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Hey all! Welcome! This started out as a thread for me to track my progress through C25K as a nearly 300 pound runner. But along the way it has become a gathering place for all us 200+ folks to find some encouragement and support no matter where we are in our running journey. So come on in and join us, introduce yourself, tell us your goals and share your successes. We can't wait to meet you !
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Hello all!! I'm back, finally. I suppose many of you have no idea who I am, but I started C25K last August and was here when the 200+ threads started and were dedicated to those among us just maybe just starting our path to become "runners. I place for beginners to meet and support each other as we take our first steps. I wonder if any of those folks are still here.
But it's great that peopla are here to come back and share with. I've gone the wrong way since I left, stopped running in November when it got cold, gained 10 or so more pounds and generally lost it. But I am back now, first run of my new W1D1 was tonight. 40degrees and dark but there have already been too many "tomorrows," I wasn't doing one more. I can't. I weighed in tonight at 288 lbs.... I've got 100 pounds to lose in 10 months. My goal is to hit my 40th birthday January 5th at my goal weight for the first time in my adult life.
Run went good, but hard. I did more like a mid-week 2 workout, just to see how far I could push. Wednesday is back to true W1D2 and start with a slow build. I look forward to meeting everyone!
Happy running!
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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.
Hey there. I am wondering if your old group is now the 200+ One Hour Runners now??? Anyhow I'm over there and just though maybe your fellow mates would be there as they've progressed to running further?
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Hi Jill! Yeah I looked through those folks and didn't see any familiar names. Hopefully all my old 200+ pounder friends from back in August-Oct 09 are both under 200lbs and more than 1 hour runners by now. I'll hope for the best for them. And maybe I'll be there too.
In the meantime, maybe there is a new group of 200+ that would like to get together regularly and help keep each other motivated. If so, chime on in. We're all in this together :-)
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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.
I'm happy to join in. Am just on the bandwagon..but have seesawed so many times in the past its not worth mentioning. Running, however, is something I've never really tried. I'm a bit squeamish about the "D" word (discipline) and the love of running has never been clear to me.
I know, though, that it is great for you...and with this program, I am hopeful that I will develop a genuine passion for something that is so great for overall health. I'm a little skeptical at this point, that I will be able to run a 5 k in 9 weeks, but am more than willing to give it a shot. A couple of issues..
Hey Cindy. Great to meet you!
In reverse order...
YES this can work. There is a great piece written by one of the top users here names "Spicegeek" about what c25k can and can't do for you in terms of weight loss and fitness training. But it CAN work. Loog up the blog of a user named AFatManRunning and his wife MrsFatManRunning. They didn't tell their kids they were doing it until they showed up next to them at the start of a 5K and they were in their 50's, if not older. It really does work.
Podcasts are available all over the place now. The home pge of C25K, www.Coolrunning.com Has a bunch buch you can also google "C25K podcast" and get dozens more. They are great because the music helps keep your mind off the clock and the audio cues will guide you on your run/ walk timing so you don't need to be looking at a watch!
Shoes... I am a bad souce of advice. I run barefoot. Perfect fit, never wear out and I can't forget to pack them on my way to work. Again, there is LOTS of data to get about the subject but long story short a large number of college track teams train their runners at least partly barefooot and growing evidence shows that people who run barefoot have less injuries.
As for the "love" of running, I can't say I have found my true love either, but last time I did this program, around week 4 I started to feel the endorphins kick in Started to feel the drive... It is out there. I HIGHLY reccomend reading "Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the Wolrd has Never Seen" by Christopher McDougall... it will totally change the way you look at running.
I hope you take that step, that first day. And I'm always happy to talk.
Good Luck,
Chad - "Wideguy"
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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.
1. Unless you are planning on running barefoot (which isn't for everyone) you must have good shoes. It may not be an emergency if you are just starting but I would recommend going to a local running store and being fitted for shoes. I use Brooks Adrenaline and they are $105 but they won't necessarily work for you.
2. I use the C25K app on my iPod. You can find the apps and the podcasts on iTunes. I don't know if they are available elsewhere.
3. YOU CAN DO IT! I'm 27 and 198 pounds and have been overweight my entire adult life. I am currently working on week 4 and I feel so much better than I have in recent memory. The key is to start slow and proceed at your own pace. I admit that I haven't lost a serious amount of weight over the last month but I feel great, my clothing fits better, and I've gained muscle and lost a few inches in various places.
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Thank you so much for your thorough and thoughtful response. Per your suggestion, I found the podcast through an easy google search. How easy is that? Today is start day...I think I'll stick with shoes for now, but I've also heard about the benefits of barefoot runs. Pretty interesting, huh? tks again. cindy
Thanks dizzy.
I found the podcasts and have successfully downloaded week one onto my ipod. I can't believe how easy they make it! believe it or not..I was seriously worried about the timing thing..
I know it might seem this way but I'm not on a crusade to convert people to Barefoot running but I really do hope people will keep an open mind. And as you start running, resist the urge to run out and spend hundreds on the latest/greatest. You can start in a simple, cheap pair of trainers.
Here is a greta article that covers a lot of the evidence.
And an excellent video by one of the gurus of recrational running and podcasts.
I'm 290 pounds, and NOT a "runner" .. but I can do my 20 minutes sessions day after day with NO knee or ankle pain. It is worth research for anyone. As the godfather of barefooting , Barefoot Kenbob says , "Shoes don't block IMPACT, they only block PAIN!"
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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.
Dear WideGuy,
I would love to join the new 200 + club! I'm a new "start again" jogger. Jogged in college because I had to stay in shape & am now trying because I kind of enjoy it.
I'm starting W4 tonight, running inside on treadmill. I am 47, 5'10" ish & checking in around 231 lbs. Thats down from 278 on January 17, 2009. Since that day, I havent had 1 bite of a candy bar, candy anything. Now it's time to start rebuilding/shaping the earth suit. I want to sent out an early "Thanks" for all the encouragment & help I have found in these post already & that I know will keep coming our way. Be Well & Stay Determined!! TJ
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New goals. New attitude. Joining in. I want to do this, but don't know how to start. First 5K in 2 weeks.
Hello Memaw and Trinspaw !! Great to meet you! I'm getting out tonight for W2D1 . I got a little derailed by a sinus infection last week and the ever unpredictable New England weather. No treadmill, no gym so if it's snowing finding the motivation to go run is hard. Did a few days on the staionary bike in the meantime.
Me maw, first 5K in two weeks? Have you already been running for a bit? I couldn't even begin to consider that right now! All starts with those first steps. I've been re-reading Born To Run and rediscovering my motivation and heading out to the local forest to watch and maybe work an aid station for a 50-mile trail run. Next year maybe I'll run the 10K loop !
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And then I let it all go again. More "restarts" than I can count but I haven't given up hope or trying yet. So who knows what's possible.
Hi. I am a 29, 5'6" and weighing in at 260 lb. I had just decided today that I wanted to learn how to run. Last night I was working out on the elliptical and the guy in front of me was just jogging away with such a nice smooth gait he was fun to watch. I was also thinking that there was no way I could do that for even a couple of minutes. I hate not being able to do something so today I decided I wanted to be able to run 5 mi by the end of the year. Well 3 mi in two months works for me too. I found this link in the exercise section of the bodybuilding.com website (I love that site). So here I am. I won't be back at the gym until Sunday so that is when I will start W1D1. I thought about today but it is still snowing and I am just not that disciplined to go jogging in the street in the snow. So thanks in advance for all the help and support!
Hey there! I'm finally back and am very happy to see this thread! Motivation is something i need. I'm fairly consistent with working out these days but not so consistent with my attitude. Am hoping i'll find the support I need here.
Just to fill in a little about me. I weight 290 two years ago. Lost 100 pounds in ten months. It was hard work grueling. I changed my diet and started walking five minutes at a time and lifting weights ( i was totally out of shape, huffing and puffing up the stairs.) Then i added more time, more reps and started cutting out food. It worked. Last year i put some pounds back on- bad attitude and stopped walking. I've been working out for three months and finally broke 200. When i think about how hard the past three months have been, harder than at any other time losing weight i wonder how i broke that promise to myself and let the weight come back on. I really need this thread- thanks wideguy.
hey laurie! Great to see you again. Sent you a Private message last week to see if you were still around. :-)
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Andrew Luck, who's thrown 18 TD passes and 18 INTs this season, currently has 15,545 more votes for the Pro Bowl than Ben Roethlisberger does.
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Luck has 179 more pass attempts than Ben and he's thrown for 1220 more yards.
I don't feel bad about this at all. While Ben was out, Luck was leading his team to victories. He's been clutch at the end of games.
Besides, the Pro Bowl is a joke. In a year or two, they might not even be playing it anymore.
It's called WINNING!!! Luck has turned a 1-15 team into a playoff contender. He's a rookie and fans love what he is doing with BA and a sick HC. Doesn't matter how many INT's he has when the last play is a TD pass for another win.
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Will the U.S. government have to refund J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. part of the bank's expected $13 billion payment over soured mortgage securities?
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Justice Department officials are aware of this and, according to people familiar with the discussions, are trying to get J.P. Morgan to agree not to go after the FDIC as part of the settlement.
Last week's $5.1 billion settlement between J.P. Morgan and the Federal Housing Finance Agency over mortgage bonds sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac complicates things. Despite the Justice Department's stance, that agreement leaves the door open for J.P. Morgan to sue the FDIC for the WaMu portion of the payment, some $1.2 billion.
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The killer paragraphs, according to the J.P. Morgan side, are those stating that the buyer is not responsible for "claims based on any action or inaction" or "any malfeasance, misfeasance or nonfeasance" by directors, officers or employees of WaMu. In J.P. Morgan's interpretation, this includes selling mortgage securities.
The stakes are high, even beyond the $13 billion. Wall Street executives and some lawyers warn that if J.P. Morgan is found liable for the WaMu bonds, other banks will think twice before buying failed rivals. "The government will ensure that no bank ever buys another rival in distress," a top lawyer told me last week.
A total of 475 banks have failed since WaMu and in most cases, another firm acquired part or all of the operations. A lack of buyers would put pressure on the FDIC's deposit insurance fund, which is paid for by all banks in the country.
But if J.P. Morgan prevails and gets the FDIC to pay, it could wipe out most of the $2.7 billion reserved for bondholders and other WaMu investors. J.P. Morgan critics say such an outcome would have an opposite chilling effect: on investors in teetering banks who have to choose between trusting the FDIC to do its job as a receiver or selling into the market panic.
This is important because the Dodd-Frank law gives the FDIC powers to act as the receivers for all big financial firms. "The precedent completely undermines the FDIC's ability to act as receiver," under Dodd-Frank, according to Joshua Rosner, managing director at research consultancy Graham Fisher & Co.
In the aftermath of the WaMu deal, Sheila Bair, then head of the FDIC, said: "Some are coming to Washington for help, others are coming to Washington to help." But what if some started coming to Washington to sue?
Francesco Guerrera is The Wall Street Journal's financial editor. Write to him at: email@example.com and follow him on Twitter: @guerreraf72.


