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Robin Harris over at StorageMojo put out this Open Letter to Seagate, Hitachi GST, EMC, HP, NetApp, IBM and Sun about the results of two academic papers, one from Google, and another from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). The papers imply that the disk drive module (DDM) manufacturers have perhaps misrepresented their reliability estimates, and asks major vendors to respond. So far, NetAppand EMC have responded.
I will not bother to re-iterate or repeat what others have said already, but make just a few points. Robin, you are free to consider this "my" official response if you like to post it on your blog, or point to mine, whatever is easier for you. Given that IBM no longer manufacturers the DDMs we use inside our disk systems, there may not be any reason for a more formal response.
- Coke and Pepsi buy sugar, Nutrasweet and Splenda from the same sources
Somehow, this doesn't surprise anyone. Coke and Pepsi don't own their own sugar cane fields, and even their bottlers are separate companies. Their job is to assemble the components using super-secret recipes to make something that tastes good.
IBM, EMC and NetApp don't make DDMs that are mentioned in either academic study. Different IBM storage systems uses one or more of the following DDM suppliers:
- Seagate (including Maxstor they acquired)
- Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, HGST (former IBM division sold off to Hitachi)
- Fujitsu
In the past, corporations like IBM was very "vertically-integrated", making every component of every system delivered.IBM was the first to bring disk systems to market, and led the major enhancements that exist in nearly all disk drives manufactured today. Today, however, our value-add is to take standard components, and use our super-secret recipe to make something that provides unique value to the marketplace. Not surprisingly, EMC, HP, Sun and NetApp also don't make their own DDMs. Hitachi is perhaps the last major disk systems vendor that also has a DDM manufacturing division.
So, my point is that disk systems are the next layer up. Everyone knows that individual components fail. Unlike CPUs or Memory, disks actually have moving parts, so you would expect them to fail more often compared to just "chips".
If you don't feel the MTBF or AFR estimates posted by these suppliers are valid, go after them, not the disk systems vendors that use their supplies. While IBM does qualify DDM suppliers for each purpose, we are basically purchasing them from the same major vendors as all of our competitors. I suspect you won't get much more than the responses you posted from Seagate and HGST.
- American car owners replace their cars every 59 months
According to a frequently cited auto market research firm, the average time before the original owner transfers their vehicle -- purchased or leased -- is currently 59 months.Both studies mention that customers have a different "definition" of failure than manufacturers, and often replace the drives before they are completely kaput. The same is true for cars. Americans give various reasons why they trade in their less-than-five-year cars for newer models. Disk technologies advance at a faster pace, so it makes sense to change drives for other business reasons, for speed and capacity improvements, lower power consumption, and so on.
The CMU study indicated that 43 percent of drives were replaced before they were completely dead.So, if General Motors estimated their cars lasted 9 years, and Toyota estimated 11 years, people still replace them sooner, for other reasons.
At IBM, we remind people that "data outlives the media". True for disk, and true for tape. Neither is "permanent storage", but rather a temporary resting point until the data is transferred to the next media. For this reason, IBM is focused on solutions and disk systems that plan for this inevitable migration process. IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller is able to move active data from one disk system to another; IBM Tivoli Storage Manager is able to move backup copies from one tape to another; and IBM System Storage DR550 is able to move archive copies from disk and tape to newer disk and tape.
If you had only one car, then having that one and only vehicle die could be quite disrupting. However, companies that have fleet cars, like Hertz Car Rentals, don't wait for their cars to completely stop running either, they replace them well before that happens. For a large company with a large fleet of cars, regularly scheduled replacement is just part of doing business.
This brings us to the subject of RAID. No question that RAID 5 provides better reliability than having just a bunch of disks (JBOD). Certainly, three copies of data across separate disks, a variation of RAID 1, will provide even more protection, but for a price.
Robin mentions the "Auto-correlation" effect. Disk failures bunch up, so one recent failure might mean another DDM, somewhere in the environment, will probably fail soon also. For it to make a difference, it would (a) have to be a DDM in the same RAID 5 rank, and (b) have to occur during the time the first drive is being rebuilt to a spare volume.
- The human body replaces skin cells every day
So there are individual DDMs, manufactured by the suppliers above; disk systems, manufactured by IBM and others, and then your entire IT infrastructure. Beyond the disk system, you probably have redundant fabrics, clustered servers and multiple data paths, because eventually hardware fails.
People might realize that the human body replaces skin cells every day. Other cells are replaced frequently, within seven days, and others less frequently, taking a year or so to be replaced. I'm over 40 years old, but most of my cells are less than 9 years old. This is possible because information, data in the form of DNA, is moved from old cells to new cells, keeping the infrastructure (my body) alive.
Our clients should approach this in a more holistic view. You will replace disks in less than 3-5 years. While tape cartridges can retain their data for 20 years, most people change their tape drives every 7-9 years, and so tape data needs to be moved from old to new cartridges. Focus on your information, not individual DDMs.
What does this mean for DDM failures. When it happens, the disk system re-routes requests to a spare disk, rebuilding the data from RAID 5 parity, giving storage admins time to replace the failed unit. During the few hours this process takes place, you are either taking a backup, or crossing your fingers.Note: for RAID5 the time to rebuild is proportional to the number of disks in the rank, so smaller ranks can be rebuilt faster than larger ranks. To make matters worse, the slower RPM speeds and higher capacities of ATA disks means that the rebuild process could take longer than smaller capacity, higher speed FC/SCSI disk.
According to the Google study, a large portion of the DDM replacements had no SMART errors to warn that it was going to happen. To protect your infrastructure, you need to make sure you have current backups of all your data. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center can help identify all the data that is "at risk", those files that have no backup, no copy, and no current backup since the file was most recently changed. A well-run shop keeps their "at risk" files below 3 percent.
- ATA drives are probably as reliable as FC/SCSI disk. Customers should chose which to use based on performance and workload characteristics. FC/SCSI drives are more expensive because they are designed to run at faster speeds, required by some enterprises for some workloads. IBM offers both, and has tools to help estimate which products are the best match to your requirements.
- RAID 5 is just one of the many choices of trade-offs between cost and protection of data. For some data, JBOD might be enough. For other data that is more mission critical, you might choose keeping two or three copies. Data protection is more than just using RAID, you need to also consider point-in-time copies, synchronous or asynchronous disk mirroring, continuous data protection (CDP), and backup to tape media. IBM can help show you how.
