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Democracy by Force, or by Example?News Abroad
It's a proposition that deserves some thought, and we're fortunate that in 1824 the House of Representatives actually gave it some. Those congressional debates ended up scotching the idea that the United States should determine the form of government of other countries. Things have changed a lot since then, but their arguments astutely canvass how best to serve democracy worldwide. Considering the pros and cons of this thorny issue would demonstrate how a democracy can develop a foreign policy.
In the 1820s the Greeks began fighting for independence from Turkey. Confounding predictions of instant failure, they became instead a new symbol of humanity's indomitable longing for freedom. Educated people in Europe and the United States had long cherished ancient Greece for its political and moral values. Here was a chance to act on that admiration.
Americans held public meetings where ardent speakers extolled the noble legacy they'd inherited from the Greeks. They raised money and sent clothes for the valiant champions of liberty. Some Americans even volunteered to fight. But many wanted the United States to do something official. Congressman Daniel Webster, ever attuned to public sentiment, proposed a resolution supporting the Greek revolt in the House of Representatives.
As today, when the war in Iraq dominates the news, foreign policy then was very much on the public mind. President Monroe had just announced his doctrine that European nations should keep out of the Western Hemisphere. Many countries in Latin America had recently thrown off Spanish rule to join the United States as independent nations. Abroad, in post-Napoleonic Europe, a conservative reaction, hostile to popular sovereignty, was gaining ground. Governments there reaffirmed the importance of order through the vigorous assertion of authority. All these elements came into play when the House took up the question of helping the Greeks.
Webster argued that as the freest government in the world, the United States had little choice but to give aid to the Greeks. He spoke ardently about the momentum growing for popular political participation. "What is the soul, the informing spirit of our institutions, of our entire system of government," he asked rhetorically, but public opinion. "Let us direct the force, the vast moral force of this engine, to the aid of others," he urged.
As in Congressional debates today, each speaker had to demonstrate that he hated evil and loved virtue. Congressman Joel Poinsett of South Carolina insisted that the bravery and enterprise of the Greeks equaled that of their ancient forebears before drawing attention back to House's duty to avoid doing anything that might involve the country in war. He even dared to raise questions about whether modern Greeks possessed the elementary principles of freedom necessary to govern themselves.
And so the debate went back and forth from appeals to respond to the cries of distress from a people yearning to be free to deflating remarks about the unimportance of anything that the United States might do about a situation so far away. Americans, one member said, should have nothing to do "with the wrongs committed by other Governments against those whom they govern" except to avoid their example.
Following a supportive speech from Congressman Henry Clay, Alexander Smyth of Virginia posed the key question to his colleagues: "What have you to do with the liberty or any people, except the people you govern, unless the subjection of a neighboring foreign people endangers your safety?" and adding, "You have nothing to do with religion, even here, and why should you meddle with it elsewhere?"
In the end Congress voted against the resolution, evidently agreeing when Silas Wood of New York, referring to the world and its oppressions, asked whether the United States must be "the Hercules that is to free it from the monsters of tyranny and slavery?" Evoking Don Quixote and his tilting at windmills, Wood insisted that American's help for mankind lay "not by embarking in a military crusade to establish the empire of our principles . . . but by the moral influence of its example."
In contrast with his promotion of Iraqi democracy through a "shock and awe" invasion, President Bush has used diplomatic means to chastise even allies like Egypt and Pakistan for suppressing democratic activists. Like his predecessors he has reminded the military junta ruling Myanmar that the United States opposes the house arrest of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Yet these initiatives in support of human rights and democratic rule work at cross purposes. Soft diplomacy rests on public respect which our invasion of Iraq has undermined.
In a reversal of Gresham's Law that soft money drives hard money out of circulation, hard diplomacy deprives soft diplomacy of its moral authority. If democracy is to be more than a shibboleth, we need to debate, as did the Congress in 1824, whether the United States is to lead by example or by force of arms.
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Arnold Shcherban - 1/11/2008
Mr. Garayev,
According to the formal logic one may get to polar opposite conclusions, starting from different premises.
Therefore, before debating on any issue the participants have to establish, first of all, whether they are starting off the same foundations, i.e. economic, social, and political/ideological axioms and terminology.
Otherwise, they will never agree or even narrow the gap between them making the whole debate puposeless, since sooner or later both parties will clash at those very foundations their positions based on.
But better sooner, than later, right?.
Now, I'm going to tell you what my foundations pertaining to the issue raised in the article are, and if you choose to follow you'll respond with
your own ones, if any different.
1) What I understand by "democracy".
Democracy is an economic, social, and politico-ideological regime/system which represents the will of the
(At least, that's how it was
initially understood by the creators
of the term - the ancient Greeks and how it is briefly defined in the contemporary dictionaries.)
2) "Free elections" - elections reflecting the free will/opinion of the voters, i.e. the will/opinion formed without the pressure of EXTRAORDINARY circumnstances (such, e.g. as hunger, desolation, threat of violence/war, foreign occupation/interference etc.). Specifically, if one does recognize the elections as being free
under one country's occupation, one has to refuse to recognize the elections as free under any other country's occupation. Otherwise,
the one is playing DOUBLE STANDARD game. Perhaps, one can say that those elections were CLOSER to free elections than the other ones, but not free, by common definition.
3) Justified war (country or group of countries outside of the UN jurisdiction against other country/countries)- a war that is either the response to a direct agression (as the latter defined in several internationally accepted documents/laws) or real and immediate threat of the aggression.
All other wars (excluding the civil ones) are ILLEGAL, not just <wrong>, and constitute AGGRESSION.
Certainly, there are more of this kind of foundations involved in the issue in question, but let us begin with these ones.
omar ibrahim baker - 1/9/2008
Well, Mr Garayev, if you believe that there was free elections in either Iraq or Afghanistan I suggest you do some serious reading and research!and reconsider !
Nijat Garayev - 1/9/2008
To answer your comment,
That there some realities exist in this world. There some truth that we cannot deny. You cannot simply say that Iraq, or Afghanistan had free elections before US invasion, right? Then how it can be a nemesis to US, as you said, even when it never had built a democracy in itself? When you talk about government systems of ME, you should be aware of the fact that there more than 5 different situations in ME, which has the influence of Religion, Interests of EU, Russia, USA, and other countries.
You should be aware of the fact that Oil incomes of US consist of 0.04% of total federal budget, which shows that the oil was not the fist reason that US wanted to invade Iraq.
You talk about invasion and tyranny of US, while you do not mention many horrible things that Arab countries against Israel, Each Other, and etc. I can give many examples, as 7 days war, Situation in Ethiopia, Situation in Sudan, Palestine, Iran, and Syria and so on.
If you look closer to the main 3 reason that White House showed the world, when she invaded Iraq, you can see none of them are non-important, especially to US Government.
I do not want to justify the things that US have done, or invasion at all, but I want to remind that Muslims, and ME countries are not the children of Angel, and that they have also done many incorrect things that lead to reaction of world countries.
I believe US administration have never imagined of such kind of results of the invasion, since even Devil, himself cannot agree with the death of 1 million people in 3 years (Even if its reasons has nothing to do with US military Intervention directly).
I also believe that Invadin Iraq was a wrong choice, however I do think that Beginning from Syria, ending at Phalastine – are not democratic at all, and there should something done with their governments systems, since it is a threat to democracy and peace around th
omar ibrahim baker - 1/8/2008
To contend that:
"Spreading democracy has become the nation's principal foreign policy goal"
(Democracy by Force, or by Example?By Joyce Appleby )
Is neither true nor correct neither in fact nor in intention!
This contention is another, US gallery pleasing , ploy cum slogan meant to justify further USA interference in the internal affairs of those countries and states that fail to toy the American line , mainly, but not exclusively, that are Arab and/or Moslem!
The US administration knows perfectly well that whenever given a modicum of free choice, the inevitable outcome of any elections in any of these countries is the triumph of declared anti USA forces.
The USA can not possibly nor reasonably seek the triumph of its nemesis ; the expression of free public will as democracy is supposed to be and implement
Pro US or US friendly regimes would be the first victims of democracy in the ME!
