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'Kid Clutch' is struggling in crunch time
Suddenly, the Thunder has a new issue.
And, no, this latest problem is not a natural sign of the team's progress.
It's more like Oklahoma City's leading cause for concern.
Already saddled by fundamental flaws such as turnovers, rebounding and an inability to knock down open shots, the Thunder must now attempt to erase a seemingly insurmountable 3-1 series deficit to the Memphis Grizzlies while its star player is disappearing down the stretch.
For as much as Kevin Durant has done to carry the Thunder in the absence of Russell Westbrook, he simply hasn't been the closer his team needs him to be.
Durant's production has dipped in the final period in each of the past three games, culminating with a scoreless overtime session in Monday night's Game 5. As Durant struggled, missing all five of his field-goal attempts in the extra period, so did his team. The Thunder went 1-for-8 in overtime and was outscored 9-3 before walking out on the wrong end of a pivotal six-point decision.
Now, with the Thunder on the brink of elimination entering Wednesday's Game 5 inside Chesapeake Energy Arena, little else seems to matter more than Durant reverting to the clutch performer he's established himself to be.
In this scintillating series with the Grizzlies, Durant has averaged 30.8 points, 11 rebounds, 6.8 assists, 1.5 steals and one blocked shot while playing 45.1 minutes and shooting 46.2 percent. But those numbers belie Durant's effectiveness in the closing minutes. And thanks to three straight losses, the last time he rose to the occasion feels like many moons ago, though it's been only 10 days since Durant's late dominance in Game 1.
In the fourth quarter and overtime since Game 2, Durant is averaging just 5.6 points on 29.2 percent shooting. He's averaged only one assist over that span.
On Monday night, Durant scored a mere five points on 2-for-13 shooting in the fourth quarter and overtime. In Game 3, Durant scored just two points on 1-for-4 shooting in the fourth quarter of another six-point defeat, making him 3-for-17 in the fourth quarter and overtime over the past two games.
The final five minutes have been more horrendous.
In this series, Durant has averaged only 3.3 points while shooting just 35.3 percent in crunch time, or the last five minutes when neither team is ahead by more than five points.
In the last three games, Durant's numbers in that window have dipped to 1.7 points per game on 16.7 percent shooting.
Worse, during crunch time, Durant has gotten to the free-throw line only four times in this series.
Many think Durant's mounting minutes are taking a toll.
"He is playing a lot of minutes," said Thunder coach Scott Brooks. "But he has to. He has to play, and he can handle them. But he has to be able to manage through. But he's been carrying this team very well. He's putting us in positions to win every single game."
But not delivering.
Several factors are contributing to the disappointing results, starting with Durant not getting many easy shots.
Only 10 of Durant's 33 shots in the fourth quarters and overtime in this series have come from within nine feet. It's a credit to a stingy and disciplined Grizzlies defense. Memphis has made Durant play in a crowd and see multiple defenders each time he catches the ball and thinks about making a move.
But there also is a key difference between Game 1 and the last three contests.
Tony Allen.
Since Game 2, the Grizzlies have assigned their best perimeter defender to Durant for the majority of the final nine minutes. Contrary to what Memphis coach Lionel Hollins was selling after Game 1, when he played his pit bull only 1 minute, 24 seconds in the fourth quarter, Allen can indeed still contain Durant.
In the last three games, Durant has shot 40.5 percent with Allen on the floor and 52 percent with him on the bench.
"He's a good defender, but they're team, they do a great job," Durant said. "They're not going to let me play one-on-one with anybody. But he's tough because he's small and he gets up under you and he's good at contesting shots."
Allen is excelling at denying Durant the ball by crowding him and making the catches he does receive originate from farther out. With blazing quick hands, Allen also is either coming up with steals or deflections on entry passes or reaching in to disrupt Durant's rhythm as he goes into his move.
But Durant is right. The Grizzlies are gearing their entire team defense toward stopping him. When it's not Allen glued to Durant, it's forward Tayshaun Prince, who isn't as physical but is using his length to contest Durant's shots like few can.
Additionally, when Durant receives a ball screen at the top of the floor, Memphis' secondary defender, generally Zach Randolph, is flat out ignoring the screener and sticking with Durant to force him to pass.
If Durant is able to beat what then amounts to a double team off the dribble, a wall of defenders, led by Marc Gasol, the newly crowned Defensive Player of the Year, are waiting in the paint to contest shots or draw a charge. This played out with 39 seconds remaining in Game 3, when the Thunder trailed by four and Durant drove by Allen and a retreating Prince before getting the benefit of the doubt on a bang-bang blocking call on Gasol.
The most worrisome part of it all is that the Grizzlies' defense on Durant doesn't appear to be a fluke. Not only has Durant been ineffective down the stretch for three straight games, but he also turned in a similarly stale performance in the same situation back in the final regular-season contest against the Grizzlies.
OKC lost by one in overtime on March 20 in large part because Durant in the fourth quarter and overtime scored just seven points on 3-for-10 shooting with two assists.
Two months later, history is repeating itself.
And without Westbrook around to alleviate some pressure, the Grizzlies' late-game defense on Durant has become the Thunder's latest and greatest problem.
Thunder vs. Grizzlies
When: 8:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Chesapeake Energy Arena
TV: TNT (Cox 31/HD 722, DirecTV 245, Dish 138, U-Verse 108/HD 1108).
Radio: WWLS 98.1-FM, WWLS 640-AM
Three things to know
* After winning Game 1, the Thunder has lost three straight.
* In Monday night's Game 4 overtime loss at Memphis, the Thunder scored just three points on 1-for-8 shooting in the overtime period.
* Only eight of 194 teams in NBA playoff history that have been down 3-1 have advanced.
Projected starters
Thunder (1-3)
G;Reggie Jackson;6-3;13.7;4.5;3.5
G;Thabo Sefolosha;6-7;5.8;4.5;2.1
F;Kevin Durant;6-9;31.8;9.1;6.3
F;Serge Ibaka;6-10;12.4;8.4;0.8
C;Kendrick Perkins;6-10;2.2;3.8;0.7
Grizzlies (3-1)
G;Mike Conley;6-1;18.1;4.6;7.3
G;Tony Allen;6-4;11.1;6.1;1.6
F;Tayshaun Prince;6-9;7.4;4.3;2.5
F;Zach Randolph;6-9;18.9;8.8;1.9
C;Marc Gasol;7-1;19.1;8.0;3.2


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Update on CarolyneCarolyne is 33 years old, married, and has been blessed with two children. She is very hard-working and also relies on her husband's salary.
She used her previous loan to renovate her business premises, where she carries on business selling groundnuts. She has been in business for the past 16 years. Thanks to Faulu Kenya, she has provided a better lifestyle for her family.
