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Rapid Industrialization in Northern Wilderness New Threat toWildlife, Habitats and Indigenous Peoples
Rovaniemi/Arendal/Nairobi, 11 June 2001- Up to 80 per cent of the Arctic will be affected by mining, oil and gas exploration, ports, roads and other developments by 2050 if the industrialization of one of the world's last wilderness areas continues at current rates. Scientists with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) are warning that the Arctic's rich and abundant wildlife will suffer with birds and larger mammals such as reindeer, caribou, polar bears, wolves and brown bears at greatest risk.
The findings, which are based on a pioneering new method of mapping the true extent of environmental impacts, are released today at a meeting marking 10 years of Arctic Environmental Cooperation taking place in Rovaniemi, Finland.
Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director of UNEP, says: "At the turn of this new millennium less than 15 per cent of the Arctic's land was heavily impacted by human activity and infrastructure. However, if exploration for oil, gas and minerals, developments such as hydro-electric schemes and timber extraction continue at current rates, more than half of the Arctic will be seriously threatened in less than 50 years".
"This will lead to increasing pressure on the life-styles of indigenous peoples as well as on precious habitats and ecosystems in an area of the world vital for wildlife and for regulating the Earth's climate," he says.
Svein Tveitdal of GRID-Arendal, UNEP's key Arctic centre which has compiled the new report, said:" In the last part of the 20th century, the Arctic has been increasingly exposed to industrial exploration and exploitation as well as to a growth in tourism. The growth in oil, gas and mineral extraction, transportation networks and non-indigenous settlements are increasingly affecting wildlife and the welfare of indigenous people. Various plans are under way to extend the infrastructure and development into new regions such as the Yamal Peninsula of Russia, the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and the Barents Sea region".
Plans are also well advanced to open up a vast new seaway around the roof of the world. The Northern Sea Route, a 5,600 km stretch of water running from the Barents Sea in the west to the Bering Strait in the east, could significantly reduce the sailing time from Europe, Scandinavia and Russia to the Far East.
However, experts are concerned that the development of the route is primarily intended to exploit the rich oil, gas and mineral resources of Siberia. The start of just part of the route will result in a previously unknown level of industrialization of Siberia. This will add to pressures on the Arctic generally as a result of a sharp rise in the number of ships operating in the region, port and road developments and improved access to new oil, gas and mineral fields.
"Infrastructure brings primary industrial development but also secondary, more uncontrolled development, in terms of increased human immigration and settlements. These in turn increase the risks of deforestation, overgrazing, social conflicts, pollution of water, land degradation and fragmentation of habitats. Our findings show that even with stable rates of industrial growth, mirroring those that have occurred in the latter part of the last century, an estimated 50 per cent to 80 per cent of the Arctic will reach critical levels of human-induced disturbance by 2050," said Mr Tveitdal.
The report estimates significant human disturbance even at lower growth rates of infrastructure. It concludes that 40 per cent of the region's wildlife and ecosystems will be critically disturbed by 2050 if growth occurs at half or 50 per cent of levels seen since the period 1940 to 1990.
If infrastructure growth accelerates, doubling or increasing by 200 per cent over the same period, 90 per cent of the Arctic will suffer significant human-induced disturbance by 2050.
Mark Collins of UNEP's World Conservation Monitoring Centre in Cambridge, England, said that vast tracts of the Arctic are designated as protected areas.
"However, many key ecosystems are poorly protected, particularly in the southern part of the Arctic, where most of the development is happening," he said.
The findings have come from a pilot of study of UNEP's Global methodology for mapping human impacts on the Biosphere (GLOBIO) which for the first time looks at the cumulative impacts of human activities on the environment.
Previous work in this area has detailed the impact on habitats, ecosystems and wildlife close to a development. But this new study draws on the conclusions of some 200 scientific studies from around the globe.
These are shedding new light on how human activities not only affect the environment close by but trigger significant changes and disturbances considerable distances away from a road, settlement, mine or other infrastructure development. Some of the impacts are immediate whereas others are cumulative, gradually undermining the ecosystems upon which humans and wildlife depend for food, water and shelter. The pilot study has focused on the Arctic. UNEP plans to extend GLOBIO to cover human impacts across the globe. Preliminary assessments have already been made of the Himalayas and the Amazon.
Wildlife Studies of more than 100 species show that some Arctic animals will suffer more than others as the region becomes more industrialized.
"Animals avoid areas near infrastructure, breeding success decreases in developed areas and habitats become fragmented. The ecological impacts of losses of habitats and redistribution of animals away from development may also substantially affect foraging success or survival in areas beyond these initial zones of disturbance and hence result in overgrazing, erosion and reduced breeding success," the GLOBIO report says.
It shows that Arctic roads quickly reduce the abundance of reindeer and caribou five kilometres from the highway; the populations of large predators such as wolves and bears are affected two kilometres from the development and birds one kilometres from the infrastructure.
"Sensitivity is particularly high in the Arctic. Reindeer and caribou are among the most sensitive species in the Arctic to human activity, often reducing the use of grazing grounds by 50 per cent to 90 per cent within four to 10km of roads, power lines or resorts. Large Arctic carnivores abandon areas when road densities reach typically around 0.5 to 0.6 km/km squared," says the report.
The report says Arctic birds suffer when development leads to drainage of wetlands. They also suffer from traffic noise as a result of the building of new roads. Studies indicate that a variety of bird populations can fall by as much as 44 per cent up to 1.5km from a new road.
The cumulative impacts of the kind of piecemeal development now taking place in the Arctic is having even wider impacts on the region's ecosystems as result of longer term changes in features such as hydrology, pollution levels and the condition of the permafrost and tundra, the report concludes.
A new road may affect the abundance of wildlife up to five kilometres away, but the cumulative impacts on their ecosystems can be detected up to 20km away, the UNEP scientists estimate.
The cumulative impacts of power lines and pipelines can spread up to 16km away from where they are physically located. The ecological "footprint" of human settlements, including cities, towns and mining or oil exploration camps, can disturb ecosystems up to 40km away.
Dr. Christian Nellemann from the Norwegian Institute of Nature Research, who coordinated this UNEP project together with Lars Kullerud from GRID-Arendal, said there were likely to be winners as well as losers among the Arctic's wildlife with animals adapted to scavenge benefiting at the expense of those with more specialized life styles.
"By 2050 we can foresee less migratory birds and mammals like Arctic foxes and reindeer but more gulls, red foxes, and crows. Basically human kind's interference in the delicate, ecological, balance of the Arctic will allow the scavengers and marauders to take over the scene at the expense of more specialized birds and mammals, which will decline and even, in some cases, disappear. When you develop new infrastructure such as a road you trigger a whole chain reaction," he said.
Vegetation and Plant Life Powerlines and pipelines have relatively little short term impact on Arctic vegetation. Changes in snow cover and minor disturbances in soils normally only occur up to 500 metros from such structures.
Cumulative, longer term, impacts are likely to be felt further afield. Disturbance to vegetation from power line and pipelines may affect ecosystems up to two kilometers from such infrastructures as a result of changes in the permafrost and damage from off-road vehicles used to service and maintain such structures.
The cumulative impacts on vegetation of a road can be detected up to 10km away by changes to the sensitive permafrost and water discharge, by bringing in hunters or logging companies in forested areas.. Human settlements can impact the vegetation of local ecosystems up to 30km away, the report says.
Indigenous People Many different groups of indigenous people, including the Saami, Nenets, Komi and Chukchi of Eurasia and the Dogrib, Cree, Innu and Yupiit of North America, rely on hunting and herding of reindeer and caribou.
Such peoples have, over thousands of years, developed social networks, traditions and cultural life-styles based on the movements of these animals.
But the GLOBIO report warns that the industrialization of the Arctic threatens the traditional existence of many indigenous peoples.
"Northern Scandinavia and parts of Russia are example of areas where the current growth of infrastructure related to transportation, oil, gas and mineral extraction is increasingly incompatible with land requirements for reindeer husbandry. In these areas infrastructure growth is associated with the loss of traditional lands and conditions forcing indigenous people to abandon nomadic herding patterns for more sedentary life styles," it states. Future industrialization is likely to affect the lives and cultures of indigenous peoples in Alaska, Canada and Greenland as many of their traditional foods and activities gradually disappear.