On the other hand, it is difficult to read which EXAMPLE Professor Appleby has exactly in mind when he states:
"If democracy is to be more than a shibboleth, we need to debate, as did the Congress in 1824, whether the United States is to lead by example or by force of arms. "
Could it possibly be the example of democracy as practiced in and by the USA???
As practiced IN the USA Democracy is the process through which if and only IF you have at your disposal several millions dollars you can entertain the idea of presenting yourself as a candidate to the House or Senate.
While on the other hand a presidential candidature stipulates not several millions but several tens of millions of dollars!
Alternately as practiced BY the USA Democracy is the process through which the USA allows itself to invade and destroy unprovoked whole countries and in the process maintain and manage US Army officially run detention and/or correctional facilities as for Abu Ghraib while totally ignoring the rule of law and the dictates of the simplest principles of justice as in and for Guantanamo.
Professor Appleby can NOT possibly mean the USA as an example of Democracy to be emulated by others!
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Posted December 1, 2006
What's old is new in Scotland, where malt masters are proving their traditional spirit is still evolving with exciting new expressions that are pushing the envelope in the whisky world
"This is the closest thing we've ever done to a breakfast whisky."
Dr. Bill Lumsden is only half joking as he displays a wine glass full of Champagne-colored Glenmorangie Scotch to the few dozen spirits writers who are eager to sample the master distiller's newest limited release—even at a 9:30 a.m. reception. The whisky was finished in barrels that formerly held Château Margaux wine and it's a gingery, spicy quaff with hints of carmelized fruit, tobacco and hard candy that well complements the traditional Scottish breakfast being eaten.
No one in New York City's Le Bernardin restaurant is complaining this morning, but certain elements of this scenario would set some Scotch whisky traditionalists atwitter. A single-malt whisky made in Bordeaux barrels proffered as a breakfast drink?
After all, tradition may not be prized much these days, but Scotch whisky is one area in which the age-old is held in high regard. A 30-year-old house may be a teardown, but we still revel in the centuries of history behind each dram, we celebrate the ancient settings from which it arises and we gladly pay extra dollars for extra years in a cask. Scotch is one of those quaint, maybe a little staid, art forms whose utter changelessness we take comfort in.
Except that that last statement is a myth.
Scotch may be the world's oldest whisky, it may improve with age and it certainly promotes itself as the model of tradition, but it is also one of the most vibrant categories in the spirits industry when it comes to innovation and even controversy.
Put away your men-in-kilts image for a moment and consider that the last decade has been among the most evolutionary for Scotch—so much so that the preeminent industry association has had to take steps to redefine and reclassify some of its most basic products. Neither a better, nor a more interesting time to drink Scotch has ever existed. The breadth of quality drams is like never before and the growing pains within the industry have exploded into newspaper headlines.
Go to a well-stocked liquor store. Single-malt Scotch whiskies, which were a blip on the spirits radar screen a few decades ago, now crowd the shelves and most brands have a range of expressions from which to choose. Some are designed for specific situations, like The Dalmore with its cigar malt. Some distinguish themselves by trusty age statements, but increasingly bottles trumpet the unfamiliar nomenclature of cask finishes and wood treatment. Take a look at the blended whiskies. You'll likely find bottles older than some prized malts.
It's right to ask how something so old can be so new. The oldest written reference to whisky making in Scotland—an entry in an exchequer's account book—dates to 1494, but current thinking has distillation entering the country a thousand years before that with the arrival of Christianity. You can quibble all you want over a millennium of heritage one way or the other, but Scotch has been around long enough that it would seem to be beyond innovation. To understand why it still evolves, it helps to see that its long history has been a tale of shifting political fortunes, and never have its makers failed to take advantage of serendipity in the marketplace.
Consider, for instance, that the country's most emblematic export—single-malt Scotch—was next to unknown a few decades ago. That is truest in the United States, where virtually the entire market was blended Scotch before Glenfiddich first imported singles here in the early 1960s. Even now, despite its lofty reputation, most of what is distilled as a single-malt whisky makes its way into blends. Nevertheless, single malts have exploded into the marketplace in recent decades as the industry tries to slake the whisky drinking public's thirst for new experiences.
The clamor for new taste sensations is insatiable even as more and more of Scotland's 90-some distilleries have created single-malt bottlings out of whisky formerly sold to blenders. And that is where the industry's hottest innovation—cask-finished whisky—comes in.
The clamor for new taste sensations is insatiable even as more and more of Scotland's 90-some distilleries have created single-malt bottlings out of whisky formerly sold to blenders. And that is where the industry's hottest innovation—cask-finished whisky—comes in.
The concept is pretty simple and was probably done by someone on a limited basis long before Glenmorangie made it famous with its Port wood finish in 1994. Any whisky takes most of its flavor from the cask in which it matures. That's why age—the time it spends soaking into the staves—is such an important concept. Unlike Bourbon makers, who are bound by law to age their spirit in new barrels, Scotch makers can reuse casks—even ones that once held other products. Because of the Bourbon industry's steady supply of once-used, relatively inexpensive barrels, a majority of Scotch is aged in them. However, Sherry, Port and Madeira barrels are also common. As you might suspect, the liquid that first inhabited a barrel implies a particular flavor on the next whisky to find a home there. At Glenmorangie they thought, "Why not take our core expression that has rested in Bourbon barrels for 10 years gaining the signature vanilla notes and add some fruit and spice by aging it a few more years in a Port barrel?"
Judging by sales and the amount of imitation by other distilleries, the experiment was an unqualified success, one which Glenmorangie has followed with other finishes that have included casks from fine French wine houses like the aforementioned Château Margaux as well as Château d'Yquem. Techniques used by some of its competitors are even more arcane. (Auchentoshan has a three-wood finish, using Sherry, Port and Bourbon. The Glenlivet finishes in unused Limousin oak.) Lumsden calls the practice the first genuine innovation in the last 30 years. Nevertheless, some purists believe that it compromises Scotch whisky tradition. I first witnessed that resistance a number of years ago at an introduction by Bowmore of a selection of whiskies that had been finished in Port and Bordeaux wine casks. While most found them fascinating, one guest implored then-master distiller Jim McEwan (now of Bruichladdich), "Please, don't do this."
His point was that a Bourbon barrel was the natural and customary partner for the whisky; it had always been aged that way and there was no reason to change. That would be an arguable—if a little Luddite—point, if it were true. "Bourbon casks didn't become the standard aging barrel in Scotland until after Prohibition ended," points out Fergus Hartley, the global sales director for Bowmore. "Before that, all sorts of casks were used: wines, Sherry, Port, rum barrels." His is a good argument: how would Scotland get barrels from an industry that was shut down? Furthermore, beginning in the seventeenth century, ever stricter taxes made distilling effectively illegal until regulations were softened in 1823. With essentially all whisky being moonshine, it's unlikely that anyone would have been importing American barrels even after Bourbon was invented in the 1780s. If distillers aged their whisky at all, they likely used whatever barrels were available.
Certainly options for Scotch aging have always existed and been availed by whisky makers. In today's climate, even producers who aren't involved in anything as radical as cask finishes are fine-tuning their product through other kinds of wood management. The Macallan and Highland Park, both predominantly Sherry-aged whiskies, sometimes meld a low percentage of Bourbon-aged whiskey into the mix. The Macallan countered the trend to wine casks with its Fine Oak in 2004, which uses Bourbon barrels alongside Sherry casks. Russell Anderson, distillery manager at Highland Park on the island of Orkney at Scotland's northernmost tip, takes the approach of re-creating Bourbon barrels in the image of his own casks. When barrels are sent from America, they are disassembled to save shipping space. Coopers in Scotland put them back together. At Highland Park, the staves are reshaped to create a larger vessel. The practice creates more surface area with which the whisky can interact.
Many other variables contribute to the unique character of single malts: the still shape, how it is operated, the type of barley used, the local water and climate, even air quality. The Glenlivet, for instance, is made high on a hill in fresh air overlooking moorlands. Many Islay Scotches are made at sea level, with salt air imparting its flavor on the whisky. Anderson points to the consistent climate at Highland Park and the fact that the whisky makers do their own floor malting of barley (the stage at which relative amounts of peat smoke are infused in the grain), but he reckons that 60 to 80 percent of the flavor of whisky still comes from the wood.