- Disk systems, and IT environments in general, are higher-level concepts to transcend the failures of individual components. DDM components will fail. Cache memory will fail. CPUs will fail. Choose a disk systems vendor that combines technologies in unique and innovative ways that take these possibilities into account, designed for no single point of failure, and no single point of repair.
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In short: Heart warming, not heartbreaking!In full: Agree with other comments. Friendly race with great atmosphere,marshalls and scenery. Challenging route, but enjoyable. Lovely facilities at the race venue. See you next year! Thanks to all involved.Date of review: February 27, 2012
In short: This exceeded my expectations! Would do againIn full: Preferred this to Edinburgh marathon. Better scenery,organisation and value for money. Reallly like the medal too although goodie bag a bit disappointing.Thanks to all concerned. Wondered if there could be more water stations next year please?Date of review: January 22, 2012
In short: Low key, enjoyable race that is brilliantly organised and recommendedIn full: Thanks to everyone involved. See you next year!Date of review: November 7, 2011
In short: Highly recommended! See you next year.In full: Great support. Lovely atmosphere. Brilliant organisation. A race to be proud of! Thanks to all concerned.Date of review: October 31, 2011
In short: Bring back the mugs! Lovely race, tough last 3 miles.In full: Well organised, enjoyable race which I always look forward to. Friendly marshalls. Lovely views, even had a few forest ponies joining in the race! Really disappointed with the goodie bag though... Much preferred the mugs of previous years. Thanks to all concerned.Date of review: October 12, 2011
In short: Look forward to next year!Date of review: September 19, 2011
In short: Disappointing...how could a marathon in beautiful Edinburgh be so uninspiring??In full: Agree with comments about the poor organisation, lack of visible mile markers, chaotic finsih and uninspiring course. Edinburgh is such a fantastic city, it deserves a fantastic marathon! I am glad I did this, but wont be returning.Date of review: May 23, 2011
In short: What a lovely race! Thanks to all concerned. Enjoyed the VLM soundtrack!Date of review: March 27, 2011
In short: First time of doing this race and I hope to be back next year! Highly recommended.In full: Great to be able to part so near the start- made for a really relaxing start. Love the medal!Thanks to all concerned. See you next year!Date of review: March 13, 2011
In short: Fantastic way to start the year! Highly recommended.In full: Great location. Lovely atmosphere. Started by Liz Yelling (who also won). Friendly, cheerful marshalls, great course and chocolate and a medal at the finish. What more could you ask for?!Thanks to all concerned. See you next year!Date of review: January 3, 2011
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Earlier this month, I walked through the marketplace at the Phonekam development village in Laos, with Ambassador Karen Stewart and several colleagues from U.S. Embassy Vientiane. As we observed residents going about their shopping, a young family with two small, well-fed children smiled at the embassy's delegation before driving off with their purchases on their own motorcycle. An amazing variety of items can be purchased at the market: TVs, nails, flashlights, clothes, shoes, hats, fruit, and more. We spoke to two shopkeepers, who can travel daily by bus to the provincial capital to purchase inventory. Ambassador Stewart noted the increase in livestock -- including roosters, chickens, goats, huge pigs and little piglets -- for sale at the market, compared with her last visit.
In December 2009, approximately 4,500 Hmong who had sought refuge in Thailand were forcibly returned to Laos, and since then the U.S. government has conducted periodic visits to the Phonekham development village in Bolikhamsay Province, where they now reside. Our visits are used to monitor conditions -- such as what we saw in the marketplace -- and help build trust between the Hmong returnees and the Lao Government. We also look to ensure human rights are respected and protected.
Working through the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the U.S. government agreed to support health and medical needs, ambulances for clinics and hospitals, mini-tractors for agricultural production, and school construction for the Lao Hmong returnees and local residents of the surrounding communities. To date, 94 mini-tractors, medical equipment and supplies, and ambulances for the clinics and hospitals have been delivered to help address livelihood and health needs of the Hmong returnees. Additionally, the U.S. government is providing computer equipment for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office for Overseas Lao Affairs to enhance communication with the Hmong Diaspora.
On May 14, 2012, on the day our embassy delegation visited the marketplace at Phonekham, Ambassador Stewart participated in a handover ceremony of four ambulances to benefit the Hmong villagers not only in Phonekam, but also in Palak and Nongsan, two older development villages serving Hmong returnees. This delivery represents the third tranche of assistance under the IOM-implemented project supported by the State Department. In Phonekam, a local villager shared that the clinic is properly supplied, with patients filling beds and staff attending to business. The ambulances will help ensure that villagers reach district hospitals quickly for emergency care and treatment of life-threatening illness. They will also encourage expectant mothers to deliver their babies in clinics rather than at home by providing transportation to the village health centers -- part of a strategy to improve mother/child health and decrease infant and maternal mortality.
The villagers also reported that water for irrigation is adequate but slow due to small pipes. The Lao government has provided some assistance to the Hmong returnees since January 2010 and the rice crop is sufficient. Last year, the farmers started to grow and sell cassava, which can be quite lucrative in the Lao market. The villagers are currently testing corn and plan to further diversify crops if successful. The seeds of hope have been planted, and we are encouraged that substantive dialogue towards reconciliation and national development will continue between the Lao government and the Hmong returnees.
Continue the conversation on the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration's Facebook page.
Mac T. in Thailand writes:
Andrea, Karen
Wonder if non-official people, such as myself, would be allowed to visit the area without escort or official permission.
FYI, we just missed each other as I was traveling down from Phonsavanh on 14 May, stopped at Tha Thom for a visit at a school, then on to Paksane & Vientiane.
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Raven is a British novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and editor. A first-rate storyteller, he is known for his fast-paced social satires of the upper and upper-middle classes. Despite a simplistic approach to character and plot development, Raven's novels succeed as well-plotted entertainments, and have brought him a wide readership. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 81-84.)
James Kennaway
[If] you can plough through the first 130 pages [of The Feathers of Death], most of which are irrelevant, you will then be drawn into Mr. Raven's horrible world. As you lay down his book, you will bow in admiration to the clarity of his characterisation, the simplicity of his prose and the design of his plot. I greatly fear that he is a writer with a future, and I only hope I can discourage him.
