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A good day for that 767-300! Bad day for Boeing, they have to get this right, the first time. Some have compared to the DC10 pressurization problems, the main difference is that a 787 has not fallen from the sky yet, Lord willing it never will.
May I suggest a reduction in the hyperbole. Although I do have some issue with Boeing's behavior as this story unfolds, I believe both in Boeing's intellectual ability to 'solve' the problem and in the basic logic of their initial 'containment' approach. Understand that the 787 electrical system is unique in aviation history. It manages energy at levels heretofore only dreamed of (probably by some pretty geeky engineers). This particular design just pushed the envelope of LIon technology just a LITTLE to far. They got bitten simply because the LIon technology has such razor thin margins at the edges. But they designed a fundamentally sound architecture to cope with the temperament of these batteries. I firmly believe two things will save the day for Boeing. But first from the Boeing web-site, "After extensive testing, Boeing ultimately selected the lithium-ion type battery because it has the right functionality and chemistry to deliver a large amount of power in a short period of time to do a high-energy task like start a jet engine. It then has the ability to recharge in a relatively short period of time so that it is available for the critical backup role that it plays during flight." So, save-the-day-thing1: The incidents so far indicate clearly that the margin of error (in terms of energy) is small because there has only been one fire and the overheat incidents were contained by systems operating as they should. Yes,Yes, I know, fire bad, but bare with me. Remember heat in a LIon battery goes non-linear in a hurry. I have heard nothing that would lead me to believe there have been any malfunctions in the sense of system behavior outside of design spec. Save-the-day-thing2: Given Thing1, and any of the incident causing flight profiles so far, it should not take much reduction in some energy flow, either in or out of the batteries, to reduce the level of heat in the battery box(es) back to a normal operational range. Now, a quick reference back to the Boeing quote above, note, "the lithium-ion type battery because it has the right functionality and chemistry to deliver a large amount of power in a short period of time to do a high-energy task like start a jet engine." The APU in the 787 does not start the engines, the batteries do! I firmly believe this 'problem' is an operational profile problem. If they can retro-fit access to external power for initial engine starts, they will have more than adequate thermal margins for safe flight. All the fires and overheat incidents are during climb-out, while they are recharging from engine start done on the ground, without access to nice cool air at altitude. I do believe that because both charging and discharging generate heat, the current battery boxes are inherently unsafe with the current battery-start operational profile. Maybe it would be easier to retrofit external cooling for ground start, without more details I don't know, but I am sure it is a solvable problem.
The description of the 'fix' in the article is not so much a fix as a containment strategy for when this happens again. Not very comforting to future passengers, the airline customers or investors in Boeing who will all start to vote with their feet unless Boeing gets to the bottom of this issue and creates a proper fix instead of the current direction they are headed with containment.
This whole episode reminds me of the dangers of allowing engineers to make prudent business decisions. And before anyone cruxifies me for that statement, Steve Jobs had constant run-ins with his engineers and had to constantly ride herd on them to come up with solutions that made business sense. And he was proven right tima and time again. Boeing's so called interim fix may contain a proven danger from an engineering standpoint, but people who have a personal (butts in seats) or financial interest in a real fix don't care one iota about what the engineers think. Users form their own perceptions about safety and risk despite what engineers or the company says. And rest assured, Boeing is NOT saying the right things about this issue when people's lives are on the line.
I certainly agree with your assessment. The general public hasn't caught on yet as to how serious this is but as the media starts drumming it to death it will take a huge business toll. I have no interest in riding on a 787 with a containment box: no matter how much free Jack Daniels they serve. Lol
That is a novel temporary solution ( to say the least) for a problem that they don't know the cause of. I feel bad for Boeing.
I wonder why Boeing is not considering Ni-MH, Nickle Metal Hydride batteries. They are used in the Toyota Prius, and VARTA makes a 24 volt Ni-MH battery. The energy density of Ni-MH approaches that of Lithium-ion, and the technology is well proven.
Approaches does not mean equals, and I am given to believe, unfortunately for Boeing, the load profile they designed into the 787 calls for mass/energy ratios in the LIon/LiPolymer range. LiPo still can't handle Amps at the needed level, so they are kind of stuck. I do not have enough info to say for sure but IMO if they retro-fit access to external power for initial engine starts, they will have quite adequate thermal mass margins for safe flight. Note all the fires and overheat incidents are during climb-out, while they are recharging from engine start done on the ground, without access to nice cool air at altitude. I do believe the current battery boxes are inherently unsafe with the current battery-start operational profile.
The fix better be before may, i have a 787 flight on ANA booked for late May.
I don't think it will be fixed by then, but it may be contained. :-)
My daughter flies to Mexico on one (Thomson Hol) in June, they are suppossed to be taking delivery in May of their fleet. Am worried sick!.
What about submerging the batters in oil, like cooking oil. It's not conductive, keeps the batteries cool and obviously a fire can't start... Don't people do this with computers all the time?
Yeah and serve hot chicken and hot meals of all kinds too (LOL!!!)
Oil can still catch fire. Some super computer companies like CRAY use(d) that kind of technology, but it is a special kind of oil. You then need to recirculate it to disapate the heat, which starts adding weight.
That kind of oil is poisonous. Many nasty chemicals in it. Not good to have in a mobile environment of any kind. Useful in power distribution equipment like power substations and transformers on power poles/ underground installations. And it does burn! T
he smoke is very toxic.
How much heat do these lion batteries create? Is anyone else aware of other applications where failure has occurred? To disastrous results? And the simple question is, why wouldn't they just switch to traditional battery like airbus has said it will do, would allow them to get the birds airborne faster and buy time to develop the lion technology/repair
Because other batteries are larger and there is no room on the 787 for a redesign. They committed to this. Airbus can still make changes because they haven't started production of the A350 except for prototypes.
They can become explosively hot when their energy transfers, both in and out, are not carefully controlled with a thermal feedback loop. All batteries have issues with short circuits, LIon are even more sensitive to heat and contain self oxidizing combustable material. Do you remember the laptop fires of a few years ago? LIon batteries. There is a long history I wish Boeing (as I am sure they do as well now) had researched it better before they designed 787 battery boxes and put greater focus on heat dissipation.
LiIon batteries have been a problem in many applications from Chevy volt to Sony computers and many models of telephone both regular home wireless sets to cell phone.
Anything with that type of battery is subject to some sort of heat related failures from overcharging or excess current drain. (Short circuit.) The size only makes the matter worse.The bigger the battery, the bigger the fire.
Boeing will get it fixed.. they are the best, and always will be.
I think the 747 had door locking issues as well
My daughter is due to fly to Mexico on a Thomson holiday in June and is booked on a 787 as Thomson are supposed to have their new fleet of them in May. Will this still be going ahead now? Am really worried about this.