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Global Citizens Grant
The Global Citizens Grant provides students with the opportunity to pursue summer volunteer and public service projects outside of the United States. The intent of the program is to support student projects that are independently designed and focus on providing direct service by working in local communities. By enabling students to immerse themselves in foreign cultures, the Global Citizens Grant aims to encourage a broadening of perspective among volunteers, the foreign communities in which they will work, and the Bowdoin community to which they will return.
Read about our current Global Citizens.
Grants of $4000 will cover the cost of travel and living expenses for ten weeks. Applicants may affiliate themselves with an existing organization in-country, but grants will not pay the costs of joining one of the many varieties of international "service trips" or "service tours" available for purchase.
Read about past grant recipients.
As part of the grant, participants are required to:
1. Participate in an orientation to the program;
2.Convene with other grant recipients and staff upon return to campus for discussion, reflection and to identify common themes which could be addressed through campus-wide educational programming;
3. Present a summary of the experience to students, faculty and staff in a public venue organized by the McKeen Center for the Common Good;
4.Participate in an evaluation of the program at the end of the summer to help craft future program components.
Learn more about international non-profits with whom members of the Bowdoin community have worked.
Explore OMPRAKASH, a database of volunteer opportunities around the world.
The Global Citizens Grant program was jump-started in 2008 by William Oppenheim '09. It is made possible through the generosity of Artistotle Investors Ltd., John Morrill, and Michael '60 and Linda Frieze through the Frieze Family Foundation of the Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston.
For more information on the Global Citizens Grant please contact Tom Ancona.


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The nation's second largest poultry company, Pilgrim's Pride, is recalling more than 27 million pounds of cooked sandwich meat.
The recall happened after it's Wampler Foods Brand turkey and chicken tested positive for a strain of potentially deadly bacteria listeria.
The meat was processed at the company's plant in Franconia, Pennsylvania from May First to Oct. 11.
Sidestreets Deli on the campus of Michigan State University took Wampler brand turkey and smoked turkey off their shelves on Sunday.
The store manager says the deli lost about 80 pounds of turkey and will serve ham as an alternative.
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Listeria Precautions
People at risk for listeriosis and their family members or individuals preparing food for them should:
Source: http://www.fsis.usda.gov (Food Safety and Inspection Service United States Department of Agriculture) contributed to this report.