Dr. Nellemann said. "This first report is on the Arctic but our work is proceeding to map and assess human impacts on a global level. All the environmental problems we are grappling with today - health, pollution, resource conflicts and land and water degradation - is the result of heavy impacts on less than 20 per cent of the Earth's land area. Imagine the scale of environmental problems globally when we reach a 50 to 80 per cent level of impact in less than 100 years".
He added:" GLOBIO is not science fiction or doomsday predictions. It allows us to chronicle with far greater accuracy land and water degradation processes that have resulted from the human expansions of the last 50 years. We hope GLOBIO will open the eyes of public and the state leaders around the world, alerting them to the consequences of the choices that we are making today"
Notes To Editors: The meeting, "Ten Years of Arctic Environmental Cooperation", opens at Rovaniemi City Hall, Finland, on 11June, 2001. It will be attended by Ministers from the Arctic Council member countries, indigenous leaders and international agencies and NGOs. The council was founded in 1996. Its member governments are Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, the Russian Federation, Sweden and the United States.
A message, concerning sustainable development in the Arctic, is expected to be issued from the meeting as part of the world-wide preparations for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio + Ten) taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, next year.
The Global methodology for mapping human impacts on the Biosphere (GLOBIO) gives a scientific overview of the cumulative impacts of human activities on the environment.
The pilot GLOBIO report on the Arctic has mapped the impacts of current human disturbance on the region. The impact, by 2050, as a result of three growth scenarios have also been mapped. These are a stable or 100 per cent infrastructure growth rate reflecting the growth seen between 1940 and 1990 extrapolated out to 2050; a reduced growth rate of 50 per cent and an accelerated growth rate of 200 per cent. The methodology and conclusions have been subject to scientific peer review. The reviews are attached to the report
The impacts are presented as colour graphics. The graphics and report, embargoed for publication Tuesday 12 June, will be available on the http://www.globio.info/ web-site over the weekend.
A photograph by Bryan and Cherry Alexander of a young Nenets woman herding reindeer past an industrial complex on the Yamal peninsula, Russia, can also be viewed. Newspapers and magazines can buy the picture through web site www.arcticphoto.co.uk
For More Information Please Contact: Nick Nuttall, UNEP Media Officer, on tel: 254 2 623084, mobile: 254 733 632755, fax: 254 2 623927, e-mail: email@example.com (Between 10 June and 12 June please telephone The Tyholmen Hotel in Arendal, Norway, on: 47 370 26800 or GRID-Arendal, 47 370 35711 or mobile 920 47 626) or Tore Brevik, UNEP Spokesman/Director of Communications and Public Information, on tel: 254 2 623292, e-mail: email@example.com or Svein Tveitdal, Managing Director GRID-Arendal, on tel: +47 37 03 57 30, mobile +47 90 58 90 32, e-mail email@example.com , or Dr. Christian Nellemann, (project leader), Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Tel: + 47 61 28 79 00, mobile+ 47 93 46 67 13, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com or Lars Kullerud ,Polar Program Manager GRID-Arendal, mobile: + 47 90 87 00 99, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Executive Director Klaus Töpfer,(UNEP) director Svein Tveitdal, (GRID-Arendal) dr.Christian Nellemann, (NINA) and Polar Program Manager Lars Kullerud (GRID-Arendal) will be available in Rovaniemi
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RICHMOND, California, August 15, 2007—Steven S. Schulman has joined Mechanics Bank as Vice President and Senior Real Estate Asset Manager, helping customers of the bank's Wealth Management Group to maximize the performance of their trust real estate portfolios.
Mr. Schulman has more than 25 years in the real estate business, 15 of which have been in the area of managing real property and special assets inside trusts and estates. He joins Mechanics Bank after more than 13 years with Wells Fargo, where he was a vice president and real estate wealth management consultant the Trust Real Estate division. In addition to banking, Mr. Schulman spent a number of years in real estate brokerage, acquisition and property management and is a CCIM designation.
At Mechanics Bank, Mr. Schulman will focus on long term asset preservation and growth for affluent individuals and families, including such activities as raw land development and negotiating property sales and leases.
"Mechanics Bank has had a dedicated team responsible solely for clients' real estate assets for more than eight years," said Kirsten Weisser, executive vice president and head of the Wealth Management Group at Mechanics Bank. "More recently, we have seen a growing need to handle increasingly complex real estate assets. Steven's experience with such transactions as 1031 exchanges, redevelopment projects and historic landmark properties enables us to expand our fiduciary real estate capabilities."
Mr. Schulman said that the appeal of Mechanics Bank lies in its size; large enough to handle substantial client needs, yet small enough to retain its local character. "Mechanics Bank's demonstrated success and continuity as a community bank provides a tremendous opportunity to address high net worth clients in a more personal and responsive way that larger institutions can," he said. "They feel a stronger sense of connection with Mechanics Bank."
Mr. Schulman received a B.A. in American History from California State College in Sonoma and a Master of Arts in Classical Literature from St. John's College in Santa Fe. After many years away, he has returned to San Francisco, where he enjoys playing squash and tennis and exploring local book stores and restaurants.
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Amanda Green Alexander first heard the call to advocacy as a petite eight-year-old riding the school bus. One of little Amanda's fellow passengers was a 17-year-old boy named David who suffered from a learning disability.
"The other kids picked on David, so I starting sitting on the seat beside him and taking up for him," Alexander recalls. "Even at eight years old, I knew this was an injustice. Defending David against the other kids, I would sometimes get really close to advocating myself into a fight. Fortunately, my older brother, Bernard, was big enough to protect me."
Alexander came by her strong sense of justice naturally. Her father, Rev. Arthur Green, was an emergency medical technician, Army staff sergeant, and pastor who had served as president of the local chapter of the NAACP, and her mother, Debora, was a teacher and administrator with Project Head Start. Both Greens had been active in the Civil Rights Movement and were respected leaders in the Kokomo, Mississippi, community where Alexander grew up.
"My father always told us, 'Don't be one of the masses. Be a leader by example,'" Alexander says. "When I told them at the age of eight that I wanted to be a lawyer, they encouraged me to follow that dream. Actually, what I wanted to be was a judge, but I knew I had to be a lawyer first."
Years later as a freshman at Tougaloo College, Alexander posted a list of goals on her dorm room door, a road map for her life ahead. One of those goals was to own her own law firm within 10 years. Alexander graduated cum laude from Tougaloo, then earned her master's degree in public policy and administration from Jackson State University (JSU). While she was still enrolled in JSU, Alexander began working as an executive assistant with the Mississippi Bar Center, Lawyers and Judges Assistance Program, gaining her first in-depth exposure to the legal profession.
"Many people may not know how thoughtfully Amanda came to her decision to be a lawyer," says Betty Daugherty, a leader in the program at the time Alexander worked there. "Our program included working with lawyers who were experiencing problems with their physical and mental health. Amanda saw that not every person who had gone to law school – including many lawyers who seemed to be very successful – was in reality well-suited for the practice of law. Amanda prayerfully considered whether practicing law was what God was really calling her to do. Once she made the decision to pursue a legal career, she was fully committed to being the best."
In 2000, Alexander enrolled at MC Law. To say she had the support of her family would be an understatement. The Greens called a family meeting, complete with a PowerPoint presentation Alexander prepared for her father, mother, and brother outlining the financial and emotional support she would need to succeed in law school and including a slide, "explaining why I would not have the time to attend all of the family functions."
During her time in law school, Alexander married and relocated to Hattiesburg. For a full year, she clerked in a Hattiesburg law firm and commuted to Jackson every day for class; she later clerked with the U.S. Department of Justice. Following her graduation from MC Law, Alexander served as election protection coordinator for the Mississippi Center for Justice; as a judicial law clerk for Chief Judge Leslie King of the Mississippi Court of Appeals; and as the deputy city attorney for the City of Jackson, where she was responsible for handling all of the city's worker's compensation and employment cases.
