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Sogo Ishii's The Crazy Family (1984) is one of the best Japanese films you've never seen.
As Steven Puchalski wrote – in part – of the film in 1994, ten years after the film's release, "not many people caught this pitch-black comedy when it was released in the United States — no surprise since its New York City engagement consisted of a one-week run at an upscale arthouse theatre, and a sparse, thoroughly confused audience of blue-haired Upper West Siders. Though still unavailable on video, I'd like to give it my vote as one of the most genuinely demented movies to ever emerge from Japan. Directed by Sogo Ishii [who subsequently changed his name to Gakuryu Ishii] this was his first feature film to be picked up by an American distributor [New Yorker Films, who subsequently went out of business, leaving the film in limbo].
Mixing sledgehammer social satire with rapid-fire cinematic dementia, this is an unforgettable excursion into the darkest recesses of his culture's middle-class values, as well as a precursor to such '90s cult hits as Tetsuo: The Iron Man. [Utterly] unrelenting, The Crazy Family focuses on the outwardly-sane Kobayashi family. They're an Asian bourgeois [family unit], complete with a successful dad, a loving wife, and two well-adjusted children. To top it off, they've just moved into their suburban dream home. Sounds perfect? Not for long. Because soon their unwanted grandfather moves in, white ants are discovered feasting on the woodwork, tempers begin to percolate, and the family's oft-mentioned "sickness" takes over, which sends our happy Nuclear Unit spinning headfirst into a series of comic obsessions.
Father begins digging up the floorboards and spreading toxic bug poison; the straight-laced mother does an impromptu striptease for her ever-more-paranoid hubbie; and the daughter practices for her unlikely pop star career. Meanwhile, the son crams for his Tokyo University entrance exams by turning his room into a high-tech nightmare, complete with electrodes, glowing pyramids, and a handy knife which he stabs himself with in order to stay awake.
The household hostilities escalate and soon the place becomes a full-scale battlefield — the family armed with mothballed World War II weapons, a chainsaw, even a baseball bat with the family dog strapped to it. [Grandfather] goes so far off the deep end that he takes his pre-pubescent granddaughter hostage. In between the various fires and explosions, Ishii makes scathingly hilarious points about life in modern-day Japan, where socially-programmed perfection and technological advances have taken their toll on a new generation. Imagine a movie that begins like [an episode of the 1950s Cold War television series] Father Knows Best, turns into a mass-hysteria mix of The Shining meets The Simpsons, edited like a Road Runner cartoon [. . .] and you have The Crazy Family."
I was lucky enough to see this film in a theater when it first came out, and it absolutely amazed me; so much so that I went right back in and saw it again immediately, being sure that I'd probably never be able to see it again. As it turns out, I was — sadly — absolutely right. The clip above gives you some idea of the quirky power of the film; someone should sort out the rights to this lost jewel, and release it as soon as possible. It's brilliant, brutal filmmaking, and deserves the widest possible audience. In addition, it has none of its' power in the last twenty-five years; if anything it seems more modern than much of contemporary cinema.
Click here, or on the image above to see a clip from the film; this is a lost masterpiece.


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Thank you for the reply to my last question. I went on Wednesday to the dentist to finish the root canal treatment. I am now in agony but don't want to go back as I feel anxious. Could this settle in the next few days?
Having some discomfort or pain after a root canal is not uncommon. This is due to an inflammatory process necessary for healing. Discomfort within the first couple of weeks can be well within the normal range.
Individuals vary greatly in the time it takes for the pain to dissipate after a root canal procedure. The length of time of discomfort can also vary greatly depending on the condition of the tooth at the time of the root canal.
Pain may be managed with over the counter or prescription medications. If you are having problems managing your pain, you should speak with your dentist or endodontist. If you continue to have pain longer than the normal range or you have a change in your pain or new symptoms develop, it would be best to be reevaluated to rule out any potential complications.
Depending on the case, it can be also be "common" to have swelling after having a root canal. There is approximately a 15% chance of swelling if the nerve of the tooth was dead and/or infected. The swelling is related to your immune system reacting to the infection that was in your tooth. The immune response to an infection is very complex even when there is no initial swelling.
Be sure to notify the dentist/endodontist who did the root canal that you now have swelling to discuss potential therapies to help resolve it. If the swelling continues to spread or get larger, you will need to see your dentist/endodontist immediately or go to the emergency room if you are having difficulty breathing or swallowing.
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Lotus Engineering's 'EVE Hybrid' (Efficient, Viable, Environmental) technology demonstrator showcases how OEMs can introduce lower emissions variants to existing model ranges that currently only offer conventional gasoline and diesel powertrains.
The application of hybrid technology is a key route for CO2 emissions reduction. For many manufacturers, over the next five years it may remain more viable to integrate hybrid technologies into existing model ranges than to develop expensive new dedicated hybrid platforms.
Solutions that Lotus Engineering can provide to its OEM clients will help them keep price premiums for hybrid variants at a minimum, thanks to lower development costs, and are available immediately for introduction within current and next generation model lifecycles.
The EVE Hybrid programme focussed on establishing the processes for integrating hybrid technology with minimal development time and cost, overcoming many of the challenges associated with integrating hybrid technology into existing platforms through intelligent, compact and discreet packaging of additional systems.
Ultimately, it demonstrates Lotus Engineering's ability to provide strong, viable business case propositions for clients to offer a hybrid variant of a medium-high volume production car.
The resulting EVE Hybrid demonstrator, based on a Proton Gen 2 compact midsize car with a 1.6 litre gasoline engine, showcases a trio of production representative technologies:
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- Continuously Variable Transmission
Compared to the baseline Proton Gen.2, tailpipe emissions are reduced from a competitive 172 g/km to just 134 g/km, a reduction of 22%, while fuel economy improves from 39.2 MPG to 50.2 MPG, a 28% improvement.


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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- What, are you upset your easy listening radio station is playing holiday tunes before anyone's carved a Thanksgiving turkey? Get over it, gramps: You're already late to the party.Last year, nearly two dozen stations across the country switched to the all-holiday format by Nov. 9, with Atlantic City, N.J.-based WEZW 93.1 FM starting the onslaught Oct. 17. By the time the holidays hit, between 300 and 400 (out of 11,500 U.S. commercial AM and FM stations) made the holiday format switch, said Mark Fratrik, a vice president, analyst and economist with BIA/Kelsey. This year, KYXE-FM 104.9 in Yakima, Wash., started decking the halls Oct. 10 by launching its "North Pole Radio" on a new FM signal. Listeners were weeks away from buying a token bag of Tootsie Rolls for trick-or-treaters, but this station was already selling them on Burl Ives and candy canes. "Consider it an early CHRISTMAS present for YAKIMA!" station parent company Broadcast Partners' spokesman Ken Moultrie said in a release at the time, with the all-caps emphasis all his. "The format has proven success with a unique mix of the best contemporary and classic CHRISTMAS songs with some surprises along the way." So maybe Yakima won't be hearing Adam Sandler's Hannukah Song this holiday season, but its radio station will probably find a huge ratings boost in its stocking anyway. All-holiday radio first caught on in 2001 after stations switched as a means of helping listeners cope with fallout of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, but radio research firm Arbitron ( ARB) cranked up the cheer when it went to its Personal People Meter method of ratings data collection in 2007. Arbitron's ratings team began carrying around cellphone-sized monitors that could pick up broadcasts its carriers were hearing and detect the watermark of the station playing in the background, so when a listener is at the hardware store being shoved away from the last strand of LED lights and hears Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, it counts toward the ratings. All that merriment is pretty effective, too. A 33-market study conducted by Arbitron in 2009 found that the average market share for radio stations that switched to the all-holiday format rose 91%. Unfortunately, the format's getting a little too efficient for its own good. According to Andrew Forsyth, a consultant for Nielsen ( NLSN), the average playlist size for all-holiday stations in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas/Fort Worth and Los Angeles shrunk from 752 songs in 2009 to 694 in 2010, while the average number of times each song was played during the holiday season rose to 33.4 from 30.5. The folks at MediaBase, who've been tracking holiday playlists for the past few years, finally stopped doing so in 2011 after the season's Top 5 songs went unchanged and its Top 10 showed as much movement as an obese man in a chimney. Flee to Pandora ( P), Sirius ( SIRI) or your Apple ( AAPL) iTunes playlist all you'd like, but the 10 songs that took MediaBase out of the holiday chart business are ubiquitous. Whether they sneak up on you in a store or great you at the pump of your nearest gas station, these holiday earworms bore their way into the subconscious thousands of spins at a clip. Consider yourself warned:
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December 2, 2012 BY Aaron Hope
The latest Chuck Taylors with a zipper added for easy entry come from the same place that's been responsible for the majority of these boot-ish interpretations of classic vulc-soled hightops: Japan. Following up on notable collaborations by mita sneakers, Nintendo and Nigo of BAPE fame comes a new ABC-Mart x Converse Chuck Taylor All Star set with striped pairs adding zippers to their lateral sides, while sherling-lined editions opt for bright shades on the traditional monotone canvas uppers. Check out the entire pack in more photos below and stick with Sneaker News in case a US shop gets some in stock.
