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Price: $590
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Likes: A primer bulb ensures a fuel-rich start, and a large grip opening makes it easy to handle for people wearing gloves, which means this machine is a good choice for cold-climate users. A single captive screw makes it easy to remove the service-access panel. Its post-storm duty included smoothly powering a refrigerator and some lights for three days.
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Thanks for a great dinner
January 3, 2013
My heartfelt thanks to the wonderful people who organized and put on our St. Gall Christmas Day dinner.
We had a huge,loving crowd and the food was excellent.
It is so heartwarming to live in such a giving community. Thanks again and a happy and a healthy new year to all.

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No. 6 Bears maul No. 10 OU, 41-12, in statement win at sold-out Floyd Casey
When you earn arguably the biggest win in program history, there's going to be plenty to talk about.
After the No. 6-ranked Bears blew out No. 10 Oklahoma 41-12 Thursday night, it's hard to know which accomplishment deserves top billing: Baylor improving to 8-0 for the first time in program history? The Bears' current 12-game winning streak (second longest in the nation)? The win over a top-10 opponent? Maybe Baylor's 5-0 conference record and spot atop the Big 12 standings?
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Was it Heisman candidate Bryce Petty's five touchdowns (three passing, two rushing) that led the way? Third-string running back Shock Linwood's 182 yards rushing on a night the Bears' starting backs were hampered by injuries? Or a Baylor defense that held OU to season lows for yards (237) and points (12)?
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And how about that crowd? A sellout crowd of more than 50,000 fans — including 10,000+ students — packed Floyd Casey for the stadium's next-to-last game, and the #EveryoneInBlack push worked to perfection, giving the Bears an amazing boost that Coach Art Briles was quick to applaud postgame.
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Perhaps the most telling thing from the night's game was that the fans didn't rush the field after the win. Victories like this are becoming a norm at Baylor, a fact longtime fans might find hard to imagine — but one those same fans appreciate all the more.
What's left for the Bears? Four more tough games: No. 25 Texas Tech at AT&T Stadium in Arlington on Nov. 16, then at No. 14 Oklahoma State (Nov. 23), at TCU (Nov. 30) and home for the soldout Floyd Casey finale vs. Texas. Tickets are available to all but the finale; click the links for details.
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It had to happen sooner or later and today was the day. For only the second time this year, the S&P 500 dropped more than 1%. The last time that happened, on Feb. 4, the market gapped up the next morning and then continued the slow and steady uptrend. Is it different this time? Are we finally seeing the long-awaited topping process? Are the bears finally going to see the downside they have been warning about since the gap up to start the year?
As I've said many times, let the price action be our guide -- and the price action today certainly warrants caution. What was particularly problematic was that the selling actually accelerated into the close, which is something that we have not seen in a long while. If some downside follows through, it will definitely be a major change in market character.
A slew of bearish arguments lately have been totally ignored, but the market decided that the Fed minutes and comments about how QE can't continue forever would be a good excuse for selling. The QE program has driven this market more than anything has the last few years, so it makes sense that worries about its potential demise would trigger selling.
The bears have the edge and we'll see what they can do with it. I'm changing my market bias from "uptrend" to "topping." I don't expect the market to go straight down from here, but I'll be looking for more selling pressure in the near term.
I've been rooting for a market shakeup lately but as the old saying goes, "Be careful what you wish for because you just might get it."
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Lecture Series
Exhibiting Asia in the 21st Century
Writing the Social History of Iranian Cinema
Sunday, March 10, 4PM
Hamid Naficy, professor of radio, television, and film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication, Northwestern University
From the beginning, Iranian cinema has been both intensely local and global. A royal cameraman of the Qajar court filmed the first documentary footage in Europe in 1900, an Iranian expatriate poet produced the first sound movies in India in the 1930s, and Iranians in the diaspora have created more than a thousand films since the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Many filmmakers inside Iran belonged to ethno-religious minorities—Christians, Jews, and Bahais—and some of them were émigrés from neighboring countries. This talk concentrates on Hamid Naficy's nearly 40-year effort to write a historiography of this dynamic and complex film industry and its role in modernizing, expressing, and representing Iranian society. A book-signing follows. This lecture is presented with the generous support of the Foundation for Iranian Studies.


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Design Column #5 Body Building presents a number of scenarios about our physical improvement, and illustrates the need to make choices. It sheds light both on progress and on the downside of it all.
We are living longer and staying healthier. And although the opportunities to improve our bodies seem endless, the resources clearly are not. We have to make choices. Do we invest money and energy into one line of research and neglect another? Practical and strategic motives are factors here, but our moral compass also has to be constantly reset. How far can we go in adapting our bodies? And is this choice defined by the economic situation? Now that growth is no longer unrestricted, where do the desires and boundaries lie?
Supporters of trans-humanism, for example, argue that we have arrived in a post-Darwinian era in which we can shape our own evolution. Trans-humanists strive towards becoming 'post-human' - a human being that has physically improved with the aid of computers, software, nanotechnology and genetic manipulation. The inevitable symbiosis of computer technology and the human body was the subject of The Matrix film trilogy (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions from 1999 to 2003) but little by little it now appears to be becoming reality.
Every three months the Design Column focuses on a news item in the form of a small exhibition. The column is a place where new ideas are made visible, where the power of imagination is given expression. Designers and artists are especially interested in experimental imagination. With their idiosyncratic vision, they see things differently and are capable of bringing about change. The Design Column creates a space for these innovative concepts.