His story is of a homosexual love affair (here we go again) between a god-like subaltern and an earth-child drummer. It is set against a background of peace-time soldiering in a troublesome colony where the regiment (which is neither cavalry nor infantry) is involved in some wog-suppression. It reaches an excellent climax in a sharp action against the natives, and the description of this battle … is masterly. There is no question at all that Mr Raven knows all the details of this sort of action and of other aspects of peace-time soldiering. There is also no question at all that he manages to present us with a totally false picture of British officers and men. A spell in the army and a spell in the classical sixth have produced not, as we might hope, a certain maturity of view, but an ugly case of astigmatism….
Dismissing all the intolerable and repetitive table-talk (and looking back on his first novel it is this stuff, not the sodomy, that will, I hope, turn Mr Raven into a pillar of salt), I'd take issue with him on the behaviour of his troops….
During the court-martial of Alastair Lynch, which forms the last section of the book, there are more brilliant moments, and at one point the hero almost changes from young god to young man. We can nearly put a face to him. It is more the pity, therefore, that Mr. Raven undoes his good in the last few pages by a single act (in itself too melodramatic for any heterosexual story) which serves to make his hero god again. It is his novel that he stabs in the back.
James Kennaway, "Old Harrovian," in New Statesman (© 1959 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. LVII. No. 1455, January 31, 1959, p. 164.
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Brother Cain is the oddest book I expect to read this year. Jacinth Crewe, after expulsion from school, premature departure from Cambridge, and enforced resignation from the Army, is taken on … by an international organisation bent on combating 'democratic excess and Communist exploitation.'… After a staggering indoctrination course, some tests and assorted sex, he ends up in Venice, confronting his assigned victims at a masked ball. With Jacinth's character, with his easy bisexuality, his Cambridge nostalgia and dreams, his peculiar concern with guarding his 'honour' (while fairly coolly going through with one of the nastiest acts imaginable), it would take an analyst to deal adequately. There are faint echoes of both Daisy Ashford and Ian Fleming in the chilly, jolly tone: 'after a busy evening spent buying cars and clothes, they had some dinner'—Mr. Raven frequently tells you what they had for dinner, and very nice too—but there is something that is Mr. Raven's own in the twists and turns down to a nightmare finale. Once past the early dream-sequences and organisational oratory, which I found elaborately dull, though ingenious, one is sucked along to the end. It is an unwholesome, caddish, talented book. (p. 559)
John Coleman, "The Facts of Fiction," in The Spectator (© 1959 by The Spectator; reprinted by permission of The Spectator), Vol. 203, No. 6852, October 23,...
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The very bulk of Raven's writing might suggest what a reading of his novels confirms: they are uneven in quality, occasionally repetitious and forced, and sometimes no more than entertaining. Only a few of them exhibit all of Raven's appreciable gifts as a novelist working together in harmony. These flaws should not, however, be allowed to obscure the fact that Raven is a serious and interesting novelist, whose works have yet to receive, at least in North America, the attention they deserve. (p. 106)
The action of Raven's novels all takes place within a world of privilege, leisure, and power, and it is his principal intention in them to describe, scrutinize, and judge the men who inhabit this world. The settings of major scenes are often described by Raven in careful and loving detail…. Raven is very good at rendering these settings and the activities they encompass…. Sometimes the function of these descriptions is purely decorative, but more often they are linked to the central themes and conflicts of the novels in such a way as to deepen and enrich them. When setting and theme are fully united the former become images of order, tradition, and seemliness (a favorite word of Raven's), or of their perversion. (p. 107)
What Raven anachronistically calls the "lower orders" seldom appear in his fiction except as private soldiers or servants. Another substantial portion of the human race who do not figure prominently in the fiction are women, for the enclaves of privilege about which Raven writes are almost exclusively male…. The inadequacy of his portrayal of women is one of the more serious shortcomings of Raven's fiction.
Raven's male characters tend to be completely worldly, untouched by anything that could be called Christian morality. For Raven, as for the classical Greeks he so admires, Christianity is folly. The only standard of conduct by which he is prepared to evaluate his characters is summed up in a comment made about a central figure in Close of Play: "no morals, only aesthetic preferences and personal loyalties". The core of personal loyalty is male friendship, a subject Raven treats with the greatest seriousness…. The love of friends may take the forms of worldly versions of philia and agape, but often in Raven's novels there is an admixture of eros as well. Homosexual love affairs dominate three of the novels, and are rendered with subtlety and skill. They are always handled from the point of view of the seducer, who develops an overwhelming passion for a beautiful young man. In each case the affair ends tragically. Together with the theme of betrayal, with which they are in each case closely linked, these affairs have for Raven an obsessive fascination, out of which have come some of the best and most compelling moments of his fiction. (pp. 107-08)
According to Raven, the main reason for the fragility of the code of personal loyalty is that the social ideals and sense of responsibility upon which such a code must be founded have largely disappeared from the modern world and become irrelevant to it. This is the subject explored in The English Gentleman. As a social analysis of twentieth-century Britain, this work leaves much to be desired (it is based almost entirely on the author's own experiences), and its main thesis doubtless strikes many readers as hopelessly reactionary or wilfully perverse. On the other hand, there seems to me to be a good deal of insight in The English Gentleman, a work which is of the first importance to an understanding of Raven's novels.
Its main argument is that there is no place in the modern world for the traditional qualities of the gentleman…. The modern age is characterized by a "preference, both popular and aristocratic, for what is spurious", and a "corresponding contempt for what is genuine". Decadent aristocrats and film stars are tolerated and even applauded by the public because their distinction is based solely on the accident of birth or personal appearance. But individuals possessing unusual personal qualities like intelligence, discipline, and self-respect—which are independent of possessions and not simply an accident of birth—tend to be ridiculed and held in contempt. Citizens of the welfare state are resentful of intrinsic superiority, for "merit is inalienable, an ever-present menace to the self-esteem of the mediocre." Standards based on character and honour have been replaced as models for emulation and admiration by worthless and tastelessly materialistic ones. (p. 108)
Raven's views on the current state of British fiction—outlined in "Reflections of a Middle-Aged Novelist",… closely echo the argument of The English Gentleman. The novelist's primary job, says Raven, is to maintain the interest of his reader. To do this he must build his work upon conflict and struggle. Because they lack these essentials, Raven admits to being dissatisfied and bored by the great majority of novels written by his younger British contemporaries. These writers know nothing of physical conflict, and in their work emotional conflict often fails to rise above "a state of masturbatory discontent". Being "progressive children of the age", they find moral conflict meaningless because of their absolute acceptance of welfare state notions of truth and justice. Novels founded on conflict inevitably suggest the unacceptable idea that, at least in some respects, some people are superior to the rest. In short, "what is destroying the quality of the novel, just as it is destroying the quality of life itself, is egalitarian dogma; for the chief fascination of novels, as of life, lies in the presentation, and the celebration, of human inequalities." (pp. 108-09)
None of [Raven's first four] novels is comparable to the best of the Alms for Oblivion series, though they all treat the two themes which dominate much of Raven's fiction: moral degeneration and the decline of personal loyalty. Doctors Wear Scarlet and Brother Cain are the least successful of the four because their thematic concerns are awkwardly and imperfectly embodied in the stories which contain them. (p. 109)
The principal trouble with Doctors Wear Scarlet is that until its final scenes [the two stories presented in the novel] are not properly united or effectively counterpointed….