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25 years ago
- Joshua M. Frum has been named the 1988 Marietta poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Frum will serve as the association's local goodwill ambassador.
- A $225 Artsbridge scholarship will be awarded to an area youth interested in learning boatbuilding skills.
100 years ago
- Homer McLain, who was indicted for the murder of his father, will be soon committed to an insane asylum. The jury reached the decision within an hour.
- A woman who resides on Hart Street called police to report that she was insulted by a man while she was walking along the street. A warrant for his arrest is expected to be sworn out today.
Compiled by Amanda Nicholson, Marietta College Special Collections.


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Emerald tree boa
The emerald tree boa is a brilliant green with white bands across its back, but it does not start out that way. When emerald tree boas are born—females bear live young—they are actually red or orange in color and only become green as they age.
Considered medium-size, emerald tree boas grow to about six feet in length.
Emerald tree boas are carnivorous and their diet consists of arboreal rodents, squirrels, birds, and bats.
Males reach sexual maturity earlier than females at about three to four years. Females are sexually mature by age four or five. Emerald tree boas can breed at any time of year, but breeding is most common in the winter. Females can have up to 20 young at a time. They generally give birth every other year.
Range: northern South America
Habitat: tropical rainforests
Squares link to animal fun facts.


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Zong, on 02 February 2013 - 07:04 PM, said:
Old Tremor was so good, if you knew how to place it you were basically immune to fear all the time. Not to mention just casting it as priests run at you and having it instantly tick.
They fixed the instant tick, first tick is 3 seconds after you place it. + they should change it to have a cooldown


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One of Washington County's largest suspected dealers of heroin was among six people arrested during a Tuesday morning drug bust in Vincent.
Agents from the Major Crimes Task Force executed a search warrant just after midnight Tuesday at the home of Michael V. Richards, 35, of 1110 Moody Ridge Road, Vincent, said Lt. Josh Staats with the Washington County Sheriff's Office.
Officers believe Richards has been dealing drugs in the area for about two months.
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"That's what he told me and that is around the same time we started getting anonymous calls from concerned parties," said Staats.
However, Richards is believed to be a major player in the local heroin scene because of how frequently he was making trips to Columbus to purchase drugs for resale in the Washington County area, officers said.
"Richards has been under surveillance for the past month. He told me he makes roughly three trips a month to Columbus and he is typically buying between five to nine grams at a time," said Staats.
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Michael V. Richards, 35, of 1110 Moody Ridge Road, Vincent, was charged with possession of heroin in an amount over five grams, a fifth-degree felony.
Eric B. Siders, 24, of 6070 Sandhill Road, Marietta, was charged with possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony.
Chelsie M. Cochran, 19, of 121 Warner St., Marietta, was charged with possession of heroin, a fifth-degree felony.
Shawn J. Sims, 22, of 550011 Hudson Road, Reedsville, was charged with tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.
Ali R. Martin, 23, of 101 Stonecrest Drive, Marietta, was charged with possession of drug abuse instruments, a second-degree misdemeanor.
Heather D. Thompson, 24, of 116 Harmar St., Marietta, was charged with disorderly conduct - cease and desist, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
Each gram of heroin contains approximately 10 unit doses, he added.
The timing was right Tuesday to try to make an arrest, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.
"We felt that something was about to happen because local addicts had been coming to Richards and not spending a lot of time there, which indicated they weren't buying anything (and a new shipment might be coming)," he said.
Five task force agents and three deputies were ready with a search warrant when Richards returned from a suspected drug run, said Staats.
Richards' residence is technically a three-stall detached garage, he said. The sparse living quarters contained a pool table, a mattress, a wood stove, a refrigerator and a kitchen table with some chairs around it, Staats said.
"Basically we were able to see everyone as soon as we walked in. They didn't have a bedroom to hide in," he added.
Agents observed Richards, seated at a table with Eric B. Siders, 24, of 6070 Sandhill Road, Marietta, and Chelsie M. Cochran, 19, of 121 Warner St., Marietta. On the table was a syringe and a spoon, both containing what is believed to be heroin, said Mincks.
"Richards told us that Siders and Chelsie Cochran were getting ready to shoot up," said Staats.
On the floor near where Richards was seated were three bags of heroin, weighing a total of 5.04 grams, said Mincks. The heroin was the largest quantity the agency has seized in some time, he said.
It was enough to charge Richards with a third-degree felony count of possession of heroin, he added.
Cochran and Siders were each charged with a fifth-degree felony count of possession because they possessed smaller quantities, said Mincks.
Also arrested was Shawn J. Sims, 22, of 550011 Hudson Road, Reedsville, for tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony.
After being handcuffed and advised to sit still, Sims was observed attempting to conceal a syringe, said Mincks. Sims admitted the needle had fallen out of his pants and he was trying to hide it, he said.
While officers attempted to secure individuals inside the structure, Heather D. Thompson, 24, of 116 Harmar St., Marietta, continued to yell at the investigating officers, said Mincks. She was highly intoxicated and subsequently arrested for disorderly conduct, a fourth-degree misdemeanor.
While officers were still inside, Ali R. Martin, 23, of 101 Stonecrest Drive, Marietta, arrived at the residence, said Mincks. A syringe, syringe caps and cotton were found in Martin's vehicle. She was subsequently arrested for possession of drug abuse instruments, a second-degree misdemeanor.
"It's pretty common when a load comes back into the county that everybody just shows up to start buying it," said Staats.
Two other people inside Richard's residence were not arrested.
Agents seized a 26-inch television and an ATV that were believed to have been stolen and used to pay off drug debt, said Mincks. Additionally, agents seized the pickup truck Richards had been using to make drug runs, he said.
Richards could face additional charges including receiving stolen property and drug trafficking, said Mincks.
According to Marietta Municipal Court records, Richards has previous charges for obstructing justice, possession of drugs, breach of recognizance, and disorderly conduct.
Richards was charged in West Virginia with aggravated robbery in 1997 and malicious wounding in 1998, said Mincks. He served at least six years in the Mount Olive Correction Complex in West Virginia, he said.
Other individuals in the home could also face additional charges, said Mincks.
Richards is being held in the Washington County Jail on $15,000 bond.