The Design Column is not only a presentation but is also an opportunity for reaction and dialogue. You are cordially invited to participate in a roundtable conversation that will take place on Friday 11 October 2013. If you would like to participate in this conversation, please contact the curators of the Design Column at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Accompanying each Design Column the museum keeps up a blog. Here you can find reactions and up to date information on the current and previous editions. www.designcolumn.nl
Almost every woman has a pair of high heels in her wardrobe, but why do people actually wear shoes with heels? It's not practical or comfortable. Leanie van der Vyver asks how far can we and do we want to go when it comes to 'improving' our bodies. And what lies beyond perfection?
Van der Vyver crosses a boundary with her shoes. Wearing heels drastically changes the posture of the body, something that in the long term can have significant implications for our physical build. Consider the women in some Asian cultures who use neck rings to make their necks look longer - their muscles weaken and even their bone structure changes. The result is that they can no longer live without the rings.
In their work Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen investigate the impact of biotechnology on our lives. New developments mean it is possible to make revolutionary improvements to the humanbody.
For example we are not restricted to employing machines to support our vital functions, we can use animals too. In turn we can use our bodies to provide machines with energy. These are scenarios that would not have been out of place in the film The Matrix (1999), but are now being seriously investigated by Cohen and Van Baalen. The duo challenges us to extend our concept of means of production to include livingcreatures like animals - and human beings as well. The possibilities of recent developments in3D-printing already point in this direction, with the first 3D-printed organs. Production material is not only plastic, steel or wood; it can just as easily be made from living tissue.
The mind is an intangible given. Memories are not set in stone, they change over the years. This happens so gradually that you hardly realize that your own mind is playing tricks on you. Every time we cast our mind back to something, we embellish, reinforce or eliminate our past. Our brain adapts the memories to new situations and ensures that we take the stories we need with us. Memories help us to form a self-image, or in other words our identity.
The fugitive, changing nature of our memory is all the more obvious in the case of dementia. The memory is being eroded. The outlines of life can still be traced from a jumble of memories, but the connection between these memories becomes more and more fragile, until there is not even an outline left to see. This deterioration is poetically presented by Tuomas Markunpoika.
The development of society does not only bring good things. Prosperity also has its downsides. Continuous prosperity and plenty over the centuries mean people not only live longer, they have grown larger too. Designer Arne Hendriks alerts us to the consequences of this growth - if you extend an object by 10% you need at least 33% extra building material.
Hendriks comes up with a number of ways we can use our current resources, technological possibilities and knowledge to make ourselves smaller instead of bigger. If the height of a human being were reduced to fifty centimetres, it logically means that the demand for food, fuel and living space would drop considerably. What's more, our burden on the environment would be drastically reduced because we would create far fewer emissions. In this scenario a great many problems would no longer have to be solved because they would no longer exist.
The work of Elena Beelaerts is an infinite collage of images and associations that investigate the human body. In her work she wonders how far we are at one with our bodies. What are you? Ninety per cent of our body is water, so most of the atoms in our body are water molecules. Our genetic material is scarcely different from that of a fruit fly or a ringworm - so who or what are we actually?
Beelaerts bases her work on drawings that she slowly expands into collages, installations or videos. She buries herself in her fascinations but also invites people to become participants in them. Together with Floris Tilanus (Almelo 1966) she is staging the Paleisje voor Volksvlijt event where she will be bringing together people from different backgrounds in music, art, science and the theatre. Paleisje voor Volksvlijt #4 takes place on 9 October 2013 and the subject is the human body.
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The first week of 2013 is in the books and it was a good one. A huge move on the fiscal-cliff deal put pressure on investors to keep pace and that created very strong underlying support. As is often the case when there's strong upward momentum, buyers are extremely anxious to buy dips, and the pullbacks don't last for long.
There was slight nervousness Thursday afternoon following the release of the Fed minutes with the hint that it may actually turn off the printing press at some point, but a decent jobs report this morning, along with anxiety about underperforming, soon had the market back on track....171 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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John Bogert, who charmed, entertained, enlightened and agitated Daily Breeze readers with his columns for 28 years, has died following a lengthy battle with cancer. He was 63.
Bogert died Sunday afternoon at his Pasadena home with family members at his bedside. His death came about a month after he announced his retirement from his column when he became too ill to work.
"The best damn guy ever," said his daughter, Rachael Bogert. "They don't come better than that."
Born Oct. 7, 1948, in Utica, N.Y., Bogert grew up in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., getting his start in journalism when a reporter hired the young University of Florida track star to call in the results from his meets.
By the end of his life, he would become the "Voice of the South Bay," writing some 6,500 columns, pontificating about everything from politics to guns to his family's foibles, his eldest daughter's wedding and, ultimately, his cancer.
"Remember the geezers telling us that it was health and not wealth that you should wish for?" he wrote in his final June 24 column. "Well, they were right. Not that all the wishing in the world will change whatever it is being secreted in the uncut cards."
In an interview published last month, Bogert said he knew a life in journalism was what he wanted from the time he first walked into a busy newsroom in Florida.
"The newsroom was clattering and noisy and I fell in love with the whole thing," Bogert said. "I could stand there and listen to these people talk and they were hilarious. It's the same way now, telling stories and making fun of each other. There was a constant flood of emotion running through the place."
Bogert developed his own newspaper while in college and took a trip to Europe when he graduated. On the boat ride home, he met the woman who would become his wife. They would have three children, Caitlin, 29; Rachael, 25; and Ian, 18.
Working at the Lakeland Ledger in Central Florida, Bogert tackled stories about the inhumane treatment of greyhounds at dog tracks and about migrant laborers.
