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People in Bangalore, Karnataka, India seize the moment as they celebrate the birthday of Hanuman (the Hindu monkey god) by lighting 100,000 clay oil lamps in the heart of the city.
Dec 15
Haridwar is an ancient city in India. The River Ganges, after flowing for 253 kilometers (157 miles) from its source, enters the Plains of North India for the first time at Haridwar, which gave the city its ancient name, Gangadwára. Haridwar is regarded as one of the seven holiest places to Hindus.
Jun 15
Cultural concerns every traveling photographer should know about
Photography requires gear. Duh. That's a given. Yet, the most important tool any photographer has is their mind, their eye, their humanity and their adaptability. Those are priceless, both in the fact that you can't buy them and the fact that they are what will help you make exceptional photographs whenever you travel. Before you leave for any other culture, smart photographers prepare by reading up on cultural concerns they may encounter on the road.
Jan 15
Four minute travelogue to Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
In August of 2012, I traveled across the Indian state of Gujarat. As I went I gathered video clips, which I made into this short, four minute travelogue. Click to find out about my next photo workshop in India!
Sep 13
Three minute travelogue across Northern India
In March of 2013, I traveled across Northern India leading a photo workshop. As I went I gathered video clips, which I made into this short, three minute travelogue. Click to find out about my next photo workshop in India!
Aug 13
Here is a short video taking you with me as I explore Bijapur, India, a place that is often referred to as the Agra of Southern India, because of the important architectural heritage of this under-appreciated Indian city.
Jun 13
New Bollywood Satirized work from Annu Palakunnathu Matthew
Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (my wife) has created new work in her series Bollywood Satirized, work that she describes as "…a critical commentary on the societal expectations that I experienced as a woman growing up in India." The work is going up outside, on the walls in Bangalore, India, to riff on the Bollywood posters she is satirizing. This video shows the process of displaying work that was made recently in response to the horrific Delhi rape.
Feb 13
Cafe Coffee Day vs Starbucks (advice to Howard Schultz)
People who know me are aware that I don't drink alcohol, be it wine, beer or hard liquor. I do love my coffee though. In fact, am something of a "specialty coffee" junky (as the marketing types call it.) Starbucks will soon be opening locations across India, expanding into a country and culture that I know relatively well. I am rooting for Starbucks to change the India specialty coffee market, but not for the reasons you might expect.
Feb 13
I am continuing my time in India, most recently hosting some old friends from Brazil as well as my daughter (and her friend.) As we have been taking them around, I have been again paying attention to the advice, warnings and cultural highlights I have shared with them. I recently blogged about some of those same things and this blog entry is ANOTHER collection of advice to anyone considering visiting India, including people in my future workshops in India.
Jan 13
Street food in Bangalore, India
One of the great things about India is the street food (as long as it is freshly cooked.) Here, I take you with me as I enjoy some street food in Bangalore, India.
Dec 12
Seeing further into the Old and New India
After I wrote about my experience recently about going back and forth between the "old" and "new" India, a reader asked: "Can the majority of India's young people, who live in the old India look into the new India and imagine a place for themselves?" I kept that question in mind as I continued traveling around India and this week's blog entry is a round about way of considering that question.
Dec 12
I write this in the midst of a road trip photographing in different parts of India. The fact that India is changing rapidly is a truism. That I could so easily move back and forth between what I think of as the old and the new India on this trip, that was fascinating
Nov 12
Questioning the insider vs outsider perspective
My wife and I presented our work to a group of photographers in New Delhi recently. We built our presentation around John Szarkowski's idea that (broadly) photographs are either Mirrors and Windows (as in mirrors of the author or windows into other people, places or things.) It was of course fun. But it also got me thinking about photography, culture and a whole mix of other questions which naturally led to a blog entry.
Oct 12
Normally, I try really hard to stay away from political commentary in this blog. Partly out of fear of offending readers of divergent political views. Mostly though, I am afraid that I have nothing else to add of any value to the discussion of the day. This week was one of those rare times where the fates came together and I feel perfectly comfortable writing what looks like, on first glance, a politically focused blog entry. The astute reader will follow this piece to its conclusion to see how it relates to many of the ongoing themes I blog about (probably too often.)
Dec 10
My daughter and my niece spent the summer of 2010 volunteering at the Parikrma school in Bangalore, India. This short movie explores their experience living and working in India.
Nov 10
India and Singapore, Singapore and India
Coming back from Singapore to India, I ran smack into a reminder of how efficient Singapore is and how far India has to go to catch up. This blog has nothing to do with photography per se, but everything to do with culture, progress, social change, etc. If that is of interest, read on. If not join me again in a few days.
Jul 10
I have been in Bangalore, India, less than a week and I can already see a lot of changes. Some of those are in the urban landscape and the culture. Others are in my own thinking and the way my mind's eye processes what I encounter. I suspect that these collective changes will make this an especially interesting time to be in India's so-called Silicon City.
Jul 10
This podcast takes you on a journey through India. The brief video is an adventure in sight, sound and motion.
Jan 10
One small history of Indian photography – Part two
(In the first chapter of this blog entry, I introduced Prabhu Photo, a state-of-the-art photo lab in Bangalore, India where I had my E-6 slide film processed for merely a decade. The changing business climate for Prabhu photo is a bellwether for the changing imaging landscape in India.) I was such a regular at Prabhu that I kept my own loupe (magnifier) at the lab and I also had my own set of cotton gloves for handling the film without fingerprints. The young men who worked for Prabhu ended up knowing the drill as well, including knowing not to cut my film and what kind of coffee to bring me half ay through my edits to keep me awake. Those sessions at the light box alternated between exciting and heart-breaking, depending on how well or badly I had done in capturing on film what had been in front of my camera.
Jan 10
One small history of Indian photography – Part one
I have been spending a lot of time at Prabhu Photo, a state-of-the-art photo lab in Bangalore, India. Back in the day, in the last century, (hah,) when I was shooting color slides, I used to have them processed at that same lab. Now that I have gone digital, I am going there to have color prints made from digital files. These prints are mostly for the various Indians I, or my wife, have been photographing. In the time I have known and worked with the proprietor, Allama Prabhu, I have seen his business grow and grow and more recently contract and contract. The change in the business of Prabhu Photo is something of a microcosm for the history of photographic processes in India. The amazing thing is that I am only talking about a short, thirteen year "history."
Jan 10
My time in Calcutta, India, has ended and I am now in Bengaluru, (formerly Bangalore,) with my wife's family. Considering how bad the weather is in the U.S. right now, I am particularly pleased to be here where it is warm and dry, working in familiar territory. This trip to India has been a bit of a whirlwind, with five-day stops in both Chennai (formerly Madras) and Kolkatta (formerly Calcutta.) Now I am starting a longer stay in Bengaluru. All this moving about has left me with bits and pieces of things to think about, which will make up this blog entry.
Dec 09
At the intersection of the art and craft of photography
While spending a week in Calcutta, India, I saw (and photographed) many things. Having previously spent little time in Calcutta, everything I experienced and pondered there seemed to be doubly intense. This was quite a sensation, since going anywhere in India is always so intense. In the future, I will share some of my experiences and thoughts that came out of my time in the place also known as the "City of Joy." One thing I did that was especially interesting was to see an exhibition by an Indian photographer, Prashant Panjiar. The work I saw exists almost perfectly at the intersection of the art and craft of photography.
Dec 09
I just finished classes in Singapore and India, two countries that could not appear to be more different. In Singapore I taught evening seminars, while in India, I taught a class over four days on "light, shadow, twilight and night." Regardless of length, all the classes were journeys of sorts, physical and/or intellectual. On all of these "trips," I was accompanied by different groups of Singaporean photographers. Working in such divergent countries, just a few days apart, got me thinking.
Dec 09
Just back from the photo trade show
I am just back from the big Photo Plus trade show in New York City. On one level, it was like years past with big crowds, lots of new toys and plenty of old friends to see and catch up with. On the other hand, some things were new and interesting and that is what I am going to be sharing in this post.