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POSITION: Center
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Petrolia, ON, CAN
DRAFTED: QUE: 1979-41 overall
|Hunter retired at the age of 39, having played 19 years in the NHL. He played in 1,407 games, scoring 323 goals, 697 assists and 1,020 points while spending 3,565 minutes in the penalty box.
|The Quebec Nordiques selected Dale Hunter in the 2nd round, 41st overall, in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft. A native of Petrolia, Ontario, Hunter played three seasons of junior hockey in the OHA with the Kitchener Rangers and the Sudbury Wolves. In his draft year, Hunter scored 42 goals and 110 points in 59 games for the Wolves while spending 188 minutes in the penalty box.
In 1980-81, Hunter played in all 80 games for the Nords and scored 19 goals and 63 points while amassing 226 minutes in penalties. Hunter roved to be extremely resilient and reliable, missing just three games in his first six years with the club. His best offensive season was in 1983-84, when he scored 79 points in 77 games. During those years in Quebec, Hunter may best be remembered for fueling an ongoing intense rivalry with the Montreal Canadiens. In 1987, Hunter missed 34 games of the season after breaking his leg. It was the first time he had ever missed any games due to injury.
In 1987-88, Hunter joined the Washington Capitals where he played for 12 seasons. The pinnacle of his career in Washington was in 1998 when the team advanced to the Stanley Cup finals before losing to the defending champion Detroit Red Wings.
In a last-ditch effort to win a championship, the Capitals sent Hunter to the Colorado Avalanche for the 1999 playoff drive, but the team came up short, losing to the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference finals. Hunter retired at the age of 39, having played 19 years in the NHL. He played in 1,407 games, scoring 323 goals, 697 assists and 1,020 points while spending 3,565 minutes in the penalty box.
*Bio courtesy of the Hockey Hall of Fame


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A man who was arrested for burglary after he became trapped in the ventilation system in a Bismarck bar has been sentenced to more than a year in prison.
Bismarck police said a cleaning crew heard someone calling for help in the ceiling over the pool tables at O'Brien's Tavern on Nov. 5. Police found 26-year-old Caleb Belile upside down. Emergency workers were able to free Belile in about 45 minutes.
The Bismarck Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/10DhrmP ) that surveillance tape showed the suspect crawling into the ventilation system.
Judge Cynthia Feland sentenced Belile to 18 months in prison and ordered him to pay $1,000 in restitution.
Defense attorney Tom Glass says Belile was stuck for nine hours. Glass says it's "somewhat of a minor miracle he lived through that."
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Studies show that organically grown crops produce more of the things (ascorbic acid, lycopenes, resveratrol, flavonols in general, etc) that our bodies need and also have less toxic residue. Science is still catching up with this. J. Agric. Food. Chem. Vol. 51, no. 5, 2003.
Michael Pollan
Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Large Print Press), Pages: 181
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Copyright © 2016 Gaiam, Inc.


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Novell's Q1. The future of OpenSolaris. And more.
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"Tracking the open source news wires, so you don't have to."
# Novell reported Linux platform revenue of $37.5m in Q1, up 6.4%.
# Internet.com reported that Novell's Linux business broke even as Microsoft deal revenues fade.
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Download the remover rmswen.exe. Restart your computer in Safe mode and run the remover. Then restart your PC normally and run the AVG Complete Test.
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Adoption of quality-by-design (QbD) concepts in pharmaceutical development and manufacture is becoming increasingly well-established. QbD concepts are aimed at improving the robustness of manufacturing processes based upon adopting a systematic and scientific approach to development and implementing a control strategy based on the enhanced process understanding this provides. Many pharmaceutical companies have also recognized that QbD concepts can be used to improve the reliability of analytical methods. The authors describe how traditional approaches to analytical method transfer and validation also may benefit from alignment with QbD concepts and propose a three-stage concept to ensure that methods are suitable for their intended purpose throughout the analytical lifecycle: method design, method qualification, and continued method verification. This paper represents a refinement and enhancement of the concepts originally proposed in an article written by P. Nethercote, T. Bennett, P. Borman, G. Martin, and P. McGregor (1).
To help in implementation of the goals of FDA's Pharmaceutical cGMPs for the 21 st Century–A Risk-Based Approach (2), FDA recently issued guidance for industry describing the general principles and practice of process validation, which seeks to align process validation activities with product lifecycle concepts. This guidance (3) addresses some of the issues with traditional approaches to process validation where a focus on a one-time, three batch approach, with the use of the best talent during the day shift with the same lot of raw material does little to ensure that the manufacturing process is and will remain in a state of control. The traditional approach to process validation encourages a "do not rock the boat" mindset since the product is approved and the process is validated and fails to foster continuous improvement in quality or efficiency (4).
These issues have parallels in analytical method validation. Analytical methods for pharmaceutical products are validated in accordance with the International Conference on Harmonization (ICH) Q2 Guideline, Validation of Analytical Procedures: Text and Methodology, usually by the experts who have been involved in developing the method (5). Method validation is often treated as a one-time event with no guidance on how to ensure continuing focus on consistent method performance. There also is lack of guidance on how to demonstrate in practice that a method is fit-for-purpose (i.e., what are suitable acceptance criteria). There is potential for the validation process to seem more focused on producing validation documentation that will withstand regulatory scrutiny than on ensuring that the method will actually perform well during routine application. There is a risk that both regulatory authorities and industry use ICH Q2 in a check-box manner rather than its intent, which is to provide guidance on the philosophical background to method validation.After the method has been validated by the developing group, it may be transferred to another laboratory, which involves transferring the knowledge of how to operate the method to those who will use it routinely and documenting that both parties obtain comparable results. The routine operating environment, however, is not always considered during the method-development and validation exercise. The lack of an effective process for capturing and transferring the tacit knowledge of the development analysts can cause methods to fail to perform as intended in the receiving laboratory. Much effort is then expended on identification of the variables that are causing the performance issues and the exercise is repeated. As in the case of the initial method validation activity, the transfer exercise is typically performed as a one-off process. There is a risk that the exercise will focus more on producing the method-transfer report than on ensuring the ability of the receiving laboratory to run the method accurately and reliably and ensuring the continuity and integrity of analytical results.
The recognition that an analytical method can be considered a process that has an output of acceptable quality data led Borman et al. to take the QbD concepts designed for manufacturing processes and show how these could also be employed for analytical methods (6). It follows, therefore, that the concepts of lifecycle validation being developed for manufacturing processes might also be applicable to analytical methods. This concept aligns well with the lifecycle concept of equipment qualification in the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), consisting of equipment design, followed by operational and performance qualification, and with analytical method validation activities proposed by Ermer and Landy (7, 8).