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Sometimes I am deluged with information about what's going on in our community. I try to stay informed about current events, but it gets very difficult.
For example, I just learned from Christy Hayes over at MoJos in Woodland that her "Second Annual" (there is no such thing by the way; annual events don't become so until the third time around) "Mustachio Bashio," or "Mustache Bash" is scheduled for Saturday, March 23. She's urging people to "grow your 'stache, shape up your 'stache or make your 'stache' from scratch." I'd like to participate, having worn a mustache since my early college years, but it's turned gray since I started working at The Democrat, and isn't as cute as it once was.
Besides I can't possibly hope to compete with Ed Shelley's magnificent 'stache. I bow in awe of his upper-lip hair each time I see him.
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Every now and then you hear something over the police scanner which is hilarious. Such was the case last Friday morning when a call came in from a concerned citizen about some teen-agers "doing drugs" behind the Bel Air Market on Gibson Road. As a police officer headed toward the scene to check out the report, the dispatcher came back to say that the teens had crafted a "bong" out of an apple.
"They're crafty," said the dispatcher. "10-4," responded the cop.
On Tuesday morning, there was another call from "Adam 1" of the Yolo County Sheriff's Department reporting "seven to eight turkeys on the northbound Russell Boulevard on-ramp" in Davis.
Considering the call came from Davis, I'll leave it to the reader to figure out whether the turkeys were of the feathered or human kind. OK, I know that was an easy shot, but someone had to take it.
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It's time to "hop into action for the 7th Annual (yes, 7th annual is correct) Bunny Drive in memory of Sammie Hartsfield. Donations to support Team Sammie can be made to Cross Court Athletic Club on Cross Street. Sammie lost her battle with Osteosarcoma in October 2009 at age 12 after three years of fighting the disease. Money raised will be used to purchase stuffed animals to donate to other children in need. Need more information: email email@example.com
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Finally, for those parents who need a night out, consider leaving your kids at the YMCA at 1300 College St. this Friday from 6 to 10 p.m. Parents might even be able to start their St. Patrick's celebration's early. Me? I'm waiting for Saturday's Pub Crawl.
Anyway, the YMCA crew will provide pizza, a movie, games, crafts, bounce house and more. Send the kids over with a sleeping bag, pillow and "comfy clothes. The cost is $15 for members of the YMCA and $20 for non-members. Children should be between the ages of 4 and 12 and must be potty trained. No. I won't do any jokes this time.


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CHINO HILLS – The playground at English Springs Park will be closed today through Friday for new equipment installation.
Workers remove the old playground equipment to make way for new equipment.
The city has already installed new playgrounds at five parks including Sunset Park, Mystic Canyon Park, Hunter's Hill Park, Sycamore Glen Park, and Hidden Hills Park as part of its effort to replace playgrounds approximately every 15 years.
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Three new studies show that nutrients from fruits and vegetables helped cut fat.
In a soy protein study, 15 obese, post-menopausal women, average age 56, drank a liquid meal containing 20 grams of soy protein with 160 mg of soy isoflavones per day or a placebo. After three months, although none of the women lost weight, those who drank the soy shake had lost an average of about 6 square inches of abdominal fat while those in the placebo group had gained 9 square inches of abdominal fat. Doctors do not know how soy cuts fat, but suggested that isoflavones may keep fat cells from building up.
In a lab study, researchers exposed young and mature fat cells to the nutrients soy (genistein) and resveratrol, a nutrient found in grapes and peanuts. As investigators increased the dosages, larger numbers of fat cells died a natural death, in a process called apoptosis where the dying and dead cells do not harm the body. Separately, genistein and resveratrol each increased apoptosis by 46 percent. Together, genistein and resveratrol increased apoptosis by 242 percent.
Doctors also measured how much fat accumulated in the cells—a sign of maturity—and found that genistein cut accumulating fat by 30 percent, resveratrol cut fat by 20 percent, and together, genistein and resveratrol cut accumulating fat by 78 percent.
In another lab study, investigators exposed fat cells to the nutrients resveratrol and quercetin, which is found in leafy green vegetables and beans. In young fat cells, resveratrol reduced accumulating fat by 9 percent and quercetin cut accumulating fat by 15 percent. Together, resveratrol and quercetin cut accumulating fat by 68 percent.
In mature fat cells, resveratrol increased apoptosis by 120 percent and quercetin increased apoptosis by 85 percent. Doctors concluded that together, resveratrol and quercetin prevent fat cells from maturing and help cause mature fat cells to die a natural death.


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A Gentleman's Choice is when you pick up both a mother and a daughter, at different times, and must then make a choice between the two at a later date.
Raul met this chick at the tailgate party and hooked up with her that night. The next weekend, he picked up a cougar and woke up in the same house as the weekend before. Over the course of the next week, he had to make a Gentleman's Choice about who he was going to see next weekend.
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A GROUP of mums who set up their own children's dance group are celebrating a year of getting youngsters moving to the beat.
Julia Dodds, Georgie Easton and Kim Sibley, all from Maiden Newton, set up the Fizzy Boppers group with Kelly Critchell, from Cattistock, 12 months ago.
The mums wanted to provide somewhere their friends and fellow parents could offer children aged up to five the chance to experience music and sounds.
Julia added: "We also wanted the group to have a social toddler group element to it for parents to meet new friends and their children to mix with new faces and for the group to be pay as you go which parents didn't have to book or sign up to."
The idea has proved an outstanding success AS the mums have been asked to open a host of other groups in new locations.
In their first year more than 600 children enjoyed the Fizzy Boppers experience.
After setting up in Maiden Newton, Julia, Georgie, Kim and Kelly were approached by parents from Bridport who wanted a group in their area so sessions were started in Netherbury.
They then started a group up at the Corn Exchange in Dorchester before also being approached by the local branch of Sure Start about opening up in Crossways.
Fizzy Boppers sessions are held every Thursday in Crossways and the mums thanked Sure Start for all the support it had provided.
They also run an after school club for Greenford School key stage one children, with around 15 children attending every week, as well as running birthday parties.
The sessions are split between 20 minutes of action songs using creative props and then a further 20 minutes of themed dances.
Over the last 12 months children have experience salsa, country and western, music from the 60s, global music and most recently 70s music.
Julia said: "We have recently been extremely fortunate to be awarded a grant from Comic Relief to assist us with our hall rentals and to help us continue providing fun and imaginative props. Since the group opened last year we have had a total of 452 families attend the groups, that is a staggering 641 children.
"We want to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their help."
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is planning to release his office's annual review of capital punishment statistics in the state.
The report to the state Legislature comes as Ohio and other states face dwindling supplies of the drugs used to put condemned inmates to death. DeWine planned to release the capital punishment report Tuesday under a requirement of the state's death penalty law enacted in 1981.
Ohio also is under criticism for its most recent execution. In January, death row inmate Dennis McGuire made repeated snorting-like gasps during the 26 minutes it took him to die by a never tried two-drug combo.
Ohio's next execution is May 28, when Arthur Tyler is scheduled to die for killing a produce vendor in Cleveland during a 1983 robbery.


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CHARLES Wright has been drafted in to replace the absent Steve Worrall for the Robins clash with King's Lynn tomorrow.
Worrall is riding for Edinburgh at Redcar in the Premier League, with Wright selected from the draft list as his replacement.
Otherwise, the Robins are unchanged with King's Lynn also tracking a full team.
Boss Alun Rossiter said: "This meeting is a big one, and it's one that we have to win no matter what.
"It's going to be tough, King's Lynn are an excellent team, but it's certainly do-able.
"Troy and Peter have certainly brought a feel-good factor back from Copenhagen so let's see if we can use that and get a good result. I'm expecting a really good meeting."
SWINDON: Peter Kildemand, Dakota North, Nick Morris, Simon Gustafsson, Troy Batchelor, Charles Wright, Nathan Greaves.
KING'S LYNN: Niels-Kristian Iversen, Nicklas Porsing, Rory Schlein, Robert Lambert, Kenneth Bjerre, Lewis Kerr, Lewis Rose.


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Hailey man gets creative to protect home from Beaver Creek fire
HAILEY, Idaho (KBOI) - The Beaver Creek fire has lots of homes in its path, and that leaves many people in Hailey preparing for the worst.