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Previous Loan DetailsCarolyne is 32 years old, married and has two children. She sells groundnuts to earn a living. She has been engaged in the business for 11 years and has employed one person. She has grown her business since she joined Faulu Kenya because she has been trained in business management skills. Sh... More from Carolyne's previous loan »
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About Faulu KenyaFaulu Kenya aims to empower Kenyans by providing relevant financial solutions. Faulu is a sustainable and profitable microfinance institution that offers savings and credit services to over 225,000 Kenyans. Faulu recently became the first MFI in Kenya to be licensed as a Deposit-Taking Micro-Finance Company, which will enable Faulu to better serve its clients.
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Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
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LONG BEACH, Calif. - Long Beach State men's water polo player Nolan McConnell will be competing with the USA Water Polo Men's Junior National Team in the 17th FINA World Men's Junior Water Polo Championship. The 16-team tournament will be held in Szombathely, Hungary August 12-18. McConnell will have a familiar face on staff as former LBSU Graduate Assistant Athletic Trainer Matt Brandt recently joined the USA Water Polo athletic training staff.
As a true freshman, McConnell was third on the team with 47 goals on the season as Long Beach State finished fifth in both the MPSF Tournament and national rankings. The Laguna Beach, Calif. product earned All-MPSF Honorable Mention his first year thanks to a 1.52 goals per game average along with 15 multi-goal matches.
The men's junior national team will open against Spain on August 12 before facing off against Slovakia. USA will then conclude Group C pool play versus Russia.
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Posted By Ethel Navales On August 16, 2013 @ 10:31 pm In Health & Lifestyle,News | Comments Disabled
Earlier this week, actor Kal Penn put himself in the line of fire.
A federal judge had ruled that the Stop and Frisk Policy was unconstitutional and called for the New York Police Department to create a policy specifying where stops would be authorized. Many people fear that the Stop and Frisk policy would simply create an opportunity for racism, but Kal Penn seemed to disagree.
Penn shared a New York Post op/ed which argued for the benefits of the policy:
Needless to say, the public was outraged and saddened by this support. Tensions rose further when Penn responded to a particular statement concerning the Black and Latino community.
After days of enduring the public outrage, Kal Penn decided to speak up and share his side of the story:
"Twitter is great for communicating with fans, and for hearing new perspectives. Twitter sucks when you're trying to explain your views on something complicated and nuanced that needs more than 140 characters. Or so I've learned.
Obviously, I am not a constitutional lawyer (and have never played one on TV). These days I tweet mostly about tacos and acting, but on Tuesday, I tweeted a link to Mayor Bloomberg's op/ed on the "stop & frisk" decision, and in a matter of minutes I became a racist asshole who deserves to eeaaaat shiiiiiiiit. Huh?…"
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Three days after the terrible fire at Kings Cross, which I'd been asked to investigate as solicitor for four firemen involved, I visited the Tube station. Nothing I'd previously experienced could have prepared me for the sights and smells left by the devastation and terrible human tragedy of the fire: twisted, unrecognisable metal, charred wooden remains, walls completely black from smoke and flames.
Incongruously, trains still ran through the lower level, apparently untouched by the wreckage above.
During the following weeks, I listened to the stories of victims, distraught relatives, firefighters and Tube staff. I sat through months of the public inquiry as the story of management failure and incompetence was slowly revealed: the failure of London Underground to learn from previous fires on the Tube; the inadequate protective clothing issued to firefighters, exposing them to burns as their plastic leggings and gloves melted in the heat.
But what struck me as outrageous was that, while London Underground eventually accepted responsibility for compensation, neither it nor its managers faced criminal charges over those 31 deaths in 1987.
Even now, when I use Kings Cross Tube station and pass the memorial to the fire's victims, it sends a shiver down my spine. I passionately believe we must address the injustices and legal loopholes revealed by the inquiry and the many disasters since.
I was something of a campaigning lawyer, and involved in politics as a local councillor. Perhaps it was in the blood, in that my grandfather, father and mother had all been coun-cillors.
Indeed, my father was killed in an accident while on council business when I was 11, and this might subconsciously have influenced my decision to become a personal injury lawyer in the first place.
Shortly after Kings Cross, I was one of a small group of lawyers who formed a new organisation - the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers - which, perhaps unusually for the legal profession, had the prime object of putting accident victims first and foremost. Over the years, we've built a powerful lobby for those hurt or bereaved through no fault of their own. My fight for victims' rights has involved me in arguments with Ministers and MPs, and a successful battle in the House of Lords to prevent the cutting of compensation for victims of crime.
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Police investigating rabbit deaths in Vt. townFebruary 16,2013ST. JOHNSBURY Police are investigating the deaths of 13 adult rabbits found in a garage in St. Johnsbury.
Police said Tuesday 28 living rabbits also were in the garage, 13 of them babies. The Caledonian-Record reported that the rabbits belong to a resident who rents an apartment on the property. They havent released that persons name.
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Why Can't Everyone Get Decent Cancer Treatment in This Country
Byline: JOHN DIAMOND
ACCORDING to the Royal College Of Physicians, Britons are dying through a lack of sufficient cancer specialists to treat them with chemotherapy.
If only that was the worst of it.
On a Thursday evening getting on for four years ago, I was diagnosed with cancer.
By Friday, I was back in the hospital lying under a scanner. By early the following week, I saw a consultant surgeon who specialised in my sort of cancer, was booked into an NHS hospital bed, spoke to an expert radio-therapist and was given a list of options which my treatment could take.
Apart from the diagnosis itself, none of this came as much of a surprise. After all, cancer is serious stuff. It kills people. It will probably, and despite all, eventually kill me.
It made perfect sense that the doctors, nurses, radiologists and ancillary staff should take the illness as seriously as I did myself.
I assumed that whatever well-publicised ravages the NHS had undergone in its various incarnations, cancer patients could still rely on it to do the decent thing when the cancerous crunch came.
As the treatment progressed, I started writing about it in the newspapers on the reasonable assumption that the treatment I was getting was much the same
as the treatment any man of my age with my condition would get.
I would write that a new tumour was suspected, and that I'd been sent for a scan two days after the suspicion was raised. Or once the scan turned out to be positive, that I'd been booked in for an operation to remove it a couple of days later.
I wrote that I was being considered for chemotherapy, and could also say I'd be seeing the oncologist the following week, and starting treatment shortly after that.
And then the letters started to arrive - letters from desperate cancer patients and their relatives asking how come I was getting such special treatment?
I was bewildered. What special treatment? I was getting the treatment a man with cancer needs. The treatment without which he will die.
