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Abbas Amanat
Abbas Amanat is Professor of History and International Studies at Yale. Among his publications are Resurrection and Renewal: the Making of the Babi Movement in Iran; Pivot of the Universe: Nasir al-Din Shah and the Iranian Monarchy and Apocalyptic Islam and Iranian Shi'ism. Most recently he coedited Is There a Middle East?: The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept and Iran Facing Others: Identity Boundaries in a Historical Perspective. His In Search of Modern Iran: Authority, Memory and Nationhood, 1501-2009 will be published in 2015 by the Yale University Press.
Sussan Babaie
Sussan Babaie joined the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London in 2013 to take up a newly established post teaching on the arts of Iran and Islam. Her research focuses on the Safavid Empire and its representations in urban space and architecture, and on transcultural visuality and imperial notions of exoticism in the early modern period. She is the author of the award-winning Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi'ism and the Architecture of Conviviality in Early Modern Iran (University of Edinburgh Press, 2008) and co-editor with Talinn Grigor of Persian Kingship and Architecture: Strategies of Power in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis (London: I. B. Tauris, forthcoming 2014). Her research on sexuality and social habits of 'seeing' in the arts of Safavid Iran have been published in "Frontiers of visual taboo: painted 'indecencies' in Isfahan" in Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art, edited by Francesca Leoni and Mika Natif (Ashgate, 2013), and in "Delicate displays: on a Safavid ceramic bottle at the Museum of the Cairo University," in Ferdowsi, The Mongols and Iranian History, edited by R. Hillenbrand, A. C. S. Peacock, and F. Abdullaeva (London, 2013). A graphic designer by training (Tehran University), Sussan also writes and teaches on contemporary topics, with Shirin Neshat, Detroit Institute of Art, 2013 (co-author) and "Voices of Authority: Locating the 'modern' in 'Islamic' Arts," Getty Research Journal 3 (2011), among her most recent publications. For her research, she has received grants from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright (for research in Egypt and Syria) and the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Shahzad Bashir
Shahzad Bashir is the Lysbeth Warren Anderson Professor in Islamic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author, most recently, of Sufi Bodies: Religion and Society in Medieval Islam and is currently working on a cultural history of Persianate societies based on evaluating the way the past is represented in a wide range of materials produced during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Sheila Canby
Dr. Sheila Canby was appointed Patti Cadby Birch Curator in Charge of the Islamic Art Metropolitan Museum of Art in October 2009. She had served as Curator of Islamic Art and Antiquities at the British Museum from 1991 to 2009. In 2014 she started her term as President of the Historians of Islamic Art Association. Her publications and exhibition catalogues include Shah 'Abbas: The Remaking of Iran (2009), Shah `Abbas and the Imperial Treasures of Iran (2009), Islamic Art in Detail (2005), Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76, co-editor with Jon Thompson (2003), The Golden Age of Persian Art, 1501-1722 (1999), Princes, Poets and Paladins: Islamic and Indian paintings from the collection of Prince and Princess Sadruddin Aga Khan (1999), Rebellious Reformer: The drawings and paintings of Riza-yi `Abbasi of Isfahan (1996), Persian Painting (1993) and The Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp (2011 and second edition 2014). She is presently working on an exhibition on Seljuq art scheduled to open at the Metropolitan Museum in 2015. In October 2011 her department opened the galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia and Later South Asia at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Chanchal Dadlani
Chanchal Dadlani is assistant professor of art history in the Department of Art at Wake Forest University, and is currently an NEH Fellow at the Getty Research Institute. Her research focuses on the early modern Islamic lands and South Asia, with an emphasis on Mughal visual culture. Other interests include artistic encounters between France and the Mughal empire; the urban history of Delhi; the representation of Mughal monuments in texts; early modern architectural practice; and the global reception of contemporary South Asian art. Her work has been published in Ars Orientalis and Artforum, and has been supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation, Fulbright-Hays, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previously, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. She received her Ph.D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2009.
Jamal Elias
Jamal J. Elias is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies and of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as Special Advisor to the Provost of Aga Khan University.
A recipient of many grants and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council (among others), he has lectured and published extensively on a broad range of subjects relevant to the mediaeval and modern Islamic world. He is the author, coauthor, or editor of eight books and numerous articles dealing with a range of topics in Islamic history, thought, literature, and art. His most recent books are On Wings of Diesel: Trucks, Identity and Culture in Pakistan (Oxford, 2011) and Aisha¹s Cushion: Religious Art, Perception and Practice in Islam (Cambridge Massachusetts, 2012); and his previous writings have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Persian, Portuguese, Turkish, and Urdu.
Emine Fetvaci
Emine Fetvaci received her Ph. D. in History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2005. Her first book, Picturing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press, 2013), examines the crucial role played by illustrated histories in the formation of Ottoman identity and the shaping of social hierarchies at court during the sixteenth-century. She also co-edited Writing History at the Ottoman Court (Indiana University Press, 2013), with Erdem Cipa. Her research areas include the arts of the book in the Islamic world, and Ottoman, Mughal and Safavid art and architecture. She is currently working on a comparison of Ottoman and Mughal illustrated histories as well as a monograph on the albums of the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I.
Christiane Gruber
Christiane Gruber is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Art History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests span medieval Islamic art to contemporary visual culture. She has authored two books on Islamic texts and images of the Prophet Muhammad's ascension and has edited several volumes on Islamic book arts, ascension texts and images, and visual and material culture. She is currently writing her next book, entitled The Praiseworthy One: The Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Texts and Images.
Navina Najat Haidar
Navina Najat Haidar has been a curator in the Department of Islamic art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1999. At the Met she has been deeply involved in the planning of the new Islamic galleries which opened in November 2011. She is the coauthor of Masterpieces from the Department of Islamic Art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Sultans of the South: Arts of India's Deccan Courts, 1323–1687 (both 2011). Navina has also worked on various other publications related to the new galleries, including a new walking guide, and has lectured widely on the Met's collection, Indian painting, and Islamic art. In addition Navina has an interested in architectural preservation with involvement in projects in the middle east and India. She is presently working towards an exhibition on the art of India's Deccan Sultans (April 2015) as well as an exhibition on Indian jewelry (October 2014).
