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A member of the Press Kogyo corporate team posted this interesting entry on the team's blog ahead of their run at the Jan. 1 New Year Ekiden.
Hello. In just a little time now the New Year Ekiden will kick off. This will be kind of out of nowhere, but I want to talk about the distribution of places for the New Year Ekiden. Most of you probably know that there's some variability in the number of places available for teams trying to make the New Year Ekiden. The number of teams from any given region depends on the results from the previous year's New Year Ekiden. The total number of teams that can run the New Year Ekiden is set at 37, with teams coming from 6 different regions: East Japan, Chubu, Hokuriku, Kansai, Chugoku and Kyushu. To determine the number of teams from each region they use the following algorithm:
- Starting with a given region's number of teams that year, the region will lose one slot for each team that finishes 31st-37th. (The total number of teams subtracted is 7, one each for 31st-37th.)
- After subtracting the slots in step 1, each region receives one additional slot. (With 6 regions, 6 slots are now added.)
- The region with the best average placing of teams in the top 30 receives one more slot. (-7+6+1=0)
If you take the example of the East Japan region, at the January 2012 New Year Ekiden Press Kogyo finished 31st and the Tokyo Police Headquarters finished 34th. That year the East Japan region had 13 teams in the New Year Ekiden, but:
13-2 (Press Kogyo, Tokyo Police) +1+0 (Kyushu had the best average placing of teams in the top 30) = 12 teams
And that's how we came to the number of slots available to East Japan region teams this year.
Incidentally, on all six regional Corporate League websites, in the East Japan Corporate Ekiden and New Year Ekiden programs, on the official TBS New Year Ekiden website, these rules ARE NOT WRITTEN ANYWHERE. The fact that the number of slots within each region can decrease means that among the teams that run one year, at least one of them will not be able to run the next year. These teams will almost certainly come from among the teams finishing 31st or lower. For teams that barely made it through the qualifiers getting into the top 30 is really a life-or-death struggle as they are digging their own graves with regard to continued sponsorship if they don't make it.
But, like I said previously, these rule are not available to the public anywhere. I found them by chance on 2channel and have been checking their accuracy for the last 2 or 3 years. The changes in the number of slots really do follow these rules, but while teams more or less know that there are rules like this I'm pretty sure almost none of them understand exactly how they works or what the cutoff point they should be targeting is. Last year Press Kogyo went into the race not knowing whether we had to make top 30 or top 29.
At the Hakone Ekiden in addition to the race up front the battle for the seeded bracket is always important, and the truth is that there is something like the seeded bracket at the New Year Ekiden too. It would be nice if companies that sponsor ekiden teams would support them regardless of whether or not they make the New Year Ekiden, but for most of them if the team does not make the New Year Ekiden.....well, let's just say that the consequences are pretty severe. It's no exaggeration to say that a team's fate depends on whether or not it makes the top 30.
This is pretty important for the people involved, but I think from the point of view of the spectators and fans these rules make things more interesting too. At this point pretty much nobody in the public knows about these rules, but since they have a direct impact on the survival of the lower-placing teams if they said something about the 30th-31st place cutoff on the TV broadcast like, "Team X and Team Y are locked in battle for 30th! Whichever team falters is going to lose one spot for their region next year!" I think people would get pretty excited about it. Along with that, there should be something about the rules in the New Year Ekiden program since they directly affect whether some teams will be able to continue existing or not.
Sorry this article has gotten so long, but if it has helped people understand the New Year Ekiden's rules even a little better then I'll be happy.


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Roy Keane defined the modern Manchester United in his "prawn sandwich" speech. It concluded, memorably: "I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell 'football', never mind understand it."
Given Wayne Rooney's status as England's first £300,000-a-week footballer, it is safe to assume Keane's strictures are as relevant in the boardroom as they are in the executive boxes. The desperation to secure a marquee player completes the surrender to corporatisation and a culture of gossamer-thin celebrity.
Keane, the captain United attempted to airbrush from history, had no issue with ruthless exploitation of weakness, be it physical, mental, philosophical or financial. Rooney's advisers have profited from following his credo of getting their retaliation in first.
The new regime at Old Trafford may be able successfully to promote Rooney as the public face of Mister Potato, "Official Savoury Snack Partner of Manchester United", but they have been exposed as naïve and narrow-minded.
The situation is as perverse as Keane's nature. Rooney has seemingly been enriched beyond reason because of his perceived disloyalty and tactically expressed dissatisfaction. He had few realistic options but is untouchable, irrespective of the vagaries of form and fitness, for the rest of his career. By prematurely anointing him as a brand ambassador, United have turned the last street footballer into a sanitised salesman. His role is to impress North American investors to whom he is a life form as alien as a visitor from the Planet Zork.
These people have to be reminded, whenever the club's accounts are published, that "Manchester United is one of the most popular and successful sports teams in the world, playing one of the most popular spectator sports on Earth".
They are warned, in an evocatively named Cautionary Statement, about "numerous risks and uncertainties relating to the Company's operations and business environment, all of which are difficult to predict and many are beyond the Company's control".
They operate in an arcane world which applauds the parasitic business strategy of the Glazer family, whose leveraged buyout, which costs United £410,000 a week in assorted debt-related charges, is notably risk- free, to them at least.