Thomson is preparing contingency plans to cope with the possible unavailability of their B787 deliveries going forward. The most likely outcome is extended use of the company's established workhorse B767-300's which make up TOM's existing long-haul operation. Try not to let all this worry you; safety is absolutely paramount and TOM will not take chances with its reputation.
BTW, I was fortunate enough to fly on a B787 with Qatar Airways back in December. It actually offers a superb passenger experience; I look forward to flying on the type many more times in the future. Let's just have some completely new batteries to fully restore public confidence, Mr. Boeing!
Good time to short BA. Stock is only down ,75 today.
....... " Boeing's approach implicitly acknowledges that four weeks after two batteries overheated ---- investigators have still not pinpointed the cause. " ....
This is what the text of the main article says . And Boeing still hopes for an interim(temporary) fix ? sic.!
As I have been saying/asking that is it not possible that the batteries may not be the cause BUT they may the effect of malfunctioning of some other systems ?
Do they(Boeing) think guys at the FAA are as foolish cum mentally blind that they should accept boxes or special enclosures to contain heat or fire from spreading to other surrounding parts ?
And what about the performance and reliability of functions connected with these batteries in the event that my apprehensions are correct? The fault is else where and you keep the aircraft flying with a defective system or sub system and put the lives of people in peril , in danger ?
I think FAA should neither be so myopic nor in a hurry to let selfish commercial interests of Boeing overwhelm their(FAA) collective wisdom .
God save the prospective fliers of 787 !
Considering that the millions of hours of testing on the ground and the thousands of hours of flight testing between the first flight and the fires in jan 2012 showed no problems, then yeah. I'm willing to consider that this is not a design flaw but some flaw with the battery instead.
Millions of hours in use, NOT testing, which was MAYBE thousands.
Really? Down vote with no reply? Panzie.
Millions of hours of testing on the ground?
"Since entering service, Boeing 787 Lithium-Ion batteries, each with eight cells, have logged more than 2.2 million cell-hours on the ground and in the air during more than 50,000 flight-hours. No battery-related incidents occurred before January 2013"
This temporary fix is absolutely madness for the problem is still there, it is akin to solve a serious appendecitis situation or something like that by administering sedatives instead of going straight down to the only cure that will save the patient´s life: surgery.
you haven't been alive long have you? Temporary fixes have been used on all new aircraft throughout the years. And some of them were for a lot more serious problems than putting a box around a battery. See DC10 and 747 for example.
For instance, what? The DC-10 had two awful tragedies, the fist one was when one of GE engines on an American Airlines tilted upwards on taking off at O´Hare and dropped against the ground killing a lot of people. They fixed that problem with a permanent solution, not a temporary one. Then the cargo door on a Turkish Airlines DC-10 blew open due design error and the plane crahed down in Paris. They gave it a permanent fix. Both cases it was attributed to a design error. As for the 747 I don't recall any catastrophic accident due to a design error. So...what are you talking about?
First ... was the cargo door problem.
A problem where not following the proper closing procedures combined with s design flaw in the latch could cause locking pins to be bent out of place, wile at the same time a visual indicator showed the door was locked.
AA was the 1st to have an incidence with the door issue (AA96 June 12, 1976).
McDonnell Douglas "fixed" the issue with some changes in the latching mechanism.
The Turkish DC-10 was one of the newer "fixed" airplanes. I guess that fix wasn't so permanent after all ??
Second ... The AA crash at O'hare was many years later.
That crash was not attributed to the fact that the engine had separated from the aircraft. As the engine broke away, it rolled backwards over the top of the wing, severing hydraulic lines to the forward edge wing slats. The severed pressure lines allowed the slats on the left wing to retract while those on the right wing remained locked in the down position. The asymetrical lift condition caused by slats down on one wing and up on the other is what downed that DC-10.
The "perm" fix for that design fault had nothing to do with keeping the slats locked down nor having check valves to prevent severed hydraulic lines from losing all pressure. The "fix" was to simply add sensors to each slat and sound a warning if they weren't configures as selected by the crew (the NTSB determined that if the AA191 had know about the split slat condition and had selected "slats up", they could've continued flight and circled around for an emergency landing, even with one engine out).
On May 21, 1988 AA70 (a DC-10 flight DFW to FRA) was about 2 knots below V! (go/no-go speed) when the master caution alarm sounded. The takeoff roll was aborted and even though the abort was done "by the book", an issue with the brakes resulted in the aircraft over running the runway. There were no fatalities, but the aircraft was a total loss. The master caution was due to a "slat disagree". The "fix" in response to AA191 at ORD is what indirectly destroyed N136AA.
On July 19, 1989 UA232 (a DC-10) suffered a catastrophic failure to the #2 engine. One of the engine's fan blades had broken and separated with such a force that the failure was not contained to the engine. The fan blade severed a hydraulic line. That line did not have check valves to prevent of total loss of hydraulic pressure. The aircraft lost ALL hydraulics, though the crew miraculously managed to guide the un-controlable aircraft to Sioux City, Iowa for a crash landing.
Hmmm ... engine failure lead to a severed hydraulic line which "bled out" causing a loss of flight control ... does that sound familiar ?? I don't think the "perm fix" of installing slat disagree alarms helped the UA crew much.
Your recolection is interesting but not quite correct. The American DC-10-10 crash at O´Hare in 1979 was traced to an improper following by the AA mechanics of the OEM O&M manual regarding the procedure for removing the engine from the wing and that created firstly a weakness on the pins which later tirggered the rest of failures that you mention. As for UA232 it was entirely caused by a fan disc failure of the center GE CF-6 engine. Now I don't see your point, see these and other DC-10 accidents occured long after the DC-10 went into service that is after accumulating millions of hours of operation whereas the 787 battery problems cropped up only a few weeks or months after they went into regular route service.


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Cauliflower Risotto gets a thumbs up from everyone! It's easier to make, and more delicious than you might think. Plus, while no risotto is 'diet' food, this is as close to a 'diet risotto' as you can get, using the creaminess of low-calorie cauliflower to make up much of the volume.
"This risotto was soooo delicious. ... I had to keep myself from gobbling the ENTIRE DISH in one sitting! " ~ ShinyLightDesigns
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Even adventurous home cooks return repeatedly to favorite recipes, bypassing new ones that at first seem appealing but then get dismissed as too 'something', insert 'weird' or 'complicated' or 'exotic' though what we really mean is 'unfamiliar'.
For years, so it's been for risotto and me. I saved it for special occasions when someone else could man the spoon and somehow never once made it myself. No more. Since last spring, I've made risotto two or three times a month in four different kitchens. On trips, I tuck Arborio rice into my suitcase, just in case I get a turn at the stove.