Even casual Scotch drinkers will note that the packaging of Scotch now contains more and more information about the way the spirit was aged. That is an attempt to explain the idiosyncrasies of the product. Most Scotch makers point to the education of drinkers as one of the most important tasks in the current atmosphere of innovation. David Cox of The Macallan simply has to point to his title, director of brand education, to show the importance the brand puts on teaching customers about the product.
If special finishes ruffled a few traditionalist feathers, they offered a wide spectrum of new choices to the not-so-stodgy majority, who could taste something special without paying the nosebleed prices charged for super-aged Scotches found at auction. "The consumer is demanding to be excited," says McEwan. "He wants to come through the cloud base and really fly. It's the consumer that pays my salary and not the collector."
Things turned a little weird, however, when it wasn't just wine casks that were used for aging. How does a Tabasco sauce finish sound? Some found that they could cut corners by adding wood chips into the barrel to promote faster aging. Others just skipped the aging process altogether and added the wine itself. Some Scotches were finished in casks from other regions in Scotland, such as a Speyside whisky poured into former Islay casks. "Islay cask finishes? Why would you want to do that?" asks McEwan, a maker of Islay whisky. "Why bugger up a good Speyside with an Islay finish?" The deeper issue was that it confused consumers who might read the word "Islay" on the label and assume the whisky had actually been aged on the Western island known for the effect its sea spray has on its heavily peated whiskies.
It was in this atmosphere of confusion that the Scotch Whisky Association (SWA) stepped in and defined Scotch whisky vis-à-vis the kind of casks it can be aged in. The industry organization essentially ruled that extra wood finishes were allowable as long as a pedigree and a precedent existed for aging Scotch in the type of barrel used. In other words, wine casks and rum barrels were all right, but not Tabasco sauce tubs, even though they are actually reused Bourbon barrels.
Normally the SWA trade group protects the Scotch industry from outside elements: a draconian 500 percent tariff in India, the counterfeiting of whisky in China, the Brazilian whisky that chooses to call itself Loch Nest. According to Campbell Evans, the SWA's director of government and consumer affairs, the association employs five attorneys and at any given time is involved in some 50 lawsuits. Among other things, the SWA promotes responsible drinking. It isn't as often that it is called upon to resolve intramural disputes, but they fall within its purview, as Evans points out. "We are a trade body that looks after the interest of the industry by protecting Scotch whisky as a drink."
Despite the fact that innovators such as Glenmorangie's Lumsden allow that finishes were "gimmicky with the addition of what I would call fairy dust," not everyone is pleased with the SWA's guidelines.
John Glaser, who owns Compass Box Whisky, is an independent bottler who has put together a portfolio of some of the most groundbreaking whiskies available. One of his products, Spice Tree, which he no longer makes, drew the ire of the SWA. It was created by the addition of barrel staves made of French Limousin oak. Glaser says that the SWA's view is unnecessarily narrow since he feels that the practice has created a better product. "As an American in Britain, I can look at things with a fresh eye. I'm putting higher quality staves in the cask. But they told me, 'There's one thing you have to understand: quality is unimportant.' These guys are lawyers. They are not whisky makers."
Evans says the SWA is simply taking action to apply the legal definition of Scotch whisky. "If people can find ways of innovating within that, we say 'good luck' to them."
Glaser has done just that. His newest expression, Oak Cross, utilizes refilled Bourbon barrels on which he has placed cask heads made of his prized new French oak.
Naming disputes have long been the province of Scotch whisky. In 1824, The Glenlivet became one of the first distilleries to register under the new licensing rate laws and took its name from the valley where it was produced. It became so well thought of that other whisky names referenced Glenlivet, the place, whether they were made there or not. At one point, so many whisky brands were named for the little glen that it was joked that Glenlivet meant "the long valley." The company finally took the matter to court and secured exclusive rights to the name in 1884. Andrew Nash, The Glenlivet's brand director underscores the absurdity: "There even was a whisky called Aberlour Glenlivet. Aberlour is nowhere near Glenlivet."
About that time Scotch whisky was spreading throughout the world in the guise of a relatively new product: blended Scotch. The invention of the efficient column still had made whisky production more consistent and less expensive. Also, Cognac makers had been forced out of production by a grape scourge called phylloxera. Blends stepped into the market in a dramatic way. Makers of malt whisky saw the newcomer as an interloper and took their beef to the government in an attempt to have blends outlawed. In 1909, a British royal commission ruled in favor of blends, and until fairly recently, single malts packaged by themselves were a nonentity.
But as unknown as single malts might have been, a third type of Scotch whisky, vatted malt, rivaled it for obscurity. The category is something of a cross between single-malt and blended whisky and it has been getting a lot of attention lately mainly due to a controversy that arose when a former single malt—Cardhu—joined its ranks.
But as unknown as single malts might have been, a third type of Scotch whisky, vatted malt, rivaled it for obscurity. The category is something of a cross between single-malt and blended whisky and it has been getting a lot of attention lately mainly due to a controversy that arose when a former single malt—Cardhu—joined its ranks.
A little nomenclature is in order. The term "single-malt Scotch whisky" defines four things about a Scotch whisky. First, it was produced in Scotland. Second, its grain recipe is purely malted barley. Third, its distillation was performed in pot stills. (Pot still distillation is more labor-intensive and expensive and renders whisky that matures at a slower rate.) Fourth—as the word single indicates—it is the product of one distillery.
Blended Scotch whisky, as it was described by the panel of 1909, defines a mixture of not only malt whiskies from different distilleries, but grain whiskies (spirits made from several different grains and distilled in a column still). It is the admixture of the grain whiskies, not the blending of different single malts, that makes a blend a blend. The core of the 1909 decision was that such whiskies could be called Scotch whisky as long as they were identified as blended.
A third category of whisky combines single-malt whiskies from different distilleries, but doesn't include grain whiskies. Until recently they were known as vatted malts or pure malts, and depending on the number of constituent malts could be called double or triple malts. They enjoy a long tradition that dates back to at least the nineteenth century, when the term "vatted malt" was first used. Essentially, malts from various stills are chosen with the intent of creating a whisky that is more complex than the product of each distillery. Some of Scotland's most exquisite expressions have arisen out of such skillful mingling of malts. Vatted malts have only recently made a stand in the United States, with the traditional blenders Famous Grouse and Johnnie Walker introducing them. But in Britain, it has been customary to create limited-edition vatted malts to celebrate events such as royal weddings and the anniversaries of its rulers. Not too shabby, eh?
If vatted malts have an image problem, it stems from a name that rings none too elegant and that few understand. A vat sounds like something you do your laundry in, and even as I type this into my computer, the spell-checker keeps reminding me that vatted is not a verb in its dictionary. So it's easy to understand why whiskies like Johnnie Walker Green began proclaiming themselves pure malts rather than vatted. Pure in that sense meant the spirit was purely a malt product, that is, no grain whisky was added. It is something like designating that a sweater is pure wool—the wool may have come from different sheep, but the term pure tells us that no cotton or polyester was twisted in with it. But pure also confers a mark of quality.
Which is why some cried foul when Cardhu, a former single malt, defected to the pure malt side in 2003. At the time, the spirits giant Diageo, which makes Johnnie Walker, was faced with shortages of Cardhu, which it offers as a single malt and as one of the components in its blends. The Speyside single malt had boomed in sales in only two or three years, particularly in Spain, France and Portugal. The problem was that Cardhu is most widely sold as a 12-year-old malt and no one had foreseen such demand a dozen years ago. The solution, it was decided, was to reintroduce it as a vatted malt, mingling Cardhu with other malts produced in the region. What Diageo did not do was draw much attention to the change. The bottle and label remained largely the same, with the word pure substituted for the word single before the word malt.
Diageo pointed out that it was trying to deal with unprecedented demand and that it had used the term pure because it was more easily understood by the speakers of Romance languages who defined the demand. Still, the company worked with the SWA to change its labeling and started a program to educate the public to the nature of its product. Nevertheless, the damage was done, and Diageo switched the product back to single malt. (Before purists claim victory, they might consider that because of continuing shortages, Cardhu is now no longer available in some markets, including the United States.)
