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Action Camera CenterNEW
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PowerDirector's unique decoding algorithms make for seamless importing, editing and producing video shot at 120/240fps. Imported 120/240fps video can be trimmed, color and lens corrected, and edited before being rendered at the same frame rate.
FLAC Audio SupportNEW
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H.265 provides same compression quality with 32% size of H.264 videos, which saves valuable space and bandwidth when you want to watch videos on mobile devices or download videos from internet.
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AVCHD 3D/Progressive
Support for AVCHD 2.0 (3D/Progressive) format, which supports 50/60p progressive frame rates at FullHD resolution.
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Transition Designer
Create unique transitions from any image or logo using alpha channel masks to control their shape.
Title Designer
Customize a title's motion, font size, gradient color, border, blur level, transparency and reflection.
PiP Designer
Overlay animated objects on your videos and use simple transforming tools to create engaging video collages
Theme Designer
Choose from more than 30 animated theme templates and simply drag 'n' drop your own footage in to create professional animated slideshows
MultiCam Designer
Combine and switch between up to four camera shots in one synced video on-the-fly.
Menu Designer
Create fully customizable disc menu layouts, menu structures, font styles and chapter thumbnails.
PhotoDirector 7
PhotoDirector 7 offers an extreme blend of features that goes far beyond what you would normally expect to find in photography software. Able to effortlessly handle hundreds of RAW files at a time, and with support for a vast array of leading camera lense, body and RAW formats PhotoDirector offers a complete, end-to-end photo editing and management solution.
Layer EditingNEW
PhotoDirector 7 demystifies layer editing, making this advanced tool simple and intuitive, even for beginners.
Simple and intuitive interface for powerful editing tools
Fine tune and adjust individual layers before merging
Work with up to 100 layers in a single photo
Tool Sets include Pen, Eraser, Add Shape, Text, Selection, Fill, and Gradient
Select from 14 blending modes for precise image compositing
Body & Face Beautification ToolsENHANCED
The expanded collection of easy-to-use touch-up tools in the new PhotoDirector make it easy to professionally remove imperfections from your portraits, selfies, and group shots.
Eye Bag RemovalNEW
Face ShaperNEW
Shine RemoverNEW
Eye EnlargerNEW
Skin Smoother
Wrinkle Remover
Adjust Skin Tone
Intelligently adjust skin tone in your portraits for the look you are after. Give your subjects healthier looking skin or a perfect tan in moments.
Body Reshaper Tool
Unique Body Shaper tool lets you quickly apply adjustments to the body's natural contours. Give your photo shoots a professional feel.
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Photo Merge Panorama
Create breathtaking panoramas by stitching together a sequence of images. With intelligent auto-fill, edges of your image are filled in to make a complete panorama.
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Loop RecordingNEW
Record over specific sections of audio with ease. Ideal for recording voiceovers, or correcting speech errors.
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Audio Recording and Mixing
Record from multiple audio sources either individually or simultaneously. The enhanced Mixer Panel can also be used for real-time manual adjustment of track volume during playback, in order to get the exact mix you want faster and easier.
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NEW Create in the most popular formats including H.265 (HEVC), FLAC and APE.
ColorDirector 4 - Easy Color Grading. Pro Results
ColorDirector 4
Color grading is an essential tool for making impressions, telling stories, and evoking responses from your video viewers. ColorDirector offers creative video-makers of all skill levels, the means to dramatically improve their projects through use of tools to control color and lighting.
- AfterBefore
Apply HDR to Video
Apply HDR to your videos to add more dynamic range to your scenes, bring out the detail and highlight the best parts of your footage.
- AfterBefore
Split Toning for Video
Split toning is an old photography technique that is now an addition to a video editor's toolkit, used to evoke feeling from your video footage.
Regional and Global BlurNEW
Draw attention to a particular object or person in your video or adjust the depth of field in a photo.
Radial Gradient MaskNEW
Create one or multiple, off-center, vignetted areas to your footage to quickly draw your viewers attention to the focal point in your footage.
Intelligent Motion Tracking
ColorDirector's intelligent motion tracking algoritm tracks motion by matching image data from a selected area in a frame to image data in each succeeding frame, so you can isolate objects, accurately track their movements and of course change or enhance their color.
Easy Color Replacement
An easy-to-use eye dropper is used to select any color in a video you want to replace. You can also click in the Original Color section and choose the color you want to replace.
Live Histogram
See at a glance where all of the brightness levels contained in a scene are found. Values are arrayed across the bottom of the graph from left (darkest) to right (brightest).
Dynamic Keyframing
ColorDirector's powerful and intuitive keyframe features let you quickly adjust color effects and dynamically animate selection masks with great detail and precision.
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Noise Reduction reduces extraneous visible artifacts that degrade image quality. Noise includes luminance noise that makes images look grainy, and color noise that shows as colored artifacts in the image.
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Hello. I am training for a triathlon and an endurance race this year and was thinking about picking up a heart monitor/watch to aid in my training. What is the consensus on their use/help in training? Anyone have any opinions/experience? Also what models are recommended? Between all the different types, features, and prices it seems hard to pick the perfect watch. Currently I am leaning towards the Garmin and Suunto models. I heard a few models have an online program that can track your progress/training and be used to create training programs. Sounds like a good feature.
Thanks for the insight/info.
I think a Heart Rate Monitor is an extremely valuable tool for endurance training. I use a basic Polar HRM to monitor my workouts, especially when I am base building and do not want to go over my aerobic threshold. There are many great articles regarding Heart Rate Training. Here are 2 very informative websites regarding Heart Rate Training:
Joe Friel; http://joefriel.typepad.com/blog/
Mark Allen: http://www.markallenonline.com/maoArticles.aspx?AID=2
As far as the brand of monitor, everyone has there own preference - Polar, Garmin, Suunto, Timex. If you want GPS capability, Garmin has great reviews and pretty much dominates the GPS market.
Good Luck!
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greaaat articles...thank you for the responses. very helpful. I'm going to get a monitor tomorrow.
so max aerobic heart rate or LTHR or both?
