jarringly changed Senate filibuster rules was ugly, with Senate majority leader Harry Reid (D) of Nevada riding his threat to go nuclear all the way to the brink, before a last-minute deal defused a crisis that threatened to stall the Senate until 2015.
But the dialogue away from the public's eyes in the Old Senate Chamber Monday that brought about the deal about also revealed something promising: When senators actually talk to one another, it seems, theyŌĆÖre not so bad at figuring things out.
The accord settled few of the underlying issues rankling members on both sides of the aisle. But many members said sharing different perspectives helped drive a consensus among the rank-and-file that the two party leaders should work toward a solution instead of allowing the chamber to go nuclear.
ŌĆ£Both sides understand each other better. We've taken great strides to restore the comity and cooperation that used to define this great institution,ŌĆØ said Senator Reid on Tuesday. ŌĆ£We have a new start for this body, and I feel very comfortable with it. I don't know how I could be happier.ŌĆØ
ŌĆ£Put this down as progress in the right direction and the best possible atmosphere to go into the balance of the year when we have much tougher issues to deal with down the road,ŌĆØ concurred Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R) of Kentucky.
The stage was set Monday, a day when Reid and Senator McConnell were at each otherŌĆÖs throats on the Senate floor. Democrats threatened to change the Senate rules with only a bare majority of senators, a move institutionalists feared would be the beginning of the end of minority rights in the upper chamber and Senator McConnell vowed would make Reid go down as the worst leader in Senate history.
Nearly all the members gathered in the Old Senate Chamber (last used when there were only 66 senators) to talk about the rules. Some three dozen members rose to speak.
"All intently listening to each other, you could hear a pin drop,ŌĆØ says Sen. Jeff Merkley (D) of Oregon, a leading champion of changing the SenateŌĆÖs rules. ŌĆ£It enabled people to understand the differing viewpoints.ŌĆØ
While that achievement may sound modest, it addressed an increasingly important issue: The day-to-day existence of United States senators does not allow for much across-the-aisle discussion nowadays.
When senators arenŌĆÖt raising money, working on legislation, or flying to and from their sometimes far-flung home states, they spend most of their so-called "debate" time on the Senate floor ŌĆ£speaking to a void,ŌĆØ Senator Merkley says. ŌĆ£WeŌĆÖre speaking to a camera, weŌĆÖre speaking to our constituents. But thereŌĆÖs no one there to listen to us among our colleagues.ŌĆØ
┬ĀWhile senators try to make up for that lack of contact with snippets of conversation on the Senate floor during votes or after the weekly lunches, where members dine with their own party┬Ācolleagues, that amounts to ŌĆ£a fractured conversation and you have to pursue it with great diligence,ŌĆØ Merkley says.
Even more problematic, senators in both parties acknowledged, is that the two parties understand the basic facts of an issue in fundamentally different ways.
ŌĆ£In two caucuses, itŌĆÖs like two tribes,ŌĆØ Merkley explains, ŌĆ£you hear different versions of the facts. History is sliced differently.ŌĆØ
The debate over Senate rules was no exception. Lugging an annotated copy of the Senate rules into the chamber, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R) of Tennessee made the case that not a single Supreme Court Justice, cabinet member, or district court judge had ever been blocked by a filibuster in American history.
ŌĆ£Part of the problem is we have too many [caucus] lunches and we operate on different facts,ŌĆØ Senator Alexander says. ŌĆ£In many ways, this is a manufactured crisis.ŌĆØ
Still, he acknowledges that five of President George W. Bush's circuit court judges were blocked by Democrats in a showdown that nearly sent Senate Republicans to the nuclear option lever. Republicans blocked two of President Obama's circuit court judges in retaliation, he says.
For most of the SenateŌĆÖs history, Democrats counter, there were no filibusters of nominees to the executive branch -- yet Mr. Obama has seen 16. Democrats charge Republicans had delayed nominees that would eventually receive overwhelming Senate support for months on end and had stalled nominees as a way to undercut government agencies they simply donŌĆÖt like, such as the Environmental Protection Agency.
Both sides' arguments are, in their own ways, tendentious. Alexander's analysis ignores the bevy of other procedural tools minority senators can use to block nominees without resorting to a formal filibuster, such as secret holds on presidential nominees. Democrats play down the many ways recent majority leaders have used their powers to limit traditionally open floor debate to exclude minority party concerns, aggravating Republicans who feel cut out of the Senate's business.