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RICHMOND -- Supporters of the hotly contested ballot measure here to tax sugar-sweetened beverages are relying on volunteers and creativity to get their message out to local voters in the closing days of a campaign that has drawn national attention and millions in anti-tax spending by the soda industry.
Youth artists spray-paint anti-soda "Yes on N" murals on street corner buildings, with the owners' permission. And Councilman Jeff Ritterman, the retired cardiologist-turned-councilman who leads the Measure N effort, has done dozens of interviews with media from around the world and spent hundreds of hours campaigning.
He pulls a wagon carrying 40 pounds of sugar -- a prop meant to personify the amount the average child consumes in a year -- and spends late nights pecking rhetoric into his keyboard, jousting with critics and naysayers on social media platforms.
He's been shouted down at parks and in church parking lots, but on Monday night, he made his case to 80 people gathered at Bethlehem Missionary Baptist Church for a town-hall meeting.
Relying on local African-American sports and health advocates to do most of the talking to one of the city's oldest black congregations, he nevertheless bemoaned the "polarization" that has cleaved residents over his measure that could make Richmond the first city in the nation to tax sugar-sweetened drinks.
"We have to keep the focus on our children and how to make the city a better place for them," Ritterman said.
Eric Avery, coach of the Richmond Half-Steppers, a youth track club, had just finished speaking on the need for recreation funding from the penny-per-ounce business tax.
Keenly aware of the $2.5million spent so far against the measure, Ritterman did what he seldom does -- acknowledged the possibility of defeat on Tuesday. As of Oct. 20, the pro-Measure N "Fit for Life" campaign had spent less than $50,000 from mostly small donors.
"Win or lose, we have to figure out a way to support" the Half Steppers, Ritterman said.
It's in Richmond's working-class neighborhoods where the ballot battle will be won or lost, and skeptics say the pro-tax activists can't overcome the money and the blunt "no on new taxes" message against them.
Otheree Christian, president of the Iron Triangle Neighborhood Association, said he liked much of what he heard Monday but that his mostly African-American and Latino neighborhood is leaning against the measure and can't be persuaded.
"In this economy, with people struggling, putting in a new tax is not going to work, no matter how you try to dress it up," Christian said.
Several speakers Monday appealed directly to the city's African-American and Latino communities, calling sugar-sweetened beverages "poisons" that are fueling obesity, diabetes and other health maladies.
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin and other elected leaders joined Ritterman at the church and pushed hard for the measure. McLaughlin pledged to pass postelection legislation requiring that every dollar from Measure N goes to youth health and recreation programs, another in a long line of tweaks to the message that the pro-N side has made over months of campaigning to counter critics.
With its vast budget, The Community Coalition Against Beverage Taxes counts hundreds of local businesses and influential community groups, including the NAACP and Black Women of Political Action, among its members. The city's streets and airwaves are awash in "No on N" ads, funded by the Washington D.C.-based American Beverage Association. The coalition has also provided thousands in direct payments to influential community leaders, including to the Black American Political Action Committee and its treasurer, Joe Fisher.
"Without Big Soda's money, there would be no organized opposition against the soda tax," Ritterman said. Critics have complained that Ritterman and his allies initially overlooked the support of local churches and leaders, opening the door for the beverage industry to make inroads. Ritterman disagrees.
"No regrets," Ritterman said. "We have worked hard. We have run an honest campaign."
Observers close to the campaigns on both sides say N has a slim chance at passage but still marvel at the spirited, crafty, bare-bones campaign that pushed Richmond into the national spotlight on public health policy.
The battle in Richmond may be lost this year, they say, but the larger war changing the beverage industry is still in their favor.
"This really advanced the cause no matter how the vote turns out," said Councilman Tom Butt. "A lot of people have been watching this, learning what to do and what not to do, and I am sure there will be other cities that will take this up."
Contact Robert Rogers at 510-262-2726 or firstname.lastname@example.com and follow Twitter.com/roberthrogers.
Here is a synopsis of Measure N, which could make Richmond the nation's first city to impose a penny-per-ounce tax on merchants who sell sugar-sweetened beverages.


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GRANBY — The city of Granby is looking for members to serve on a community building committee.
"Interested parties that would like to be on that board, come to city hall, call city hall," said Paula Carsel, city clerk. "It doesn't have to be people who live right inside the city limits, you can live outside of Granby. It is appointed by the council.
They operate, supervise, regulate, and maintain the use and maintenance and operation of the community building."
The board is made up of six members and one chairman: three members can live outside the city limits and three can live inside the city limits.
"I have a board chairman – Sue Cole, who was appointed Tuesday night during the city council meeting, and then I need six members," Carsel said.
Under new business, the April 2, 2013, election was noted. There are a few council seats up for that election including: Donna Fullerton as the mayor, Tom Cole in the south ward, Melinda Stribling in the north ward, city collector Sharon Stephenson and municipal judge Steve White.
Filing opens Dec. 11 and closes Jan. 15, 2013.
For more information either stop by Granby City Hall, 302 N. Main St., Granby, or call 472-6556.
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Fire officials say residents have been allowed to return to their homes after a chemical spill forced businesses and some houses to be evacuated.
Officials said that roughly 3,000 gallons of chemicals spilled into the tracks behind Emerald Performance Materials around 1 p.m. Saturday, forcing homes and businesses downwind from the chemical materials company to be evacuated for a couple of hours.
Capt. William Howe of the Akron Fire Department says that one employee of the company became nauseated by the fumes and was taken to the hospital for evaluation. He was in good condition.
Firefighters say that the spill was an accident.
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|Beginning Guitar Class
Event Type: Adult
Age Group(s): adult
Date: 11/11/2013, 11/25/2013, 12/2/2013, 12/9/2013, 12/16/2013
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM
The Glen Ellyn Library is offering a five week class in beginning guitar for adults. Students will learn the basics of how to play the guitar in a supportive group setting. This five week course will cover the basics of the guitar, easy to learn chords through playing selected songs, and using the computer to augment your playing ability.
Students must provide their own guitar. If you do not have a guitar you can attend the first class, and the instructor will assist you in selecting a guitar for the following lessons.
Location: Meeting Room B
Contact: Amy Franco
Presenter: John Wolaver
Status: Closed