Sylvia Houghteling
Sylvia Houghteling is a PhD candidate in the History of Art at Yale University. Her dissertation, "Politics, Poetry and the Figural Language of South Asian Textiles, 1600-1730," examines the seventeenth-century regional trade in South Asian textiles, revealing the interconnectedness of courts in the Deccan and Rajasthan, the cosmopolitanism of regional centers and the active role of textiles in the pageantry and politics of courtly life. Houghteling's PhD research has been supported by a Fulbright-Nehru research fellowship, the Yale South Asian Studies Council, the Yale Center for British Art, the Beinecke Scholarship Fund and the Huntington Library. Houghteling holds an MPhil in history from the University of Cambridge and a BA in history and literature from Harvard University. She complements her academic research with hands-on experiences in the textile arts – she has studied weaving, felting, block-printing and silk-painting in Denmark, Guatemala, Laos and India.
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu
Çiğdem Kafescioğlu is associate professor at the Department of History at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. She works on the urban, architectural, and visual culture of the early modern Ottoman world. She has contributed chapters and articles to numerous books and journals and is the author of Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (Penn State University Press, 2010), which won the Spiro Kostof Book Award from the Society of Architectural Historians. Kafescioğlu earned her doctoral degree in the history of art and architecture from Harvard University, and is currently a fellow at the Radcliffe Institure for Advanced Study (2013-14).
Azfar Moin
Azfar Moin is Research Fellow in Religious Studies at the University of Texas at Austin for 2013-14, on leave from Southern Methodist University where he is Assistant Professor of History. Prof. Moin's research focus is on Sufism and Muslim kingship, and the comparative study of early modern Islamic history in South Asia, Iran, and Central Asia. His first book, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam, won the 2013 Best First Book in the History of Religions Award from the American Academy of Religion and the 2013 John F. Richards Prize in South Asian history from the American Historical Association.
Kishwar Rizvi
Kishwar Rizvi is Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Yale University. She has written on representations of religious and imperial authority in Safavid Iran, as well as on issues of gender, nationalism and religious identity in modern Iran and Pakistan. She is the author of The Safavid Dynastic Shrine: History, religion and architecture in early modern Iran (London: British Institute for Persian Studies, I. B. Tauris, 2011) and editor of Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and politics in the twentieth century (University of Washington Press, 2008). Her new book is The Transnational Mosque: Historical memory and the contemporary Middle East (University of North Carolina Press 2015), for which she was selected as a Carnegie Foundation Scholar.
Marianna Shreve Simpson
Marianna Shreve Simpson (Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978) is an independent scholar of Islamic art, and has published, taught and lectured widely on medieval and early modern Islamic art in general and the arts of the book (especially Persian illustrated manuscripts) in particular. Current research interests include gift exchange between Iran and Europe in the early modern period, the color red, medieval Persian ceramics, and Firdausi's Shahnama (Book of Kings).
From 1980 to 1992 Simpson helped direct the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, and from 1992 to 1995 served as Curator of Islamic Near Eastern Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. From 1995 to 2000 she was Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Islamic Art at the Walters Art Gallery (now Walters Art Museum), Baltimore and continued her affiliation with the museum as Visiting Curator of Islamic Art (through October 2001) and Senior Consultant for the Islamic Manuscript Digitization Project (2009-2010). In recent years she also has served as a consultant for the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Over the years Simpson has taught as a visiting faculty member at: University of California, Los Angeles; Georgetown University; Princeton University; Johns Hopkins University; University of Maryland, College Park; University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Maryland Institute College of Art; University of Pennsylvania; and Bard Graduate Center, New York. Recent awards include: Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art; Collaborative Research Award, Getty Grant Program; Senior Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities; Membership, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Dr. Simpson is currently a Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and has just completed a three-year term as President of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (2011-2013).
Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is Carnegie Professor of the History of Art, Yale University. He has taught as a visitor at New York University, the University of California, Berkeley, Vassar College, and the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He is the author of Albrecht Altdorfer and the Origins of Landscape (1993), Forgery, Replica, Fiction: Temporalities of German Renaissance Art (2008), and (with Alexander Nagel) Anachronic Renaissance (2010).


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Process analytical technology (PAT) has been the subject of regular discussion since the FDA released its guidance for the industry in September 2004. The goal, then and now, was to provide a mechanism to design, analyze, and control pharmaceutical manufacturing processes through the measurement and control of critical variables such as moisture content, particle size, temperatures, and a host of others.
Quality by design (QbD) and Real-Time Product Release (RTPR) are more recent variations on the theme, but PAT is vital to these, according to Brian Stephens, North American PAT coordinator at ABB, who was a participant in the recent IFPAC/INDUNIV "PAT Summer Summit" held in Puerto Rico.
PAT is a vital tool for drug companies, according to Stephens, as they work to achieve the goals that the FDA describes in its publication "Pharmaceutical cGMPs for the 21st Century—A Risk-Based Approach." Among FDA's goals is to encourage the use of the latest scientific advances in pharmaceutical manufacturing technology and to employ the latest quality management techniques in the process.
In short, the FDA wants pharma manufacturing technology to catch up with other industries, and to further assist industry in their efforts, the FDA has released "PAT—A Framework for Innovative Pharmaceutical Development, Manufacturing, and Quality Assurance" and other guidance.
With a notable sense of irony, Stephens recalls a Wall Street Journal article that claimed potato chip manufacturers use more advanced manufacturing technology than pharmaceutical manufacturers. Silicon chip makers, he noted, have increased their manufacturing efficiencies by more than 10,000% in the past few decades by using new technology. In contrast, the pharmaceutical industry has used the same basic manufacturing processes for the past several decades, with the only improvements being made in the equipment, not the process.
Currently, Stephens says, pharmaceutical products being manufactured using traditional control systems require immense amounts of documentation to be released for sale. Laboratory-based QC systems now in use must process numerous variables, which must be interfaced, calculated and reviewed on a batch-by-batch basis. This is usually performed by hand, using printed data, resulting in a process that is much slower than the actual manufacturing steps.
"There are some comments being made that we don't have this function or that we don't have that operation to make these improvements, but the tools exist to complete a closed-loop control scenario today," Stephens stated. He went on to describe how data management can fit into the process control architecture to provide a fully functional PAT system.
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This morning, Warren Buffett says he is now buying American equities. Once, his personal portfolio was totally invested in U.S. government bonds. Soon, he notes in his New York Times op-ed, he will own nothing but the shirt on his back and American equities. His argument is simple: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." Good American companies will recover and produce "new profit records 5, 10 and 20 years from now."
