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One of the Mariners' general manager candidates, a young, innovative, independent sort for the sake of this fantasy interview — let's say it's Dodgers assistant general manager Kim Ng — sits down for her first serious meeting with the team's CEO, Howard Lincoln, and president Chuck Armstrong.
Imagine the conversations going something like this:
LINCOLN: Welcome to Seattle, Kim.
NG: Thanks Howard. My colleagues from the Angels have told me what a hospitable place this has been for them. They like all the wins they've gotten here.
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ARMSTRONG: OK, let's get one thing straight from the start, Kim. I make the jokes around here.
LINCOLN: Let's cut right to the chase. I know you've studied our team. I know you know our woes. What's the answer?
NG: Not to sound like "Jeopardy's" Alex Trebek, Howard, but I'm going to couch my first answer in the form of a question. If I'm the general manager of the Mariners, will I have the authority to trade Ichiro?
LINCOLN (taking a sip from his mug, looks alarmed at the question and coughs his latte into a spray): Trade Ichiro?
NG: I'm not saying I would. I just want to know that I have that kind of autonomy. If I'm going to fix this team, I don't want to have to worry about what the absentee owners in Japan are thinking. If I don't have the power to trade Ichiro, I don't want the job. And no GM worth his or her salt will want it, either.
LINCOLN: Trade Ichiro?
NG: I think that is something you have to seriously consider. You guys are the charter members of the 100/100 Club. A $100 million-plus payroll and 100-plus losses. And that's with Ichiro getting close to 210 hits. He keeps getting 200 hits and you guys keep losing — 99 losses in 2004, 93 in '05, 84 in '06. Now this debacle.
LINCOLN (grimacing as he thinks about the conversation he would have with the Japanese ownership): Trade Ichy?
NG: Your most marketable player won't speak English in public. That's a problem. Your most veteran player won't take a leadership role in the clubhouse. That's an even bigger problem. I've read about the dissension in the room. I've read that the coaches had to intervene when they heard about the anger teammates felt toward Ichiro.
Look, whoever the players are who allegedly wanted to rough him up, or whatever, they should look at themselves in the mirror. They've got problems. But let's face it, Ichiro has become a lightning rod on this team, and I think you should at least see what his market value is.
He doesn't get on base enough. He isn't chasing down balls in the gap like he used to. I'm just saying that on a team that has such low production numbers, Ichiro isn't helping. He might be more valuable on a team that can win now.
ARMSTRONG (noticing that Lincoln is having trouble speaking, interrupts): You're right, we should consider trading Ichiro. Let's move on. What else would you suggest?
NG: Quit your little tap dance with agent Scott Boras and sign your first-round pick, Josh Fields. Geez Louise, you guys give starter Carlos Silva $40-some million and re-sign catcher Kenji Johjima for $24 million and you quibble over something like a half-million dollars for your closer of the future. No offense, but no wonder you lost 100 games.
LINCOLN (regaining his voice): We already have a closer, Kim. His name is J.J. Putz. We call the ninth inning, "Putz Domination Time."
NG: Ugh.
OK, here we go. I remind you of your pioneering entry into the 100/100 Club. This is going to be painful for you guys and for everyone who has invested so much emotion and hope over the past 14 seasons, but this team needs a major overhaul. The roster is a mess. The farm system is a mess.
Chuck, you were absolutely right to say the team wouldn't be throwing millions at glamorous free agents like CC Sabathia and Mark Teixeira. You have to build from within. You have to restock the farm. Drastically improve your scouting. As you both know, that takes time. And in the short term you'll lose some fans. But they'll come back. Your roots in this town are firmly planted.
And you have to trade some marketable players. Putz is one of them. Remember, this can't be about winning next year. It has to be about winning consistently, long term. You can always find a closer — Jarrod Washburn, maybe — while you wait for Fields to mature.
Dump sore-armed starter Erik Bedard. Call the trade with Baltimore what it was, an unmitigated disaster, and cut your losses. I told you this was going to be hard. Let left fielder Raul Ibanez go to a contender this winter.
And, as good as he is and as much of a leader as he has become, I think it's time to trade third baseman Adrian Beltre, because I don't believe he will re-sign with you guys after 2009.
So I'm proposing that if I were your GM, I would shop Ichiro, Putz and Beltre. I would look for young position players. Guys with pop who can play the corner positions — left, right, third and first. I'd go after prime prospects.
ARMSTRONG: You've told us what's wrong, but surely there is something you like about our team, isn't there, Kim?
NG: Young arms. You've got lots of good, young arms. If you can draft phenom Steve Strasburg, you could, by the end of 2009, have a rotation that includes Felix Hernandez, Brandon Morrow, Ryan Rowland-Smith and Strasberg. Maybe they could inspire a Silva. And I like that kid Phillippe Aumont for a rotation spot maybe even in 2010.
LINCOLN: I'm feeling a little lightheaded right now. Maybe we need to break for lunch. How about quickly giving us your top managerial candidate before we go and we can talk about him at lunch.
NG: Joey Cora.
ARMSTRONG (beaming): Now that's someone we can sell.
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The Artesanas come from the tiny town of Xepatuij and hold their weekly gatherings in the nearby city of Nahuala. Their group was formed 6 years ago but new members have been added over time.
The group has now 10 members and their work varies from weaving traditional blouses called huipiles, embroidering blouses with beautiful designs, sewing skirts, baking and selling bread, and weaving and selling the traditional reboso, a square piece of woven material the women use to carry their children and many other items.
The Artesanas women say that in the country, there is enough space to have business going but there is no clean water and electricity. The living conditions are hard. The city of Nahuala has fewer opportunities, but better living conditions. Working in a trust bank gives them the support socially and in their businesses. Besides that, they benefit from the additional trainings Friendship Bridge offers them.