He and his wife married in Scotland, lived in Italy and eventually returned to America, touring the country in a Volkswagen van.
After his wife got a job in Los Angeles, Bogert landed a position at the Glendale News-Press and made journalism a full-time career. The Daily Breeze hired him as a feature reporter in 1979.
Bogert said he figured he wouldn't stay long, but he became one of the Breeze's longest tenured employees until his recent departure.
"I didn't want to write this South Bay stuff, but the more I did it, the more I realized I was meeting some great people," he said.
In 1984, when reporters took turns writing columns that were published on Saturdays, Managing Editor Jean Adelsman decided Bogert was perfect for his own daily read.
Five days a week, Bogert wrote columns that could pinch a nerve with readers one day and make them cry the next. His fans particularly enjoyed columns that told the story of his life, from his days in Florida to raising children in Southern California.
"Alex's mom called to tell me, `I thought you should know, the boys are planning to celebrate Ian's 18th birthday with cigars,"' Bogert wrote in November.
"Cigars for my son's 18th. OK, so it could be worse, lots worse. They could be talking crack and Propofol. Still, I'm full-fledged Taliban in my fathering. I'll admit to that, though I don't know why I am more so with my son than I was with the two daughters that preceded him. Maybe it's because I was once, but only briefly, 18 and a boy."
Adelsman said Bogert developed a loyal following because people could so easily identify with him and his family.
"When you read John, he was writing about your experiences," Adelsman said. "I think that's why people loved his family columns. It was their families, too."
Few people knew Bogert did not live in the South Bay. Bogert could be seen about town, patronizing local businesses.
Adelsman said she wanted him to live locally, but for his family's sake, she was glad he lived elsewhere. The distance allowed him to write freely about his life.
"Can you imagine the lives that Caitlin and Rachael would have had had they lived down here?" she said.
Over the years, Bogert used his columns to help raise money for worthy causes, including his favorites, Cheer for Children and the Redondo Veterans Memorial.
He spoke to children at writing workshops in schools and to seniors at civic organizations. Many would line up to visit with him and shake his hand.
"John was both the voice and the face of the Daily Breeze," said former Daily Breeze Executive Editor Phillip Sanfield, who worked with Bogert for 25 years.
"One time we had billboards with his face on buses rolling through the South Bay. He got quite a kick out of that. I'm not sure who will miss him more, his readers or his colleagues. He is a South Bay icon we will all miss."
Writing some 6,500 columns, Bogert often remarked about his workload. Once he finished one, another was due.
"He had a sarcastic sense of humor," Sanfield said. "He always used to tell me he was doing five columns a week, and most other columnists were doing two or three. He liked to jokingly let me know he was overworked. He probably was."
Adelsman said the columnist never understood why so many people followed him, queued up for book signings and wrote him cards and letters.
When Bogert became ill, he battled his cancer with repeated surgeries and chemotherapy treatments. After weeks away from the office, he returned, continuing to write his columns.
"We were like, `Dad, you don't have to work anymore,"' Caitlin recalled. "He said, `I liked working.' He said he actually missed the job."
On June 24, again after months away from work, Bogert announced he would not return. Diagnosed with Stage 4 cancer, Bogert said his pain had become too severe. He wanted to spend whatever time he had left with his family. Caitlin is due to give birth to his first grandchild in September.
His granddaughter will be named Charlotte, a name Bogert always liked and wanted to give to one of his daughters, but couldn't get his wife to agree to.
"Charlotte Jane," Caitlin said. "In the end, he got his Charlotte."
This obituary, daughter Rachael said, would not have thrilled him. Bogert didn't much like it when reporters wrote sappy obituaries and portrayed the deceased as "saintly." He wanted his own obituary, she said, to be honest.
"My dad never wanted to come off as a saint," she said.
So, Bogert had legions of fans, but also plenty of detractors.
"You need to leave the political stuff to the professionals," one reader wrote him in a letter last year. "You should stick to family and dog stories."
Said another reader in December 2005: "After reading your Thanksgiving column, it's not hard to figure out what I am thankful for. That I am not a cynical puke like you. It's not hard to figure out why newspapers are losing circulation after reading your wonderful column."
But those who loved Bogert far outnumbered those who disagreed with him. Last week, Bogert's colleagues presented him with a book comprised of dozens of comments and well-wishes emailed to the newspaper office from readers, friends and colleagues when he announced his retirement.
At first, Caitlin said, her father thought the book was a joke. "I wonder if they are trying to sell me something?" he said.
"We said, `Dad, we think you should just sit down and read it. It's from all your readers,"' Caitlin said. "He went outside by the pool and sat there and read through the comments. He just couldn't believe some of the people who had written in. He was just blown away."
Bogert's colleagues, who experienced firsthand his loud phone conversations and boisterous laugh, knew the end was coming. After news broke Monday of his death, photographers hanged a large, framed column mug of Bogert on a wall near his empty desk.
"He loved his life," Caitlin said. "He loved his family. He loved his job."
Services are pending.
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In response to recent reports that looming sequestration could delay more than 1,400 ongoing aircraft and parts manufacturing projects and force furloughs for FAA employees, Aeronautical Repair Station Association (Arsa) vice president of legislative affairs Daniel Fisher is urging the U.S. Congress to act to address the scheduled government budget cuts.
"Arsa strongly encourages congressional leaders to avoid the automatic budgets cuts set to go into effect because of sequestration. Sequestration will hit aviation hard. In particular, it will exacerbate certification and inspection delays for repair stations, hindering job creation and economic growth,." he said in a statement.