But what do you know? It turns out that the treatment I'm getting really is special. Not, as it happens, because I'm a journalist or a BUPA subscriber, but because of the geographical accident which has me living in Notting Hill, West London, up the road from one of the world's best specialist cancer centres.
For God help you if you contract cancer and don't live there, too.
Imagine, for a moment, being a GP. A man comes into your surgery with a worrying lump, a persistent sore throat or one of the other symptoms which could be an early sign of cancer.
You tell him the possibilities, and that you'll have to refer him to a specialist. He needs to be scanned, a biopsy taken, tests run.
Except you know the earliest he's likely to be given a scan is in six months' time, and the waiting list for something as routine as a biopsy is just as long.
Moreover, you know that
if it is cancer, those six months can easily be the difference between life and death.
That isn't journalistic hyperbole: leave a cancer to its own devices for six months, and it can turn from operable to inoperable.
It doesn't matter how many oncologists are trained and waiting with drugs, if patients are waiting for that length of time, they can easily pass beyond the help of the most skilled medics. …


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Sundance Channel Adds "Die Mommie Die" to Theatrical Film Series
by James Israel
The Sundance Channel has added a third film to its new theatrical film series. Mark Rucker's feature, "Die Mommie Die," which premiered in the dramatic competition at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, will have a 10-city release this fall. The film, described by the channel as "an ode to the Ross Hunter-style big screen soaps of the '60s," stars theater veteran Charles Busch as Angela Arden, a fallen pop diva who is having an affair with a tennis pro/gigolo/failed actor, played by Jason Priestley.
"Charles Busch and Mark Rucker have achieved a stylish and hilarious adventure made with a clear and creative vision," said Sundance Channel SVP of film programming Paola Freccero in a prepared statement. "It is this combination of qualities that makes the film a perfect fit for the Sundance Film Series and we are excited to bring it to audiences nationwide." Other films announced for the Sundance Film Series are Mark Decena's Sundance 2003 competition entry "Dopamine" and Michael Winterbottom's Berlinale 2003 winner "In This World."


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This chocolate tiramisu recipe is what I dream of !
Tiramisu is one of the most popular desserts originally from the Veneto, and it literally means " Pick me up " or " Carry me up "
It is rummored to have been created in a restaurant called " Le Beccherie " and eaten by the ladies who " worked " in the brothel above the restaurant. Imagine that! How is that for a little history lesson ? 😉
My absolute favorite dessert in the entire world, and I like to make it every chance I get. Not only because of the espresso kick but especially because there's no baking involved. My kind of dessert for sure !
If you are a coffee lover and a chocolate lover, I promise you that my Chocolate Tiramisu recipe will take you to Cloud 9 and tantalize your taste buds. Not to brag or anything, but this tiramisu recipe is so much better than any fancy restaurant I've ordered it in so far.
- ¾ c heavy cream+1 Tbs cane sugar
- 4 egg yolks+ 4 Tbs cane sugar
- ¾ lb mascarpone cheese
- aprox 5 oz ladyfingers
- 4 espresso shots + 1½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1.5 oz dark chocolate squares – grated
- 2 tbs cocoa powder
- the seeds from 1 vanilla bean
- Whip the cream + 1tbs sugar in your kitchen aid mixer until it forms stiff peaks and set to side.
- In a different bowl mix the egg yolks and sugar together until creamy. Drop in the mascarpone cheese by spoonfuls and continue mixing on low speed until everything is incorporated and creamy.
- Fold in the whipped cream and the vanilla seeds and start assembling your Tiramisu.
- Use 5 small glasses and start by gently dipping each ladyfinger in the espresso and vanilla mixture (don't soak the ladyfingers, just a gentle brush), and layer them on the bottom of each glass . Top with some of the creamy cheese mixture, cover with grated chocolate and repeat with one more layer of ladyfingers. Spread the rest of the cream filling on top and sift the cocoa on the top like a thin blanket.
- Finish with a layer of grated dark chocolate on the top and chill in the refrigerator for 2-4 hours before serving.


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I belong to serveral Senior Centers. At one of them we was asked to knit or crochet items for preemie baby's.
I met a lady named Linda who started calling hospitals to see if they could use help with items for preemie baby, and several were thrilled.
She started with about six ladies and now has over one hundred. The ladies crochet or knit at home and she lets us know when she will be picking them up and then takes them to hospitals in different areas.
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- St. Lucia excursion in tropical island forest
- Bike ride down lush, tropical forest trails
- Hike to Sault Falls and swim in St. Lucia's most scenic waterfall
- Refreshments, hotel or pier pickup and drop off included
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From there, you'll mount bikes and peddle over the rough dirt of lush forest trails on your way to one of St. Lucia's most beautiful natural treasures, the roaring majesty of Sault Falls! Hike the falls, swim in their pool and enjoy tropical fruits and other refreshments. Keep an eye out for parrots!
Enjoy a refreshing drink before returning to your hotel.
Customer Reviews
August 2011
Enjoyed the ride as well as the nature aspect - learning about the native plants. Our guides were great!
February 2013
We enjoyed the bike ride and are glad we did it. Although you are in a Rainforest, it doesn't necessarily feel that way. You are riding on a road rather than a trail. The last 10 minutes was on a trail that made you feel like you were in a rainforest. This is not for novice bike riders. There are two hills, one most everyone pushed their bikes up. I put my bike in the lowest gear and made it up the hill, but I have ridden mountain bikes for years. The bikes were not in very good condition. Within 5 minutes the chain came off my bike. Someone else had a wheel issue. My wife had issues with her gears. The waterfall was a bust. There hadn't been any rain for a week and the waterfall was non-existent, just a very small trickle of water. The guide was great. He stopped several times to talk about the various trees and plants. He opened a coconut and let us sample it. Overall a good tour.
December 2011
The bike ride was very short but strenuous at times. They showed different plants and natural spices along the way. The waterfall was beautiful and a nice dip after the bike ride. This trip is NOT for beginner riders. There is really no hiking involved.
September 2011
The bike tour in the rain forest was fun, however, between the hills, the heat and the humidity, it was very strenuous. Strong cyclists will love it, while a novice might need to ride the bus up the hills. The downhill was fun, but the trail is still washed out in sections from the rain which made going too fast dangerous. Once we left the bikes and hit the waterfall the fun really began (in my opinion). The waterfall decent was not too steep nor too long and once you arrived it was the perfect refreshment to the strenuous uphill bike ride. The water was cool and the guides were very hospitable. They opened coconuts and took pics of everyone with our cameras. All in all I would recommend it - just be sure you are physically fit enough to climb the hills.