The faults of Doctors Wear Scarlet are also present in Brother Cain, with the addition of greater implausibility and of excessive didacticism—something most unusual in Raven….
Brother Cain is basically an Ian Fleming-type adventure-fable, with an anti-hero rather than superman as protagonist. But there is a consistent theme running through the novel, although Raven is unable—as with the theme of moral degeneration in Doctors Wear Scarlet—to link this theme effectively with the narrative (p. 110)
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Peter Straub
Bring Forth the Body is the penultimate volume in Simon Raven's Alms For Oblivion series, but it stands quite easily on its own as a separate novel. In fact, there's maybe too much ease: Captain Detterling and Leonard Perceval conduct a quiet investigation into the causes of Somerset Lloyd-Jones's suicide, and the book is simply a series of false leads which finally wind around to revelation. The tone, in this roundup of characters from earlier novels, progressively darkens; and Raven invents an effortless stream of comic moments….
Peter Straub, "Hot & Cold," in New Statesman (© 1974 The Statesman & Nation Publishing Co. Ltd.), Vol. 88, No. 2276,...
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Peter Ackroyd
There are a great many novels concerned with political intrigue, but none of them have Mr Raven's peculiarly steely glint. He is a master craftsman, who can change scenes and characters without overt discomfort; his prose is always amusing, elegant, intelligent and never below the belt. Where else except in a Raven novel [Bring Forth the Body] could you find an old whore called Maisie who calls everyone "duckie" and paints her clients, as it were, in oils? Or a maid known as Dolly who is both honest and hardworking? A certain Peregrina Lloyd-James who is bored rather than tired, and a detective sergeant who looks like a "jacketed barrel"? Anglo-Saxon attitudes are alive and well and being ruthlessly sent up....
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Julian Symons
The Survivors is the tenth and last volume in Simon Raven's 'Alms For Oblivion' sequence, and the death of culture is somehow mixed up in it with the extinction of the English gentleman. 'Such gentlemen as survive, though honourable and decent men, can only be seen as futile anachronisms when once one properly appreciates the present conditions of society,' Mr Raven wrote 15 years ago. His view has hardened since then, and his gentlemen are no longer honourable and decent….
The view of society put forward in these novels is not dissimilar to that found in the work of another Tory with a romantic view of the English gentleman, Evelyn Waugh. Both writers hankered to be 'gentlemen' themselves,...
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For all his worldly pagan sermonising, Simon Raven is as obsessed by sin and retribution as a hell-fire divine. This has been apparent from the very beginning of his Alms for Oblivion sequence, in the first volume of which the coarsegrained Jude Holbrook … is cruelly punished for his shystering by the death of his beloved young son. Since then all the protagonists, as well as a few more secondary players like Holbrook, have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. And while most of them have richly deserved their respective come-uppances, it's interesting that what has sometimes tipped the scales against them is a minor misdemeanour—minor, that is, by conventional standards but not, one supposes, by...
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In short: Nice course although no bag dropIn full: Weather was terrible but a really nice atmosphere. Hill climb was a little unexpected but you always get to run down. Disappointed there was no organised secure bag drop for such an open venueDate of review: May 18, 2009
In short: Excellent eventIn full: Third time doing this event for me and have improved on my times each year. Missed out on a PB by 1 second which was rather annoying but that gives me focus for future events I suppose. It's a good course and the free tshirt and doughnut afterwards are a definite bonus.Date of review: May 18, 2009
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In full: This is the first time I do a 10K race and despite the heavy downpour it was a good experience. The run was well organised and the atmosphere celebrationary. I'll definitely be joining in next year.Date of review: May 17, 2009
In short: brilliant run, my first one and I absolutely loved it.In full: rain started pouring down the minute the race started, and it only stopped once I crossed the finish line, good thing it's my prefered weather condition. marshalls were helpful and motivating,and though there were 1200 runners the race track wasn't too crowded. I loved it, expected a more hilly terrain, and finished better than I anticipated. Date of review: May 17, 2009
In short: I love this run.In full: With all due respect to the other runners, what hills? I thought the route was fairly flat and fast. I knocked four minutes off my PB today and will definitely be back next year. The doughnuts at the end were a lovely treat. Thanks to all the volunteers.Date of review: May 17, 2009
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In short: third year, will be back in 2010In full: One of my favorite London races, it is getting bigger every year. New feature was the chip which took the time at the start and finish, too. Thank you Dunn's Bakers for the doughnuts and the coffee.This year the weather wasn't great, but still plenty of supporters on the route.It's not the best race for a PB as there are some hills and the course takes a few sharp turns, but overall a great day out.Date of review: May 17, 2009
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aww ... that was the most entertainment i've had on this forum in a long time
darrin, seriously, u should add one more week to your 2010 schedule. this week in ocala.
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I am sorry for any hurt feelings. I will not let my Son and I be called out as not being legal. I stand with Darren and Steve in having a constructive dialogue between those who actually participate at B'ville regularly.
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I am with Richie#89 this has been a very entertaining thread! I certainly hope Angus' season has been as well. But back to the point, the clone classes for the kids have been great. They have grown and the drivers have learned a lot and so have the crew chiefs. Steve, as our board member, has asked us for ideas for improvement so does anybody have any ideas?
I asked Hank what he thought and his response was "The start of our races suck!" I gave an idea and it may not be a positive solution but I think it is an area we need to work on. Several have tried to talk to the boys but the proof is on the track and the results.