With Cardhu returned to relative normalcy, SWA decided that a naming convention was needed to clarify that a pure malt wasn't a single malt. It came up with regulations that will compel whisky labels to refer to products once known as pure or vatted malts as blended-malt Scotch whisky. Another requirement is that whisky named for a specific distillery must arise exclusively from that distillery. That means that the Diageo product could not be called Cardhu blended-malt Scotch whisky even had the company kept the product.
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Yvette Wilson died Thursday after battling cervical cancer. She was 48.
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Graduate and Continuing Studies offers adult students an opportunity to earn credit for life experiences
The Office of Graduate and Continuing Studies at Muskingum College is now offering adult students wishing to complete their bachelor's degree an opportunity to earn academic credit for learning outside the classroom.
The college's Experiential Learning Workshop takes students through a petitioning process that leads to an evaluation of their learning as it applies to the pursuit of an undergraduate degree. The credits earned can be applied toward their degree in the Muskingum Adult Program (MAP), which offers bachelor's degrees in accounting, public accounting, business, criminal justice, early childhood education and intervention specialist education. MAP classes for this fall begin September 17 and registration remains open for the fall session.
The workshop, which takes place in six sessions over 12 weeks, guides students through the process of completing a portfolio of their learning from life and work experiences, which will then be evaluated by a faculty member who is an expert in the field. The academic credit earned will be applied toward the student's degree requirements.
"The experiential learning workshop offers adult students a new way to receive academic credit for college-level learning that has taken place outside of the classroom," said Kim Goosman, coordinator of the Muskingum Adult Program. "Earning academic credit in this way has the potential to reduce the amount of time required to earn a degree, plus it can reduce the cost."
Goosman went on to say that the money saved from the workshop can be significant. "A student who receives 15 credits from their experiential learning portfolio can save almost $3,000 over the cost of regular tuition. We're confident that our adult students will find that a very attractive way to move forward with their degree," she said.
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So, in most cases, the challenges of parenting tend to be different for men and women. That means a GeekMom is likely going to have a different focus than a GeekDad.
For example, in the first GeekDad book by our wonderful publisher, Ken Denmead, there were a great number of awesome projects that I would likely never attempt simply because the day-to-day stuff with the kids keeps me too busy. When the editors of GeekMom put together The GeekMom Book, we wanted to include not only more involved projects but also day-to-day and spur of the moment activities that don't require a lot of pre-planning.
But while that answer is a good one, it's a also little too easy and simplistic. The more complicated answer is some amalgam of the fact that being geeky is seen differently in women, and that as such we encounter some unique challenges in our society.
How differently? To use an example, there's this weekend's dust-up on Twitter caused by a now-former writer for Destructoid.com criticizing Felicia Day as "nothing more than a glorified booth babe." The upside is that this notion was quickly smacked down by Day's fans, including Wil Wheaton. I suppose another upside is that Destructoid.com issued an apology and have apparently fired the writer involved, Ryan Pereze.
This is part of the reason GeekMom exists.
The "glorified booth babe" insult goes right to the heart of the difficulties that geek girls and women encounter while striving to be taken seriously in traditionally male geeky circles like comics, gaming and science. It reduced Day to nothing more than her looks, nothing more than a pretty girl who's only been able to accomplish what she has because geek guys find her attractive.
This is not the kind of insult one finds thrown at men. That there are few booth "dudes" is part of it. Women tend to be inherently sexualized in public discourse in our society.
Once on the GeekDad writer's list, when we were comparing various insults received from various controversial articles, I shut down discussion (and won, I guess) by revealing that I'd been told to go back to licking someone's twat on Twitter over an article I wrote. No, it appears none of the men had been told anything nearly that degrading or, more to the point, that sexually-tinged.
Did it bother me? No, not in the sense I went to my room crying, or that it even bugged me for more than five minutes. I ignored the insult and moved onto whatever next needed to be done that day. But it did bother me in the sense that it's definitely part of a pattern of sexually-tinged insults (like, oh, being called a glorified booth babe) that are directed at female bloggers. That overall pattern does bother me. Even threats of rape are sadly too common.
And, more than that, the comment directed at Day also highlights another issue: geek girls and women are frequently challenged on their "geek cred" by men. As if their gender somehow makes them more suspect to the male geek community. The underlying thought is "Um, really? SHE can be a geek?"
This despite the underlying evidence such as forty percent of The Avengers audience being comprised of women, or that 40 percent of World of Warcraft gamers are women, or that women have made up 30-40 percent of the San Diego Comic Con audience over the last few years. In an interview this week, the Women Who Write About Comics blog asked me if I thought the women needed spaces of their own on the internet. I said "yes, absolutely."
GeekMom exists in a large part to shout to the general world that yes, there are geeky women, and, yes, they are also moms, and yes, there are many of us. We have a unique geek experience , and that's why we're here.
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Consumers' desire for local produce can mean more money for smaller suppliers, but buyers' increasing requests for proof of food safety and traceability deter some growers who assume programs are complicated and expensive.
That assumption isn't necessarily true, said John Bailey, executive director of Top 10 Produce, Salinas, Calif., adding that rebuilding a reputation or a brand can be even more expensive.
This year's cantaloupe and watermelon recalls by Chamberlain Farms, Owensville, Ind., illustrate Bailey's point.
"We have a member who used to be named Chamberlain Farms," Bailey said.
"He doesn't grow cantaloupe, but just imagine if he did and was still operating under the name Chamberlain Farms."
Bailey said Top 10 Produce can help growers achieve traceability compliance, protecting brand names and business reputations while allowing for faster recalls in the event of an outbreak or positive pathogen test.
Membership in Top 10 provides growers GS1 item-specific databar labeling for $280 annually.
Top 10 also audits members' use of traceability labeling to certify compliance for buyers. Bailey compared the services to those provided to franchisees.
Members may participate in the Growers Reserve traceability services and the Locale ID program, which includes GTIN assignment. Members also receive label design services to ensure compliance with the Produce Traceability Initiative.
In addition to providing certified traceability to small growers, Top 10 Produce can help them develop their customer base by providing forward tracing through the supply chain.
"Recently one of our members who is a California peach grower found out their peaches were being sold on the East Coast," Bailey said.
"The distributor who bought the peaches knew where they went, but the grower didn't. Growers can make better decisions if they know where their produce is going."
USDA grant for QR program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture awarded Top 10 Produce a $100,000 Small Business Innovation Research grant in August.
Bailey said the grant will help pay for research into the use of quick-response codes to provide mobile commerce services to independent growers.
"The objective of our research is to use our Grower's Reserve mobile system to provide our technology partners with grower-direct, real-time, location-specific pricing for local produce and meat sold by our independent member-growers," Bailey said.
The grant allowed Top 10 to make the Locale QR program free to any independent farm in the U.S.
For details, visit www.top10produce.com.


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We often talk with our customers about their "grand challenges", trying to understand exactly what it is that keeps them up at night thinking: "if I could just _________, that would be a real game changer for my business!" Regardless of which industry they come from, their answers are often quite similar: The majority of these discussions relate to evaluating the performance of an entire system.
An uncomfortable truth about modern engineering is that there really are no easy problems left to solve. In order to meet the demands of industry, it's no longer good enough to do "a bit of CFD" or "some stress analysis". Complex industrial problems require solutions that span a multitude of physical phenomena, which often can only be solved using simulation techniques that cross several engineering disciplines.
What our customers are really asking for is the ability to "see the big picture". Simulating whole systems rather than just individual components, taking account of all of the factors that are likely to influence to performance of their product in its operational life. In short, to simulate the performance of their design in the context that it will actually be used.
In the past CFD was often described in terms of analogous experimental techniques such as "numerical wind tunnels" and "virtual towing tanks". Although this is a great way of explaining what you do for a living to a stranger at a party, these analogies no longer capture the entirety of the way that engineering simulation is used in industry today.
Wind tunnels and towing tanks explicitly measure the performance of a design in a carefully controlled environment, deliberately excluding lots of real world influences. Wind tunnel experiments are great for telling you how your racing car will perform in a straight line, or even with a bit of yaw, but what happens when it tries to overtake another car? How do you account for the way in which hot exhaust air interferes with downforce producing capability of the rear wing?