Where there was no reason to leave the house before, their weekly gathering is a way to relax and is something to look forward to. Dominga T. says this helps to deal with their often difficult lives. Since she started attending the group meetings, she has made friends. The laughing and chatting brings joy to all of their lives.
The women of Artesanas sell their goods in the local market of Nahuala. Some of them have customers coming to their houses to place orders for the traditional skirts. Making a traditional skirt can take up to a week of work. At this moment, selling skirts and other clothes is difficult due to the rainy season when there is little demand.
Maria T. claims that most women stopped hoping to fulfill their own dreams; however, thanks to microfinance, now they can dream of creating opportunities for the next generation. One of the ladies proudly states that before there was not enough money to buy pencils, schoolbooks and bus fares. Now that they are working with Friendship Bridge, the children can go to school and do very well.
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About Friendship BridgeThis loan is administered by Friendship Bridge (FB), a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that empowers thousands of impoverished Guatemalan women through its Microcredit Plus program. The program combines small loans averaging US$350 for four-to-twelve month loan terms with non-formal, participatory education.
As FB clients, women start, expand, or diversify their businesses and learn practical lessons on topics including business, health, and self-esteem. FB's clients borrow as a group, forming Trust Banks (groups of 7-25 women who serve as co-guarantors of the loan and act as a self-regulating support network).
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Recently, Texas Sweethearts & Scoundrels featured me as one of their Sweethearts. How they came to the conclusion that, I'll never know. Anyway, if you would like to know a little bit more about a staff member who enjoys serving the Aldine area, then feel free to take a peek. The group consists of Texas writers and illustrators, who have come together to promote reading to all ages and I must say that it was fun to answer their questions.
As promised we have the finished art cart to show you. Come and see the cart in person when you visit our booth at this year's Houston Art Car Parade, May 22nd. Thanks to all the teens who worked on making this our best art cart yet. Even more thanks to the awesome video they made. Check it out!
Over the last few months the Aldine Branch Library has been fortunate enough to have its Spanish YA collection as much as it has. As a result we have moved the book to a location a bit more accommodating. So if you need help finding the new home for the collection then just ask any of our staff members.
Are these teens goofing around or are they working hard? Why can't it be both? The teens at the Aldine Branch Library are having a good time while working on a contest called, Why I Need My Library, sponsored by the American Library Association. The organization encourages teens to create original videos on why they think libraries are needed now more than ever.
Shooting has wrapped and the kids are now hard at work on post production. Be on the lookout for the final product in the coming weeks.
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Join us tomorrow as the Aldine Branch hosts Hip Hop 101. At 4:30PM we will be gathering in the YA area to listen to Paul Easterling, a professor of African American studies at the University of Houston. He will be sharing how hip hop has become a cultural phenomena, expression, and experience for African American people. See you there!
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The Ugly Bridge
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South of the abandoned Brown Lenox site, the canal re-emerges for a short stretch down to the back of the motorcycle shop on the A4054. Although the path itself is clear, the canal has become a bit overgrown. Read more about this set of photos on my blog.
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The Towpath South of Brown Lenox
The Ugly Bridge
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And now…David Donar's version of The 12 Days of Christmas…as featured on CNN.
In David's own words…
This is an animated video I did as part of CNN's 12 days of Christmas. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it. For some reason, animation and holidays go together pretty naturally. Maybe because there are not too many partridges in pear trees in the real world. My colleague Bruno DeGazio did the music and we both sang (very badly) in his recording studio.
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"The Golden Bridge is my greatest joy. With the Golden Bridge, I was not only a watchmaker, but I also became an inventor," says watchmaker and AHCI member Vincent Calabrese. When Corum launched the Golden Bridge in 1980 it was probably not yet foreseen that the model would become one of the pillars of the brand and eventually an icon of fine Swiss watchmaking. Yet in 2015, as Corum celebrates the 35 years of its mythical movement the Golden Bridge, that is what has happened. The exception Golden Bridge movement is comprised of 140 components arranged in a linear rectangle of 33 mm in length, 3 mm in width and less than 5 mm in thickness — a true masterpiece of micromechanics and distinctive design.
The "Miss Golden Bridge", obviously the ladies model, was launched at Baselworld 2015 for the first time in black ceramic, joining 11 other unique references in the line. This month, Corum has now launched a version white ceramic model is launched.
Corum Miss Golden Bridge in White Ceramic
21mm x 43mm white ceramic case (11.19mm thick), manual wind Corum Caliber CO 113 (40 hours power reserve, 4hz/28,800 vph)
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The troubles of the 1970s economy and the failure of neoclassical Keynesian formulas to resolve them led to renewed dissonance in economic theory and to competing public policy alternatives. On the one side came heterodox responses; on the other came challenges from a revived pre-1929, pre-Great Depression, pre-General Theory orthodoxy. For a new cohort of orthodox economists, the unraveling of the neoclassical synthesis consensus of the boom years also constituted an unraveling of the hitherto established wisdom of the older generation, an unraveling of Keynesian theory, and an unraveling of decades of Keynesian and interventionist public policies as such. The memory of 1929 was a half century past by 1979, thus setting the stage for a "new" approach that seemed novel largely because it had been relegated to intellectual byways for so long. To


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Overview of Downtown Atlanta
Like many city centers around the country, Downtown Atlanta has become an increasingly popular place for the young and hip to call home. It's an urban neighborhood of skyscrapers, sports arenas, and big businesses. You'll rub shoulders Downtown with Georgia State students, Coca-Cola executives, and government officials. All sorts head here to achieve their dreams. If bright lights and big city sound good to you, maybe you'll be happy renting a place in the center of the Big Peach.