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- Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits- This website presents the inaugural exhibition of the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The portraits that make up the exhibition span 150 years. The title is drawn from an address delivered on August 16, 1843 by the abolitionist clergyman Henry Highland Garnet to a group of free blacks in the North who had gathered to discuss the future prospects of their community.
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- "With An Even Hand" Brown v. Board at Fifty
- Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent
- African American Alumni Oral Histories ( University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee )
- African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship
- African American Oral History Collection ( University of Louisville )
- African American Sheet Music, 1820-1920 - a selection from the over 500,000 pieces in the Sheet Music Collection at Brown University, with a concentration on the period 1840-1950.
- African American Web Connection(AAWC)
- African American Women in Iowa Digital Collection
- African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
- African Art, African Voices
- African Diaspora Archaeology Network
- African Elections Project
- African-American Band Music and Recordings
- Africans in America - Intended as a teaching adjunct to a six-hour public television series covering the history of slavery in the US from its beginning to the end of the Civil War, this well-organized site is divided into four sections. The first, The Terrible Transformation, deals the period between 1450 and 1750, followed by The Revolution (1750-1805). Brotherly Love (1791-1831) illuminates the world of the free blacks using the Philadelphia community as an example. The last section, Judgment Day (1831-1865) traces the more familiar story of slavery during the years leading up to and during the Civil War.
- Afro-Louisiana History and Genealogy 1719-1820
- AFSCME, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike
- An Address to the Colored Citizens of the United States by John B. Meachum (Philadelphia, 1846)
- American Promise: POV
- Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History
- Ancient Manuscripts from the Desert Libraries of Timbuktu, Library of Congress
- Artists in Dialogue: António Ole and Aimé Mpane
- Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: African-Americans-- Biography, Autobiography and History
- Benin-Kings and Rituals: Court Arts from Nigeria
- Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries : African Americans in Civil War Medicine
- Black Americans In Congress
- Black Europeans
- Black Grooves : Archives of African American Music and Culture
- Black History at Harpweek
- Black Members of the United States Congress, 1879 - 2004
- Boston African Americana Project
- Booker T. Washington Papers
- Booker T. Washington's West Virginia Boyhood
- Boston Abolitionists 1831-1865
- Carnegie Hall: Honor! A Celebration of the African American Legacy
- The Civil Rights Movement and the Black Experience in Miami
- Discovering African American History in Rural Ohio: Knox County Black History Digital Archives
- Documenting the American South: The Church in the Southern Black Community
- Documenting the American South : Oral Histories
- Doris Ulmann Photograph Collection
- Du Bois Central
- Eubie Blake Collection, The - European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
- Explorations in Black Leadership
- Free At Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries
- The Friend of Man ( 1836-1842 )
- From Slavery To Freedom: The African American Pamphlet Collection 1822-1909
- George Washington Carver
- Grass Roots: African Origins of An American Art
- Harlem History
- Images of the Antislavery Movement in Massachusetts
- In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
- Independent Lens: Banished -- American Ethnic Cleansings
- I've Known Rivers: The MoAD Diaspora Stories Project
- Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
- James B. Duke Memorial Library: Archives
- Job Sprawl and the Spatial Mismatch between Blacks and Jobs
- Land of ( Un) Equal Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Lest We Forget: The Triumph Over Slavery
- Let Your Motto Be Resistance: African American Portraits
- Mapping the African American Past
- Negroes With Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power
- New Philadelphia: A Multiracial Town on the Illinois Frontier
- Paul Revere Williams Project
- Postcards from Manhattan: The Portrait Photography of Carl Van Vechten
- Race, Immigration and America's Changing Electorate
- Rising Up:Hale Woodruff's Murals from Talladega College
- Rochester Black Freedom Struggle Online Project
- Say It Plain: A Century of Great African American Speeches - Read or listen to transcripts of speeches by famous African Americans.
- Science Update: African American Scientists
- Slave Narratives
- Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 - This contains over a hundred pamphlets and books concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. This site is searchable by key word or browse by subject, author, or title index.
- Sonja Haynes Stone Center Library for Black Culture and History Guide to the Web
- Southern Poverty Law Center - The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded a quarter of a century ago for the purpose of winning equal rights for minorities and poor people through legal action. Today the Center continues to pursue action against those who would attack the freedoms of others, while also promoting tolerance, understanding, and justice through education and publicity. This site is well organized and leads the user to a wealth of material related to civil rights and civil liberties.
- State of Siege:Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movement
- The Black Renaissance in Washington, D.C., 1920s-1930s
- Swag Diplomacy: Black Travel Memoirs
- The Blues, Black Vaudeville, and the Silver Screen, 1912-1930s
- The Civil Rights Digital Library
- The Humphrey Winterton Collection of East African Photographs: 1860 - 1960
- The Lloyd L. Gaines Collection
- The Negro Traveler's Green Book, Spring 1956
- The New Great Migration: Black Americans' Return to the South, 1965-2000
- The Road Not Traveled: Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa
- The State of Public School Integration: Brown vs. Board of Education at 50
- The Underground Railroad: The Struggle Against Slavery
- This Far By Faith: African American Spiritual Journeys
- Through the Lens of Time: Images of African Americans from the Cook Collection of Photographs - Over 300 images from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, taken primarily in the Richmond and Central Virginia areas.
- Thurgood Marshall Law Library: Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights -An online full-text database of all publications issuied by the Commission between its beginning in 1957 and 2010.
- Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database
- Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: a Multimedia Archive
- Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson -Created as a companion to the documentary film on Johnson by Ken Burns, this site both discusses the film project and gives detailed background on the Progressive era and its at titudes.
- The University of Iowa Libraries: Patrobas Cassius Robinson Collection
- Virginia Black History Archives
- The Voyage of the Slave Ship Sally, 1764-1765
- Walter Gordon Collection of Photographs
- We Shall Overcome
- Wilbur "Buck" Clayton Collection
- Witness: Black History
- Writings of Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- African Press Network for the 21st Century
- African Union
- Association of Black Psychologists
- Association of Black Sociologists
- Congressional Black Caucus
- Nation of Islam
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- NAACP: A Century in the Fight For Freedom
- National Black Justice Coalition-Since 2003, the Coalition has provided leadership at the intersection of mainstream civil rights groups and mainstream LGBT organizations, advocating for the unique challenges and needs of the African American LGBT community that are often relegated to the sidelines.
- National Urban League
- Organization of Black Screenwriters
- U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
- United Negro College Fund
Journals and News Services
- African Journals Online - A database currently featuring 271 scholarly journals published in Africa, in a variety of disciplines. Abstracts are available for all articles.