"Most everyone agrees: the federal government's budget needs to be reduced, probably well above the level required in sequestration," added Fisher. "What makes sequestration so painful is its indiscriminate nature. Agencies are given little leeway to focus the cuts on programs that may be ineffective or inefficient. Instead, most all programs are just whacked by at least five percent. I am confident that the aviation maintenance industry's stellar safety record will not be impacted, but when lawmakers don't give the FAA the resources to carry out congressional mandates, the losers are the hardworking men and women of the aviation industry."
In an exclusive interview with AIN, Fisher and Gary Fortner, vice president of quality and engineering at Fortner Engineering in Glendale, Calif., and Arsa's 2013 president, expressed concern about the implications specifically for aviation maintenance. As a heavily regulated industry, the aviation sector is worried about the impact of sequestration, and those involved in aircraft maintenance are particularly concerned because that sector of aviation tends to be less visible to the legislators.
"Because much of the FAA's budget goes to employee salaries, I don't see how furloughs are not a large part of the agency's cuts," Fortner said. "Up to now, much of the talk inside the [Washington, D.C.] Beltway has been on sequestration's impact on air traffic controllers and TSA security screeners. However, aviation maintenance executives believe other areas, such as certifications and inspections, could face the brunt of question."
By some estimates as much as a billion dollars could be cut from the Department of Transportation's budget including $600 million from the FAA, which could translate into that agency losing as many as 47,000 employees.
"Decision makers, to the extent possible, will probably target cuts where the public will feel the least amount of pain. The perception is that furloughing certification and inspection personnel will cause the least disruption to the air traffic system. However, these cuts will affect repair stations' ability to get timely service and will hamper those organizations from meeting the ever-expanding demands that Congress has placed upon them. When the FAA isn't given adequate resources, my company is challenged to complete its work in an efficient manner," Fortner said.
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February 28, 2013 - 3:24pm
Arsa is like every other organization looking for handouts from the administration. Sequestration is not entirely the fault of Congress. We sent the Republicans to congress for a reason and they are currently carrying out the will of the people who sent them there. Everyone wants to see bigger government, unlimited spending, payments to people who dont or wont work but have their hand out to the government to take from those of us who do work. I think it is time ARSA take a close look at their own house and look at where their money comes from. It does not come from the White House. They have turned their backs on us and we are letting them get away with it. If you support Congress in this action, you might find that the end result will be tremendous. Support the President and you will ultimately find us in the same situation as most of the ultra liberal countries in Europe are now. We can't tax and spend any more. We have to look at cutting back on some of the give away and curtail it. If you don't believe what I am saying then change the picture at the Congress in 2014.
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February 28, 2013 - 8:43pm
First line says it all, LOOKING FOR A HANDOUT!!! Obama is the professional panhandlers president that is turning into a Saddam Hussien style dictator! Wake up! Tell the Dictator to avoid the sequestration! He's breaking this country to the point of no return!!! How short sighted or downright blind can John Q Public get!!!!!


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- ΑριάδνηJanuary 1, 2013 at 5:35 PM
Πολλες ευχες για το 2013 με πολλες ομορφες καταχωρησεις στο paradissi σου !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I moved from the bike friendly University of Illinois community, Champaign-Urbana, IL to the mean streets of Chicago 2 years ago come Labor Day 2011. This move was the source of a great deal of angst for me as I could not imagine myself being able to train with any consistency or effectiveness. Despite the large number of racers I know who live in the city and that I've been racing with for years, I was used to the largely rural roads surrounding Champaign-Urbana where I could literally go on a 5 hour training ride and encounter only a dozen vehicles the entire trip.
I knew it could be done though and I was determined to not let the move to Chicago be the Waterloo for my competitive cycling days. I have a good friend and former team mate who won the Masters Nationals 30-34 road race championship in 2000. It is possible to be an urban bike racer, and also be very, very good at it. You just have to adapt to the environment.
Here are some bullet points in no particular order of importance that will help you if you are a racer based in a large metropolitan setting.
- Find and use the bike lanes. Most metropolitan areas have designated bike lanes. I was pleasantly surprised after my move to Chicago by how many miles of bike lanes there are and how well most motorists pay attention to people on bikes. True story – I was actually pulled over by one of Chicago's Finest on a frigid February morning, on a snow packed road for driving 200 feet in the bike lane in order to get around the line of cars at a stop light so I could make a right on red. No bikes were present, there was a blizzard going on, but the police officer made sure I knew to stay out of the bike lane with my car.
- Pay attention and ride defensively. Never assume that a motorist sees you even when you make eye contact. Follow the rule of the road. Don't be one of those riders that weaves through traffic at stop lights, running through stop signs and rolling through red lights. Remember you're not a bike messenger, you're trying to get somewhere you can train. There is ALWAYS somebody in a car that will be pushing to beat the stale yellow light or attempting to beat the green turn arrow. Relax, wait your turn and make your way to clearer roads safely before you begin to "train".
- Do not attempt "interval" training in heavy traffic. It's virtually impossible to ride defensively when you're riding on the rivet. City streets are fraught with peril, bumps, pot holes, inattentive motorists in a hurry, cracks and pedestrians walking across the street while texting. Your interval training can wait until you're in the clear.