They don't call Buffett the Oracle of Omaha for nothing, and he is undoubtedly correct. Over the long term, stock of American companies will be the best performing assets in the world. And it's not hard to see why. Western Europe, plagued by ideas of state-led capitalism, will be stagnant. The oligarchs will continue to strangle the Russian economy, and China will be struggling to come to grips with the "contradictions" of "socialism with Chinese characteristics." People will soon forgot names of wealth-accumulation wizards like George Soros and Jim Rogers. And no one will be buying gold.
Nobody makes money betting against Buffett. Yet there is one factor that he does not mention in today's New York Times piece. Great-power autocracies and rogue states always try to take advantage of the uncertainty and turmoil that inevitably accompany sharp economic downturns in the world's democracies. In the past, they were never able to deliver knock-out blows. Now, however, some of them are armed with the ultimate weapons in history and others are on the verge of acquiring them. Their possession of dangerous arsenals destabilizes us all and even changes the structure of the international system.
So, we are at a precarious moment. The global financial architecture is disintegrating and the post-Cold War geopolitical structure is decaying. We are passing from a sweet spot in history-the best possible world-to something else. We may not yet be the "greatest generation," but we may end up as the generation that faces history's greatest challenges.
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Retirement Advisor Kyle Blackburn Asks The Questions Others Don't About What To Do When You Can't Take It With You
As one of the most knowledgeable product and universal life specialists in the country, one might assume Kyle Blackburn, of Blackburn Financial Group in Oklahoma City, would spend all his time discussing interest rates and percentages, or educating his clients on the particulars of various annuities. And in fact, he does weave together a combination of immediate annuities, rated annuities, and life insurance products in order to wrest impressive percentages from an unforgiving economy. But his methods of ensuring retirees have both enough money to live on, and to pass on, begins with even more complicated analysis – of family politics.
The relationship between investor and financial advisor, especially a retirement advisor, requires as much, if not more, intimacy than the family doctor. Retirees are required to reveal intensely private matters, which not only include their fiscal triumphs, investment missteps, and their hopes for the future, but also their concerns about the loved ones they'll leave behind.
Retirement planning and estate planning are closely connected, which means that family dynamics play a large – though often overlooked – part in those decisions. "What we're interested is in who's going to get the money later. No one bothers to ask those questions," says Blackburn
Even among those financial advisors who specialize in life insurance, annuities, long-term care insurance, individual financial plans, estate and retirement planning, Blackburn puts an unusual amount of time in to getting to know his clients. It's time he feels is necessary. "Most agents when they meet somebody, they want to sell as much business as fast as they can. And then you never see them again. When we meet someone, we don't know what they need. Our initial interview with them lasts an hour to two hours," says Blackburn. Part of the reason for taking that time is to break through the barrier of "company manners" to ask the vitally important, and personal, questions.
"Tell me about your kids. Are they doing really well? Are they handicapped? Are they poor? Are they rich?" Blackburn might ask, joking "What you don't want is for the dumb kids to get a half-million dollars in a lump sum." He says these questions often surprise his clients at first, because they're not questions they've ever been asked by any other advisor. However, part of the reason for these initial sessions lasting for two hours is that when clients start opening up about their families, they often have a lot to say. "Second marriages, all kinds of scenarios. We find out about their families, their kids, their grandkids, because this helps us figure out what they need to do," says Blackburn.
In Oklahoma, where Blackburn Financial Group is based, a frequent scenario involves what to do with the family farm. "Say the farmer has a property that's worth five million dollars, and two of the kids don't want the farm, and the other kid loves the farm and wants to continue. What do you do when mom and dad die? They have land, tractors, cattle, cash flow, but they usually don't have cash. But when mom and dad die, the son has a five million dollar farm, and the siblings step in wanting their share. There's no cash unless you sell the farm, but the son doesn't want to sell the farm. You can make the siblings partners on the farm, but the son is doing all the work – so what do you do?" It's a complicated family situation, one which could tear a family apart, but with clever financial planning, says Blackburn, "you can avoid a lot of family strife." He says, "We're really more problem solvers than anything. We want to sell products and annuities, of course, but sell it to the right people for the right reasons."
While family dynamics have a large part to play in deciding who gets what, when, and how, the rest of retirement planning and estate maximization comes down to personal goals and numbers. Blackburn's first priority is to make sure retirees have enough money to sustain them – more money, in fact, than his clients usually think they'll need. His second priority is organizing his clients' assets in order to minimize taxes. "Somebody is going to get that money, so we want to minimize the taxes on that, and maximize how much their heirs will get," says Blackburn.
His clients appreciate his straightforward approach. While one likes to think about what will happen after they're gone – we'd all like to be around forever – that resistance to planning for eventualities only hurts families in the long run. "In some situations, we can guarantee your money and leverage it to be even more than when it started," says Blackburn. He gives this example: "Someone will come in with $500,000 they want to give to their kids. By different strategies, products, and legal work, we can often triple that by the time their kids receive it. We're very popular with the heirs." He advises to look into gifting inheritance while you're around to see your heirs enjoy it. The added benefit is that you can lower your tax bracket at the same time. "If you've got a taxable estate, every time you give someone a dollar, you pay less in estate taxes because you've just decreased the size of your estate," says Blackburn.
While family matters provide the base for building a financial plan, and tax strategies play a vital role in protecting principal, Blackburn's holistic approach to retirement income and estate planning also relies heavily on informing his clients about life insurance. "You'll find that most people are not life insurance people. Most people in this industry are annuity salesmen, or securities salesmen – not problem solvers," he says.
Blackburn has been in the insurance business for nearly 28 years, long enough to know the upsides and the downsides by heart. He says most salesmen don't have the patience for insurance, "Life insurance takes a long time to complete – you have to go out, talk to people, do legal paperwork, get medical records; it could take 2 to 3 months to complete. Most salesmen want to get paid tomorrow. They want the fast money."
Blackburn admits with a chuckle that "Life insurance is kind of a pain," but also recommends it as "the best deal in the world for people who buy it and keep it." The key to the insurance company's success is that few people do keep their insurance policies. "There's no way life insurance companies could afford to sell life insurance if everyone bought it and kept it," says Blackburn.
Ninety-eight percent of life insurance policies are allowed to lapse by their policy holders. Blackburn says the usual pattern looks like this: "Let's say you buy a 20 year term policy when you're 50 years old. When you're 70, your premium becomes exorbitant and you can't pay it. Then you go to a permanent plan, but you can't pay that either. You've paid money all this time, and you lose your policy, it's like throwing all that money out the window." Only 2 percent of the policies he sells lapse, which he credits to his clients understanding "why they bought and how much they bought."