For example, a jet engine manufacturer might talk about being able to evaluate the performance of an engine, or the performance of certain components during engine operation. Of course, this could be done with flight testing, but that would require manufacturing a prototype engine in addition to everything else that goes along with testing. The cost and time scales of flight testing do not permit it to affect engine design; rather, it is usually the last phase of engine development that merely validates the safety and performance of the near-final engine design. But now imagine those engineers have access to a full set of flight test-like data for every design candidate, and this data could be had for a small fraction of the time and cost of a flight test program. This would transform the way business is done in that industry, and have a significant impact on the bottom line.
My point here is that our simulation tools, and the infrastructure that surrounds them, are now mature enough that we can begin to see the bigger picture, and include more of the physical factors that will influence the real-world performance of a design.
This ambition is not a new one. At the very beginning, a third of a century ago, CD-adapco's interest in Computational Fluid Dynamics was driven by the need to provide better thermal boundary conditions for the structural simulations of engines that we were working on at the time. Since then we have developed our tools with a view to co-simulation, recognizing that specialist simulation tools are often necessary to solve the most difficult engineering problems.
Of course, I'm not denying that our modeling ambitions are constrained by a range of practical considerations. Although the principle consideration is obviously one of accuracy, modeling choices are often dictated as much by economic constraints as those of veracity of the prediction alone. Most modern engineers are acutely aware that, in order to influence the design process, simulation results need to be delivered on-time, every-time. With access to limited simulation and computing resources, simulation engineers are often forced to ask "How much of the problem can I really afford to simulate?".
There are other constraints. Historically engineers have tended to align themselves strictly along disciplinary lines: the fluids guys do CFD, the stress guys do FEA, the chemical guys do all sorts of other stuff that no-one else understands. Getting individual engineers to talk to each other was often as much of a challenge as interfacing the individual software tools.
It should also go without saying that including complexity for the sake of it is not "good engineering" either. Part of the art of engineering is in deciding exactly how much complexity can be excluded through modeling assumption, without reducing the overall quality of the prediction. In fact, at it's purest, engineering might be described as the "art of simplification through modeling approximation", rendering apparently intractable physics problems into neatly packaged engineering solutions. By making the correct modeling assumptions you can accurately predict how an abstract design will perform under a range of real world operating conditions. Make the wrong assumptions and your simulation results will either be a poor representation of the real life performance of your design, or your model will be so complicated that you won't get any results at all.
In the coming weeks we will, with aid of real world examples, explore how CD-adapco can help you to "see the big picture" by simulating entire systems rather than the individual components. We'll be talking about co-simulation and the many ways in which you can couple our software with other simulation tools and addressing the question of "modeling fidelity" by demonstrating how certain parts of the problem can be modeled at lower resolutions (in either space or time), without influencing the accuracy of the overall prediction. We'll also be discussing the economics of simulating large and complex systems and discussing how our licensing models allow you to exploit all of your available computing resources in the most cost effective manner.


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DUDLEY Council has announced a programme of works to help reduce the number of potholes across the borough following an injection of Government cash.
More than £168m has been set aside across the country for pothole repairs and the council has now received more than £567,000 of the fund following its successful bid.
Dudley's share - which is the largest allocation in the West Midlands - will be used to repair existing potholes around the borough and for preventative maintenance to stop potholes forming.
The preventative work will take place on a number of residential roads and will extend the council's existing micro-surfacing programme.
While new machinery will be used to repair existing potholes in a more efficient and cost effective fashion.
Councillor Khurshid Ahmed, Dudley Council's cabinet member for transportation, said: "Dudley has embarked upon a major programme of pothole repairs using a new approach called 'planer potholes' where damaged surfaces are removed with a small planer attachment that only removes the minimum material required for repair.
"This approach reduces material costs as we are not having to replace a deeper area as is the case with a conventional repair using hand tools."
Dudley South MP Chris Kelly welcomed the cash to tackle the pothole problem.
He said: "£567,127 of new funding will go a long way to dealing with the menace of potholes and ridding them from our roads."


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Impressive first outing earns Beeler another shot
After six solid frames in MLB debut, righty to face Reds on Wednesday
CINCINNATI -- In his Major League debut on June 28, Dallas Beeler held the Nationals to one unearned run on four hits over six innings, impressing Cubs manager Rick Renteria.
Beeler will get another start Wednesday against the Reds, filling one of the vacancies created by Saturday's trade of Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel to the Athletics. Kyle Hendricks, a highly touted right-hander whom the Cubs acquired from the Rangers in July 2012, will make his Major League debut Thursday.
Beeler struck out six in his outing against the Nats.
"His ball has a lot of sink and depth," Renteria said Tuesday of the right-hander. "He works it to both sides. I thought he kept the ball down. I thought he was extremely composed in his outing with us, as was evidenced by the results. He kept us in the ballgame. ... He just showed a really good mound presence and good stuff."
Renteria hasn't seen Hendricks pitch since Spring Training, when the right-hander gave up three runs on five hits over eight innings in three outings. He struck out eight and did not walk a batter.
"In the spring, what I remember is he's a command guy and he's got to execute pitches," Renteria said of Hendricks, who was 10-5 with a 3.59 ERA in 17 starts at Triple-A Iowa. "He's got a breaking ball, fastball with some depth, a four-seam fastball. He's kind of a taller gentleman who is known for commanding the zone, which I hope he will do here."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. She writes a blog, Muskat Ramblings, and you can follow her on Twitter @CarrieMuskat. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Soccer, Oryx, Warriors? It might seem like an unusual combination but this is how Zoos Victoria is saving wildlife with our partner in Northern Kenya, Melako Community Conservancy.
Wildlife in Melako has come under increasing threat from hunting and habitat loss and Kicking Goals for Wildlife aims to improve community attitudes towards wildlife conservation by introducing a conservation-based soccer league.
In Rendille culture, every man within the Melako Community Conservancy between the ages of 15-25 must go through an initiation process to become a warrior; an important cultural role within the community and significant coming of age tradition before creating a family of their own.
Over time the warrior role within the conservancy has changed, leaving them with idle time and powerful weapons, resulting in the hunting and harming of local and often endangered wildlife.
Kicking Goals for Wildlife hopes to provide an alternative behaviour that is fun, engaging, provides opportunities to prove leadership skills as well as promotes peace building and an increased awareness for the importance of protecting local wildlife.
Zoos Victoria is also playing a key role in the recovery of the endangered oryx and the soccer program is just one of many ways in which we are doing this.
Soccer is a little different in Melako. Not only do the warriors play on river beds with branches or elephant dung for goal posts but many warriors don't actually know the rules of the game!
1,000 powerful warriors will be learning the rules through warrior theatre before hitting the field as part of five teams made up of the five ambassador species, helping to increase the value for those species: Giraffe, Zebra, Oryx, Dik-Dik and Gerenuk.
We're very proud of their warriors for joining the program with such enthusiasm and for being such great custodians of their wildlife and we would like to thank them for all their efforts.
Ache Oleng! (Rendille for thank you)
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An Andre McCollin hat-trick fired Kingstonian to the top of the Ryman Premier League table with a 3-1 win at struggling Carshalton Athletic.
The former Yeovil Town striker opened the scoring in the 22nd minute, but nine minutes later the Robins were level through a Tommy Bradford penalty.
McCollin struck again from the spot three minutes later to put his side 2-1 up at the break, before he converted a second penalty six minutes from time to make the points safe.
The result put Ks a point clear at the top ahead of Maidstone United, who were held to a 1-1 draw by Met Police - visitors to Kingsmeadow tomorrrow night.


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Trip Duration 14 Days
West Coast Island Hopping in Thailand
On this tropical adventure we cruise between Thailand's idyllic islands in the southern Andaman Sea, spending time on Koh Yao Noi, Koh Lanta and Koh Hai as well as mainland Krabi. We have time to swim and snorkel in warm tropical waters against a backdrop of craggy limestone outcrops that are dotted through Phang Nga Bay. We can visit the secret Emerald Cave, and learn to cook a delicious Thai meal or simply relax on beautiful white sand beaches under the shade of a swaying coconut palm.