This creamy leek and cauliflower risotto gets thumbs ups from everyone, men, women, even kids. Served with a big salad, it's an easy and inexpensive main dish but I like to serve it on the side with grilled shrimp or steak. Risotto does take nearly constant attention, although between stirs, there's plenty of time to make the salad, set the table and sip a glass of wine.
Time to table: 45 minutes
Makes 4 cups, easy to double
- Big pot of salted water
- 1 large leek, trimmed & cleaned (see ALANNA's TIPS)
- 1/2 head cauliflower (about 1 pound) cored, cut in florets
- 2-1/2 cups chicken stock (see TIPS)
- 2 slices bacon, chopped (or 2 tablespoons bacon grease or butter)
- 1/2 cup Arborio rice
- 1/2 cup grated fresh Parmesan (from about 2 square inches)
- Fresh herbs - dill, oregano, another herb
- Salt & pepper to taste
Bring water to a boil. Drop in leek and cauliflower for 1 – 2 minutes then drain. Cut leek into half rings, florets into smaller pieces.
Meanwhile, in a small pot, bring stock to a boil; adjust heat to maintain slow simmer.
Meanwhile, in a large deep skillet, cook bacon til crisp, lift onto a plate to cool, leaving fat in skillet. Stir in leek and cauliflower, let cook for about 5 minutes, stirring often. Stir in rice, turning several times to coat with fat. Stirring nearly continuously, add simmering stock a half cup at a time, adding more only when what's been added is incorporated. As mixture cooks, break cauliflower into smaller and smaller pieces. Mixture is done when rice is tender and creamy looking. Stir in Parmesan, cooked bacon, herbs and season to taste. Serve immediately.
VEGETARIAN RISOTTO For a vegetarian version, use olive oil or butter instead of bacon, then for broth, use vegetable stock or Homemade Vegetable Bouillon.
This is my go-to recipe for risotto. I've made it with all kinds of vegetables but cauliflower remains the favorite.
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Thanks so much. Absolutely love your stuff!
Genie ~ Darned ol' travel, gets in the way of the kitchen, doesn't it ...
* ~ I don't have experience with soy bacon but have made this without bacon, it's about 2 tablespoons of fat that you're looking for. You might think about supplementing with butter vs oil for flavor, however. Let me know how it goes!
This looks super fine Alanna.
Your cauliflower risotto is inspiring.
Thanks for the recipe - I love risotto and I too never really made it much b/c I thought it was too hard.
Thanks for the Blogher highlight!!!
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Eli Beck, an eighth grader from Albert R. Lyman Middle School in Blanding is the 2010 Regional Spelling Bee Winner.
The Bee was sponsored by the Southeast Education Service Center and held March 11 at the Green River High School auditorium in Green River.
Beck will continue the competition against other top spellers throughout the nation at the Scripps Bee Week 2010, May 31 - June 5 in Washington, D. C.
For winning the Regional Bee, Eli received an all-expense paid trip for two to Washington, D. C. to compete in the national bee, a trophy, a $100 savings bond donated by Samuel Louis Sugarman, and a Webster's International Edition Dictionary.
Second place honors went to Kira Simpson, an eighth grader also from R. Lyman Middle School. Finishing in third place was Shaydee Murray, an eighth grader from Canyon View Jr. High in Huntington.
All three winners received a year's subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica Online. In addition, Kira and Shaydee received a $20 gift card to Amazon.com.
The three winners went through a rigorous 30 rounds as Larry Davis, the principal at Emery High, pronounced the words. Shaydee was eliminated in that round by "basmati" (an aromatic long-grained rice from Southeast Asia). With the field narrowed down to two, the rapid fire action went back and forth for another 19 rounds until Kira missed "uppityness". Since Eli correctly spelled "heron" the rules required him to spell one more word correctly. His final word was "aptitude" in the 50th and final round.
All three winners were experienced bee winners over the past years. Eli and Kira went head to head in their District Bee this year with Kira taking first place honors there. Shaydee repeated honors as third place winner in 2009 and this year's Region contest. Correct spelling decisions were ratified by a panel of judges: Johnna Boyack (SESC), Jared Black (Emery District) and Cady Mecham, Green River Sterling Scholar in Language Arts.
Fifteen fifth to eighth grade contestants from Carbon, Emery, Grand, and San Juan previously won top honors in their school and district spelling bees to qualify and compete in Thursday's Regional Bee.
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HIV+ patient participants:(1) report at least 1 encounter of unprotected anal or vaginal sex with known HIV- or unknown serostatus partner in the preceding six months; (2) patient's Primary Provider is enrolled as a participant in the study; (3) age 18 years or older; and (4) willing and able to provide informed consent.
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To Play Or Not To Play: An All-Star Question
When Ray Felton got passed over for an All-Star seat, I'll admit I was a bit relieved. Yes it's an honor to get the nod. Yes it's fun to see your players on the floor, running, jumping and dunking all over the place.
But at the end of the day, players who don't participate this weekend get a solid 4,5 days off from basketball. They get to ice their knees at home. They get to lounge around on the couch and spend some quality time with the family. They get a mental and physical Spring Break.
So with Amar'e showing signs of fatigue – enough that he sat out last weekend in a must-win game in New Jersey – what do you want him to do this weekend? Do you want him standing tall and representing New York on the floor? Do you want him to rest up instead of worrying about a meaningless exhibition game? Is being voted in enough of an honor or does gunning for MVP mean something more?
I recognize how stupid the All-Star game is relative to a healthy stretch run, but I can't shake my itch to see Amar'e throw it down a few (or twelve) times Sunday night. Assuming he is healthy enough to go on Wednesday, I want the guy to play, to dominate, to salute the LA fans after stuffing Pau, and to raise a MVP trophy by night's end.
I know it's counterproductive to the bigger picture, but I can't help it. I'm a fan who wants to watch his best player be the best on a big stage. I know a nice long break would do Amar'e and the Knicks good, but I want to see him out there.
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Mohamed Mohamud's jihad was to blow up 1000s of people in a "spectacular show" during a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in Portland. Despite having a cell phone detonator, and actually dialing the number to blow the nearly 1 ton bomb, there are naysayers. If you're going to prosecute every loudmouth, Trevor Aaronson said, our courts would be clogged. And there are loud cries of entrapment. Which you always tend to hear after cases like this.
Our budding jihadi, Mo Mo, is from Mogadishu, Somalia. And he moved here when he was five. Does he think Somalia is paradise and he was mistreated in the United States?
For a time, Mohamud was able to live two lives — as a young immigrant trying to fit in, and a Muslim who had become radicalized.
Mohamed Mohamud's family emigrated from Mogadishu, Somalia, where he was born in 1991. He moved to the U.S. when he was about 5 years old.
Mohamud professed aspirations of becoming an engineer, like his father. As a student at Oregon State University, he spent his freshman year studying, playing basketball and partying but eventually dropped out.