My hat goes off to everyone who races and tries to give it all. I think the season ending standings truly reflect who worked the hardest, invested the most time, money, and patience in this endeavor. The question at hand is what can we do to make it better for us, keep us coming back to the track, and recruit new blood to whip up on.
Please give Steve some concrete ideas and suggestions.
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Another option is to put some rules in place. Rule is the following
1. Starts must be slow. This must be at the discreation of the Starter. I have seen many starts too fast.
2. If pace is too fast, it is waived off
3. If outside front row is ahead of the pole sitter, it is waived off
4. If after two attempts, the front row gets put to the second row and the second row becomes the front row.
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I agree with slow starts, pole setting the pace, and invert after two failed attempts.
Do not agree with more than one chance at a start. More than one chance is only going to make them that much more aggressive the 1st two times. I also don't think it's fair to the kids that make good starts the 1st time to give everyone else 2 and 3 shots at them.
A thought is to have a video camera at turn one, review the starts at the end of each week and if you are the cause of turn 1 pileups you start at the back of the back the following race regardless of where you qualify. I guarantee a couple of rear-pack starts will tone down turn 1 aggression.
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I am glad we are staying on topic now.
I am also glad we are addressing the issue Hank and I are raising.
I do not have the solution to the problem, but the suggestions of John W. and Darrin, are not actually solving the problem. We know that some etiquette is supposed to be understood as to how a race starts, however there is no consequence as described for crossing that line.
A philosophical question is "who says the pole sitter or the front row have anything to say about the speed or pace of the start, what is the flagman's role?"
The process as We understand it and how We observe the results on the track, and the officials decisions; it pays to be the villain.
That is the issue I am trying to raise and solve.
I hope I am not beating the horse to death and we are raising a valid issue. If we are alone in this matter we will shut up.
We believe if some one messes up a start then that person should have a punishment. If you mess up the start you go to the back the first time. It doesn't matter if you are first or 5th you go to dead last.
2 years ago at the night race I told Hank to jump the start from the outside pole. he did and it won him the race. and if he was caught then they would have just gone around again for another try.
The point is we know the game and the risks for manipulating the start.
So does every one else. There appears to be very little risk so winning the pole does not mean much.
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Pole Position is always a plus. I believe we all realize that some improvements could possibly be made yet we also know how difficult it will be to get the kids to race nice. There are those who are in scrapes quite often and then there are drivers that respect each other and the sport. I would suggest a standing start with increased stagger close to turn 1 as an option. That being said I believe that the way we do it now is the method with the least flaws.
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On the subject of starts let's just remember we are not on our own little island. There are many of our kids that use the local series as practice for other series and tracks. I think any start procedure that varies drastically from the way everyone else does it is counterproductive. The #1 issue we need to address is the speed at which they come to the green flag.
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I suggested it before for all classes starts. Please put 3-4 cones in the middle of the track at starting point not on the sides. This will help karts separate and first such cone could be an acceleration cone. Green flag guy should make a starting decision so leaders see it clearly and have time to react properly, not 1-2 yards from the karts. If they reached first cone and no green flag, it should be repeated next lap.
Pole sitter in all classes all sessions should be reminded by grid marshal about slow start.
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Amen Brotha Ihor! I suggested the same thing earlier in this thread. The cones last year forced the karts together right at the entrance to turn one. Cones down the middle would separate them. I watched every start last year and think this would solve the issue.
BTW...Doesn't the flagman start the race at nationals and not the guy on the pole?
The guy on the pole just sets the pace?
I couldn't tell you because I never had the luxury of starting there.
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"Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things; but there are evil things too, and you are not doing a child a favor by trying to shield him from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil. "
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The completion or refurbishment of a modern business jet refers to the process by which the cabin interior is finished or reworked. It is a complex project requiring specialized skills and artistic talent. Here are 10 tips to help you find the right experts and get the ball rolling.
1. Don't wait. Assuming the private jet industry continues to rebound, available slots for a completion or refurbishment project will be limited. Take into consideration that before your airplane ever rolls into the completion or refurbishment center, a lot of work must be done, much of it requiring your attention. In fact, the outfitting process could begin six months or more before the airplane arrives at the center.
2. Decide what you want. Meet with your pilot and chief mechanic and make a list of what you'd like in the cabin. Do you want high-speed Internet connectivity? How about Wi-Fi, a high-definition entertainment system, moving-map display or Blu-ray player? How many video monitors and how large should they be? What kind of seats do you want? What about galley amenities such as a convection oven or trash compactor? What type of lighting, toilet and shower would you prefer? Divide your list into two groups–what you want and what you need–so as to make the best use of the available budget and time available for the work. Take your list with you when you meet with designers and engineers from completion and refurbishment centers.
3. Consider an independent consultant. Independent completion and refurbishment consultants are fairly common these days, especially with large and complex cabin-outfitting projects. A good one can manage the project–from picking the right airplane to the final test flight and delivery–and can save you a lot of time and expense. Further, independent consultants can work in that minefield between what you want and what the completion/refurbishment center says it can do. And they understand government requirements as well as the certification process for off-the-shelf items.
4. Shop carefully for a completion or refurbishment center. Tour centers you're considering and talk with key individuals, like the director of completions or refurbishment and the heads of the cabinetry and upholstery shops. If the center outsources, get the names of suppliers that are likely to be associated with your project, and talk with them.
Question the center's workload and slot availability. Also, ask whether the center meets all governmental requirements, and whether it is insured and at what level.
References? Every center is likely to have done at least a few satisfactory, or even superior, cabin projects. Call some previous customers and ask detailed questions.
The last stage of the selection process involves cutting the choices down to a short list and sending requests for bids. Don't be surprised if there is a considerable range in the proposals you receive.
5. Pay attention to design and engineering. Once the project gets underway, it's time to find out whether all those ideas on your wish list are even possible–and if they are, what they'll cost. For example, reupholstering old 9g seats will be as much as $500,000 less expensive than installing new 16g seats.
This is a critical point in the completion/refurbishment process. Here is where you will make choices covering everything from lighting, fabrics, leather, colors and entertainment components to the cabin-management system, monitors and carpet. There are literally hundreds of details that if not specified early on will come back to take a major bite out of your wallet.
The designers and engineers will have their own questions. For example, do you plan to make the airplane available for charter? If so, the additional wear and tear will dictate the type of leather, fabrics, carpeting and wood trim you should select.