Mike Nathan owns a home right on the edge of the burning mountains in Hailey. So he put together a sprinkler system on top of his house, in hope of keeping it from burning if the fire comes close.
"Water puts out fire," Nathan jokes, "Basic chemistry, right?"
He is drenching his roof to protect from embers that could fly near his home.
He says he doesn't feel threatened by the fire just yet, but will be careful.
"If I felt that the fire was closer, I would abandon ship," he says.
And he's prepared to do so. He's already removed all of his valuables from the house and has a full tank of gas in case he needs to go quickly. But most importantly, he's staying very optimistic.
"If it burns after I've done everything," he says, "I have house insurance, and I get a brand new house."


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deepbluehum wrote:Dechen Norbu wrote:We are conscious during the bardo, after death, but that consciousness can't be affected by, let's say a mushroom, but can be affected by other events. This consciousness we have during the bardo is too defiled.
Oh it's affected by the mushroom. A user of psychedelics will be accustomed to the bardo experience and (depending on their karma) that experience will have an effect on their visions in the bardo. Strong psychedelics basically induce bardo. Depending on your path you can see Yama or Vajradhara.
I'm just saying that once you're dead you can't eat a mushroom. Or digest food or breathe and so on.


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I wonder how one should feel about war criminals.danieLion wrote:Very compelling. I try not to hate Dick and Bush but I still do and stuff like this does't help.
tiltbillings wrote:I wonder how one should feel about war criminals.danieLion wrote:Very compelling. I try not to hate Dick and Bush but I still do and stuff like this does't help.
Protection Through Satipatthana
Nyanaponika Thera
© 1994–2013
Once the Buddha told his monks the following story (Satipatthana Samyutta, No. 19):
There was once a pair of jugglers who performed their acrobatic feats on a bamboo pole. One day the master said to his apprentice: "Now get on my shoulders and climb up the bamboo pole." When the apprentice had done so, the master said: "Now protect me well and I shall protect you! By protecting and watching each other in that way, we shall be able to show our skill, make a good profit and safely get down from the bamboo pole." But the apprentice said: "Not so, master! You, O master, should protect yourself, and I too shall protect myself. Thus self-protected and self-guarded we shall safely do our feats."
This is the right way," said the Blessed One and spoke further as follows:
"It is just as the apprentice said: 'I shall protect myself' — in that way the foundations of mindfulness (satipatthana) should be practiced. 'I shall protect others' — in that way the foundations of mindfulness should be practiced. Protecting oneself, one protects others; protecting others, one protects oneself.
"And how does one, in protecting oneself, protect others? By the repeated and frequent practice of meditation (asevanaya bhavanaya bahulikammena).
"And how does one, in protecting others, protect oneself? By patience and forbearance, by a non-violent and harmless life, by loving kindness and compassion."
This sutta belongs to the considerable number of important and eminently practical teachings of the Buddha which are still hidden like buried treasure, unknown and unused. Yet this text has an important message for us, and the fact that it is stamped with the royal seal of satipatthana gives it an additional claim to our attention.
Individual and Society
The sutta deals with the relations between ourselves and our fellow beings, between individual and society. It sums up in a succinct way the Buddhist attitude to the problems of individual and social ethics, of egoism and altruism. The gist of it is contained in those two concise sentences:
"Protecting oneself, one protects others." (Attanam rakkhanto param rakkhati.)
"Protecting others, one protects oneself." (Param rakkhanto attanam rakkhati.)
These two sentences are supplementary and should not be taken or quoted separately.
Then Yodhajiva[1] the headman went to the Blessed One and, on arrival, having bowed down to him, sat to one side. As he was sitting there he said to the Blessed One: "Lord, I have heard that it has been passed down by the ancient teaching lineage of warriors that 'When a warrior strives & exerts himself in battle, if others then strike him down & slay him while he is striving & exerting himself in battle, then with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the company of devas slain in battle.' What does the Blessed One have to say about that?"
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A FITNESS instructor is set to transform an empty industrial unit into a new dance and fitness studio on Canvey.
Kim Woolf, 49, has snapped up a vacant unit at Tavistock House, in Charfleets Road, and hopes to have the new studio open early next month where she will teach zumba, yoga, bootcamp, street dance and spinning classes.
Four new jobs will be created as part of the venture, one full time and three part time, and Kim was given planning permission this week to change the use of the building so she can run the classes.
Mrs Woolf, who has lived on Canvey all her life and already teaches classes on the island, said she spent the last few months looking for the perfect location for her new venture.
She said: "I feel elated. It's been a long, hard slog to get planning permission, but hopefully it will be worth all the hard work.
"I've got good people who want to come and work with me and a good team behind me.
"Everything will be under one roof and I feel it's a really positive thing for the community."


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I quite enjoy following the iKEN photo blog. The young author, Ken Jung, has a great eye.
His latest post documents some of the things in his dorm room in Toronto and there's one curious decoration: Two OC Transpo fare tickets in a frame.
Says Jung: "Although they are useless in Toronto, the tickets mean a lot to me and it is worth keeping them displayed. Looking at them always makes me think about all the bus ride I had and the the related memories: shopping mall at St. Laurent, night walking at Tunney's Pasture, running home from Metcalfe, saturday school at Merivale, playing baseball at Bayshore, library at Centrepointe, beach barbecue at Mooney's Bay, fairwell at the Airport, friend's home in Orleans, buying an iPhone at Vanier, watching movies at Gloucester. There are just so much memories condensed into this one symbolic piece of paper- the bus tickets."
He's right, isn't he?
I don't take transit much anymore, but I remember a time during university when I rode Transpo every day. It was (I think) the 97 with a transfer to the 118 that brought by to my co-op job in Bells Corners. I can remember the CDs I listened to on my Discman and some of the conversations I had with fellow passengers. All pleasant experiences for me on Transpo during that time.
Same thing for the TTC in Toronto. I have plenty of memories taking the trains to work, or visiting friends, or just looking out the window as the train rolled through Bloor West Village.
It makes you remember how ingrained transit is in people's lives.
We hear plenty of complaints about Transpo, and yes, public transit can be a legitimate source of frustration on a daily basis.
But Jung is right about how a TTC Metropass, a piece of Transpo photo ID or a couple bus tickets bring back so many great memories.
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Hotel BB a Siracusa in Sicilia, nel Centro storico di Siracusa, vicino alla Fonte Aretusa, perla della Sicilia alloggiando in bed and breakfast, godendo della vita serena ma vivace del centro di Siracusa. Nella stupenda Siracusa archeologica in Sicilia.
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From Hostelbookers to Aretusa Vacanze:
My goodness! What didn't I LOVE about this hotel? The location was spot on perfect - rght in thecentre of the truly beautiful old town and down a cobbled side street next door to a fabulous little restaurant. The decor was gorgeous - I had to tear myself away from the room each morning. It was more like a home than a hotel room. The staff were really friendly (great with directions and full of local knowledge like which were the best beaches to visit), the roof terrace had amazing views and the breakfast (which was included in the ridiculously cheap price) arrived promptly each morning, was fresh and had tons of options to choose from. If you're looking for somewhere to stay in Siracusa then take my word for it - this is THE place. Gorgeous from start to finish. If I ever visit Siracusa again (and I would because it is one of the most beautiful places I have visited) then I would definitely stay here again. An absolute delight. We booked this place purely on the price and without knowing what it looked like. How lucky we were. 19 September 2006
The hostel is located right by the Fonte Arethusa, which is one of the most beautiful areas in Siracusa. In addition, we stayed in the "sconto" (discounted) room, which included a small kitchen, private bathroom, kitchen table and chairs, a small couch, and then upstairs was our bed and the TV. It was the best value for my money. I absolutely loved this B&B. Also, they bring you breakfast in your room and you can also eat it from the rooftop terrace. I highly recommend this hostel! 27 February 2007 Da Bookings.it
Da booking.it per Aretusa Vacanze:
+ Ottima accoglienza, eccellente comfort. molto utile il collegamento internet gratuito.francesco (Coppia giovane) da cerreto guidi, Italia - 01 agosto 2006
+ Eccellente Bed & Breakfast, l'ospitalità e la cortesia dello staff è eccezionale, l'ambiente completa le attese. Paolo (Coppia giovane) da empoli, Italia - 03 settembre 2006
+ Most pleasant surprise during our whole holiday (we stayed in very many hotels in South-Italy and Sicily) - most romantic and beautiful part of Siracusa, sea just nearby, old building, powerful atmosphere. The room was more like a tiny flat with a kitchen and with a bed upstairs. The reception lady was a very lovely person and most helpful. At night we could drink some wine on the roof terrace. Definitely the place we would recommend to our friends and if we came back to this town, we would stay in Aretusa again ourselves. And last, but not least - the price was very good. As strange as it was, in Italy we had an experience, that the cheaper place, the better.Anonymous (Young co
uple) from Estonia - July 30, 2006
+ The hotel was wonderful. Our room was so precious that we even recorded a video of it! Location was perfect. The owners were delightful and took a personal interest in their guests. While I checked in with the wife, the husband hopped in the car with my friend to help him find a parking place. Absolutely fabulous find that I recommend to everyone!! Lillian (With friends) from Birmingham, USA - May 23, 2006
+ Excellent location in smack center of Syracuse Ortigia old city (1 min from Fountains, 3 min from Duomo). The room was spacious with kichenette (incl. cooking utensils & dishes), modern interior design, and comfortable settings. The family-run staff was very helpful, kind and pleasant, in addition to being very photo-genic, and would do well in a TV mini-series. We stayed for a night only, but was tempted to stay longer to more leisurely enjoy the beautiful city, and to cook dinner with fresh seafood from the Markets (12 min away) which has amazing variety of appetizing maritime produce.Akira (Young couple) from Tokyo, Japan - May 20, 2006
+ Unser Zimmer war großzügig und gemütlich ausgestattet. Die Dachterrasse hat schöne Aussichten ermöglicht. Optimal war die Lage des Hotels mitten in der Altstadt. Birgit (Älteres Ehepaar) aus Hattingen, Deutschland - 23. April 2006
+ le petit déjeuner servi dans la chambre
la décoration de la chambre et l'emplacement idéal pour visiter Ortigia à pied. Jean (en groupe) de ROUEN, France - 2 mai 2006
From Trip Advisor to B&B Aretusa Vacanze:
Siracusa: Aretusa Vacanze: "Absolutely gorgeous!" paolawilliamson1, London 19 giu 2006
If you are looking for a special place to stay, this is your lucky day.