As a senior in high school, Mohamud had begun writing articles for an online English-language jihadist magazine called "Jihad Recollections" under the pen name Ibn al-Mubarak, advocating physical fitness for the mujahedeen in places where they couldn't find exercise equipment.
He wrote three articles, including one praising the content and presentation of al-Qaeda's media arm, As-Shabab Media.
The FBI began monitoring Mohamud's emails. In the summer of 2010 FBI undercover agents set up the first in a series of meetings with Mohamud, who talked about a dream in which he led a group of fighters into Afghanistan against "the infidels."
According to the prosecution's version of events, Mohamud's undercover handlers offered him several choices in the service of jihad. They ranged from simple prayer to full-on martyrdom. Mohamud chose a step short of killing himself, saying he wanted to "become operational," according to the FBI.
I wonder what the good folks at #MyJihad have to say of Mohamed Mohamud. I like reformers, but putting shiny, happy people in an ad is useless. The advertisements need to be directed at people like Mo Mo. He is the one with the issue. Just don't ask him: What is your jihad? You might not like the answer. . .


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Well, it looks like this is the JMT year for me. I'm signed up for a SOBO and a NOBO.June 29 from Happy Isles to Florence Lake AFAP, 42 hours? Then the family joins and we head out Whitney over ten days.September 5, northbound solo. Assuming I don't sober up after the sobo trip, I'm going to push it nobo. Here are my goals, most important first:1) Don't die (duh)2) Finish3) Hike independent of time-of-day cycle.4) Maintain >3mph on trail, including short breaks.5) Finish in <5 daysBase weight plan is <10, currently at 13, working on clothing mostly.I'll carry my inReach tracker.Food is 7# MyoMalt, 2# solids (clif bars?) + electrolytes.I recently hiked 40mi over 6500' elevation gain in 13 hours including a 30 min break, but that was near sea level. Doing that 5 times in a row? Not easy, but doable? I'm trying to squeeze in an 80mi non-stop trip next month. Train, train, train.
If you want a great training hike come out to the Bob Open in late May. Depending on route I may be doing 90-120 miles over a three day period. Would be a great warmup.As far as nutrition, how many calories per day will you be doing. My quick math had you at about 4k a day which I think is low for what you have planned, although you may weigh less less than I do. My rule of thumb..... 100 calories per mile plus end of day dinner consisting of 500 calories of carbs plus protein for recovery. (Don't have the protein amount dialed in exactly.). I would be concerned that you will fade after your first day if you can't replenish your glycogen adequately enough at the end of the day. One final note, don't overtrain. If you can do sixty miles non-stop and still walk the next day then you should be able to sustain 40mpd sustained. (Maltos hiking theory - you can sustain 2/3rds of your single day mileage high.)Good luck in your training and the hike
"My rule of thumb..... 100 calories per mile plus end of day dinner consisting of 500 calories of carbs plus protein for recovery."Isn't that on the low side? If it is 30 miles per day, then that is only 3500 calories.Geez, I probably burn that much just walking into the horse racing park.--B.G.--
maintaining a > 3 mph pace for 5 days is challenging in the Sierra.222 miles (from the Portal) split over 5 days is 45 miles a day.I think its more efficient (meaning less taxing on the body) to hike longer hours at a slightly slower pace, taking short breaks, and a 5 hr night stop.hiking 18 hrs a day, you can do 45 mile days at a 2.5 mph pace, much more reasonable.
"Isn't that on the low side? If it is 30 miles per day, then that is only 3500 calories."For short duration hikes I will rely on body fat to supplement the carbs. So with your 30mpd example I would take about 4000 calories (500 calories of protein) and would expect to burn somewhere around 2000 calories in body fat for a typical hike. (I use a daily daily burn of 200 calories per mile for hikes of 30+ mpd). This strategy has passed the test. of high mile back to back day (and beyond). But this would be a terrible strategy for a long duration hike.
"maintaining a > 3 mph pace for 5 days is challenging in the Sierra.222 miles (from the Portal) split over 5 days is 45 miles a day.I think its more efficient (meaning less taxing on the body) to hike longer hours at a slightly slower pace, taking short breaks, and a 5 hr night stop.hiking 18 hrs a day, you can do 45 mile days at a 2.5 mph pace, much more reasonable."I agree with some of the above but not all. I agree the focus shouldn't be on speed, the pace should be the most natural and efficient. For me that often will be about 3mph but I do have a pretty long stride. I do know that it is counterproductive to force speed. You end up paying dearly later. Nathan, one thing I used to watch on my thru hike was the distance each day before walking became a chore. If you don't watch that during your training hikes then you want want to try it. The goal is to push that point out further and further. You can try to vary your pace and see what impact that has on your "comfort point"
I based the MyoMalt on 1Lb = 30 miles. (2000 cal/lb, 200 cal/hr).If I maintain 3mph, then 7 lb should be enough during the hikes.On the treadmill, 3mph seems to equate to about 400cal/hr, figure 500-600 on grade.I'm 5'10", 175, 20% fat (according to omron scale and pinch measurements)Shouldn't have too much trouble burning 200+ cal/hr of fat, the rest glycogen.I plan on sleeping 5 hours every 30 miles or so:72 hours hiking, 6x5 hrs sleep, 102 hours total, fudge it out to 5 days.I guess I can absorb 5hrs x 200cal = 1000 cal per nap, another 3 pounds.That works out to 4800 cal/day.According to Aaron Sorensen, I won't eat that much?My recent 40 miler went thus: miles elev feet mph pace 0 - 15 +2200 -2200 3.75 16:0015 - 22 +2300 2.94 20:2430 min nap22 - 34 +1800 -3200 2.58 23:1534 - 40 - 900 4.10 14:3840 miles, 13 hours = 3.08 mphYou can see I really dropped off after mile 22 even though it was a lot of downhill.But then, without a hill to climb, I really took off and frankly could've kept that up.I had trouble with cramps in my quads - I mentioned that elsewhere.Fun, no?
"I had trouble with cramps in my quads - I mentioned that elsewhere"The same active ingredients may be in your MyoMalt, but are you contemplating anything like Sportlegs Supplement?
" You can see I really dropped off after mile 22 "one thing I've learned running ultras (especially 100's) is that the harder you push early on the more you will drop off down the road, it comes back to haunt you.I would suggest a pace the entire first 2 days of JMT where you feel like you are holding yourself back, it will pay dividends the last 2 days.also, your 40 mile training effort does not really relate that well to how you will perform over 222 miles in a 5 day effort. the two involve somewhat different things.so I would suggest here ... yes do the 40 mile training days, but don't try and micro manage the pace of those days, just do the miles.