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Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote
By FORD FESSENDEN and JOHN M. BRODER
Published: November 12, 2001
Acomprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year's presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward.
Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore. A close examination of the ballots found that Mr. Bush would have retained a slender margin over Mr. Gore if the Florida court's order to recount more than 43,000 ballots had not been reversed by the United States Supreme Court.
Even under the strategy that Mr. Gore pursued at the beginning of the Florida standoff — filing suit to force hand recounts in four predominantly Democratic counties — Mr. Bush would have kept his lead, according to the ballot review conducted for a consortium of news organizations.
But the consortium, looking at a broader group of rejected ballots than those covered in the court decisions, 175,010 in all, found that Mr. Gore might have won if the courts had ordered a full statewide recount of all the rejected ballots. This also assumes that county canvassing boards would have reached the same conclusions about the disputed ballots that the consortium's independent observers did. The findings indicate that Mr. Gore might have eked out a victory if he had pursued in court a course like the one he publicly advocated when he called on the state to "count all the votes."
In addition, the review found statistical support for the complaints of many voters, particularly elderly Democrats in Palm Beach County, who said in interviews after the election that confusing ballot designs may have led them to spoil their ballots by voting for more than one candidate.
More than 113,000 voters cast ballots for two or more presidential candidates. Of those, 75,000 chose Mr. Gore and a minor candidate; 29,000 chose Mr. Bush and a minor candidate. Because there was no clear indication of what the voters intended, those numbers were not included in the consortium's final tabulations.
Thus the most thorough examination of Florida's uncounted ballots provides ammunition for both sides in what remains the most disputed and mystifying presidential election in modern times. It illuminates in detail the weaknesses of Florida's system that prevented many from voting as they intended to. But it also provides support for the result that county election officials and the courts ultimately arrived at — a Bush victory by the tiniest of margins.
The study, conducted over the last 10 months by a consortium of eight news organizations assisted by professional statisticians, examined numerous hypothetical ways of recounting the Florida ballots. Under some methods, Mr. Gore would have emerged the winner; in others, Mr. Bush. But in each one, the margin of victory was smaller than the 537- vote lead that state election officials ultimately awarded Mr. Bush.
For example, if Florida's 67 counties had carried out the hand recount of disputed ballots ordered by the Florida court on Dec. 8, applying the standards that election officials said they would have used, Mr. Bush would have emerged the victor by 493 votes. Florida officials had begun such a recount the next day, but the effort was halted that afternoon when the United States Supreme Court ruled in a 5-to-4 vote that a statewide recount using varying standards threatened "irreparable harm" to Mr. Bush.
But the consortium's study shows that Mr. Bush would have won even if the justices had not stepped in (and had further legal challenges not again changed the trajectory of the battle), answering one of the abiding mysteries of the Florida vote.
Even so, the media ballot review, carried out under rigorous rules far removed from the chaos and partisan heat of the post-election dispute, is unlikely to end the argument over the outcome of the 2000 presidential election. The race was so close that it is possible to get different results simply by applying different hypothetical vote-counting methods to the thousands of uncounted ballots. And in every case, the ballot review produced a result that was even closer than the official count — a margin of perhaps four or five thousandths of one percent out of about six million ballots cast for president.
The consortium examined 175,010 ballots that vote-counting machines had rejected last November. Those included so-called undervotes, or ballots on which the machines could not discern a preference for president, and overvotes, those on which voters marked more than one candidate.
The examination then sought to judge what might have been considered a legal vote under various conditions — from the strictest interpretation (a clearly punched hole) to the most liberal (a small indentation, or dimple, that indicated the voter was trying to punch a hole in the card). But even under the most inclusive standards, the review found that at most, 24,619 ballots could have been interpreted as legal votes.
The numbers reveal the flaws in Mr. Gore's post-election tactics and, in retrospect, why the Bush strategy of resisting county-by-county recounts was ultimately successful.


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SNOWMASS VILLAGE - What if there was a place that combined fancy libations with a hangout comparable to the dreamlike palace of our childhood role model, Richie Rich? Keeping our young-at-heart spirits in mind, the Bar at Wildwood has given Snowmass a facelift like it has never seen before, bringing a hybrid of local eats and drinks together with a serious fun zone to be enjoyed by people ranging in age from 10 to 100. Think family game room meets coffee shop, meets corner bookstore meets city bistro - the place has it all, and can only be truly appreciated hands-on.
Within the walls of this ultimate game room, community tables juxtapose two party-style lounge areas strewn with two fireplaces, plush rocking chairs and colorful furniture on wheels. Collections of encyclopedias, books on nature, the arts and history line shelves with artisan lamps, sculptures and posters. Games like Pictionary, Trivial Pursuit, Scattergories and Candyland inhabit every corner of the restaurant, while ski and snowboard videos play on the large-screen projector overhead.
The menu? Handcrafted pizzas, burgers, salads and soups made from local ingredients, paired with a full bar offering specialty cocktails, cognacs and a fine selection of brews from none other than our friends across the way, the New Belgium Brewing Co.
There to give me a tour of the place and whip me up a tasteful cocktail and homemade pizza (one of the best pizzas I've ever had) was Wildwood manager Brandon Howard.
Snowmass Sun: What is the name of the drink you made for me, and what is the inspiration behind it?
Brandon Howard: The drink is called "Mountain Town," made with cinnamon-apple-infused Jim Beam Black Label, Cinzano sweet vermouth and bitters. The inspiration behind all of our cocktails is to create something original and new while maintaining homegrown concepts.
SS: How many New Belgium beers will you have on tap? Is there anything we haven't heard of?
BH: We will have eight drafts to start, and will eventually be offering New Belgium's entire collection of brews as we rotate taps out on a weekly basis throughout the season. The idea is to offer a taste for everyone, and as for new and exciting, I would like to keep that a surprise.
SS: It's obvious this place is ideal for kicking up and relaxing. What kind of clientele do you hope to appeal to?
BH: Ideally, everyone and anyone. People can enjoy a cocktail at the bar; sit at the community table with friends over a pizza and a board game; or hide out in the lounge with a good ol' Nancy Drew book. Regardless, it will definitely be a place for spirited discussions of all kinds.
SS: Will you be open late? What are you looking forward to most?
BH: Starting Dec. 15 we will be open from 11 a.m. to midnight (currently open 3 to 10 p.m.), but
depending on the crowd, we could very well stay open until 2 a.m. I'm really looking forward to just taking off, to doing it right and creating that place people in Snowmass want to be, from apres to late-night to everything in between.


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The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is participating in its first Solar Decathlon, the upcoming U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011, featuring its home "Living Light." Named for its very brightly sunlit double facade glass system, the home's blueprint was inspired by the cantilever barns of southern Appalachia, which have giant eaves to provide shade and a "two-core" design.
The floor plan revolves around the two wooden cores at the base, which allows for an open living space in the center. The home includes one bedroom, one bath, a living room, and a kitchen. More space is available for dining and recreation, along with an outdoor patio area and garden for growing small crops.
The double facade glass system is used for natural lighting and to keep a sealed temperature envelope that allows you to regulate it to your liking, cool in the summer and warm in the winter. The facades are built with an inner insulated glass panel and an outer pane with an air barrier, which also holds the windows' blinds.
The real engine of Living Light is in its 10.9-kilowatt solar array atop the roof that also acts as a shading trellis. This array powers all of the electric appliances including an oven, cooktop, dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, home entertainment systems (television and sound system), the mini-ductless heat pumps and the ERV, along with the most exciting feature--a home automation system you can run from an iPad. Knoxville expects the home to require just half the electricity generated from the array and suggest using the rest to charge an electric vehicle or even sell back to your utility company. See the Energy Blog post.


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WASHINGTON (November 15, 2012)--The struggling U.S. Postal Service reported a record annual loss of $15.9 billion Thursday.
The financial losses for the fiscal year ending Sept. 30 were nearly $11 billion more than the previous year.
The numbers cap a tumultuous financial year in which the post office was forced for the first time to default on more than $11 billion in payments to avert bankruptcy.
The mail agency for months has been urging Congress to pass an overhaul bill to let it cut back letter delivery to five days a week and reduce annual payments for future retiree health care.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said the large losses cannot be sustained.
The mail agency predicts billions in additional losses next year as it awaits financial relief from Congress.