Aretusa Vacanze is a refurbished old building with only 9 tastefully decorated rooms.
Our room was simply beautiful and we also had a kitchen and a lovely bed. Breakfast is served in your room and, there is a wide choice of bits to have a really enjoyable breakfast in bed.
The B&B couldn't be in a better location right in the centre of the old town within seconds of bars and restaurants, not to mention the sea. A very romantic spot.
Don't forget to try Osteria Mariano, the restaurant next door which is delish and where the locals eat.
There is a lovely roof terrace for sunbathing too.
The staff at the B&B were also charming and there whenever you needed them.
This was the best place we stayed in the hole of Sicily and defintely would like to go back there again!
Abbiamo prenotato il bilocale e ci siamo trovato molto bene.
Le camere sono ben pulite ed accoglienti, personale molto premuroso e gentile.
All'interno della struttura e' presente un terrazzino con vista su tutta Oritigia dove e' possibile fare colazione, altrimenti il servizio viene effettuato direttamente in camera.
La posizione è strategica per visitare Ortigia e Siracusa.
Lo consiglio vivamente.
Questo posto è stato una fantastica scoperta. La posizione è perfetta (proprio nel cuore della città vecchia), la camera era confortevole e autosufficiente, il personale era cordiale e disponibile e la colazione veniva servita in camera al mattino. Abbiamo pagato 45 sterline a notte con lastminute.com, davvero un ottimo affare. Siracusa è bellissima e vale la pena visitarla una o due giorni, soprattutto la piazza principale con la Cattedrale e le rovine greco romane appena fuori dalla città. Spostarsi in auto nella città vecchia è un po' un incubo, noi abbiamo parcheggiato l'auto in un grosso parcheggio vicino al porto e ci siamo spostati a piedi...è molto meno stressante.
Un fantastico B&B a Ortigia. La posizione è adorabile (anche se è difficile da trovare). La colazione era meravigliosa e veniva servita in camera. La terrazza sul tetto era un posto fantastico per rilassarsi e bere un bicchiere di vino. Forniscono utensili e piatti per farti i tuoi antipasti! Il personale era cordiale.
Un luogo incantevole nel cuore pulsante della splendida isola di Ortigia. Ho soggiornato per tre fantastici giorni ed ho potuto apprezzare, oltre alla cura per i particolari, la gentilezza dei proprietari, esempio perfetto della tipica accoglienza siciliana.
Un posto che consiglio vivamente a chi voglia visitare la più bella, a mio parere, città della costa orientale della Sicilia.
Non fatevi spaventare dalla strada da incubo, o dal sistema a senso unico e dalle strade impossibili di Ortigia. Questo posto è davvero una preziosità. Lo staff è sereno, pulito, le camere sono molto tranquille. Il caffè non era il massimo quindi ce lo siamo comperato noi e lo abbiamo preparato con la nostra caffettiera fornita dall'hotel. A parte questo fatto è davvero un hotel splendido
On arrival my husband and I were upgraded to a two bedroom apartment, which was very spacious, spotlessly clean, prettily decorated and great value at approximately £40 per night. The staff were really friendly, giving us a map and taking time to point out all the places we should visit and suggesting a few restaurants.
Although there is no view (there is another building directly across the alley) you are only a minute's walk away from the sea and a few minutes away from shops and attractions. There is a roof terrace if you fancy catching some sun (although it was a bit too breezy in March). Ortygia itself is a great place to spend a few days. If I return I would most definitely stay in the Aretusa Vacanze again.
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With Thanksgiving just days away, many are struggling this weekend with what to prepare. Thanksgiving dinner's menu is hard to change, but maybe we can get away with reconsidering dessert. Guest host Linda Wertheimer gets recommendations from chef Frank Stitt, author of Southern Table.
New Thanksgiving Desserts: Rethinking Tradition
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A signature part of President Obama's health care law goes live this week. Open enrollment begins Tuesday in so-called health insurance marketplaces.
Various estimates have the marketplaces potentially affecting about 350,000 people in New Jersey, upwards of 800,000 people in Pennsylvania and about 35,000 people in Delaware.
Not for everyone
The marketplaces are open to anyone, but they're mainly geared toward people who are uninsured or who have individual insurance policies, separate from work-based coverage.
"I guess I'm kind of hoping in the back of my mind we'll be able to get that for a little less money," says Tammy Bradshaw, a self-employed photographer in Philadelphia. She and her husband pay $800 a month out-of-pocket for a plan that also covers their 2-year-old.
Another key detail for Bradshaw is whether the marketplace plans will cover her current physicians.
The marketplaces are also aimed at people like Nathanial Scott, a 24-year-old that is uninsured.
"My biggest concern is that one day I go through a medical emergency and I require a visit to a hospital or what have you, and I'm kept maybe overnight or for a couple days," says Scott. "Then after I get out I get a bill from the hospital for like thousands and thousands of dollars, and then my head's spinning saying, 'oh my goodness, how am I going to pay for all of this?! On top of everything else I'm paying?'"
Based on a federal report out last week, a plan might cost Scott about $100 a month, if he's eligible for tax credits being offered to income-eligible individuals to buy coverage.
Small businesses can also shop for coverage, but not until November. Starting next year, people may also face fines for not having coverage.
What will the plans cost and offer?
These state-based marketplaces are often described as 'Travelocities' for health insurance: Online sites where consumers can compare and shop for health plans, which must meet certain coverage requirements. Participating insurers, for example, must cover certain mental health and addiction services and will be barred from denying people coverage or charging them more if they have pre-existing health conditions.
The marketplaces are also where people can learn whether they're eligible for other coverage, like Medicaid. Eligibility for that program, for example, will expand in New Jersey and Delaware starting in January.
Experts say cost of coverage will depend on several factors, including a person's age, income and where they live. Preliminary numbers, for example, show that the same plan may cost more in Philadelphia than in Pittsburgh. For a sense of the cost of plans and subsidies in each state, NPR and Kaiser Health News have developed a marketplace calculator.
Beginning Tuesday, residents in Pennsylvania and New Jersey can turn to www.healthcare.gov to view plans and even sign up if they so choose. Residents in Delaware ca go to www.choosehealthde.com.
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15 U.S. Code § 78c–4 - Security-based swap execution facilities
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(a) Registration
(1) In general
No person may operate a facility for the trading or processing of security-based swaps, unless the facility is registered as a security-based swap execution facility or as a national securities exchange under this section.
(b) Trading and trade processing
A security-based swap execution facility that is registered under subsection (a) may—
(c) Identification of facility used to trade security-based swaps by national securities exchanges
A national securities exchange shall, to the extent that the exchange also operates a security-based swap execution facility and uses the same electronic trade execution system for listing and executing trades of security-based swaps on or through the exchange and the facility, identify whether electronic trading of such security-based swaps is taking place on or through the national securities exchange or the security-based swap execution facility.