What to expect while moving fast on the JMTConstant headacheElevation that sucks every drop of fluid out of you, (you have to drink a lot).JMT distances are not "real" distances.You can think you are moving at a 3mph pace and something 9 miles away is 3 hours away, right.2 hours and 15 minutes later, you are see a sign that says you have 3.2 miles left. (This will happen).Averaging 3mph while hiking WILL NOT HAPPEN.Even trying for 2.5mph for 18 hours the whole way will by far be the hardest thing you have ever done.The only thing that will change any of this is if you live and train at elevation, or spend a good 3-5 weeks at elevation before your trip.But that's why we do it, right?Good luck
Interesting read about lactate. I'll look into that more.Aaron, you're right, for some strange reason we do do it...
Nathan, Aaron, and otherswhat would be your preferred pack for a 5 day JMT speed hike ?
I have a Golite Peak (26 oz) that fits all including a BV500 for the sobo. It's not long enough in the torso, so I may need something else. A totally legal nobo run without can requires no-camp hiking from Forester to Pinchot (30mi) and again from Donohue to Happy Isles (38mi) - not a problem.My long training hikes have been with a Camelback ballasted up to ~18 pounds. No belt and it barely bothers me.7 pounds of MyoMalt and 2 pounds of solids take up a lot of room and need to be "formed well" to be comfortable. What I would really like is for everything to fit in a fanny pack with a batman belt.
"My long training hikes have been with a Camelback ballasted up to ~18 pounds."It is really hard to find good ultralightweight ballast these days.--B.G.--
I would go with a pack that fits you comfortably first.The ability to have a pack have the weight rest on you hips is well worth the little bigger size.There are so many packs that are still very light out there that can fit your need.My 4 day 21 hour JMT was with tiny pack that had all the weight on my shoulders and it sucked.It also depends on if you are going to be bringing a bear can?A nicely padded pack is mice too.I would guess that a pack that would fit the need s of this would be something in between 20-25 litters.A 20 litter slender well padded pack would be what I would like, (trying to keep it under 1.5 pounds).Shoes are the hardest thing for me. As of now, I would go for my Asics Scouts. They are not good runners, but are very rugged and a perfect fast passed extreme rugged trail shoe.I started with a full pack weight (with water) at 16lbs. 10.5 of food, 24 ounces of water, a 9 ounce jacket and 4 ounce long sleeve shirt. The rest was just bug sprays, maps and stuff.I really want to do the high route this year, although I don't think I would have the time.I think I would link the southern route all the way to hwy 120.
Edited by awsorensen on 04/08/2013 18:55:27 MDT.
This forum server needs a like button so I can keep tagging Bob's posts. I read one the other day and thought, "that must be B.G." before I even looked.Aaron - how much of that 10 lbs of food did you eat?
I ate about 8.25-8.5 lbs of the food.I would still take the 10.5. That allows you to finish even with a few bad days.I was not that hungry and it slowed me down. I also didn't drink enough.The elevation just sapped everything out of me.If I was able to eat and drink more like I normally do, it would have been a little faster.I also wasn't trying for a record so the pace I wanted to hike was much better than the pace I needed to for a record.Those record attempts would drain me of everything in the first day. All from elevation effects.
Edited by awsorensen on 04/08/2013 21:12:26 MDT.
It always happens that the second day is the bear.I'm wondering whether a SOBO is easier because of the elevation. I've heard it said that the hard part is the first climb out of Happy Isles, but if you start as the Portal the Whitney climb is worse: same gain but 4K' higher. The flip side is running out of energy right as it gets steeper and higher. Also the northern end has a lot more in the way of services as you arrive in pieces.However, there is an insidious element that creeps in when you march north through Lyell: those shining lights of Tuolumne tempting, tempting with only 20 miles to go. No such easy out heading south over Forester.
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An employee at The Vines Hospital has been charged with aggravated child abuse after he was accused of breaking a juvenile resident's arm.
Ocala police say the 13-year-old boy told officers that Lennox Seepersad became angry and threw him to the floor of his bedroom then pulled him up roughly by the arm at The Vines Hospital Friday night, according to the Associated Press.
The teen said he screamed for help but was given Tylenol and told to go to bed.
On Saturday, another employee drove the teen to the hospital. Doctors said the teen had a broken arm consistent with someone pulling on the arm.
The teen is now in his mother's care.
The Ocala Star Banner reports surveillance video shows another teen tried to help the victim, but Seepersad pushed him away.
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Republicans claim that allowing Richard Cordray to head the CFPB imbues him with too much power, ignoring the immense influence on the other side of the equation.
This week's credit check: The 10 Republicans blocking Richard Cordray's nomination have received over $31 million in campaign cash from the financial sector. The median American family saw yearly earnings fall $5,261 over the past decade.
The least remarkable part of yesterday's Senate Banking Committee hearing on Richard Cordray, President Obama's nominee to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), was Cordray's testimony itself. In fact, Republicans made it clear that his credentials are not what's up for debate. Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) called a recent meeting with him "pleasant" and Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) said he has a "good background." Rather, they want to debate whether his post should exist at all. Their reasoning? That having one person in charge of this new watchdog will imbue Cordray with far too much power. As Shelby put it, "No one person should have so much unfettered power over the American people."
But what of the power of the opposition, the banks themselves, who stand to have new oversight and regulation from someone on the side of the average consumer? If we're going to talk about power imbalances, we might want to look at what the financial sector can marshal against the American people. Elizabeth Warren herself, the originator of the idea for the CFPB, estimates that it will police a $3 trillion consumer financial services industry. And Wall Street, along with its other corporate counterparts, is doing pretty well compared to the rest of us. Corporate profits have taken in 88 percent of the raise in national income since the recovery began, while household incomes only took in 1 percent.
It's not just profits banks wield in this fight, however. That money can easily turn into lobbying and campaign contributions. As Ari Berman reported in June, "According to the Center for Responsive Politics, 156 groups -- the vast majority representing corporate interests -- lobbied the government about the CFPB in the second half of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011. The list ranged from JPMorgan Chase to McDonald's." The Chamber of Commerce even has an entire division devoted to fighting Dodd-Frank, and it spent $17 million on federal lobbying in the first quarter of this year with a dozen lobbyists focused on just the CFPB.
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Individual Republican Senators are also getting lavish gifts from the financial sector while opposing its newest regulator. The 10 Republican members of the Senate Banking Committee, who signed a letter to Obama in May demanding debilitating changes to the CFPB before any candidate can be confirmed, have received over $31 million in campaign cash from the financial sector during their time in Congress. Meanwhile, Sen. Shelby himself has taken $6.2 million from the financial sector, including about $1 million from commercial banks. His top career donors include JP Morgan ($140,771), Citigroup ($109,199), and Goldman Sachs ($67.600).
Compare all that financial firepower to what's going on for everyday Americans. A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts shows that nearly one in three Americans who grew up middle-class has fallen out of that group. It's not hard to see why so many people are moving down the ladder when wages have been heading in the same direction. While the financial sector is bringing in $3 trillion, the median American family saw yearly earnings fall $5,261 over the past decade, from $52,388 in 2000 to $47,127 in 2010.