While she enjoyed the challenges each position presented, Alexander never lost sight of her goal to open her own law firm. Her former Tougaloo College and MC Law classmate, Edward Watson, shared that goal. The two friends had often discussed opening their own practice together, and in 2005, Alexander decided the time had come.
"I was working at a larger firm when I told Amanda, 'Okay, I'm in. Let's do it,'" Watson recalls. "I thought I'd have some time to make the transition. But before I knew it, Amanda was calling me to tell me she'd found office space to lease."
Alexander launched Alexander & Watson, P.A. in downtown Jackson with Watson as a silent partner; he joined the practice full-time in 2007. In March of that year, Alexander and Watson celebrated their ribbon cutting surrounded by family, friends, and dozens of well-wishers. It was a bright day for Alexander; she and her husband were expecting a baby, she had reached her 10-year goal of opening her own firm in just eight years, and her beloved father was on hand to deliver the opening prayer. But just one month after the ribbon cutting, Arthur Green died unexpectedly.
"I was grief-stricken and six months pregnant, and coming back from the funeral, I remember telling my brother that I might want to take some time off," Alexander recalls. "Bernard said, 'Dad would want you to go to work. You are a Green.' It was just like when I was an eight-year-old who wanted to become a lawyer. It was up to me to make it happen."
Make it happen she did. Alexander & Watson has grown to become one of the premier employment and worker's compensation firms in Mississippi.
"Employment law and worker's comp defense aren't areas in which young law firms typically practice or become successful," Alexander says. "People have an idea that their lawyers should look a certain way or be a certain age, and Edward and I don't always fit that picture. But because we're a smaller, younger firm, we, the partners, are actually doing the work, and our clients seem to appreciate that."
In addition to building a successful practice, Alexander has emerged as a leader in the legal profession. She is the first Mississippian to serve as a member of the executive board of the National Conference of Women's Bar Associations. Her long list of service also includes roles as the president of the Mississippi Women Lawyers Association, the first African American editor of the Mississippi Lawyer magazine, the vice chair of the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project, and the chair of the Women in the Profession Committee of the Mississippi Bar.
"My work space is divided into the desk in front of my chair, which is devoted to paying work, and the credenza behind my chair, which is pro bono and volunteer work," Alexander says. "The back often outweighs the front. But that's okay. Lawyers who are leading aren't doing it sitting solely at their desks. They're out in the community."
Alexander has served on several committees of the Mississippi Bar; many of her activities with the Bar involve mentoring young attorneys, helping them realize both success in the profession and their potential to impact their communities.
"Amanda motivates lawyers of all ages to be their best, to work hard and smart, and to be humble servants," says Alexander's colleague Tiffany Graves, general counsel for the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Project. "Amanda has accomplished so much at such a young age. She is the epitome of grace under pressure and a real inspiration."
"Amanda loves to connect people with one another for the benefit of others. It's never about personal gain or recognition for her. It's always about uniting people for a common goal or a good cause," Alexander's law partner, Edward Watson says, then adds with a laugh, "and as a bonus, I've been an honorary member of all the women's organizations she's led. My job is usually to bring in the food."
Alexander's volunteer efforts have earned the appreciation and recognition of her legal colleagues. In 2011, the Mississippi Bar Association presented her with its Distinguished Service Award; she is the youngest recipient in the award's history. The Mississippi Business Journal named her to its list of "Top 10 Lawyers in Mississippi" in 2011. She has also been recognized as MC Law's 2010 Young Lawyer of the Year and as the law school's Black Law Student Association 2009 Young Alumna of the Year.
"I am so proud of Amanda," Alexander's former boss, Betty Daugherty, says. "I've seen firsthand her adherence to the highest ethical standards and personal integrity. I would like to take credit for her special gifts, but Reverend and Mrs. Green get that honor."
"There aren't enough words to describe how proud I am of my little sister," Bernard Green says. "Defending David on the school bus was only the beginning, but it's still a great example of how Amanda faces tough challenges, stands up for others, and acts on faith." Green adds with a smile, "Including the faith that I would not let those bullies beat her up."
For Amanda Green Alexander, serving as an advocate and as a leader remains as exciting today as she dreamed it would be on that school bus decades ago.
"I wake up every day excited to come to work," Alexander says. "Even if I'm not having such a great day, seeing my name on the building gives me an extra edge. After all, if I'm not here to make it happen, who will?"


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (59 votes).
In short: A friendly, comfortable race. Ideal for beginners or those seeking a P.B.Date of review: September 30, 2007
In short: Fast & funIn full: Two laps in Canon Hill park, an extra out and back section from last year and change to a more difficult bridge and a narrow section which was tricky on the first lap, made it a slightly less appealing course. Easy parking and, how often do you hear this, more than enough toilets, slick bag storage and in the main good marshalling easily made up for any down sides.Date of review: September 30, 2007
In short: Everything very good - even the rain waited until I'd finished!Date of review: October 8, 2006
In short: Agree with everything that's been said. Not enough events of this kind in Birmingham.Date of review: October 4, 2006
In short: My first race and it was superb.Date of review: October 2, 2006
In short: excellent morning.In full: Flat,fast and friendly with good marshalling and nice goodybag.Would certainly do it again.Date of review: October 1, 2006
In short: First 10K and perfect choice. Friendly, mostly flat and trafic freeDate of review: October 1, 2006
In short: Nice, very flat, through parkland, great race, good prizes and raffle!Date of review: October 1, 2006
In short: Quick, flat, great atmosphere. Generous good bag.In full: Lovely race, organised by local club Bournville Harriers, on the paths of Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, . Very flat with PB potential (although not for me). The smallish field was well marshalled around the two loop course and the goody bag was in the generous side. Hope this race is run again next year since there seem to be so few in the Birmingham area which is a real pity.Date of review: October 1, 2006
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Last weekend, Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach attendees got a chance to relax in Human Touch® massage chairs at its exhibit area in the Lifestyle Expo. It was a fun-filled weekend for all, and Human Touch® gave away Swan hand-held massagers to three lucky winners who stopped by for a free massage.
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Skip to comments.The Third Secret (of Fatima) - Did The Pope Lie?
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Get ready for conspiracy season, opening day is almost here.
Prepare thyself for an onslaught of information, speculation, and defamation over the next few weeks as the Pope prepares to visit Fatima this month.
Speculation about the contents of the famous third secret of Fatima had become such a cottage industry among among some Catholics that they were determined not to let a little thing like the secret being revealed in the year 2000 get in their way. If you have a successful business model, you stick with it I suppose.
It is fair to say that the Pope's visit to Fatima will, of course, make the famous secret once again a hot topic as it is intensely interesting. However, Antonio Socci's book "The Fourth Secret" being recently translated into English will only add fuel to the fire.
Socci alleges that there were two third secrets of Fatima. One, the released description of the vision of the Bishop in white and another that followed after the phrase "In Portugal the dogma of the Faith will always be preserved etc."
I am obviously in the camp that believes the Pope and Sr. Lucia when they said that all was released. With that said, I think some observers have raised reasonable questions about some apparent discrepancies surrounding previous statements about the secret.
But the Vatican is in a catch-22 here. In order to quiet the conspiracy theorists, they could address some of the alleged discrepancies and put them to rest once and for all. But, and this is a big but, they simply cannot do that. To even address the questions would turn the conspiracy cottage industry into a huge growth sector overnight.
Every word or clarification issued would be dissected and dissected again opening up even more inconsistencies and discrepancies resulting in the world's first perpetual motion conspiracy machine. So the Vatican continues to do what it must, it stays silent.
So understanding all this, a reasonable man is left to decide. Did the Pope lie? Did Sr. Lucia lie?
You know where I stand. What say you?
EWTN will be providing live coverage of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Fatima beginning on May 11.
I don't think the Pope lied or Sister Lucia..but I don't think we got it all.
Like it, or not, the Church wants everyone of us to be about the Lord's business right up to the day he calls us home. I don't need private revelations to keep on keeping on.
What I don't get is that in the old testament, there are prohibitions about sooth sayers and people that try to predict the future. And then it goes on for books about prophets.
