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The Hawkind Remixes
Probably one of the most interesting musical collaborations
has to be this album featuring the work of British Space
Rock legends Hawkwind and the Masters of the ambient
mix universe Astralasia.
Hawkwind have been in existence for more than thirty-five
years and yet are still showing the way with their cutting
edge attitude.
Astralasia of course originally sprang from another British
psychedelic space rock band The Magic Mushroom Band so
who better to be let loose on some of Hawkwind's finest
Whilst some of these remixes have been available before
this is the first time that all the work has been collected
together on one CD and the album also includes a previously
unreleased versions of Uncle Sam's On Mars and an early
version of Spirit Of The Age.
This CD will no doubt appeal to the more adventurous of
Hawkwind's long lasting and widespread fan base but also
fans of Astralasia's ambient dub treatments of Hawkwind's
material. All the material contained on this album has also
been re mastered for this release.
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Sri Lanka's Presidential Election: The Suspense Builds
January 25, 2010
Sri Lanka's presidential election will be held on January 26, 2010. The race has been more competitive than people expected. The incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), elected in 2005, is battling for a second term against the former army chief, General Sarath Fonseka, who together with the president and his defence secretary defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in May 2009 and ended Sri Lanka's three-decade-long civil war.
General Fonseka entered the race in early December as a joint opposition candidate bearing a grudge against the president and defence secretary after feeling personally slighted by them after the war. Fonseka was encouraged to run by Ranil Wickremesinghe, the leader of the main opposition party the United National Party (UNP), because his own chances of winning were slim. Mr. Wickremesinghe is hindered by the fact that he was the architect of the unsuccessful peace process with the LTTE from 2002 to 2004. The peace process is so discredited and Mr. Wickremesinghe so closely associated with it that a Wickremesinghe-led UNP could not hope to mount a serious challenge to the popular war president. Opposition leaders were grateful that Fonseka was available, none more than Mr. Wickremesinghe.
Had Mr. Wickremesinghe stood as the UNP's candidate for president and lost, it would have been more difficult for him to retain control of the party going into the crucial parliamentary elections that will follow on the heels of the presidential election. While Sri Lanka has had a competitive two-party system for decades, there is little internal democracy within parties. Leaders are chosen through back-room deals among party bosses; party rules make it virtually impossible for the rank and file to get rid of an unpopular leader.
It is an unlikely cohort of parties that are supporting Fonseka's bid – the center-right UNP, the leftist Sinhalese nationalist People's Liberation Front, the Tamil National Alliance, and the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress. The "joint opposition" is a temporary marriage of convenience; the only thing that unites them is their desire to see the back of the president.
When the campaign began, most observers expected President Rajapaksa to win handily because he is credited with providing the political leadership needed to defeat the LTTE. However, the issues that have made the election close are corruption and nepotism. General Fonseka has accused the president of both, and this accusation has stuck in the minds of many voters. However, in a cynical electorate that expects the worst from its politicians and believes they are all the same, it may not be enough to offset the advantages of incumbency.
In the absence of rigorous, freely available public opinion surveys it is impossible to say who is leading on the eve of the election. Foreign commentators and journalists who rely heavily on the Colombo intelligentsia for their insights have argued that the election will be extremely close and some have hinted of a Fonseka win. They make two crucial assumptions: the Sinhalese vote, comprising 73 percent of the electorate, will be evenly split between the two war heroes and that minority voters (Sri Lankan Tamils, Muslims, and Upcountry Tamils) will vote overwhelmingly for Fonseka. These are crucial assumptions and if neither pans out – if Fonseka's share of the Sinhalese vote falls short and if the minority vote is fragmented – President Rajapaksa is likely to win by a comfortable margin.
If the party-less General Fonseka wins, it will be a political earthquake of the likes Sri Lanka has not seen in decades. If President Rajapaksa is re-elected, we may look back on the last two months as little more than an entertaining diversion from the real predicament of Sri Lankan politics: the leadership crisis in the UNP that has deprived Sri Lanka's two-party system of its historical balance of power and competitiveness. Politics in Sri Lanka have become a one-horse race dominated by President Rajapaksa and the SLFP. If the country's political system is to be regularly accountable and responsive to all of its citizens, Sri Lanka must have two strong and capably-led national parties, not just one.
Nilan Fernando is The Asia Foundation's Country Representative in Sri Lanka. He can be reached at email@example.com.
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master of astrology ,K.SUNIL –March 3, 2013 at 4:48 am
Who will be Victorious At the President Election of
Sri Lanka in April 10, 2013
The up coming election which is going to be held in Sri Lanka on April 10, 2013 .Who is the next President in Sri Lanka. The whole world looking for this. We can see there is a big competition among the candidates give many hopes and promises to the people in Sri Lanka, the oldest theory of astrology. The result of the election cannot be predicated but in this letter, I try to give an assumption of the election the theory of Krisnamurthi methods very popular among in Asian countries as well as in European countries solar fire williaks is popular according to the solar fire williaks system. on that day the sun rises at about 6.00 clock a.m. an depending on that with an experiments the candidate who comes from Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa candidate ascendent is Aries. Nomination and first election campaign date also effect to the win of the each candidate ascendent. The election date Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa Planet Sun the luckey number 05 at their candidate Aries assessments and Sun more power ful The election day according to the elevation of Latitude and Magnitude sign the well get more vote and be ask the Mr.Mahinda Rajapaksa next President in Sri Lanka elected SureWish you wall the best
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Yorkshire Bank's South Yorkshire Business and Private Banking Centre, in Sheffield, announced Steve Tweedle, 45, as the new leader managing a team delivering a wide range of business and private banking services to the Derbyshire region and elsewhere.
These include business loans and working capital funding, asset and invoice finance, treasury, international, payments, wealth management and private banking to businesses and individuals throughout Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Chesterfield and North Derbyshire.