6. Think about the next owner. If your cabin is very unusual, chances are that it will appeal to a relatively small pool of buyers; anyone else will want a price break, because the first thing they'll want to do after purchasing the airplane is have the interior refurbished.
7. Choose technology. Most owners will make choices based on compatibility, durability and ease of maintenance, whether it is the latest technology available and whether the systems can be easily upgraded.
One recent trend is to incorporate interface docks for personal entertainment devices. This began several years ago as passengers began coming aboard with MP3 players and looking for a dock that would allow them to view videos and listen to music on the cabin-entertainment system, using large in-place monitors to share content with traveling companions. This trend could go a step further as tablet computers and high-speed Internet connections render even in-flight satellite television irrelevant.
8. Agree on milestones. This is the standard means of marking the progress of a completion or refurbishment Project. Most completion and refurbishment centers will assign an individual, or even a team of technicians, to walk through at prearranged points in the process to ensure that the job is on schedule and the work meets specifications. These milestones typically represent points at which an approval is required before moving forward, and they may include progress payments.
Catching a problem or demanding a change at this point will almost always be less costly–sometimes much less costly–than at a later point. So look at everything, and closely. One jet owner visited the partially finished lavatory and discovered that when seated, there was no way the occupant could reach the bathroom tissue.
9. Take a "cold soak" flight. Don't let the term throw you. The manufacturers call the flight that because the airplane is taken to its maximum certified altitude and put through its paces. Every drawer in every cabinet, every button and every switch is tested, most often by the completion or refurbishment center team. The list may include 200 items or more, all of which must be checked off. There are often two such flights, one for the company and another for the aviation authority's representative. Small aircraft may require multiple flights. Larger-cabin jets might spend eight hours or more on a single flight.
The number of passengers on these flights is usually limited to individuals involved in the test program, the center's own technicians and the aviation authority representatives who will certify the interior.
The second or third flight is reserved for the owner and/or consultant and guests. It will last the equivalent of the aircraft's maximum range. On the way, the passengers will be served a meal, play with all the controls and examine the workmanship for any flaws.
10. Relax. Don't worry if you don't catch every little problem. That's why you have a warranty, which normally applies for two or three years. That's also why some completion and refurbishment centers will assign an individual to follow your airplane for weeks, even months, to ensure a prompt fix for anything that goes wrong.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa., June 20, 2008 - 2007 all-around world champion Shawn Johnson of West Des Moines, Iowa, leads the all-around after the first day of the women's competition at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics, held at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, Pa. The men's competition concludes today at 3 p.m. ET, and the women wrap up on Sunday, June 22, at 6 p.m.
Johnson finished with a total score of 64.000, followed by 2007 balance beam world champion Nastia Liukin of Parker, Texas, in second at 63.500. 2005 all-around world champion Chellsie Memmel of West Allis, Wis., was third with a 62.250.
"I definitely don't feel I'm at my peak," Johnson said. "I have a ways to go, but we're on the right path. I don't believe that I'm even here. Pinch me; it's a dream."
With a score of 16.100 for her floor exercise routine that included a double-twisting double back, Johnson moved into first place after three rotations with a score of 48.050. Her final event was vault, and Johnson retained her lead with her 15.950 on her Yurchenko two-and-a-half vault.
Johnson earned the night's highest scores on three events. Her 15.950 on vault edged past Alicia Sacramone of Winchester, Mass., by just 0.050 points. Johnson also posted the top scores on balance beam with 16.250, and on floor exercise with 16.100.
Liukin's 16.700 on uneven bars was the highest score of the evening. She finished second on both balance beam and floor exercise with scores of 16.100 and 15.700, respectively. On vault, she posted a 15.000.
"There are definitely things to improve on," Liukin said. "Even if I have the best meet of my life, I still have things I want to improve on. I get that from my dad because he's a perfectionist."
Halfway through the competition, Memmel led the field with a two-event score of 32.150, but dropped to third after the third rotation. She began the day on uneven bars with a 16.150, the second highest of the night. She also earned a 16.000 on balance beam, a 15.300 on floor exercise and a 14.800 on vault.
"I definitely don't want to get ahead of myself," Memmel said. "I'm thrilled with how things are going right now, but I can't lose focus."
Rounding out the top five in the all-around were Samantha Peszek of Indianapolis, Ind., in fourth and Ivana Hong of Blue Springs, Mo., in fifth, with scores of 61.850 and 60.850, respectively. Peszek tied for third on vault and placed third on floor exercise.
The top two all-around competitors at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics (combined rank order after two days of competition) automatically qualify for the Olympic Team. The balance of the Olympic Team will be named at the conclusion of a Final Selection Camp scheduled for July 16-20.
Tickets are still available for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics, and may be purchased online at ComcastTIX.com, by phone at 1-800-298-4200, or at the Wachovia Center Box Office. Visa is the only card accepted for the 2008 U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics.
Past sites for the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for gymnastics are: 2004, Anaheim, Calif.; 1996 and 2000, Boston; 1992, Baltimore, Md.; 1988, Salt Lake City, Utah; and 1980 and 1984, Jacksonville, Fla.
The U.S. Olympic Team Trials for all sports is a collaborative, three-way partnership between the U.S. Olympic Committee, the national governing bodies and the local organizing committees.


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Many religious leaders will mark Earth Day, which falls on April 22, with more gripes about the United States refusing to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. In fact, people of faith, if not their leaders, should be grateful that the U.S. government has rejected this fundamentally flawed treaty.
The hype surrounding Kyoto included a canard about its standards being economically sensitive, because the agreement would use "market-based" solutions to solve the perceived problem of greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto solution created a carbon credits trading system, wherein a fixed number of total credits are doled out among participating nations set on a baseline of previous carbon emissions for that country.
Those nations that do not need all of their credits can sell their excess shares to nations that needed more credits to meet the standards. This could theoretically be accomplished without exceeding the emissions allowed by the aggregate number of carbon credits, and so it's more accurately named a "cap and trade" system. Religious and moral leaders, too, have succumbed to the allure of such ostensibly economy-friendly solutions, as earlier this year the Evangelical Climate Initiative specifically endorsed policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions "through cost-effective, market-based mechanisms such as a cap and trade program."
This part of the Kyoto system has sparked a trend in climate change policy, as similar prescriptions were put forth in the failed McCain-Lieberman Climate Stewardship Act of 2003 and have been a feature of global warming discussions ever since.