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2In Bangkok, visit Grand Palace and Wat Po; overnight train to Surat Thani
3Drive to Phang Nga Bay; island hopping cruise to Koh Yao Noi
4Free day on Kho Yao Noi
5Public ferry to Ao Thalene for kayaking; drive to Nopparat beach in Krabi
6Free day in Krabi; optional cruise to Koh Phi Phi
7Public ferry to Koh Lanta; free afternoon
8Free day on Koh Lanta
9Public ferry to Koh Hai; free afternoon
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11Free day on Koh Hai
12Free morning; afternoon public ferry to Trang, and overnight train to Bangkok
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sometimes, especially the day after a bad run, i sorta hate running. and i don't want to do it. so occasionally, i won't. and then i feel really guilty about it. ad worried when i have a race on the horizon.
sometimes, especially the day after a bad run, i sorta hate running. and i don't want to do it. so occasionally, i won't. and then i feel really guilty about it. ad worried when i have a race on the horizon.
sometimes, especially the day after a bad run, i sorta hate running. and i don't want to do it. so occasionally, i won't. and then i feel really guilty about it. ad worried when i have a race on the horizon.
i hear ya - those self-imposed guilt trips hurt worse than a bad run dont they? Just look at the day off as part of the training rather than skipping it - as they say, its the downtime when the muscles rebuild and all that. . . .
Gpops - there was some hitting and kicking involved, all of which wore me out. Do you think the extra day of rest is that much different than running easy miles on tha day? If so I guess the 5 day approach would be the way to go but I suspect the 6th day has more positives than it does negatives. I would drop the double before I dropped a day
rlk - right there with ya sister
Jon - nice try on the positive spin....
8 easy this morning, legs and arms sore from yesterday....
Doc - enjoy the B&B time, what part of FL? Close to Stig?
LOL thanks! call me Mr. Sunshine
Nick - nice slugging it out with that 14m run with a good MP pace
fonz - I'm with you on the plyometric coaxing exercises. Have only worked up to 7 pounds myself at this point though.
Jime - thanks for the speed thoughts. I think you're right on. All I need now is the discipline to lock that in from the gitgo. Good work on the rest day
Rlk - sounds like some tough workouts, nice going. As for soreness, Dad was right about there being plenty of helping hands about. Luckily I don't hate running too often. Usually a bad run is made up with a decent one after.
ghettoP - I was in that tired place a week ago, but seem to have emerged again
dls MuchoD - 9/8:10/136. Staple diet for me, except usually a bit slower. And less bloody. Enjoy Florida.
Jon - what kinda trails are you on? Were those fast miles in the middle planned?
Easy runs yesterday and today, with prescribed strides afterwards yesterday. With a long run tomorrow I should be able to hit 50 miles this week. The running feels basically fine now, but I won't really know until I do this quality run tomorrow (Sunday).
Gpops - I know this is beating a dead horse but are you running slow enough on your easy days? For me it would be better to run 6 than 5 with a double, but you know what works for you.
Runbo - hope the run goes well for you today
18.5 at 8:04 this morning. Solid run with some faster miles at the end. Loading up to hit the water so you guys and gals have a great Sat!
hola: anyone else catch a little taste of fall weather outside this morning? cool clear blue sky - nice.
Hey RunBo - I have just your typical mid Atlantic park trails around here. usually a dirt path following a creek through the woods, w/ some hills and occasional roots + rocks. not a "real" trail run, but its nice to have access to some natural landscape without having to drive anywhere.
today: Saturday LSD = 18.7 at 815
Nick I am in upper FL, Tallahassee then Pensacola, way north of Stig, son loved FSU, as did wife. They have circus on campus
7 yesterday then 8 today, suffering in new found humidity
back home tomorrow
17 today, the first 8 with some new running pals (i am proud of my introverted self for going to a big running club weekend LR without knowing anybody beforehand!). the rest was rushed because i had to be somewhere after... as a result, the last 2 miles were sub-7 and the last 4 averaged mid-low 7s. i'll take it.
gonna do some easy miles tomorrow to round off the week in the mid 50s. should be running more than that buuut at least i didn't hate running today?!
rlk - glad you didn't hate your running
muchosDeneros: Stig may disagree, but I can't see how anyone can really get used to humidity
ghetto - how was your 10 miles? pain free? And are you avoiding nick's pace question?
nick - WTG on the 18
I finally got a good long(ish) run in with 18 miles, including about 13.5 miles of MP. Less than the 15 Dad recommended, because I warmed up for too long. It felt hard at the beginning, and to be honest I feared the worst. But it got better. I actually found 7:32 a bit slow at the end. I mean, I was physically sort of tired, but the pace seemed on the slow side. Basically, I felt great. No guu, just a bunch of dried dates.
Gives me 55 miles for the week. With my low-mileage history (rarely above around 45 mpw with any consistency until recently), that's probably the right mix of safety and challenging.
GP - congrats on the anniversary - i hear ya on the whole miles/effort/goal thing
RunB - nice fast paced LR; good call on the dates
RLK - really fast finish on that 17
dls - sounds like you are on a college tour; enjoy
nick - nice pace on the 18 miler - you are flyin on those long runs
recovery run today and 57 for the week
Jon - nice 18+, last couple of LRs have been a little fast but for reason. The first one had MP miles in it and this weeks was supposed to be a "moderate" pace and I was actually 10sec slow according to Hanson
Gpops - it's almost like you are in taper mode with all these questions and doubts bummer on the heat wave
Doc - glad to hear DW and DS are agreeing on the school
rlk - that's a speedy finish to a LR! Nice
Runbo - nice LR with the MP portion
Hey all
Took another Sunday off as this whole "early long run, go to the lake and not get home until dark" is kicking my butt.
My week
Su - off
Mo - 11
Tue - 7
Wed - 14.4
Th - 7.1
Fr - 8
Sat - 18.5
Total 66
Hey Y'all, hope you're having a great weekend!
Happy Anniversary GhettoPops! Nice weekly total. I'll be interested to see how that 5 vs 6 days a week training goes for ya. How's that heat?
NickShawn and Runbohem, nice job on the 18-milers!
Plugged in an easy 10 miler at 8:15, but the shin splint made itself known around Mile 6.5 :-( Grrr.
Hey everyone. Tough weekend battling GI distress. (Doc ~ Self-diagnosis of giardiasis... if I'm right, does it usually run its course or do I need to get meds?)
Some good runs out there.
My week:
Tu) 9 w/ 2m + 2x mile @ 10K (6:17ish)... was supposed to do 2 more miles
Th) 5.5
Sa) USRD
Su) 9... very slow; bailed on scheduled workout
Total: 44... lowest in quite a while. It was probably good for me.
Jim - VFF have worked very well for me. They certainly look ridiculous (and smell worse!), but it's hard to argue with 1300+ miles per pair and no blisters, lost toenails, or foot pain. Until my newest pair, that is. That one seems to be systematically gnawing away at my left heel.
rlk - I run with friends a couple times a week but do the rest of my training alone. I'm thinking of joining a group at some point though. Which one did you run with on Saturday? As you probably have found out, many of the local clubs do track workouts at Kezar on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday evenings - might be a good way to go "shopping".
Jon - Speedy long run. Do you do those on trails too? I don't know how much of a difference it makes, but I'm doing more and more of my running on dirt. Probably 60-70%.
Gpops - Sounds like some serious heat. How much do you think the weather is at fault for how you've been feeling this cycle?
Runbo - Nice MP run - must have been a confidence boost.
Nick - Doing much of anything after a long run wears me out - no wonder you need a break!
Puto - Would slowing down help at all with the shin splint?
Dad - Sorry about the GI issues, but how did you manage to pick up giardia?
Week 3 of 18:
M - 9 w/ hill sprints
T - 11 w/ 7x1000m @ 5K pace (3 min recoveries)
T - 10 w/ strides + 3 w/ strength circuit
S - 9 w/ hill sprints
S - 18 w/ 5K XC race
Total - 83
Tuesday's workout went fairly well, but my legs were pretty dead for next three days. I've been doing the 1K repeats somewhere between my target "I pace" per Daniels (3:55/km) and my supposed 5K pace (4:00/km). I've never raced a flat 5K (and today was my first 5K period), but I can't imagine sustaining that pace for the distance. I certainly couldn't today; I was struggling to hit 10K pace. But, given that it was XC and at the end of my highest mileage week since January, I will be happy with my 20:36 and 2nd place.