(d) Core principles for security-based swap execution facilities
(1) Compliance with core principles
(A) In general
To be registered, and maintain registration, as a security-based swap execution facility, the security-based swap execution facility shall comply with—
(B) Reasonable discretion of security-based swap execution facility
Unless otherwise determined by the Commission, by rule or regulation, a security-based swap execution facility described in subparagraph (A) shall have reasonable discretion in establishing the manner in which it complies with the core principles described in this subsection.
(2) Compliance with rules
A security-based swap execution facility shall—
(A) establish and enforce compliance with any rule established by such security-based swap execution facility, including—
(i) the terms and conditions of the security-based swaps traded or processed on or through the facility; and
(B) establish and enforce trading, trade processing, and participation rules that will deter abuses and have the capacity to detect, investigate, and enforce those rules, including means—
(3) Security-based swaps not readily susceptible to manipulation
The security-based swap execution facility shall permit trading only in security-based swaps that are not readily susceptible to manipulation.
(4) Monitoring of trading and trade processing
The security-based swap execution facility shall—
(A) establish and enforce rules or terms and conditions defining, or specifications detailing—
(i) trading procedures to be used in entering and executing orders traded on or through the facilities of the security-based swap execution facility; and
(B) monitor trading in security-based swaps to prevent manipulation, price distortion, and disruptions of the delivery or cash settlement process through surveillance, compliance, and disciplinary practices and procedures, including methods for conducting real-time monitoring of trading and comprehensive and accurate trade reconstructions.
(5) Ability to obtain information
The security-based swap execution facility shall—
(A) establish and enforce rules that will allow the facility to obtain any necessary information to perform any of the functions described in this subsection;
(6) Financial integrity of transactions
The security-based swap execution facility shall establish and enforce rules and procedures for ensuring the financial integrity of security-based swaps entered on or through the facilities of the security-based swap execution facility, including the clearance and settlement of security-based swaps pursuant to section 78c–3 (a)(1) of this title.
(7) Emergency authority
The security-based swap execution facility shall adopt rules to provide for the exercise of emergency authority, in consultation or cooperation with the Commission, as is necessary and appropriate, including the authority to liquidate or transfer open positions in any security-based swap or to suspend or curtail trading in a security-based swap.
(8) Timely publication of trading information
(A) In general
The security-based swap execution facility shall make public timely information on price, trading volume, and other trading data on security-based swaps to the extent prescribed by the Commission.
(9) Recordkeeping and reporting
(A) In general
A security-based swap execution facility shall—
(i) maintain records of all activities relating to the business of the facility, including a complete audit trail, in a form and manner acceptable to the Commission for a period of 5 years; and
(10) Antitrust considerations
Unless necessary or appropriate to achieve the purposes of this chapter, the security-based swap execution facility shall not—
(A) adopt any rules or taking [1] any actions that result in any unreasonable restraint of trade; or
(11) Conflicts of interest
The security-based swap execution facility shall—
(A) establish and enforce rules to minimize conflicts of interest in its decision-making process; and
(12) Financial resources
(A) In general
The security-based swap execution facility shall have adequate financial, operational, and managerial resources to discharge each responsibility of the security-based swap execution facility, as determined by the Commission.
(B) Determination of resource adequacy
The financial resources of a security-based swap execution facility shall be considered to be adequate if the value of the financial resources—
(i) enables the organization to meet its financial obligations to its members and participants notwithstanding a default by the member or participant creating the largest financial exposure for that organization in extreme but plausible market conditions; and
(13) System safeguards
The security-based swap execution facility shall—
(A) establish and maintain a program of risk analysis and oversight to identify and minimize sources of operational risk, through the development of appropriate controls and procedures, and automated systems, that—
(B) establish and maintain emergency procedures, backup facilities, and a plan for disaster recovery that allow for—
(C) periodically conduct tests to verify that the backup resources of the security-based swap execution facility are sufficient to ensure continued—
(14) Designation of chief compliance officer
(A) In general
Each security-based swap execution facility shall designate an individual to serve as a chief compliance officer.
(B) Duties
The chief compliance officer shall—
(iii) in consultation with the board of the facility, a body performing a function similar to that of a board, or the senior officer of the facility, resolve any conflicts of interest that may arise;
(iv) be responsible for establishing and administering the policies and procedures required to be established pursuant to this section;
(v) ensure compliance with this chapter and the rules and regulations issued under this chapter, including rules prescribed by the Commission pursuant to this section;
(vi) establish procedures for the remediation of noncompliance issues found during—
(C) Annual reports
(i) In general In accordance with rules prescribed by the Commission, the chief compliance officer shall annually prepare and sign a report that contains a description of—
(II) the policies and procedures, including the code of ethics and conflict of interest policies, of the security-based security-based [2] swap execution facility.
(ii) Requirements The chief compliance officer shall—
(I) submit each report described in clause (i) with the appropriate financial report of the security-based swap execution facility that is required to be submitted to the Commission pursuant to this section; and
(e) Exemptions
The Commission may exempt, conditionally or unconditionally, a security-based swap execution facility from registration under this section if the Commission finds that the facility is subject to comparable, comprehensive supervision and regulation on a consolidated basis by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
(f) Rules
The Commission shall prescribe rules governing the regulation of security-based swap execution facilities under this section.
[1] So in original. Probably should be "take".
[2] So in original.
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QSR pizza sales have hovered at $33–$36 billion for the last few years and projections for the upcoming year are very strong, Pizza Marketplace reported. The grim economy of the past couple of years has not crushed the spirit of folks who like to eat out. Although pizza sales slowed in recent months due to
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Plane reports smoke in cabin, lands safely in Medford
MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) A plane carrying 75 passengers from Southern Oregon to Salt Lake City reported smoke in the cabin a few minutes after takeoff and returned to the airport, where it landed safely.
The manager of the Rogue Valley International-Medford Airport, Bern Case, said a couple of passengers on the Delta Air Lines flight operated by Sky West were affected temporarily by smoke before they got off the plane.
He says Flight 4674 took off at about 6:15 a.m. and was back at the airport within about 10 minutes.
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Did you squeak into Boston? Share your story here...
Did you squeak into Boston?
I will share my story. In May I qualified at the Fargo Marathon. I would have never dreamed about qualifying for Boston, Fargo was to have been my last full marathon. I was 39 and wanted to "race" one more full to see what I could do. I was in good running shape after the Disney weekend in January, and had a good plan in place. The weather was warmer than usual and allowed us Minnesotans great outdoor runs in Feb. and March. But to qualify for 35-39 I needed to break 3:10, that wasn't going to happen. Then it got really warm, Friday night for the family 5K it was in the 80's and I knew all the training for Saturdays race was going to be wasted because of extreme heat. Not good conditions for a PR/BQ. However as luck would have it, a cold front rolled through the area that morning, I awoke to upper 40's and overcast! It was time to see how the training paid off. The first 13 miles went great, slightly faster than my goal pace, but I felt really good and went with it. By mile 20 I knew the last 6 were going to be a struggle - my classic "out to fast and just try to finish". I managed a jog 8 minutes walk 2 minutes cycle for 5 miles and tried to finish "strong" in front of the family for the last mile. Finish time 3:14:03... Wow I broke 3:15! I was super happy for my PR & knew a BQ wasn't in the picture anyways. As I rubbed out a few cramps in the finish chute, a friend walked past and asked my time, he then asked when my birthday was...November. He said "You qualified for Boston!" I had no idea the time was based on your age the next time Bostons race was to be held. Thus I qualified by :52 seconds and a BIRTHDAY!!! And as you can tell, I am doing just one more full marathon. HaHa
I definitely squeaked into Boston! I ran my first marathon in January of 2012, and finished with a respectable 3:52, not bad for my 40 year old non-running body. My wife ran her first marathon that day, and she beat me by 30 minutes and BQ'd! Not wanting to be a spectator, I looked into what it would take to qualify, and with the new standard it was 3:15. I trained like crazy, entered the Ottawa Marathon last May, and qualified with a 3:14:59.1 (yes, they time to a hundredth in Ottawa. So I guess I am BQ -.9 sec. It doesn't matter, I am in the dance!
Those are both great stories!
I thought most people ran their way into Boston. But if squeaking gets you there, rock on. Good on ya.
Ok, I'll fess up. I have been wanting to since this thread started.
I didn't squeak in, I broke the damn door down.
Ever since I was a collegiate distance runner in the late 70's I have been trying to qualify.
Closest I came was running a 2:57 at the Penn Relays - and my qualifying time was 2:50.
In my 2nd ruunning carrer - (when I turned 50), I started chasing the dream again. Never came closer than 30 minutes.