Before it was Atlanta, the Downtown area was a town called Terminus; it was where the railroad completed its journey from the northern states. In the 1840s, a new name suggestion—"Atlantica-Pacifica"—was shortened to Atlanta, and so the city was christened. What citizens built here over the following twenty years, General Sherman ordered burned to the ground during the Civil War. Downtown Atlanta rebuilt from the ashes. By the 1920s, a central business district had formed. Today, this neighborhood serves as the center of the New South.
Downtown Lifestyle and Entertainment
Underground Atlanta, in the Five Points area, is where Downtown residents and tourists go to shop and eat and party the night away. The Mall at Peachtree Center is another option, with 60 shops and restaurants, plus a food court. The Georgia Dome is Downtown, home to the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. Philips Arena next-door hosts the Atlanta Hawks, the city's NBA team. The Georgia Aquarium here is the world's largest.
Woodruff Park is just one of many green spaces in the Downtown area. There, you can see the Phoenix Memorial commemorating Atlanta's rebirth following its Civil War incineration. Centennial Olympic Park is the largest park Downtown.
Downtown Info and the Rental Market
Due to new development, Downtown is blossoming with new condos, lofts, and apartments. Businesses are giving way to full time residents here. The average rent for a two-bedroom Downtown apartment is $1,339 a month.
This area is the transportation hub for the city of Atlanta. If you're heading out from Downtown, you'll have your choice of freeways, MARTA lines, and buses routes.
Downtown Resources
The Central Library and the Auburn Avenue Research Library of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System are both Downtown. You'll find a few different United States Post Offices in this part of Atlanta. Downtown is in Atlanta City Council districts 2, 3, and 5. Grady Memorial Hospital is on Jesse Hill Junior Drive.
Downtown Zip Codes
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Best Upon Request already has been through one successful leadership transition. In 2003, Tillie Hidalgo Lima took over the company her husband started and ran for 10 years.
Now 54, Hidalgo Lima has three daughters in the business. The company, which provides concierge services to time-starved employees at companies and organizations, already is thinking about its next succession plan, although Hidalgo Lima isn't leaving the business anytime soon.
Two of Hidalgo Lima's daughters – Jessica Lima Bollin and Natalie Lima Hall – have full-time roles at the company and have observed board meetings. Lima's youngest daughter, Sofia, isan on-call concierge.
Best Upon Request, which has 100 employees and is growing, created a board of advisers in 2005. It also created a family council and is in the process of creating a family charter.
That transparency offers lessons for other family businesses. Too often, experts say, families wait until the owner is in failing health to discuss what's next. The family went through the Next Generation Institute in 2011-12 at the Goering Center for Family and Private Business.
"We have a long runway," Hidalgo Lima said. "It's a journey."
Jessica Lima Bollin, the company's director of marketing and communications, said the experience validated Best Upon Request's succession planning and also offered a window into challenges other families face.
"I was so surprised about the whole communication piece; that was one of the foundations that they taught us. (Other families) would say a lot of the owners would not share things with them, or were so resistant so change," she said.
"It was nice to share how our company does it. We've been doing things that (other families) want to do. We're a little ahead of the game. Tillie has been learning from great people in the community about how to do it right."
There are still complications other companies don't have to face. Jessica reports to her mother. Natalie, whose title is manager, client and market insights, reports to Jessica and also gets feedback from Tillie.
Tillie said she frames discussions so her daughters know when she is speaking as the CEO, and when as their mother. Jessica and Natalie also understand when they're speaking as colleagues as opposed to sisters.
It's working so far, Natalie said.
"We work really well together. We confide in each other but can also be constructive with each other," she said. "It's also a challenge. There's a lot of tough love that happens, recognizing our weaknesses and challenging us to grow more."


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Service at the store nearest me has suffered. Either the pharmacy staff has to work these days or their attitude is less than great either way I am told each and every time....its an hour wait. I hope I never need pain meds. Texting is a nice touch, maybe they should ask if you have any questions right away then they can take their time and giggle all they want and never talk to a LIVE customer. BOLTA
If yolu went to my neighborhood Walgreens they call you by name, take your Rx and ask you if you want to wait for it. All with a smile. Of course, you tell them you're not in a rush because you plan ahead. Of course, you live by the motto, "Fail to plan, plan to fail." So, naturally, you make a plan, and don't wait until the last second to get meds. As you well know, "A lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine." I suggest if you need pain meds, you shouldn't wait until the last minute. Nonetheless, comparing WAG's pharmacy with that of Sam's Club, one quickly learns that the place is closed for lunch. Of course, that means no service - NONE. Couldn't get someone to "giggle" with their cute little smiles even if you wanted them to. TKHS


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International Shipping the Lifeblood of Global Economic Growth: As the Global Economy Goes, So Goes Shipping and Related Industries
Smith, Gavin, The RMA Journal
AFTER DECADES OF solid growth, the global shipping industry is facing tough times. The overall level of seaborne trade has slumped amid the current world economic downturn, and the supply of cargo space greatly exceeds demand. By February 2009, both global imports and exports had tumbled for seven straight months, the biggest collapse in world trade since the Great Depression.
The world's largest economies are experiencing a pullback in consumer spending due to rising unemployment and declining household wealth, compounding the problems in worldwide seaborne trade. The rapid rise and fall in world oil and other commodity prices, tight credit restrictions, and a significant oversupply of ships have created operating difficulties for the industry and forced shipping prices to plunge at an alarming rate. By mid-2008, it was already evident that the shipping bubble had burst, and recent trends have only exacerbated the decline.
Today, global seaborne trade totals nearly 8 billion tons, and sea transportation accounts for more than 90% of goods traded between countries. Shipping is the lifeblood of the U.S. and global economy. Without it, export countries would falter and importers would face desperate shortages. More fundamentally, much of the world would starve, societies would remain divided, and globalization would slow drastically.