- African Studies Quarterly: The Online Journal of African Studies
- allAfrica
- BAD Times ( Black Americans for Democracy )
- Callaloo
- Freedom's Journal (1827-1829) - The first African-American owned and operated newspaper in the United States
- Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies
- The Black Collegian Online
- The Crisis - "The Crisis is the official magazine of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). [Today it] continues as a current-affairs journal, and a recent digitization project sponsored by Google has made the complete run of the publication." -- from the Scouting Report, Dec. 18, 2009.
- The North Star: A Journal of African-American Religious History
- Western Journal of Black Studies Online Journal
- African Journals Online - A database currently featuring 271 scholarly journals published in Africa, in a variety of disciplines. Abstracts are available for
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Afrocentric and Genealogical Sites
- African National Congress
- Afrigeneas - "A mailing list focused on genealogical research and resources in general and on African ancestry in particular"
- University of Pennsylvania: African Studies Center - E-journals/news services
- Unknown No Longer ( Virginia Historical Society )- A unique database of Virginia slave names which reaches back to the 1690s.
Research Centers
American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library
Amistad Research Center (Tulane University)
Been Here So Long: Selections from the WPA American Slave Narratives - "Complete texts of seventeen of the 2,300 slave narratives collected as part of the Federal Writers Project".
Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South
Black Film Center/Archive - "A repository of films and related materials on African Americans."
Center for Black Music Research (CBMR)
Credo ( University of Massachusette )- This site from the University of Massachusetts Special Collections offers researchers full text access to the W.E.B. Du Bois Papers.
Dred Scott Digital Project
Internet Resources for African Studies
Legacies of British Slave-owners ( University College London )
Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers Project
Minority Health Archive
Museum of African-American History (Boston)
National African American Photographic Archive
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Our Shared History: Celebrating African American History and Culture
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Festivals and Culture
The Katherine Dunham Collection at the Library of Congress
The King Center: The Beloved Community
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Secondary documents written about Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as primary documents written during King's life.
The Roanoke Island Freedmen's Colony - During the Civil War, Union-occupied Roanoke Island, which lies between the North Carolina mainland and the barrier islands known as the Outer Banks, became home to thousands of former slaves. Initially, these refugees settled near the Union headquarters, creating a community that included churches and a school. In the spring of 1863, this camp evolved into a government-sanctioned colony. This site presents an introduction to the colony and the colonial experiment that was conducted there. It also features some primary sources and projects for students.
Ross Archive of African Images
University of Miami Libraries: Lydia Cabrera Papers
- African American Odyssey - The purpose of this virtual exhibition is to "give a comprehensive, rich picture of more than 200 years of African American struggle and achievement." This site is organized in nine sections, among them, Slavery, The Civil War, Reconstruction, Depression, New Deal, World War II, and Civil Rights.
- Association of African American Museums
- Black Loyalists - A digital collection of primary and secondary documents tracing the history of the African Americans who accepted the British promise (first stated by Lord Dunmore, royal governor of Virginia in a 1775 proclamation included in this collection) during the American Revolution that any slave of a rebel who came over to their side would be granted freedom and land. The 30,000 men and women who acted on this offer found themselves at war's end in Nova Scotia, and the promised land never materialized, leading many to emigrate to Sierra Leone.
- Black Wings: African American Pioneer Aviators - Housed at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, this colorful site traces the entry of African Americans into both civilian and military pilot corps. The first section begins with the story of Bessie Coleman, who became the first licensed black pilot in 1922 (although she had to study in France, and died young in 1926), and follows the growth of her successors up to 1934. The training provided at six black colleges and the Tuskegee Institute prior to World War II and the birth of the Tuskegee 99th Fighter Squadron in 1941 is covered in the second section. The 99th was joined by three other squadrons- the 100th, 301st and 302nd during World War II, where they combined into the 332nd Fighter Group, the famous ô Red Tails ô, whose colorful history is chronicled in the third section. The final death blow to segregation within the Armed Forces was given by President TrumanÆs Executive Order 9981, profiled in the final section.
- Cutting to the Essence, Shaping for the Fire. Yoruba and Akan Art
- Cycles: African Life Through Art
- Documenting Our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project -Charles " Teenie" Harris served as a staff photographer for the influential newspaper the PIttsburgh Courier from the 1930s to the 1970s and left a legacy of over 80,000 images of life in the city's African American community. This site offers access to the collection ( now housed at the Carnegie Museum of Art .)
- Henry O. Tanner
- National Civil Rights Museum (Memphis, Tennessee)
- Studio Museum in Harlem
- The Anacostia Musuem and Center for African American History and Culture
- Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
- African American Women Writers of the 19th century - This site makes available several dozen works, each text scrupulously reprinted with no posthumous editing, each preface intact, from 30 hitherto inaccessible volumes of 19th century African American women's literature. This site is well organized, providing search tools that allow the reader to search by title, author, and genre.
- The Coretta Scott King Book Awards
- Documenting the American South: North American Slave Narratives
- Historical Speeches
- Islamic Manuscripts from Mali
- Jackson Davis Collection - A collection of over 6,000 photographs of African American schools, teachers and students, taken in the first half of the twentieth century. Davis' goal was to show the terrible conditions in many black schools and how they could be improved. The collection is housed at the University of Virginia.
- Oxford African American Studies Center: Focus on Women and Literature
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- Reading Women Writers and African Literature
- The Zora Neal Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress - The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress present a selection of ten plays written by Hurston (1891-1960), author, anthropologist, and folklorist. Deposited in the United States Copyright Office between 1925 and 1944, most of the plays remained unpublished and unproduced until they were rediscovered in the Copyright Deposit Drama Collection.
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The Power EP
- Artists Alex Gori, Imerio Vitti
- Release Date 2013-04-29
- Labels Yuma
- Catalog YUMA013
- Description The new Yuma release is ready to hit the road. Alex Gori & Imerio Vitti made their first appearances on Yuma in 2 V.A. projects, but this time they hold the YUMA013 official EP, with "The Power". The guys are not new to cooperate together, as they put up collaborations released on labels like ViVa Music & Circle Music. They are actually 2 of the most growing and supported italy-based artists, as almost all the high profile djs, have played many of Alex & Imerio works. The result for this Yuma project, is a binome that will catch your attention since the first seconds of listening. Old-school mood and groove, catching melodies and basslines, rocking vocals, are the ingredients of both "The Power" & "Don't Care". Results are guaranteed on the dancefloor, listen and judge yourself.


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After exhausting herself by flying for hours, she eventually landed in Children's City. Everything about the place was disturbing to her, because here, at the sanctuary for children, was a place that was only slightly safer than outside. Spark was never a big fan of their leader either.They settled in a house that was abandoned, everything in it was previously looted.
Hey Minun
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The voice sounded much more sad than before.
Did Arc die alone? I took you right before he died didn't I...
The idea had bothered Spark for the entire flight. Had she abandoned her brother in his final moments in a fit of rage, what if he thought badly of her.
He died alone, yes
Spark sat down in the middle of the barren floor, and put her head on her knees.
She drifted into sleep, the only word on her mind,
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Rack-And-Pinion Steering Conversion - Rack 'Em UpWritten on October 14, 2008 Convert Your Vega-Style Steering To Rack-And-Pinion
Steering components, steering system design, and installation are not as glamorous of subjects as high-performance engines, the latest finishes, or the current upholstery trends. However, the components that make up your steering system are just as important as the brakes, suspension, shocks, and other less enticing parts that make up a good-handling street rod.
Early hot rods, as well has many traditional hot rods, utilize the early Ford F-1 and F-100 pickup truck steering box. If you are into the through-the-cowl side steering, you may be using the venerable race car steering box from Schroeder Racing Products, a worm-and-sector box, and while they serve the purpose they are still fairly hard to turn, and the heavier the automobile, the more effort it takes. Most worm-and-sector steering is of the push/pull variety, meaning the drag link runs parallel to the framerail and pushes and pulls the steering arm.
The next step up in steering came with the reciprocating ball steering boxes. Like the early Ford Mustang, the Corvair, and the highly popular Vega-style steering boxes, the reciprocating ball design is still a worm-and-sector, but ball bearings are encased in races that ride up and down the worm gear as the sector rotates, thus taking less effort to turn the wheels. While the Mustang and reversed Corvair boxes are used most often in street rods in a push/pull application, the Vega style introduced cross steering to the street rod arena. Unlike the push/pull design, the cross-steer system has the drag link running parallel to the tie rod or crossing from left to right; this design lessens the bumpsteer, which is prevalent in transverse front spring suspensions, and even more prevalent in the push/pull design.
European cars and performance cars began using the rack-and-pinion style of steering in the early 1950s, and American manufacturers eventually followed suit. Just as the name implies, the pinion gear rotates left and right and moves a rack-a straight piece of steel with teeth cut into it. The advantage of rack-and-pinion steering is a superior steering feel due to less play and a more direct action as the steering wheel is turned, rotating the pinion gear, and thus moving the rack to the left or right. OEM rack-and-pinion units consisted of a long rack, enclosed in a fairly long tube. These worked well on larger street rods and fullsize automobiles but were not easily adapted to early model street rods.
Now that has all changed, as the Unisteer division of Maval Manufacturing has designed a rack (half-rack) that is a direct replacement for the popular Vega-style steering box when used in a cross-steer application. While we were satisfied with our Vega-style steering, we decided to install a Unisteer rack-and-pinion unit in our '32 Ford highboy roadster. We wanted to find out if it was truly a bolt-on application, if it was really as simple to install as the literature states, and most importantly, if the rack-and-pinion unit improved the steering characteristics of our hot rod. Follow along as we track the time and effort involved in installing the unit and evaluate the results.
Some Notes Of Interest
The female coupler and the splined adapter shaft will not be required if you are installing the Unisteer unit in a new build. You can design your steering shaft(s) to connect directly to the Unisteer rack-and-pinion input shaft. You can order the Unisteer rack-and-pinion unit with or without the female coupler and the splined adapter shaft.
We found the standard 16-inch-long Unisteer drag link was too long or too short on a few installations, about 1 percent. Drag links are available from Unisteer 1 inch longer and 1 inch shorter than the standard 16-inch model. When ordering, supply the tie-rod length and the folks at Unisteer will get you the correct drag link.
We found the exhaust ran around the front of the engine and interfered with the rack-and-pinion assembly on one application. A call to the tech guys at Unisteer resulted in a mounting bracket that lowered the steering unit 1 inch, all we needed to clear the exhaust. In addition, Unisteer has both weld-on and chrome-plated brackets. Unisteer also manufactures a left-hand-drive unit for street rodders who drive on the left side of the highway (on purpose).
The installation was as simple as advertised, the steering is much quicker, and the feel of the road is much improved.
On the down side, the turning radius is less than with the Vega-style box. However, we can still get through the drive-through at the donut shop, turn corners, and perform the normal turning operations, so the quicker steering and the better road feel is well worth the trade-off.
Since we already had the car up on the lift (we have done installations with the car up on jackstands, as well) and were working on the steering, we decided to install a steering damper from the guys at SO-CAL Speed Shop. These shock-absorbing units are designed to absorb the bumpsteer that is prevalent in transverse front spring vehicles. The steering damper comes with stainless steel hardware, antiseize compound, and easy-to-follow instructions.
The installation requires disconnecting the forward or rear connection of the lower right front (passenger side) bar in four-bar applications or disconnecting the upper and lower connections of the hairpin radius rod. In either case, you must remove the clevis, rod end, or bushing in order to slide the damper mounting bracket over the radius rod. We marked the lower rod end, lock nut, and radius rod and counted the revolutions required to remove the rod end in order to reinstall it in the same location. We followed SO-CAL's recommendation and used new lock nuts when we reinstalled the radius rod.
The installation also requires removing the tie-rod end on the passenger side. Before removing the tie-rod end, we marked the tie rod, lock nut, and the tie-rod end itself. You must reinstall the tie rod into the steering arm in its original location (without moving the wheels) in order to keep the correct steering geometry. After we removed the tie rod from the steering arm, we removed the tie-rod end from the tie rod, counting the revolutions required to remove it. This gave us another reference to enable us to reinstall the tie rod in its original position. With the tie-rod end removed, we were able to slide the steering damper mounting clamp over the tie rod. The tie-rod end was then reinstalled into the tie rod, and the tie rod was reinstalled into the steering arm in its original position. After tightening the castle nut on the tie-rod end, we lined up the nut with the hole in the tie-rod end and installed a new cotter pin.
With the brackets installed on the car, we extended the damper to its fully extended position and measured the full length of travel. We then marked the damper shaft at the half-travel mark and closed the shaft to that mark. This is the installed position of travel. We mounted the radius-rod end of the damper to the installed clamp after applying antiseize compound to the bolts and followed suit with the tie-rod end, making sure we installed the supplied spacer. Saving the lock nuts for final installation, we used standard nuts and tightened the clamps. We then turned the wheels fully in both directions, ensuring the unit did not interfere with any components and did not run out of travel before the wheels were at the fully locked left and right positions. With no interference issues and plenty of free travel in the steering damper, we removed the regular nuts and replaced them with the supplied lock nuts.
The steering damper installation took about an hour and a half. SO-CAL recommends the frontend be realigned by a professional alignment shop after installation to ensure proper steering geometry.
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The next step was to remove the nut that connects the drag link tie-rod end to the pitman arm at the steering box. After removing the nut, we applied some protective tape, tapped the pitman arm with a hammer, and the tie-rod end came free. Again, you may need to use a pickle fork if the fit is extremely tight. (7 minutes)Next, we loosened the setscrews at the steering shaft universal joints and were able to slide the steering shafts up and disconnect the lower universal joint from the Vega-style steering box input shaft. We then removed the three fasteners holding the Vega-style steering box in place and removed the steering box. (16 minutes)The Unisteer rack-and-pinion steering kit comes complete with fastening hardware, drag link, adapter shaft, roll pins, female coupler, and even the bit to drill the adapter shaft for roll pin installation.With the Unisteer unit located in its center position, the unit was bolted on to the frame bracket that held the Vega-style steering box with the supplied hardware. (5 minutes) Note that the Unisteer unit is in the center position when purchased. A paint mark indicates this position; you can verify the center position by measuring the rack from the rail side of the bracket to the end of the left-side rack bellow. This dimension should be 2.125-inch.We loosened the jam nut and removed the left-handed thread tie end from the original drag link. After coating the threads of the tie-rod end with antiseize and installing the jam nut, the tie-rod end was installed in the drag link supplied with the Unisteer kit with half of the tie rod threads inside the drag link. (14 minutes)Antiseize was applied to the Unisteer output shaft of the rack, and the drag link was installed with half of the output shaft threads inside of the drag link. The drag link was then adjusted to have equal amounts of threads on each end and to line up with the steering arm without moving the wheels. After lining up the tie-rod end with the steering arm, the castle nut was torqued to the suggested specification, and a new cotter pin was installed. The jam nuts on each end of the drag link were then tightened. (17 minutes)The female coupler was installed on the splined input shaft of the steering box, and the pinch bolt was slightly tightened. The splined adapter shaft was then slid into the universal joint on the steering shaft(s); the required length was calculated and the splined shaft was marked accordingly. (15 minutes)We set up the female coupler and the splined adapter shaft in a drill press vise. Using the 1/4-inch drill bit supplied in the Unisteer kit, we drilled a hole approximately half an inch from the edge of the coupler, through the center of the female coupler and the splined adapter shaft. (20 minutes)
We installed the supplied 1/4-inch roll pin through the female coupler and the splined adapter shaft after drilling the hole. Following that, we installed the supplied roll pin that was designed to press-fit into the already installed 1/4-inch roll pin. (10 minutes)The female coupler was then installed on the input shaft of the Unisteer unit, and the pinch bolt was tightened. The steering shaft was lined up with the splined adapter shaft and installed with the steering wheel in the straight-ahead position. The universal joint setscrews and jam nuts were then re-installed. (26 minutes)The job was complete after checking that the steering turned lock to lock with no interference, and making sure everything was tight and secure. (5 minutes)This is the installed Unisteer rack steering box viewed from the top. It took 2 hours and 45 minutes, not counting coffee breaks, finding tools, and the other tasks that often turn a simple job into an all-day affair.The SO-CAL steering damper comes complete with stainless steel hardware, stainless steel clamps, antiseize compound, and a simple set of instructions.We marked the rod end, the jam nut, and the radius rod tube prior to removing the rear rod end of the passenger-side, lower radius rod. These register marks will allow us to reassemble the radius rod in its original position. We also counted the revolutions required to remove the rod end as an additional method to ensure the radius rod was reassembled in its original position.The steering damper clamp was slid over the radius rod after the rod end was removed, and the radius-rod end and jam nut were reinstalled in the radius rod in their original position. The radius rod was then re-attached.A similar procedure was performed to install the steering damper clamp on the tie rod. Note that you should not move the wheels when re-installing the tie-rod end into the steering arm.The supplied antiseize compound was applied to the bolts, and it was installed with the steering damper closed to the half-travel mark, using regular nuts, for a trial fit. After ensuring there was no interference and the damper travel was sufficient, we removed the standard nuts and utilized the supplied lock nuts for the final assembly.


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What are power numbers/targets that would help in pursuit or chasing? Is that based on 5min power? 1min power? I'd like to be able to do this a lot better...
What are power numbers/targets that would help in pursuit or chasing? Is that based on 5min power? 1min power? I'd like to be able to do this a lot better...
-Cat-3-o-meter: TBD :/
Looking at the MMP graph that Coggan talks bout in the book, he says to measure it on a weekly basis(taking an average for the week).
I don't get how this makes any sense because if my training calls for long rides of tempo or threshhold work or sprinting then its going to skew the cart. It's going to look like I'm improving/going down when in fact its just training. Am I just looking at the peaks? I mean if I do one day of sprints and I can do 1400W 5s, then I dont do sprints the rest of the week and I avg the 5s: 1400, 700, 900, 800, 500??
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I'd say shoot for 2000W 1 min just to be on the safe side.
You are way overthinking this stuff. You are looking for specifics when it seems like you don't understand the basics.
First start with a good FTP test. If you raced on Sunday, do it on a Tuesday after a recovery day on Monday. Use the same course, same time of day, same conditions. The course doesn't have to be perfect like a velodrome. Mine is a rolling out and back so I have a flip turn in the middle. Works just fine.
Then plan on one minute tests and five minute tests. Same as above. One test each day. You can get some work in after the short tests each day but it should be under tempo. If you did them right you will feel shattered for 20 minutes or so afterwards but you should be recovered enough to ride a little if you want. Testing is training.
Run your intervals against your test data. Do them after rest days, but be sure to do them after hard days as well so that you can work on these efforts when you are tired. That is the more realistic race scenario.
I don't use Training Peaks but even if I did I would not be looking at my MMP every week. What are you expecting, to gain measurable watts every week? That's unrealistic. There are too many variables. If you are going to look at MMP, look at it after your first race after the rest week after a training block.
Not trolling per se, just a smart ass way of saying what shovel said. I feel you're over thinking this.
I guess its just better to test max, 5s, 1min, 5min, 20min, etc every 6-8 weeks or w/e and then track progress that way. I was just trying to see how Coggan/Hunter go about it in the book.
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You don't need to test every 6-8 weeks. Get a good test at the beginning of the season to set your zones, then test again as I suggested to you above. Once you have some form you can adjust a little bit without testing. Interval performance is a good indicator. If you are finishing them and you still feel like you can do more, it's probably time for a bump.
Also this is kind of meant more for road races with hills which I plan to do in the future. I'm just getting my fitness back with these flats/crits/etc.
-Cat-3-o-meter: TBD :/
"if you ride it the way it's meant to be ridden there's no way any wife is less of a ***** than a bicycle." - gstein
Working on 5 minute power is good for everything.
Will ingesting NOS increase my power output?
Is trick from science!
Eta: it's generally easier to just not get dropped.
Do you think we're gonna make it? / I don't know unless we try \ you could sit here scared to move / or we could take them by surprise


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Only days after celebrating the 40th anniversary of his ascension over Babe Ruth on the all-time home run list, Hank Aaron is again the target of racist Neanderthals.
In an interview published in USA Today, the former major league slugger said, "Sure, this country has a black president, but when you look at a black president, President Obama is stuck with his foot in the mud from all of the Republicans with the way he's treated.
"We have moved in the right direction, and there have been improvements, but we still have a long ways to go in the country. The bigger difference is that back then they had hoods. Now they have neckties and starched shirts."
From the reaction USAToday and the Atlanta Braves received, you would have thought Aaron had burned a baseball bat on David Duke's lawn.
Reporter Bob Nightengale wrote that the newspaper and the baseball team were inundated with literally hundreds of vitriolic letters, e-mails and phone calls full of vicious racist epithets.
I'll say one thing for these mental defectives. They slithered out from their hiding places in a timely fashion.
Not only was the 40th anniversary of Hammerin' Hank's record-breaking homer off Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Al Downing on April 8, 1974, in Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium being remembered fondly.
April 15 was Jackie Robinson Day, the date Major League Baseball had set aside to honor the Brooklyn Dodger who broke baseball's color barrier.
I remember reading the sports pages with horror when Aaron was getting close to Ruth's all-time mark of 714 home runs.
His daughter, Gail, did not feel safe walking around the campus of Fisk University in Nashville, where she was a student.
His elderly parents were getting weird phone calls at 3 a.m. at their home in Mobile, Ala.
The Braves were getting so many racist death threats through the mail (no e-mail back then) that the FBI was called in to investigate.
If you're saying to yourself that it couldn't happen today, tell that to the people mourning the deaths of their loved ones in Overland Park, Kan., where a white supremacist faces murder charges after allegedly opening fire at a Jewish community center and a Jewish retirement home, killing three people on April 13.
Aaron's comments merely acknowledge the fact that most of today's racists exercise their prejudice with politically correct coded language instead of the blatant use of the "n" word or with bullets and nooses.
Instead of spewing their venom publicly while people of a different race try to go to a school from which they had been banned, they disguise their racism with pretexts and loopholes in corporate boardrooms.
Over the decades, Aaron has been one of the most mild-mannered athletes in sports. He let his bat do his talking for him.
The fact that he received such a hateful reaction for speaking his mind now only underscores the need for more of us to keep speaking our minds.


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Union 56 Hillsboro 48. Bri Clark scored 32 points for the Lady Wildcats
Tyler Toffoli scored twice and the Kings held on late for a 3-2 win over the Blues at STAPLES Center. Kevin Shattenkirk and Vladmir Tarasenko each had a goal and assist for St.
Cardinals pitcher John Axford is now a free agent. St. Louis elected not to tender the veteran reliever a contract for 2014 before last night's deadline for unsigned players.
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Propensity for Participative Decision-Making, Job Satisfaction, Organizational Commitment, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, and Intentions to Leave among Egyptian Managers
Parnell, John A., Crandall, William, Multinational Business Review
ABSTRACT: Relationships among job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, propensity for participative decision-making (PPDM), and intentions to leave have been assessed in a number of studies of Western managers. However, there is a dearth of such research in non-Western organizations. This study examines these relationships among Egyptian managers and suggests prospective directions for additional research in the field.
Only a century ago, the exchange between employer and employee was relatively uncomplicated. Today, in addition to wages, Western employees often place high values on employer-provided health care, insurance, retirement, family services, and the like. Most scholars have found that the influence of benefits on outcome variables such as productivity, satisfaction and commitment differs from that of a relationship based solely on wages. As such, the need to examine the relationships among a variety of latent constructs has become more critical to achieving the goals of employers and employees, especially in the United States and other developed nations (Guzzo, Noonan, & Elron, 1992, 1994).
Although numerous empirical tests of management relationships appear in the literature, relatively little is known about these relationships in emerging countries (Honeycutt, Karade, Attia, & Maurer, 2001). Many elements of the present consensus developed from studies of Western firms may be directly applicable to developing countries. However, it is likely that differences in macroenvironmental factors-namely national culture-may render the commonly accepted notions of behavioral management philosophy inappropriate in many emerging nations (Guzzo, Noonan, & Elron, 1994).
The present study explores relationships among several key constructs-propensity for participative decision-making (PPDM), job satisfaction, organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, and intentions to leave-among Egyptian managers. Special emphasis is given to differences between Egyptian managers and those typically found in studies of their Western counterparts.
The remainder of this paper is divided into five sections. First, an overview of the Egyptian management environment is presented. Second, brief Western literature reviews of the five constructs are elaborated. Although the present study is exploratory in nature, propositions are developed in this section that consider relationships in the Egyptian environment. Third, the sample and statistical methods are discussed. Fourth, findings are presented and their implications discussed. Finally, conclusions and prospects for future research are elaborated.
The management environment in Egypt differs markedly from that in the West (Akande, 1991; Zoubir, 2000). Management in Egypt, like that in many other developing countries such as Taiwan, Singapore, and Thailand, is highly dependent on government allocations of resources (Steinberg, 1989). Hence, Egyptian management practice is difficult to investigate, since it cannot be explained solely in terms of individual firm conduct, but must also include the role of the nation-state (Braham, 1994; Ring, Lenway, & Govekar, 1990).
There appears to exist a serious lack of management research in the Middle East (Kozan, 1992). At least five factors may help explain this dearth. First, government restrictions often create barriers that add time and effort to the research process (Hatem, 1994). Studies in Egypt that involve primary data collection through field surveys, interviews, and opinion polls often, depending on their nature, require special and tedious governmental permission. Specifically, researchers must follow certain steps as specified by a myriad of government regulations. Cultural differences are often manifested in the differences in indicators used in scales designed to measure the same constructs. …


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Inside London 2012: The Olympic Park during the Games
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Our featured London blogger Andy Wilkes shares pictures of the Olympic Park during the Games.
What struck me most about the Olympic Park during Games time was the sheer amount of people. I know there had been 17,000+ workers on site during my four years, but not all at once. I used to be able to drive and wander around site and not see anyone except small pockets of workers getting on with their tasks.
I walked back into the site in July and couldn't believe my eyes - hundreds of thousands of people walking around taking all this in. Every time I heard someone say "where's the hockey arena?" or "what's the quickest way to the Aquatics?" I had to stop my self from jumping in and telling them.
I had been on site more than a thousand times by then and had walked it many, many times, but on Games days, I took my time walking about again soaking it all in and thinking: "I helped do this." A massive smile would stay on my face all day long.