I'm presently 58 years old and on the advice of my Oncologist and my Orthopaedic Doc's I was told if I ever want to do this, do it now. Radiation is the gift that keeps on giving and my vertebrae discs are blowing out.
I am running as an AMAA team member (American Medical Athletic Association).
For some reason my docs at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (Orlando), consider me their "poster boy"
That's Awesome EGeary!
Great story EGeary. Good luck!
Thank you for giving a name to what I do and who I am, and what it means to all of us Squeakers. Because my birthday is in mid-April, every 5 years I have an extra long qualifying window. In 2002 as a 43 year old, I was able to eke out a qualifier for 2004, when I would turn 45 the day before the race. I needed a 3:50 to run as a 44 year old but only 4:00 at 45. I hoped to get the 3:50 but faded in the second half of the race. In the end, injury would have prevented me from running in 2003 anyway. As it was, I barely made it to the start in 2004 after knee surgery the previous October, and struggled to finish in the back of the pack after being passed by most of the charity runners. Other injuries and life circumstances have kept me from getting there again, but I continue to try. This Sunday I will toe the line for another go at it. I need a 4:10 now. Sure wish they hadn't dropped the extra five minutes from the previous set of standards!
With pending back surgery, I entered the St George marathon in 2011 hoping to qualify. Needless to say, I was pretty miserable and my lack of training due to the blown discs certainly hindered my preparation. I knew it was gonna be close. Having run Boston previously, I really, REALLY wanted to get back there and this was my last opportunity for Boston 2013 due to the surgery a week and a half post St George.
At mile three I had to pee like the proverbial race horse. Usually I get that issue resolved prior to a run but for some unknown (apparent) hyper-hydration reason, it had the undesired and ill timed effect. Not wanting to wait for the outhouse, I ran down a small embankment to the rear of the porta potty, out of sight. I peed for approximately 25 seconds.
When I got to mile 22 or 23, I was hurting pretty bad and I thought there was absolutely no way I make the BQ (53 year old here...had to pop 3:30). I decided to just put my head down, don't look at the Garmin and do my level best.
I ran a 3:29:58. Thank goodness that pee didn't last for 27 seconds or I'd be sitting at home watching all you guys on tv.
First time I qualified (long time ago) I did so by the skin of my teeth. Small marathon, before chip timing. It was cold so I was bundled up and my bib was covered. As I finished they said "Yell out your bib #!" so I yelled out "#49! I'm going to Boston!" I stagger back to my car, exhausted but thrilled. As I peel off my wet clothes I see my bib # is 94...needless to say, I limped back to the finish line to make sure I didn't just qualify someone else for Boston!
Dude - I believe you are the pacer I finished the Tampa marathon "final voyage" with - you let me carry the 4:30 flag across the finish line (in 4:29)!
That Steelers helmet is a dead give away.
You running 2013 Boston?
Or is the PacerChris that heads the pacing team?
Ed Geary
Bethel Park native
EGeary - No, sorry - I've never run the Tampa marathon. I've paced a lot of other races though - and I ALWAYS make it known I'm one of God's chosen people (Irish-American AND a Steelers fan - a deadly combo!).
I've got family in Bethel Park. I'm guessing your profile picture was NOT taken in the 'burgh, correct?
I have a photo of the pacer I ran with - I'll post that up next week for you to see if you know him.
It was fun running with someone from the burgh.
Are you one of the PacerJim (Jim Christ) pacers?
Irish and Steelers - I'm with ya. I'm from the McDonald/O'neil clan.
The avatar photo was shot on a lake near my house - Clermont, fl. And I'm always willing to take out vacationing Pittsburghers and teach them to surf.
EDIT: Here's a link that shows a photo of the pacer Chris I ran with. If you know him, please tell him I said hello!
It took me 16 years and 34 marathons trying, and when I finally squeaked in with 56 seconds to spare in the 65 to 69 male category, at he 2009 Portland Marathon, four days after the qualifying window opened for the 2011 Boston, it still took a rather astounding combination of persistence and good luck to get me there.
First I had to be one of the lucky few who doggedly got in to register during the first two hours of the historic 8 hour field-filling crush. Whew! Then five days before the 2011 115th Boston, I got home from work to find a cheery-voiced message from Amtrak telling me that due to flooding in the Dakotas, my scheduled train from Montana to Chicago on the route to Boston had been cancelled, but Amtrak was pleased to inform me they could get me to Boston by the following Wednesday, two days after the race. Fortunately I was able to book a flight and run my first and only Boston as my 35th marathon, without a doubt the most amazing experience of my 25,000 mile running career.
The rest of my squeaker story is that as a mid-packer who started running late at age 38, ran my first marathon at 48 in 1993, was never fast enough to meet Boston times, but never slowed down much as I aged, so finally at 64 was able to nail the time for 65-69. Persistence, some hard work, and a bit of luck finally got me there--and was it ever worth it, lining up at the Boston start with all those other qualifiers running through the historic towns along the route, then turning the corner near the end onto Boylston Street, seeing the iconic Boston finish line up ahead, crossing it and realizing "I just ran the Boston Marathon!"
I ran my first marathon in 1970 while in high school when I ran 3:03:08 in the second Paavo Nurmi Marathon in Wisconsin. I ran three other marathons in high school but never really knew what I was doing. (Who did back then?). I would have liked to run Boston then but financially it was impossible. For the next 40 years I continued to run but didn't seriously consider another marathon, although I was always very interested in Boston. One weekend while my wife was away I watched the movie "Spirit of the Marathon". When I finished the movie I decided to run another marathon and try to qualify. I ran 3:54:14 at Wineglass last September to qualify by 46 seconds. With six miles to go I told the pacer (yeah Otto!) that he had to keep me going as I was dead. I could hardly walk when I finished. My wife drove home and I registered for Boston in the car on my iPhone. I am very excited to be doing my first Boston at age 60.
After running my first marathon at the age of 54, I have squeaked in three times in the last 4 years. Most notable was Nov 12 in Seoul. I needed to run a PR to make it with the new standards of 3:40:00. Ran hard and was tired. In Seoul, you get to finish inside Olympic Stadium and I finally came in the stadium feeling like I had it in the bag, but soon realized it is a long way around the track. Started running hard and passing a lot of people. My wife could see this from the stands. With time short, I "sprinted" the last 20-30 meters to cross the finish line. Pushed my watch and it said 3:40:02. When I showed my wife she almost passed out. However, they soon sent us the official time of 3:40:00. Just made it. In a similar effort March 2013 in Seoul, I managed to better that time at 3:38:52. Still not a lot of room to spare. Next year I get 15 additional minutes. Hope to go to Boston someday.
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Great article in RW! I barely squeaked into a BQ time at the LA Marathon on March 17 and this is a good chance for me to thank all the people that got me there. Boston has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember, thanks to my mom who also had it on hers. As a 52-year old lawyer working more than 60 hours a week most of the time, I have never had time to train in a focused way, but have always tried fit in running as a way to keep my head on straight. Once I hit age 48, the injuries started to mount - plantar fasciitis, back/SI joint injury, shin splints, strained calf muscles, pulled hamstring and the like, and I realized if I was ever going to qualify for Boston, I had better do it now. On the advice of my running partner Warren, I ordered a copy of "Run Less, Run Faster" and committed to the 16-week training program aiming for a 3:55 pace, just 5 minutes faster than my 4:00 BQ time. I followed the program pretty closely, not perfectly - always did my long runs and track workouts (thanks to my husband Doug who drove me to the track every Friday morning at 6:30 a.m.) but wasn't as good at my tempo runs. I enlisted my 23-year old son Dylan, a former college lacrosse player, to go "bucket listing" with me on this venture. On the day of the race, we placed our support crew along the course - my niece Jennifer at mile 15 with sports drink, signs and great cheering and my pilates teacher Diana at mile 20 with my favorite LuluLemon shirt -- and set out with a plan to somehow make it to the finish in less than 4 hours. Dylan was a great pacer - stayed about 20 yards ahead of me most of the race so I had to chase him (he knows me well). I was doing ok until about mile 21 when my quads froze up, undoubtedly the result of trying to make up too much time on the downhill earlier in the race. The voices in my head started taking over and I said I wasn't going to make it at least 20 times, to which Dylan consistently replied "yes we are". The defining moment came as we were turning left from San Vicente onto Ocean Boulevard for the last mile - I was struggling big time, and dying to walk, but I had only 11 minutes to make to the finish line on time. As I made the turn, I saw a man sitting in wheelchair on the corner, cheering on the runners. He made direct eye contact with me, cocked his head to the side, smiled a very whimsical smile and gave me a thumbs up -- as if to say "You've got this - and be thankful you are running!" That was such a spiritual moment for me - in that one moment of eye contact, that man gave me the strength to power to the finish line. It was the hardest last mile I have ever run, but I made it to the finish in 3:55:14 - squeaking in by 4:46 -- and only 14 seconds off of my "Run Less, Run Faster" goal time. Now I am hoping to get into to Boston 2014 with my BQ- thanks to the experts at FIRST (thanks for the training program guys!) and my amazing support team (my running partner Warren, my weight trainer Todd, my chiropractors Alan Forrest and Michael Sheps and of course Dylan, Jennifer, Diana and Doug) and most definitely the man in the wheelchair. Thank you all!