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Breeding Competitive Strategies
We are interested in the strategic implications of asymmetric competition. Previous work (Carpenter, Cooper, Hanssens and Midgley [CCHM] 1988) has estimated the Nash-equilibrium prices and advertising expenditures for asymmetric market-share models in the extreme cases of no competitive reaction and optimal competitive reaction. There are, however, three important limitations to building marketing plans on either of these competitive scenarios. First, such static, single-period strategies do not provide insight into the actions undertaken over time by major manufacturers and retailers. Strategies such as ad pulsing versus more continuous exposures, or every-day-low-pricing versus deep discounting are played out over time. As we called in the CCHM study, it is time to investigate dynamic, multiperiod strategies. Second, major sources of asymmetries are missing from the CCHM equilibrium analysis. There are two main sources of asymmetries. Asymmetries can arise from stable, cross-competitive effects. The price-tiers hypothesis (Blattberg and Wisniewski 1989), for example, indicates that when national brands go on sale they exert a stable, competitive pressure on regional brands that the regional brands can not counter with their own price reductions. When regional brands go on sale they exert pressure on the economy and private-label brands that these brands can not return. These are asymmetric cross-competitive effects. One brand on sale by itself might gain much more than if it was promoted along with four other brands in the category. The distinctiveness of a brand's offering can produce asymmetric competition in a particular choice context (Nakanishi et al. 1974, Cooper and Nakanishi 1983 and 1988). While the CCHM study incorporated measures of distinctiveness into their development of methods for reflecting asymmetric competition, the equilibrium analysis used a simpler model that did not account for this source of asymmetries. Third, the CCHM effort studied market share, while the great swings in sales levels we observe in retail scanner data encourage us to study the strategic implications of asymmetric sales response. We want to investigate multi-period strategies, when the market response is fundamentally asymmetric in both sales volume and market share. There are major barriers to traditional avenues of investigation. Mathematical exploration is hampered because sources of asymmetry explicitly violate the global0-convexity requirements of normative economic models. One major alternative to mathematical exploration is multi-period simulations, such as Axelrod's first tournament (Axelrod 1984) or the fader/Hauser tournament (Fader and Hauser 1988). While these have the advantage of allowing strategies to be played out over time, so far they have only been undertaken with symmetric and hypothetical market-response functions. We want to use asymmetric market-response functions that characterize brand behavior in real, markets to study the evolution of robust strategies. Genetic algorithms (Holland 1975) provide a mechanism by which we can pursue the study of the evolution of robust strategies. The next section describes genetic algorithms and how adaptable they are to the study of marketing strategy. This is followed by a discussion of a regional U.S. coffee market previously analyzed from a perspective of asymmetric competition (Cooper 1988, Cooper and Nakanishi 1988). Data from an asymmetric model of this market are then used along with a genetic algorithm to breed simple artificial agents for this market. We will demonstrate that in the limited tests we can feasibly conduct these agents outperform the historical actions of brand managers in this regioal market. Finally, we will discuss the reasons why this might be so and what canb e done to extend our approach. While we will primarily focus on one set of market modeling techniques, and one particular market, it is important to stress that the methods we propose have greater applicability. Indeed they canb e used in any marketing situation where there is a good representation of the profit consequences of competitive marketing actions. This representation might be in the form of an explicity linear or nonlinear model or it might be more of a "black-box" representation (e.g., numerical approximation or neural net). Given such a profit function, artificial agents can be formulated and genetically optimized to play multiperiod dynamic games in a robust and profitable manner. Our emphasis on asymmetric market modeling in the CCHM tradition, and on a regional coffee market, simply provides one case illustration of the overall approach.
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The Pickens Sentinel
Some Things You Know and Some
You Don\ Know About Our /
Towns, County & People /
Let everybody behave them
Ne es on the 21st.
.1ev. C. H. Clyde, of Green
wood,,was in town Monday.
Mr. J. M. Gantt made a busi
ness trip to Atlanta last week.
Mr. John P. Smith, ex-coun
tv commissioner, was in the city
Joseph E- Leach, Esq., of Eas
ley, spent Monday in the city on
Miss Frances Robinson, of Eas
le, was the guest of Mrs. B. A.
Ilagood last week.
Mrs. Luther Grandy and chil
dren, of Greenwood, are visiting
relatives in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Carter, of
Chicago, are on a visit to Mrs.
Carter's parents. Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Ashmore.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hester,
after a pleasant stay with rela
tives here, have returned to their
home in Atlanta.
Miss Helen Lewis returned
last week from Gainesville, Ga.,
where she has been taking a
special course in music.
We expect Pickens yeinanry
to maintain its reputation the
day of the campaign meeting
and have a sane, sober meeting.
Mr. R. L. Ambler, of Green
ville. has been sojourning a few
days around the scenes of his
boyhood, but returned Monday.
The city fathers trained, u
one of the new county gasoline
road machines by doing some
excellent work on the ~streets
* - Mlonday.
Mr. J. A. Hughes, a former
valued citizen of this county but
now living near Ware Shoals,
Laurens county, visited his fa
ther, Mr. LarkinHuhsan
other relatives last week.
Messrs. W. M. Stansell, .L
Smith, J. W. and Ira Christo
p~her, WV. 0. and Eugene Nalley
C. F. Davidson and C'. A. Bates
left Mondar for. Table Rock and
Caesar's Head and other monn
tain points.
We have on hand 500 hihh
grade, linen envelopes, on which
is printed an erroneous corner
card, and owing to this fact, we
will sell them for 75 cents-cost
jbruk. If you do not object to
the card, come and get them.
Upon inquiry among those
Wvho haye heretofore taken ani
active part in the county fair,
it develops that there will be
pone this year. This is caused
by a little negligenge in starting
in time to. get up a premium list
Mrs. M. L. Gresham, once a
fair daughter of Pickens but
whose abode is r ow in Atlanta,
is visiting her parents, Mr. and
ira. M1. F. Hester. Accompa:
nying her ar her daughter,
flttle Miss May, and Mss Mar.
tha Jeanne Chambers, who are
guests of Miss Pearl Eester.
Dr. J. N. Hallum, of the Pick
ens Drug Company, has gotten
out a new liver pill called Hal
lum's Liver Cleansers which he
considers the best pill you can
buy to keep the liver, stomach
and blood right. The Pickens
Prug ('omipany~ will w ail theni
~o you if you c'annt comec or
bend on r'eceipt o f the price, 25
cents per box.
In a personal letter from Dri.
L. G. Clayton, of Central. ask
ing us to publish a notice of the
camp meeting coon to be held at
. at piace. w:hich notice will be
Zund in anothier column. he
says: "You are cordially invit
td to be with us, and you~ will
ve all.wed to preCach, pray. sing
and shout as nmch as you wish
Give the townl of Pickens a spcee
ial invitation.'
Decotration day at Cross Roads
next Saturday. 1ith inst. On
this occasion the graves of the
.id s.idierg will h2 al.cerat
e~d apprc'pvate addresses by~
pro.minent speakers will be inade
Tlhe vublic is cordially invited
and a special invitation is ex
tended to the members of Camp
G arvin and (Camip H-awthorne
is givenl and to all the old t1
Tlhe Sunday school of Bethle
hem school house will observe
next Saturday as children's dlay
The exercises will be held in the
grove near~ M.r. W(. TI. ';alle ,
where the tenit mleeting wa
at 10 a. m., and will consist of
songs, reciations, etc. Hon. J.
E. Boggs, among others, is ex
pected to deliver an address.
The public cordially invited.and
bring baskets.
Mr. Geoige E Welborn, for
mer principal of the Princeton
high school, L iuiens county,
entertained at his home lasi
week [a number of his high
school boys. The visiting young
men were Messrs. Robert, Gar
vey and Ithanier Ridgeway, El
bert and Thomas Freeman. Ray
mond Davis and Clary McCuen.
The boys, accompanied by Mr.