Within the U.S. economy, the shipping industry affects a large number of upstream and downstream industries. It is a crucial link between the world economy and the national and local ones.
Significant operational challenges have disrupted the shipping industry's supply-and-demand chain. IBISWorld believes structural fault lines in the industry will lead to the transformation of many other industries in the current crisis. Once the world's economies begin to recover, the number of employees, levels of industry consolidation, and overall competition in shipping and related industries will look a lot different from the boom years.
This article will analyze the shipping industry's boom-to-bust period, including the relationship between world output growth and the demand for shipping.
From Boom to Bust
The global shipping industry expanded from revenue of $75.9 billion in 2001 to $148.3 billion at the end of 2008, an average 10.1% growth per year. Employment increased from 1.5 million to 1.6 million. This rapid growth in a very short time was supported by the industrialization of the Chinese economy, strong demand for shipped commodities (such as oils, ores, and grains), and buoyant developed-economy demand for cheap manufactured goods. The lifting and easing of trade restrictions around the globe also powered demand. On the supply side, advances in technology and vessel size made shipping an even more cost-effective form of cross-border goods transportation.
Over the past four decades, total seaborne trade has more than quintupled, expanding from less than 6,000 billion ton-miles in the mid-1960s to nearly 33,000 billion ton-miles at the end of 2007. (Shipping trade estimates typically are calculated in ton-miles--tons carried multiplied by distance traveled.) In 2007, the global shipping industry shipped about 8,020 million tons over a distance of about 4.11 million miles, close to 33,000 billion ton-miles of total trade (Figure 1). The year 2007 should be considered the peak for the sector.
For the U.S. shipping industry, which includes inland water and ocean water transportation, total annual revenue is set to drop 6.1% in 2009 to $28.6 billion--following a 4.7% fall in 2008. Over the two years that end in 2009, the percentage of job losses is forecast to be 3.9%. Hundreds of vessels will remain at dock as mines and manufacturers cut output. IBISWorld anticipates total manufacturing output will decline about 10% in 2009, and major shipping sectors like auto manufacturing are set to fall by a similar rate. …


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Kidnapping a train-load of children worth a king's ransom, a group of bandits hide deep in the Devil's Catacombs. But Skye Fargo could track the Devil himself, and he's determined to send these outlaws to Hell.
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Former Union Army captain Dane Bowman, an undercover troubleshooter for the railroad, stars in this first title of Lancer's Golden Spike trilogy. Returning to Kansas, Bowman goes up against a bandit chief and his men who are sabotaging the railroad with robberies and shootings.
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One man ruled the mountainside - and made a deal with the would-be railroad's competitors. If Simon Striker could stop the steel tracks, he could earn a fortune. Now a brawling, quarrelling crew of immigrant railroad workers - Chinese, Irish and Polish - are about to be swept into a death trap in the mountain. And as Striker unleashes his landslide of terror, treachery and murder, a tough Irishman and sword-wielding Chinese fighter are going after him - in a battle of courage and cunning on a mountain stained with blood.
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Lady gambler Mari Marshay decides to give it all up after a gunfight at her poker table kills a man. Leaving a note for the sheriff to locate the man's widow and return the deed to his ranch which was among her winnings, she boards the train called The Prairie Queen. Sheriff Milam has an urgent reason to catch up with Mari: the man has left a four-year-old orphan.
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It's the last chance for Jacob Gamble, Rough Rider, outlaw and man of a few principles. Nearing 50 and flat broke, Jacob bends his own rule about robbing trains. But by the time he reaches the payroll safe on a Rock Island train, he finds another thief there first with a bullet in his head. Jacob is caught holding the bag - and turned into hero. A broke hero. Shackled by unwanted fame, running from a life gone wrong, and raising the suspicions of a Pinkerton detective, Jacob listens to a woman: beautiful and tattooed by the Indians who seized her as a child. Olivia Weathers knows of a treasure hidden in a cave along the Jornada del Muerto - a merciless hundred mile stretch of hell on earth guarded by Apache warriors. Now, Jacob will follow Olivia into the most savage and deadly territory in the southwest - where few ever come out of Canyon Diablo alive
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Duncan Curry was a brilliant thief. Banks, trains –– anything with money was a job for him, and he did it well. During his years fighting for the Confederacy, he honed his skills in the name of a greater good. But now the Union is whole again, and Duncan Curry needs a job. When a man from his past approaches him asking if he will use his unique skills to guard the railroads, Curry cannot refuse.
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During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. Harvey Girls served gourmet meals to passengers of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway (there were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years!). In a time when career choices for women were limited, becoming a Harvey Girl off ered rare independence for young ladies. In 1919 one such aspirant is fourteen-year-old Clara Fern Massie, who runs away from home in the Ozarks after standing up to her harsh father. Heading west and taking a job as a waitress--a Harvey Girl--the underage Clara struggles to learn the demanding "Harvey Way" and shed her farm-girl image.
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Inez Stannert struggles to deal with her shaky partnership in Leadville's Silver Queen saloon, a missing husband, and a child still back East. President Ulysses S. Grant prepares to make an appearance to celebrate the coming of the railroad, but old enemies, general lawlessness, and ruthless competitors could ruin everything.
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A train full of gold bars, and Jim Steel is hired to ride shotgun. California is full of gold hungry, and many of them don't care how they come by the riches. Loading saddlebags full of bars is way easier than grubbing in cold streams. But Jim Steel stands in their way.-Amazon
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Someone is trying to sabotage a new railroad. They've already jumped Marshal Custis Long for investigating it. Longarm isn't certain what's behind this scheme, but he's sure going to blow it full of holes.