Term life insurance, he says, is for the young who can't afford permanent life insurance and want to make sure their loved ones aren't left bearing the brunt of funeral expenses in the event of premature death. Yet cash-value insurance policies aren't always the answer either, tempting though they sound.
Cash-value life insurance – including whole life, variable life, and universal life – not only pays out on the policyholder's death, it can also act as a tax-sheltered investment, accumulating value during the policyholder's lifetime. In theory, you can use it as a fund from which to "borrow" money, or pass on its value as inheritance. But these policies have higher premiums, and there are higher yielding investments. "It's a bad idea, in my opinion, to put more money into insurance than you have to. Some people will say it's a great plan to put a ton of money into your insurance policy and withdraw money out of it for the rest of your life. It's treating it like it's an investment. But I've looked at hundreds of thousands of insurance ledgers, policies and statements, and I've never seen one that met the original projection," Blackburn says.
Those original projections, made by salesmen intent on gaining commissions, often sound extremely tempting. Blackburn says clients come in having been told that their 300,000 dollar investment will turn into a million dollars by the time they turn 65 – and wonder why it hasn't. He says "the interest rate is a huge variable." In the 1980's Bull market, the interest rates on universal life policies were around 12 to 14 percent, according to Blackburn. Now, they're at 3 percent. "If you projected a bunch of money in 1985 at 12 percent interest, then it went to 3 percent, you won't get that money because keeping that insurance policy costs money. The older you get, the more it costs," he says, adding "My experience is, when insurance companies can lower things, they do; when they can raise things, they don't on existing policy holders."
At the end of the ten years that has been called "the lost decade," rising interest rates don't appear to be on the horizon. Despite that, Blackburn says the most common promise he hears is 8 percent interest: "Just Google the S&P for the last 20 years and see if the market made 8 percent consistently. It didn't. It's never going to make a level return. It's going to go up and down. I'm interested in marketing something that's honest and true. If you know a lot about how those policies work and how they've worked in the past, it's not a good deal."
Another promise frequently made by insurance salesmen is that of tax-free income. Blackburn calls it "very questionable" to sell a permanent life insurance policy by telling clients they can take out tax-free money to live on. "I realize that's very popular with some people, but I don't want to sell that. I don't think it's a good deal," he says. Blackburn recommends taking that same money and putting it into an annuity for a much better return.
However, this isn't to say retirees shouldn't buy permanent policies – Blackburn only warns against treating them as investments. "If you buy the policy for the death benefit, and keep it, you will end up with a claim. Let's say you've got a 70 year old with 100,000 dollars. He's not going to spend it; he's leaving it to his heirs. If he buys a CD and lives 10 more years, he'll be lucky to have 101,000 in this interest environment. But if you take that sum and put it in a life insurance policy that pays 200,000 dollars on death, he's doubled the inheritance." Blackburn also says single premium policies are worth looking into, even as investments, "you give a lump sum, and your money is available to you at any time – it's 100 percent liquid. It's a good deal." "But if you think you'll put a high premium in these and take it out later, it's not going to work like you hope," he warns.
It's these kinds of unbiased, independent, and no-nonsense recommendations, given with a healthy sense of humor, that have earned Blackburn the trust and loyalty of his clients. In fact, most of his business comes from referrals and repeat customers. His motto is "It's good business to do the right thing – just from the amount of repeat business we get from happy people." He says "It's a lot easier to go that route than to find new people all the time."
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Courtney earned her Bachelor's of Science in Advertising from the University of Oklahoma. She has worked for Blackburn Financial Group since December of 2001 and signed on as full-time Marketing and Recruiting Director in 2006. Courtney is the wife of Kyle and is excited to be working with the family business. She wholeheartedly believes in the company and the products they support. She enjoys working with the exceptional staff and knows that each and every employee has the agent's and client's best interest at heart. Courtney handles all of the company's marketing and advertising. She is also in charge of recruiting agents and preparing seminars.
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Tricia attended Louisiana College and earned her Bachelor's of Science in Business Education. She has been in the insurance business for almost 15 years and has been working with Blackburn Financial Group for 12 years. Tricia really enjoys working for Blackburn Financial Group because the staff is exceptional, the work atmosphere is excellent, and everyone works together to create and build a prosperous business. Tricia handles all new business for numerous insurance companies, and she does follow-ups on all pending cases. She talks with agents and works out any problems they may experience with an application or insurance company.
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Ann attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University. She has been the accountant for Blackburn Financial Group since August 2000. Ann loves working for a company that is dedicated to providing exceptional financial planning strategies and services. Ann is responsible for all of the accounting functions of the organization.
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Last week, I was at the NetApp office in North Sydney for the presentation on NetApp SnapManager for Oracle. It was good opportunity to learn more about NetApp snapshots while working on a project for one of our clients in Sydney. It was an especially interesting topic as I have some experience using Veritas Checkpoints (see my presentation on test systems refreshes), and it was interesting to see what's different and new in the NetApp implementation. But I digress.
I learned that NetApp can provide access to the same LUNs via either Fiber-Channel (FC) or iSCSI. And this is when the interesting argument surfaced. Apparently, some companies aim to have the technology stack on their disaster-recovery site as different as possible from the primary production site. Their argument is that if one technology fails at the primary site (like FC to access storage), then the DR site using a different technology stack will more likely be unaffected.
Hrm . . . I had never thought about this, and when I consider it now, it still doesn't appeal to me. If I design a highly-available solution with a disaster-recovery site in place, one of my priorities would be to switch between the sites comfortably at any time. The more differences two sites have, the lower my comfort level is.
The only reason why I think some companies can "demand" having different storage technology stacks at production and DR is to justify a more convenient (a cheaper?) implementation.
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Hi Alex,
We have the concept of "genetic diversity", I don't know if others recognisse this term, but the basic concept being if an O/S, or piece of software is subject to a security compromise we can take this bit of the stack completely out of the equation if required.
We take this concept to the router, server, O/S and application software level.
Paranoid? You bet!
Security would be the major factor for such a choice.
As Jason said: genetic diversity. It's one of the corner stones of highly secure sites that require HA.