Merkley, summing up MondayŌĆÖs meeting to reporters on Tuesday, quoted to a line from the Rudyard Kipling poem, ŌĆ£IfŌĆØ: ŌĆ£Trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too.ŌĆØ
ThatŌĆÖs not to say everything that happened in the Senate Monday night was poetic: Things got awful ŌĆ£repetitious,ŌĆØ as Sen. Mike Johanns (R) of Nebraska put it.
Republicans like Alexander still felt that Democrats didnŌĆÖt understand the severity of their threat to the very underpinnings of the Senate. Democrats didnŌĆÖt exactly feel like Republicans felt their pain on the sluggish pace of the chamber.
And lawmakers on both sides said much of the discussion focused on lawmakers venting their frustration about filibusters against legislation, even though Reid said he had ŌĆ£zeroŌĆØ intention of changing anything about how laws pass through the Senate. (Reid threatened only to allow presidential nominees to bypass potential filibusters).
But the level of bonhomie and general goodwill fostered by a conclave that went on for more than three hours already has Senate leaders promising to do such meetings again.
Up next, Reid said, could be a similar closed session with former Senate majority leaders George Mitchell (D) of Maine and Trent Lott (R) of Mississippi to discuss matters of the Senate.
ŌĆ£We are going to do more meetings, and we're going to do them on a periodic basis,ŌĆØ Reid said. ŌĆ£We're going to try to ŌĆō I repeat, try ŌĆō to talk to each other than past each other.ŌĆØ


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The Lemon Tree
An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East
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The tale of a simple act of faith between two young people - one Israeli, one Palestinian - that symbolizes the hope for peace in the Middle East.
In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes; their families had been driven out of Palestine nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had a door slammed in his face, and another found his old house had been converted into a school. But the third, Bashir Al-Khairi, was met at the door by a young woman called Dalia, who invited them in.
This act of faith in the face of many years of animosity is the starting point for a true story of a remarkable relationship between two families, one Arab, one Jewish, amid the fraught modern history of the regio. In his childhood home, in the lemon tree his father planted in the backyard, Bashir sees dispossession and occupation; Dalia, who arrived as an infant in 1948 with her family from Bulgaria, sees hope for a people devastated by the Holocaust. As both are swept up in the fates of their people, and Bashir is jailed for his alleged part in a supermarket bombing, the friends do not speak for years. They finally reconcile and convert the house in Ramle into a day-care centre for Arab children of Israel, and a center for dialogue between Arabs and Jews. Now the dialogue they started seems more threatened than ever; the lemon tree died in 1998, and Bashir was jailed again, without charge.
The Lemon Tree grew out of a forty-three minute radio documentary that Sandy Tolan produced for Fresh Air. With this book, he pursues the story into the homes and histories of the two families at its center, and up to the present day. Their stories form a personal microcosm of the last seventy years of Israeli-Palestinian history. In a region that seems ever more divided, The Lemon Tree is a reminder of all that is at stake, and of all that is still possible.
Sandy Tolan is the author of Me & Hank: A Boy and His Hero, Twenty-five Years Later. He has written for the New York Times Magazine and for more than 40 other magazines and newspapers. As cofounder of Homelands Productions, Tolan has produced dozens of radio documentaries for NPR and PRI. His work has won numerous awards, and he was a 1993 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and an I. F. Stone Fellow at the UC-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where he directs the school's Project on International Reporting.


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Potato Flakes And Swedish Potato Casserole
While visiting Idaho potato country for the potato harvest, one of the most fascinating stops was the Idahoan dehydration plant. We watched the potatoes get peeled, cooked, mashed – and then this is the best part – rolled out on massive dryers that turned the potatoes into massive, paper-thin sheets. From there the sheets were […]
"Mint" Chocolate Chip Pancakes for #StPatricksDay
Green food coloring for St. Patrick's Day? No thanks – especially when so many other delicious foods are already green. We've already gone the naturally green frosting and naturally green cake route; now it's time to move on to breakfast. When we first saw these Spinach Mint Pancakes from Kitchen Cyclone, we knew they were […]
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