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Hired to guard the Pacific Express during a trip to San Francisco, crime-solving cowboy sleuths Gustav "Old Red" Amlingmeyer and his brother, "Big Red," deal with a scheming gang of outlaws and a killer hiding among the train's passengers
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by Cameron Judd
Deputy Luke Cable's job has gotten whole lot harder lately. He's been acting marshal since Marshal Ben Keely left on a trip east--and disappeared. It's up to Luke to keep the peace, and that's hard to do since the arrival of the Outlaw Train, a traveling collection of curiosities, including the remains of notorious outlaws. But not all the outlaws in town are dead.
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Members of the Union Army steal an engine from the Confederates, but the ensuing pursuit to capture the thieves may prove more challenging than the theft itself.
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by Cecilia Holland
Lily Viner's father was a hard man, a claim-jumper and petty highwayman working out of Virginia City, but he was all the family she had. So when a stagecoach robbery goes bad, and he is killed in the shootout, she is left completely alone. But it is Lily's good fortune that the robbery was planned by the strange Irish outlaw known as King Callahan, who refuses to leave her to the mercy of the citizens of Virginia City. King Callahan is a criminal, but he's a man with a mission as well. He intends to do everything in his power to stop the railroad.
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Central Oregon--the last frontier. Transportation is still by stagecoach and freight wagon. There is a movement afoot for a people's railroad, paid for by the state, to bring the benefits of rails to the area, to make it easier to ship livestock and produce, and to encourage settlement. For years the competing railroad barons, James J. Hill and Edward H. Harriman, have done nothing toward building a line in central Oregon, but now, under the impetus of the people's railroad bill, they both set out to do just that.
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These days, if it wasn't for bad luck, John Slocum would have no luck at all. He's got no horse and is only one step ahead of vicious bounty hunters-- meaning that his only way out of San Diego is to stow away on the trouble-plagued Yuma Bullet express. And when he's unexpectedly hired to guard a railroad magnate's beautiful daughter, he finds himself facing down her outlaw fiancé-- and marauding Apache war parties. Surviving this disastrous train trip means Slocum must shoot fast and think faster. But keeping innocents safe and playing his enemies against each other means riding all the way to the bloody end of the line
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Using an old cannon that once belonged to Napoleon's army, an outlaw gang has been bringing trains to a screeching halt and then robbing them. Now Edward Sheffield, one of the owners of the railroad, wants to hire Kid Morgan, the man known as The Loner, to wipe the gang off the map. Morgan isn't interested--even when Sheffield's hot-blooded wife tries to seduce him into going after the gang's leader, Gideon Black, a renegade ex-colonel-turned-outlaw. But when the gang turns their big gun on a town, killing several innocent people, Morgan is left with no choice. And the best way to take them out is to become one of them. But in the process, Morgan will uncover some unsavory secrets and find himself caught in the middle of two ruthless forces
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Soldier, Sniper, Secret Service Agent, Regulator. Murphy answers only to the President. His latest assignment comes from President Garfield and is classified Top Secret. A serial killer is murdering railroad workers and settlers in the western states and territories. With nothing but his skill as a hunter and his knowledge of the budding science of forensics, Murphy begins a quest that takes him through a thousand miles of the west as he searches for the man responsible for dozens of murders.
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Follow Warren Neale, a railroad engineer, his gunslinger friend Larry King, and the love interest, Allie Lee, while laying out the course of the Union Pacific railroad.
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As the nation recovers from the Civil War, Sky and Rebekah Winslow's wayward son Mark is slowly making his way north through Texas after his release from a Mexican prison. Headed for Omaha to work for the Union Pacific Railroad, he is forced to shoot a man, then thrown into jail to await his prison sentence. In a small Texas town where justice will not be served, Mark's only hope is the young woman whom he defended. Lola Montez had attempted to escape the horrible saloon life she inherited from her mother, but she was held there by circumstances beyond her control. When Mark Winslow stopped her attacker, he also became her ticket out of town. If Lola can break him out of jail, surely he will take her with him to look for her father in Omaha. But a jailbreak is a small matter compared to what they will face. Mark becomes a trouble-shooter for the Union Pacific, responsible for law and order in the towns that spring up as the transcontinental railroad heads west, and he must live by his gun. Lola must live by her iron heart and find her way in a West where only the strong survive. While treachery, betrayal, and sabotage lie before them, so does an unexpected confrontation with a kingdom not of this world.
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Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
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This chapter discusses the recent history of outsourcing and privatization in the provision of military support services in the United Kingdom, with an emphasis on top-down government initiatives that have provided the impetus for change. After a brief introduction, we describe three types of reforms delivered by the initiatives. Next we outline each of the initiatives in some detail. We examine some of the collective effects of the initiatives and, finally, we derive a set of general "lessons learned" from U.K. experience with outsourcing and privatization.