Does every HA site require that level of security? I don't think so, particularly given that HA and secure access are not synonyms: the two are quite different and have little in common.
Not to say it can't be done but the budget will take a hit, if not in the hardware, then in the consultancy fees…
Is it just me, or does accessing two technology stacks through the same manager kind of miss the point of having two technology stacks? Surely the security argument is invalidated…
Initial reaction – yuck!
I can even understand some of the technical reasons why you might want to do this, but my personal opinion is that HA without as much simplicity as you can manage is unlikely to be HA in practise.
Of course I don't mean *technical* simplicity but administrative simplicity because this stuff will ultimately be managed by humans.
"security often means more complexity "
No, not at all. Security often means more diversity.
If you make everything the same, all a hacker has to do is find a technique to break in once and it's repeatable everywhere in that site.
If the hacker has to break into everything every step of the way and for each step it's a different lock, then things are a lot harder for their kind – and a lot easier for us to find them by increasing the chances they step on a trip wire. The Cucko's Egg book explains this at length.
Is that necessary everywhere? I don't think so. Not every site needs mil-level security – when we talk genetic diversity that's what it's about.
For the vast majority of places, I would not bother to that level: many other security options available with less impact, before one jumps to the ultimate.
""we cannot failâ€. Eh?"
We *never* fail. At least not in those meetings when we discuss it ;-)
"If takes to the extreme, … "
You stopped far to early. Let's rearch for the really extreme, don't stop at the technology stack.
In addition to diversity on pure technology, also seperated operational and engineering staff is needed, to avoid the same person makes systematic flaws even on different stacks.
This is also true for developers, QA departement, and in last consequence also business departements, and business itselve.
To bring it to an end, bring diversity to management also. Even a CEO can fail.
Perfect! We now have full diversity on ALL layers: 2 totally different companies!
But wait, these 2 totally seperated companies both suffer from single points of failure all over again. That is nothing to fear, as we have a great method to solve this: diversity!
Depends on the threat model. If the most critical threat is one which will take down both sites (i.e. some kind of exploit that both are exposed to) then it could be rationalised, I suppose. But otherwise common sense arguments would prevail.
NetApp? Schmeh. Use ZFS!
The rules of economics and the customers ability to deliver technology outweigh the "tech" of the design.
If the customers DR design prevents then from using the DR equipment in an active fashion, then "cheaper" alternatives are selected due to the economics of the design. A 2x cost on infrastructure to support DR where 1/2 is sitting idle does not get approved. So, alternatives and cost cutting options prevail from less compute power (less cpu) to less io performance capability. This is further defined by "If we are in a DR situation we will be able to run at partial capacity for 2-3, 5 months."
Other economics prevent "false-designs" no different then "false positives". A lot of customers, frankly overpurchase technology. And this is due to the negotiation power of vendor sales reps and large OEMs. Simple example, larger companies never look at Oracle Standard edition as a database option, they run Oracle Enterprise at some 55% higher the cost annualized yearly in increased support cost. That cost goes into someone elses pocket. And is $$$ that could have been spent to have proper infrastructure, equipment, projects and technology implmeneted to run their business. But, they will all complain that "oracle" is too expensive. Same paradigm happens with hardware where customers by compute capacity because their skills and architecture can not align with annualized planning to incrementally deploy scalable solutions. And to this I say, "It is a lot harder to incrementally add a $750k server."
There is value in using different solutions in tiered approaches where impacted is isolated. Like virus definitions. Clearly you can not do this same thing in the "Application" design like swap out Weblogic for IIS.
I think like the last year of the US economy has made families really look a their spending and return on their $$$, so will happen in IT investments. And cost value additions like Cloud Computing and IT purchases looking at the annualized cost forcasting will make the customer aligned to making smarter decisions.
If RTO and RPO have been determinen properly and accurately and SVA done efficiently,most of the job for designing HADR will be easier and more economical.
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How to turn on and use Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot tethering on your new iPad
The new iPad includes a tethering feature called Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot which lets you share your iPad's 4G LTE or HSPA+ Internet connection with your laptop or any other device that can connect to a Wi-Fi network. Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot depends on your carrier, however, so while some carriers like Verizon and Rogers offer it, AT&T currently does not. (Insert pitchforks and torches here.) Even when it's offered, however, Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot may not be enabled by default and it's not obvious how to turn it on.
How to tell if Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot is enabled
If you're not sure whether or not Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot is enabled, it's easy to tell.
- Launch the Settings app
- Look at the top left.
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- If you don't see **Personal Hotspot, you'll need to enable it first.
How to enable Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot
If Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot isn't enabled, you'll have to go digging for it.
- Launch the Settings app
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- Tap Network
- Tap Personal Hotspot
- Toggle Personal Hotspot to on
Once you've turned it on for the first time, you'll get Personal Hotspot in the top level Settings list and won't have to dig for it again.
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Apple provides a default password for your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot but you can easily change it if you like.
- Launch Settings
- Tap Personal Hotspot
- Tap Wi-Fi Password
- Enter your new password (it needs to be more than 8 characters and should be something that's not easily guessed)
- Tap the blue Done button at the top right.
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You can use your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot to share your iPad LTE or HSPA+/EVDO connection with any device that has Wi-Fi, including Mac, Windows, and Linux laptop and desktop PCs, handheld and console gaming machines, smartphones on slower networks, and more.
Just keep a close eye on your data usage because it can go fast!
First, start up Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot on your iPad
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- Your Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot will have the same name as your iPad (iPad by default). Click on it.
- Enter the password as it appears on your iPad.
- A blue bar will appear across the top of your iPad so you know Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot in connected, and the number of connections will be shown on the right.
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How to turn on and use Wi-Fi Personal Hotspot tethering on your new iPad
Actually I'm on o2 Germany so I have international LTE iPad and 4G is not YET active for my carrier. I was thinking I can not see that option on my iPad because of that but I didnt find any relevant information which can prove that to me :) Is this the reason why I can not see that option?
And on the other hand, I have dual sim and on my iPhone I dont have any problem with hotspot.
Are you on AT&T? They're not offering it.
I'll still look forward to using MyWi along with official tethering because at least MyWi let's me know exactly how much data is being tethered.