Maybe I just don't get the difference between a prophet and a fortune teller (no intent to make light of one, or make fun of the other).
Aren't we supposed to live every day as if it is our last? So why should I care what the Sister says, or what the Pope says. (And I have to type that last part carefully or my catholic wife will get angry with me!)
But the Vatican is in a catch-22 here. In order to quiet the conspiracy theorists, they could address some of the alleged discrepancies and put them to rest once and for all. But, and this is a big but, they simply cannot do that. To even address the questions would turn the conspiracy cottage industry into a huge growth sector overnight.
Every word or clarification issued would be dissected and dissected again opening up even more inconsistencies and discrepancies resulting in the worlds first perpetual motion conspiracy machine. So the Vatican continues to do what it must, it stays silent.
On an highly emotional spiritual level there has been a great common-ground meeting place between Rome and Mecca in the town of Fatima in Portugal. To quote a Catholic news organization, "Our Lady of Fatima is really Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Mohammed." On October 23, 1995, Iranian television began running stories that the apparitions in Fatima, Portugal in 1917 were religious phenomena of Muslim origin....
....According to Iranian Television, the woman who appeared to the three shepherd children in 1917 was not the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, but Fatima, the daughter of the prophet Mohammed, founder of Islam. Her message was reported to be "I am Fatima, daughter of the Prophet of Islam." This television report has helped launch the growing waves of Muslim pilgrims who have been visiting this Christian site in Portugal in recent years.
Catholics, on the other hand, say that the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to the three shepherd children. She told them to pray, especially encouraging the prayer of the Rosary. Lucía, the only surviving recipient of the vision, was entrusted with three "secrets," of which the third has never been made public. She recently assured that the third secret was never intended for general proclamation. Pope John Paul II has had a strong devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, especially since the failed assassination attempt of Ali Agca, which occurred precisely on May 13, 1991, the anniversary of the first vision at Fatima (May 13, 1917).
-- From the thread The Papacy and Islam
This brings us to our second point: namely, why the Blessed Mother, in the 20th century should have revealed herself in the significant little village of Fatima, so that to all future generations she would be known as "Our Lady of Fatima." Since nothing ever happens out of Heaven except with a finesse of all details, I believe that the Blessed Virgin chose to be known as "Our Lady of Fatima" as a pledge and a sign of hope to the Moslem people, and as an assurance that they, who show her so much respect, will one day accept her divine Son too.On the Lady of Fatima:
Evidence to support these views is found in the historical fact that the Moslems occupied Portugal for centuries. At the time when they were finally driven out, the last Moslem chief had a beautiful daughter by the name of Fatima. A Catholic boy fell in love with her, and for him she not only stayed behind when the Moslems left, but even embraced the Faith. The young husband was so much in love with her that he changed the name of the town where he lived to Fatima. Thus, the very place where our Lady appeared in 1917 bears a historical connection to Fatima, the daughter of Mohammed.
-- Archbishop Fulton Sheen, in the book The World's First Love
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."
We shouldn't.
We should live our lives as if Our Lord will be back tomorrow.
These times are frightening...I was reading on another thread how senior citizens are forbidden to pray before meals...this is out of hand. They pick off, a cross here, or ten commandments here, or you can't pray here. Really all Our Lady wants us to do through these secrets is to pray and do penance. Maybe us Catholics here can form a prayer group and at a certain hour of the day or night, we all say our rosaries in our home. Even though we are not together we are in heart. Maybe some are already doing this, I don't know?
I believe that the best way for God to send a message to people on earth was to have Mary tell it to a little girl!!
and make it in 3 parts!
and keep one of them secret because it would be so bad if people knew that Russia was not "consecrated to the sacred heart of mary" or ...something
People believe the silliest things..(seriously, they do! look at the crapola Mooselimbs believe)
Muslims have always had a great devotion to Mary. In my own parish, we have Muslims that come to our grotto because of the statue of Mary there. Some have converted. We have many Chaldeans in our area. The Muslims feel comfortable with us.
The Chaldeans I know think that the only way to turn the hearts of the Muslims is through Miriam (Mary). They lived it, some all their lives.
I don't think it's a bad thing.
I didn't see too much about that in your links.
Fatima Consecration Chronology
The Story of Fatima
The Consecration of Russia
The Meaning of the Consecration of Russia
The Message of Fatima
The last poster who wanted to argue with me about Fatima inferred that the "solution" was about stopping onanism.
Predict the future .... for a living. IOW, they charge money for their services.
The messages at Fatima were delivered by the Blessed Mother to 3 children. You can read the history of these events that were witnessed by thousands and the messages given, at this link.
The Church and non-Christians
839 "Those who have not yet received the Gospel are related to the People of God in various ways."325 The relationship of the Church with the Jewish People. When she delves into her own mystery, the Church, the People of God in the New Covenant, discovers her link with the Jewish People,326 "the first to hear the Word of God."327 The Jewish faith, unlike other non-Christian religions, is already a response to God's revelation in the Old Covenant. To the Jews "belong the sonship, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; to them belong the patriarchs, and of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ",328 "for the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable."329
840 and when one considers the future, God's People of the Old Covenant and the new People of God tend towards similar goals: expectation of the coming (or the return) of the Messiah. But one awaits the return of the Messiah who died and rose from the dead and is recognized as Lord and Son of God; the other awaits the coming of a Messiah, whose features remain hidden till the end of time; and the latter waiting is accompanied by the drama of not knowing or of misunderstanding Christ Jesus.
841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."330
842 The Church's bond with non-Christian religions is in the first place the common origin and end of the human race:
All nations form but one community. This is so because all stem from the one stock which God created to people the entire earth, and also because all share a common destiny, namely God. His providence, evident goodness, and saving designs extend to all against the day when the elect are gathered together in the holy city. . .331
843 The Catholic Church recognizes in other religions that search, among shadows and images, for the God who is unknown yet near since he gives life and breath and all things and wants all men to be saved. Thus, the Church considers all goodness and truth found in these religions as "a preparation for the Gospel and given by him who enlightens all men that they may at length have life."332
844 In their religious behavior, however, men also display the limits and errors that disfigure the image of God in them:
Very often, deceived by the Evil One, men have become vain in their reasonings, and have exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and served the creature rather than the Creator. Or else, living and dying in this world without God, they are exposed to ultimate despair.333
845 To reunite all his children, scattered and led astray by sin, the Father willed to call the whole of humanity together into his Son's Church. the Church is the place where humanity must rediscover its unity and salvation. the Church is "the world reconciled." She is that bark which "in the full sail of the Lord's cross, by the breath of the Holy Spirit, navigates safely in this world." According to another image dear to the Church Fathers, she is prefigured by Noah's ark, which alone saves from the flood.334
Why do folks pay big money and fly to an apparition [of course, it is not approved like Fatima surely is], when all they have to do is drive to a nearby Mass, where the Miracle of Christ awaits them every day?And while I always listen to whatever the Pope has to say and participate in the Sacraments, I agree with you, "Live every day as if it is our last ..." -- Great advice!!
Wow, Alex's wild!
The loonies will rant and rave, as they always do. NOTHING one does can prevent it. Best bet is largely to ignore them. IMO.
These are not soothsayers; visions are a very ancient tradition in the Church, including in the Old Testament.
However, in the Church, approval of a vision does not mean that one has to believe it, simply that one can believe it without harm. Benedict XVI made a very good statement (not quoted here) saying that visions are not hard and fast predictions, but warnings. Unless one responds to them and changes, these things will happen; but God responds to prayer and to penance and change, and the final result may be different (which we will not know until after death).
That was the Old Testament view, too.
A prophet is commanded by God ... and in fact several of the OT Prophets ran away from Him.
A fortune teller tries to force God's hand, or goes off consulting with demons.
The Prophet acknowledges that God is in charge. He knows that God is God, and he is not.
The fortune teller wants to be in charge. He wants to be God.
Likely amongst other things, I'd venture to say.
The Blessed Virgin made mention of "sins of the flesh" and stated that many souls went to hell because of them. She also stated that wars are a punishment for sin. So it's reasonable to infer that lack of chastity has consequences beyond our own persons. Sodom and Gomorrah found that out.