Over the past 20 years, the U.K. MoD has successfully incorporated competitive contracting and market forces into the provision of defense support services. In 1980, the government was the provider of most military support services. Today, a wide range of services—including logistics, real estate management, housing, procurement, and other functions—are performed by unified, cross-service agencies making substantial use of private suppliers and competitive mechanisms. The evolution to this market-based system was driven by reform initiatives undertaken by the governments of three Prime Ministers: Margaret Thatcher (Conservative Party, 1979–1990), John Major (Conservative Party, 1990–1997), and Tony Blair (Labour Party, 1997–present).3
Shortly after her election as Prime Minister in 1979, Thatcher conceived the Market Testing initiative, the first of the reforms discussed in this chapter. The motivation for involving the private sector and incorporating market mechanisms into public-sector activities was derived from a long history of public dissatisfaction with the economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of publicsector service provision. Thatcher's ideology reflected a widespread perception that private-sector organizations might be better placed than the public sector to accept and manage some kinds of risk, to respond quickly and efficiently to changes, to develop innovative solutions, and to offer the best value for money. These perceived private-sector advantages were based on confidence in the mediating role of markets and modern business practices with regard to contracting, accounting, workforce management, and business administration. At the same time, the Thatcher ideology recognized that involvement of private____________________


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Larry Tranel, Dairy Field Specialist, Northeast Area
Problem Statement
The dairy producers of the 4-State dairy Extension region lack sufficient information on good model farms for aspiring dairy producers to emulate. Producers looking to follow a low-cost model consisting of labor efficient facilities, low-cost milking parlors, rotational grazing, and cross bred dairy cows face a hurdle with allied dairy industry personnel who consider it an unprofitable and inferior way to milk cows. Yet, data shows these are some of our most profitable dairy operations. This information needs to get out to help grow our dairy industry due to the immense profit potential for producers individually, but also for our industry as a whole.
Programmatic Response
This field specialist teamed with 5 dairy producers in Wisconsin and Iowa to do an annual financial analysis of their farms. These farms were chosen due to their financial astuteness, quality of life and use of common practices developed into a dairy system by this field specialist over the past 16 years. In addition, a financial pathway system was developed along with a model dairy budget of 80 cows on 80 acres with a rent-buy feed agreement for the operation run by one full time equivalent of labor. Then, this field specialist began marketing the information by getting on various programs and working with media outlets.
The Millionaire Model Farm proceedings has been published in the 4-State Dairy Management Seminar and it was presented there as well. In addition, it has been presented at the NE Iowa Dairy Foundations School for New and Transitioning Dairy Producers; the Upper Midwest Grazing Conference, the National Agricultural University in Nicaragua, and the Tri-State Agricultural Lenders Seminar for a total proceedings/presentation exposure to 875 people since January, 2005.
In addition, media outlets such as Ag Radio, Agri-News, Country Today, Graze Magazine and the Dubuque Telegraph Herald have carried headline news articles on the concept.
Participants have reported this dairy system to have practical applications for capitalizing operations and this system is very opportunistic to the future growth of the dairy industry in the Upper Midwest."
Other states have requested information regarding this dairy system, especially in regards to the base model using rent/buy feed agreements. Just in the past weeks, this field specialist received calls or information requests from Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Virginia, Missouri and Connecticut.
How Have Clients Used This Information?
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New Delhi – Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd. expects a radar systems manufacturing joint venture with U.S.-based Telephonics Corp. to post total revenue of about 25 billion rupees ($480 million) in a decade, said a senior executive at India's largest sport-utility vehicle maker by sales.
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Telephonics joins a clutch of overseas companies that have forged alliances with the Mumbai-based company. Mahindra began its defense journey by importing and assembling Willy Jeeps in 1947, which were used in World War II.
Mahindra in March agreed to form a joint venture with Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. to develop and manufacture naval systems in Pune, in western India. Mahindra also has a joint venture with U.K.-based BAE Systems PLC to make mine-protected vehicles in India and another with U.A.E.-based Arabia Holdings and Ras Al Khaimah Transport Investments LLC to make and sell armoured vehicles in West and Central Asia as well as Africa.
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Scholars of China's post-1978 economic reform confront two seemingly diametrically opposed realities. On the one hand, the Chinese economy has outperformed all expectations, with per capita gross domestic product (GDP) growing a total of over 630 percent between 1980 and 2005, compared to a global average of 53 percent.1 Stunning economic growth has, however, also been accompanied by a surge in corruption, rent seeking, and local protectionism, leading some to believe that reform will spawn a degenerate and mutated form of "crony capitalism with Chinese characteristics" based on "the marriage between unchecked power and illicit wealth," "market communism," and "massive corruption."2 Others, however, see reform as creating a new class of "cadre entrepreneurs" and "market-oriented" local governments and a form "neomercantilist," "local state corporatism" that will create a quasi-capitalist "developmental state."3
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PHS Student Council Food and Toy Drive began this week. Food, personal items and money for 20 families and 30 senior citizens will be collected. Each child receives a toy they have specified on a wish list, plus an outfit (top and bottom) of winter clothing, unless they have specified an other clothing need. Clubs and organizations are asked to bring specific items.
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I have the same problem as the original poster. I unplugged the smoke detector and there is still a beeping coming from the ceiling. I've replaced all batteries, I've replaced the beeping detector and still it beeps. I guess I will check the attic to see if there is a detector up there.
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We are currently having the same issue as the original poster as well... now the chirping is every three hours like clockwork and lasts for half and hour. Driving us crazy. The alarm that is still chirping is not even attached to the wall anymore, its as if the wires are chirping! Not possible it seems but that's whats happening...
MSOMAHA, did you figure out the source of the annoying chirping yet? Did you try shutting off the power to see if it continued? I agree with the other poster, there has to be another source emitting that beeping sound. Another detector, or anything that may beep when the battery is low. My grandmother had a similar problem once and we searched her home high and low several times trying to find out what was beeping once about every five minutes. I finally opened a kitchen drawer and found her old cellphone there which she had never turned off. It was beeping because of the low battery. We couldn't believe it. Good luck!
Im having this issue with a battery operated detector. Replaced it with a new unit and the new one is chirping three times once every half hour in the middle of the night. How can it be happening with a new unit with new batteries and why only when i am sleeping?
i am having same issue. i took the detector away and put it in the garage when it was originally connected in the hallway of our living room. STILL BEEPS! there is no smoke detector and Fn thing still beeps somewhere up in the ceiling. its very annoying.