Last year I ran the Shamrock marathon. It was my second marathon. I was 57 years old. My goal was to run 4:10:00 or less and to qualitfy to run Boston as a 50-something. My training had been strong. I ran the first half with the 4:00:00 pace group, then fell back to run the second half at my own pace. I stopped for a porta potty. A security guard ducked in right ahead of me, but as I had already made promises to my post-menopausal bladder, I stood and waited for maybe 90 seconds. I did not panic. I was really quick inside the porta potty. As I turn to open the door, my tiara caught on the coiled wire spring inside the door. The tiara was secured to the outside of a brimmed visor, so I could not actually see what had caught me, and I could not easily remove the visor, as it ran under my ponytail in the back. It took me several seconds to free myself. Not to worry. I had banked plenty of time. As the miles went on, I was struggling with pace. I kept trying to run numbers in my head, and thought if I could just stay under a 10 minute pace, I would be okay. I crossed the finish line, arms held high in victory.
Then I looked down at my Garmin. 4:10:06. Noooo! I collected my bag, and the time texted to my cell phone was 4:10:05. Later, my official time was 4:10:04. That's right, I missed Boston by 4 seconds.
Okay, so I still had another year to qualify to run Boston before turning 60. I registered for a November marathon and for Shamrock 2013. I trained hard. Then in September, I decided to remove the insoles from my too-snug, too-cushy Pure Flows and set out for an 18-miler. It was a fatal move. ITBS struck on my next run and hounded me for several months. The November marathon was a complete no show, and last month I ran the Shamrock Half instead of the full. It's looking like I will not have time to qualify to run Boston as a 50-something.
The good news is that the qualifying time for a 60-something woman is 4:25:00. The pressure is off. I can wear a tiara, take a potty break, and still BQ. Yes, I will be a squeaker, but I will be so proud! See you in 2015!
I had run two marathons when we lived in the west Texas desert. I wasn't that serious about it and ran 4:49 ad 4:09 in 2003 and 2006. When we moved up north in 2009, I ramped up the mileage and started to get serious. I also turned 50, so the qual time was 3:35. In 2010, I ran the Fredericton, New Brunswick marathon. It was perfect weather and flat as a pancake, Plus about 3.4 of the course was on a cushion-like bike trail. I ran totally by feel and only knew by official time at the halfway mark. Finished in 3:30 and BQ'd by 4:54 for 2011. BQ'd in Boston that year at 3:23 but skipped last year due to finances. The two marathons I ran in 2012, 3:13 and 3:09, got me in for 2013 and 2014.
This is possibly my favorite RW article ever. I squeaked into Boston for the first time in 1995 and have squeaked 3 times since then. I'm always in a corral at the back and always just so happy to be there. I've never run a BQ time in Boston. Last time I went I volunteered at race reg on Friday and met runners from all over the world. One of my best friends and I both squeaked one year and when we ran Boston we were both in the very early stages of pregnancy; needless to say we were slow but boy do we look happy in our race photos!. I am currently scheduled for knee surgery later this month and haven't run a step since August so my running future is uncertain at present. Between that and the new qualifying standards I don't know if I'll squeak again.....but you know if I can I sure will!
I BQd twice since I started running in 2006, both times by squeaking. The first time was in my second marathon, Mississauga in 2009. The course is considered fast due to net downhill. There's significant elevation drop in the first half, and some rolling hills in the second half. I have to say that the course is either measured short, or runners often cut one or two poorly marked corners to make it short, so it has relatively high BQ rate and is popular for that reason.
Anyway, I had a good training cycle, ran a solid race and finished in 3:18:21 when I needed 3:20 to qualify. That was actually good enough for first wave, corral 8 in Boston, not too shabby for a squeaker. Of course, I was so excited to be in my first Boston that I forgot my gels in the drop bag, had to run back to the athlete's village from the starting corrals to retrieve them, missed my wave start, started in wave 2 corral 2, ran the first half too fast, bonked in Kenmore Square and ended up finishing in 3:21 when I was on pace for 3:16 at the half. Then I proceeded to run two more 3:21 marathons in the next year, missing a BQ by less than a minute each time.
Second BQ in Berlin 2011 was even closer, at 3:24:27 when I needed 3:25 (the beauty of joining next AG for 2013). This puts me in wave 2 corral 10, so I guess average BQ times got faster. Not going for a BQ in Boston this time, just happy to be there like Tish said - will try again next year!
Hey everyone! Fellow squeaker here and apparently taper mad bc I should be working instead of posting. I ran my first marathon in the Fall of 2008 at age 51 and Boston will be my 15th. Here is my BQ history.
1st BQ attempt - NYC 11/09 Needed 3:35:59 Finished 3:36:30 Fail
2nd BQ attempt - VA Beach spring 2010 - personal worst
1st BQ - Twin Cities 10/10 Finished 3:33:59 BQ
Ran Boston 2011
Planned to use the Twin Cities time again for 2012 with BQ qualifying at 3:35 but didn't make the cut (and dodged the heat bullet!)
BQ'd in Chicago Oct 2012 by 57 seconds but was afraid it wouldn't be good enough even though all of the standards got tougher - so worked a lot harder for NOLA
BQ'd in New Orleans Mar 2012 by 12+ minutes w/ new PR (okay this one was definitely not a squeaker)
BQ'd in Ky Derby Apr 2012 by 4+ minutes (back in to the squeaking mode)
BQ'd in Melbourne FLA Jan 2013 by 3+ minutes
Good luck to everyone on Monday!
Since I hit the 55 age group, the BQ time is now 3:40, so for now I am running a lot of marathons (for me) and just making that my goal every time out.
I definitely squeaked into Boston! I ran my first marathon in January of 2012, and finished with a respectable 3:52, not bad for my 40 year old non-running body. My wife ran her first marathon that day, and she beat me by 30 minutes and BQ'd! Not wanting to be a spectator, I looked into what it would take to qualify, and with the new standard it was 3:15. I trained like crazy, entered the Ottawa Marathon last May, and qualified with a 3:14:59.1 (yes, they time to a hundredth in Ottawa. So I guess I am BQ -.9 sec. It doesn't matter, I am in the dance!
can you do it again in Boston or did you get fat and out of shape- as hockey players are want to do??
Long story:
In June 2002 I was all set to run my 3rd marathon, and--I hoped--qualify for Boston. I had only been running regularly for a few years and had actually never heard of Boston until I talked to a finisher at the end of my 1st marathon, which I ran in December 2001 in 3:47. I thought, OK, I just need to trim 7 minutes off my time. I chose the San Diego Rock 'n' Roll, which worked with my teaching schedule and was within driving distance from my house. A quick weekend trip. Unfortunately, I was traveling with a nonrunner and a heavy sleeper. When the alarm clock squalled at 4 AM race morning, he promptly silenced it, believing there was still plenty of time to get to the start. I didn't wake up until 45 minutes later, and we got stuck in gridlock on the freeway. I heard the starting gun fire while we were en route. Panicking, I demanded to be let out of the car 1/4 mile from the start and sprinted up the Balboa park hill. No time to use the porta potty or warm up.
Bad judgment. During the race, I ended up having to wait in line to make an emergency pit stop, costing me valuable minutes. As I neared the finish line, I fixated on the clock. The seconds ticked past my qualifying time. Maybe I could still make it under the minute grace period, I thought, and tried to sprint. Cramped up. No dice. I was 20 seconds too slow.
A year later I was ready. I pegged San Diego again in 2003. I mapped out a residential route from my hotel a month ahead of time so I could avoid the freeway. Set three alarm clocks the night before and slept with the 3:40 pace band strapped to my wrist. Got to the start an hour early. Used the porty potty twice and streched conscientously.
I've run/stumbled 14 marathons since 2001, but this was honestly my last "textbook" marathon. I hit every single split time. I was like a metronome. During the last .2,as we approached the Marine Depot at the finish, a drill sergeant was barking at us to pick up the pace. My eyes were glued to the clock.
3:39:55. 3:39:56.
Crossed the mat and started crying. My family thought I hadn't made it in in time, gave me hugs and murmured encouraging words. How to explain this kind of insanity to nonrunners?