Bike paths and bike lanes are NOT for training. They're designed for commuters and leisure riders. Use bike paths and bike lanes as a means to get yourself TO your training roads, never AS your training ground. I will ride occasionally on the Lake Michigan Bike Path on days when I need to go slow and recover. The path is notorious for attracting large crowds of cyclists, pedi cabs, runners, in line skaters, and tourist who despite the presence of 50 feet of concrete or grass on either side of the bike pack insist on standing in the center of the bike path to take photos of Chicago's beautiful sky line. Despite this, I am never ceased to be amazed by the number of athletes, riding full bore, head down in their aero bars trying to "train" in this setting. I once witnessed a guy blasting down the bike lane plow directly into the back of another cyclist who had stopped to greet a friend who was riding in the opposite direction. The guy in the aero bars never saw the stopped rider. He was checking his computer for his wattage output or heart rate I assume. He certainly wasn't looking where he was going. I also had a friend relate a story of how an angry cyclist yelled at his 11-year-old son who was riding on a Forest Preserve bike path. Seems my friend's son had made the mistake of getting in the way of this jerk who was "training".
- Try, if possible, to time your rides when traffic will be lighter. You'll practically never have roads completely to yourself but traffic outside of the city center will tend to be much lighter early in the morning and in the summer, after rush hour. Midday in my neighborhood on the Northwest side of Chicago is also a pretty decent time to ride.
- Find the most direct path out to the suburbs and use the lighter traveled roads for your training. If you go on group rides, be safe and obey traffic rules. Nothing makes motorists angry and aggressive more than a group of 50 cyclists "racing" on the shoulder of crowded roads during rush hour and blowing stop signs.
- Use the urban sprawl to your advantage. Try doing 20-25 pedal stroke jumps or seated "stomps" out of the numerous stop lights and signs you encounter on your way out of and back into town – but be wise about staying out of the way of heavy traffic when doing so and make sure all the cars at the intersection have stopped before you go. Pick a moderately heavy gear like 53×17 and do the first 20 pedal strokes from the standing start as hard as you can. A workout like this will help increase your acceleration for sprints and attacks.
- The fact is, you'll need to allow yourself more time. When I lived in Champaign-Urbana, I could do a 100k training ride in under 3 hours. In the city and suburbs, 100k takes about 20 minutes more due to the stopping and starting and another 10 minutes or so of stationary time waiting for lights to change. Be realistic with your time and expectations when you're planning your training time
It is possible to be a competitive cyclist at a high level if you live in an urban environment. You just need to ride defensively to make sure you get to more open roads in one piece before you begin your actual "training". I know that the first and last half hour of my rides are going to be interrupted by stop and go traffic. I have learned to adjust, and use the stop and go to my advantage to do stomps and jumps. I also make plans once or twice a month to pack my bike and drive out to some place that allows me to go on long uninterrupted rides just to keep my sanity.
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According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), about 76 million cases of foodborne disease occur annually in the United States and result in 325,000 hospitalizations and 5,000 deaths. Individually diagnosed cases and group outbreaks of food-related illness should be reported to local and state health departments who then partner with the CDC, USDA, and FDA to detect and respond to multi-state outbreaks of disease. Typically, food-related outbreaks occur at group gatherings with meals provided by individuals, catering companies, or restaurants. However, recent outbreaks are more widespread over a longer period of time due to the distribution of contaminated products across the country. In 2009, an outbreak of salmonellosis was traced to peanut butter manufactured in Georgia and used by many manufacturing companies, resulting in illness, death, and the recall of hundreds of products throughout the nation.
Foodborne disease is usually an infection caused by bacteria, viruses, or parasites in foods or beverages. Foodborne disease also may result from toxins, chemicals, or other harmful substances, such as poisonous mushrooms. Symptoms depend upon the specific contaminant but gastrointestinal symptoms, such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, often occur initially. Recently, scientists have discovered that other diseases, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome in adults and hemolytic uremic syndrome (leading to acute kidney failure) in children, may result from foodborne infections.
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Three veterans discharged under "don't ask don't tell" filed a lawsuit earlier today against the government (read the filing here). The lawsuit brought by the Servicemembers Legal Defense Network seeks reinstatement as well as a ruling declaring the 17-year-old policy unconstitutional and unenforceable anywhere. And needless to say, the lawsuit is aimed in large part at putting pressure on Congress to repeal the 17-year-old policy during the lame duck session. The Associated Press reports:
The legal action came four days after the U.S. Senate for the second time this year blocked a military spending bill that also would have repealed the 17-year-old ban on openly gay troops.
Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., have introduced a standalone measure, but it's uncertain if it will be brought for a vote before the Senate and House adjourn for the holidays.
Servicemembers Legal Defense Network director Aubrey Sarvis said the lawsuit was meant as a warning to lawmakers that if they don't act to repeal "don't ask, don't tell," the courts could step in and order an integration timetable that is less to the Pentagon's liking.
"If the Senate fails to act in the lame duck session, we are prepared to litigate this aggressively," said Sarvis, whose group coordinated the lawsuit and prepared it with lawyers from a private law firm.
"From my perspective, this is the first shot over the bow," he said.
Meanwhile, the standalone bill that would repeal DADT now has 40 Senate co-sponsors, but only one of them is a Republican, and that's Collins. A vote on the bill could come later this week or early next week, assuming the Senate sticks around that long.
We've contacted the offices of Texas Republican Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn to inquire about how they plan to vote on the bill, as if we don't know already. But as of this post, we had received no response. Hey, anyone planning a sit-in?