@ Karlo
Go to cellular data option
Then go to Internet tethering option
Then add same APN, USERNAME AND PASSWORD as filled up above for cellular data option
Then go to general...Network and here ithe PERSONAL HOTSPOT will be seen in the menu at top
This will solve your problem
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Dear Sunil,
Thanks this really works on my ipad (3rd gen)
my imac is connected to the internet through a wifi connection. but my phone (samsung android) is not good enough to pick up the signal. Is it possible to use personal hotspot to use my imac to broadcast the wifi signal in my part of the house?
Hi I have ipad3. I am also facing the same issue. Personal hot spot option is not available. I am at Saudi, I have stc mobile services. Could any one help us what is the problem. Also some one telling tethering feature. What is this feature and how to enable? Awaiting for somebody reply.
Just wanted to say a big Thank You! I have a new iPad bought in the US for use on AT&T, but mostly live outside of the US. This article is the only clear explanation of how to turn on tethering in the first 50 Google hits. Working perectly now, and thanks to the great battery in the iPad i've now got internet on both my phone and Macbook whever i am . You've made my life so much easier now and saved me a LOT of trouble and money figuring out how to get internet, especially in France and Asia. May your blog and business flourish!
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Stephen Jay Gould reinvented science writing. Before him, we had the flowery exaltation of nature ("Far in the empty sky a solitary esophagus slept upon motionless wing," in Mark Twain's parody) and the skin-deep attempt to bring science to the masses (immune cells are little soldiers — no, they're locks and keys — except when they're garbage disposals). Gould's essays were something else: witty, respectful of his readers' intelligence, always finding a principle in a grain of sand and a law in a wildflower. That the essays were also a velvet glove for Gould's iron convictions drove many scientists crazy. But we all admired his erudition and explanatory gifts, and several have offered the sincerest form of flattery by trying their hand in the genre he perfected.
My favorite of his essays was about Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. Streaks in sports, Gould noted, should command our appreciation not because a player gets a hot hand or a magic rhythm — these are cognitive illusions — but because his level of skill increases the odds of a lucky run. All long-lived phenomena are "games of a gambler playing with a limited stake against a house with infinite resources ... DiMaggio activated the greatest and most unattainable dream of all humanity, the hope and chimera of all sages and shamans: he cheated death, at least for a while." This was Gould at his best — profundity with a light touch, made all the more poignant because in 1982 he survived a nasty cancer. Steve Gould cheated death, at least for a while, and while he did, he enriched our appreciation of life in all its manifestations.


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Yea they've had fiber optics for a while now lol. The main difference now is channel bonding.
If you had an over congested node that could cause slowdowns when your neighbors are using all of the bandwidth. With DOCSIS 2.0 there might be 30+ users all sharing 1 40mbit channel. (I'm not entirely sure of the numbers) So if a few people are downloading it could slow everyone down on that node.
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Greg Shedd was selected as the next head coach of the men's and women's tennis programs at St. Mary's College of Maryland in June of 2013.
Shedd already had solid knowledge of the Seahawk tennis teams, having served an assistant during the 2012-13 season and helping St. Mary's to a combined 25 victories in 2012-13.
He brings to the court a very successful career as both a player and coach. From 2009 to 2013, Shedd led the local varsity volleyball and tennis programs at Chopticon High School in Morganza, Maryland. He also served as the head coach of the junior varsity girl's basketball team and an assistant for the varsity squad.
Shedd was the No. 1 singles and doubles player at Frostburg State University (2005-09), accumulating a combined 86 victories. He was a three-time second team All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference selection in singles action.
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Get Fit Seymour offers fitness to community
As the cold weather moves out and the sunny days of spring are ushered in, people across the county will look to get outside and get active.
For folks in Seymour there's a new source of encouragement to do just that.
Get Fit Seymour, the brainchild of Seymour resident Gretchen Rivers, offers support and weight-loss tools to members of the community seeking to get healthy.
Rivers said the event stemmed from her desire to get fit last year. "In May of 2013, I decided it was time for me to lose some weight," Rivers said. "I started my fitness journey again, you could say. Because I've been on the journey awhile, but sometimes you kind of let things slide."
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"Myself and some other coaches got to talking," Rivers said. "'Wouldn't it be great to have a community weight loss challenge?' It grew into a major event."
The event is free to those who registered, thanks mostly to sponsors. Classes and activities will be held at various sites in and around Seymour, including First Baptist Church, Child Help, Smoky Mountain Crossfit, Snap Fitness 24-7 and ClubFit 101. A hiking coach will lead hiking tours and a cyclist meeting in Walland.
"There's a little bit of something for everybody," Rivers said. "For these challengers, they will pick what they want to do most. You'll have more success in your exercise if you do what you want."
Prizes for individuals, teams and families will be available during the event, but the prizes have not yet been determined sponsorships and donations are still being accepted.
As of last week, Rivers and the other organizers were expecting up to 350 "challengers," what they call the participants in the weight-loss challenge.
Hundreds did show up at Seymour Intermediate School for the two-month event's kick-off.
It's great to see an organically-created event for the good of the community crop up from the hard work and plans of local individuals working together for a common goal.
Tennessee currently ranks among the worst states in the country in terms of obesity. According to recent data, 31 percent of adults in the Volunteer State are obese. That's up from 25 percent in 2003, and, amazingly, just 11 percent in 1990.
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John Herr, Bonita Springs
This is foul
The other afternoon I went to see a film titled "This Is 40,'' the sort-of sequel to ''Knocked Up."
It is rated R, that is, restricted. It should be rated X, at least. The language included the "f" word in various forms at least 25 times.
Included are specific references to oral sex.
In the audience were many children, as this is advertised to be a family comedy. The silence that fell over the audience at some points was clearly in response to something clearly tasteless.
A father sitting in front of us, anticipating a response, spoke to his children to prevent their hearing some dialogue.
Checking many references from reviews produced a variety of adjectives; the disapproving description was "gross."
I have directed over 90 plays and musicals, some with racy lines — but none so replete with such consistently vile language.
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Big Bang Theory Flash Mob (Full Version)
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Self-Taught African Teen Inventor Wows MIT
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Churchwide OfficersAlong with the shared leadership of congregations, synods and the churchwide organization, there are four elected churchwide officers who bring their enthusiastic faith and unique skills to their service on behalf of this church and its mission.
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Doubtless General David Petraeus has more pressing things on his mind this week, but one imagines he must have indulged in some gleeful reflection upon hearing about Hillary Clinton's Bosnian adventure.