But it turns out that Kyoto's so-called "market-based" solution is having some unintended consequences. Russia, currently one of the world's worst polluters and emitters of greenhouse gasses, is being rewarded by the carbon credit scheme. As NPR's Stephen Beard reports, Russia is now sitting on nearly $1 billion worth of carbon credits.
The way the Kyoto scheme works is that the baseline for carbon emissions is set at the level of the country's emission in 1990. At that time Russia was, as Beard says, "belching out pollution" at a record rate. With the contraction of the Russian economy in the 1990s, industrial and domestic emissions radically declined. At their current levels, Russia's carbon emissions are far below their 1990 level.
Even so, Russia's industries remain one of the world's biggest emitters of carbon dioxide. Their plants and manufacturing facilities tend to be outdated and inefficient, but because there are fewer of them than there were in 1990, they have a surplus of carbon credits.
So despite the best intentions of the Kyoto cap and trade scheme, there is no real incentive for Russia to reduce those emissions. Russian industries can continue using inefficient means of production while enjoying the bountiful fruits of the carbon credit scheme.
The Russian situation should serve as a wake-up call for religious and other groups that have touted the "market-based" incentives of carbon trading schemes. The fact is that such "markets" are artificial constructs of political entities – in the case of the Kyoto standards, the governments that have ratified the treaty.
In this sense, characterizing cap and trade schemes as "market-based" is rather misleading, because these systems lack the fundamental elasticity and flexibility of authentic and spontaneously generated markets. Cap and trade schemes cannot foresee the various economic and other factors that will affect the situation of participants in the system. Many participating nations, for a variety of reasons, are beginning to realize the difficulties of meeting the Kyoto treaty's goals and will face stiff penalties for their failure to comply.
The fundamental problem with cap and trade schemes is that they misapprehend the role of government. Governments do not create markets but rather provide the necessary framework within which markets can function. This framework consists of things like the consistent application of the rule of law and protection of property rights.
Real market-based solutions include the possibility for increased efficiency and reduced pollution that new technologies and innovations provide. They also don't rely primarily on government coercion but on moral suasion to enact the changes that are thought to be beneficial. This preserves the possibility of authentic virtuous choice.
Advocates of environmental stewardship are obliged to pay attention to the real-world results of governmental policy and not simply the good intentions in which programs may be grounded. As Russia profits from the Kyoto scheme, religious and political leaders need to get beyond the "market-based" rhetoric of cap and trade schemes and come to grips with the failure of such systems to justly provide rewards and punishments.


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IOWA CITY – Former Marshalltown Bobcat Tyler Kluver is just one injury away from stepping onto the field for the University of Iowa football team as a true freshman.
Kluver comes into the season as the backup long snapper behind senior Casey Kreiter, but Iowa assistant coach Chris White said the former Bobcat all-state linebacker needs to be ready to play.
"He is our second-string long snapper, so if Casey gets hurt, he needs to be in there," said White at Iowa's annual football media day last Thursday. "It's an ideal situation for him though. He has to learn from Casey this year. The coaching staff would like to redshirt him, but he may have to play for us too."
Kluver joined the Hawkeye football team as a preferred walk-on this year and expects to pick up Kreiter's scholarship when he takes over long snapping duties full time next season.
His role on this year's team is still up in the air, but Kreiter said his backup has already shown he is ready to take the field if he's called upon.
"I think he is picking it up pretty well," said Kreiter. "It is a big transition from high school, but (Kluver) went to so many camps that he was ready for the changes you see in college.
"These first two to three weeks of camp is a great time to ask questions to learn. Once the season starts, I will have to focus on the games. I will be here for him, and he has a good mentality so far."
Kreiter welcomes questions. He wants to help Kluver any way he can. The Marshalltown native is ready to listen.
"He knows the ropes. He is going to be my mentor basically," said Kluver. "He will probably be one of my best friends for the year that we are together. I will be with him at every practice and every workout. He has done it and was in the same situation that I'm now in."
Kreiter also came into Iowa as a preferred walk-on his freshman season. His route to the starting job was similar to the path Kluver will take. The only difference would be if Kluver is forced into the lineup this season.
"Everyone is bigger, faster and stronger, but he can fire it back there," said White, who is responsible for the running backs and the special teams. "He is going to have to learn how to protect. But so far he is showing us he can protect."
Hawkeye offensive line coach Brian Ferentz admitted at media day that he doesn't work a lot with the special teams. However, he said Kluver reminded the coaching staff of Kreiter, which is a high compliment.
"Kreiter is an excellent football player and an excellent Hawkeye," Ferentz said. "The goal was to bring in a guy that can snap the ball and cover a little bit. We knew (Kluver) was going to work hard, we knew he was smart and we knew he was tough. Those are things that we put a premium on."
Besides Kreiter, Kluver will have to get to know kicker Mike Meyer and punter Connor Kornbrath. And if Kluver, who will wear No. 97 at Iowa, gets into the lineup in 2013, Kornbrath has no doubt he will be up for the challenge.
"The blocking schemes are going to be his biggest obstacle, but I feel like he will be up for the challenge if we have to use him," said the Hawkeye punter. "He is definitely a good long snapper. He is consistent, and he has a very fast snap."
True freshmen and first-year players were not allowed to attend the annual media day at Iowa, but when talking with Kluver after the shrine bowl last month, he said that a redshirt was likely to be in his future. But no matter what happens, he is excited for a new adventure in Iowa City.
"I want it to be an easy process and redshirting will allow me to get comfortable with things," Kluver said. "Everything speeds up obviously. I will have to work on time management because of the heavier schedule with practice, work, meetings and games."
Kluver has seen many games at Kinnick Stadium while growing up in Marshalltown. And his dad Todd Kluver played for the Hawkeyes, too.
That just made it easier to recruit Tyler, according to Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz.
"It always helps when the athletes grew up Iowa fans," said Kirk Ferentz. "It means a little bit more to those players. It was part of what they did growing up. It tends to mean a little bit more to them. This is their school."
Kluver came into Iowa as the No. 2 prep long snapper in the nation as ranked by kohlskicking.com and No. 4 in the country by ESPN.com.
He had quite the final year at Marshalltown. After being selected as an all-state linebacker, Kluver participated in the Under Armour All-American Game in January. He is only the second Iowa high school athlete to play in the game – the other being former Hawkeye wide receiver Keenan Davis.