5k at the end of that week would be tough for anyone. I think you'd be surprised what you could do on fresh legs. And with a few more under your belt. I was running upwards of 15 5ks per season back in school and it was still a while before I 'remembered' how to do one when I started getting back in shape.
I was just in the land of GP and OMR for a few days. I called last week a cutback because I knew I wasn't going to get much running in while traveling. I went to a psychobilly show at First Ave and ate random things at the State Fair. Overall a very fun trip. But I think I managed to catch something minor from the concentrated germ box called an airplane. This is why I usually drive...
Dad - Sorry about the GI issues, but how did you manage to pick up giardia?
Drank water from a stream. It was hot; I was hurting...
Great week, again.
Dad, sorry about your GI issues. I got that once drinking from a stream also- killed me!
Kinase, I don't know if slowing down would help the shin splints. I'll give it a try, but now I'm thinking I need to start the recovery all over again, beginning with a two-week rest (maybe stationary bike would be okay?).
Kinase / rlk, Like you guys, I generally run alone, but I do run a couple afternoons a week with a group at work. Our paces are all over the map, the slowest is an 11:15 average runner. We have pre-designated spots (intersections) where we stop and wait for the slower runners. That way, we get in some sprints between the points at a fast pace, and then a brief rest while the slower runners catch up. Ends up working out pretty well.
dlsmd, you recommended a slow re-build of mileage following the splints, but do I start off with the mileage I was at prior to injury, or start allllll over with less than 10 miles per week?
PJ, sounds like a great trip! Welcome back though :-)
Puto - sorry to hear about the continued shin splint issues
Dad - not sure what that g word is but it doesn't sound pleasent. Hope you recover quickly!
Kin - smoking fast 5k, especially as part of a LR day and that kind of week.
PJ - hope you shake the plane flu
Well it was bound to happen so I wasn't too suprised when this morning's workout didn't pan out. Woke up not feeling just great but figured I'd give the 8x800 @ 5k a go. Dropped the hammer after two mile warm up and looked down to see that what felt like 5k effort was MP.... Bailed on the workout at mile three and ended up just running 7 easy at 9:15. Will put the miles in tomorrow but not sure if I'll give the workout a go or just run GA and leave Wed's run as planned.
It should. Consider... when you are running faster you require greater plantar flexion... you're putting stress right where you feel it w/ shin splints.
Saturday was plenty hot. Someone randomly offered me Sweet Martha's so I had one of those. But we opted for candied bacon cannoli instead. I flew back ill, so I was paying it forward with the germs. It happens.
Philly half is less than 3 weeks away. I think I can still run, but might not be doing anything heavy this week.
RunWashington's Runner Rankings are back. I'm currently 6th in 40-49 AG; 2nd among 49 y/o olds!
Congrats Dad on the list reinstatement. I'll bet that's a competitive field too.
PJ - I just learned of the existence of something called candied bacon cannoli. I'm not sure how I feel about that.
Nick - Sorry to hear about the crap workout. Those happen from time to time, but you know that.
rlk - well done with the group run. I hope the runners were friendly.
kinase - Can't you just chuck those stinky VFFs in the cool wash with the other running stuff?
Speaking of tough sledding, the first MP run of Hansons gave me a good kicking. Maybe I should have done it somewhere flatter and less windy, and maybe no double on the preceding Tuesday. We live and learn. The rest of the week was fun though. I ended up doing 61 miles instead of the plan's 46. (Ok, so maybe I should not be doing big mileage jumps either)
Dad, yes Giardiasis almost always is self-limited, so you should be able to get through it
Thanks Doc. Feel free to send your usual bill.
Jim - keep an eye out, the cannoli stand was run by a Minnesota native who returned to work the fair from where she lives now--Oakland, CA.
D - I don't think i'm even top 100 on that list.
URD for me, going to try and get some sleep and get after it tomorrow.
@kinase, i did SFRRC. huge club which means somebody else is guaranteed to be doing the same distance (they have 3-20+ mi options on saturdays) and pace (7min+ in 30sec increments) as you. i guess it'll be good enough until i magically meet a running buddy or two with similar workouts, race plans, and training paces as me... :/
had my first day of work today! along with this came a return to the amazing gym they have there (i was an intern there last summer so i'm already familiar). i have big plans to lose some chub and gain some muscle. for some reason the accountability of seeing coworkers at my gym works quite well for me... really love being back into the routine of going there!
giardiasis...i got that once on a trip to mexico. let's just say that sausages weren't the only things exploding.
hey to everyone...i'm caught up on the reading...some good running going on here. i, on the other hand, am getting fatter and fatter. and it's only been a week? oh dear...i'm going to need some bigger running clothes next week!
Kin - another big week. No, i don't have enough trail around home for long runs - that would be about a 20 min drive away.
D - too bad about the GI issues. good work on the ranking though
GP - good call on the tread mill for today. the air quality was in the crunchy range.
Puto - bummer about the shin. your bike idea sounds like it would work. water running might help on keeping in shape too.
nothin much to post for me, just some maintenance miles.
my dog got loose and chased 3 deer off the soccer field and into the woods,
but he came back - w/ a big grin on his face.
Greetings all, and hearty welcome to Dad's bowels joining the conversation with OMR's memories
8 this am with 4 x 1k, averaged 6:34 pace for the 1k segments
OMR, based on all this giardiasis talk, at least if you get it you might not have to get bigger running clothes!
did an actual workout today. -slow clap-
9mi total incl 4mi @ 6:36, 6:33, 6:32, 6:35 (.5mi recovery after each @ ~8:40)
jon- 57 is a strong week. What kind of dog? How much do you run with him?
nick - i'd say you're entitled to a sunday off. Especially in view of that tough workout afterwards.
putoluto - If you ran into trouble at 6.5, should you avoid running that far for a bit?
Dad - agreed, 44 was probably good for you
kinase - about 20 miles more than my PR. Amazing 5k time in light of that
ghetto - you're not getting many breaks at the moment
jime - glad the rest of your week went better than the tough MP run
rlk - chub, huh? Yeah, right...
omar - You, on the other hand...
dsl - rockin' kms
Not much to report for me. Two easy runs so far this week of 8 and 9 miles. Feeling fine, but I think I'll do some Daddish quality tomorrow. I'm already starting to obsess (yay!) about pacing, now that I'm two weeks out. I really think I'm just going to go for a highly disciplined 3:19 pace, and convince myself that I'll be happy to feel strong at the end.
Mind you, that's just what I tried to do last time, but by the turnaround, I knew it wasn't going to happen. I really believe I'm better prepared this time, so the temptation is to up the ante. Being rational, though, I suspect that by mile 20, I'll be very happy I didn't aim higher. But what if I'm feeling great? Is mile 20 too early to go for it?
Is mile 20 too early to go for it?
Yes. You will try to pick it up, what... 10 seconds per mile? If you succeed, that's a whole minute. But you could easily be a world of do-do by 23 and have three really bad miles. I'd say 24, maybe 23 if it's cool and flat.
Worst thing that happens is you finish strong, take your PR and have a better sense of potential for next time.


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I would like to know about the Threefold Knowledge (Vijja 3)
Tell me please, If someone can know or attain in each of the threefold knowledge such as
One can know super normal knowledge which enables one to remember the various past courses of one's own existences. Which level of the one can be attain? for example, one who has attained the third stage of holiness etc.


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Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"You only live once! So enjoy the fullest."
Paul van Alphen joined Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam in September 1989 as a lecturer in offset printing for the print and media department and has gone on to handle various responsibilities for the school. He developed and implemented new curriculums for several departments. From 1999 to 2003, he taught printing technology for the Information and Communication Technologies department at the Rotterdam Academy. From 2004 to 2009, he established and managed an internship company for Grafisch Lyceum Rotterdam. The company placed interns from many departments including Media Technology, Graphic Design, Multimedia Design, Animation and Games, Art and Design, Visualization, and Pre-Media and Media Management. Van Alphen is currently project manager for multidisciplinary teams. He provides guidance to educators and students on a range of projects throughout several departments.