Finally I was able to tell them, "I made it in under the grace period!"
I ran Boston in 2004, survived the heat wave, but ended up getting injured a few months later. I took a break from running for a while. Life got in the way. Now, having just turned 40, I'm trying to get back up to running that a 8:30-8:35 pace for 26.2. 3:45, I keep telling myself. That's all I need.
But you never forget your first marathon. And you never, ever forget your first Boston qualifier.
I attempted to qualify for Boston in 1995. I trained hard for the '95 Columbus marathon, lined up too far to the back of the pack and finished a "disappointing" 3:41:28. It took me at least a minute and a half to get to the starting line and this was pre-chip racing. I was crushed. My mother told me to mail in my entry for Boston anyway, explaining that it took me 1:30 to cross the start. To my surprise, they accepted my entry!
Your story inspires me to keep pursuing a return trip to Boston. Thank you.
My sister and I had planned on running in the 100th Boston in 1996. She had already qualified. I had the Jacksonville Marathon to do so. Missed the 3:15 cut off by 45 seconds. Three days after the cutoff date to sign up I found out that they didn't count the seconds. I had qualified by 14 seconds. But they wouldn't let me enter the race because my time was up.
On a happier note: Three days before the 100th Boston, I was visiting a friend in Northern California. She had qualified for the Boston and then gotten so pregnant she couldn't run. She gave me her number, I caught a flight, met my sister at the airport. We rented a car and drove to where ever the buses were. The bus took us to the start where I stationed in a coral of mostly older women deflecting suspicious inquires of my qualifying time, my youthfulness having given me away as a possible Bandit Runner. I did have a number though and I didn't set any records or receive any Rosie Ruiz accolades. And the finishing medal they gave me at the end was mailed to the parents of Boston Jones, born around that day in Northern California.
I managed to squeak into the marathon by 26 seconds out at the Minneapolis Marathon in June. I ended up spending a lot of time in the medical tent due to dehydration from the heat. I was supposed to run the Madison Marathon the week before but it got cancelled due to heat.
I managed to run 11 minutes faster than my qualifier and pr'ed by 4 minutes at Boston.
I squeaked in by a rather odd route. The year was 1970 and no official BQ had yet been set though the entry form required that I certify that I had trained sufficiently to finish under 4 hours. Because of fears that once a BQ had been set, I would never be able to run fast enough, I decided at the last minute to enter even though I'd never run a marathon before and felt inadequately prepared. I figured it would be my only chance ever to run Boston. Much to my surprise when I received my official results in the mail 3 weeks after the race, I had easily beaten the new BQ for the next year by over half an hour.
I did not even read your article until after I became a 'squeaker'. Boston was not a race I thought I could qualify for. The "wine and ice cream"statement in your article is me but add cigars and beer to the list. I ran the Pittsburgh marathon in May just hoping to beat a PR from 2 years before. 2012 marathon found me out with an over training injury. My wife was following my run on Face book and sent texts at the splits. I never read any until the race was over. After crossing the finish line I opened my phone to read the text "You qualified for Boston!". 3:39:39 , over 55 age group, gave me 20 seconds to 'squeak'. Now I just may have to give up the cigars and beer in my training and attempt to run Boston. The wine and ice cream are staying.
When I qualified for 2012 Boston, I squeaked in (4:00 qualifying time, ran a 3:57:25 then improved to 3:55). For 2013 Boston, when the time was reduced to 3:55, I qualified with a 3:53 (didn't go to Boston). For 2014 my first qualifying time in Sept/12 I ran a 3:54 so definitely would be a squeak with that (less than one minute), however I since ran again in May, and qualified with a BQ -13. No more squeaking!
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Whenever I dreamed of qualifying for Boston, and that's what it has been for the last 7-8 years, a dream, I always imagined having to sprint down the straightaway in my hometown to make the qualifying time. So last fall, I had a goal of 3:12, but I gave myself an extra three minutes to spare just in case. Just in case apparently came in handy because at mile 18, I was already a minute behind my 3:12 pace. Then over the next several miles, time began to chip away. By mile 25, I was slightly below pace but with a horrible incline coming up. I kept to my training and was thankful I had run that exact section of the course 3 days earlier in practice. After I made it over that hill, I was able to sprint down to the end and qualify for boston with a 3:14:45, 15 seconds under. I am really hoping I make it to Boston but am not hopeful with all that has happened. Also, every time I run a marathon, I always look at the people who finished a second or two past the marathon qualifying time and really sympathize with them. I can't imagine how much regret I would have had if I had finished with 3:15:01 or something like that. I would have been so mad.
I ran my first marathon in Niagara Falls, and it was incredibly windy. As I ran the last mile, I was told the finish line had fallen over. Hopefully the clock was reset properly. Well I got to the finish, or I hoped it was the finish as I had no experience finishing a marathon and there was no banner, and hoped that the clock was correct, and guessed at my finish time, as I really wasn't sure of the exact finish (the finish line structure had fallen and the organizers had just cleared it away), but I was confident enough that I had made a BQ that I told the young lad who led me to the medical tent that "I'm going to Boston." He said "What?" I repeated "I'm going to Boston." Again, he said "What?" (I must have been slurring my words). Again I said "I'm going to Boston." He said - "Oh, I thought you said you were going to the washroom." I needed a 3:50, and I ended up qualifying with 3:50:30. That was when we had the extra 59 seconds. So I squeaked in with 29 seconds to spare.
Well, timewise I didn´t squeak in... but all in all I sort of did. Boston was never really on my list as I "learned" that it is next to impossible. That was when I started running - and I was so convinced of this "fact", that I never really checked what it takes. Now, in 2012 I met a mexican couple at the Marathon-Fair in Berlin (I am from Berlin actually) and they told me they travelled all the way from Mexico City to Berlin in order to BQ (Berlist is a very fast track). So we exchanged names and mails and after the Marathon I checked there times. That did not lead me anywhere as I simply did not know the BQ rules. So I googled them and found out that I BQ´d as well! First thing I did was to check into the registration portal and after I registered got this "Thanks for your data - we´ll get in touch with you"-Mail... I thought I was on a waiting list or so. Two weeks later the confirmation of acceptance arrived (still pinned to my fridge) and I needed to confess to my wife. In a true runner relationship it goes like this: "Sorry, but I forgot to tell you I qualified and registered for Boston. But if you want I can still blow the whole thing of.", "Are you crazy? Of course we are going to Boston!" - and so we did :-) The true squeaker was the shinsplints I got in winter... four weeks before Boston I did my first "run": 4 miles! I spare you the details, but a rigid ´all or nothing´ training got me back on track - though not in shape. So I was really happy to make it to Hopkinton, and from there to Boston!
I didn't squeak into a BQ a few weeks ago at the Bayshore Marathon in Traverse City, Mich., but I did squeak into my major goal for that race - a sub-3:00 at the age of 50.
Mind you, my PR was 3:11:38 from four years ago. I got really motivated to race well at 50, since I've been inspired by some friends who have done so. Being 20 pounds lighter than my 2012 Boston fiasco (4:42-ish in the heat) certainly helped a ton!
Any-who, I was running about 6:36 pace through 21 miles, well under the 6:49-ish needed for a sub-3 on a course that would be 26.3something because of the tangents. Then the first hamstring cramp hit me hard, forcing me to stop and wonder out loud why this was happening to me when I was running the race of my life. A half marathon walker who happened to know a friend of mine stopped and massaged my left hamstring. A race official asked if I wanted a ride back to the finish. "No, I think I'm going to try to get moving again." I did, somewhat slower, but was encouraged by the fact I was still well under 3:00 pace (Garmins are wonderful!).
Then a mile or two later, my right hamstring cramped and I stopped again. This time, a friend of mine in my age group passed me. I did self-massage and got back in the game, slower still, but still on sub-3:00 pace. Both hamstrings let me know they were there over the final four miles but didn't stop me entirely. I was still under 3:00 pace, but the average pace on my Garmin started creeping into the high 6:40s.
With a half mile left, I did quick math and figured I needed to run 7:30 pace to make it. I pushed as hard as one can on two bad hammies after almost 26 miles of running. I got on the track, looked at the clock (I was about 2-3 seconds off gun time) and sprinted in.
I made it ... by four seconds. I made my BQ by 30 minutes, so I'm good for Day 1 registration.
I cannot imagine how tough it would've been to have run 3:00:00 instead of 2:59:56. At least the pressure is off for the Detroit Free Press Marathon in October. I can run that one relaxed, which experience tells me will probably lead to a better time.
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a blast from the past... this thread was from 2013.
SLR would call this a zombie thread. But he's moved onto Maniac calendar guy.