Kluver then took part in the Iowa Shrine All Star Football Classic last month and played linebacker and long-snapper for the winning South squad.
With Kreiter graduating after this season, Kirk Ferentz admitted that long-snapper was a position of need this past recruiting season.
"That position was a real concern for us coming into the year, but we are just fortunate to have Tyler here," said Ferentz. "He had a real good high school career and we expect nothing but the same here. It's early, but so far so good for him."
Long-snappers will never play a huge role in winning games, but a botched snap can certainly lead to a loss. That is why Kreiter said he wants as few people as possible to know who he and Kluver are.
"You don't want to know my name," said Kreiter. "That is not a good thing. We certainly won't win many games, but we can help lose them. If we botch a snap, there is strong chance that we lose the game. I take it as a compliment when someone says they have never heard of me."
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Got To Get Jew Into My Life: Is Paul McCartney Converting For Nancy Shevell?
Paul's yarmukle is currently in the shop getting custom-fitted (AP)
While no one would confuse "McCartney" as a Hebrew name, Sir Paul does seem to have a thing for nice Jewish girls. His first wife, Linda, was a member of the tribe, and apparently Macca had talked about converting after marrying her, but "never got around to it." After a brief stint with shiksa Heather Mills, McCartney has once again fallen for a Jew, current MTA board member Nancy Shevell, whom he married last month. And this time, he's being a real mensch.
National Enquirer is reporting that Macca, who was baptized as a Roman Catholic but was "admittedly never very devout," promised Shevell that he'll convert to Judaism, as she takes religion rather seriously. The two reportedly spent the night before their wedding at Yom Kippur services, and McCartney apparently told his friends he'll be completing his conversion studies next year. Mazel tov, you crazy kids! Let's hope Shevell doesn't turn out to be a real Lady Meshugganah. Remember: All you need is l'chaim.


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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson participates in a session at the Symposium on Spiritual Progress in Philadelphia. Photo by Simon Oosthuizen
On October 15-17, the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey held an international symposium to foster interdisciplinary dialogue on spiritual progress. The forum was an invitation-only event that brought the insights of major thinkers, which included Lord Jonathan Sacks, Marilynne Robinson, and Robert Bellah. The forum was chaired by our very own host Krista Tippett at Benjamin Franklin Hall of the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
Thankfully, the symposium recorded Marilynne Robinson's conversation with other scholars during the symposium about her book Absence of Mind. In this first clip, Ms. Robinson says that "we have to accept our human exceptionalism" and sees it as "our human burden" and "not our boast":
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The inaugural Quad Rock races were held Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado. Despite cool temps, times reflected what race director Nick Clark called a "burly" course.
"The race was a great success for our first go around," says Clark, who is also an elite trail ultrarunner. "We were psyched to register a finishing rate of about 80 percent."
Ryan Burch, of Fort Collins, Colorado, won the 50-mile race in 7:40:18, over six minutes ahead of runner-up Jim Rebenack of Arcata, California. Jenny Pierce, of Livingston, Montana, won the women's division and placed 24th overall in 9:51:36. Pierce, who is running Western States 100-Mile Endurance Run in June, bested Fort Collins' Stephanie Lynn by over fifteen minutes.
In the 25-mile race, Daniel Goding of Loveland, Colorado, finished first in 3:33:14. Second-place finisher, Scott Jaime, of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, crossed the line three minutes behind in 3:36:16. Fort Collins' Eliza Walthers won the women's race and finished 21st overall in 4:44:48, less than three minutes ahead of runner-up Kelli Picon, of Greeley, Colorado.
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Hate-Crime Stats Deflate 'Islamophobia' Myth
A detailed analysis of FBI statistics covering ten full calendar years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks reveals that, on a per capita basis, American Muslims, contrary to spin, have been subjected to hate crimes less often than other prominent minorities.
By the FBI's count, 74 people were killed in hate crimes ("murder and nonnegligent manslaughter" in Table 4) from 2002 to 2011, but not a single one in an anti-Muslim incident. Indeed, the FBI lists no anti-Muslim fatalities since 1995, corresponding to the earliest report available.
Why do Islamists obfuscate? The false picture of an epidemic of physical assaults on Muslims distracts Americans from Islamist hatred and enshrines Muslims as the country's leading victim class, a strategy intended to intimidate citizens into remaining quiet about Islamic supremacism and lay the groundwork for granting Muslims special privileges and protections at the expense of others. In short, anti-Muslim hate crimes are a powerful Islamist weapon.
At its extreme, the desire to achieve victim status in this manner has fueled the phenomenon of fake hate crimes, through staging, blatant misrepresentation, or both. An illustrative example is the March 2012 murder of Shaima Alawadi, a hijab-wearing California woman found beaten to death at home with a note calling her a terrorist beside her body. Islamists and their credulous media allies pounced at the opportunity to condemn the supposed tidal wave of "Islamophobia," even as marital problems emerged as a potential motive. In November, police arrested Alawadi's husband.
Genuine hate crimes committed against any group are deplorable, but they must be placed in the proper context. First, hate crimes are uncommon across the board. Second, despite hyperbole about "anti-Muslim violence spiralling out of control in America" and producing "one of the most hostile moments that the Muslim American community has ever experienced," the real story is the amazing tolerance and restraint of the American people. Imported Muslim fanatics murdered thousands on 9/11, the threat of homegrown jihad has crystallized, and Islamists abroad continue to slaughter innocents daily. Though Americans could find no lack of excuses to strike out at their Muslim neighbors, almost nobody does – and thankfully so. As such, the annual victims of anti-Muslim hate crimes average between three and four per U.S. state and would have trouble filling a decent-sized jetliner.
Many Americans take a critical view of Islam, but virtually all restrict their negative sentiments to the domain of words and ideas, as civilized human beings should. People are free to have opinions, including anti-Islamic ones, regardless of how Islamists long to muzzle them. Islamists, in turn, are entitled to their own opinions about life in America. But they are not entitled to their own facts.
Read it all via David J. Rusin at National Review Online.
- The 'Islamophobia' myth
- Anti-Jew "hate crime" in U.S. still 5x higher than anti-Muslim
- FBI Stats Belie CAIR's Islamophobia Hysteria
- FBI stats: anti-Muslim "hate" crimes in U.S. 9x less than anti-Jew
- Anti-Muslim crimes drop again in 2008, anti-Jew/Christian crimes increased
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