In his spare time, Van Alphen serves as chairman of the Foundation O3 +, which seeks to implement various forms of "entrepreneurial learning" and sustainable vocational guidance programs for secondary education students. The foundation also facilitates face-to-face meetings between students and business professionals to encourage information and social exchange.


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Deputy Daniel Rivera, 32, has succumbed to injuries he suffered September 11 during a single-vehicle crash while on his way to work. He was pronounced dead at 10:20 p.m. Saturday, September 21 at Broward Health North hospital.
Deputy Rivera started with the Broward Sheriff's Office in 2003. Most of his 10 years with the agency was spent as a Department of Detention deputy. He transferred to the Department of Law Enforcement in May 2012. He was assigned to the Pompano Beach district office as a road patrol deputy. More details about Rivera's life and his career at the Broward Sheriff's Office will be released in the coming days.
Funeral arrangements are pending. His family does not wish to speak to media at this time, but they are so grateful for the outpouring of support during this difficult time. We ask that you continue to pray for Rivera's family and his BSO family. Please give us this time to mourn the loss of one of our own.
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AS CALTRANS struggles to get the Bay Bridge's seismic fix finalized, officials report no such problems on the Golden Gate Bridge, though completion of its seismic work is still at least six years off.
In the past two months the $6.4 billion Bay Bridge seismic project — which includes a new span — has been thrown into controversy after it was divulged that steel anchor rods became brittle and snapped. Now it is unclear if the new span will open by Labor Day as planned.
Bolts made from the same material were used on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge retrofit completed in 2006, but have been deemed safe.
On the Golden Gate Bridge — used by more than 100,000 people each day — a $660 million seismic retrofit project designed to allow the bridge to withstand an 8.3-magnitude earthquake has not run into any such problems as it plods along.
"Everyone has a defined role on the project," said Ewa Bauer, chief engineer of the bridge. "We also have procedures for every material that we build into our project. It's a full chain of paperwork and documentation."
Not only are materials inspected by the manufacturer, but by bridge staff as well.
"There is a lot of redundancy," said Mary Currie, bridge district spokeswoman.
This fall, work will be finished on the next to last segment of seismic work. "Phase 3A" has seen the strengthening of the north anchorage house — the box-like structure the length of a football field, which holds all the cables coming off the span that tie down the structure.
"The heavy work inside the anchorage house has been completed," Bauer said. "We have some small things to finish; it will all be done by the fall."
Work on the first phase of the seismic project, strengthening the north approach, was finished in spring 2002. Work on the second phase, along the south approach, was finished in 2007.
Work for the final "Phase 3B" — addressing the center suspension portion of the span — will cost $220 million and bridge officials are seeking funding for that work in Washington, D.C.
The work will include strengthening the bases of the towers, truss work, expansion joint modification and designs to better dissipate the energy of an earthquake.
"The bridge is much stronger than it was 10 years ago, but we still have the work to do on the suspension portion so it will remain standing after a big earthquake."
While the suspension portion is sturdy, it could sustain damage if a 7.0-magnitude or larger quake hits in close proximity to the span, officials said.
"It's a race against time," said Currie, adding that the Golden Gate has the advantage of its towers being built into bedrock.
Bauer noted the retrofit phases have been staged by importance. The approaches were the most vulnerable to shaking, the suspension portion the least.
"The suspension portion of the bridge is designed to move," she said. The center span of the bridge is designed to swing as much as 27 feet in each direction.
Why will it take more than two decades to finish the work?
"The money has come in small chunks," Bauer said, noting the project is still not fully funded. "Also, after 9/11, there had to be some redesigns."
The terror attack, which occurred in the early stages of the seismic retrofit project, forced bridge officials to rethink their plan beyond earthquakes.
Officials examined ways to "harden" the towers "to protect against blast" in 2005. Additional computer modeling to determine how strengthened towers would react during an earthquake were among the issues studied.
When the strengthening work is finished, Bauer believes the 76-year-old span will be ready to serve the public for generations to come.
"It can stand forever, we just need to fix and maintain it, like you do with your home," she said. "There are many great buildings around the world that are hundreds and hundreds of years old."
Meanwhile, Marin's other major bridge — the Richmond-San Rafael — has had its seismic work completed. The bridge — which carries 60,000 cars a day — underwent a five-year, $778 million seismic upgrade that was overseen by Caltrans. It included replacement of the trestle section of the span on the Marin side, where holes opened in the roadway.
Caltrans did find 772 high-strength bolts on the bridge that are made of the same type and grade of steel as those that broke on the new Bay Bridge span. Installed in 2005, however, these bolts are "snug tight" and not under a tension level that would make them brittle, engineers have said.
Contact Mark Prado via email at email@example.com; Bay Area News Group contributed to this report.


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Grammy-nominated recording artist Will Hoge will perform at the Summit County Fair in Tallmadge on July 25.
For show details and ticket information, please visit https://www.summitmainstage.com/
Hoge catapulted into the national spotlight with the release of his top-selling single "Strong." Providing the musical backdrop for General Motor's 2014 Chevy Silverado ad campaign, the song has sold nearly 200,000 copies to date. "Strong" is the featured bonus track on Hoge's newest album "Never Give In," which peaked at No. 4 on the Americana Airplay Charts.
Breaking into mainstream country, the critically-acclaimed singer-songwriter has penned Lady Antebellum's "Better Off Now (That You're Gone)," and co-wrote the Platinum-selling No. 1 smash "Even If It Breaks Your Heart," recorded by the Eli Young Band. "Even If It Breaks Your Heart," earned Hoge nominations for the 2013 GRAMMY Country Song of the Year, 2013 ACM Song of the Year and 2012 CMA Song of the Year.
For more information, visit www.WillHoge.com.
The show will start at 7 p.m.
The Summit County Fair Grounds are at 229 E. Howe Road.


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Note: First Looks give previews of new drinks and menus we're curious about. Since they are arranged photo shoots, we do not make critical evaluations or recommendations.
Christopher Longoria can appreciate a good classic cocktail, but that doesn't mean he wants to drink one with his dinner. "I wanted to have an alternative to a spirituous cocktail program," Longoria told us of his ten-drink menu at the newly opened 1760 in San Francisco. "The flavor profile here is fresh, approachable, interesting, and balanced—I just want cocktails that pair well with food."
Longoria, who previously manned the bar at Aziza, is no stranger to incorporating flavors and techniques often used by chefs into his cocktails. At 1760, he's relishing the opportunity to expand this repertoire—from adding teaspoons of straight spices to drinks to making sous-vide shrubs to creating flavored ice cubes.
"Where chefs use fire, I use ice. I still pick my fresh herbs and measure my spices," he said of the drinks, which include dashes of cumin, cardamom, and garam masala. "I want to really master techniques that extract the most flavor."
"This can become a destination for really good cocktails in this neighborhood," Longoria said of the Polk Street restaurant, the more casual sibling to Acquerello around the corner on Sacramento. We got a peek at a few of the cocktails they're serving—check them out in the slideshow above »
About the author: Lauren Sloss is a bicoastal food-lover who is based in San Francisco. Some of her favorite things include The Black Keys, goat gouda, and guacamole. You can follow her on Twitter @laurensloss.


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Amy Winehouse Foundation Is On Hold!
The Amy Winehouse Foundation is on hold until the late singer's father has his day in court to work out a domain name dispute.
At Amy's funeral last month, Mitch Winehouse announced that he would pursue starting a charity aimed at helping all kids, not just those battling addiction(s).
Since sharing his plans before a world audience ... someone took the opportunity to register the Internet domain name he had intended on using!


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TORONTO, ONTARIO — The Canadian arm of the United Food and Commercial Workers union has taken aim at Target for its alleged unfair treatment of former Zellers workers.
The union claims that Target, which is converting 189 Zellers stores, is not giving former employees a fair shake in the hiring process and that many have been turned down for employment without reason.
"Promoting itself as the new friendly neighbour in Canada, Target has clearly failed to include the more than 25,000 Canadian workers who they threw out of work," says Kevin Shimmin, a UFCW Canada national representative.