He more than most. For it was Hillary Clinton, among all her colleagues, who dared to insinuate that General Petraeus was lying in his September 11, 2007 testimony before Congress about the progress of the troop surge. After he gave an up-to-date assessment of the situation in Iraq, Hillary said that his version of the military and political dynamic required "a willing suspension of disbelief." Who would stoop so low as to lie to the country about their experience in a war zone!
There are at least two reasons that Hillary was the only person to challenge Petraeus in such an undignified way that day, and we can see evidence for both of them in her Bosnian fantasy. The Clintons assume that every person in a position of power lies as naturally as they do. So, when the Lewinsky scandal broke it was a web of lies, when the Iraq War got tough that was because George Bush lied her into voting for it, and when Petraeus offered his inconvenient truth that too was, naturally, a lie.
The other aspect of the Clinton M.O. that links her shoddy treatment of General Petraeus to her outlandish story about Bosnia is an irresistible impulse to gild the lily. The Clintons don't leave well enough alone. For Bill in November 2007 it wasn't enough to tell a crowd of Iowa supporters that he opposes the Iraq War like most other Democrats these days. Here's how far he had to take it: "Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers," he said, and added that he "should not have gotten" the tax cuts that deprived our fighting men and women of what they needed. A threefer!
Similarly, when the question of drivers licenses for illegals came up in the Hollywood debate against Barack Obama, Hillary said she had decided to "try to support my governor despite my personal opposition[.]" Why take one position when you can take both?
So when everyone else in Congress treated General Petraeus's report with respectful opposition, she went whole hog and called him a liar. And instead of pointing out that she, unlike Obama, had met with dignitaries in a cooling war zone, she figured what the heck and threw some bullets in to bolster her image. And once busted, she and her husband never cut bait and say, "You got me." No: that's when the parsing begins and the dictionaries come off the shelf.
The situation in Iraq is too serious for General Petraeus to worry much about Snipergate. But it would be nice if he had a moment to himself during which he could smile about the fabulations of the Senator who accused him of telling lies.


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My pool hall cue is a Schmelke sneaky ... look just like a house cue. Hits a ton and a half.
My home cue is a Meucci gambler.
My pool hall cue is a Schmelke sneaky ... look just like a house cue. Hits a ton and a half.
My home cue is a Meucci gambler.
I have a few cues. I like buying cues, when I can, and I like switching which cues I play with. I don't restrict any of them to my home table and you never know which cue you will see me with in the poolroom.
My cues were made by the following:
Capone (3)
I love to play with Predator and I have one for me. I bought one Cuetec as well one month back. I feel that these two are the best for jump and break as well. The hit by these cues are very solid.
I have an old Predator that I now use for breaking, I also have a Schon, Jacoby, and a Richard Black. I have an old Meucci for anyone who comes to the house to play. Sort of a house stick.
I have a few playing cues.
Tucker (my favorite)
Sherm Adams
Meucci 333-2
Predator Sneaky w/ z2 shaft
If there is a dangerous forum ... that's the one. -- LWW (referring to BD NPR)
First off ... nothing will stop ass killings entirely. -- LWW (AKA Vladimir Ulyanov, AKA WV Slim, AKA MrsLWW, ...)
Where did there CEO go yo work at loser? -- LWW (Demonstrating his masterful command of the English language while masquerading as his wife Vladimir.)
I play with a Predator cue and a Jacoby cue, using a Uni-loc Z-2 shaft with both. I let players at my house use the Predator, and non-players use a McDermott I won at raffle or a plain Jane no points Adam I got as a break cue a long while ago.
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22 July: 11 miles (77 minutes) on a soupy-hot morning, across Baltimore and back, west-to-east
23 July: 10 miles (70 minutes), in and around Patterson Park
24 July: off
25 July: 10 miles (70 minutes), in and around Patterson Park
26 July: off
27 July: 1+ mile (12 minutes), in the morning, running with bags to catch a train at Penn Station in Baltimore, to kick off this wacky weekend. 3-ish miles (33 minutes) evening at White Pine (8,000-ish feet altitude) to shake out before Speedgoat
28 July: Speedgoat 50K (444 minutes, 31+ miles), 7:23:17, 39th overall
Total time: 706 minutes
Total distance: 66+ miles
And now, the Speedgoat 50K:
|The 2012 Speedgoat 50K course (photo credit: Tetsuro Ogata)
Taking on this monster just 10 days after Badwater, without the benefit of altitude or mountain training, seemed like a a terrible idea. But it also seemed like an exciting challenge. I had been signed up for the race since January, just after Bandera, where my performance there inspired me to raise the bar once more in a competitive field. Still, I didn't know how I was going to feel after Badwater, but after a few days of "normal" running earlier this week, I felt ready for the challenge. As I saw it, it was a great opportunity to
(1) get a "Wasatch 100 preview" (i.e. determine how likely I am to die on the mountains during that race)
(2) compete against a strong field
(3) have a fun day in the mountains (probably)
So the "exciting challenge" assessment won out. Tina helped me make travel plans just a few day before the race, and on Friday, I scrambled through three trains, a bus, two planes, and a baggage-loaded run to Penn Station to make it to Salt Lake City at around 6 pm, just about 12 hours before the start of the race. Collin picked me up at the airport, and we went about the business of picking up supplies for the race, and heading up the mountains towards Snowbird for pre-race camping and shake-out run. After our shake-out run, I was a little worried about dying on the mountain. While I wasn't exactly gasping for breath, my legs were still feeling a little tired from Badwater, and the thin air was just making me feel . . . slow. Collin was moving along much better than I was, and, for the first time in my life, I felt severely disadvantaged for living at sea level.
But whatever, the race was happening, either way, so by the next morning, when I was dressed and ready to run, all of that was in the back of my mind . . . at least until the gun went off. Within about ten minutes, maybe a fifth of the way up the first climb, I was probably in about 100th place. Everybody seemed to be charging up the mountain with reckless abandon, while my poor tired legs were screaming at me to slow down so they could suck down the paltry amount of oxygen that my lungs were delivering to them from the disturbingly-thin air. It occurred to me that maybe this should have gone into the "terrible idea" bin instead. But here I was, out on a beautiful, sunny, 70-degree day, climbing some awesome mountains, and taking in some awesome views (sadly, sans-cell-phone, which I had forgotten in my rush to the starting line - otherwise, there would be more pictures here), so I figured I may as well soldier on.