Things are even worse for low-income families. Over the past 10 years, the percentage of children living in poverty has soared, increasing by 18 percent, or 2.4 million more, from 2000-2009. These children and their families are set to fall on even harder times, as states slash vital services to balance their budgets. They face the loss of unemployment benefits, income tax credits, and cash assistance, among other safety net supports.
Those who find themselves in such financial hardship have one place to turn when they can't make ends meet: debt. Credit card companies already employ a variety of tactics to entice middle-class families into debt and keep them there. But those tactics will be under strict scrutiny if the CFPB has its full powers. Low-income families often find themselves prey to unregulated non-banks like payday lenders and check cashers, but those will also come under the supervision of the Bureau.
The CFPB isn't taking on dictatorial powers. It's standing up to the formidable forces preying upon struggling American consumers.
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"These 574s are my first New Balance shoes I have worn. I have had them for about a week now and they are super comfortable. Good fitting shoe (11, 2E). I ordered the Black with Orange and White version and they have used two different shades of orange. The coloring on the sole and on the material just above the heel are a bright vivid orange (MLB Orioles almost). While the orange for the cloth material on the inside of the shoe is a much darker orange-red. I am still very happy with the shoe color difference aside just would have liked something saying that the secondary color would not be the same shade depending on the material it was on."
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"Pros: 1. Great looking shoe overall. 2. Goes well with anything, especially with joggers. Cons: 1. Very noticeable asymmetry of the shoe: -my left shoe had a weird bulge near the heel of the insole. Whereas on the right, the insole was completely flat. (after breaking it in, the bulge should hopefully go away.) -the grey part of the midsole on the left shoe was more curvy than the midsole on the right shoe. 2. Fresh out of the box, the corners of the logo were slightly peeled off."
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Hot Rod and Racing Stories
The American Hot Rod Foundation's "Hot Rod Stories" project provides a unique collection of autobiographies, as told by hot rodders and racers who participated in the hobby/sport in the 1940's and 1950's. These stories are in their own words, recorded using broadcast-quality 24-bit technology, and presented with up to six photos from their personal collections.
As with the Foundation's Photo Gallery, Video Clips of the Legends of hot rodding, and other materials on our website, these "Hot Rod Stories" are offered free to the public and researchers. We intend that this growing archive of historical materials will be available 50, 100…or many hundreds of years from now! In this way, future generations, who would never have had the opportunity to meet a hot rod pioneer, will understand the unique culture and ingenious technological achievements of early American hot rodders as it was truly lived.


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The board of the Price River Water Improvement District met Tuesday afternoon and again took up the issue of water service agreements.
Board member Karl Houskeeper presented the board with two letters from Wellington city. One letter was a copy of a request sent to the Department of Natural Resources, Division of Water Rights, requesting the allocation of 315 Wellington city water shares from Scofield reservoir to PRWID to meet Wellington's culinary water commitment.
The second letter was a cover letter advising PRWID of Wellington's intent. The first letter also directed that the remainder of Wellington's water shares be delivered to the Wellington canal to be used for secondary water purposes.
Houskeeper reminded the board of an agreement that had been reached at the last PRWID meeting. The agreement was to allow both parties to honor conditions stipulated in a draft agreement of the Wellington city water service agreement for this year.
Wellington city and PRWID have yet to finalize a formal water service agreement.
Houskeeper said that the Wellington city council had voted to work under conditions of the draft agreement for this year. He reminded the board that a formal motion to accept the temporary water service agreement was needed.
The board debated the issue for some time.
Board member Tom Matthews said that in his opinion, allowing Wellington to work from a temporary agreement might be detrimental to ever securing a final agreement.
It was also brought up that Wellington has 334 culinary water hook-ups but was offering only 315 shares of water to PRWID.
PRWID manager Phil Palmer told the board that the 315 shares was a three-year average of what Wellington had committed to the district in the past.
PRWID attorney, Nick Sampinos, told the board that in his opinion, the temporary agreement was a step in the right direction.
He also pointed out that Wellington has a new attorney who is still coming up to speed on all of the past water issues. He suggested that Wellington was acting in good faith and he was hopeful that a final water service agreement could be reached between the two parties before the end of the year.
Houskeeper told the board that he expected continued dialog between Wellington and PRWID in the near future.
Board Chairman Keith Cox said that he saw no problems with accepting the temporary agreement. He too felt it was a step in the right direction.
Board member Richard Tatton said that his concern was in doing what was in the best interests of the district.
As board members prepared to vote on the issue, Houskeeper, who serves as Wellington mayor, abstained from voting.
The vote was split, two to two, and the motion died. Board members Cox and Mike Dalpiaz voted for, while Matthews and Tatton voted against accepting the temporary water agreement.
The question of what kind of water service agreement will exist between Wellington and PRWID was left unresolved as the meeting went on to other issues.
In an unrelated matter, Darlene Pennington appeared before the board with a request to deed a four inch waterline in the north Coal Creek area to the district.
PRWID manager Palmer gave a brief history and overview of the request, stating that an original draft of the transfer had been drawn up in 2001 but never finalized.
Palmer said that in 1996, Pennington had extended a four inch PRWID water line across Bureau of Land Management land to her property. She did so at her own cost of approximately $28,000, expecting to recover some of the expense as other homeowners in the area hooked up to the extended line.
Pennington left the area in 2001 and offered to deed the private line to the district with the stipulation that she be allowed to recover half of her original $28,000 cost as future hook-ups were added to the line. She requested that a $2,000 fee be attached to any new water hookups on the line to be paid to her until 50 percent of her original cost has been recovered.
Palmer told the board that the agreement is similar to other agreements the district has made with landowners in the county who use their own initiative and funds to extend water lines to previously non-serviced areas. He said he was unsure why the agreement was never finalized and signed in 2001.
The board discussed the proposal at length. Sampinos told the board that an updated version of the old draft agreement had been prepared, and he suggested that Pennington be required to sign a facilities deed as well as the transfer agreement.
The board then approved the waterline transfer.
In a similar but separate matter, the PRWID board then took up the matter of a request for a water line extension in the same area. Lyle Hadden had a written request before the board to extend the four inch line an additional 600 feet across BLM land to properties he owns in the area. Hadden would assume the full cost of the project and the work would be done in compliance with PRWID standards.
Palmer pointed out that Hadden would be required to secure the proper BLM permit and easement before proceeding, and he told board members that Hadden would want to institute a pay back agreement similar to Pennington's to recover part of his costs as others hooked to the line.
Again the board debated the project for some time. Attorney Sampinos suggested that the board approve the water line extension in principle, contingent upon Hadden securing the proper BLM permits and presenting the board with a formal letter of intent. In the letter, Hadden would be required to state that all other landowners in the immediate area had been advised of the project and invited to participate as partners.