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I have a Logitech Trackball (2 Buttons and a scroll wheel).
I don't have LCC. And I don't miss it.
Number one solution, as mentioned before, is USB Overdrive for any kind of need to program your mice, trackballs and whatnot devices. Tried and tested, never, ever, fails.
The last version of this app was horrible and absolutely didn't work with my brand new S530 Mac keyboard/mouse. It completely disabled everything. I had to revert to the version that originally came with my keyboard/mouse.
If any of you have the nerve to give this one a go - let me know. Otherwise, I don't see a reason to upgrade at all.
Exactly: lcc will become a pain if you install it (crashes, kernel panics, hangs, slow startup). Logitech is not taking Mac users seriously with this software. Skip Logitech products until they deliver appropiate drivers for us.
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Being the founder of Free Software Magazine means that I receive amazing (or I should say amusing) amounts of email that ask us to announce the imminent release of some fantastic project that will change the world. I always answer that I will be happy to talk about the fantastic project once it's been launched, and I can actually see something.
Nobody ever calls back.
Even worse, when I go back and check what the project status is, I often find that the "launch" never happened, or that it did and that's pretty much where the project stands—a few months later!
In one case, not only was the project launched, but it flourished. The site I am talking about is ippimail. I will let Martin—the project's founder—do the talking, and wish him good luck!
The story of ippimail.com
ippimail is a Hotmail-style email service which aims to raise funds for charities and the free software community. We now also have a blogging service, a shopping directory and a Google-powered websearch feature.
The project is UK-based but has global aspirations. Any charity, anywhere, can join for free. The service is also free to users; it's advertising supported. 45% of profits will go to our listed charities and an additional 10% to the free software community.
The original idea came to me, Simon Martin, quite a few years ago. The trigger was the launch of Mac OSX!
OS X introduced me to the world of free software.
Through OSX, I came to realise that there were people who respected standards, wanted to contribute and didn't feel the need to crush everyone they saw as opposition. I also came to realise that the free software method makes perfect sense when it comes to developing great software. The peer-review model is after all how anything important is developed, like pharmaceuticals for instance.
I'm only a wannabe geek (I used to do post-production on stills images for advertising photographers) but I wanted to do my bit to raise awareness of the free software community. There had to be many others who had absolutely no idea what the term "free software" meant.
So, I asked questions and received answers:
"Yeah, so there's a bunch of computer geeks who sit in darkened rooms and make some sort of shareware stuff? Right?"
"Eh, well... you're probably right about the darkened rooms but it's not shareware. Most of the internet runs on free software."
"Sure. This is industrial-strength stuff I'm talking about. You can even download Linux for free and be rid of Windows for good. No viruses..."
Not being a coder and not having the patience for bug-hunting (but I'm having to learn!) I had to think of another way to make a contribution. I wanted to create a showcase for the best of free software and show "Average-Joes" like myself what it was about.
Email was the logical vehicle as it is the one thing everyone who uses the internet has in common. Email is about communication. It binds people together. Ideal.
My wife has a background in charities... So let's fundraise! That's the hook for "Joe".
Years were wasted trying to get investors on board. You can imagine how it went:
"Well... that sounds like a great idea! Seems like you could generate a great deal of money."
"Yes, but... we want to treat it like a free software project so we aren't selling any equity... we want it to be in common ownership."
"...and we want to give most of the money away..."
"Yeah, right!"
Eventually, we decided to have a go at funding it ourselves as we went along. We went on the hunt for developers but as we could only employ them on a freelance basis they came and went and there was no real structure to the project. Other developers knew we were vulnerable due to a lack of knowledge and lashed things together without any real care. Others just plain ripped us off.
In the end, we stumbled on a saint in the form of JF. (Can't mention his name as he wasn't supposed to do any moonlighting...)
JF is a top-flight developer with a brain the size of a planet. To this day I don't know how we came across him. He wanted to take a sabbatical from his job and took ippimail on. For ages he worked for nothing but the love of it and really laid the groundwork for the project in earnest. He basically re-wrote the whole thing from scratch.
Eventually, he had to get a real job again though and we couldn't afford him. He still worked on ippimail but couldn't burn the candle at both ends for long and we lost him.
After much searching, we finally found a great replacement developer for JF and feel we are on a roll. Since Tim has joined us we have a blog service, newsfeeds and now a shopping directory!
Our dream is to get lots of free software developers who think like us to join the project and help evengelise free software to a wider audience. We realise we have to earn our stripes though. :-)
What we need now is to spread the word! ippimail has morphed into something that everyone can get involved in. If you don't want to use the email service, you can use the blogs or you can just shop via the directory. Either way you are making a contribution.
It sounds mad to hope to be better at email than Google but the one thing I have learned from this is never to underestimate the power of free software. Do I look like Bill Gates!?!
Great idea! I just wonder
Great idea!
I just wonder what the strange acronym stands for... ippi... ??? :-)
The user interface seams clean, although also a bit vapidly. But the project has just started and I see a lot of potential!
When I tried guessing how it was pronounced, I thought of "ippie", which in turn made me think of "Hippie" mail :-)
ippi means...
'ippi' means 'a helping hand' or 'to do ones bit' in Japanese.
Allegedly. ;-)
We wanted a name which meant something or nothing in any language and didn't have any 'baggage'.
It so happens the meaning fits us well :-)
... and if you want to help with the interface, let me know. I'm in the forums... ;-)
Who cares what it means, it works!
Hi all,
I don't know what Ippi means,but I do know that this thing has really taken off in the months that I've been using the service.
The interface is clean and easy on the eye, it's NEVER been down since I signed on, it has a cracking 'fwd' facility and of course acts as webmail; I travel a lot so it's handy.The search facility on Ippi's front page is powered via Google, so it makes perfect sense to make it the homepage on my browser.
I don't normally do this kind of blog thing,but I'm starting to become addicted. I've a sneaking suspicion that I'm becoming an evangalist on Ippi's behalf; if this is so I make no apology!
I support a couple of charities dear to me, which is fine because whilst I'm an open-source fan and all round lefty,I am flat busted broke! This way I can contribute to the charity of my choice and the open source community at someone else's expense!
I use Ippi as my main account now, and think of my address as a 'badge of honour'. 'I took some time to make the switch, my e-mail provider is rapidly becoming as important as my choice of wine, but I've never regretted taking the plunge.
I don't need virus filters, as I don't use W*indoze (can't even type the word yet alone utter it) but Ippi has them anyway for those poor M'soft powered souls. The Spam Filtering tool is useful too. Oh, and they've just opened a 'shop' so if you buy a DVD for Xmas, a percentage of the sale goes to charity just like the advertising revenue from the site.
Like they said, it's e-mail for the good guys (and gals) so get on and tell yer mates. I told both of mine(!) and they use it now too
Happy Xmas!