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Though he cowrote Pixar's computer-animated megahit Toy Story in 1995, the world first became aware of the one-man multimedia empire that is Joss Whedon when his first series, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, debuted to critical success in 1997. The term "creative genius" is often misused, but in the case of Whedon it may in fact be an understatement. This screenwriter/producer/director/composer/sometimes actor has created a world of success over the past two decades, including television series Buffy, Angel and Firefly, the web series Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and comic book franchises like Fray. More recently, Whedon wrote and directed Marvel's film adaptation of The Avengers, which currently sits as the 3rd highest grossing film of all time.
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In 1987, Joss graduated from Wesleyan University, a private liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut. Before attending Wesleyan, he spent two years abroad studying at Winchester College in Hampshire, England. He wrote and acted throughout college. After graduating and moving to Los Angeles, Whedon got his first official Hollywood gig when he was hired as a staff writer for the television series Roseanne.
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Unsatisfied with how his vision of Buffy was tweaked and, in his opinion, watered down for the big screen, Josh decided to revive the concept as a television series with the same name. Buffy The Vampire Slayer, which ran for five seasons on The WB, was both a cult hit and critical darling. The series, which was about vampires before vampires were cool, even earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series in 2000.
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Welcome to #ThinkingThursday, when we momentarily unlock ourselves from the chains of the daily grind and ponder larger investment themes. The market is on the cusp of showing us its true feelings on fiscal cliff's impact on the real global economy, and I happen to believe Mr. Market is poised to dish a helping hand of humble pie. But, regardless of whether you are bear or bull, there are a couple of aspects likely going overlooked here.
1. Misguided Focus on the Topic of Special Dividends
I am not exactly a fan of the 2012 special-dividend mania. In the very short-term, I believe special dividends are bringing unwarranted stabilization to stock prices overall, thanks to companies announcing the handouts to sympathy names. Investors will stick around to pocket the dividend and then, quite possibly, split later this month to lock in a strong total return as debt-ceiling negotiations join forces with final-minute cliff tomfoolery.
Assuming we do see the selloff I anticipate, it's the group of special-dividend payers that will warrant fundamental inspection in January. You see, these companies will have set market expectations that 2013 earnings will be robust enough to support a higher payout ratio, which will compensate for meatier tax rates to weigh on shareholders. The class of companies will probably focus intensely on leveraging their existing asset bases through detailed execution of business models in order to make payout ratio hikes a near-certainty.
Long-term, there is a risk of underinvestment in fixed assets, but the market is trying to tell us that this special group is worthy of consideration in a suppressed growth -- or, dare I say, recessionary environment. Baseline examples: Costco (COST) keeps on climbing, whereas Gap (GPS) was sold due to no special dividend in the cards.
2. What Do the Whales Buy with Year-End Dividend Checks?
The whales -- i.e., fund managers and so on -- are sitting on stocks whose planned special dividends will likely be rendered too pricey, valuation-wise, for investors with long-term horizons. It's hard to imagine a whale staying with a company such as Costco -- which is reinvesting the dividend -- after one has secure an early, and juicy, dividend check in the area of 20x forward earnings. After all, there are other opportunities expressing a favorable risk-to-reward ratio.
As I hinted at in my 2013 predictions note, industrials are where the new money could land early on in 2013. There remains a requirement not to pile on this thesis just yet, given the level of uncertainty that easily stands to wipe off 5% from the top of a fresh position in a day. However, China is turning the corner, and many industrials are deeply restructuring operations, so scaling into a longer-term position is looking appropriate. Think along the lines of a name such as Caterpillar (CAT), which has begun to receive slightly better sell-side commentary.
This deep-thinking session has now concluded -- and now let's move on to the ridiculousness. In tracking the market like a freak, on Wednesday I sensed that a few market players badly wanted to call an end to the selling and to begin a seasonality rally. Come on, folks, let's get real.
First, a more humble-sounding President Obama means close to zilch if the parties aren't advancing a dialogue behind the scenes, which is what reports suggest. If we see limited progression, headlines will swing to and fro -- and, with them, stock prices. Second, I'm not seeing a proper understanding of data.
There is more to interpreting complicated numbers than checking to see if a headline figure has improved from one month to another (which will spur "trend reversal" outcries). On the contrary, it's about trend-spotting in items underneath the neatly packaged headline, and then comparing these with a multitude of other reports and micro reads. For example:
● We saw an entire November of encouraging housing reports, including a gross-domestic-product figure that demonstrated housing as a contributor. This came ahead of a release from the S&P Homebuilding Index that's acting as if it caught a recent cold -- and ditto on housing derivative plays. This, moreover, is occurring in front of a Federal Reserve meeting that will probably result in action to aggressively drive interest rates further down. Pretty odd "tells", no?
● If it was rally-on and mad love for the consumer, would United States Gasoline Fund (UGA) be weakening?
● We're seeing bids under consumer staples and U.S. Treasuries, while SPDR Gold Trust (GLD) and iShares Silver Trust (SLV) continue to sink. Are you worrying about fourth-quarter earnings? If not, why? The services index from the Institute for Supply Management showed a 330-basis-point month-to-month improvement in new orders, but employment fell 460 bps. #QualityOfSales must be top of mind here.
Don't believe me? Chew on this: If we strip out the construction sector, since August average workweeks and average hourly earnings have remained stable or declined across goods producing and servicing producing sectors. There's been no pricing power, no raises and overtime.


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Night ClassBy Ariel Djanikian
In the spring of 2002, I signed up for a night class in existentialism. The choice was an emotional one. College was off to a rocky start. My education had no clear purpose; my friends were more like acquaintances; the whole country was careening toward an abyss. Meaning, in other words, was elusive, and I wanted to hear from the people who'd explained its elusiveness best.