Ok I have the same issue in the open hallway near the back door. I have determined that it is temperature related. If I leave the heating on then the chirping stops or during the summer if we have a colder night the chirping starts up again. I guess this detector is more sensitive than most( poor thing) and its position also has an effect.
Good luck.
Good luck.
Same issues with chirping Firex alarms. It's been going on for 8 years in our vacation/rental home. I finally put in wireless detectors that are connected to our alarm monitoring. One by one, I've disconnected and removed batteries from the firex models. I did the last 4 today after one went off and I couldn't get it to stop. But after I have disconnected them all and removed batteries, one keeps chirping?? I ant figure out how ? Or how to get it to stop
omg its happening here too! The hard wired one in the master bedroom, no less. I also think it is temp related, as ours does it during the night when it's cooler. If I turn off the air conditioning it seems to stop after awhile, once the temp comes up a bit. I'm ready to take a sledge hammer to the thing, and sleep has become a luxury.
I have a hardwired system. The one in the bedroom started chirping every 40 seconds. There are 4 detectors upstairs and one in the downstairs hall. Green lights were blinking on all. I replaced all batteries and the master bedroom one still chirps. Green lights not blinking any more. I removed it from the ceiling and turned the circuit breaker off. It still chirps. The fire dept said they have come across similar situations. I am calling an electrician in the morning. Will likely have hardwired system removed and go to strictly battery ones where I can at least throw out one if it becomes defective.
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Modesto Crit p/1/2/3, another top 10 but no points or $$$.
I was active, chased, and blah blah blah but we got lapped by a break of two.
I did win a "men's towel" prime though! ****, I thought they said "tires" not "towels"..
Those smelly baby wipes?
Cyclists of the world, unite! You have nothing to lube but your chains!
Great job, valygrl.
Mtb race yesterday, first race as a cat 1.
Took the hole shot and promptly blew up in spectacular fashion. Race was 3 laps, i quit after the first one. way way wayway way way overheated. Sat in the shade for quite a while. Need to re-acclimate.
I'm sure when you were getting to the point of blowing nothing was obvious but making the pain stop...I don't know about you but after the fact I always look back at those moments and think 'why didn't I just keep going' but at the time there wasn't enough oxygen on the planet to make me take one more pedal stroke.
Put ti bolts on my Thomson just because. One broke today during a race. Steel going back on.
Syracuse RR (NY state championship), cat 4, 22nd of 48. Worst placing ever!
58 miles, 3500 feet, very windy, tough course, strong field. Surfed the front comfortably until mile 46 where a big climb took me completely by surprise. Got stuck in the big ring at the base of the climb, like a total idiot. Just like that, I got gapped off the group. Plowed uphill solo into a strong headwind and quickly cracked.
Mistake #1: didn't study the course profile.
Mistake #2: got stuck in the big ring like a moron.
Mistake #3: tried to grind back onto the group against the wind instead of going all-in to get back on as fast as possible.
On the plus side, my friend won the race.
Modesto RR, p1/2.
I hate wind.
Superior Morgul Omnium, SW4
Omnium:5 (or 4 depending on who you count, but too boring to explain)
TT- sucked it up and used the TT bike, on advice from all y'all. Thanks. 11th/30 is actually a good improvement for me, I really struggle with TTs.
Crit - finally stuck to the plan which was sit in and don't chase everything down. I found myself cornering a bit more efficiently than some others, sat in, didn't see any wind except for the first Omnium points prime, which I won. Didn't contest the 2nd prime, it was at 5 to go, too close to the end. Stayed in the lead pack of about 15, sitting farther back than usual, and didn't chase anything. Last lap, entered the last corner at about 10 back, railed it wide - for some reason people were taking it tight, but there were 2 more lanes we could use - and carried good speed into up the long, 2% uphill drag strip to the finish, passing everyone except my team mate who won.
Sunday morning standings: 3rd in the Omnium
RR - they changed the course from the normal "Morgul Bismark" of Coors Classic fame, because the traffic barrier company closed shop unexpectedly on Friday, and they couldn't use the highway with out the barriers. The promoter did a spectacular job coming up with a re-route on no notice, so the course was out-and-back on the big rollers and 3 trips up "the wall."
Headwind on the way out, tail on the way out, side on the wall, we had to descend the wall, which is not normal.
I was in front-ish of the main pack for the first 1 1/2 laps, but on the last tailwind-driven descent, I could not stay with the pack. I'm a poor descender, am working on it, but am not comfortable at high speeds, and I think I just left too much space and wasn't getting a good draft. I was tucked, spun out, and was getting speed wobbles from wind gusts, but I swear I did not brake. Still though, off they went. Can I pull the "I only weigh 110 pounds card here? No, there were other smaller gals in front of me. Descending skillz, I don't have 'em. (47mph, i now see.)
I killed myself trying to catch back on on the next climb, had made it within 20 feet or so by the time we turned down the wall, and got dropped again. Chased back again. Right as I rejoined, two women in front of me touched bars (I think) and wobbled all over the road, looking like they were going down, and I braked to stay out of the expected carnage. They didn't go down, and I chased back yet again. At this point we were on a flat-ish section, and I rejoined right at the u-turn back into the headwind (still flat).... and then we turned left for some side wind and the last climb up the wall. As the pavement grade increased, I cracked, and suffered up the wall off the back of the front group. Passed and was re-passed by some other stragglers. 14th. Ouch. Bye bye omnium podium. My team mate who won the crit got 2nd in the RR.