Oct 09
With the Labor Day holiday here and cool Autumn weather in the air, I am enjoying one last summer weekend before the working year (and the school year) begins. I have recently been gathering bits and pieces to share and so that is what this blog entry will be doing.
Sep 09
What's new: A few new resources….
What's new? Actually, lots of stuff! This blog entry is a series of blurbs about new things I came across that I think would be of interest to most photographers. Every time I see something new and interesting I cut and paste the URL into an ever-growing list. When that list gets too big I gather the best stuff and share it.
Jun 09
China vs India: Politically, photographically and especially briefly
A week in China is hardly enough time to see much of anything, let alone make any kind of serious analysis. So what I am writing is not remotely all-encompassing. Still, I have been to India enough times and traveled enough in the developing world to be able to make a few reasonably well-informed comparisons.
May 09
This podcast portrays the chaotic nature of road traffic in Bangalore, India
May 09
China, India and a bit on how I see them both
I am on my way to China. I am not going on any work assignment. I am going to accompany my wife, Annu Palakunnathu Matthew, (http://annumatthew.com/) who has work in the Guangzhou Photo Biennial. The hosts at the museum (and the University of Rhode Island) have been especially generous in making her trip possible. Our abundance of frequent flier miles has made it possible for me to go also. I am going to see China, obviously, but I am also going to see if I can get any perspective on what has changed in China since I went there back in 1986.
May 09
Call center workers in Bangalore, India
This podcast explores the experience of call center workers in Bangalore, India
Apr 09
Cross-cultural understanding and photography
I write this at the start of my trip to Guatemala. This is the seventh or eighth time I have been here. When I can, I prefer to visit a place more than once so I can better understand the local culture, see how that changes over time, and of course photograph. Waking up in another country prompted me to think about what I have learned about working in different cultures, which might help other photographers who are planning to do the same.
Mar 09
How I learned to critique photographs
I was reviewing another photographer's work recently. Left and right, I was tossing off suggestions for improving the images. Though I was thinking intensely about the work, I was largely unaware of my own process, as I critiqued the work. When she asked me how I had learned to critique images so fluidly, I was stopped in my tracks.
Jan 09
Blurring the lines between art and commerce
You hear and read a lot about how the lines between the worlds of art photography and commercial photography are continually being blurred. In most ways that is good. I recently lived through a particularly interesting experience that shows just how much these once distinctive realms are blurring.
Jan 09
Creative evolution of my project "Concurrence: India"
This podcast explores the creative evolution of my project, "Concurrence: India." The work evolved from a literal reportage on globalization to a more personal exploration of the fluctuating encounter between the eternal and the modern.
Dec 08
This enhanced podcast takes the viewer on a visual journey through India while riding on an auto rickshaw, a traditional mode of transportation.
Dec 08
A cross-cultural photography workshop experience
I just finished teaching a particularly fascinating workshop in Singapore through an organization called Objectifs. In my best workshops, and this was one, I learned as much as I taught.
Nov 08


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The fact is that Joe has been consitently ranked in the 15-20 range (based on QB rating).
He has been bad on the road, and bad in the majority of the Ravens playoff games.
We can get to the playoffs with Joe, but I don't think he'll ever win the SB
and the bottom line is that as he takes a bigger chunk of the salary cap the talent around him will decline... and I think the Ravens will have trouble maintaining their recent success.
He (and the koolaid drinking fan base) needs to realize that he is not an elite QB, and if he negotiates an elite salary the Ravens will not be able to keep the talent around him that he needs to win
Big Ben won the superbowl in his second year
Eli Manning won the suberbowl in his third year
That's what Elite QB's do
although I choke on giving a single player credit for a team accomplishment.
Did Trent Dilfer win a Super Bowl?
The point is there are very few QB's who can carry a team (Brady, Peyton, Ben, Rogers...)
I don't think Flacco is going to carry you to a SB, so you better be able to afford premium talent (defensive) elsewhere to make the TEAM successful.
The opening salvo in the Ravens victory was a long touchdown pass from Dilfer to Stokely, something which never seems to get mentioned in recounts of that demolishment of the Giants by the Ravens.
The closest I've ever seen a QB come to winning a SB was Elway in the '80s. Those Broncos teams weren't bad, but they wouldn't have sniffed the SB without Elway. The Bengals and Browns both were better teams in those years.
The "elite" arguments are mostly garbage. Flacco's a good quarterback. He's not a great one. You don't need to be a great quarterback to win Super Bowls. Troy Aikman has three rings, and he wasn't great, imo. He was very good, however. Great players, and this includes QB's, make those around them better. P.Manning and Brady are both great. Roethlisberger is sort-of great: in certain situations he is. In others, not so much. He won his first SB handing the ball off to Bettis and Fast Willie. He's the best I've ever seen after getting hit by a defender. He's good otherwise. In situations where other QB's would be on the ground (including P.Manning and Brady), Roethlisberger is still able to make plays downfield.
Flacco has some of that ability to shake off would-be sackers, but not close to Roethlisberger. He's more like Daunte Culpepper: he's big enough you need to get a solid hit or grab on him, but he lacks the lower body strength of Roethlisberger to just tear out of the grasp or absorb and bounce off of hard hits. He has a stronger, more accurate arm than Roethlisberger, however, and when both have time to survey the field I think Flacco is the better QB.
It's a team game, if Joe Flacco gets a top 5 QB salary the team talent and record will decline, even Ben and Brady are struggling to get to the SB now that they consume a large % of theire teams cap.
Just think the Ravens need to be very careful in how much money they give to Flacco. Sorry if my opinion doensn't align with your view of the world.
But I agree with your point: the Ravens can't afford to overpay Flacco, and he's not going to be a top 5 QB if his contract freezes out getting and keeping good players.

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Well, I have not seen Hattie for several days now. The human will not let me into the bedroom, and Hattie hasn't come out. It's not that bad when the human's in the room with me, but I get really lonely when she goes into the bedroom to stay with Hattie for a bit.
I still don't get why we can't hang out all together. The last few times I was in the bedroom, Hattie kept moving under other pieces of furniture whenever I came near her. When I went under the bed with her, she went under the nightstand. When I went under the nightstand with her, she ran under the chest of drawers. And when I snuck under there with her, she grumbled at me and leaned away. I really don't get it.
So now the human is saying that maybe we need to be reintroduced. I'm not sure what that means, except I haven't seen Hattie in a while. I can still smell her, and I know she's been getting room service for meals. So I guess I have to wait to see her again.
Maybe next time I should bring flowers. Do girl kitties like flowers? Or maybe I can find a nice dead mouse for her. I wonder if she'd like a bug? Hmm...
Because there are BUGS!!!!
There's gotta be a hole in the screen window or something, because a tiny little moth keeps getting in. I've gotta get it!!!!
One of the really neat things about having been rescued as a very small kitten is that there are lots of baby pictures of me. I was about a week old when my mom, littermates and I were found, and then my foster mom took me in just a few days later. She just sent a bunch of photos to my human, which we've posted. Believe it or not, I used to live in a room that had Catster-green walls! How about that?
Well, the human has been leaving the door to Hattie's room open for the past two days, and I've been going in to visit. Hattie's still hissing and growling but she hasn't yelled at me or run after me at all. I don't know what's up with that. Why won't she play? It's starting to make me really upset.
I think she got sick this morning, because the human wouldn't let me into the room first thing, even though she was walking in and out with a spray bottle and towels. I wish she would let me closer so I could purr and make her better, but she still won't.
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Police were called by the teen's caregivers, who had uncovered the drugs. Officers confiscated the cocaine, estimated to be worth about $200 and took the boy into custody.
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Preserving Waynesville meeting
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The public is invited to a meeting about preserving Waynesville's historic neighborhoods for economic development reasons. Learn about historic tax credits, heritage tourism's impact on the local economy and best practices for rehabilitation. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. March 6 in the City Hall Board Room, 9 S. Main Street. For More Information, contact Paul Benson at 456-2004.