Welborn and brother, Robert,
made a typical mountain trip.
vising a number of points of in
terest, including Lake Toxaway
and iable Rock. They return
ed home greatly benefited by
their visit to one of nature's
great art galleries.
Our readers have no doubt no
ticed the advertising of the Cort
right Metal Roofing company,
Philadelphia, Pa.. which has
been appearing in our columns
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that those of our subscribers
who have been in need of such
material have been interested
and profited by these advertise
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any quantity.
The Primary of 1910.
The vote by counties in the
second primary of 1910 was as
F~ eather
stone. Blease
A bbeville .. .... . .081 1,108
A iken .. .. ... ..1,206 2,230
Anderson .... ... 2.819 :3,497
B.mberg .... .. .. 45 491
Barnwell .... .... 815 1,155
Beaufort .. .. ....:08 361
Berkeley .. .. .. .. 99 481
Calhoun .. .. .. ...39 875
Charleston .... 29 :3,5651
C'erokee .. ..... 1,574 1,4391
Chester .........941 844
Chesterfield ...,. 1239 990
Clarendon ..... ..710 861
Colleton . ...... 1071 1,100
Darlington ..... 1,440 9-34
Dillon. .. .... ...995 561
Dorchester ... . 486 829
Edgefield .. ..... 912 775
Fairfield ..... ... 670 634
Florence,..,.. . 1,028 72:3
Georgetown .... 442 942
Greenville .. ... . 282 2.214
Greenwood .... .1,288 1,0)42
Hampton ... . 825 922
1Horry.. .... ...~. 1,050 1,497
Kershaw .. .. .. 79:3 907
L ancaster .... . .1,472 960
L aurens .. .... . .1,592 1,872
Lee .... .... .... 625 774
Lexington .. .. .. 1,01 1,925
Marion .. .... ... 923 502
Marlboro-..-.-. 1,236 920
Newberry-..-.-.-.963 1.592
Oconee-..-....-., .55-4 1,044
Oraneurg . .. .1578 1,589
Pickens ..-.-.- -. 1,192 1.8:30
Richland-..-.-..-. 2,558 2,544
Saluda .. .. .. .. . i;48 1,319
Spartanburg .. ..- 4,53:: 4,050
Sumter .. .... .. . 846 707
~nion-..-.-..-.-.. 100 1,590
Willamsbur-g -. .. 1,273 977
York-..-.-..-.-.. 1,748 1,670
Totals-..-..-. 0.670 5;.250
In the first pr-imar-y the vote
for the leading thre reandidates
was very close. Out of less
than 100,000 votes cast, Blease,
Featherstone and McLeod to
gether received 77,292 votes,
with six candidates in the race.
The vote for these three was as
follows: Blease 28,986 Feather
stone 2';.1.12, m-cLeod 22.164.
Blese fhad a lead over Fe-athe
stone of only 2,844, and Feath
erstone had a lead over McLeod
g only 3,9{8 votes. The Blease,
McLeod and Duncan vote wxas
the anti prohibition vote. and it
amounted to 32284, as against
51.48-6 for the three prohibition
ists, wher -as in the secondl
piary when a much larger
ttai vote was cast. Blease re
eived only 16.-50 vptcps to 50,
605 foC rat estone.
In the first primary of 1910.
which was the. re-al test of the
pesonal strength of the candli
dtes.Blease received a mnajor-itv
in only three ccunties. Aiken.
n 1 la, pi ,;tr McLeod
e e'ved a m:ajority in the six
~ount ies. of Beaufort, Charles
t n F'lorene, Georgetown, Lee
i in n-: story1~ brick store on
.\in sire-et,- in IPickt -s. Terms
e(1C E-' piRT\QI\~U
The Intelligent Voter
Let's see who is the inteligent
When Judge Jones spoke at
Hampton he used some langu
age that was unnecessary.
I voted for Gov. Blease last
election for I had no patience
with prohibition or a man who
advocated it in the State of S.
C. while the national constitu
tion alowed whiskey to be ship
ed in the State. When Judge
Jones was announced it struck
me very forcibly. But when
the legislative committee went to
Augusta to hear the testimony
of Felder, one with any reason
ble idea began to imagine why if
Gov. Blease is so easily bribed
why do not these individuals
who are spending so much mon
ey to get something against the
governor dont just buy him and
run the Government, one would
at once believe he was not so
easy bribed. One would be
lieve he was unjustly ridiculed,
I had but little idea as to the
pardons and after seeing so
much slush in the papers that
was unreasonable I was recon
cerned to look up the cause of
those pardons. The papers has
published things tY at had they
of been true should not of been
published and hurled to the out
side world unless they meant to
hurt the name of our proud
State. When Grace was elected
mayor of Charlston sopme of the
Greenville papers and several
others threw shame at the lit
tle city by the sea and pittied it.
But when Grace spoke in Green
ville the same papers said Grace
was not a stranger in Greenville
that he was among his friends
and relatives. The papers sound
to me like what I heard a 1iol
to woman say once that she
"had no credit never had had
any "nor I don't want "nun!"
I don't reckpn any of the Spar
tanburg people are low enough
to regret the rotten egg happen
ing its only what ought to of
been done. There are other char
acters that I would mention but
ink is too high priced besides I
feel like a bath now since pass
ing those I have.
M. W. IHester
[We would like to Inquire of
Mr. Hester what Judge Jones
ad to do with the investigating
ommittee's meeting in Augus,
tal or what the dictagraph said?
r what Grace said? If Govern
or Blease could have ha'd his
way, there would never have
been any investigation,. for he
vetoed the act creating the com
mittee after he had asked the
legislature to pass suich a law,
and the public would never have
known of the grafting from the
tigers of Charleston. Why do
you charge up to Judge Jones
the faults and mistakes of oth
ers, if they have been made?
He is in no way whatever re
sponsible for what t~e leggla
ture didl whep the inyestigating
committee was created, even
though that body acted on Gov.
Blease's invitation.-Editor. 1
A Birthday Dinner.
There was a birthday dinner
at Mr. Warren D. Egg~is' pn the
5th inst.., on which date he was
84 years old.
He has seven living children.
twenty-four grandchildren, and
ten great-grandchildren. The
children present were Mrs. J
McD. Cantrell of North Caro
lina. Mrs. R. H. Baker of
Hagood section, Mrs. Ben Can
trell of Ooienoy ggti and
Mrs. J. 7E. singleton of IDacus
ville, this county. There were
between forty-five and fifty
present on this occasion, which
everybody enjoyed. A good
dinner, spread in the shade in
the yard, w- s heart'ly partaken
WV. 0. W. Picnit
Thus~day' of las; week was a
banner d ay for the Woodma
Iof the World of Pickens county
A reunion anid picnic was held
on the court house square. One
thousand people were present.
The exercises began at 10.30,
Iand an excellent program was
carried out.
Dr. F. S Pmor.r onsusi comn
mande.r uf Keoweie camp, of this
Iplace, presided,
The~ exercises were opened
with prayer by Rev. G. F. Kir
by, of the Methodist church.
Prof. IR. T. Hallum deliver'e;
the address of '[email protected]!?pme.
H an. J. J. Mc~wain, oftGreen
ville, was the orator of the day.
He made an excellent address,
dwelling upon the fraternal and
social side of the order, and lay
inephagig up)4 t4ge insur
ance feature. lie stated that
since the war about S100,000,000
had been sent north from South
Caoln in insurance and only
one third of it had returned.
For every three dollars sent up
north only one returns. It was
time, he said, for the South to
stop sending their money !to the
north, as it was for the South's
best interest to keep it at home
in their own companies. After
Mr. )McSwain's address, Rev.
Mr. Kirby made a short speech.
The ladies then began preparing
dinner. while the crowd had
some fun in engaging in a tug
of war and apple races. Many
joined in the sport.
After dinner the monument
to the late Sovereign F. E. Cox
was unveiled. the Misses Porter
withdrawing the veil.
The Pickens band furnished
most excellent music.
A Leap Year Party
Thursday evening one of the
season's most brilliant social af
fairs was giyen my Miss Inez
Morris at her home on Hampton
avenue,. Invitations were sent
out to fifty young people, bid
ding them to a leap year party.
Each young lady invited a gen
tleman to be her escort. Receiv
ing with Miss Morris was Miss
Mildred Cox, Miss Frances Bruce
Sara and Bess Clement and Ma
ry Morris pinned a card with a
number and a picture on each
guest. Place cards were match
ed and in this way partners ar
ranged for a wallk down "'Lov
ers' T1aue," whiph was a cozy
corner in one end of the spacious
piazza, This was the place where
the gentlemen received their pro
posals. A prize was awarded
the young lady who made the
best proposal, and the winner
was Miss Hazel Rush. Music,
dancIng1 - gresslye conversa
tion ana dellplous refreshments
were happy features of the eve
ning's pleasure. The pleasant
memories of this party will lin
gpr long with tha bright partici
pants, and all were grateful for
the hospitality of the hostess.
Death of Mrs, W, U& Ueger
W~illiam H. Ilester utr Spartan
burg, died at the~ hogue of her
daughter, Mrs. J ilhus Sobiff,
Facu~lty WIll, Walhalla, last
Sunday night at 9.h o'clock.
after a long and tedious iess.
She having been for more thlin
a year a great sufferer from
Bright's disease. For sonwi'
months It had been realized that
all hope of Mrs. Hester's re
covery had fled, and she but
bided her timne, patieptly agwgit
ig the eng Vallying 'from a
severe sinking spell during the
week just past. Mrs. Hester
told those about her that she
would spenid one more Sunday
with them, and ais the shades
of night were drawn last Sun
day evening hzer spig~t peace
fully yggp1 it way to the
realms of the great beyond.
Mrs. Hester was in her 63rd
year. She was a daughter of~
the late M~dleton pay, of Pick
ens, in whiph county she was
born. Thirty-igh1t years ago
last Degember she wgs happily
married t. William RI. Hester,
who. with fonr daughters. sur
vives. The children are; Mrs.
Julias Schiff and Mrs. Frank
R . Carter, of Waihalla- Mrs. 0.
I, Burchfield of Atlanta, and
Mrs, E. C. Stark, of Bristol,
Mass. All except the latter
were present at the bedside of
the deceased. Mrs. Starkt
health would ygi perorit her
tal~ig t ong journey from
her New '%ngiand'home. Mrs.
ester is survived also by four
sisters, Mrs. N. T. Martin and
Mrs. W. N, C2ox, of Greenville
Mrs. Richard Hvet, f Pickens,
and Mrs. Ii. O.' Newton, a mis
sionary in Japan. Mr. and virs.
Richard Rester were present at
the funeral ser-v1e.
Mrs. Hegtep- bad been a con
sistent member- of the Baptist
church for mere than thirty
years, having united with the
denomination after her marriage
She was loved by all who knew
her, and her life was one full of
kind deeds and overflowing
with love and sympagaty for
those abont her.
Mrs. N-ester had resided in
Spartanburg for the past twelve
years with her husband, but
came here some months ago to
visit her daughters. For a tim?
she improved, but it was realiz
ed, egen, by thle sufferer, that
this improvement was but tem
porary, and she was prepared.
even anxious, to go whensoever
the summons might come.
Funeral services were held at
1the home pf Mr. and Mrs. J
~Schii# at 5 o'clock Monday even
Sing, after which the remains
were taken to Westview ceme
tery, where, in the presence of
a large number of friend,s, ihtey
ere lowered tn the air n t rtng0
place- Rev. Geo. M. Wilcox, o
the Prebyterian church. con
ducted the funeral services.
In the death of Mrs. Hester,,
good woman has been called t<
her reward. We join witl
hosts of friends of the bereave(
ones in extending sympathy it
their deep sorrow.-Keowe(
Camp Meetings.
The annual camp-meeting of
the South Carolina conferencE
of the Wesleyan Methodist
church will convene at Central,
S. C., August 21st and continue
to Sep. 1st. Rocms in the boy's
dormitory can be had, if occu
pied by two or three, for $1.50.
a week. For a shorter time the
price will be more. Meals can
be had on the grounds at a res
taurant for $3.50 during the en
tire meeting. For a short time
the price will be advanced.
Damage to rooms or furniture
must be paid for. All who ex
pect to spend the entire or most
of the time must carry bed ticks,
pillows, sheets and other neces
sary articles.
Parties desiring rooms had
better write Prof. J. M. Han
cock, Central, S, C.
The object of the meeting is
the conversion of sinners, the
reclamation of backsliders. the
entire sanctification of believers
and the deepening of the spirit
ual life.
All the preachers of the con
ference are expected to be on
hand, pastors and christian
workers of all orthodox denomi
nations are cordially invited to
attend and aid in this battle
against S8.
E. L. Henderson,
W. A. Mathews,
L. G. Clayton,
2t17 Committee.
FOR SALE--40 acres fine
farm land. Good dwelling, out
buildings, water, pasture, good
orchard and other improve
ments within half a mile of Six
Mile Academy. Terms easy.
J. B3. Robinson,
Central, S. C., R. 2.
FOR SALE-Nice horse and
buggv. Horse six vears old:
rich sorel, sound as a dollar,
good style, high class roadster.
A bargain. Carl L. Gullick,
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WATT at Qateechee, S.
p. e n-.able man to run a
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Norris, Cateechee, S. C.
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from Pickens, at $5 per acre.
Several good tena ni t houses, a
large barn, plenty water, good
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Brewers' sluggers have field day
MILWAUKEE - Ryan Braun hit a mammoth 463-foot two-run home run in the first inning of the Brewers' 9-6 win over the Cardinals in Game 1 of the National League Championship Series yesterday, and all he could talk about was how hard Prince Fielder hit his fifth-inning two-run homer.
"That was one of the hardest hit balls I've ever seen,'' said Braun, the NL Most Valuable Player favorite who collected four RBIs. "I don't think I've ever seen Prince hit one any harder than that.''
According to ESPN, the ball went out at 119.2 miles per hour, the fastest speed for any home run in 2011. It traveled 420 feet.
"It felt good,'' Fielder said. "I thought it might be off the wall or a double into the gap and it kind of kept going. That was good.''
Braun, who gave the Brewers a 2-1 lead with his first-inning shot, and Fielder, probably the most feared twosome in any middle of the order in baseball, showed how quickly the Brewers can score. Entering the fifth inning, they were trailing the Cardinals and lefty Jamie Garcia, 5-2, but not for long. They scored six times.
"I think that's why we get so excited,'' Fielder said. "Whenever we do that, it's just awesome because it's all real quick. It's a good feeling. We were down there for a while and obviously that doesn't feel good. Whenever we come back real quick, it's a little extra boost.''
Since the two became teammates in 2007, Braun and Fielder have homered in the same game 37 times. The Brewers are 28-9 in those games.
"We have an offense that's not exactly dependent on the home run, but if we need to rely on it we've done that,'' said Braun, who is now 11 for 22 in six games this postseason.
The big hits in the fifth were Braun's opposite-field ground-rule double, scoring two, and Fielder's blast for two more. Another came from one of the most unlikely heroes, shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt, who also blasted a two-run homer after a good at-bat in which he fouled off four pitches from reliever Octavio Dotel.
Asked after the game about those who have criticized his season as up and down, Betancourt quipped, "Since I don't understand English, I don't get mad.''
Braun and Fielder are demonstrative when they do something big. Some questioned Cardinals manager Tony La Russa's strategy of pitching to Fielder with first base open, but it was only the fifth and Fielder was facing a lefty. Fielder had made a nice diving stop to rob Jon Jay of a hit in the top of the fifth.
"I'm not the greatest defender, but any time I can help on both sides of the ball it's good,'' said Fielder, who should be the highest-priced free agent this offseason. "Because sometimes you're not going to hit. So you have to pick it up on defense.''
There wasn't much in the way of pitching, but the Brewers' Zack Greinke, in the biggest game of his career, allowed six runs, yet earned his first career postseason win. He improved to 12-0 at Miller Park. The Brewers went 57-24 at home this season, the best in the majors, and Greinke won 11 of his 16 games at Miller Park.
The retractable roof was kept open on a pristine fall day, with the temperature 74 degrees at game time. The ball carried; David Freese gave the Cardinals a 4-2 lead on his three-run homer in the fourth inning.
Garcia hit Fielder with a pitch after Braun's homer in the first. The umpires warned both benches because these teams had some brushback pitches and bad blood in going 9-9 during the regular season.
"I don't think he tried to throw at me,'' Fielder said.
Garcia walked Rickie Weeks right after that, but then struck out two to end the inning. He kept the Brewers off the board in innings 2-4 before the fifth inning came along.
Corey Hart (single) and Jerry Hairston Jr. (double), the top of the Brewers order, set the table for the onslaught.
Hairston Jr. said one of the keys to the Brewers' offensive success is the fun they have on the field. He said they're not into showing teams up, but they do get excited. Braun and Fielder do a boxing act after big hits.
"They have fun and we really enjoy the game,'' Hairston Jr. said. "We don't want to show anyone up. We tried to calm down at one point this season and we lost four games in a row so we decided to go back to having a good time and it's paid off.''
Hairston Jr. compared Braun with Edgar Martinez.
"Edgar Martinez is the best righthanded hitter I ever saw,'' he said. "Braun is a better athlete. Edgar was awesome on the inner half and the outer half and Brauny is the same way.''
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Lisa Kleypas is back with a stunning new historical romance!
Listeners have long waited for the return of New York Times best-selling author Lisa Kleypas to historical romance - and now she's back with her most breathtaking yet.
A twist of fate...
Devon Ravenel, London's most wickedly charming rake, has just inherited an earldom. But his powerful new rank in society comes with unwanted responsibilities...and more than a few surprises. His estate is saddled with debt, and the late earl's three innocent sisters are still occupying the house - along with Kathleen, Lady Trenear, a beautiful young widow whose sharp wit and determination are a match for Devon's own.
A clash of wills...
Kathleen knows better than to trust a ruthless scoundrel like Devon. But the fiery attraction between them is impossible to deny - and from the first moment Devon holds her in his arms, he vows to do whatever it takes to possess her. As Kathleen finds herself yielding to his skillfully erotic seduction, only one question remains:
Can she keep from surrendering her heart to the most dangerous man she's ever known?
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good, but far from her best
The characters were strong, very clearly drawn so I had a clear understanding of what drives them. The descriptions were also detailed but not tedious...not always an easy thing to do.
I liked the younger brother best as far as characters went. He was funny and engaging, but all too human as well.
I thought she did a very good job, and her accents, for the most part, were convincing.
I found the H/h to be rather unlikable. They were both prickly and mistrustful. There wasn't much to draw them together except physical passion. Maybe I missed it, but there was no spark of love (not lust) between these two, and no blissful, weepy moment at the end. I really missed Kleypas's usual humor in this book. It's much darker than her other historicals, IMO. I've missed her historical romance, and so I've been looking forward to this for months. I was more than a little disappointed by this book...it's not as engaging as the Hathaways series or the Wallflower series. Still, it's better than most of other authors historicals, so I give it a solid four stars.
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Big chill still ahead for crops
Lower prices overnight for the grain markets means that traders are focused on other factors (most like the September USDA crop report from yesterday) besides the weather, but don't think that means that the weather forecast has changed. With the National Weather Service this morning posting freeze watches for North Dakota, northeastern South Dakota, all but far southeastern Minnesota, and far northwestern Iowa, it is correct to assume that freezing temperatures are still in the forecast for later this week in parts of the Nation's midsection.
If anything, I would consider most of the weather models today to be a little cooler than they showed yesterday. For tomorrow morning I would look for most locations in North Dakota to drop below the freezing mark with a number of spots getting below 30 degrees; only the far southeastern part of the state may escape with seeing temperatures below 32 tomorrow.
On Thursday morning, I would look for lows below 32 in eastern parts of the Dakotas, about the northern one-quarter of Iowa, far western Wisconsin, and much of Minnesota and there will be places in that area that get below the 30 degree mark. Most places will be above 32 on Friday morning, but a few spots in Wisconsin and Michigan will likely reach 32 or a little lower at that time. Just nine percent of the Minnesota soybean crop was dropping leaves as of this past Sunday (61 percent of the crop hasn't even started to turn color yet) and only ten percent of the corn crop mature, an end to the growing season on September 15 is not what Minnesota crops want to see.
The bright spot in the forecast picture right now is still in the southern Plains, where the best rainfall chances in weeks are still in the forecast. Late tonight through Thursday looks wet in especially western areas, with eastern areas favored for rain for Sunday to Tuesday of next week.
Through it all, I would look for the bulk of the hard-red winter wheat belt to see rains of 0.75. to 1.75" over the next week with a few locally heavier totals.
Even the Midwest will see one of its best rainfall events in quite a while for early next week (though that might be accompanied by a lot of severe weather as well). None of this rain is a sign of an overall change to a wetter weather pattern though, with things looking to dry out again by around September 21 and beyond.
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Tusker Malt Lager will this Friday hold a legendary experience at the Tamasha Hurlingham.
On hand to take revelers on a musical journey of the 80's, 90's and today will be the legendary DJ FABS on the decks.
Guests stand a chance of winning a stylish, Gatsby-hat for every purchase of a Tusker-Malt Lager bucket which contains six-beers. While purchasers of two buckets shall get a power-bank .


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Mock election held by future voters
Cushing — The fourth-grade class at the Cushing Community School held a mock election Oct. 30, one week before the general election.
Staff and students grades one through four registered and voted. An official ballot box and modified ballots were used.
Students chose the Obama-Biden ticket for the presidential race and Angus King for the U.S. Senate seat.
Each student received a "I Voted Today" sticker. Teacher Leslie Spear said Lisa Young at the Cushing Town Office helped to make the educational election realistic.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 13 (UPI) -- The Kansas City Chiefs Friday hired Clancy Pendergast to be their next defensive coordinator.
Pendergast had held the same job with the Arizona Cardinals from 2004-08, but was let go earlier this off-season, despite Arizona reaching Super Bowl XLIII.
Pendergast, 41, is a 14-year NFL coaching veteran and, in Kansas City, he rejoins former Cardinals' offensive coordinator Todd Haley, the Chiefs' new head coach.
Pendergast inherits a defense that gave up over 27 points per game in a dismal 2-14 2008-09 season.
"Clancy was instrumental in the Arizona Cardinals' run at the end of last season that led to our appearance in the Super Bowl," Haley said. "The fact that we have experience working together along with Clancy's previous experience working with (offensive coordinator) Gary Gibbs will be a big factor in our continuity as we move forward."


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Madonna performs Same Love / Open Your Heart Medley with Macklemore at the Grammy awards (January 27 2014)
Attire is same 14yrs. ago Madonna. With your attire fashion designers. Didn't make statement, not verbally! Was the moment for aspiring Macklemore. Whom, the voice of Gay men anthem? One to question jumping on band. Wagon not referring to touring. Audacity to use rap song quell. Homophobic racism! Front Macklemore expect social reaction. Acknowledge time to respect everyone. Not so I'm Gay never hide. My affection government policies deter. The LGBT society Macklemore said. Your not Gay male why? Sudden fight are playing with actions? See do title and video's exclusively. Gay men and twinks yeah record. Label full of "closet perverts". Hiding front only straight no former race. Recordings majority of LGBT society. Aware your pimping and using. LGBT Macklemore you decline show. Your manliness for Tetu magazine. Attitude of Australia your sexy and cute. Sing duet with Parker Riley or Drew Culter. Believe me Macklemore you'll sell more. Records aboard fans don't care. About your sexuality laugh macho world. Of Hip Hop they detest faggots. Well most B Boyz been screwed. In prison no bone in the ass! Guys making passes, plenty anal. Smelling and licking don't play.
Naïve majority guys are bisexual so. Muchanal action without taught. Distractions online Thug sex calling. Gay men sissies what ever! Madonna record title"eating out". Didn't say with girlfriends. Since Sex Book and Rolling stone June 1991. Hidden girl sexual fantasies so what!
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She looks very nice… Like she had a holiday:)
The reports clearly stated she was going to be a support act for Macklemore/Lewis. With her ankle recently injured and no music nominated this year…tell me exactly what BIG stuff you had in mind.
I can't believe it, I watched the complete show because I wanted to see Madonna and she only sang half of a song. I thought that she was going to do something BIG.
oh Gott she was amazing, i had tears in my-eyes..
it was worth the wait, it was 5:17 am here in Deutschland.
and now 5:53 am
and i must walk-up after 2uhrs ^^
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real fan. like it. enjoy your short night
not sure i can sleep. i am afraid i will not walk up so, more coffee and hard day.
but Gott bless M. it was great message to spry and share.
Madonna fan
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HERCULES — A ballot measure in the Rodeo-Hercules Fire Protection District could trigger a challenge to benefit assessments as a tool to raise revenue for fire districts.
A public hearing before the Rodeo-Hercules board Wednesday night marked the end of the voting period for the measure, which would impose an assessment of $82 a year on single-family houses and $46.93 for condos and apartments. Stores would pay $60.30 per one-fifth acre while industrial properties would pay varying rates, based on fire risk and replacement cost of structures. The results won't be known until June 11.
The measure, which is supposed to raise almost $1 million a year for enhanced fire protection and emergency response, requires majority approval by property owners, with ballots weighted according to property type and, for nonresidential properties, size and other factors.
Alex Aliferis, executive director of the Contra Costa Taxpayers Association, warns that fire districts, faced with the difficulty of passing special parcel taxes requiring two-thirds voter majorities, will increasingly look to benefit assessments as alternative funding mechanisms.
"East Contra Costa can't seem to pass a parcel tax," Aliferis said, referring to the unsuccessful June 2012, $197-a-year Measure S in the East Contra Costa Fire district, "so they're studying a benefit assessment. What's next? ConFire?"
A report on the Contra Costa County Fire District, popularly known as ConFire, by consultant Fitch and Associates envisions another revenue measure within two or three years. In November 2012, Measure Q, a $75-a-year ConFire parcel tax measure, went down to defeat.
The results of Rodeo-Hercules' measure will be unveiled at a public hearing June 11, said John Bliss, vice president of SCI Consulting Group of Fairfield, which ran the election. The ballots will be tabulated by Carol Keane & Associates, Certified Public Accountants, of Walnut Creek.
Aliferis referred to an April 2 letter from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association to the Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District opposing a proposed "fire suppression assessment" in that district. The organization holds that fire suppression is ineligible for benefit assessment financing because it is a general, communitywide benefit, not a special benefit accruing to individual parcels.
Another letter from the Jarvis association, this one to Aliferis, dated Wednesday, makes a similar point about Rodeo-Hercules' measure.
"We wrote and sponsored Proposition 218, which added article XIII D to the California Constitution in 1996, in part for the purpose of restricting the use of assessments," both letters note.
Rodeo-Hercules district counsel Richard Pio Roda opined that the measure is in compliance with the law, citing a report from SCI, which explains that it complies because the services to be funded are clearly defined and will be provided directly to all benefited property in the district. Moreover, the report argues, the benefit will be over and beyond general benefits conferred on real property in the district.
Aliferis, asked whether his organization would challenge Rodeo-Hercules' benefit assessment if it passes, said, "No comment."


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Fear over North Korean food aid
The United Nations says it has been prevented from checking that food aid for famine-stricken North Korea is reaching the people most in need.
After suffering from a combination of droughts and floods, the communist country has been relying on outside aid since 1995 to feed its 24 million people.
"We said if we did not have access to the additional areas, we would then cut back the amount of resources that we were sending," said Catherine Bertini, executive director of WFP.
Her concern was also echoed in talks between North and South Korea taking place in China, which have stalled over demands that North Korea should make more political concessions to save its people from mass starvation.
Claims of a silent famine
Refugees who have escaped famine by fleeing over the border to China say that limited foreign access means that the world only sees a fraction of the suffering in North Korea.
One 26-year old refugee said: "In my home town there has been no distribution at all since 1994. Half the people in the town have either died or disappeared."
Meanwhile, other relief organisations have claimed that three million people starved to death since 1995.
A senior WFP official said that she could neither deny nor confirm these reports.
"I think we cannot afford to have another quiet famine hit us again this century," said Judy Cheng-Hopkins.
"But I would say that, when you interview a sample of self-selecting people who cross the border (to China) and then extrapolate them to the rest of the population to come up with a final figure, I don't know ... how sound that is."
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Dawn Noyes of Dolores has been selected to partaicipate in the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX), a year-long federally funded fellowship for study and work in Germany.
Noyes has studied at Colorado State University and was selected as one of 75 participants (from more than 600 applicants) for this unique fellowship program.
While in Germany, she will attend a two-month intensive German-language course, study at a German university or professional school for four months, and complete a five-month internship with a German company in her career field, which is marketing.
Conceived and supported by members of the United States Congress and the German parliament (Bundestag), the CBYX program is financially supported by the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State under the authority of the Fulbright-Hays Act, and by the Bundestag.
CBYX is a reciprocal scholarship program. While American participants will experience life in Germany, young German professionals will live in the United States during the upcoming academic year, studying at U.S. colleges in the fall and working at businesses in the spring, all while living with an American host.


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Since the early 1990s many empirical studies have been conducted on the impact of international migration on international trade, predominantly from the host country perspective. Because most studies have adopted broadly the same specification, namely a log-linear gravity model of export and import flows augmented with the logarithm of the stock of immigrants from specific source countries as an additional explanatory variable, the resulting elasticities are broadly comparable and yield a set of estimates that is well suited to meta-analysis. We therefore compile and analyze in this paper the distribution of immigration elasticities of imports and exports across 48 studies that yielded 300 observations. The results show that immigration complements rather than substitutes for trade flows between host and origin countries. Correcting for heterogeneity and publication bias, an increase in the number of immigrants by 10 percent may be expected to increase the volume of trade on average by about 1.5 percent. However, the impact is lower for trade in homogeneous goods. Over time, the growing stock of immigrants decreases the elasticities. The estimates are affected by the choice of some covariates, the nature of the data (cross-section or panel) and the estimation technique. Elasticities vary between countries in ways that cannot be fully explained by study characteristics; trade restrictions and immigration policies matter for the impact of immigration on trade. The migrant elasticity of imports is larger than that of exports in about half the countries considered, but the publication bias and heterogeneity-corrected elasticity is slightly larger for exports than for imports.
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How sad. I also have a couple gooses and several ducks in the great pond in the sky. I miss them.
Beautiful pattern, I have some of my cat :)
This is a picture from several years ago. Old Gimpy the goose has since gone to the great pond in the sky. Thanks.
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Paris, France (ESA) Feb 11, 2011
Our growing reliance on coastal waters for food, trade and tourism means that these delicate ecosystems need to be more closely monitored to guarantee their future sustainability.
ESA's CoastColour project is helping scientists develop techniques to take full advantage of the unique capabilities of the Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS) sensor on its Envisat satellite.
With a resolution of 300 m, MERIS provides the sharpest view of coastal waters to date, and includes spectral bands specially designed to characterise the complex mixing of pollutants, suspended sediments and phytoplankton typically found in coastal zones.
Stressing the need for information to help manage these ecosystems, more than 40 user organisations have already signed up to the CoastColour project, which is now processing MERIS data with state-of-the-art techniques over 27 high-priority coastal regions selected by users worldwide.
Coral reef monitoring
During the wet season large plumes of sediment-laden river water flows into the reef lagoon. Sediments can smother corals and deprive them of the sunlight they need to survive, while river-borne nutrients may influence the frequency of naturally occurring algal blooms.
"ESA is to be commended for supporting the use of Earth observation to help solve the management issues of these truly complex coastal aquatic ecosystems," Dr Dekker said.
Algal bloom monitoring
Dr Stewart Bernard of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research is developing systems aiming to integrate the satellite data with hydrodynamic models to monitor and predict harmful algal blooms operationally.
Coastal resource managers and the aquaculture industry in the region greatly need these predictions to minimise risks to public safety and financial losses, according to Dr Bernard.
"The involvement of local scientists in CoastColour has already increased South Africa's technical ocean-colour capability, and is expected to significantly aid the implementation of the ocean-colour components of developing African operational oceanography systems."
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Most of the time I'm amazing.
Tonight was hard. Took the kids to a friend's house for a Halloween party. The same one we went to together last year with our brand new baby.
This time, it was just me. And that little baby is now a crazy one year old who is in to everything. And I have no husband to help me. I just felt so sad.
I know this too shall pass and I'm sure I won't be alone forever. But sometimes I just can't believe I'm here and alone and my family isn't together.
I wish I just knew how it will all work out.
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Having been in practice for 14 years and predominately treating runners and their injuries during most of that time I have seen my fair share of rehab tools, gadgets and devices come and go. Some actually have stood the test of time and became ingrained into the running community at large. A good example of this would be a foam roller. While foam rollers may have been around since the 1990's they began to become prevalent in the running community around 2004. It seems now every runner has one whether they know how to actually use it or not! During the last 14 years I have seen sticks, wheels, rollers, knobbies, balls made of wood and plastic, compression suits, stretching devices, detoxifier foot baths, insoles and more nonsense marketed to runners with claims that the product will either treat their injury or help them prevent an injury from occurring. Most of this stuff is nothing more than a gimmick and in reality is designed to alleviate the runner of their money! Recently an amazing machine became available called the Alter-G which stands for Altered Gravity Treadmill. This is an ingenious device that was invented at the Ames Research Center in Mountain View California with the intent of creating a gravitational environment in the space station to help prevent muscle atrophy and bone mineral loss while astronauts were in space. Without gravitational stress human connective tissue will deteriorate resulting in permanent damage to the body.
Originally invented in 1992 the first prototype of the Alter-G did not become available until 2006. The first facility to receive one was the Nike Oregon Project with the program supervised by former Olympian Alberto Salazar. I was able to finally "test drive" an Alter-G in 2013. I was excited because I had read some research regarding the device and wanted to see what it felt like first hand. I met the Alter-G rep at the agreed location and eagerly changed into my running clothes. He had me slide the Alter-G Tri-style compression shorts on over my own shorts and step into the altered gravity chamber that seemed to be part of the treadmill. I stepped up onto the treadmill, standing within the circular ring of the chamber and he proceeded to raise the chamber up so that it was about even with my waist. He then fastened the chamber to my Tri-style Alter-G shorts and instructed me that he would pressurize the chamber that now surrounded my lower body. I stood still as the chamber pressurized first taking me to 20% of my body weight, then rapidly bringing me back to 100% of my body weight. He then turned on the treadmill and asked me to run at a comfortable speed. I set the speed at 6.0 mph and began to run at conversation pace with the Alter-G set at 100% my body weight which is 180 lbs. After roughly 2 minutes he reduced my body weight by 10%. I could barely feel a difference. Two minutes later he reduced my weight by 20%. WOW! Now that I could feel. After another 2 minutes he took my body weight down by 30%. Holy S&%$#*T! I was running weighing the equivalent of 126 pounds! I felt light as a feather and instantly the 6.0 mph felt way too slow. I sped the treadmill up to 8.0 and ran effortlessly. I felt none of my usual 43 year old pain or suffering from my feet, knees or hips. I instantly knew that I could help thousands of runners achieve their goals utilizing the Alter-G! In the past when a runner presented to me and I diagnosed them with stress fractures they were essentially stopped in their tracks. Since stress fractures take 4-6 weeks to heal they could not run during that entire time. Sure, they could bike or do the elliptical but every runner knows that there is nothing like running! Now I would be able to take injured runners with stress fractures, torn muscles and ligaments, ITB, bursitis…..any condition that was stopping them from running and I could have them run while their body was healing. I turned to the rep and said, "I want one, when can you deliver it". He looked at me startled and replied, "Don't you want to see everything the Alter-G can do? Plus I will need to go over the pricing and financials with you". I said, "It does not matter, I want one. I already know how I can help thousands of people, not only runners, with this device." One week later we had the Altered Gravity treadmill installed in our clinic.
That was 3 weeks ago. In the last three weeks I have seen and also experienced first hand a giant step forward in the world of running and rehabilitation. In fact, saying a giant step is an understatement. This tool is the single most important piece of rehabilitation to be invented in my lifetime. In the past 3 weeks I have seen cross country runners with multiple stress fractures run on the Alter-G with no pain whatsoever. Three weeks ago we started them at 35% their body weight. Each week has seen about a 15% improvement resulting them running at 65% – 85% their body weight depending on the athlete in question. The significance of this is indescribable. Imagine this situation. Your child is a competitive cross country runner that competes at the highest level for their 4 years of high school. They are slated to run nationals and have a great chance at getting national attention and earning a full ride scholarship to a school of their choosing…..and then they break and fracture 6 weeks before the event. Normally this would have been a situation that would be near impossible to recover from. Now enter the Alter-G under the supervision of myself, a long distance ultra runner and doctor. Not only was I able to keep these athletes running while their injuries healed but with the help of the Alter-G we were able to speed up the healing time by stressing their bones and muscles beneath the threshold for injury! By stimulating their bones and muscles beneath the threshold we actually stimulated their connective tissue to grow and repair while at the same time keep their cardiovascular gains intact! I also can not stress the emotional and psychological component that was at work during this time. Normally when runners can not run due to injury there is a period of depression that accompanies the realization that they will not meet their goals.
I even had a personal experience with the Alter-G in the last 3 weeks. I reinjured a torn plantar plate ligament in my foot. Two years ago I partially ruptured this ligament which almost resulted in surgery. Five months in a walking boot and 6 Prolotherapy injections later I was out of the boot and began hiking, then moderate running, then I trained and ran a 50K, 50 miler and finally a 100 mile endurance run. Out of nowhere a couple of weeks ago I aggravated the injury by stepping on a sharp rock. I have been able to run on the Alter-G pain free at 75% my body weight at 9 mph. In three weeks my foot is remarkably better and I will commence normal running next week as I have a 50K Ragnar Relay in November.
Populations in addition to runners that can benefit from the Alter-G
Orthopedic – The ability to progressively load connective tissue using differential air pressure technology (DAP) allows injured patients to protect healing tissue after an injury or surgery, while encouraging normal walking or running mechanics. The results are faster return of strength and range of motion.
Neurologic – The amazing support of the Anti-Gravity Treadmill allows for longer balance and gait sessions, so patients can practice standing, balance exercises, or walking longer. Longer practice sessions equates to more muscle memory and greater opportunity for motor learning.
Sports Performance – The ability to decrease body weight and train and higher speeds may allow athletes to train their body to perform at a higher level. By training at a % less their body weight athletes can still stress their muscles, ligaments, tendons and bone but decrease their risk of injury or of aggravating an injury. Since human connective tissue grows and adapts in response to stress it make sense that by stressing their tissue beneath the injury and pain threshold runners and athletes can not only train on the Alter-G while injured but will most likely heal at a faster pace and return to sport sooner.
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If you live in San Diego and would like to try the Alter-G my clinic has packages available for both injured and non-injured runners. To make the experience more enjoyable we have installed a 55 inch television with Netflix to make the normally boring treadmill experience more enjoyable. Call 858-268-8525 to reserve your Alter-G time.


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SEATTLE -- The Coast Guard is working to keep what is believed to be an abandoned fishing boat from sinking and polluting a marina near the Ballard Locks after more than 12 feet of oily water was discovered on board.
On Wednesday, the Coast Guard received a call stating the 133-foot, steel-hulled boat known as the Crest appeared to be taking on water at the Ballard Oil Company Marina.
Working with Global Diving and Salvage, Coast Guard crews responded and have so far removed more than 29,000 gallons of the oily water mixture from the boat.
A spokesperson for the Coast Guard said it appears water started coming through the propeller shaft into the engine room, possibly due to aging or loose packing material in the shaft.
As of Friday morning, response crews have been able to keep the oily mixture from leaking or spilling into the water.
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Tiger boys snap 3-game losing streak
Cole Riley scored 20 of his game-high 24 points in the second half to spur a Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta comeback that tripped up BOLD 64-53 on Friday night in West Central South boys' basketball.
Down by six, 32-24, at halftime, the Tigers outpointed the Warriors 40-21 in the second half.
The Tigers shot at a 50-percent clip (26-of-52) and built a 34-26 advantage in board control.
Behind Riley came Mac Kampmeier and Dan Tiernan with 10 each, and Eric Riley with nine points.
C. Riley earned a double-double grabbing 11 rebounds. Cannon recorded eight boards, whie Arndt and Kampmeier had seven apiece.
Brandon Ochs led the Warriors with 15 points and then in tight order came Kyle Athmann with 11, Kyle Krause 10, and Zach Remillard with nine.