By the time I hit the steep, rocky climb to Hidden Peak (mile 8+ into the race), my place had stabilized a bit, and I was getting into a little better rhythm on the climbs. I tagged the top at 1 hour, 58 minutes, and hauled down the backside of the mountain with reckless abandon, smiling and laughing as I skidded down an alarmingly steep drop over loose dirt and rocks, overjoyed to finally have gravity in my favor, and to be passing people.
The next climb and descent came and went without too much fanfare, except to say that the descent was over a pretty significant loose-ish rock-pile, reminiscent of a descent at MMT, but not quite as long, and over rocks with a bit less permanence in the landscape. This took me to the 15-ish mile aid station, the "turn-around" point, and I could see runners coming out of the aid station towards me, many not looking so great. At 4 hours and 27 minutes into the race at the "turn-around" aid station, it was around 11 a.m., and with the sun high, and the elevation "low" (as in, slightly under 8000 feet here), and 100-degree F temperatures predicted in the valley, conditions were starting to take their toll on the runners. I heard one runner say to another on the downhill, "I'm so wiped out from all of the climbing - I can't even bomb this downhill." Considering that I was still keeping a steady pace, and not feeling catastrophically bad, I began feeling optimistic about the remainder of the race.
On the way out of the turn-around aid station, fortified by an orange popsicle and an unexpected cold-water-dousing that nearly gave me a heart attack, I caught up to Collin, and we stuck together for a little while up the next climb, a long, wide service-road style, Hellgate-like ascent (except at higher altitudes). I settled into a brisk hike, and soon was passing people on my way to the top . . . which involved a very cruel left turn up a steep (but mercifully short) rocky hill, where there wasn't a trail so much as a series of flags to follow, all of which had me crawling on hands and feet to get to the top. After passing a few more people, a merciful downhill into the next aid station followed . . .
But mercy was not to be the case from there on. Not quite three miles to the next aid station, 3100 feet of climb, and a few hundred feet of drop, for good measure. When we started running downhill out of the aid station, I knew something was "wrong." Sure enough, when we reached the base of Baldy, we turned right, up a rocky, steep, arbitrarily-marked nearly-vertical grade. This was the lowest point of the race for me, as I struggled on hands and feet, stopping several times, before I finally reached the top. Once I was over the top, I gradually settled into a running rhythm again, but not before several people who were recovering much more quickly than I was managed to pass me and keep going.
And from there, it got worse. From the tunnel to the top of Hidden Peak, the last aid station, there was another descent, followed by a prolonged, nasty climb. I was with another runner for most of this climb, but I was still dragging myself through, and slowing him down for most of it, since, with a little over a mile to go, he went ahead and kept on going. At this point, being at nearly 11,000 feet altitude, climbing up a stupid-steep slope, 25 miles into the race, my non-mountain sea-level disadvantage became most painfully apparent. Fortunately, at the top, 6 hours, 30 minutes into the race, there were cheers for "Baltimore!" (I was wearing my red Falls Road Racing singlet), and promise of a 5-mile downhill to the finish line.
The next 5 miles were the happiest downhill miles of my life, even with the nasty rocks for the first mile or so. In addition to gravity in my favor, the air thickened as I followed the winding trail to the finish line. I was solidly in whatever place I was in at that point (which turned out to be 39th), so there was no need to push too hard (although at the very end, a runner did come close to me, prompting a bit of a finishing sprint). Instead, I kept a steady pace, enjoyed the scenery, and felt a sense of gratitude for accomplishing what I had accomplished in the race, in spite of circumstances.
|Sweet Speedgoat swag - no fluff, all useful running stuff. (yellow is men's shirt, pink is women's shirt)
7:23:17, 39th overall, and the first non-mountain, sea-level competitor to cross the line, and still shaking off Badwater fatigue - I'd say that's a pretty solid result. There were definitely some steep climbs where I lost a good bit of time, and there is lots of room for improvment in my mountain-running ability, so this result has me curious to see how I could do in a mountain race with some actual specific mountain-specific training at altitude. But that's for another time and place - for now, considering that I don't feel completely crippled after this run (just generally tired), I'm excited about my next round of races and training in August and September . . . more and better-prepared (but still most likely full of awesome surprises) adventures soon to come!


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Postcard - 'A Peep at the Exhibition Building', Southern Facade, Exhibition Building, Melbourne, circa 1905 Reg. No: SH 960507
- Summary:
- This is a colour postcard of the Exhibition Building showing the dome and part of the southern facade of the building with the lake and gardens in the foreground circa 1905. The postcard is addressed to Mrs Laughton, 105 Commercial Road, Footscray, but is not dated.
The Exhibition Building was built for the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition, which opened to visitors on 1 October 1880. On 9 May 1901, it hosted the opening of the First Commonwealth Parliament of Australia. By the early 20th century, picture postcards of the Exhibition Building were a popular Melbourne souvenir.
The division of the reverse of the postcard, allowing a message to be written on one half and the address on the other, was not permitted in Australia until 1905.
- Description:
- A colour tinted photograph of the Exhibition Building showing the dome and part of the southern side of building with the lake and garden in the foreground. The view looks across the lake towards the building. The building is partly obscured by trees and garden. On the reverse side there is a handwritten message in black ink. There is no stamp or date.
|87 mm (Height), 138 mm (Width)
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|civic mementoes, correspondence, royal exhibition building, souvenirs, buildings, postcards, exterior views
|Themes this item is part of:
|Royal Exhibition Building Collection, Public Life & Institutions Collection
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|Tertiary Classification:
|souvenir postcards
|Obverse, text: A Peep at the Exhibition Building, Melbourne,/ Victoria; 109
Reverse, text: POST CARD; This part may be used for Correspondence.; ADDRESS ONLY TO BE HERE.; Put stamp here; B 135/841; No. 4.
Reverse, handwritten: Dear Mrs Laughton/ Just a line to ask you/ to send me Aggie's/ address Alf said in his/ last letter to write to you/ he does no know hoping/ you will not think that I have/ got a cheak to ask you also/ hoping you are all well/ also the children./ Yours Lil.; Mrs Laughton/ 105 Commercial/ Road/ Footsgray
|Date Made:
|Australia, circa 1905
The division of the reverse of the postcard, allowing a message to be written on one half and the address on the other, was not permitted in Britain until 1902 and Australia until 1905.
|Place & Date Depicted:
|Royal Exhibition Building (REB), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, circa 1905
|Addressed To:
|Mrs Laughton, Footscray, Victoria, Australia, 1905
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