HRM are excellent tools just don't be a slave to it. i like LT but max works too just whatever you choose do the field test not the formula. formulas are best guess. field test are accurate for your fitness levels at that point.
you can a very basic HRM w/ no bells or whistles for less than $50 and a fancy downloadable/gps/cadence thing for a lot lot more. depnds on what info you want. I prefer less others like all the #s
goals for 2011:
break 19minutes for 5k
break 2:42 for olympic triathlon probably Anthracite olympic
break 3:16 for marathon ( a long shot but it's fun putting yourself out there)
I have had a variety over the years. I'm currently using Suunto and I have a Garmin bike set-up with HR. One thing I don't like about Polar is that you can't change the battery and you need to do this fairly often (at least once a year). Others use a standard CR2325 these days. I try not to get too caught up in the online stuff, a simple Excel spreadsheet works just fine as a training log. As others mentioned, it alldepends on what you want. Me, I want programmable zones with alarms and the ability to know how long in each zone my training was.
thanks...field test? i think you are talking about the lt? formula is the max...right?
i bought triathlete magazine's complete tri book...figure it'll cover all info/insight i need HRM included.
you can test for LT and max HR. (actually your LT and MAX HR will differ for cyclign and running so may test for each of these as well - running is more weight bearing exercise than cycling so a higher #) If i remember right LT test is a warm up then Average HR for 20 minutes of 5k pace running or a 10mile time trial. I think MAX HR is a warm up then all out hill repeats w/ the highest number being the max HR
goals for 2011:
break 19minutes for 5k
break 2:42 for olympic triathlon probably Anthracite olympic
break 3:16 for marathon ( a long shot but it's fun putting yourself out there)
If you want to look at some top notch product reviews, check out the dcrainmaker blob. Definitely helped me make a decision on my latest HRM purchase...
Go with a GPS watch! I have the Garmin Forerunner 405. The feature set is amazing. It comes with a heart rate monitor as well but the GPS functionality will show you your fastest speed, slowest speed, average speed (in real time) and even has a cycling mode that is pretty accurate when comparing it to my bike computer. I worked with a Polar heart rate monitor watch for awhile and while it was functional and served its purpose, the Garmin has taken my training to a whole new level. Just my $.02
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I have the Suunto T4 and love the watch! One of the biggest reasons is the profile of it, very slim in comparison to others on the market. It does not have gps, so if that is an option you are looking for then it might not be a good fit for you.
Once I am done with this watch, I will probably switch to the Suunto T6D. I really like this line. I have had a Garmin and although it worked great, the profile was just too large for my wrist.
Hope this helps and good luck.
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There is a new POLAR scheduled for this year: http://www.trijuice.com/2011/03/preview_polars_new_cutting-edge_rcx5_training_computer_watch.htm
It seems to be the best product on the market.
I have been looking at getting the RCX5. However, I am completely confused on what accessories to get. Anyone know the "watch + accessories list" I should get? Here is what I think I "need". (Ignore cost...I just want to make sure I have all my bases covered)
I think this covers swimming, biking, and running. I am just wondering if I really need the stride sensor if I am getting the GPS? Anyone have this watch and any of the accessories or knows about this and can provide some info? Appreciate any comments, thanks.
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Carolyn Sue Pratt Wilcoxen, 67, of Belpre, Ohio passed away peacefully at her residence, Friday morning, November 9, 2012.
Mrs. Wilcoxen was born in Gary, Indiana on September 17, 1945, the daughter of the late De Morris Pratt and the late Esther Pratt and Layrd and Helen Smith, whom she considered her family.
After arriving in Parkersburg in 1960, she attended Parkersburg High School, graduating in 1963. She graduated from West Virginia University with a teaching degree in French. She taught school in Pittsburgh and then at Belpre High School. After teaching, she was elected to the Belpre Board of Education, where she served as President for two years. Later, she served as the secretary for the Good Samaritan Clinic and was the financial secretary for the First Presbyterian Church, where she had been a member for fifty years.
She is survived by her husband William T. "Tom" Wilcoxen of Belpre; sister, Anne Dale and her husband, David Winger of Parkersburg; stepdaughter, Shelly Shaw of Oakland, Calif.; two sisters-in-law, Sherry Rafferty and her husband, Chuck and Phyllis Edgell and her husband, Allen, all of Belpre. She was a favorite aunt to Jay Winger and family, Tracy Winger Conaway and family, Jeff Rafferty and family and Carol Rafferty McNulty and family.
A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday at the First Presbyterian Church, 1341 Juliana Street, Parkersburg with Reverend Michael Seely and Reverend George Spransy officiating.
For those considering an expression of sympathy, memorials may be made, in Carolyn's memory, to First Presbyterian Church or the Parkersburg Humane Society.
A guestbook is available for sending condolences to the family at www.vaughanfh.com. The Vaughan Funeral Home, Parkersburg, is assisting the family with arrangements.


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OAKLAND -- One thing that happens when you're a sports columnist covering a big event is that radio stations from around the country call you for "flavor" and "mood" and "analysis." Actually, not just from around the country. From around the continent. I've had a few calls from Canada, too.
If it fits into my schedule and doesn't interfere with my writing duties, always try to pick up the phone and appear -- and of course, mention mercurynews.com at every opportunity. I figure it's a chance to plug my favorite online sports section.
But I must confess, I've been a lousy guest the last few days on the dozen or so shows I've done. Usually, the first question from the talk show host is: "What's going on with the A's out there?"
My answer: "I have no idea."
And then I do my best to muddle my way through. I must say, of all the teams I've covered in the Bay Area over the past 27 years, this one has got me the most puzzled. The lineup, filled with largely unfamiliar names to the rest of the nation, could be the waiting list at the DMV. "Mr. Seth Smith, your turn."
Another popular question: "What's the difference between games in Oakland and games in San Francisco? Between A's fans and Giants' fans."
That one, I can handle better.
"A lot of Giants fans go to games at AT&T Park as if they are taking a shopping trip to the mall or going out for dinner. Most A's fans go to games at O.co Coliseum to watch baseball. If the O.co Coliseum were a shopping mall, it would be that one the Blues Brothers drove their car through in the movie, with no repairs."
And finally from the hosts: "Is anyone in the Bay Area getting any work done right now? Is Thursday going to be the biggest sports day in Northern California ever?"
My answer: "Pro football is still the top sport around here. The last time the Raiders and 49ers made the playoffs in the same year, 2002, the fervor was far more . . . um, fervent. But with baseball, games every day, it's like momentum is building to . . . something. Like in 1989."
Some of the younger hosts, at that point, ask what happened in 1989. So the older guest -- me -- sets them straight.
I don't think I've seen any one day exactly like this Thursday. The A's and Giants have been in the playoffs in the same year five times before. But they've never followed the same script like this -- losing the first two games in a best-of-five, then rallying to win the next two and set up a win-or-go-home situation for both within the same 24 hour period.
I know this much: It never happens in Canada.