Other apparitions have also mentioned the seriousness of sins against the sixth commandment which deals with the wider issue of sexual continence.
You keep posting this over and over, as though repetition conferred sanity.
Do you believe what Iranian television has to say about Catholics? Do you believe what Iranian television has to say about Jews? Do you believe them on any topic?
Salvation is our girl. Ping
For those interested in Marian apparitions;
>>Do you believe them on any topic? <<
That's what I thought.
Hey, they believe Earthquakes are caused by promiscuous women too.
Should we believe that?
LOL Cute about your dogs...they know though I think :)
Do you think that I would believe it? More importantly, do you believe that Iranian television said it?
See post 23
My Grandfather could put down a bowl of dog food and if he pointed at it and told the dog that it was Friday, the dog wouldn't eat it.
It helped that the pup got sweets that day, but he always said the dog was Catholic at Heart.
Wow..I believe it! :)
My opinions about what you believe are pretty worthless, since I can't get inside your mind. You, however, are supposed to be inside your own mind, but you answer a question about what you believe with another question, instead of an answer.
More importantly, do you believe that Iranian television said it?
Yeah, actually I do. However, I also think they (Iranian TV and the people who run it) are nuttier than a fruitcake. Crazy people say lots of strange stuff.
When I feed the line "On an highly emotional spiritual level there has been a great common-ground meeting place between Rome and Mecca in the town of Fatima in" to Bing, these are the first two sites I come up with....
And this...
(an original of the first)
Then posts by Alex Murphy on FR. After that, not a single reference.
Google is the same with a few more links, none to Iranian tv
I don't see any actual reference to Iranian tv. I see a broken link to zenit which could have said anything. Got a real link Alex?
A Prophet is a man who is used by God to speak to His people. He simply speaks the Word of God.
A Priest speaks to God for the people.
Both were formal positions within the nation of Israel in OT times. The King of Israel, as a client nation of God, could not be placed in office unless chosen by God. The Prophet was the formal position through which the King was revealed to the people of Israel from God.
The obvious question would arise, how do we tell a true Prophet from a false prophet? A number of solutions were provided by God. One of which was to test the Prophet, since God is omniscient and always true, any Prophecy given by the Prophet could be tested against the Prophecies of Moses. If they conflicted, one could easily conclude the new prophecy was a fabrication from somebody other than God.
After the completion of the canon of Scripture, there are doctrinal arguments which assert the gift of Prophecy in the Church Age has ceased. (off top of my head they relate to some passages in Galatians and Ephesians, wherein Paul swears that by the Scripture itself, it was sufficient for every good work for every believer.) Run a google search for topics such as cessation of prophecy or cessationism.
Meanwhile in the Church Age, all believers receive a spiritual gift at the moment of salvation, not always the same gifts for different believers. Some might have a spiritual gift of pastor-teacher and other the gift of interpretation of tongues, others might have other spiritual gifts.
When faced with a spiritual message, a dilemma would occur for the Prophet, in that if he failed to deliver the message, the blood of a warning would fall on his head if he failed to warn the people of a calamity. Conversely, if the prophecy failed to occur, then he was guilty of false prophecy, which carried the same penalty as adultery, namely stoning to death. The work of the Holy Spirit glorifies the Son.
Thanks for a decent answer...
It would have been easy to kick me down the road, so to speak. I appreciate you all taking to time to give me some things to work on.
Excellent suggestions, mlizzy! For the cubicle bound, like myself, I use the time driving to work to pray the rosary - for those undergoing surgery, for an increase in vocations, for my pastor and our soon to be pastor and the others in our eparchy who are being transferred right now - and that gets me to the office. During the day, I pray while walking the halls and during my lunchtime walk - for women planning an abortion that they will turn around and go home and save the lives of their children, for the victims of abortion, for the dying who are alone with no one to pray for them ... and the list goes on and on. Each week our parish features the name of a parish family and asks that we pray for them and their intentions. EVERY DAY, I offer up a decade of the rosary for the souls in purgatory and then there are my permanent lists - my family and friends (living and deceased), for those who have asked for my prayers and those unsolicited which I have added as well. BTW - I have asked my guardian angel to keep track of these names because the lists have grown so large that I can no longer remember all of them :-)
As for a specific time of day, I again go along with mlizzy. Our Lord asked through St. Faustina that the 3 o'clock hour be set aside to pray the Divine Mercy chaplet. Why not tack on the rosary at 3:30pm!
3:30 is a good time for me. Can you gather all the catholics here you know and see if they can also join in at that time too? Maybe start a new thread?
Freeper Salvation does prayer threads. I have pinged her.
Yee ha! LOL
Amen!!! I suspect the Boss is going to to be seriously p-O'd as we didn't look out for the "least amongst you".
Try feeding said link into the Wayback Machine Internet Archive, and see what you get. Better yet, I'm feeling charitable and have done your homework for you. The results show 31 matches dating from September 1999 through October 2006. Pick any one, and click on it. Then match the archived webpage to this post and this post of mine, made back on May 10/11th, 2007 - three years ago to the day.
For my next trick, if you'd like, I can post a survey of all the Catholic FReepers who have accused me of lying about the quote/URL. If you'd like, I can put your name at the top.
>>If you'd like, I can put your name at the top.<<
Why would you do that? I put the facts of the search up and asked for a live link.
Where exactly did I accuse you of lying?
Oh, and btw, I've learned here in FR, that if you don't want people to question your quotes, put a link (make sure it works) the first time.
If someone can click without having to ask for a link, there is no doubt.
I've seen it happen here often. People doubt. It's part of nature.
Remind me to chastise the people at ZENIT for disobeying a direct order, by removing a webpage that existed from 1998 until May 2007. Of course, it's all my fault that it's now gone at ZENIT. The buck stops here. It's a good thing that I had the foresight to set up that nice Wayback project back in 1996.
>>Remind me to chastise the people at ZENIT <<
Well, actually, it's your responsibility to give a live link. That's YOUR homework, not anyone else's.
It was very nice of you to link the Wayback site. It gave your quote some credibility. However if you had checked that
1. you gave a reference for that quote
2. the link worked
you wouldn't have had to do that extra work.
Sheesh - remind me to increase the funding on my time machine project(s). It's nice to know it's my responsibility to verify if the valid links I'm placing in my posts today will continue to work three years in the future - so that I'll know whether to place them in my posts today.
It was very nice of you to link the Wayback site. It gave your quote some credibility.
It was nice of you to notice. It gives your complaint some credibility.
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he game is very easy to play and great for boys who love bugs. Recommended for ages 3+, it's a good little game for children with shorter attention spans because the games never last longer than ten minutes. The game can be played in a number of ways.. use your gator grabbers to nab up the bugs. You can either roll the number cube or the color cube to decide which color and the amount of bugs you'd like to collection.. you're kind of on a bug hunt in a sense. We've tried all the games and my son enjoyed it and it does help with counting, sorting colors and perfect for fine-motor skills because you have to use the gator grabbers. Added bonus is that these bugs are colorful and not flimsy so we've had more fun creating memories by just playing with them for playtime.
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Carla's Christmas Carols
Carla Bley with Steve Swallow and the Partyka Brass Quintet
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I'm somewhat finicky about holiday music, banishing it from the house until as close to Christmas as can be managed. Don't get me wrong. I adore a well-crafted re-imagining of seasonal chestnuts by an esteemed classical, jazz, or pop artist. But so many truly wretched retreads are blared at one in public. Indeed, it's understandable when some folks sum up holiday music as merely another facet of crass commercialism.
Happily, this year there's musical rescue at hand. Pianist, composer and arranger Carla Bley has joined forces with esteemed bassist Steve Swallow and the Partyka Brass Quintet to serve up a zesty disc of jazz-inflected holiday cheer. Carla's Christmas Carols combines elegant contemporary jazz renditions of carols such as "Away in the Manger" and "O Tannenbaum" with clever takes on holiday favorites such as Mel Torme's "The Christmas Song" and the irrepressible "Jingle Bells." Bley also contributes a couple of sleekly-scored originals to the proceedings, and arranges all of the tunes with characteristic taste and imaginative flair.