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Niagara Classic Road Race - OCup #5/7
12.4km lap - 6 laps - 75km total
Hot day out today, felt pretty good today, can't complain about that. I managed to get about mid pack for the start, but after the neutral start there was a climb, and I got a mechanical issue (when I stand my gears just shot down a whole bunch) so I was left by surprise mashing at ~40 rpm on the climb, then I fixed it and at the top it flattens out, when I stood to sprint out of the corner it happened again and by the time I was able to fix it everyone had passed me. I was stuck at the back and tried my hardest for the next 2 laps to get up to the front but with European roads and the yellow line rule with the commissaire on my ass it was just impossible, I kept gaining a few spots but then would eventually drop back.. soon enough I got dropped and I'm very mad at myself for letting my teammate convince me to DNF ourselves. We would have been lapped most likely and if that happens they DQ you but I should have just kept going
The climb is 2.18km rising 99 meters. Averages 4.5% with the first 1.67km at 2.9% and the last 510 meters at 9.8%. Tough climb for Ontario
Good news is that I hit an all time high of 73 km/h on the downhill and I also maxed out at 217 rpm (that's for jsut ). And most importantly my teammate finished 1st!
Edit: I hung with the group for about double the time that I have compared to other races, so that can only be a good thing.
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"You lack motivation because cycling is a stupid sport with no upside that takes way too much time out of your life to be mediocre at." - Racer Ex
Lots of mechanicals on that climb today for sure...
Myself I popped the 2nd time up, maxed my HR at 190 and got gapped. Worked through the downhill to chase back on with a group of 7 or so. Not enough in the group wanted to work to close the final couple hundred metres so I made the decision to try and bridge. That didn't work and in fact all I really accomplished was pulling the group along and brunt a bunch of matches in the process. By the time I rotated to the end I had zero life in the legs and couldn't hold the group.
Call it a learning experience.
Then got caught by a couple team mates and we formed up a group of 20 or so that worked together for the next 3 laps. On the final climb up the hill I decided to make a move, more of a confidence builder then anything else. Got to the top first and drilled it around the corner and through the downhill. Built a pretty good gap and had a nice solo gap going. Held them off until the ext corner, probably 3km or so. Once I got caught I settled into the back to recover. After a few more kms I worked back to the front and my one team mate and myself drove the pace nicely to get us all home.
I was OTB, but I was having fun and that's all the really matters!
"On the other hand riding down a hill at 55 MPH wearing (essentially) women's underwear and a Styrofoam cup on your head is the epitome of rational life-extending decisions." - RacerEx
Weekend race reports here. 4th in the State TT with a 49:16 (around 52:00 in full 40k time). Felt blocked. In the crits the next day the chain was off and I felt like I could do anything I wanted. Go figure.
Ex and valygrl, nice work. vg, congrats on the cutlery!
Awesome valygrl.
Perhaps one of us is destined to cat up one of these days.
I DNP'ed on Modesto RR, rode to race for warmup (13 miles). Legs felt great at start, was holding a top 10 rotation until someone had a blowout on two gnarly potholes that were back-to-back. Couldn't clear them and rode through both, started dropping through the back. Off the back and couldn't hold bridge back on, then I couldn't hold another wheel. Finally looked down on I was flatted.At least 4 riders I know of flatted on those damn potholes.
Bummed, I felt good.
I just didn't play my cards right, in our small field of 17 there weren't many places to hide out of the wind. Didn't go with when the first (unknown) guy attacked, but when one of the big dogs joined him we started chasing. And chasing. So attack after attack and after a lap of that I couldn't grab a wheel as the 'pack' came by, and I went otb.
Rode the rest of the 50 or so miles either solo or with another guy that got dropped from my race. I really enjoyed those tailwind sections though.
The first Wednesday night crit of the season was last night. Also my first time racing with the big boys in the 1/2/3 race. We had a record-sized field, too - 43 starters.
I was a bit nervous about hanging, because my legs had been crap the previous day at the local Tuesday night worlds ride, but it's all for training, anyway. I did a little spin in the morning and that seemed to help a bit, but I still didn't have a whole lot. My team had five guys in this race, and it was pretty simple - someone should be in the break, and if not, we'd be chasing.
Things were real hot from the beginning and I started pretty far back, so I spent the first few las just trying to move up. As I said, I didn't have a whole lot, so I couldn't make any real decisive moves, only creep up three wheels one lap, lose two the next, and so on. Eventually I made it up there, there was already a split up the road. I tried following someone else who was trying to bridge, made it to his wheel but he gave up and I didn't have enough left to close it down. Fell back, reintegrated, recovered. Meantime, there was a second break that formed chasing the first, with a teammate in it. Phew. I followed one other move trying to bridge that, it didn't go anywhere and that was about all I had. So I fell back into the main field, managed to grab on at the back and suffered through the last five or six laps. I was able to make up a few spots on the final lap and came in 25th. My teammate in break number two got 12th (the front break was big, maybe nine guys), another teammate took the field sprint for 13th.
I'm reasonably pleased, given my bad legs. And I'm just starting a training cycle, so I should get better. I'm starting to get my mojo back a bit. I was a little nervous at times and sometimes let gaps go in the corners, other times I was right on it and making up ground there. It's getting better and better.
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Sunapee Cat 4 (2 laps of a 23 mile course)- Learned my lesson from Sterling the week before, dont be stupid and attack the pack early. I don't have much time right now so it went like this: Sit in a bit, wait and watch the early attacks. 14 miles in I noticed people had gotten tired because they didn't immediately jump on people when they got more then 10 feet ahead of the pack. A few miles later I realized I had rolled off the front with another Strong guy. Once I realized I had a 30 foot gap to the group I hit the gas and me and him started a 2 man break with 30 miles to go. Long and short of it was, we rode away, he died 23 miles later at the same spot where we had the break form, I rode alone to the finish, 1:30 back to him, about 3 mins back to the pack.
That win put me to 20 points so upgrade time, I am now a 3, Yay. Time to get beat on in the sort-of-becoming-big-boy fields.
Congrats on the win & upgrade, dnuzz!!


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