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In five July starts for Durham, Martin went 4-0 with a 1.39 ERA and .087 WHIP. The right-hander struck out 25 batters and walked three in 32.1 innings pitched while beating Gwinnett twice, Norfolk and Columbus.
Martin was one of 16 players to earn the award — one for each league in the minors — and was one of only two pitchers honored. His stellar month also included a scoreless second inning in the Triple-A All-Star Game on July 17 in Reno.
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Robust June Hiring Moves Forward Likely Fed Rate Hike, J.P. Morgan Says
The strong employment report for June is likely to add fuel to the debate within the Federal Reserve about when to start raising short-term interest rates from near zero, and prompted several analysts to say the central bank could move sooner than they had previously anticipated.
J.P. Morgan Chase Bank economist Michael Feroli said in a note that building job-market momentum along with signs of improvement in other parts of the economy mean the central bank will likely start rate increases in the third quarter of next year, rather than in the final three months of 2015.
"We are pulling forward our projection for Fed tightening (the first time we have done so in recent memory)," he wrote.
Capital Economics' chief U.S. economist, Paul Ashworth, wrote that the strong job growth figures are among "the key reasons why we think the Fed will be persuaded to begin raising interest rates earlier than most expect." He forecast the first rate hike in March.
Bank of America's co-head of global economics research, Ethan Harris, wrote, "This report suggests an increased risk of an earlier first rate hike, but Fed officials will likely take time to reassess."
No Fed officials spoke Thursday after the new data were released, but most of them—13 of 16 individuals—indicated in June they expected to start raising their benchmark short-term rate next year. One Fed official expected the first move to come this year, while two forecast it for 2016, reflecting the breadth of views on the matter among the decision makers. The individual forecasts are anonymous.
In a speech last week in Puerto Rico, New York Fed President William Dudley allowed that while there's a lot of uncertainty in the outlook, the market view that the central bank won't increase rates until the middle of next year "sounds to me like a reasonable forecast" given the expected path of the economy.
However, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard warned recently that if the economy continues to pick up speed, it's possible the Fed will need to lift rates earlier in 2015 than many officials now predict.
Mr. Bullard has said he believes the Fed will start raising rates near the end of the first quarter of next year. He said in New York late last month, "I don't think financial markets have internalized how close we are to our ultimate goals, and I don't think the [Fed's policy-making committee] has internalized how close we are to our ultimate goals."
If the economy continues to improve, "I predict the conversation about monetary policy will change," Mr. Bullard said
The Labor Department reported Friday employers added 288,000 jobs in June, the fifth consecutive month of gains over 200,000—a streak unmatched since the end of the 1990s.
Unemployment fell to 6.1% from 6.3% the month prior, faster than Fed officials had expected. Just last month, they projected the jobless rate to come in between 6% and 6.1% in the fourth quarter this year. In the wake of the jobs data, a number of economists said it won't take much for the jobless rate to fall further.
Mr. Feroli said "the inexorable decline in the unemployment rate, alongside firming core [personal consumption expenditures price index] inflation, is dramatically reducing the degree to which the Fed is missing on its mandate." In that environment, it's more likely that the Fed will have to start the process of normalizing the stance of short-term interest rates sooner, he said. Mr. Feroli expects to see the benchmark federal funds rate at 1% by the end of next year, and at 2.5% by the close of 2016, up from near zero now.
Fed officials' views on interest rates are likely to shift only if more data come in showing the economy gaining greater strength than they anticipated. The economy shrank at an annual rate of 2.9% in the first quarter and appears to have rebounded somewhat in the second quarter. Many policymakers will likely want to see more confirmation that the first quarter was an aberration before changing their interest-rate plans.
"While today's report pushes forward … timing of the first Fed rate hike, it is unlikely to happen before early 2015," said Cary Leahey, an economist with Decision Economics. "It is hard to imagine the Fed hiking rates within six to nine months of the sizeable drop" in first-quarter gross domestic product.
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A Camdenton man is behind bars after officers found drugs in his possession.
Camden County Deputies and Agents with LANEG executed a search warrant in the 500 block of Floyd's Road Camdenton on July 9 and found methamphetamine, drug paraphernalia used in the distribution of controlled substance, prescription narcotics and misdemeanor marijuana was seized.
Charles R. Heimbeaugh, 52, of Camdenton, was arrested and transported to the Camden county jail pending formal charges.
Heimbeaugh was charged with two counts of Class C Felony of possession of controlled substance, Class A Misdemeanor of possession of controlled substance, and Class A Misdemeanor of possession of drug paraphernalia. His bond was set at $3,000 cash. Heimbeaugh is currently being held in the Camden County Adult Detention Facility.
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SAN LEANDRO -- Police on Thursday announced they'd made an arrest in connection to last week's slaying of a retired woman whose body was found in a burning Castro Valley home, brutally beaten by a man who detectives say may have slipped in through an unlocked door or window.
Police have not release the name of the person arrested, but said more details will be provided at a news conference Friday morning, said Alameda County Sheriff's Office Sgt. J.D. Nelson.
The woman, identified as Barbara Latiolais, 58, lived at the home at 2431 San Carlos Ave. with her longtime partner Michael J. Rice, 60, a retired San Francisco firefighter and the homeowner.
Rice was in Utah at the time and is not a suspect in the killing, police said.
Police are investigating the killing as a homicide, which one deputy called one of the "most violent" he has ever seen.
Nelson said officials believed from the start that the fire was suspicious and an accelerant was used to start the blaze on Oct. 18.
Police said a man, who has not been identified, stole the couple's black 2006 Volvo station wagon from their driveway shortly after the 12:15 a.m. fire. The car was found several hours later at the end of Brookdale Boulevard in Castro Valley. Police declined to say if they lifted any viable fingerprints from the car. Nelson said valuables were taken from the home, but declined to say what.


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Voters in Williston have shot down a $55 million school bond issue and tax increase to pay for school construction.
The Williston Herald reports (http://bit.ly/12aow2n) that the bond issue and tax increase received less than 30 percent support. The money would have paid for needed school construction and renovations for the rapidly expanding school district.
The district had plans to build a new elementary school where Rickard Elementary is located to open in 2015. Plans called for tearing down Wilkinson Elementary and building a new middle school on that site.
School Board president Sue Brokaw says the district will continue to educate students in the current buildings and modular classrooms and technology advances will be sluggish.
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Salem woman charged with running brothel in Mass., wiretapping and extortion
Lori Barron, 50, of 20 Riversedge Drive is scheduled for arraignment today in Lawrence District Court on six felony counts, including maintaining a house of prostitution, deriving support from prostitution, unlawful wiretapping, extortion and photographing unsuspecting nude persons, police said.
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