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Fundamentals of Medicine
Curricular design at Harvard Medical School emphasizes content integration within and across many of our courses. The first-year curriculum is designed to build from molecules to cells to organisms, beginning with a molecular framework that integrates seamlessly with the transition to anatomy. In the second year, the teaching of pathophysiology is presented in an integrated way that incorporates aspects of pharmacology, pathology, and nutrition associated with individual systems. In addition, a sequence of courses in medical ethics/professionalism, social medicine, clinical epidemiology, scholarship in medicine, and health policy are integrated with the teaching of the basic biological sciences and with introductory clinical exposures.
- Introduction to the Profession, the first course required for all entering medical and dental students, is designed to provide a broad overview of the profession from a variety of perspectives; to introduce students to problem-based, collaborative learning; and to clarify the goals, expectations and demands placed upon students as they make the transition to physicians-in-training.
- Biomedical sciences are presented through a sequence of block courses extending through the first year and most of the second year. These courses encompass the following areas: The morphological sciences; the biochemical, pharmacological and physiologic sciences; the developmental and molecular biological sciences; pathological, microbiological and immunological sciences, and the neurosciences.
- Social and Population sciences are learned through a sequence of required first-year courses in social and population-based medicine. This sequence, which addresses important issues confronting physicians in the 21st century, includes Introduction to Social Medicine and Global Health, Clinical Epidemiology and Population Health, Introduction to Health Care Policy, and Medical Ethics and Professionalism. These courses present students with an introduction to the social factors that influence health and disease both domestically and globally, the principles of clinical epidemiology and biostatistics required for the evidence-based practice of medicine and critical appraisal of medical literature, an overview of health care policy issues and options, and the ethical dimensions of medical decision-making.
- Pathophysiology is presented throughout most of the second year in Human Systems, a course organized around organ systems. This course is designed to provide close correlation between structural and functional changes in disease and the ways in which these changes become manifest at the clinical level. A focus on the pharmacology, nutrition, and pathology of individual systems is integrated into the study of each organ system and its physical examination.
- Clinical skills and the patient-doctor relationship are addressed in a three-year sequence. Instruction in history-taking and physical examination is presented in the first and second years. Economic, social, and ethical aspects of patient care in the context of the clinical clerkship experience are examined in the third year.
- Scholarship in Medicine. In January of Year I, students who plan to apply for HMS funding for a Summer Research or Global Health/Community Project are required to enroll in one of two courses designed to provide the conceptual tools that are fundamental to producing a scholarly project. The Scholarship in Medicine (SIM) course focuses on biological and patient-oriented research, while the Physician in Community (PIC) course focuses on medicine in society (e.g., community or international scholarship). Students anticipating doing a funded research project will be required to take the SIM course, while students planning to do community or international summer project will be required to take the PIC course. These courses are elective for students who do not plan to apply for HMS funding for a project in the summer following Year I.
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Aroma is the number one rice cooker brand in America and there's good reason behind that. The Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker is a simple kitchen device that can deliver what most people are looking for in cookers.
Here are some of the features of the Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker:
- Cooking pot made from surgical steel
- Can prepare up to three cups of uncooked rice
- Automatic keep warm
- One-touch operation
- Comes with serving spatula and measuring cup
- Can be used for preparing oatmeal, stew or soup
- Easy cleaning
Best Material
The best features of this cooker from Aroma is the cooking pot. Made from surgical stainless steel, you know that it is of the right quality for preparing food and that it would leave any harmful materials that can harm your health. It does not have any material coating that can come off when you are washing it.
The Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker can handle three cups of uncooked rice and produce six cups of cooked rice. That should be enough for an individual or a small family. With its automatic keep warm, there would be no need to watch over the cooker all the time. It is quite easy to use.
One touch operation means that all you have to do is place the cooking pot and flick the control and it would all be set. There are no complicated programs that you would have to figure out. You can use it right away and the best part is that the results would always be consistent. You would get the same quality every time that you are going to use it.
More Than Just a Rice Cooker
The Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker can be used not just for preparing rice, but other types of food as well. There is nothing surprising about that, as other rice cooker can do the same thing, but keep in mind that this cooker from Aroma is rather inexpensive, so that means you can get more for your money with this kitchen device, than with other similar cookers. You can use it for preparing different kinds of rice, oatmeal, stew, soup. It has been set so that you can get excellent rice each time. That kind of consistency is kind of hard to get now with the other cookers that are available.
The Downside
The Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker is not a perfect kitchen device. Like other rice cookers, it has its own flaws and it would help customers if they would know ahead of time about those flaws, so they can make the right decision.
The biggest problem with the Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker is that the rice has a tendency to stick to the bottom of the cooking pot. That can be a problem when it comes to cleaning the pot. Another issue that has been raised about the cooker is that it can leave a mess on the counter.
Overall the Aroma Simply Stainless Rice Cooker can get the job done for you.


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Wayne Rooney's new piece of headgear has its roots in New York City
If you've been watching Manchester United games lately, you've no doubt seen the sleek new black headgear that Wayne Rooney is wearing. It's a response to the nasty gash Rooney received in his forehead during a recent training session, and there's a dynamite story behind it involving a startup company that began in a Jersey City apartment, later moved to Chelsea and now has a lab and office in Brooklyn.
Claudio Storelli is the co-founder of Storelli, a new line of products that focuses on the protection of soccer players. Last week the Italian-born Storelli was reading Gazzetta dello Sport when he saw the news of Rooney's forehead injury. He then contacted Manchester United by e-mail offering to send samples of Storelli's ExoShield head-guard to the team.
"You're either going to bandage his head, which is sub-optimal, or you're going to give him a Petr Cech helmet," says Storelli, who played goalkeeper at Santa Clara. "With all due respect to Petr, who's one of my idols, that's not the best solution for a player like Rooney. This was the best solution."
Storelli figured Rooney wouldn't be playing the following Saturday against Crystal Palace, but soon after the United game started he got a call from one of his investors. Not only was Rooney starting the game, but he was wearing the Storelli headgear.
For a U.S. soccer company that's just emerging onto the scene, you couldn't ask for a better celebrity endorsement than Rooney, who has scored three goals in the two games he has worn the headgear. "It's given us a lot of attention and credibility," says Storelli, who says the global response has been immense. "Now we're suddenly in talks with distributors all over the place."
Rooney's headgear is one of several products made by Storelli, which include everything from protective shirts and shorts to leg guards and gloves. Unlike other soccer headgear that has been on the market longer, Storelli's head-guard uses military-grade foam employed in combat helmets that disperses G-forces experienced on the soccer field.
As Jing Liang, Storelli's other co-founder, explained to me, the back of the headgear is a bit bulkier than the front because their studies showed the most G-forces in head collisions involved the back of the head hitting the ground. The back is also shaped to allow for the ponytails of female players, who are some of their biggest consumers. (Storelli is careful to note that as of yet there are no tests that prove the headgear prevents concussions.)
Storelli and Liang worked together as consultants at McKinsey & Company and are both regular goalkeepers in indoor games at Chelsea Piers in New York City. Their company started in 2009 with a question: Since they always left after games limping and bleeding, why couldn't they produce something that would help prevent those issues? After registering at the start in Jersey City, they later spent two-and-half-years in a Chelsea apartment getting together at night after working their day jobs.
"We decided we were going to make protection cool," says Storelli, who enlisted designers from the worlds of snowboarding and motorcycling. "Rooney's headband is probably the hardest piece to make cool, but if you look at the rest of what we do, it's pretty bad-ass. It's basically something that looks like it belongs to Batman's closet." Not long ago, Storelli persuaded the people at Soccer.com to add a new tab called "Protection" under apparel. And with Rooney now modeling their gear after the most unlikely of connections, you'd have to say they're on a roll. "I really hope one day I run into Rooney and tell him, 'Wayne, you owe me a beer,'" Storelli says with a laugh. The way Rooney is scoring with his new headgear, maybe even two.