Carla's Christmas Carols proves an ideal way to enjoy holiday favorites anew without ever feeling like too much saccharine's been slipped into the punchbowl.


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Commercial Fishing: How Fish Get From the High Seas to Your Supermarket
Commercial fishing is cruelty to animals on a colossal scale, killing hundreds of billions of animals worldwide every year—far more than any other industry.
Today's commercial fishers use massive ships the size of football fields and advanced electronic equipment to track fish. These enormous vessels can stay out at sea for as long as six months, storing thousands of tons of fish onboard in massive freezer compartments.
This industry has decimated our ocean ecosystems. In fact, 90 percent of large fish populations have been exterminated in the past 50 years.
Long-lining is one of the most widespread fishing methods. Ships unreel as many as 75 miles of line bristling with hundreds of thousands of baited hooks. The hooks are dragged behind the boat at varying depths or are kept afloat by buoys and left overnight, luring any animal in the area to grab a free meal. Once hooked, some animals drown or bleed to death in the water, and many others struggle for hours until the boat returns to reel them in.
Large fish such as swordfish and yellowfin tuna, weighing hundreds of pounds each, are pulled toward the boat by the baited line. Fishers sink pickaxes into the animals' fins, sides, and even eyes—any part of the fish that will allow them to haul the animals aboard without ripping out the hook.
Billions of fish, sharks, sea turtles, dolphins, birds, and other marine animals are injured and killed by long-lines each year.
Gill Nets
Ranging from 200 feet to more than a mile in length, gill nets are weighted at the bottom and held upright by floats at the top, creating what some have deemed "walls of death." Fish are unable to see the netting, and unless the mesh size is larger than the fish, they get stuck. When they try to back out, the netting catches them by their gills or fins, and many suffocate. Others struggle so desperately in the sharp mesh that they bleed to death.
Because gill nets are set and then left unmonitored, trapped fish may suffer for days. Many bleed to death before the ship returns to take them out of the ocean. Those who make it to the deck alive are ripped out of the net by hand and suffocate or are cut open while still alive. Fish who were caught deep in the ocean suffer from decompression, and the extreme change in pressure can cause their stomachs to be forced out of their mouths.
Purse Seines
Another fishing method involves the use of a purse seine, which is the primary net used for catching tuna but which is also used for a variety of other fish species. This method has aroused public outrage because dolphins are sometimes caught in the nets. However, purse seines also kill millions of tuna—intelligent animals who are just as capable of feeling pain as dolphins.
To catch tuna, fishers track pods of dolphins, who commonly swim with large tuna, and drop a net into the water to surround the school of tuna. The edges of the net are slowly cinched together, trapping hundreds of tuna (usually weighing from 6 to 40 pounds each) in the net, which is then drawn up and closed like a laundry bag.
If they are still alive when they reach the deck of the boat, large fish such as tuna, cod, and haddock are completely conscious when their gills are slit and they are disemboweled.
Bottom Trawlers
Bottom trawlers target species such as orange roughy, cod, and haddock. Enormous bag-shaped nets are pulled along the ocean floor, catching every rock, piece of coral, and fish in their paths. Large metal plates at each end of the net drag along the ground, keeping the net close to the ocean floor while stirring up sediment and forcing all the animals in the net's path into the closed end. Bottom trawling literally scrapes the ocean floor clean of life and is considered by some to be the underwater equivalent of clear-cutting forests.
The nets rip hundreds of tons of animals out of the ocean, squeezing some of them so tightly against the sides of the nets that their eyes bulge and burst out of their skulls. For hours, trapped fish are dragged along the ocean floor with netted rocks, coral, and ocean debris. Many fish's scales are completely ground off. When hauled out of the water, surviving fish undergo excruciating decompression. The intense internal pressure ruptures their swim bladders, pops out their eyes, and pushes their esophagi and stomachs out through their mouths.
When first developed, bottom-trawling nets were limited to parts of the ocean that had a soft sediment floor because rocks and coral tore holes in the netting, allowing fish to escape. Now, bottom trawlers have huge wheels along the entire bottom edges of the nets. The heavy metal wheels roll along the ocean floor, crushing everything in their path but keeping the nets just off the ocean floor to prevent them from being torn. This "advance" has dramatically expanded the range of bottom trawlers, killing fish and other animals who had been protected by their rocky habitats. Consequently, bottom trawling is one of the most environmentally damaging fishing techniques, killing animals and destroying endangered coral and other sea life.
Slaughter on Deck
Regardless of the method used to catch them, if the fish are still alive at the end of their terrifying journey to the surface, most have their gills cut and bleed out or are tossed onto ice to slowly freeze or suffocate to death—a horribly cruel and painful death for coldblooded animals, who can take a very long time to freeze or suffocate to death. Scientists estimate that fish endure up to 15 minutes of excruciating pain before they lose consciousness.
Fishing Hurts Fish … and Other Animals Too
Sharks, sea turtles, birds, seals, whales, and other nontarget fish who get tangled in nets and hooked by long-lines are termed "bycatch" and are thrown overboard. They fall victim to swarming birds or slowly bleed to death in the water.
Scientists have found that nearly 1,000 marine mammals—dolphins, whales, and porpoises—die each day after they are caught in fishing nets. By some estimates, shrimp trawlers discard as much as 85 percent of their catch, making shrimp arguably the most environmentally destructive fish flesh a person can consume.
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Spicy Macaroni and Cheese
- 2 cups elbow pasta, cooked until almost al dente
- 8 ounces Cheddar, 1/2 cubed, 1/2 shredded
- 8 ounces Colby cheese, cubed
- 8 ounces Monterey pepper jack cheese, cubed
- 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoons salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
- 4 tablespoons sour cream
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup half-and-half
- 1/4 cup finely grated onions
- 4 slices bread
- 1 tablespoon butter
- Special equipment: 2-quart baking dish
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
In a large bowl, toss together the pasta with the cheese cubes and pour into the baking dish.
In a large bowl, mix together the flour, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, dry mustard, nutmeg. Add the sour cream, egg, heavy cream, half-and-half and onions. Pour over the pasta and cover with the shredded Cheddar. Bake uncovered until the top is just beginning to brown, about 35 minutes.
Meanwhile, cut the bread into crouton-size squares. In a skillet over medium heat, melt the butter, add the bread cubes and toast until golden. Sprinkle the bread cubes on top of the macaroni and cheese and bake until golden brown, about 10 minutes more.
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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (209 votes).