The board approved the project in principle following counsel's advice.
In a manager's report, Palmer told the board that an inspection of the old Willow Creek mine property was conducted last week in a final resolution of releasing bonds held for reclamation work. He said the water district would do nothing with the property they have purchased at the old mine site until the bond issues are officially resolved. He expects to be able to occupy the property in about six weeks.
Palmer said that work on the Helper bypass project is expected to begin soon and issues of water and sewer infrastructure and line transfers are being addressed.
The board took up the issue of an emergency water rate for Helper City. Helper has had no water service agreement with PRWID in the past, and Helper is the only city that has been charged an emergency water rate. An emergency rate fee was charged during an incident last summer when emergency water was purchased during problems with the Helper system.
Sampinos suggested that instead of setting an emergency water rate for Helper, the district set an emergency water rate for the whole water district.
After some discussion, Tatton made a motion that the board approve a countywide rate for all non-contract entities. He specified that the rate be called a non-contract water rate and not an emergency water rate. The motion carried.


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Super Savior Jesus Go! is a web comic that I write.
It's pretty humorous, I think. I hope. xD
If it's not that funny, I'm not doing my job well enough.
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I probably wouldn't have posted it at all, but our most recent comic gives a reference to the FSM, so I thought everyone might like to see it.


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- 325-square-foot private, furnished cabanas in 2 locations: Castaway Family Beach (for families) and Serenity Bay Beach (for adults)
- An extension of more than 700 feet to the all-ages Castaway Family Beach
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- The Hide Out, a teens-only activity area on the beach
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- Port Adventures for everyone in the family, including stingray interactions, glass-bottom boat tours, parasailing and fishing
- Free childcare at Scuttle's Cove, an expansive child's area supervised by Disney counselors
- Disney Character Greetings, including a Dance Party with Lilo and Stitch
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Castaway Cay invites cruisers to enjoy balmy tropical weather and world-class recreation on a Bahamian oasis with signature Disney hospitality. From your onboard stateroom, be sure to check out the Castaway Cay-vents activities schedule. After disembarking to Castaway Cay, you can obtain beach towels and use your convenient Key to the World cards for retail transactions on the island.
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Disney Cruise Line crew members help protect and monitor endangered loggerhead sea turtle nests on Castaway Cay.
Guests visiting Castaway Cay can connect with nature via a series of walking paths and biking trails.
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Video: Russia Meteor Injures More than 400
MOSCOW (AP) - An estimated 10-ton meteor has made a 33,000-mile-an-hour pass over a city in Russia's Ural Mountains, setting off blasts that shattered windows and resulted in some 1,000 injury reports, according to Interfax, the Russian news agency. Hundreds of buildings were damaged, and residents describe scenes of panic.
The Russian Academy of Sciences said in a statement that the space rock broke apart over the Chelyabinsk region somewhere between 18 and 32 miles above the ground.
The fall caused explosions that broke glass over a wide area. The Emergency Ministry initially said that more than 500 people sought treatment after the blasts and that 34 of them were hospitalized.
"There was panic. People had no idea what was happening. Everyone was going around to people's houses to check if they were OK," said Sergey Hametov, a resident of Chelyabinsk, about 930 miles east of Moscow, the biggest city in the affected region.
"We saw a big burst of light then went outside to see what it was and we heard a really loud thundering sound," he told The Associated Press by telephone.
Another Chelyabinsk resident, Valya Kazakov, said some elderly women in his neighborhood started crying out that the world was ending.
Some fragments fell in a reservoir outside the town of Cherbakul, the regional governor's office said, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. It was not immediately clear if any people were struck by fragments.
The agency also cited military spokesman Yarslavl Roshupkin as saying that a 20-foot-wide crater was found in the same area which could be the result of fragments striking the ground.
Scientists at Cape Canaveral say a 150-foot asteroid hurtling toward a close pass with Earth today had nothing to do with the meteor that injured hundreds in Russia today. The asteroid is expected to make the closest known flyby for a rock of its size, missing Earth by 17,150 miles. It's too small for a naked eye view.
Meteors typically cause sizeable sonic booms when they enter the atmosphere because they are traveling much faster than the speed of sound. Injuries on the scale reported Friday, however, are extraordinarily rare.
Interior Ministry spokesman Vadim Kolesnikov said that about 6000 square feet of a roof at a zinc factory had collapsed. There was no immediate clarification of whether the collapse was caused by meteorites or by a shock wave from one of the explosions.
Reports conflicted on what exactly happened in the clear skies. A spokeswoman for the Emergency Ministry, Irina Rossius, told The Associated Press that there was a meteor shower, but another ministry spokeswoman, Elena Smirnikh, was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying it was a single meteor.
Amateur video broadcast on Russian television showed an object speeding across the sky about 9:20 a.m. local time (0320 GMT), leaving a thick white contrail and an intense flash.
Donald Yeomans, manager of U.S. Near Earth Object Program in California, said he thought the event was probably "an exploding fireball event."
"If the reports of ground damage can be verified, it might suggest an object whose original size was several meters in extent before entering the atmosphere, fragmenting and exploding due to the unequal pressure on the leading side vs. the trailing side (it pancaked and exploded)," Yeoman said in an email to The Associated Press.
"It is far too early to provide estimates of the energy released or provide a reliable estimate of the original size," Yeomans added.
Russian news reports noted that the meteor hit less than a day before the asteroid 2012 DA14 is to make the closest recorded pass of an asteroid -- about 17,150 miles.
But the European Space Agency, in a post on its Twitter account, said its experts had determined there was no connection.
Small pieces of space debris - usually parts of comets or asteroids - that are on a collision course with the Earth are called meteoroids. When meteoroids enter the Earth's atmosphere they are called meteors. Most meteors burn up in the atmosphere, but if they survive the frictional heating and strike the surface of the Earth they are called meteorites.
Engineer Bill Nye, "The Science Guy", predicts this won't be the last time we hear about something like this. "It's unusual, so far, but as the world becomes more populous, there will be more injuries like this. The most famous one is 1908 over Siberia ... but there was an air burst. This is where the meteor, the asteroid, the cometary material was coming into the Earth's atmosphere so fast that the Earth's atmosphere acts like concrete and the thing disintegrates in mid-air."
The dramatic events prompted an array of reactions from prominent Russian political figures. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, speaking at an economic forum in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, said the meteor could be a symbol for the forum, showing that "not only the economy is vulnerable, but the whole planet."
Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the nationalist leader noted for vehement statements, said "It's not meteors falling, it's the test of a new weapon by the Americans," the RIA Novosti news agency reported.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said the incident showed the need for leading world powers to develop a system to intercept objects falling from space.