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Unless you live in a cave, you know that Florida has a huge road game this weekend. The Gators travel to College Station, Texas to take on the Aggies in an SEC Showdown at 3:30. The game is big enough for the College GameDay Crew to make the trip over.
This game has been circled on my calendar for months, and I am very anxious for it to get underway. Head Coach Mike Sumlin, formerly at Houston, opens his inaugural season as the Aggies' coach this Saturday. Much has been made of the electric atmosphere in Kyle Field. At SEC Media Days this summer, Coach Muschamp was asked about the video response College Station Mayor Nancy Berry made to his comment about playing at A&M. He asked the media: "You ever been to College Station? It'll be the only time you'll go." Here's the video below of Mayor Berry's response to Muschamp's comments:
I have to admit; it's pretty clever and definitely gets the rivalry going, even in the dog days of July, when this video was released. As for her hoping to get as many Gator fans over to Kyle Field as possible, it'll be interesting to see how many Gators make the trip over. According to Google Maps, Kyle Field 922 miles from Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, and a 15 hour drive. One of Our Two Bits very own Scott Francis flew out to Texas for the game on Wednesday. He will tweet some stuff while he's there, you follow him on Twitter here. As for the game itself, this one's an important one for the Gators, and it should be a nail biter. Here's a preview of what to expect from Texas A&M's offense and defense, and what Florida must do to to get a win Saturday.
Aggie Offense:
The Gator Defense will be key in this game, with the Aggies bringing in a new offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury who ran the explosive Houston spread offense of 2011. The Cougars' 2011 quarterback, Case Keenum, was an essential key to the offense's success, and Houston ranked number one in the nation in 2011 in touchdowns per game. Klingsbury says his Aggie team is "big on being a fast-paced team and a well-conditioned team". The Aggies have two stars on their offensive line that could make it tough for the Gator front seven to break through. Left tackle Luke Joeckel is already projected to be a top NFL draft pick in 2013, standing 6-6 and weighing 310 pounds. Jake Matthews, NFL Hall of Famer's Bruce Matthew's son, is very solid at right tackle. The offensive line will have to do a good job protecting A&M's starting redshirt freshman Johnny Manziel at quarterback, who to the surprise of many surpassed sophomore Jameill Showers for the starting job. Manziel has a tough task ahead of him facing the Florida Defense.
As I touched on in my 2012 Gator Football Preview Post, we have a defense that finished 8th nationally in 2011, and the expectations are even higher for the fast, physical, and menacing defensive unit facing SEC offenses. The Aggie receivers are not as fast and deep as what Klingsbury had at Houston, but there are a couple of intriguing receivers. Ryan Swope, the Aggie's slot receiver, broke the school's single-season records for reception yards and catches. He also has the highest career reception record. Swope combined with fellow receiver Uzoma Nwachukwu for 139 catches for 1,846 yards and 13 TDs in 2011. Note that this was all while now Miami Dolphin Ryan Tanehill was under center for A&M, so Johnny Manziel is a key factor in the effectiveness of the Aggie receiving corp. The run game for the Aggies is made up of Christine Michael who is a complete beast…when he is healthy. With Florida being the first game for the Aggies thanks to Hurricane Isaac, he is ready to go for Saturday. Michael averaged about 100 yards per game last year, and had a team-leading 899 rushing yards before tearing his ACL in November.
*Key Statistic: Third-Down Conversions were denied by the 2011 Florida Defense 72.7% of the time.
Gator Offense vs Aggie Defense:
The Gator offense, under new offensive coordinator Brent Pease from Boise State, will have to step up big against a hostile crowd at Kyle Field. Pressure will be on Mike Gillislee, who had a career-high 142 yards and two TDs last week, to have a big game against a tough A&M rush defense. Their rush defense impressively finished 12th nationally last season. Texas A&M had a very weak secondary who gave up 276.3 passing yards per game in 2011.
Starting quarterback Jeff Driskel must attack downfield and take advantage of this statistic. I expect Pease call plays using receiver Frankie Hammond and tight end Jordan Reed, who had solid games last Saturday. Both Pease and Muschamp said that they showed a limited sample of Pease's offensive playbook against Bowling Green, so the passing game should open up a lot more on Saturday. Florida's offensive line must protect the sophomore Driskel against an Aggie four-man defensive front that features defensive end Damontre Moore. Moore is a key playmaker for A&M, he led the team with 17.5 tackles for a loss and was second on the team with 8.5 sacks. The Aggie linebackers do not have much depth, but have strength in outside LB Sean Porter and middle LB Jonathon Stewart. Porter notched 9.5 sacks in 2011, which put A&M in place to lead the nation in sacks. Stewart led the team with 98 tackles.
*Key Statistic: Texas A&M's Defense had 51 sacks in 2011, a figure that led the nation.
This is a huge game for both Florida and Texas A&M. If Florida wins, it could spark the start of a dark horse contention for the SEC East. If Texas A&M wins, it would get Kevin Sumlin's Aggie career off to a great start, and could turn some heads while being welcomed into the SEC. Let's hope Florida can get a win and some on the road confidence they will need against Tennessee in week 3.
Morgan Moriarty is a Sophomore Telecommunications Major at the University of Florida, and is currently interning for ESPN Radio: Gainesville/Ocala. She is also on the University of Florida Women's Club Water Polo. Follow her on Twitter here @moriarty343


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Sydney "Squidnog the Science Dog" (beagle x rat terrier x ACD) & Buddy "Buckles McButterbean" (Norfolk terrier x dachshund)
You make a good point and it is well taken , however , not all folks that buy this food for the family members with fur are as well informed as you are.
Case in point: While at my vet I asked some questions about my dogs nutritional needs as one of my ten redbone hounds has a sensitive stomach. My vet told me that he feeds his dog Old Yeller from Kroger and he thrives on it.
So I tried it and after about three months seven of my ten dogs got sick at the same time. I checked and some Old Yeller food had been recalled but the date codes for recall had been consumed and I had only one bag left with the offending date code and it was mostly empty.
I like most people who care about the family dogs or cats just want what is good for them. In my case we use dry kibble and many other meats ,veg and oatmeal to feed our rescue dogs the best we can afford and our dogs get top quality food and are very healthy.
So , given that when I tried Old Yeller it was on the advice of my trusted vet I would say many have no idea that they are taking a chance buying a store brand.
I think your statement is a little strong , however , shows you care as most do about their family members with fur : " the people I know who feed their pets store brand don't really care if the pets live or die. They just buy whatever's cheapest so they don't get arrested for not feeding their pets at all. "
We could all be better informed and it would be nice to see a recall before the product had been consumed.
We were lucky in that our dogs got sick and refused to eat the Old Yeller food and we made a change that day and all seems to be ok at this time.
I no longer ask vets for advice on dog food .........................
Here are the ingredients of Old Yeller Dog Food. You'd be hard pressed to find a worse food.
Ground yellow corn, meat and bone meal, soybean meal, poultry by-product meal, wheat middlings, animal fat (preserved with BHA), animal digest, brewers rice, salt, brewers dried yeast, brewers dried grains, dried whey, propionic acid (a preservative), choline chloride, calcium carbonate, rice mill by-product, ferrous sulfate, zinc oxide, vitamin A/D3/E/B12 supplement, red 40, manganous oxide, copper sulfate, niacin supplement, calcium pantothenate, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (source of vitamin K activity), ethylenediamine dihydriodide, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin supplement, colbalt carbonate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, folic acid, biotin, sodium selenite
Edited to bold the bad ingredients.
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A lot of people really don't know much, if anything about how and what their pets should eat.