In short: A biggie but a goodieDate of review: July 3, 2013
In short: A staple in my calendarIn full: I have now run this race for the past 5 years and love it, though I never know why! I don't find the route inspiring, it has always been a bogey course for me where I can't get anywhere near my PB, yet I keep coming back! I love the atmosphere, the organisation is top rate, the spectators are fantastic, and the finish in the Stadium is quite simply the best. But that all changed this year! Suddenly I found my pace, I thoroughly enjoyed the race, and I missed a PB by a matter of seconds. The bogey is broken! I can't wait until next year!Date of review: May 13, 2013
In short: Massive race, good for a beginnerIn full: Weather was a major feature, freezing cold rain with a touch of wet snow could not have made it worse conditions. This did affect supporter numbers, can't blame them. Nice finishing in the stadium and did give a boost. Would do again next year and any improvement on the weather should bring your time down. Date of review: May 1, 2013
In short: Home town race.In full: I had previously ran this race in 2010 with a time of 1:32:03 and having just ran the Silverstone Half Marathon only two weeks previously I wanted to knuckle down and at least aim for sub 1:30.I was meeting my friend Dan who I met at the 2010 Great North Run and have since planned to meet up at last years Great Birmingham Half and always motivating each other via twitter.The weather was atrocious and did not look like settling. Luckily the Madjeski stadium that hosted the race had plenty of seats under cover whilst we waited for the race to start.Half hour to go and the heavens opened, Dan and I went to our respectful starting places and I warmed up in the sub 1:30 group.When the race started I kept a steady pace and noticed similar runners throughout the 13.1 miles. I had issues with my laces and that slowed me down twice. The sun did come out then disappeared again. Luckily I knew the race route and what to expect so when I did see the stadium in the distance I knew I had an extra bit to do that doubled on itself.At the very end I crossed the line and when trying to slow down I slipped, tripped and badly bruised myself. The Red Cross and St Johns were helpful and kept me warm and ensured I was ok to leave.Overall the event was great despite the weather but having lived in the surrounding areas for my childhood I will run here again and again.Date of review: April 28, 2013
In short: Quick course with amazing supportIn full: Very well organised. Shame the weather was tragic this year, but the support was still great and the crew working the event were amazing. Some great live music on the course, but the course is pretty boring. Free bus service to and from Reading central was also well organised.Date of review: April 26, 2013
In short: Better if you are fasterIn full: I loved doing the race (we had a family reason for being so far from home).I met lots of very friendly people and was humbled by the friendliness of the locals who were determined to stay and shout everyone through in appalling conditions, particularly one lovely young lady who shouted for us on one side of the town dog-leg and then met us again on the other and remembered our names!Thanks also to Kate for being such good company all the way round. Never particularly fast, I fell into the "triumph I got here category" due to winter-long bugs interfering with training.At that part of the start (the bridge to the orange start was effectively under water as we returned to the stadium) it was cold, wet and no clue of how far up to go/stand. I did work it out eventually but by then it was almost too cold. I did have extra layers and a bin bag and had sheltered for as long as possible before venturing out in a bid to stay as warm as possible. The general start was late anyway meaning that in orange zone we set off 20 mins late. A failure to adjust the reopening times of the roads meant that if you run a 3 hour half as I do (slow, but not ridiculously so in the context of the "beginner friendly status" of the race) you were, at around 11 miles, being chivvied back onto pavements. I am sure that seemed sensible on one hand as it allowed for road reopening but was completely frustrating (and probably dangerous) as it meant that a large number of runners still out in terrible conditions effectively spent their time battling not only against the rain but against thousands of spectators and those who had already finished who were coming back along the same pavements.This included the Jamaican 4 man bob team who had to stop at one point and put it down before they speared someone. They were doing so well it was a joy to see their good humour and the vast majority of those coming towards us were brilliantly cheery and helpful.Unfortunately the marshals were, at this stage, intent mostly on taking bits of the course down and on 2 occasions at important parts of the course it was finishers who directed us to the correct route.I am not a Reading local but I do know that road relatively well and I had studied the course properly from the map, looked at the elevations etc. All that is of no use at all if the course effectively disappears because someone decided to remove it in front of you. If you expect to welcome beginners then you should expect 3 hour-plus people, particularly when the conditions were so awful. I might have been a little faster over the last two miles if I had not been forced to dive through so many people at each intersection. It was completely crazy, dangerous to those of us who were tired, wet and trying to see. Conditions were awful but I cannot think that it was the intention of the organisers to make it so hard for the slow ones. I had looked carefully (before the race) for the sweep bus times and knew when it was due. I did not see it so presume I stayed ahead of it. It seemed that the road reopening times were not moved back even though the race started late.I have never had this sort of trouble before in a race (last year at the GNR everyone was late due to all trying to high 5 a medallist but there is never a chance that you will be sharing roads with cars or pedestrians and all the road closures are flexible in my regular experience). This really took the shine off a race that was a fun day out for family. I arrived back so cold it would have been handy to be directed to a space blanket (not, as I had found in other races, kept in the goody bag but apparently loose to one side). A family member got me one in the end to assist once I had changed my clothing.Once changed we did appreciate the closeness of the red car park. My drivers seemed to get all their information about that on time (even the replacement parking pass).The atmosphere was brilliant before the race under the stadium, especially as all the runners came in from the Green Park Challenge. I would do it again with pleasure, if nothing else to see if I can beat the road closures.Date of review: April 6, 2013
In short: wet wet wet mud!In full: Had a great day, shame about the rain but could not be helped. I thought it was well organised considering, it was not nice to stand in the cold wet and mud when collecting kit bags but I could not see any other way they could have organised it. Thanks to all the marshalls and spectators standing in the cold for us, handing out water, space blankets and medals.Goody bag was adequate though I would have preferred fruit (banana) to chocolate since that is what I crave after a race. I managed a PB by 6 minutes so I was very pleased, think I was running as fast as I could cos of the rain! Stadium finish was great. Is a shame the car parks are so far from the start, was not fun walking back, but again that's mainly because of the weather. Despite the rain, I did have a great day and would do it again. Thank youDate of review: April 5, 2013
In short: BrilliantIn full: Great marshalls, organisation was faultless and even in the pouring, freezing rain I loved it!Date of review: March 31, 2013
In short: I'd certainly recommend anybody try this event at least once.In full: It's a good if you're after a big/busy event. The scenery might not be the best but the atmosphere pretty much all-round the course is really very good (I'm sure even better in normal weather conditions) and there are only a couple of hills to climb. Finishing into the stadium really gave me (& my spectating wife) a real buzz to leave the event with.On the negative side, at £31 entry I'd expect a T-shirt or memento along with the average medal awarded. Would also be good if the final 3 miles could be reviewed somehow, running two miles on duel carriageway up to the stadium door, then taking a dog-leg right for half a mile, u-turn back to where you were a mile ago is a bit of a shame (though obviously soon forgotten as you enter the stadium to mass applause).Date of review: March 26, 2013
In short: Thanks to the camelIn full: Taking part for the 6th time and got a PB! 5 seconds faster than my previous half PB and due to the camel. As I approached the stadium I heard crowds start cheering the camel. I always seem to be beaten by this beast in one form or another so did my best to hang on to it. Failed to stop camel passing me but effort in trying undoubtedly speeded up my last 500m! Great race as usual, thanks to the marshalls and of course the camel :}Date of review: March 26, 2013
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At the Intel Developer Forum the company has demonstrated real-time ray tracing demo running on four code-named Knights Ferry accelerators. The demo is very advanced in terms of visual quality, but necessity to use four accelerators for its rendering in 1280x720 resolution means that neither algorithm nor hardware is currently ready for mass market.
The up-to-date Wolfenstein game is rendered through a real-time ray tracer with several special effects that haven't been possible before in games with such an accuracy. In particular, Intel claims that a highly-detailed chandelier model made of glass with around one million triangles can be physically correctly rendered only using a new ray tracing algorithm due t massive amount of reflections and refractions. In addition, Intel claims that a wall with twelve screens that each show a different location of the level can also take massive advantage of ray tracing technology.
The images are rendered from a "cloud" of four servers with Inte's Knights Ferry platform inside. As ray tracing is a highly parallel application it can therefore take very good benefit of the many cores that are in a single chip on the Knights Ferry board. Once a chip in one of the servers has finished calculating a new frame for the game it will send it over the network to a thin client. At IDF Intel demonstrated how four servers rendered Wolfenstein game in 1280x720 resolution.
The Knights Ferry has 32 x86 cores clocked at 1.2GHz and featuring quad-HyperThreading. The unit, aimed at PCI Express 2.0 slots, has up to 2GB of GDDR5 memory. The chip itself has 8MB of shared L2 cache, which is quite intriguing by itself since highly-parallel applications do not require a large on-chip cache. Intel did not unveil raw computing performance of the Knights Ferry in GigaFLOPS or TeraFLOPS.
Given the fact that Knights Ferry is not a commercial product, but a development platform, it is unclear whether it has similar micro-architectural peculiarities as the Knights Corner chip, which is designed to be sold to interested parties. The Knights Corner will initially target high-performance computing segments, such as exploration, scientific research and financial or climate simulation. The chip will be made on Intel's 22nm manufacturing process and will have more than 50 Intel processing cores on a single chip. Intel itself stresses that neither KF nor KC are set to substitute traditional server processors since "the vast majority of workloads will still run best on Intel Xeon processors", whereas Intel MIC architecture will help accelerate select highly parallel applications.
Intel insists that even for high performance computing (HPC) compatibility with x86 instruction set is a benefit. Meanwhile, both AMD and Nvidia are selling their proprietary FireStream and Tesla to HPC customers. Typically HPC applications are created for exact hardware, which is why compliancy with certain instruction sets is not that important.


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A Walking School Bus
January 24, 2011 by BLEND · Leave a Comment
It's a relatively new term, but an age-old practice. We're talking about an organized and/or intentional walk to school, often called "A Walking School Bus". The term makes it a fun and an intriguing idea for youth who live within walking distance of school and who have a safe route. The idea encourages kids use their feet as primary transportation.
In a recent SHIP (Statewide Health Improvement Program) newsletter, the Albany Area School District in MN was highlighted for their walking programs. They graciously shared their story with BLEND.
"Albany Area Schools began conversations in May with the county/city regarding Safe Routes to School (SRTS). The group has been concentrating on the pathways within one mile of the school grounds. Students who walk/bike to school receive
punches on their "frequent walk/biker" cards. When the punch cards are completed, they can be redeemed for a prize. The district also has started a walking program for students before school and during recess timeframes. Students are encouraged
to talk and walk on the metered track. The momentum to be physically active has grown in the schools. The SRTS project includes efforts by parents, schools, community leaders and local, state and federal government to improve the health and well-being of children by enabling and encouraging them to walk or bicycle to school. SRTS programs examine the conditions around schools, conduct projects and activities that work to improve safety, accessibility and reduce traffic and air pollution in school areas. As a result, these programs help make biking and walking to school safer and a more appealing transportation choice thus encouraging a healthy and active lifestyle from an early age. For more information about SRTS please visit http://www.dot.state.mn.us/saferoutes/."
We're pleased to share this inspiring story with you. If you know of a similar program you'd like to share with us, please leave a comment below.


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Beautiful Long Black Curly Hairstyle with Thick Bangs
This long curly hairstyle looks oh so romantic as it falls at the sides and in the back. The thick bangs come across at the forehead.The haircut is long.The black hair colouring shimmers looking so healthy.
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5 user reviews of Mizuno Wave Creation 9 See all
Just bought a pair of Mizuno Wavve Creation 9 but haven't tried them out yet apart from on the treadill in the shop, where they felt ok. However i'm a bit concerned by a slating of a review I've just read on this site. Can anybody else throw any light on these new releases. I must admit I went in for a pair of asics gel kinsei 2 but they were too high on the ankle and rubbed. I've had mizuno wave rider 9s in the past and I felt they were a bit hard on the road. I'm currently running in saucony triumph 5s which are ok.. the shop had limited size availability hence the mizunos this time. As Ive not worn them Ive still got the chance to return if the general concensus is theyre a pup.
Posted: 22/02/2008 at 22:49
I use the wave rider sometimes. A hard ( and hard wearing ) shoe that is great for long training runs. Really it depends if they work for you. If they feel good to you give them a rip, then do the review. You might just win the £50 prize if your review is good which may pay for new shoes.
Posted: 22/02/2008 at 23:37
I've worn the Creations for a number of versions and am very disappointed in the 9s. They have the same midsole and outsole as the 8s which were a good shoe, but the upper has been changed and (in my opinion) they've made a real mess of it.
The midsole uses the new 'infinity wave' which works really well if you're fairly heavy. I'm around 16st so have no problem squashing it, but even I find it fairly firm and would guess they would be hard for lighter runners (although this is only a guess). Bizarrely I find they get firmer in cold weather than warm, so don't know if the plastics harden in lower temperatures ? Never had this on any other shoe.
The real problem with the 9 is the upper has elasticated panels. Version 8 fitted really well, but I guess Mizuno's needed to 'improve' it and have made an attempt to match Asics with their stretchy uppers. On the Creation the new upper looks and feel like a cheap, nasty, half designed job that irritates my feet and makes the shoes unwearable. Like all things fit related it may be just me and others may find them the most comfortable things ever, who knows ?
I'm now looking for version 8 on the web and with luck I'll find enough to keep me going until version 10 when I hope they'll have sorted things.
Posted: 23/02/2008 at 00:49
Posted: 25/02/2008 at 19:09
I think Mizuno Wave Creation 9 is great and an improvement on version 8. Sorry to disagree with site review and above posts, but as footman says different shoes work better for different people. I'm not particularly heavy (12st approx) and don't find they're too hard in way recovery runner suggests and the cushioning also helps protect my back. Last race I ran two weeks back was second in my age category so they're doing the business for me.
Posted: 25/02/2008 at 21:54
Hi folks. are we talking the pink and orange creations????? I have heard that they are quite nice but have yet to try them on. I have a rather nice lime green Creation 8 which are lovely. For those interested, there are still some of the 8s on sale in various shops.
Posted: 07/03/2008 at 15:35
Interesting to see some sites are now selling the Creation 9 for less than the Creation 8 (e.g. Start Fitness). May be just a coincidence, but I still don't like the 9......
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Posted: 13/03/2008 at 12:39
I can't believe that you have let the opinions of others make a decision on the shoe, i think there is a culture of sheep like behaviour emerging here, if the shoe felt fine on the tread mill and you haven't run any more in it how can you decide that it is a bad shoe for you...well at least you didn't run them for 20 miles in the mud then take them back
I just can't believe that people will make a decision on the most important bit of running kit you own based on a handfull of experiences on an internet forum
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Posted: 13/03/2008 at 13:34
valid point footman but I'm actually not that naive. I took the shoes back weeks ago after giving them a trial run outside on a dry day so as not to ruin the sole. the shop were ok about it anyway as they let me run round the block near there shop in the past fittings anyway. they were definitely not the shoe for me as I found myself running quite high on my toes due to the height of the wave system.I havent been on the forum for a while to let others opinions cloud my judgement on this. just thought it would be worth getting an idea of how they performed after a few miles. ( see RmcDs entries) as I never really got on with the wave riders.
Tried about 6 pairs of different shoes on since so I think Ive made the right choice.
Ps do sheep wear trainers?
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Frances Magid Cohl, 83, of Warren Township, died Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2001 at Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield. Born in the Bronx, N.Y., daughter of the late Benjamin and Esther Weinstein Magid, Mrs. Cohl resided in Warren most of her life. Her husband, Morton Cohl, died in 1976. Surviving are her stepdaughter, Barbara Cohl and her husband, Robert Katz, o f Laurel, Md.; one brother, Irving Magid, of Warren Township; and two nephews, Arnold Magid of Connecticut and Bruce Magid and his wife, Elaine Siracusa Magid, of Maine. Arrangements were by Higgins Home for Funerals in North Plainfield, with interment at Beth Israel Cemetery in Woodbridge.
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Looks like Martino's on Devon (North Side). Who doesn't love thin crust chi-town pie cut into squares!!!
...after i made 1 batch of dough one time was it ended up resting in the fridge for a few days. the crust had a great beer flavor...anyway to expedite this process? and loo your home run inn is unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man! impressive! -=ter
Looks good Loo - I might have to try this one this weekend! Did you use shredded or sliced cheese?
Loo!! I have a general question for you! is there something i can do to better clean or condition my stones. i have 3 stones now. a cheap round...terracotta reminds me of sandstone, a round marble all clad, and now a big square terracotta or sandstone from williams sonoma the bigges i could find and man it makes for bigger pizzas!. the best crust i have made have been heating these suckers to 550 for an hour...the 1st time. subsequent crusts arent as crisp just a fine small layer of crisp/dryness that supports the slice is what im looking for, the subsequent pizzas have tasted good but are floppy quick!...thanks!


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Orb Wins Kentucky Derby Mudfest
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (TheStreet) -- Orb won the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby Saturday on a wet track that left horses and jockeys splashed with mud.
A 3-year-old bay colt, Orb paid $12.80 on a $2 bet to win.
It was the first Kentucky Derby victory for Hall of Fame trainer Shug McGaughey, 62, who has chalked up nine Breeders' Cup wins, and for the Phipps family, which has a long history in the sport.
It was also a first Derby victory for jockey Joel Rosario, who has been hot recently. On May 30, Rosario won the Dubai World Cup.
Orb bested runner-up Golden Soul by 2 1/2 lengths on the 1 1/4 mile course at Churchill Downs. Revolutionary came in third.
It was Orb's fifth straight win.