"At the moment, neither we nor the Americans have such technologies" to shoot down meteors or asteroids, he said, according to the Interfax news agency.
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Hahaha look at this
And people say Allods online has slow gameplay, I will fall asleep after killing one mob if they don't change the combat.
Hahaha look at this
And people say Allods online has slow gameplay, I will fall asleep after killing one mob if they don't change the combat.
doesn't seem that slow to me, looks about the same pase as FFXI. Idk why people are complaining, the games not even out of alpha yet and none of this may be final :/
How to make an onrpg sig in 5 easy steps
- Insert pic of random anime character/girl(scantly clad = extra points)
- Post the specs of your computer even though no one really cares
- Put a random quote from some dead poet or something that makes you seem smart
- Quote a post that makes you feel cool
- And lastly write in bold red letters about how win you are
wow, that looks pretty dull there. hopefully they'll fix that. cuz right now it looks like ffxi with newer graphics.
*sigh* I will be skipping FFXIV after all.
This is alpha so im guessing they wont leave it like that
need moar kraken club
This is truly disappointing. I had a feeling something like this would happen when they said they were keeping the original storyline of FFXI.
What happen to the good ol' days when every Final Fantasy game had a completely different storyline? They were to quick to make the game and not look at the market. Come on Square...let's hold the release date back to 2011 and completely change the combat system. I would not mind if this is what they held the date back for..as long as the specified this.
Everyone realizes that this is an alpha and could easily change right? Right?
Good lord people quit jumping the gun on this game. I don't see anything wrong with it, give the game some time, you never know what will happen in the upcoming months.
You never know how precious someone is till they are gone...
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I think I know the reasons why former State Police Superintendent Brendan Doherty felt he had to announce his candidacy for the 1st Congressional District seat last week, but I still think it was an error.
There is the traditional politician's motive: stake out the territory. The same way a dog will pee around the perimeter of his yard to let the other dogs know that is his turf, politicians like to stake their claim to run for an office to make others, particularly those from their own party, think twice about intruding.
I think I know the reasons why former State Police Superintendent Brendan Doherty felt he had to announce his candidacy for the 1st Congressional District seat last week, but I still think it was an error.
There is the traditional politician's motive: stake out the territory. The same way a dog will pee around the perimeter of his yard to let the other dogs know that is his turf, politicians like to stake their claim to run for an office to make others, particularly those from their own party, think twice about intruding.
Then there is the motive that is never very far away from politics: money. If Doherty expects people to donate significant money to his campaign, he has to convince them that he is a serious candidate who really intends to run. Kicking in $50 grand of his own money shows that he is not only serious about running, but he also has some of his own skin in the game.
Another political factor that can't be ignored is name recognition. Doherty is not an unknown, particularly among the political class, but his name isn't exactly a household word, either.
One more: Republican political talent isn't exactly plentiful around Rhode Island, and John Loughlin, who came close (but not that close) to beating Cicilline a few months ago has already made it clear that he wants a second shot at the former Providence mayor, who has been beaten bloody, not by his performance in Congress, which it is too soon to even measure at this point, but by the condition he left the capital city in when he made his run for the door, I mean, for Congress. So there are at least two candidates who are going to be looking for consultants, fundraisers, and other political pros who make campaigns work. Some of those folks have to be nailed down early and they, too, don't want to be left at the altar by a candidate who decides not to run.
Those are all good, solid reasons. But they might not be the right reasons for Doherty to make the decision he did.
Here's why:
For one thing, it's too darn early. Good grief, it's only been about 140 days since Cicilline was inaugurated (that's an estimate, I didn't really count, so please don't send e-mails correcting my arithmetic). Announcing now makes Doherty look too eager — not like a man of integrity and ethics who just wants to do the right thing for his state and for his country, but like an ambitious pol who can't wait to punch his ticket to D.C.
Doherty had enough name recognition to hold off for a little bit and sustain the glow he got for retiring as the resolute and upright leader of one of the top law enforcement agencies in the country. He should have let that last a little. Let people continue to talk about him like he is one of the last repositories of rectitude and grit and doing the right thing in a state that is forever beating itself up (often too harshly) over the foibles of its elected leaders.
You will notice that every one of the good reasons for Doherty to announce now that I listed above were political. They are what a good politician would do.
But Doherty doesn't want to paint himself as a politician. That is exactly the opposite of what he wants to do. He wants to set himself apart from the politicians. He is not going to be what they are. He is going to be different. He is going to be the anti-pol.
Doherty wants to use all the Dudley Do-Right props he earned in all those years on the State Police and bring them to bear on our body politic. But he won't be able to do that if people start seeing him as a politician. Like the old saying goes, if you lie down with dogs, you're going to get up with fleas.
It is 16 months before the 2012 Republican primary (I counted this time). That is a long time to be active in politics and keep people thinking of you in terms of integrity and uprightness. If nothing else, Doherty makes himself a target for smart-ass newspaper columnists.
You only get to lose your political virginity once, and Doherty gave his up way early.
One more reason why Doherty's announcement was premature: His only opponent so far for the GOP nomination, the aforementioned John Loughlin, is right now preparing to deploy to Iraq with the U.S. Army. Loughlin retired from the Army reserves in 2004, but accepted the call to go to Baghdad for most of the rest of this year.
Doherty's early announcement could be seen as an attempt to steal the political march from Loughlin before Johnny can come marching home. Is that a fair criticism? Probably not, but that won't stop it from being made.
Republicans have their best shot to take the 1st District Congressional seat since Ron Machtley won it way back in 1989, but they can't take it for granted. Yes, Cicilline is damaged by the horrendous financial shape he left Providence in, but November 2012 is a long way away.
Cicilline could pull off some legislative victories between now and then, or Congressional Republicans could damage themselves with misguided plans and proposals, like the one — since quietly dropped — to turn Medicare into a voucher program. That part of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed budget lasted only for a few weeks, but it is destined to live on throughout the coming congressional campaign in states across the country.
A bloody battle between Doherty and Loughlin for the Republican nomination could hamper either one in the general election campaign and 2012 is a presidential election year in deep blue Rhode Island.
We got at taste of what is to come in Democratic Party Chairman Ed Pacheco's statement in response to Doherty's announcement.
"While Brendan Doherty and John Loughlin are going to fight it out to see who can pander more to the right wing of the Republican Party, Congressman Cicilline is busy doing the job he was elected to do on behalf of Rhode Islanders in the First Congressional District.
"The Congressman has been a strong voice for Rhode Island, fighting to protect seniors' benefits and create good paying manufacturing jobs. Both Doherty and Loughlin would be nothing more than another 'yes' vote for a Republican agenda to protect special interests at the expense of working families and seniors."
For good or ill, Doherty's trooper hat has now been tossed into the ring and watching how it plays out will be one of the more interesting and perhaps entertaining features of the 2012 election race.


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