I don't think it is that people think "I'll feed this so my dog doesn't starve and because it's cheap." I know when we first got Brittany we fed her Ol' Roy Moist and Meaty crap because after all, the stupid food at groceries ALL say complete and balanced. Everyone in my family honestly thought there was no difference in food and it was just people trying to make money off of people dumb enough to fall for it (and I have to say we were at least partially right, some foods, that is exactly what they do). Brittany switched herself off of Ol' Roy by refusing to eat it anymore. When I found out the truth I started paying for Brittany's food out of my money until my mom realized there was a difference. Now Bello and Brittany are both on raw. But I try not to judge everybody because of what they feed. Because I've been in their shoes.
On a different note we pet sit two dogs that eat Old Yeller. Those dogs stink like crazy, and for the most part don't eat much.
"Obediance in a dog holds little allure to me- I have so little obedience to authority myself, it would be bizarre if I sought it out in my dogs. A sense of humor and a flair for the ridiculous mean more to my day to day happiness than a dog who hangs on my wishes." ~ Jane Killion
i've said this b/4 and i'll say it again....i feed P.O. and have for around 30 yrs.....along the way i have fallen for the "if you cared about your dog/s enuff you'd put them on a better food" (enter Canidae, Nutro, Chicken Soup, and others) and every time i have gone back to P.O. after their coats went to Hades and their eyes lost their gleam and i had to feed 2x the amount to maintain their weight........no more, unless it's to P.O. Beyond....i'll stay w/ Purina-they're one of the few companies that didn't get massive recalls on their foods (Alpo Selects was the only one i recall)
i am ALWAYS getting compliments on my kids (w/ the exceptions of the switches)
Sydney "Squidnog the Science Dog" (beagle x rat terrier x ACD) & Buddy "Buckles McButterbean" (Norfolk terrier x dachshund)
No, the dogs I know who are on Purina look pretty good (if they aren't allergic). Even the dogs who eat Ol' Roy (ingredients are identical to Pedigree. I was surprised) don't look too bad. But those on the grocery store/dollar store generic food look terrible. I've never known a dog on grocery store brand who looked halfway decent. Not surprising when you look at the ingredients---like Old Yeller's ingredients---no actual meat! And even the meat by-products are as far down as the 4th ingredient. I saw a dollar store brand with NO meat, not even "meat and bone meal" (OK, and one Beneful formula is like that, too). And some of them aren't even AAFCO certified (I don't think most pet owners know to look for that anyway).
I dunno. I see the people in the store in the pet food aisle, and the kid says "hey, mom, this one's the cheapest!" and she immediately picks it up. . .I just don't think Fido's care is considered important in that home.
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
Im Abi, the VERY PROUD FurMommi to"The Boys", Rhett(2011) and Leo(2007), Breed: Border Collie and Brody(2010), Breed: Pug/x.
Border Collie: When in doubt, do without!! There are far too many BCs looking for new homes because someone THOUGHT they were the right breed!
Ha , this is weird as I went to Fred Meyer last week just to look around as I've never been in one and I went down the pet supply aisle and saw this food, if you want to call it that. I thought OMG really now? Would someone actually feed this stuff? I looked at the ingredients and was apalled as I couldn't identify one meat product in the whole thing. I think I found a food worse that Ol Roy. As to the purina one, I used to feed that many moons ago when I first got my dog and was still searching for a good food. He did ok I guess but then developed severe allergies and a flaky dry coat. I switched to Innova and Ca naturals and he did a lot better and was on that for most of his life. I then tried switching because of the whole P and G thing, and I went with Merricks Cowboy cookout. My dog loves the canned foods and so i thought the dry would be good. Not so! He got dry and flaky again and looked like crap blowing his coat and actually thinning in spots. I thought screw this and went to grain free and got acana Pacifica. He is 11 yo so I was a little leery of the even higher protein in Orijen although he likes the senior orijen. My god, he looks amazing. A month and a half on Acana Pacifica and his coat is thicker, no longer flaky and has a shine that he would only get for two days after a bath. and he hasn't had a bath in the time he has been on the Acana. I am sold! It may cost a little more than even Innova or merricks, but he eats less, his stools are the best they have ever been and he acts like a puppy again. He still has some signs of aging, as he is an 11 yo shepherd husky mix, but people can't believe he is 11 when they ask on our walks. I guess in the end what I am trying to say, is that most of the dog foods out there will allow your dog to survive barring no nasties get into the food causing massive organ failure like in the recalls, but if you feed a food that is designed with you dog in mind aka grain free or raw, that is how your dog is going to thrive. Personally, I would rather my dog thrive on a great food. If only I did this 11 years ago.
i am sorry that you have lost your friend, the dog food can be the answer and it couldnt be at the same time, i went to school for 2.5 yrs for vet tech, each dog digestive system is different so some dogs may not agree to one food that another does, i had a client with 4 dogs each had to have different foods which i am sure made a pain in the butt for feeding time, i have 3 dogs an english mastiff who is 4 and chow shep who is 3 and a chow shep who is 13. all of them eat old yeller i have gotten benefiel because of the age of my mastiff and my old girl and they literally would rather starve then eat it. i have had no health problems other then age with my dogs either, yes old yeller is a disney brand and it is only in kibble, did you feed your dog table scraps or such as well. A lot of people blame the food for health problems one lady i knew blamed purina for their dog getting bloat and dieing and i tried to explain to her how bloat happens but she wasn't having it. i am not saying you or your vet are wrong at all but when we loose a loved one suddenly weather it be a furry one or a non furry one we look to put blame on anyone or anything
Ol' Yeller at the time was proven to be contaminated with aflatoxin. So it definitely was the cause of the dogs' deaths.
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
Well, Beneful is pretty awful stuff, too. Probably worse than Old Yeller. It's better to give dogs something with actual meat in it.
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
dehboe was supposed to be on a more sensitive diet due to the meds for the coccida and whip worm his tummy was already being torn up. and reggie cant have so much protien in it cause she is so old and sick the vet gave us a whole list of stuff she shouldnt have cause of her ailments and brutus well we call him the garbage disposal cause that boy can and will eat almost anything but certain dog food, i think cause when we got him we got him to grow up with our 8 month old daughter we got him at 8 weeks old from the humane society and he got used to ya know sitting under the high chair when she got older and all that.
"Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man."
Arthur Schopenhauer, The Basis of Morality
We Buy several different feeds, we buy Alpo for out indoor dogs, kit n kaboodles for our cats, and old yeller for our outdoor dogs, Every time we refill we have to keep out Old yeller outside cause it comes full of roaches, none of the others have any roaches in them, maybe the reason it is killing animals might be because there are roach traps in the warehouses and the killing solution gets on the roaches. And ends up in out dog food dishes. I can only speculate hope this helps, but I know I'm not buying old yeller again. Now we also have to fight off roaches over dog food. Hope this helps.
gah. In addition to reasons to recall it - how about that it is an incredibly poor quality food to expect a dog to exist on?


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So apparently my kitchen is turning into a bit of a chemistry lab. What are all of those beakers and hoses you ask? Why, it's a steam distiller, of course!
A few weeks back when I started foraging for herbs, I started reading up on the qualities of these plants and their valuable uses as medicinal tinctures, healthful teas, antibacterial cleaners, and delicious scents. The plant's essential oil is at the heart of these uses, but it's very difficult to extract. Plus the machinery is very expensive.
I found a few DIY methods and was considering trying them, but then a friend of mine told me that he had a distiller that had been sitting in a box in his house for a year! We made a deal that if I set up the machine, I could use it too. Yay for friends with similar crazy interests!
After filling the "bio-flask" with about one liter of rosemary leaves, I came up with this scant 1/4 inch of oil:
Definitely makes you realize how valuable essential oil is. Of course, a by-product of the steam distillation process is "hydro-sol" which is the scented water that gets separated from the oil. From the liter of rosemary, I got about 12 ounces of hydrosol. I'm thinking about making it into a rosemary syrup for drinks. Or I could make a nice refreshing spray for my bed linens, or use it for the water in the laundry soap recipe.
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Hi,Not sure if this is an old topic but is everyone aware that if you enter an event that hasn't a runbritain license your result will not be accepted by UKA.
A couple of times recently I have entered events and found my times will not be counted. I can accept that 'Fun Runs' are excluded but high profile events like the recent LIchfield Half Marathon?
This event has a course measurement certicate interestingly done by a UKA approved organisation. It has 'chip' timing, which I guess is about as accurate as you can get for mass events.
Perhaps you should be notified when you do an online entry that the event is not licensed to runbritain/UKA. I do realise it doesnt have to be but it seems a little unfair that a result cannot be accepted particularly with well organised high profile events.
I would interested in other runners thoughts
yep, long known problem amongst competitive types
I was unlcuky enough to do my 3 qualifying 10k times (36 min or under) on non UKA licensed events. Now, the pb is more important than getting onto some rankings list, but still annoying.
However, they've now ridiculously loosened the qualifying times so that pretty much anyone who trains well can get into the rankings, with the marker now being 40mins for 10k (1hr 30 for a half, instead of 1hr 20)
It's slightly farcicial, because whereas you'd have say, 1,500 people making the 10k qualifying time last year in total, you now have 6,000 or so having met the new one, 1/3 of the way into the year!
From what I understand, more and more races are going down the ARC route for the purposes of insurance cover because of increasing costs and H&S bureacracy associated with UKA, and with Power of 10 being tied up with UKA, ARC races simply don't get a mention. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Knowing your own achievements (and boasting about them on here, obviously ) is the most important thing but it does seem a shame that there isn't some central athletics database that you can turn to in order to get definitive, comprehensive rankings, and athletic records for your competitors. I used to naively think that's what Po10 was, but presumably with the way things are going, it's only going to become less authoritative?
I can understand why they do it even if I don't like it. It can be frustrating if for example like me you're slightly obsessed with improving your runbritain handicap and you go and smash your PB on a chip timed charity event on a previously measured course. Especially when you consider that a parkrun - technically not a race - still gets counted yet could have been timed by officials of such calibre as, well, me.
For this reason I confess that I mainly enter UKA races, and only consider non UKA races if there's something really particular about the event - eg the location - that I really want to run there.
Although not always explicitly stated when an event is not UKA licensed, you can be confident that if there is no race entry discount for affiliated members then it is not a UKA race. If there is an affiliated discount then you might still want to check whether it's a UKA race, just in case it is an ARC event, assuming it bothers you.
Whilst runbritainrankings won't let you claim results in domestic non-UKA races, you can at least write such results into the "About" section of your profile on thepowerof10.info so that you have a record visible in the same place as your UKA results. If you're handy with HTML then you can even format it the same as the main data so that it looks 'official'
i'm mildly interested in power of 10, obviously knowing the whole "Only UKA events" fascism.
Does make me laugh when people use it as some kind of bible of events. For tracks tuff it's probably much more effective, but for road races not at all.
For instance, there's a guy locally who's probably beaten me about 40+ times over the years. According to Power of 10, our head to head is something like 6-0!!
Run Britain is utter pony though. How can you handicap a race. Who judges if a course is harder than another one? Every race report I've ever read has contained differences of opinion on undulation/hills, hot/fine.
A straight times only ranking system for every certified race in the country would be good. At the end of the day all that matters is the course being properly measured.
As for park runs, I've heard of occasions where they've bungled the results, and asked runners to complete their own! These have then been submitted.
Not quite thoroughly accurate!
With administration from UKA getting worse more and more events are moving to ARC. It kind of renders the whole power of 10 meaningless when a significant proportion of events are not included in it.
To play the devil's advocate, why on earth should UKA/PoT catalogue results from ARC races?
ARC have taken a (possibly) significant slice of UKA's income from races, and haven't (AFAIK) set up similar databases.
Everything cost money - websites and databases don't "just happen" - and UKA have limited resourses.
Perhaps we should ask ARC what they're doing about it.
Stevie G . wrote (see)
A straight times only ranking system for every certified race in the country would be good. At the end of the day all that matters is the course being properly measured.
In an ideal world...
oi.you wrote (see)
To play the devil's advocate, why on earth should UKA/PoT catalogue results from ARC races?
ARC have taken a (possibly) significant slice of UKA's income from races, and haven't (AFAIK) set up similar databases.
Everything cost money - websites and databases don't "just happen" - and UKA have limited resourses.
Perhaps we should ask ARC what they're doing about it.
Good point. I certainly wouldn't expect UKA to catalogue all ARC results since they're effectively the competition. Maybe if there was enough demand for it, a separate body would find it worthwhile to pool results into a central UK database??
...and I've just educated myself. ARC do have a ranking record on their website. (Our own club's 10 mile race is ARC affiliated and shows up there.) Naturally it's pretty small compared to the Po10 equivalent...
seems like the ARC rankings are designed simply to narrowly keep me out by 20-30seconds!
Bit harsh when only 100-200 people fit the bill! for 2011
Thanks for the link Phil - must admit I hadn't seen that, mostly 'coz I hadn't looked of course.
I'll have a better look later to see what's in it. One of my club mates is a bit of a stato and may not be best pleased with another system to track.
I had been wondering if individual race organisers, or ARC collectively, might "sponsor" PoT to get their results included. Some race organisers and competitors might still prefer a single databse.
oi.you wrote (see)
To play the devil's advocate, why on earth should UKA/PoT catalogue results from ARC races?
ARC have taken a (possibly) significant slice of UKA's income from races, and haven't (AFAIK) set up similar databases.
Everything cost money - websites and databases don't "just happen" - and UKA have limited resourses.
Perhaps we should ask ARC what they're doing about it.
It could be argued that ARC have not taken a slice of UKA's income, but rather UKA gave it away with their poor administration, overly complex bureaucracy and basically using road running as a cash cow to finance everything else. It was UKA increasing race certification & insurance costs substantially for no extra return that was one of the triggers that caused ARC to be created in the first place. You say UKA have limited resources - they actually receive millions each year but give practically nothing to road running. The reality is they're only really interested in Track & Field so that's where the money goes. I understand this as they don't get judged on how many Brits win road races but on how many medals they win in the athletics stadium. It's more the fact that they are legally still in charge of road running but do practically nothing for it. Even when under pressure to do something all they did was create a committee which as I recall was completely dominated by commercial race directors, people who are direct competitors for many clubs who organise races. For most road running clubs the only thing UKA provide is the insurance that gives the £2 discount for affiliated runners to enter races, and they provide absolutely nothing else. To be fair, most road running clubs probably don't want or ask for much more, but we could do without the red tape we have to deal with to affiliate, organise races, register runners who change clubs etc, and we could do without UKA pretending to care but doing nothing. They should either do something for road running or hand it over to another body.
Well said BOTF
I'm not an apologist for UKA, and wouldn't want to dispute any of your points. The reasons for ARC's creation and growth are somewhat beside the point. The fact remains that ARC now recieve money that would once have gone to UKA, so UKA have less now than they might otherwise have. So I'm not surprised by their actions.
I've not seen anything from UKA to explain their exclusion of ARC race results. They may have other reasons than the one I offered.
Hi All, Thanks for all your views - for or against. I realise its not just me, but the way our sport is organised. For my part I was only realy interested in my time being ratified. I am not interested in a prize or a runbritain ranking, although it has been pointed out to me that a little presentation ceremony for the winners including the veterans would have been nice (Hint Lichfield Half Marathon organisers!) I suggested in my original post that if Runners World on line entries could make it clear (by asking organisers) if an event has a licence and to whom. It would make it transparent to us runners what we are letting our selves in for and not biased towards any particular body. If its a fun run then we would know and if licensed by ARC or UKA we would also be aware. Further it might encourage runners to become aware of the issues discussed in these posts. Do others think this would help?
Part of the rules for holding a certified event I believe are that the documentation displays the UKA or ARC logo, permit number and course accuracy certificate number where applicable. Trouble is you usually have all the documentation in place before you have the licence. I guess though as with many things, if enough people consider it important then more and more organisers will include the information. At the moment I suspect it's a long way down the list of priorities.
at the end of the day your own personal pb is what matters.
Only the anoraks who liket to stalk their rivals really use power of 10. I like it when they quote what their rivals have done, ignoring the fact that half the races probably aren't even on there.
Out of my 110 or so races, there's a trace of about 10 on power of 10...but that's half down to non ARC and half down to not qualifying..
Hi Malcolm, sorry, your thread has been just a teensy bit hijacked.
Once upon a time, said the old fart, the only way to enter a race was to have an entry form on a bit of real paper. That form had to say, and probably still does, if the race was held according to UKA rules. As BOTF says the race permit will state which org has issued the cert - but that's only applicable on race day when it must (should?) be on display.
Sadly, there is no such requirement with on-line race entry systems. This year our club's race used 3 different on-line entry sytems - RW, RunBritain & Active, and there was (AFAIK) no requirement to say who (if anyone) had issued a permit for the race.
to echo BOTF's comment, if it's important to you make sure that the Race Director knows this. All too often they're working in a vacuum, trying to guess what it is people want.
Googled this as I was looking for an answer as more and more races are considered non-official by the UKA. Which is fine for whatever petty inter-body issues they all have with each other, but as runners we have choices on what races we do, infact more and more choice for events in the same areas on the same day, so if given the choice of doing one thats UKA (mainly as im interested in the difficulty ratings they use which can sometimes turn you from being disappointed in a performance, to realising it was on a harder course). And most of us are motivated by continuous improvement, and obviously the better you get, the smaller the improvements are, so having the runbritain data can help with that....
Personally im happy I ran an 88 min half on sunday....but annoyed it doesnt get put on my score on runbritain. Moreso because parkruns are counted, and when I was livng in the US, I could submit the results for races I did out there (obviously not UKA affiliated) and they were accepted! So in context, the Maidenhead Half wasnt good enough for UKA, but the San Jose Half was.
Anyway, if you want to know if a race is "official" or not, you can check the runbritain events calender. If its listed with a race number on there, its official. If its not, you wont get the score. Looks like many races that were UKA in 2011 have decided to go ARC for 2012.
Wayne, until recently, you had to hit 1:18 or better to even get your half marathon on power of 10 even if it was a UKA event. And it had to be on the gun time, not chip.
Now they've wildly opened the floodgates to give rankings times, and also allow the chip time.
Therefore, the head to head facility some people use is slightly flawed as you're comparing chip time, so will show you lost to someone you may have beaten.
I've just come across this thread and found it very interesting. As a race director I have just migrated over to a UKA ("runbritain") race permit from an ARC one in the past.
My original motivation was to ensure our results are listed on Power of 10 as I know that's something important to me, and a lot of competitive runners.
The UKA requirements are several orders of magnitude stiffer than the ARC ones to have an approved permit. Although that brings a lot of work I have to say I don't disagree with their need for a high level of diligence. It ensures a professional race and certainly minimises the chances of things going wrong, which can only be a good thing for everybody.
Putting my runner's hat on, I do wish Po10 would reintroduce its qualifying standards though - that used to be a good benchmark to try and attain in the past.
After 1st April 2013 Power of 10 will only provide a profile for runners registered with a home country governing body. For English athletes this means they will need to be a member of a UKA affiliated club and also pay the £10 registration fee to England Athletics.
I wish the results listing database could be independent of race permit body such that it could include all races carrying legitimate race permits.
It does seem perverse that an ARC permitted race (which meets most of the UKA requirements) is excluded, while a TRA permitted one (with relativelty low standards), or even an overseas one (some with dubious standards) are included.
The runners in my race want the Power of 10 inclusion and that's what dictated my change to a UKA permit.
TZ, good post, would be good if all race organisers had your philosophy.
I've contacted a couple of race organisers and they weren't really aware of the difference apart from it was cheaper for ARC? And bearing in mind a large chunk of the field wouldn't count for PO10 or care about it anyway, perhaps isn't much of a consideration?
The safest way is simply to check the PO10 upcoming fixtures!


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Tottenham Hotspur Confirms Toronto FC Deal For Jermain Defoe On Website
Written By: dunny|
Jan 10, 2014
~~ I cropped the picture above a bit differently this time to include that statement at the top… That's pretty interesting to see. And if you head to the bottom of this article written by Spurs themselves, you'll see EXACTLY what this Spurs x TFC relationship will now look like.
via TottenhamHotspur
We have reached agreement with Toronto FC for the transfer of Jermain Defoe to the MLS side, with effect from February 28, 2014.
The 31 year-old striker first joined in February 2004 from West Ham, making 177 appearances and scoring 64 goals before leaving to join Portsmouth in January 2008. The England international was re-signed a year later and has since made 185 appearances, scoring 78 goals.
"Everybody knows how much this Club means to me and I will play my heart out for the team and the fans until my last kick for the Club. I have had a fantastic time here and the fans have always been amazing to me," said Jermain.
"I am grateful for the opportunity for myself and my family to experience living overseas and for me to play in the MLS with a contract that will take me to the age of 35. I have no doubt I shall be coming back as a fan supporting the team in the years to come too."
Head Coach Tim Sherwood added: "This is a great opportunity for Jermain and he feels it is one that he wishes to pursue. He has played a big part in the Club for many years and we all know he will give his best until his last minute in a Spurs shirt.
"We have several attacking options within our squad for the remaining dozen or so games of the season after Jermain departs and we shall keep our options under review. We also have a goal threat from players in other areas of the pitch including having wide players and attacking midfielders who will enable us to vary our shape when required."
Everybody at the Club wishes Jermain every success for the future and he will always be welcome at the Lane.
The transfer of Jermain to Toronto FC also sees the start of an Advertising Rights Agreement with club owners Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. which includes promotional, branding, experiential activities, advertising, broadcasting, social media and digital rights across the 4-year agreement and at all MLSE properties and media sites. MLSE will stock, promote and sell official THFC merchandise at all their retail outlets and support the THFC Official Canadian Supporter's Club.
Additionally, the Club can also announce that we shall play Toronto FC in the second game of our 2014 summer tour on July 23, in-between fixtures against Seattle Sounders on July 19 and Chicago Fire on July 26.
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Elan 37 'Va Va Voom' from 2004 is now for sale, This performance cruisers has an impressive cruising interior. She has also been campaigned successfully throughout the North West, UK and Ireland and is ready to go chasing down new silverware or just enjoying cruising. Lying ashore Bangor.
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DeMaria Enterprises brauchte ein neues Logo Design und hat einen Wettbewerb auf 99designs gestartet.
Aus 22 Designs von 11 Designern wurde eine Gewinner gewählt.
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Those who are just starting out and want to expand their business online, those existing businesses looking for internet marketing solutions.
I'm looking for a sleek, crisp, professional logo. I want to play on the evolution theme, Web+Evolution= Webvolution Marketing.
It would be nice to have "Webvolution Marketing" text somewhere in the logo. Also, I like the idea of incorporating an image like the evolution of man that can be seen here:
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2) http://www.crestock.com/images/5200…892-xs.jpg
Be creative. Don't be afraid to be adventurous and have fun, the logo should show new ideas and imagination. However, please try not to be too abstract as we want people to understand the logo straight away.


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Caught In The Act
Published February 15th, 2012
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Deputies are looking for a thief who they said snatched a rolex from a bin at a security checkpoint at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.
Someone placed the $6,500 watch in the security bin, and then realized 30 minutes later that she forgot it.
In the video the man is seen behind the woman, looking around to make sure no one is watching.
He then takes the watch.
Deputies searched the terminal but did not locate the suspect.
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Crimson is very dark nectar, while other clovers are quite light. It dosn't take much dark honey to pull the aggregate color down in a hurry. Try a drop of ink in a glass of water, then see how much water it takes to make it clear again. Locally, country folks know that dark honey can be better than light, but in the city they think honey is supposed to be light colored and it will sit on the grocery shelf for a long time. Two different years when my aggegate was very dark, bought Dakota light by the drum to bring the color up. With 2 to 1 light it was possible to bring the dark honey up to almost acceptable. Still dark, though.
Cotten honey is very light but granulates rapidly. My bees ignore cotton,but 40 miles south of me they can get cotton honey. Wish I knew why.


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Featuring free WiFi, Motel Wuhan Yangtsi River Bridge Hubu Lane offers accommodation in Wuhan. Each room at this hotel is air conditioned and has a TV with cable channels. You will find a kettle in the room. All rooms come with a private bathroom. For your comfort, you will find slippers and free toiletries. There is a 24-hour front desk at the property. Tan Hualin is 2,297 feet from Motel Wuhan Yangtsi River Bridge Hu, while Hubei University of Economics is 2,953 feet away. Tianhe Airport is 16.2 miles from the property.


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For many Batman fans, including myself, this October is a time for rejoicing because a new Batman video game will be hitting the shelves called Batman: Arkham Origins. This entry to the series, which acts as a prequel, will show us gamers a Batman who is vastly inexperienced, quick to anger, and all-around much more violent with his nightly prey. Like many, I'm very psyched for this game and I will most certainly be picking it up this fall. However, I came across a little detail quite recently that, sadly, may affect the actual timeline of this "Arkhamverse" the games are taking place in.
That little detail goes as follows: Batman: Arkham Origins is set to take place FIVE YEARS before the start of Batman: Arkham Asylum. I was actually quite certain that the upcoming game would take place at least ten years before the start of Arkham Asylum, but no more than fifteen (for a clarification on the time frame, you can go to this link which states so in the first paragraph). You may think that there shouldn't be any reason why this is a problem–plot-wise–but if you take into account all of the material presented to us centered on the "Arkhamverse", then you may know that this little detail wouldn't make sense in the greater picture.
Primarily, I'm looking at the comic book series that were released around the time Arkham City came out–namely Batman: Arkham Unhinged. Arkham Unhinged was a comic series, released digital only, that was written by Derek Fridolfs after Paul Dini recommended him to DC. The series, which transpired over several volumes, centered on events that took place after Arkham City had been opened as well as some events that took place during the events of Arkham City and some flashbacks to around the time of Arkham Asylum. You can actually find an interview Comic Vine did with Derek Fridolfs right here if you so choose.
If you've read the comic series, then you may know that Nightwing was present during. Yes, Nightwing wasn't actually present in the Arkham City game but if the comics released centering on the game are to be included into the Arkhamverse (which I'm assuming they are), then Nightwing is actually present in this universe.
Batman: Arkham Origins takes place when Batman hadn't recruited any of his partners; this game is all him from what has been heard. If Nightwing is actually present in this timeline, I find it very hard to believe that Batman adopted Richard, trained him as Robin, and then he grew up into Nightwing in a timespan of five years. There might have been an excuse for the time between Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, but that's six months time (plus I don't think a Titan-diseased Joker would have been able to hold on for several years in his condition).
This, of course, could just be me going into a nerdy gripe and you're welcome to think as such. However, as someone who enjoys consistent plots in a grand story, this little detail irked me just a little bit. Will that affect my purchasing the game? Hell no! I'm still willing to enjoy kicking some ass with Batman. However, I do wish that this little detail could have been considered when thinking of when to put the time prior in Arkham Origins.
What do you think of this detail affecting the plot? Do you consider the Arkham Unhinged series to be part of the greater Arkhamverse like I thought?


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Sometimes the Ethernet devices you need to communicate with do not have a fixed IP address. This is common challenge in applications in water/wastewater, oil/gas, and other industries with widely distributed control systems. When using cellular modems to communicate to remote devices the cellular carrier often charges a per device, per month fee to obtain a fixed IP address for every device in your system. The fees associated with paying for fixed IP addresses for a large number of devices can add up quickly.
TOP Server eliminates the cost of paying for fixed IP addresses and allows you to leverage the flexibility of dynamic IP addresses.
TOP Server's DNS Lookup functionality, also called Host Name Resolution, enables you to enter a DNS name in the format <hostname> in the Device ID on supported drivers. TOP Server will automatically use that DNS name and your Windows computer's configured DNS servers to convert the <hostname> to a valid IP address.
This feature empowers you to use Dynamic DNS (i.e. dydns.org, dyndns.com, and others) or DNS Servers that your IT team manage to locate your device IP addresses. Since TOP Server simply hands off the DNS lookup request to the DNS servers specified in your network connection settings in Windows, it will work with any DNS server.
Currently, this feature is supported for the following drivers:
How it Works:
Starting with V5.8, DNS Host Resolution has been streamlined in supporting drivers, eliminating the need for configurable settings for this feature. This feature has been enhanced to optimize driver reactions to changes in network address mappings for the best performance while being transparent to user applications.
On Initial Device Connection: Provided that your device that has a changing IP address automatically updates it's DNS entry whenever it's IP address changes, TOP Server will be able to get a valid IP address when it initially connects. If you have a large number of devices, TOP Servercarefully manages how it sends the DNS lookup requests on startup to prevent it from flooding your DNS server with requests which could trigger IT security alarms otherwise. You can use the Cache Lifetime and Request Pool features to tune this management to suit your needs.
Independent of Device Communications: TOP Server automatically updates the IP address it has in memory independently of the polling of devices so a current IP address willl be available when device polling occurs. You can use the Cache Lifetime setting to control how often TOP Server will update its' IP address list in memory.
On Subsequent Device Polls/Communications: TOP Server will first try to communicate with the IP address it has in memory or cache. If the device IP has not changed, then the TOP Server driver will receive a response when it tries to use the IP address it has in memory/cache. If the IP of the device has changed, and the TOP Server cache was not already updated, when TOP Server tries to communicate to the device, it will timeout, and do a new DNS lookup, get the new IP address and reconnect and resume communications.
Note: If your DNS servers have delays in updating their records when your device IP address changes, those delays will affect TOP Server's ability to reconnect quickly on a device IP address change; which can result in bad quality data and "Device Not Responding" errors while TOP Server waits for the new IP to appear in the DNS settings.
Legacy DNS Resolution Settings (V5.7 and prior):
You get to the the TOP Server Settings by Right Clicking on the Administration Icon in the system tray of your Desktop (shown below) and choosing Settings from the pop up menu.
If you don't see the Administration Icon, go to the desk top Start Menu - All Programs - Software Toolbox - TOP Server 5 - TOP Server 5 Administration. The Administration Icon shown above will then appear in the system tray.
Since DNS lookups do take system and network resources, you do not want to be doing DNS lookups too frequently. At the same time you do not want to "miss" a change.
The Cache Lifetime and Request Pool settings in TOP Server address these facts of working with dynamic IP addresses and DNS lookups. These settings are found on the Host Resolution tab in the TOP Server Settings as shown below.
(NOTE: Starting in V5.8, these functions are optimized internally by TOP Server with no configuration necessary)
Cache Lifetime - If you know your IP addresses will not change at a high frequency, set the Cache Lifetime to a higher value than the default but to a time that is shorter than the change interval of your IP address. If you are using devices with dynamic IP addresses, it is common for the provider of your dynamic IP addresses to have assigned a "Default Lease Time" for your IP addresses. Ask them what that is and set TOP Server's Cache Lifetime setting to less than their Default Lease Time. If you do not know how often your IP addresses change, leave this setting at the default to insure maximum responsiveness. Cache lifetime can be set as high as 7200 seconds.
Request Pool - This setting is useful if you have a large number of channels and IP addresses that change frequently. TOP Server can perform up to 8 simultaneous DNS lookups/requests to help maintain performance. TOP Server will queue requests once the Maximum oustanding requests number is reached. Most DNS lookups are very quick, so for most users the default is sufficient. Increase the Maximum outstanding requests setting if you have a large number of devices and their IP addresses that change very frequently, or if your DNS servers are slow to respond.
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