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Hi there,
I am using Ubuntu 10, when both the desktop and PS3 are on the wireless network (or both wired for that matter) the connection works fine but if the desktop is wired directly to the router and the PS3 is using the wireless network, PMS doesn't see the PS3 at all.
- Ip tables disabled
- Confirmed that IP of the server matches IP on the interface
- Can ping the PS3
- Firewall is disabled on the WiFi router (Cisco DPQ3825)
- Both desktop and PS3 get IP addresses on the same subnet when I use either wireless or wired connections
Is this something to do with the router settings that is not allowing UDP traffic between the wired and wireless networks? Any idea how to fix this?
Thanks in advance!


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These past few years, it's been pretty hard to get Kevin Costner off his back porch. It's in Aspen, so we kind of understand. He's been raising three children under the age of 10, with his second wife, Christine.
"Half my life is driving kids to practice," he jokes.
There were also the business ventures. One of them -- Ocean Therapy Solutions, an oil-spill cleaning system -- became famous thanks to the BP oil spill. Another, ArmStar, is a non-lethal weapon he's selling to the Pentagon that could allow the military and police to pacify violent situations without killing anybody.
"A lot of fascinating (stuff) happens on my back porch," Costner says with a laugh. "And I've never been a guy who makes movies back to back to back. I love movies, love acting, love directing. Hell, I even love rehearsing. But I have a more full life than that."
At age 59, Costner still fits the description given of him by movie scholar David Thomson in 2002's "Biographical Dictionary of Film": "He is not like others -- he has resolved not to be."
Back in the mix
The 2012 hit cable TV miniseries "Hatfields & McCoys" reminded any of us who'd forgotten that Costner's out still there. Then last year, he gave some heart to "Man of Steel," and some grizzled gravitas to Chris Pine and this year's "Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit."
In April, the sports-movie veteran's next one -- "Draft Day" -- is scheduled to open. Then there's "McFarland," about a Latino high school track team. There's also a film with his "Upside of Anger" director, Mike Binder, titled "Black and White." Speaking of that last one, Costner says, "I financed it, and it deals with racism."
Meanwhile, in theaters now there's the gonzo action comedy "3 Days to Kill," in which Costner plays CIA contract killer Ethan Renner, a "cleaner" who learns he's dying of cancer. His new control agent (Amber Heard) bribes him with a serum that might prolong his life, providing he carry out one last series of hits -- in Paris, where his estranged wife (Connie Nielsen) and the teen daughter he barely knows (Hailee Steinfeld) live.
In character
Costner says of his character, "I like Ethan's directness in his job, and how discombobulated he becomes trying to deal with the women in his life." The actor likes the fact that this character hasn't a clue about women -- especially teenage ones. "Welcome to the human race," he says with a laugh. "If you know a lot about women, please write that book for the rest of us."
In "3 Days," Costner shows every wrinkle, every gray hair. He may be "a national treasure," as the film's director, McG, declares, but he's not shy about showing his age, in character and out of it.
Costner wanted to play a man "wedded to his job," who has paid the price for that. He wanted to play a dying man who does what guys sometimes do in that situation: Ethan "wants to earn a lot of money, doing these last few jobs so he can leave his family something," the actor says. "If he can't leave them memories, he'll leave them money."
Don't write off "3 Days" as a morose thriller. It's got laughs. Ethan Renner is so out of his depth with his daughter that he interrupts "enhanced interrogations" to question family men from the terrorist underworld about child-rearing.
Costner says, "I try to get the laugh with my physical movement in those scenes with (the terrorists). By making it quiet, you make it work. And asking parenting questions of those guys -- it's already funny."
"Costner's got an Oscar (for directing 'Dances With Wolves'), so he's a pretty good director himself," says McG (aka Joseph McGinty Nichol). "So I wanted a collaborator, somebody I could listen to. We're two American filmmakers, standing on Montmartre with an all French crew, trying to find our way in a French-style action film -- two fish out of water making a fish-out-of-water story."
Costner's love for the unconventional continues with his next film, a dramedy about a general manager trying to get through an NFL "Draft Day." "If somebody said, 'Make a movie about a single day in the NFL draft,' you'd laugh," he says. "But it's the same thing as saying, 'These guys are walking out of a cornfield and onto a diamond wanting to play baseball. And they're dead. Make a movie about that.' "
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… And, so, maybe you can't write a book. At least that's what I hear when the topic of leaving a family history comes up. Whether it's really "can't," "don't know how," or whatever, there's one book anyone can leave that grandchildren and great grandchildren, etc. would prize.
A scrapbooking blog recently said as well as anyone can:
So, I'll challenge all of you to get out the camera and go room-to-room in your home, taking photos of the way you live today, so that 100 years from now, future generations will sit and marvel at your forethought to preserve those memories.
The Digital Scrapper Blog at http://www.digitalscrapper.com/blog/scrapbooking-runs-in-the-family/ recently displayed a 1911 scrapbook of a grandmother's home. It's something that anyone can.
But taking it a step beyond that it points out the value of scrapbooks made up of the myriad pictures we all have accumulated over the years. They don't have to stay in boxes or drawers. A way to pass them on is through scrap booking. It's likely survivors will be less likely to toss out a scrapbook left behind with people, places, and events identified as they will a box of unidentified pictures.
On those warm summer afternoons while basking in air-conditioned comfort inside your house or on those cold winter nights while inside and snuggly warm, working on a scrapbook might just be one of your most valued gifts to future generations.
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Pasquina PF, Foster LS (2008). Plantar fasciitis. In WR Frontera et al., eds., Essentials of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Musculoskeletal Disorders, Pain, and Rehabilitation, 2nd ed., pp. 469–473. Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier.
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2010 (JUNIOR): Appeared in nine games during the season for the Islanders, starting one … threw 13 innings with nine strikeouts … had an ERA of 9.00 … tossed a scoreless inning in each game against Texas – Pan American (3/30 and 4/27) … collected the win in his only start of the year, scattering four hits and a walk in five innings of work against Sam Houston State (5/21).
Blinn Junior College: Spent two seasons at Blinn Junior College with coach Harvey McIntyre … Buccaneers finished 41-16 in 2009 after going 27-29 his freshman year … team qualified for regionals both seasons … finished 8-2 with a 4.08 ERA in 71 innings as a sophomore … earned all-star honors as a freshman after recording a 6-2 mark with a 3.25 ERA and three complete games in 52 2/3 IP.
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commandlinefu.com is the place to record those command-line gems that you return to again and again.
Delete that bloated snippets file you've been using and share your personal repository with the world. That way others can gain from your CLI wisdom and you from theirs too. All commands can be commented on, discussed and voted up or down.
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Wow, didn't really expect you to read this far down. The latest iteration of the site is in open beta. It's a gentle open beta-- not in prime-time just yet. It's being hosted over at UpGuard (link) and you are more than welcome to give it a shot. Couple things:
Replace all instances of "A" with "B" in file "source" saved as file "destination".
!! IF A/B is multi-byte, then separate bytes with spaces like so: "s/20\ 0A/00/g".
Plays whitenoise from /dev/urandom.
list all txt files order by time, newest first
Find and replace specific characters in a single line in multiple files with sed.
So, I'm using a CentOS VM in VirtualBox, and created four new disks in the SCSI controller.
The VM created the folders:
Using a 'for loop' all disks are partitioned for LVM.
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docker rm $(docker ps -a -q)
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The command will use avconv to convert any video file in to MPEG2 format which will be added to a DVD project.
It's useful when you cannot access your env (systemd) or the process DISPLAY variable is not set. Perhaps also when you have a multi-head/user configuration.
Scrap everything and use `gawk` to do all the magic, since it's like the future or something.
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Yank out only ata- lines that have a drive letter (ignore lines with partitions). Then strip ../../ and print the output.
Yay awk. Be sure to see the alternatives as my initial command is listed there. This one is a revision of the original.
Searches from present dir forward and removes all Mac generated . (dot) files.
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Congrats to Britta, Ydiez and Penny (It's a little late sorry) on your runs. Hope to hear from Penny soon.
Thanks Debran and Mary Kay for your well wishes. The ankle is ok. I am going to run on a tread today for the first time in over a week. I have a problem with setting my pace slower than I am used to, and I don't want to push my ankle to hard. I am hoping for 4 miles at a maybe an 11 or 12 min pace, which is slow for me. If it doesn't work out though, I have the elliptical and the bikes to get my cardio work out. I am really anxious to get back to running, I am afraid I will lose some of my distances unless I get back out there. I have another race coming up next month, not a long distance, but it is the anniversary of my first race and because it is so big (40,000 runners) I am stoked to have made a non open runners corral. I really want to do better this year, so I feel like I need to be out there training. Run safe,
Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8k 57:02 4/10/11
Chicago Run for the Zoo 10k 1:06:51 6/05/11
Chicago Half Marathon 2:33:49 9/11/11
Chicago Hot Chocolate 15k 1:34:20 11/05/11
Chicago Polar Dash 1/2 Marathon 2:21:11 (PR) 1/21/12
Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8k 48:48 (PR) 3/25/12
Nick, a week or two of rest won't make a difference in your distance or conditioning. I can vouch for that. Four weeks....? Your next race is only 8k and you have plenty of time. Heal well. You'll be glad you did.
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
Debra, Nick and Mary Kay - Thanks!!! I am very proud of myself and still very happy, I never ever would have dreamed that I could run such a good time during my first 10k!
Debra: Congrats at reaching 10miles! Wow!!! This must feel so good! And I know what you mean when you say you were stuck at 8 miles for such a long time! This is how it often feels to me, it seems I am stuck at a certain mileage for a long time. I guess I have to learn how to be patient with myself!
Nick: Hang in there! I know how hard it is to be patient when you have a goal... also I total understand how you feel about losing your distance... I have been there last November. I couldn't run for 2 weeks due to back problems and a cold and it felt like it threw me back a lot. It took a long time until I felt that I was back on the performance level and disance I used to be. I hope that you will soon be able to run again at the level and pace you are used to!
Mary Kay: You will reach 7 miles! I often feel a bit impatient with myself and/or can't imagine to push my mileage any further... but eventually there is always the day when I am able to do so. Let us know how the 7 miles went! I am hoping to push myself to over 8 miles soon (I am at 7.6 miles right now).
A good week and happy running to everybody!
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CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR AWESOME FIRST HALF MARATHON!!!!!!! 1:36:07 is an incredible time for 3 months of training. It is a result of your hard work, determination and positive attitude. WTG!!!
Finally run/walked my first HM, almost did not meet the cutoff time of 3:30 hours. I was running comfortably until mile 8 when I felt a sudden severe pain at the back of my right leg which literally pulled me down. It felt like my right leg just gave out on me. I was so grateful to the other runners who were trying to help me. Somebody helped me get up and set me at the side of the road so as not to get run over by the other runners. I stretched it out, massaged it, and rested for a few minutes. I stood up, walked slowly, and decided to run to make for lost time. I could still feel the pain crawling up and down at the back of my right leg. After a few minutes, I had the worst muscle cramps in my left leg. Again, I had to sit at the side of the road, stretched it and gave it a rubdown. This was when I felt so discouraged and disappointed with myself. I knew I trained for this, properly hydrated before and during the race and then the muscle cramps. Never experienced muscle cramps in any of my training runs or 10k races. What gives? I was ready to quit since I saw the first wave of the 16k runners pass by me. Maybe I still have that stubbornness or just plain foolishness or stupidity that I decided to finish what I started even it takes me 5 hours and crawling on all fours. I stopped the whining, dried up my tears, and brushed the dirt off my shorts. I stood up wobbly and got my balance, and I carefully placed one foot in front of the other. I started to walk the last 4.8 miles. To my surprise, I clocked in at 3:23 with the biggest smile on my face even if I was among the last group of HM runners to cross the finish line. 3:32 is far from the best HM times, but that would be my most memorable time since it literally took every ounce of will power and inner strength to finish my first HM. Finally, I had my name and 3:23 engraved at the back of my first HM finisher's medal.
Thanks everyone for your encouragement and advice. You guys are the best cheerleaders, therapists, sports doctors, and running mentors all rolled into one.
Run safe and run fierce!
Penny, CONGRATULATIONS on finishing your first HM! And you rock!!! reading about your first HM brought tears to my eyes and I have to say I admire you for your determination and strength! I am sorry you had to go through all this pain and emotional rollercoaster, but you finished and you can be so proud of yourself! I am very, very happy for you! Put that finisher's medal in a special place :-)))))
YOU ROCK!!! Congrats!
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Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay 11/18/2012
Penny, WOW. Your determination is inspiring! Congratulations!
All of you have been very inspiring. Makes me want to train harder and push past my mental blocks. I know physically I could do a lot more, but mentally I tell myself i can't. WHEN i finish my first HM, it will be a mental victory much more than a physical one for me. It helps to read how you have pushed past the pain and fatigue and finished the race and how good it feels. It doesn't have to be easy, you just have to want to do it bad enough.
Penny, congratulations on your race! Your story is very inspiring!! LOL if that were me I think I'd be wearing that finisher's medal around for a WEEK
New Year's Color Run (5k) - 01/01/13
Oshkosh Half-Marathon - 04/21/13
Penny, your 'never give up' mentality will serve you well so keep it up and keep inspiring everyone around you. Excellent job!
As for the cramping issue, I have a few suggestions that might help. I don't know if you already use any of these but they're worth mentioning. The most likely issue was that muscle was simply fatigued and let you know it wasn't happy. If your training for the big race didn't allow for some rest it may have never fully recovered before the race. For longer events I have no issues with stopping for a stretch break, usually at an aid station, because they help so much. When you push yourself to a new distance you find that it has a new set of challenges and getting used to handling the demands is one of biggest ones. My first half caused a few issues that aren't such a problem now I've done more distance work and completed 3 HM's and a half ironman to count as my 4th. Of course I walked a lot of the last one due to the 100 degree heat which also helps cause cramps, but I finished which was my only goal on the day. That finishers medal is a big source of pride for me now just like your medal will be for you.
Something that helps prevent cramps is magnesium phosphate. It comes in a small spray bottle or mini tablets and can usually be found at health food stores or specialty running/cycling shops. That chemical is naturally produced when you're exercising but if you don't make enough then cramps are a likely side effect. As we get older our ability to make it diminishes which doesn't help. This is partly why bananas are a popular food on race day. When I'm out on 100 mile bike rides it seems more riders have some than those who don't so it's tried and tested. When I go for my first ultra 50k in May you can be certain I'll have some mp with me.
Overall I think you're doing great, and we all learn from every race we run so keep collecting the medals and we'll all enjoy hearing about your next success.
Relentless Forward Motion
Penny~Congratulations on your courageous first half marathon run! The determination and strength of will you showed during your race is an inspiration. Never forget what you were able to do in the midst of all the pain and emotion!
Take the time to heal body and soul in the next few weeks, you need and deserve it. Get some rest, do a lot of stretching, maybe a massage and enjoy a red velvet cupcake or two! When you are ready for your recovery run, take it easy.
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. BRAVO Penny!
Penny -Congratulations, I am so happy for you. You are an inspiration to so many here. I hope that this is just the first of many for you.
My ankle has been getting better, ran 4 miles on the treadmill yesterday. I am going to keep the mileage low for a month, and then start back up on my 1/2 marathon training. I plan to use my 10 miler race as a tune up race, which is two weeks before my 1/2.
Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8k 57:02 4/10/11
Chicago Run for the Zoo 10k 1:06:51 6/05/11
Chicago Half Marathon 2:33:49 9/11/11
Chicago Hot Chocolate 15k 1:34:20 11/05/11
Chicago Polar Dash 1/2 Marathon 2:21:11 (PR) 1/21/12
Chicago Shamrock Shuffle 8k 48:48 (PR) 3/25/12
Hi everybody,
just sharing my joy here.... I went on my usual Thursday morning long distance run at the beach... and was able to push it from 7.6miles to a very nice 8.6 mile run :-))))) I am so happy about it My pace was very slow though with 11:30 min per mile... which shows again how lucky I was on Sunday to run such a fast pace during my first 10k. Anyway, I am just happy and wanted to share. This is one of the days where I see the Half Marathon happening... on days like Sunday I don't ;-)
XTERRA Crystal Cove Trail Run 6k - 52:33.5
Redondo Beach Superbowl Run 10k - 01:05:49
Big Sur Half Marathon on Monterey Bay 11/18/2012
Thanks for all the positive feedback. My legs were sore for almost 3 days and have been walking around the office with a funny gait, but otherwise I have been feeling on top of the world. Debra, the cupcakes did really help with the recovery.
Oshcat - cannot wear the medal at the office but I have it in my purse the whole time.
Angie - I agree with you that you really need to be mentally tough
Andy - for the magnesium phosphate spray, do I apply it before a workout or upon onset of cramps? Or better yet stock on the bananas.
Nick - hope the ankle feels better and good luck on your tune up race.
Britta - wish I have a beach that I could run on like your long runs. Your 13.1 will happen for sure 100%.
Maybe still floating on runner's high, I am looking for my next half to train for. I will try the Hal Higdon novice 2 HM program. Found one on May 6. Is it too soon, too fast?
Run safe and run fierce.
Penny~Enjoy the post runner's high as long as you want to! The May 6 HM is 12 weeks away, and many training plans are 12 weeks. You may want to look at Runner's World Smart Coach plans. You submit a race time into the formula, and it will give you a plan based on that time. The training runs then give you a targeted pace to shoot for on each run. There are 2 plans, I use the free one! Worth a look.
Britta~ Congratulations on completing 8.6 miles --WTG! Keeping your pace slow is exactly what you want to be doing on those long runs. You are building endurance, and teaching the body to adapt to long periods of running.
Nick~Hope the healing process continues to go well for you. Looks like you have a good plan to ease back into training.
Got in a nice 5 mile tempo run on Wednesday at the track, and ran an easy 3 miles along the river on T & TH. It was great to be outdoors in the sunshine and mild temps this week. Right now, watching the snow fly outside my window -- I will have to determine if I do my 10 miler indoors(arghhhh!) or outside if they clear the bike path. Tonight, celebrate (but, not too much) my eldest son's 25th birthday! Where does the time go!
Best wishes to anyone racing this weekend. Run strong, friends!
Penny, way to go on completing your first Half!! Such perserverence! So impressed. Had it been me, there would have been tears. No doubt. Glad you're enjoying the high. I can't believe you feel the need to *train* for another. It sounds like you're already ready. You may not be able to wear your medal at work but I plan on putting mine on the wall for a while, maybe permanently. Last summer during a meeting I mentioned to the Director of my org. that me and a couple of the younger guys (I named them) had a Mudathalon team (to see if he wanted us to wear any org. apparel). He couldn't believe his ears and actually looked annoyed, not about the apparel suggestion, about the thought that I might be running in that race being a female of a certain age and a professional and probably older than him. He operates with a good old boy network and I just stared him down thinking "ponder that on your golf outings." So last week he was sitting next to me at a meeting and mentioned how annoyed he was that it had started to rain just as soon as he went for his run. At first I thought *sure*. Then I thought, WTH, if I shamed him into running or even into lying about running, it's a good thing. Any medals I get this year are going on my office wall in a very noticable place.
Andy, thanks for the great MP advice! I've been struggling with minor cramping and am going to try and see if it helps.
Debra, 10 miles on a track? That is kind of amazing! I don't know how you do it. I would need a sedative. And running in the cold? I just tried a 5k, that's a distance I was able to run inside when sick but in the cold I barely ran half of it. toward the end my legs and face felt like they had pins and needles stuck in them. Interestingly, my time wasn't much worse with all that walking than it was this summer with almost all running.
Nick, how's it going?
On a related but unrelated note, is anyone experiencing changes in their digestion? I am having random rolling fart attacks and big changes in my trips to the bathroom. Sorry if that's too graphic but I'd love to blame this on running because it's the only change.
Everyon stay well and enjoy the high
Mary Kay
Running: Started 5/6/2011; Graduated C25k - 7/21/11; Graduated B210k - 11/24/11;
PRs: 5k - 36:42; 8k - 1:10; 4.15 m - 53.41; 10k - 1:18; HM - 2:56:31
I may be slow but I'm persistant.
Goals: 5k under 30 min.; HM under 2 hr.; AG award in the USAF HM! and one full marathon.
It won't be easy but it will be worth it!
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Wayward child,
February 19, 2012
Please pray for my 16 year-old. She was caught sneaking a boy in to her friends house and is sexually active. This isn't the first time. I worry most about her lack of remorse and constant lying. This has been ongoing for a few years now. Im about at my wits end and don't know where to go from here.


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yay itz d00r wrote: epitaph seems to be trying to expand thier label, they signed the locust over the summer i believe but under the anti division of it because the locust felt wierd about being on epitaph.
Sage Francis wrote: yes, I have signed to Epitaph.
No, Sage isn't illin no mo.
Yes, I will be on the Warped Tour.
No, it won't be this summer.
Yes, Atmosphere IS on the Warped Tour this summer.
No, they are not signed to Epitaph.
Yes, Non-Prophets HOPE is still coming out on LEX.
No, I don't give a shit what people think about my fat belly any more.
Sage Francis wrote: yes, I have signed to Epitaph.
out of curiosity, i was wondering some of the specific things that set a label like epitaph apart from your run of the mill horror-story record label. ive heard numerous people talk about their respect for artistic freedom, and fair treatment of the artists, etc., etc. but... what does this really translate into? i mean, do they basically agree to front the production money for a certain number of album copies and expect very little in return (pecentage wise)... do they stay completely out of the way creatively and just work with whatever an artist gives them?
i dont mean to pry into contract specifics or anything, its just that ive always thought of record companies sort of as banks... they help someone put an album out financially (like a loan) and then expect some return (interest on their investment). is a label like epitaph just a more fair bank or do they not even operate that way at all? the marketing/production end of the music business has always baffled me so forgive me if i'm way off here.
joedan wrote: yay itz d00r wrote: epitaph seems to be trying to expand thier label, they signed the locust over the summer i believe but under the anti division of it because the locust felt wierd about being on epitaph.
i saw those guys in concert once. they were laughibly bad. i'm surprised they would get signed.
Sage Francis wrote: They will take a lot of the business burden off of my own shoulders.
They will get my albums into stores everywhere.
They will do promotion and publicity.
They will give me a much better royalty rate than I would ever get on any other major label.
They will offer me more than I have been able to work out on my own up until this point.
They will and have treated me with a lot of courtesy and respect.
They will let me make the kind of music I like to make.


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The Studio
Tobago beach accommodation with ocean views
The Studio is a one-bedroom and entirely private apartment located below Birdsong Lodge, with stunning ocean views of Castara Bay and the Caribbean beyond. The Studio offers a modestly priced option for guests seeking Tobago beach accommodation within the atmosphere and facilities at Castara Retreats. This accommodation is more enclosed than the others and does not catch a breeze, and for this reason we installed air-conditioning in the bedroom.
Everything in the apartment is well appointed to the high standards that guests have come to expect of Castara Retreats, and is well soundproofed from Birdsong above. The covered deck faces west and this is perfect for watching the setting sun and for the westerly views both down the coast and out to sea. This private and open plan apartment is not overlooked by any other accommodation. The driveway to Castara Retreats is located just below, and this offers the quickest way to the beach in a four or five minute walk.
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Facilities and features include the following:
- Covered terrace: The Studio features a spacious covered terrace as an open plan living/dining/kitchen area approximately 15 x 12 feet. There is comfortable seating in which to relax, read a book, or simply take in the view. Also a dining table with two comfortable chairs and a large double hammock for single or double occupancy.
- Kitchen: On one side of this covered deck area is a well-equipped kitchen with cooker, full-size fridge freezer and hardwood cupboards built by local craftsmen and well-resourced for clients who are keen on cooking. As with all the accommodations at Castara Retreats there is an iron, ironing board, hair dryer, security safe, and ventilation fan.
- Bedroom: The bedroom, with air-conditioning, looks out onto the covered deck to the ocean beyond with fine views from the bed. Featuring a comfortable queen size bed, with top quality mosquito net on a purpose made frame, it has storage and hanging space as well as bedside shelves and lamps, together with an occasional table with additional lamp. The floor is the same beautiful red cedar that covers the ceiling and most of the floor area of this apartment. Double French doors lead from the bedroom onto the terrace.
- Shower room: Adjoining the bedroom is a compact en suite shower room with large mirror and discrete spotlights.
If you want a high quality, air-conditioned, modestly priced apartment at Castara Retreats, then The Studio is a wonderful choice for your Tobago beach holiday.
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Fay and Blanche Hudson are about to celebrate 75 years of marriage. The family is asking people to join the couple and help celebrate their 75th anniversary on Saturday, April 20, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Asher School cafeteria.
Family is asking friends, former students, teachers and relatives to stop by and help celebrate their 75-year journey.
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The temperature read 100 degrees on the KleinBank thermometer at 4:45 p.m. on Monday. The official high temp on Monday, recorded by official weather observer Dwight Mulder, was 99 degrees. Mulder said this was the hottest temperature recorded since the mercury reached an all-time high of 110 degrees on July 31, 1988, which was the year of a very serious drought in the area. (Staff photo by Bruce Olson)
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An award that honors precision can get pretty fuzzy when universities do the counting.
In a scoring system that would befuddle any NCAA fan, competitive universities create their own rules for adding up their Nobel score cards.
So both Stanford and Harvard boosted their tallies when one economist -- Alvin Roth -- won Monday's Nobel Prize. Last week, UC-San Francisco and Kyoto University did the same, each adding stem cell scientist Shinya Yamanaka to their score cards of winners.
If the Swedish dignitaries dialed campuses to alert honorees, instead of homes, they would have to make conference calls.
The Swedes have awarded exactly 835 prizes since the contest was conceived in 1901.
The total number of prizes claimed by universities? Thousands.
If a laureate wandered their halls as a young undergrad, Columbia University claims credit -- an approach that has pushed it to the top of the list in Nobel recipients. The school even tallies novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose principal pre-Nobel affiliation was writing a novel in a university reading room.
Stanford, also on the top of the list, counts winners on the opposite end of their careers -- people who retired from academia elsewhere but land their final gig teaching at the prestigious Hoover Institution.
Even within a university, different criteria can create confusion. So while Stanford has a list of 19 current Nobel Laureates, last week President John Hennessy referenced a total of 26. Sometimes two visiting professors are included, and the tally jumps to 28. Yet the "Stanford Facts" website cites 27.
There are no hard and fast rules. The University of Cambridge in England claims writer Bertrand Russell, even though it fired him. Johns Hopkins and Columbia reportedly refused to give physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer a paid job during the Depression; now, because of her volunteer work in a lab, they claim her as their Nobelist.
Modern life offers time-space opportunities never seen by laureates like physicist Marie Curie, who won in both 1903 and 1911 yet never left Paris.
Now, scientists can be two places at once.
Yamanaka flies to San Francisco one week a month to supervise a lab of eight UCSF scientists.
And they often relocate during their careers.
This explains Roth's two-places-at-once achievement. He's still an official member of the Harvard faculty, yet held his Nobel news conference in Palo Alto.
The Stanford grad did his research at Harvard and remains on its payroll until Jan. 1 -- but arrived on The Farm this fall, getting a head start on a new job.
"He's residing here, researching here and teaching here, as a full member of the community," said Stanford's Lisa Lapin.
Nobel winners'research travels with them -- "the work continues, building on an initial discovery," she said.
Both Stanford and Berkeley claim Department of Energy director Steven Chu, who did his Nobel work at Bell Labs in New Jersey.
Economist Ken Arrow is on three universities' Nobel lists. Educated at the University of Chicago, he did his work at Harvard but now teaches at Stanford.
"In academia," said Lapin, "it's very logical."
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1. Gah, need to organize
I really need to sort my things. I vaguely remember seeing my USB key somewhere--must've been my room. I'll start that later. First, I'll pack all the things I can donate or throw away...
パソコンのマニュアルを書ける人を探しています。 I am seeking a person who can write a personal computer manual.
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2. Office supplies shopaholic
My name is Sacha Chua and I'm an office supplies shopaholic. I find it nearly impossible to pass a bookstore without checking out the index cards and notebooks in stock.
Today I bought two small plastic cases.
A good size for scrapbook material: photos, receipts, tickets... No more digging around in my bag for things to scrapbook!
(Hmm. Thinking about it now, I could have also survived with a Ziplock(tm) packet.)
Okay. Maybe I can store art materials in it. Or cards. Yeah, it's a good size for stationery. That's it.
(You know you have it bad when you think of reasons _after_ you buy the thing...)
On my way out of the school supplies stand, I found my fingers inexplicably rifling through the notebooks on display. I picked up a Stradmore notebook composed of eight thin notebooks held together with pins. Here's the side view:
A light bulb went off in my head. This is perfect for journal-writing! I can keep a journal along with my work notes (eliminating the need for a separate album) and then simply re-file them. If I use a mini-notebook for letters to Dominique, I can mail the whole mini-notebook to him when I'm done.
I had a hard time deciding between a small notebook that could fit in my purse and a medium-size notebook that gave me more room to write, but I eventually decided on the medium-size notebook.
Because it had "girl" written all over it.
Of course, _after_ I bought it, I reasoned that larger mini-notebooks would be more efficient to store and mail. (Right.)
家にはパソコンが5台あるが、内2台は役立っていない。 It is not useful though there are five personal computers in the house.
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Today: Three Silicon Valley companies are preparing to go public next week, ahead of a massively anticipated offering from Twitter. Also: Intel (INTC) rises, Apple (AAPL) and social stocks decline.
The Lead: FireEye, Rocket Fuel and Five Prime ready for market debut
With the financial community abuzz from Twitter's Thursday announcement of plans for an initial public offering, three Silicon Valley companies are expected to make their debuts next week, offering the San Francisco microblogging stalwart a temperature check of the IPO market.
Milpitas security software company FireEye, Redwood City advertising-technology company Rocket Fuel and South San Francisco biotech company Five Prime Thearapeutics are expected to price their initial batch of shares and debut on Wall Street next week, Renaissance Capital reported Friday. If the companies go through with their expected IPOs, the three companies will be the first of a wave of expected Silicon Valley market debuts: Seven Bay Area companies, including those three,


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SAN JOSE -- A federal judge Friday struck out San Jose's illegal-monopoly claims against Major League Baseball over a stalled Oakland A's move but still let the city pursue a case involving a ballpark-land deal with the team.
U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte's split decision in a 26-page ruling acknowledged baseball's unique antitrust exemption seems illogical but that it was beyond his authority to change it. The ruling left both sides claiming victory in the dispute over the A's four-plus-year effort to build a new San Jose ballpark over the San Francisco Giants' territorial objections.
"Ninety-nine percent of this case is gone," MLB lawyer John Keker said. "And we're confident that once the rest of the case is developed, the rest of the case will be gone."
But San Jose officials cheered the chance to continue litigation, which they hope will ultimately lead MLB to greenlight the A's move.
"My view is we're going to extra innings," City Attorney Rick Doyle said. Philip Gregory, one of the private lawyers handling the case for San Jose at no cost to the city, called it "excellent" for both the city and the team, which lost a playoff series Thursday against Detroit.
"Clearly, he wants the case to go forward," Gregory said of Whyte's decision. "The A's may have lost last night, but the A's and the city of San Jose won today."
The Oakland Athletics have played in Oakland's O.Co Coliseum since their 1968 move west from Kansas City. It's MLB's fourth-oldest ballpark, the last to remain shared with a football team, and has been plagued with plumbing problems. The A's have sought a move to San Jose since 2009 after efforts to develop a ballpark in Oakland and Fremont faltered.
But San Jose lies in territory MLB gave the San Francisco Giants in the early 1990s. The Giants have steadfastly opposed an A's move to Silicon Valley, arguing it's a key part of the team's fan base needed to support their AT&T Park, which opened on the San Francisco waterfront in 2000. Previous A's owners let the Giants claim that territory when the Giants sought a Silicon Valley ballpark in the 1990s.
Nathaniel Grow, who teaches business law at the University of Georgia's Terry College of Business, said the decision is more favorable to Major League Baseball.
"From a legal perspective, it's a huge win for Major League Baseball," Grow said. "They get rid of the most dangerous claims. The one claim that's left isn't of itself going to get San Jose a baseball team."
But even so, Grow said San Jose's surviving claim under state law could give the city "enough leverage over Major League Baseball to reach a settlement if Major League Baseball doesn't want its decision-making process opened up" in court.
"It's possible that state-law claim could be enough to still motivate Major League Baseball to let the A's move," Grow said. "But it's difficult for anyone outside the MLB boardroom to know how much impact that one state-law claim will have on their decision making."
One other break for San Jose, Grow said, was that the ruling came quickly, just a week after Whyte heard MLB's dismissal motion in court and signaled skepticism about San Jose's claims. That at least puts San Jose on a quicker path toward a trial or appeal.
For now, the suit proceeds to a "case management conference" that will determine a trial schedule. City lawyers suggested a trial as early as March, but MLB lawyers called that unrealistic.
San Jose could potentially ask the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review the ruling against the antitrust claims.
Baseball's exemption from antitrust laws barring anti-competitive monopolies stems from U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1922, 1957 and 1972.
Though later decisions questioned the logic behind the unique exemption not applied to other sports, judges have argued it's up to Congress and not the courts to change it. San Jose argued that more recent decisions limited baseball's antitrust exemption to a now-extinct "reserve clause" that gave teams exclusive control over their players' careers and not the broader business of baseball.
Quoting from earlier court decisions, Whyte said he "agrees with the other jurists that have found baseball's antitrust exemption to be 'unrealistic, inconsistent, or illogical.' " But he said he "is still bound by the Supreme Court's holdings." Whyte also dismissed the city's antitrust and unfair competition claims under state law.
San Jose's surviving claim involves a 2011 land-purchase option with the A's to buy half the property needed for a proposed downtown ballpark from the city for about $7 million. San Jose argued MLB's failure to make a decision allowing the A's to buy the land hurt the city. Whyte said the absence of a valid antitrust claim "does not necessarily foreclose" San Jose's contract-interference case.
"The court finds that the complaint sufficiently alleges a 'disruption' of the contract because, here, the A's are unable to exercise the option due to MLB's delay in conducting the vote pursuant to the MLB Constitution to approve or deny relocation."
MLB in a statement was "pleased that the court dismissed the heart of San Jose's action and confirmed that MLB has the legal right to make decisions about the relocation of its member clubs."
"The court dismissed all of San Jose's state and federal law claims challenging that right," the statement said. "We are confident that the remaining state law claims, which assert that San Jose's costs associated with the option agreement for the sale of real estate were increased by the timing of MLB's decision-making process, will be decided in MLB's favor, and that San Jose has not suffered any compensable injury."
But San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed still called it "good news for San Jose because the case is going to move forward."


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What Might Wills And Kate's Baby Look Like?
Monday 3rd December 2012
We've used a baby morphing tool to find out what the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby might look like.
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Fate and Chance in Literature and Culture
In Fate and Chance in Literature and Culture, we will explore these two interrelated concepts in comparative perspective over a broad historical range. As a result, the students will learn how the philosophy of fate and chance has been reflected in works of different Russian authors and in different cultural and political environments. In Russian as well as western systems of belief fate and chance represent two extreme visions of the universal order, or, perhaps, two diametrically opposed cosmic forces: complete determinism, on the one hand, and complete chaos or unpredictability, on the other. These visions have been greatly reflected by various mythopoetic systems. In this course, we will investigate religious and folkloric sources from a series of Russian traditions compared to other Indo-European traditions (Greek, East-European). Readings will include The Song of Prince Igor's Campaign, The Gambler by Dostoevsky, The Queen of Spades by Pushkin, Vij by Gogol, The Black Monk by Chekhov, The Fatal Eggs by Bulgakov, and more.
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Exclusive: Casting Mackenzie Foy as Renesmee in 'Twilight' (Video)
The final film in the blockbuster "Twilight" franchise, "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2," arrives on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download on March 2. Speakeasy has an exclusive clip from the Blu-ray edition which, like the two-disc DVD set, includes hours of bonus special features.
In the Blu-ray clip, young actress Mackenzie Foy discusses how she heard about and auditioned for the coveted role of Renesmee Cullen. Part one of "Twilight: Breaking Dawn" will also be available as an extended edition Blu-ray/DVD/digital download on March 2, and includes eight additional minutes of new footage.
"The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2″ has taken in more than $291.8 million at the box office, according to the website Box Office Mojo. It was directed by Bill Condon and also starred Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, and was based on the bestselling book series by Stephenie Meyer.
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Venice store is sold for $1 million
Published: Wednesday, December 12, 2012 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 at 7:54 p.m.
VENICE - A Bradenton company managed by people close to the new owners of C1 Bank have sold a store on South U.S. 41 Bypass to a Venice company for $1 million.
Caravel Brazil LLC sold the 11,652-square-foot retail store at 500 S U.S. 41 Bypass to KSS of Southwest Florida LLC, records show.
The building previously belonged to Robert Brenner, who bought it for $1.3 million in January 2005.
In January, C1 Bank sold Brenner's loan on the building to Caravel Brazil, and Caravel Brazil seized the property in March after winning a $1.19 million foreclosure judgment.
KSS of Southwest Florida is a Venice company managed by Kawarjit and Keith Sawhney.
During October, C1 moved its headquarters from Lakewood Ranch to downtown St. Petersburg. The bank was founded in Bradenton in 1995 as Community Bank of Manatee and later renamed Community Bank & Co. It adopted the C1 name in May. The bank holding company is owned by a former investment banker and a wealthy Brazilian businessman.
The sale is among commercial real estate deals in Venice that have been picking up their pace in the recovery.
Earlier this month, Kai Real Estate Holdings LLC bought a 5,271-square-foot office building at 2190 S. Tamiami Trail in Venice from EDP Inc., a subsidiary of Century21 Alamar & Associates. Century21 Alamar paid $250,500 for the building in March 1998, records show.
Kai Real Estate, a North Port company managed by Aaron M. Taylor, financed its purchase with two loans totaling $589,800 from JPMorgan Chase.
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