The instructor was Tom Meyer, only a lowly University of Pennsylvania graduate student, though I didn't know it at the time. We arrived at the first class to find him sitting at a conference table, folding and unfolding a paperclip. To my immense satisfaction, he looked just like I thought an existentialist should: gaunt, pasty-faced. Black hair standing up from his skull. His clothing ratty at the collar and cuffs. For a first-day icebreaker, he had us go around the room and say our name, the name of an actor, and a type of deli meat.


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Turkey Cock Lane has been named as one of the most embarrassing roads to live in, but one resident was desperate to move there just for its name.
Holly Jago-Eagland, 34, was far from dissuaded by the so-called rude name and instead waited years for a house to come up for sale in the quaint country road.
The lane in Stanway finished seventh in the Needaproperty.com survey, which found nine of the top 10 rudest named roads had lower house prices than neighbouring streets.
Turkey Cock Lane was the only one to buck the trend, with average house prices for a terraced home being higher than in neighbouring London Road.
Mrs Jago-Eagland said: "I particularly always wanted to live in Turkey Cock Lane, partly because it is such a rural road, but mainly because of the absolutely hilarious name, it absolutely appealed to the child in me."
See today's paper for the full story.
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I think that Star Wars reference is clever enough for the second part of my audio interview last week with Steve Forbes, a giant of the business and media world and a former Republican presidential candidate.
To recap, Forbes was the keynote speaker at the annual dinner and awards event of the York-based Manufacturers' Association of South Central Pennsylvania. In my previous blog, I received the impromptu opportunity to interview Forbes about the economy, manufacturing and the role of natural-gas drilling in both.
Hindsight is 20/20, right? After Forbes' speech last week, I had about 20 more questions I could've asked the man. Follow-up question I didn't get to ask Forbes: To his mind, what are examples of "reasonable safety net" regulations for the business world?
I expected his promotions of the flat tax, undoing burdensome regulation and slashing the bloated federal budget. Even his support for a return to the gold standard was expected, but his lead-in to that wasn't.
Essentially, Forbes pegged the Great Recession on regulation and monetary policy, rather than the housing bubble and the subprime mortgage crisis that eventually crippled the world economy. I raised an eyebrow.
Here's a Bloomberg Businessweek story outlining the recession's causes.
Here's an article from Forbes magazine that better outlines what Mr. Forbes was talking about. Essentially, the weak dollar chased people to hard assets like homes, property and gold, as well as energy and commodities such as oil. There you get the bubbles, so Forbes says solve it by pegging the dollar to gold.
You can debate the gold merits, but that seemed to be a simplistic characterization of the recession to sell it. It certainly could be a factor, but it's not the only cause. Follow-up question I didn't get to ask: Is Forbes considering another run for president in 2016?
In this week's audio clip, Forbes answers a question from another reporter about suspension of work to defense contractors in the York area and what he thinks should be done. He talks about sequestration, Congress's failures, nuclear proliferation (this link will put the Japan reference in context), the defense procurement process and being ready for the next terrorist attack.
I was able to squeeze one follow-up question in to that interview. Enjoy the audio and let me know what you think.
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England's celebrations were deserved yet muted after they at last broke their long winless streak against India at the Ageas Bowl.
There was a coyness about Alastair Cook and his team's response to overdue success - understandable on at least two counts, even after Moeen Ali and James Anderson's wickets hurried them home by 266 runs with two sessions to spare.
For Cook, there were evident reasons for satisfaction after he returned to form with 165 runs in a first Test win since the 2013 Ashes were clinched almost a year and 11 matches ago.
He was beset before this third Investec Test with calls, from among others at least six former England captains, to hand the reins of the 'new era' over to someone else.
But he held his nerve, backed his ability and that of his team - and emerged with a series-levelling win on the back of his big runs, as well as those of Ian Bell and Gary Ballance, and then respective seven and eight-wicket match hauls from Anderson and Moeen.
Even so, after India were bowled out for 178 in their second innings, both Cook and man-of-the-match Anderson felt the need to exercise restraint in the moment of victory.
Anderson, especially, has inevitable mixed feelings as he awaits Friday morning's International Cricket Council disciplinary hearing - and possible four-Test ban - for allegedly "pushing and abusing" Ravindra Jadeja during the first Test at Trent Bridge.
Cook not only knows he may have to get by without his frontline bowler but also that one win in 11 - after last winter's Ashes whitewash, and still only 1-1 with two to play against India - is hardly reason to go overboard just yet.
He was not about to under-sell England's performance, but he is not proclaiming a sea change just yet.
"It's a very small step," he said. " It's only one win. We'll enjoy this feeling - someone told me it's 353 days [since the last one]. That's a very long time."
Yet there was much to encourage England and their supporters here.
"We had as good a game as you can have - that's what the turnaround is (since last week's defeat at Lord's)," Cook added.
"We got greedy in the first innings - and that set up the game.
"When you do that, you start getting ahead of the game and can dictate it - and that's what we did."
The improvements shown by Cook himself and his senior players was most telling.
"The guys who were slightly questioned at the beginning of this Test match really delivered," he added.
"It was a great week for us as an England team - for [returning coach] Peter Moores to get his first Test match win, for the (other) guys who haven't experienced one before.
"I kind of forgot they hadn't experienced what it's like to win a Test match - and the confidence they'll get from that is great."
He acknowledges, however, much hard work remains to be done before England can start crowing again.
"The important thing now is we back up that consistency, which we've kind of been lacking a little bit this summer, and take it on to [next week's fourth Test] at Old Trafford.
"That's the standard we set ourselves.