It is such a shame Keane was congenitally unsuited to management. Watching him operate at United in such an environment would have been wondrous. His brutal honesty and pathological refusal to suffer fools are wasted on glutinous TV presenters such as Adrian Chiles.
The Irishman always made a point of praising United's away following, whom he described fondly as "hardcore". He identified with their passion, and their response to Rooney as the season unfolds will be revealing.
Those links, on a basic human level, are incidental now, irrespective of Rooney's ritual genuflection before "the fans" in the statement triggered by the signing of his new five-and-a-half-year contract. Their loyalty is just another risk factor on Form 20-F (File No. 001-35627) in United's accounts.
The Glazers have already signalled their intention to reduce stewards' wages in the event of failure to qualify for the Champions' League. Season-ticket holders will be expected to pay full price for the privilege of watching teams of the quality of FC Sherriff, Pacos de Ferreira and CS Pandurii in the Europa League.
United will need the money to assuage agents of other pivotal players, who will doubtlessly demand parity for their clients. The wage structure of the club has been compromised and the price of team rebuilding has inflated.
It is as well they have invested £12 million in sports medicine and science facilities. Given Rooney's physiological issues – he must work hard to keep his weight down, and lacks the tone of a natural athlete – he may have no more than three effective seasons left in him.
There used to be a football club on Sir Matt Busby Way. It is now lying in state in a funeral parlour in Florida. Manchester United, RIP.
Minister Grant left to look a ballet fool
Beware a sports minister being ushered around an Olympic Games in a Team GB tracksuit. The charm offensive is on, and rarely ends well. True to form, Helen Grant, the latest junior politician parachuted into one of Westminster's most celebrated non-jobs, was engulfed by controversy while showboating in Sochi.
By suggesting girls should try cheerleading or ballet if they wished to remain "radiant", she compromised the pivotal elements of her brief – sport and equality. A well-intentioned attempt to offer an alternative when mainstream sport is viewed by many schoolgirls as "unfeminine" blew up in her face.
It was a crass political misjudgement. Grant (below) is conforming to a miserable tradition. She had barely taken up her post when her sporting ignorance was exposed in a guerrilla television interview.
She has subsequently attempted to disguise her lack of influence with a series of high-profile announcements on women's sport which lack clarity and credibility.
Sochi has provided some compelling female role models – snowboarder Jenny Jones, slider Lizzy Yarnold and curling's Eve Muirhead.
The best? Speed skater Elise Christie, whose dignity in the face of indescribable misfortune was inspirational.
The worst? Helen Grant, Minister for Stereotypes.
The Big Easy
Thought for the day: there are easy matches in international football. See England's qualification group for the ludicrously inflated Euro 2016 for confirmation. Whatever the draw in a six-team group designed to sell TV rights, a place in the finals in France is assured.
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Thursday, April 15, 2010
Don't write for geniuses. Write for readers.
My high school sophomore asked me to read – or more precisely, to help him comprehend -- a 10-page scholarly literary essay he was assigned to read about The Catcher in the Rye. I barely made it through three pages. In those first three pages, I found nearly a dozen words I have never seen. That's okay, I enjoy learning new words. But what bothered me was that I couldn't even begin to guess at their meaning – not even a little bit from context, and not from the word itself, not a clue, not even a hint of a common Latin root.
The author had also included no less than 10 literary, film and cultural references in those three pages – I knew and could explain only five, and the other five had us running to the dictionary, the web and my 84-year-old mother who knows the complete script of most 1940s movies. Don't get me started on the overlong sentence lengths and foreign spellings. And did I mention the proliferation of dashes, colons, semi-colons, and parentheses?
In between all of this scurrying about, scratching our heads and sighs of frustration, I wondered: what was the writer thinking? When a piece of writing – especially one which is supposed to help shed light on something, to help people understand a text which may be confusing -- is itself so obscure, so overwrought with $25 words, so clearly intended to showcase nothing but the writer's overinflated sense of superiority, then who is it serving? Certainly not the reader. My son told me his chemistry teacher once said: The only reason to design a test a genius can't pass is to prove you can design a test that a genius can't pass. Or, as Holden might have put it: "What a phony."
Writers, let's all take note and vow to keep it simple. Or at least comprehensible.
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I'm not sure what "scholarly literary essay" means, but I suspect the author wrote the piece for a specific discourse community--a community with its own standards.
I don't think it's fair to criticize the standards of a particular discourse community, whether it be a scholarly journal, a "scholarly literary essay," literary nonfiction, etc.
- April 15, 2010 at 8:08 AM
- Lisa Romeo said...
A fair point, of course. I did think about that.
But in this case it seemed that the writer's intention was to help mostly students who are not yet as well-researched, scholarly and perhaps not as intelligent as he (I'm clearly in this category!), to understand the subject matter; not to lecture above their heads.
On the other hand, as you indicate, it could have been the piece was originally intended only for an audience of like-minded others who could have read it with no problem. In which case my beef then is with the assignment, not the writer.
Thanks for your comment.
- April 15, 2010 at 11:55 AM
- Judy Merrill Larsen said...
This reminds me of one of my favorite quotes by one of my favorite writers . . . E. B. White. He said that when he was a fledgling reporter and trying to write a story, he was so busy trying to make it sound good he made it nearly unintelligible. An editor told him, "Just say the words." That's something I try to remember.
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Rivercrest Sewing Center Advertise Free estimates, then perform Unauthorized Repairs and charge for them. Crestwood Illinois
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I called this place and asked if they charged for estimates on Sewing Machine Repairs. They told me they performed free estimates and they would call when they reached a conclusion about the problem and the cost of repairs. They specifically said that "No work would be perforrmed without authorizationfrom the customer." I dropped off my machine. After week I hadn't heard from them, so I called the store. I got the answering machine, so I left my name, requested an update on the estimate, and requested a call back. A week later, still no call. I called again. This time I was told that the problem was the timing, they had done a "Tune Up", and I owed $69.95 for the work. I reminded them of their policy about not performing work without authorization. I was told that "This was what was necessary to provide an estimate". I was stunned, and tried to reason with the man. He simply reiterated that this was necessary to provide an estimate. I called a little while later and requested to speak to the owner. I got the same man, who said he was the owner. I asked what the cost of an estimate was. This time I was told it was $20, and again that no work would be performed without my authorization. I identified myself as the person who had called earlier, and told him that I had not been told ablut the $20 charge. He argued that either he or his only other coworker would have told me about the $20 charge. He finally, (probably sensing that I was not going to just pay and go quietly), said "Just come and get your machine and I won't charge you; but there won't be any warranty". I immediately went and got it. This is a really shady way to do business. DO NOT DO BUSINESS WITH THESE PEOPLE.
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I've been a customer of Rivercrest Sewing Center for years. Initially took a sewing machine in for repair and was informed of their trade in deals (they also sell used equipment.) Wally, the owner is well versed on the equipment he sells and other competitive brands. In my studio I have all Brother equipment (10 key embroidery machine, a serger and 2 computerized sewing machines. They never neglected to give me a call with an estimate before moving forward to do any work.
The complaint I read where a tune-up was done without authorization is unbelievable - - if the customer is a true sewer that was a small fee to get back to her craft.
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The Liberals soon chose a crude fear campaign over policies, but they can't be written off, writes Ewin Hannan.
If Robert Doyle defies his colleagues' expectations and secures an unlikely victory tomorrow, it won't be because he has presented the Liberal Party as a coherent policy alternative to Labor. It will be because voters have been seduced (some would say worn down) by an unrelenting, crude and cynical scare campaign.
Doyle said yesterday that Labor was trying to glide through the election campaign. But it is Doyle who has virtually given up performing the political leader's expected duty of articulating an alternative policy vision right up until 6pm on polling day.
Since Sunday, Doyle has been as subtle as a locomotive, issuing daily warnings about the dire consequences of a Labor landslide. According to Doyle, a big Labor majority would be the green light for union leaders to embark on a "feeding frenzy".
Lock up your small business, Leigh Hubbard's in town. Jobs will be lost. Capital will take flight. There will be industrial chaos. In these final days, the Liberals are expending almost all their energy telling you why not to vote Labor, but little time spelling out why they deserve your support on policy grounds.
At polling booths tomorrow, many voters will witness what could be politely described as a radical attempt by the Liberal Party machine to shore up its support base. Liberal candidates have been given the option of covering their local booths with bold plastic signs warning of a Bracks landslide. Not all Liberal MPs are happy. "It's the 'vote for me, I'm a loser' sign," said one MP.
One Doyle loyalist said "old-fashioned" Liberal MPs, in particular, were unimpressed by having the dreaded words "Labor" over their booths. The tactics look desperate but the unofficial line from party headquarters is that the stakes are too high for subtlety.
The argument goes that voters pay little attention to state politics, an indifference compounded by a boring campaign. But even some of Doyle's supporters have doubts about the party's broader strategy. "What are the four preconditions you need to defeat a Labor government in Victoria?" one MP asked. "You need an economic management crisis issue. You need a union control issue. You need an unpopular leader (as your opponent) and you need an example of a bizarre social policy. Doyle can't get the evidence up."
Not that Doyle is showing any sign that he doubts the virtues of the strategy. At least not publicly. Every day the rhetoric is unrelenting. A big Bracks win equals union chaos.
In the first part of the 26-day campaign, Doyle's message was more balanced. He rolled out some innovative policy initiatives. For instance, the pledge to abolish zone three transport fares was well-aimed and imaginative. It also elicited a weird response from Labor's Transport Minister, Peter Batchelor, who tried to argue that the policy wouldn't work because it would be too popular. Good one.
For a few days, speeding was a headline issue. Polls subsequently published did not indicate huge support for the Liberal position, but Doyle could at least content himself that Bracks was talking about a preferred Liberal issue.
Unfortunately for Doyle, the Robert Dean debacle turned the dynamics of the campaign on their head. Doyle admits he lost three days as the fiasco washed through the news cycle. But the Liberals' handling of the affair left much to be desired.
Doyle announced Dean's demise the day before the budget books were to be opened. The budget update was to be (to borrow a Doyle expression) an "emblematic day" for the Liberals. It was central to proving their case that Labor could not be trusted to run the economy. Doyle needed as much oxygen in the media as possible.
But rather than compelling Dean to face the media on the day of Doyle's announcement, the Liberals showed a fundamental misunderstanding of the media beast, thinking they could get away with Dean releasing a short written statement. Wrong. On the day of the budget update, the media were still pursuing Dean, who finally emerged from his mother-in-law's Williamstown house just in time for the Friday night news bulletins. While the update received coverage, Dean's performance, including his weird bid to link his failure to enrol to his unsuccessful attempts at IVF, swamped the Liberals' economic message.
The Liberals essentially changed tactics in the days following the Dean affair when a second opinion poll showed Labor with a whopping two-party-preferred lead. Since then, it's been largely negative.
Doyle has also left shadow ministers to launch major policies, some of which had clear appeal to suburban voters. The pledge this week to build 30 schools was left to deputy Phil Honeywood, although education is a central issue for voters.
The party's infrastructure policy, which included more than $100 million in new funding, was posted briefly on the Liberal website this week before being removed. The Liberal promise to halve losses of problem gamblers was posted on the website late on Wednesday night without any notification. The Liberals say they will return $650 million to problem gamblers and working families, while forsaking $140 million in gaming revenue - not an insignificant promise, and one that warranted promotion and scrutiny. The Liberals apparently wanted neither.
Senior Liberals assert that internal party polling this week shows the party is clawing back support. They admit to not being sure whether it is due to the negative message or the tightening vote as polling day looms. It has been a shambolic performance, but with 29 marginal seats up for grabs tomorrow, the Liberals can't be written off yet.
Ewin Hannan is state editor of The Age.
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We lived in St. Louis for 3 years. It is GREAT. I love the sunshine.
Try to buy or rent a place in West County (West St. Louis Country). Don't go to St. Charles County, definitely stay away from North County. We lived in Wildwood and loved it. Wildwood, Chesterfield, Town and Country, Creve Coeur, Ladue, Ellisville, Pond (next to Wildwood where Albert Pujols lived)...All these are great places to live. If you are on a tighter budget you might look at Eureka. We lived in Wildwood but were Eureka schools and they were a bit more rural but still good people.
While there, please visit:
The Hill (the italian district), and particularly Adriana's on the Hill for lunch. Best sandwiches anywhere on the planet
Grant's Farm: Where the house and train the Budweiser Cleidsdales: Free beer
The Budweiser factory tour: Free beer
The Arch (obviously)
The Botanical Garden (great place to go with the wife and/or family in the spring)
The Butterfly house in Chesterfield
Tropical Mouse flavored ice stand in Kirkwood (also the home of the headquarters of Bread Co. (Panera in the rest of the country)
The Magic House in Kirkwood (if you have kids)
The St. Louis Zoo (Free and very good)
Dogtown (Irish district) for the St. Pattys day parade!
And if you live in Wildwood you are only 6 miles from the 6-flags which means you can get a summer pass for $50 each for your kids and have a great waterpark and rides for them to stay entertained all summer.
I'm not quoting idiots who promote unsafe recovery strap techniques anymore. :miff:
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I have an SET with China tubes that I want to replace. They are two 12au7's and two EL84's
Any one have a good combination that I could try? Vintage prefered. Let me know what you think.
For EL84's, try JJ. Vintage ones are overpriced. 12AU7's are a dime a dozen, don't waste your money on the expensive super premiums -- if you want vintage, look for 5963's or 5814's. Same tube as the 12AU7 and vintage generally cost $5 to $8.
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Sid Caesar, the prodigiously talented pioneer of TV comedy who inspired a generation of famous writers, died on Feb. 12. He was 91.
Caesar died at his home in the Los Angeles area after a brief illness, family spokesman Eddy Friedfeld said.
In his two most important shows, "Your Show of Shows," 1950-54, and "Caesar's Hour," 1954-57, Caesar displayed remarkable skill in pantomime, satire, mimicry, dialect and sketch comedy. And he gathered a stable of young writers who went on to worldwide fame, including Neil Simon, Mel Brooks and Woody Allen.
The son of Jewish immigrants, Caesar was a wizard at spouting melting-pot gibberish that parodied German, Russian, French and other languages. His professor character was the epitome of goofy Germanic scholarship.
Isaac Sidney Caesar was born in 1922 in Yonkers, N.Y., the third son of an Austrian-born restaurant owner and his Russian-born wife. His first dream was to become a musician, and he played saxophone in bands while in his teens.
"Your Show of Shows," and "Caesar's Hour" reached as many as 60 million viewers weekly and earned its star $1 million annually at a time when $5, he later noted, bought a steak dinner for two.
Ratings competition from Lawrence Welk's variety show put "Caesar's Hour" off the air in 1957.
In 1962, Caesar starred on Broadway in Simon's musical "Little Me," and was nominated for a Tony. He played seven roles, from a comically perfect young man to a tyrannical movie director to a prince of an impoverished European kingdom. — ap


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"In Catherine's reign, whom Glory still adores"
The Author's Apology For Great Catherine
Exception has been taken to the title of this seeming tomfoolery on the ground
that the Catherine it represents is not Great Catherine, but the Catherine whose
gallantries provide some of the lightest pages of modern history. Great
Catherine, it is said, was the Catherine whose diplomacy, whose campaigns and
conquests, whose plans of Liberal reform, whose correspondence with Grimm
and Voltaire enabled her to cut such a magnificent figure in the eighteenth
century. In reply, I can only confess that Catherine's diplomacy and her
conquests do not interest me. It is clear to me that neither she nor the statesmen
with whom she played this mischievous kind of political chess had any notion of
the real history of their own times, or of the real forces that were moulding
Europe. The French Revolution, which made such short work of Catherine's
Voltairean principles, surprised and scandalized her as much as it surprised and
scandalized any provincial governess in the French chateaux.
The main difference between her and our modern Liberal Governments was that
whereas she talked and wrote quite intelligently about Liberal principles before
she was frightened into making such talking and writing a flogging matter, our
Liberal ministers take the name of Liberalism in vain without knowing or caring
enough about its meaning even to talk and scribble about it, and pass their
flogging Bills, and institute their prosecutions for sedition and blasphemy and so
forth, without the faintest suspicion that such proceedings need any apology from
the Liberal point of view.
It was quite easy for Patiomkin to humbug Catherine as to the condition of
Russia by conducting her through sham cities run up for the occasion by scenic
artists; but in the little world of European court intrigue and dynastic diplomacy
which was the only world she knew she was more than a match for him and for
all the rest of her contemporaries. In such intrigue and diplomacy, however, there
was no romance, no scientific political interest, nothing that a sane mind can now
retain even if it can be persuaded to waste time in reading it up. But Catherine as
a woman with plenty of character and (as we should say) no morals, still
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Mario Lopez Strips Down To His Underwear & Shemar Moore Takes Off Shirt For Ellen DeGeneres [PHOTOS]
Mario Lopez, the 38-year-old TV host stripped down to just his underwear on the Ellen DeGeneres Show much to the delight of her audience members. He was on the comedienne's talk show to promote his new Rated M underwear line.
She asked if he was wearing his new jockeys underneath the metrosexual ensemble and when he answered in the affirmative, promptly asked him to prove it.
"Ellen is the only person that I take off my clothes for," he joked, before asking, "Oh, you're serious?"
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Some really nice person stole the fog light covers off my 2004 STI last night. It was parked 10 feet from my front door with the alarm on.
New ones will cost me $150, according to the dealer.
I am guessing the low-life is driving a 2004-05 Aspen White Impreza RS/WRX, and "borrowed" mine to fix his up.
The good news is that there are not many new WRXs down here in Southern Maryland. I will find him sooner or later.
I would appreciate any members down in this area (St. Mary's County or Calvert County) keeping an eye open for this loser.


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Described by The New York Times as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes," Dr. Danaher's analytical expertise, sense of humor and blunt eloquence make him an exceptionally dynamic speaker. Dr. Danaher is a Co-founder of Global Exchange, a human rights research and action center in San Francisco and a co-founder of Fair Trade USA. Kevin received his PhD in sociology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, and his BA from Sonoma State University. He is the author and/or editor of 11 books, including his latest, "The Green Festival Reader: Fresh ideas from Agents of Change"; "Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grass Roots". He has lectured at universities and to community organizations throughout the United States. He has appeared on television and radio shows around the country.
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Its been three weeks. I train 2 days a week. In that time i also began jogging and have run 20 miles. By the one month mark I'll probably find i can train 2 days a week for an hour then jog 30 miles a month. These jogs are 2 miles and 4 miles in duration.
The running helped me be able to conduct the practice until the end. How long should i wait to add strength?
Sunday. 2 or 4 miles.
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Cover of the March 18 1918 edition (vol. XIV, no. 2) of the Journeyman Barber, the national newsletter of the Journeymen Barbers International Union (JBIU).
Covered race track of Dan Patch and home of International Stock Foods, Savage, 1915. Photographer: Charles P. Gibson.
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The Lakeside Hotel and scenic Lake Pepin, a widening of the Mississippi, is pictured, c.1870. With its cooler summer temperatures, the Lakeside drew tourists from around the nation, particularly the South.
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Illustration of a Crex Carpet Company employee operating a carpet loom. Originally reproduced in a Crex Carpet Company catalog (Chicago: Hollister Press, c.1908).
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Lynch Sentenced In Girlfriend's Murder
Far Rockaway resident David Lynch has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for the murder of his girlfriend, Althea Lewis.
Lynch punched and drowned Lewis on the beach near Beach 32nd Street in the pre-dawn hours of November 23, 2010.
Lynch, of 1074 Gipson Street, had served two tours in Iraq and was a reservist in the New York National Guard at the time of the incident.
He was convicted of second degree murder in March of this year.
According to Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, whose office prosecuted the case, Lynch and Lewis, a resident of Springfield Gardens, were on the beach in Rockaway. An argument erupted and Lynch violently attacked Lewis.
Her body was later discovered by police. The Medical Examiner determined Lewis died as a result of blunt force injury and drowning.


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Asian Leaders Council (ALC)
Chinese Students & Scholars Society
International Students in Charlottesville
Machik Chapter at University of Virginia
Organization of Young Filipino Americans
Singapore Students Association
Society for Asian Scientists and Engineers (SASE)
South Asian Leadership Society
There's Hope in North Korea (THiNK)
Vietnamese Students Association
Greek Letter Organizations
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Sigma Psi Zeta (SYZ)
Spiritual and Religious Organizations
Korean Catholic Student Ministry
Fine Arts and Literary Organizations
Ektaal (South Asian Acapella)
HooRaas at the University of Virginia
Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPICMACAY)
Graduate & Alumni Student Groups
Asian and Asian Pacific American Alumni Network (AAPAAN)
Asian Pacific American Law Students Association
Korean Graduate Student Association
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A Homer City-area woman has been charged with pillaging her ailing mother's benefit checks and other resources for more than four years.
State police charged Kimberly Fulton, 48, on Thursday with three felony counts of theft and a misdemeanor count of tampering with records.
Fulton and her siblings were given power of attorney for their mother, Shirley Kobak, when her health declined, then altered the documents to exclude her siblings from managing Kobak's affairs, investigators reported.
From October 2008 to this past February, Fulton cashed in her mother's life insurance policy and her monthly Social Security and black-lung benefit checks, paying Kobak's expenses and keeping the rest of the funds.
Fulton's siblings alerted Aging Services of Indiana County when they discovered they had no access to Kobak's accounts. The ensuing investigation by the agency, a case worker and state police uncovered the theft of $57,746 from Kobak's accounts, police said.
Fulton was taken before District Judge Susanne Steffee of Homer City District Court for preliminary arraignment on Thursday evening, then was released from Indiana County Jail on Friday after posting $150,000 bond.
A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Nov. 11.
Student charged
State police reported that a 15-year-old girl fought with a 14-year-old girl and made several verbal threats against the younger girl's relatives at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at Homer-Center High School, state police reported.
The older girl, whose name was not released, was charged with simple assault, making terroristic threats and harassment, according to troopers at Indiana.
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Student cited
A 15-year-old boy at Purchase Line High School punched and kicked another student in a locker room after football practice at 5 p.m. Thursday, state police at Indiana reported.
The suspect was cited with disorderly conduct and harassment, according to a news release. Troopers did not release the name of either student.
East Wheatfield Township
Steven Berezansky, of Marengo, Ohio, told state police that someone damaged the front and rear doors of a vacant house that he owns at 5 Second St., Seward.
Troopers at Indiana reported the intruders apparently entered the house through the rear door between 1 p.m. Tuesday and 3 p.m. Thursday. Nothing was reported to be missing.
Montgomery Township
Someone stole six garbage cans full of aluminum cans from the residence of Edward Poso, along the 300 block of Arcadia Road, between 8 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. Saturday, and left five of them in the vicinity of his house, state police at Indiana reported.


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Govt commits to cutting greenhouse gases to 5% below 1990 levels by 2020
The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020 warrant it.
He announced yesterday that New Zealand had committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 5 per cent below 1990 levels by 2020.
It is an end-point target, unlike the target for the first period of the Kyoto Protocol, which was to reduce average emissions over the 2008-2012 period to 1990 levels.
"In deciding this target, the Government has carefully balanced the cost to New Zealand households and businesses against taking ambitious action to tackle climate change," Groser said.
It is unconditional, but weaker than the conditional reduction of 10 to 20 per cent the Government had previously tabled in international negotiations.
Greens co-leader Russel Norman described the target as a disgrace.
"As a small country, New Zealand is reliant on major global emitters to reduce their emissions in order to avoid serious consequences of human-caused climate change. We can't expect them to act to save our bacon while we freeload," he said.
Groser said: "I'm very confident on the basis of the advice I'm getting that New Zealand will not only achieve minus 5 per cent, we will end up achieving considerably more than that."
He was still hopeful that the international negotiations would produce an agreement.
"And I am quite confident that any future Government will have to go back and look at the unconditional offer and at some point make a decision as to whether we can lift our contribution beyond this minus 5 unilateral commitment."
He said he agreed with the Government's chief science adviser, Sir Peter Gluckman, that, with New Zealand contributing less than 0.2 per cent of global emissions, any effort it made to reduce them was "more of a geopolitical nature".
"Unless we get a serious international effort, anything we do with the ETS or subsequent to it is a complete waste of time. Disturbingly, over 100 members of this negotiation have not yet said they are going to do anything let alone tell us what it was. And their emissions are not trivial, they are collectively twice the whole of Europe's," Groser said.
"With respect to developing countries which have at least, to their great credit, said they will do things, like China, we are still working through what precisely that means they are going to do. So until we are in a position to make an assessment that there is a serious and concerted international effort, it is entirely appropriate New Zealand sits below its [previous] offer."
Groser said the "strong advice" from officials was that the target could be met without any changes to settings of the domestic emissions trading scheme.
The ETS is widely seen as environmentally ineffectual because of carve-outs from the scheme and the collapse of international carbon prices.
New Zealand's gross emissions are more than 20 per cent above 1990 levels, but it has been able to meet its Kyoto target with a bit to spare because of offsetting credits for the carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere by forests planted since 1989.
But plantation forests will flip from being a net sink for CO2 to a net source of emissions when the "wall of wood" is harvested in the 2020s.
In the meantime, forestry's net contribution depends in part on what happens to the size of the plantation forest estate.
Groser strongly disputes claims of an upsurge in deforestation now that low carbon prices provide no barrier to landowners switching to another land use.
"There is net afforestation going on," he said. The 26,000ha of plantation forest cut down between 2008 and 2012 was more than offset by 42,700ha of replanting.
"People plant trees primarily for wood. That hasn't changed."
Labour's climate change spokeswoman, Moana Mackey, said yesterday's announcement was disappointing but unsurprising.
"National has gutted the emissions trading scheme, devastated the carbon forestry sector and pulled out of Kyoto."
New Zealand's international reputation had taken a hammering in recent weeks, she said.
"This will do nothing to restore credibility to our clean green image. We are the last developed country to announce a target - a target which was due last year - and we still haven't seen any plan as to how the Government expects to achieve even this very modest reduction."


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Gina Rinehart's daughter Ginia Rinehart says her siblings are "not fit and proper persons to be trustees" of the family's trust.
After a six-month legal battle, smh.com.au has been given access to the court documents in the ongoing stoush between Gina Rinehart and her daughter Ginia on one side and her three eldest children - John Hancock, Bianca Rinehart and Hope Rinehart Welker - on the other.
The children are attempting to have Mrs Rinehart removed as head of the family's trust.
In her statement of claim Ginia says they "do not possess the requisite degree of trust or confidence in one another to be entrusted with the administration of the trust".
"None of the plantiffs has displayed the degree of perseverance, work ethic, responsibility that would be required to administer the trust."
She says they have a "history of personal conflict with one another" and with Gina Rinehart and did not have good relationships with the current executives of the trust which would be required to enable them to co-operate.
She claims that, should her three siblings be allowed to take over, it would have a significant negative impact on the family's mining empire through ongoing distractions and hostility.
Mrs Rinehart's mining company is almost a quarter owned by the trust. The other three-quarters are owned by Mrs Rinehart herself.
Money for daughter to drop lawsuit: documents
The chief financial officer of the mining company owned by Mrs Rinehart offered one of her children a quarterly payment if she withdrew from the legal action against her mother, the newly released documents reveal.
In her statement of claim, Bianca Rinehart say that, in an email on September 6, the chief financial officer of Hancock Prospecting, Jay Newby, told her that if she immediately withdrew from the legal action her mother would pay her a "quarterly distribution" and asked her to suggest an amount.
The statement of claim alleges Mrs Rinehart "breached her duty to act honesty and in good faith; acted with gross indecency in her dealings with the beneficiaries of the Trust and acted deceitfully in her dealings with the beneficiaries of the Trust."
Tax liability
The children claim that Mrs Rinehart emailed her son and three daughters days before the trust was to vest in September, warning they each faced a potential capital gains tax liability of $100 million.
The iron ore magnate told them that, to avoid bankruptcy and financial ruin, they were to sign a new deed giving her long-term control over the trust, which was set up in 1988 by her father, the late Lang Hancock, with his four grandchildren as beneficiaries.
The letter from Mrs Rinehart to her four children on September 3 also said: "It may however be reasonably arguable that personal development-wise it would be in the best interests of the beneficiaries to force them to go to work and reconsider their holidaying lifestyles and attitudes."
The three children - other than Ginia who continues to support her mother - began urgent legal action seeking to remove their mother as trustee, alleging she had engaged in "serious misconduct".
But they claim that, by then, Mrs Rinehart had already secretly changed the date at which they were to receive their share of the trust to 2068 - effectively denying them a share for 57 years.
The children say Mrs Rinehart refused to release the financial advice - by PriceWaterhouseCoopers - upon which she based her claim that they would go bankrupt if they did not do what she asked.
They were allegedly refused access to other information about the trust, including cash-flow statements, tax returns and the current value of the beneficiaries' shareholdings.
She also allegedly sought to place "illegitimate emotional and financial pressure on the plaintiffs" - effectively using her position as their mother to try to convince them to drop their claim and accept her demands to change the operation of the trust.
Keep claim quiet: Barnaby Joyce
The court documents also show that senior high-profile Nationals Senator Barnaby Joyce allegedly attempted to convince the three Rinehart children to keep their claim out of the public eye, while Liberal MP Alby Schultz entreated them to drop their claim altogether.
Their statements of claim say that Senator Joyce emailed Hope on September 11, 2011, saying that "newspapers and lawyers get people to say nasty things" and "stated that 'before it really gets out of hand, I would try to get it back in house and out of public view'".
A week later, on September 19, Mr Schultz and his wife emailed Hope saying they had read with "much sadness" of the litigation against her mother, calling it a "horrific step" and asking her to consider dropping "this expensive and embarrassing legal action".
Mrs Rinehart is Australia's richest person with an estimated wealth of $17.1 billion.


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for glitter and sparkly dresses just so happens to be my everything.
my taylor swift dedication (or what everyone likes to call obsession) began in november - december 2011 when I was casually roaming around youtube watching videos of people showing off their celebrity merchandise collections which is apparently what was amusing to me at the time. i came across a video of a girl named maddy (tswiftnation13, who i owe a ton of appreciation to for intoducing me to this wonderul being named taylor swift) who liked taylor swift and i heard a song playing in the background and instantly fell in love with it. i searched up the first few lyrics on google and found that the song was titled speak now. i then searched up the name of the song so I could listen to it in full, and discovered it had an album of the same title to go along with it; the rest is pretty much history. i got my first physical taylor album, the deluxe edition of the speak now tour DVD, on christmas the month after along with a guitar and my already budding love for music took off.
as you can see by the graphics above, I've been to two taylor shows, the red tour, and the 1989 tour. those two nights were two best nights of my life and I'm so glad to have shared them with my some of the best friends I could ever ask for. taylor's music continues to inspire me and others every day and my love for her grows by the minute. i can't wait for the next tour, maybe then i'll finally be over the speak now era...
So this is my Taylor merch wish list. I decided to make this just in case my parents end up seeing it in the future. *wink wink* Anyway, on to the list. Clothing/Accessories: Blue 'Fearless' Bubble/Tea Party Shirt White Long Sleeved 'Speak Now' Tour Tee Purple 'Speak Now' Robe 'Speak Now' Scarf Gold 'Speak Now' Necklace...


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This is a discussion on 10 State Attorneys General Oppose Gun Permit Law - National Reciprocity within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Originally Posted by Hopyard That should still leave 80 senators in favor. 20 more than needed to stop a filibuster. That would have been true, ...
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and settled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.
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I say get rid of the senate entirely.
There are only TWO kinds of people in this world; those who describe the world as filled with two kinds of people...and those who don't.
It's somewhat (but not entirely) odd for Nevada to be on this list. Their reciprocity list is laughably tiny (like Maine's), but they are shall issue for both residents and non-residents and they allow both open and concealed carry. Not exactly a hotbed of anti-gun agitation.
Socialism Kills! Time proven, with a very large body count! We are a Constitutional Republic....... not a Democracy, get it correct!
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I was going to say that list of AGs has a high correlation to states with lots of members of MAIG - but I don't see a single Nevada mayor on their member list!
The only common sense gun legislation was written about 226 years ago.
I carry always not because I go places trouble is likely, but because trouble has a habit of not staying in its assigned zone.
No big suprises in that list. Throw in Wash DC too, as I'm sure they are against it. I'm sure New York and New Jersey are in the bunch.California, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada and Oregon, along with Pennsylvania's attorney general-elect.
The "blue" states.
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --- Will Rogers ---
Chief Justice John Roberts : "I don't see how you can read Heller and not take away from it the notion that the Second Amendment...was extremely important to the framers in their view of what liberty meant."


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Little League
Rockaway Little League's Pee Wee World Series (best 2 of 3) took place last Tuesday and Thursday matching up McManus Plumbing against Knights of Columbus. This was a great matchup since the only loss either team had up to this point was the Knights one loss to McManus in a 9-8 campaign in the regular season. Each team was well prepared for the matchup after marching through the playoffs without any losses. However, it needs to be said that each team was missing key players with TJ Liable and Matt Patterson of McManus and Timmy Kline of Knights unavailable. Their talents were sorely missed. This series was so well played by both teams and filled with such excitement that its easy to see why many people favor youth sports to professional sports. The coach's knew this series would be a defensive struggle but nobody expected the explosive offense that took place in game 1.
Knights came out of the box quick when Matt Cusmiani led off the game with a line drive that one hopped over the fence for a ground rule double. Knights went onto score 2 in the top of the first before George (you mean you want me to watch the game on this field) Urcelay turned out the lights with a catch of a scorching line drive. That set the stage for McManus' potent offense and they brought out the heavy lumber. After a leadoff double by Vinny Boland it was lights out for the McManus pitcher as Danny Paskoff, Greg Pulkowski and Tommy Boggiano hit back to back to back over the fence HRs to stake the team to a 4-2 lead after one. McManus extended the lead in the second inning to 9-2 after timely hitting by Sean Boyle, PJ Casey, Mike Dier, Jimmy Lynch, Joe McCabe and Tommy Boggiano's 2nd HR. Knights avoided being further in the hole with spectacular defensive efforts by Matt and Michael Knott (both of whom made diving catches that could have been mistaken for Alomar and Martinez), Danny Munday, Michelle Kenel and Brian Collier. But Knights didn't give up. They put 7 on the board in the top of the third to tie the game and send each team's parents to their coolers to settle their nerves. This prompted McManus to send their old pitcher back to the mound and true to form he gave up 6 runs to take back the lead 15-9. Knights responded with 5 more runs bringing the score to 15-14. McManus ended the fifth by scoring 2 after Joe McCabe delivered the crushing blow with a double to center. These proved to be the deciding runs with the final of game one, 17-15 McManus. This prompted everyone to change their plans for Saturday because it looked like it was going three.
Game 2 proved to be just as exciting with more of the long ball and unbelievable defense on both sides. McManus was fortunate to have Sue Levy back in the lineup for this contest. The top of the first started with 3 straight hits by Vinny Boland, Danny Paskoff and Greg Pulkowski bringing Tommy Boggiano up with the bases loaded. Tommy had that sweet swing going and hit a grand slam out of the park. McManus continued to pound hits and was on the verge of breaking it open when Ryan (I believe I can fly) Hurley made a diving catch of a laser line drive and converted it into a double play to shut down any further damage. This was one of many outstanding plays by Ryan during the game. The score was 6-2 McManus in the bottom of the fifth when Knights came roaring back with 4 runs to tie the game highlighted by a tremendous bases loaded triple by Michelle Kenel. In the sixth, McManus led off with a triple by Tommy Boggiano, another double by Joe McCabe and the final blow for the McManus pitcher was delivered by Sean Boyle who hit yet another HR over the fence. This long ball ended the scoring for the series and McManus ended a magical season with a perfect 15-0 record.
A perfect season is quite an accomplishment at any age level and the kids on McManus showed that hard work overcomes many obstacles. The coaches and kids of McManus would like to thank the parents and grandparents for letting the kids play this year and for their support during the season with special thanks to Mr. and Mrs. Dier (the drink brigade), Alison Urcelay and Tom Pulkowski.