"I know it's a comfortable win, by 260 runs, but we were relentless. We never let India off the hook at any stage.
"It takes a lot of skill and determination to do that ... and that was very impressive.
"Now everyone knows what it's like, the challenge is 'can we repeat that at Old Trafford, and try to win the series?'"
Long before then, Cook will discover whether he can still call on Anderson - and he is not about to pre-empt the decision of ICC judicial commissioner Gordon Lewis.
He did, however, say: "I just hope common sense prevails.
"I hope we'll see Jimmy at Old Trafford in his home Test match."
Anderson was asked directly about the hearing five times at a post-match press conference, but had to be very careful with his answers - on express orders from the ICC.
"I have no idea ... I honestly don't know what's going to happen tomorrow," Anderson said. "I obviously want to be playing at Old Trafford in my home Test match."
India captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni gave no public endorsement to rumours that the tourists' governing body has uncovered previously unavailable and incriminating evidence against Anderson and his behaviour towards Jadeja in the Trent Bridge pavilion stairwell.
"I am not aware," he said, preferring simply to look ahead to the remainder of a series in which he believe his team face a significant challenge.
"It will be a test of character for all of us ... and our fitness also."
Meanwhile, England have named an unchanged squad for the fourth Test.


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The unsung workhorses of this team, they toil in relative obscurity, throwing two innings one day, three another, sometimes even more.
They are up in the bullpen at a moment's notice, often getting loose before another swift exit by a wobbly rotation.
They are the Padres' long relievers, and especially this pitching-starved season they have come in handy.
"If you have five starters who are giving you 200 innings, there might not be a great deal of need for a long reliever," manager Bud Black said recently. "But on that given night when you need one, you're glad you have one."
For much of 2013, the Padres have needed two, and on more than a few nights. Only one starter, Jason Marquis, is on pace to reach that 200-inning marker. This season's long-relief duty began with Anthony Bass and Andrew Cashner. It's since fallen to Thad Weber and Robbie Erlin as well.
"It was difficult the first time," Bass said, remembering his long-relief debut in 2011, "just knowing when to start getting ready for the ballgame, when I might be used, when I might not be used."
Bass, a third-year player, is used to it by now. The versatile right-hander sees himself as a future starter, but he also recognizes the value in his current role.
"You definitely get your feet wet," said Bass, who last season made 15 starts but, interrupted by shoulder inflammation, later returned in the bullpen. "Usually you go in when the game's kind of out of hand. There's not a ton of pressure, but there is always pressure. It's never an easy task getting big-league hitters out."
In just over a month, Padres starters have seemingly compiled a season's worth of ugly starts. There have been three-inning misadventures, four-inning clunkers, even a 1 2/3-inning cameo.
"We've been a little bit inconsistent with our starting pitching," said Darren Balsley, the Padres pitching coach putting it lightly. "In the past we've usually carried one (long reliever) instead of two. This year we broke camp with two."
In his first 10 appearances this season, Bass has thrown 22 1/3 innings, more than any other reliever on the team. Entering Saturday, he'd seen nearly as much work as No. 2 starter Clayton Richard, who lasted just 22 2/3 innings over his first five outings.
"I don't think he's a long man long-term," Balsley said of Bass, "but he's ideal in that he can give us three-plus innings, he can spot-start in a pinch, he'll be built up pitch-wise too."
Padres long relievers
Anthony Bass: Began the season as one of two long relievers. Should a spot open, he'd be a top candidate to join the rotation.
Andrew Cashner: Began the season as the other long reliever. The hard-throwing righty has since replaced the injured Tyson Ross in the rotation.
Thad Weber: Has provided depth to an overworked bullpen. Currently back with Triple A-Tucson, he has totaled nine innings in three appearances.
Robbie Erlin: Promoted April 24 from Triple-A Tucson. The 22-year-old was optioned back to Tucson on Wednesday.
Cashner, another righty, started the season as the other long reliever, just months after he suffered a lacerated tendon in his throwing hand. He transitioned to becoming a starter late last month, taking the place of an injured Tyson Ross.
Weber, a 28-year-old who had spent most of his career in the minors, made his Padres debut in a 3 2/3-inning outing last month before returning to Triple-A Tucson. Re-promoted days later, he threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings in another appearance. Then, scheduled to rest the next few games, he was sent down again.
Erlin, 22, was recalled from Tucson.
"We had the necessity of sending a guy out, but you never want to do that to a guy who pitches well," Balsley said of Weber. "But it's good for Robbie to come up, get some major-league games, get that adrenaline flowing in the bullpen."
One of the Padres' top prospects, Erlin worked pseudo-long-relief in Single-A ball three years ago, throwing two to three innings in each appearance, but on a set schedule. With the Padres, he's had to get loose at a moment's notice.
"Just to be prepared," Erlin said, repeating advice gleaned from more experienced long relievers. "Be as prepared as you can so if you get called to get hot in the pen, you can go out there and be ready to go."
Balsley believes the early work as a long reliever could benefit Erlin, a projected future starter.
"That's how Cory Luebke broke in," Balsley said, referencing the Padres' ace in Tommy John recovery. "The idea was, he's gonna start eventually, let's let him face some major-league hitting and prove to himself that he can get outs and then get him in the rotation. And that's exactly what happened."
Late Wednesday, shortly after pitching his second major-league inning, Erlin was optioned back to Tucson and right-hander Brad Boxberger was recalled to serve in a middle-relief role. Erlin should be back sooner than later, and, in this pitching-starved season, quite possibly as a long man.Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune