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SQ4R - a solid textbook study system
The purpose of surveying is to
give you an overview of what you are planning to read. By having
an idea of what the chapter is about, you are more likely to mentally
organize ideas when you read more in depth later.
Spend only about 1 or 2 minutes on this step.
Look (survey) for core ideas by:
A. Scanning through all the headings.
B. Reading the chapter summary (if there is one).
The purpose of questioning prior to reading is to stimulate your curiosity which will in turn help your comprehension of the material. Questioning helps make a bridge between what you already know and what you need to know.
Save your questions for when you do the next step "Read" (you can use them later as a test review ).
Write your own questions by:
A. Looking at chapter headings, for example "New Tax Law Problems"
B. Changing the heading into a question, i.e... "What are the new tax law problems?"
Actively search for answers to your questions by reading the passage you surveyed.
Read the:
A. Whole paragraph or section.
B. Look for the main idea and supporting details (these will probably contain the answers for which you're looking).
in your textbook, notes, on flashcards, etc.:
A. Underline important ideas, concepts, words, etc..
B. Highlight (only 3 or 4 important words on a page).
C. Write notes in the margins.
D. Make flashcards from 3" x 5" cards or paper.
After each section, look away from what you are reading,
and try to briefly recite answers to
your questions:
A. Stop and ask "What was Main Idea?"
B. Answer your own questions you wrote in the Question section (above).
C. Return to text and notes to check answers.
Review what you've
A. Test yourself after finishing the chapter or assignment.
B. Return to text to check answers.
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text: Blizzard is making official Vanilla World of Warcraft servers. That is a sentence that, a year ago, I never thought Id ever write. With the eruptive rise and fall of private Vanilla servers and Blizzards continuing dismissal of the subject as out of reach, it seemed like a dream that would never come true. But moments ago, during the opening ceremonies of Blizzcon 2017, it was announced. Last week I sat down with Blizzard's senior vice president and executive producer, J. Allen Brack, to learn everything about the long journey to this moment. Blizzard isnt talking about the specifics of how or when, but I still had a million other questions to ask. The biggest one was, after years of Vanilla World of Warcraft being such a hot topic, why now?

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Educate your best salespeople – your technicians! Your aestheticians and therapists will have the most interaction with your clients, so keep them updated with knowledge about the products you carry so they can make proper reccomendations. Many companies offer ongoing education and lunch presentations about their products. Contact your local reps and vendors to see what they can do to help keep you up-to-date!
Light it up! Great lighting in your retail area is truly important. Keep this area bright and highlighted so that your customers will be naturally drawn to your retail area. Add spot lights to highlight specific products, and even in-cabinet lighting to really make your products stand out.
Keep your displays neat & updated. If you have regular clients coming in for treatments once a month, you want to have your displays refreshed each time they stop in. Switch up which products you feature each month, rotate where your brands are placed, and keep it fresh by updating your signage regularly. Have your staff pull products on the shelves forward and straighten throughout the day to keep it neat and organized. Don't be afraid to mix and match your products to create interesting, eye catching displays!
Offer samples to your clients. Talk to the representatives of the brands you carry to see if they offer any free samples for you to hand out. Your customers will be more likely to come back and buy some more if they have the chance to try the product and fall in love with it!
Don't overcrowd your displays. In retail, less is more. Creating a visually clean and uncluttered look will keep your retail area looking fresh. Have too much stock for your shelves? Find a place to store it until you need it! Remember – uncluttered does not equal boring! Create dynamic merchandise displays by pairing items with a shared theme. For example, group items of similar shape, with a common color, or even with a similar texture or graphics.
Make your retail area a reflection of your brand. This is especially important if you are marketing your own brand of products. By creating a retail environment that encompasses your company's look and feel, your retail will instantly become a focal point in your business.
Feel free to share your tips and ideas! We love to hear from our readers!


text: Our mission at Rebounderz is to explore the creation of unique extreme fun, to provide new stimulating activities for everyone, and to boldly go where no one has gone before! Rebounderz is dedicated to providing a safe, exciting and fun environment for friends and families to enjoy together. We seek to provide our visitors with a unique, enjoyable experience each and every time they visit our amazing Indoor Trampoline Arena. We accomplish this by providing superior customer service, adhering to Rebounderz policies and guidelines, and by consistently and actively promoting a safe environment.


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I'm working on a project where we're adding automated testing to an existing project. We're starting with a central component, and setting up both unit tests at the code module level, and tests that run on the whole component, albeit in the developer environment. The intent is that this test suite must pass before code check-in, and will be run by a continuous integration system on each development branch.
What should we call this? Right now we're calling it "dev unit tests", but the pedantic side of me says that's not quite right, because it contains more than unit tests. And our vision is that this suite will grow over time to include full-product acceptance tests.
Any input here? Or should we stop arguing about names and go write tests?
Everyone, thanks for good discussion! I think the conclusion I'm coming to is that there's not really a "common" definition - each project/team comes up with names that make the most sense for that project, depending on the technologies (Java, C#, ruby, etc) and methodologies (old-skool waterfall, Scrum, XP, etc) in use.


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SUSE Manager
Welcome to the SUSE Manager Wiki
As already mentioned on the wiki main page, feel free to join in. You can read anything in here without logging in, but if you feel like commenting on something, or starting a new topic, you'll need to use a Novell Login account (which you'll be prompted to create if you don't already have one). If you are unfamiliar with using Wikis in general, visit Novell Wiki or the grandaddy wiki info site www.wiki.org for some background info.
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Follow @susemanager on Twitter for regular updates, news, and information about and around SUSE Manager!
You have more than just a few Linux servers to manage, maybe even a mixed environment of RHEL and SLES?
Then SUSE Manager is the answer.
SUSE Manager gives you best of breed Linux lifecycle management based on the most mature codebase for any Linux management tool, with both RHEL and SLES support from one unified console, maintained and improved by the guys who wrote the fastest and most advanced Linux update stack on the planet. SUSE Manager gives you the lowest possible Total Cost of Ownership for your Linux environment, from bare metal provisioning to daily patch management.
SUSE Manager is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution that allows you to:
- Inventory your systems (hardware and software information)
- Install and update software on your systems
- Collect and distribute your custom software packages into manageable groups
- Provision (AutoYaST / Kickstart) your systems
- Manage and deploy configuration files to your systems
- Monitor your systems
- Provision and start/stop/configure virtual guests
- Distribute content across multiple geographical sites in an efficient manner.
General questions
- Installation instructions
- Installation from packages on top of SLES 11
- Virtual install, virt-manager
- Setup without connection to NCC
- Autoinstallation
- Security and Firewall
- Use Multiple Mirror Credentials
- Client Communication Methods
- Installation using VirtualBox
- Notes on setting up the Oracle Database
- Migration from Oracle database to postgreSQL
- Archive log settings in 1.7
- Frequently asked questions about the Databases
- PostgreSQL embedded database limitations
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Plugins and tools
- List of typical problems and their solution
- Corrupt channel/repository data
- Troubleshooting
- Osad and Jabberd Troubleshooting
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- Clients not showing available updates that are shown in the webUI
- Service Pack Migration
- Using the Google Chrome Browser
- Reclaiming disk space
- Tools
- Changing the server hostname
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- About the server certificate
- Registering Cloned Clients
- Tune the central configuration file
- Creating own Reports for spacewalk-report
- Using child channels during provisioning
- Rotating spacewalk-repo-sync log files
- Cloning channel per RHEL update level
- Creating up-to-date bootstrap repositories
- TFTP Sync
- Executed bootstrap on server by mistake
- Cobbler: how does SUSE Manager integrate with it?
- Managing CentOS clients
- SUSE Manager in the SUSE cloud
- SSH Server Push
- SUSE Manager in a HAE Cluster
- Use a local mirror for downloading RPMs with mgr-ncc-sync
- Syncing RHEL media
- Create Users in SUSE Manager which are members of a LDAP group
- New features in SUSE Manager 2.1
- Use SLES12 Beta clients
Open source
- SUSE Manager install/setup Screenshots
- Demos, Flyers and Brochures
- Best practices for multiple organizations (PDF, RH Whitepaper)
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The internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II was one of the most egregious civil rights abuses in our nation's history. While our government has apologized for this unwarranted imprisonment of people, this dark period of U.S. history and its effect on the interned Japanese has yet to be fully integrated into our collective cultural memory. An exhibition at the Renwick Gallery in Washington DC titled The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 showcases objects made by internees. The museum's website tells us that the Japanese word 'gaman' means "to bear the seemingly unbearable with dignity and patience." This moving show explores how creativity served as a necessary way of acquiring needful things that were otherwise unavailable, provided an outlet for frustration, and reinforced bonds in a painful and alienating time.
The exhibition focuses on the individuals behind the crafts as well as the objects on display. Each work is accompanied by a short text about its creator. Perhaps the museum's humanistic focus is a result of guest curator, Delphine Hirasuan's personal connection to the topic. Ms. Hirasuan first came up with the idea for the show after discovering a small bird pin that had belonged to her deceased mother. When she asked her father about the piece's origin, he informed her that it had probably come "from camp."
Many of the stories in the exhibition are heart wrenching. Several beautiful agate and silver rings were made by Shizuo Sasaki for his family. Before the war, Mr. Sasaki had been a gardener and community organizer in Berkeley. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was arrested, separated from his family and interned in a camp in North Dakota. Mr. Sasaki was eventually allowed to rejoin his loved ones in a camp in Utah, but soon after, he was classified as a troublemaker and was sent to another facility in Texas. He was not reunited with his family until after the war.
A marble bust of a woman seems out of place amongst the collection of artifacts made from scavenged materials. The artist, Isamu Noguchi was a renowned New York sculptor before the war. Because he was a Nisei, or second generation, the government's internment order did not apply to Noguchi. Nevertheless, he was tormented by what he saw happening to the members of his community. Noguchi lobbied unsuccessfully in Washington on behalf of his fellow internees. He eventually concluded that he could be more useful to his community volunteering in a camp. Noguchi voluntarily entered the Poston camp in Arizona, where he organized a craft guild. Nonetheless, he soon found life in the camp to be unbearable. Although he had originally been told that he could leave at will, Noguchi found that to the camp's administrator's he was indistinguishable from the other internees and his request to leave was denied. His piece in the show is a portrait of the actress, Ginger Rogers, who posed for its creation. Noguchi completed the bust during his internment
Despite its tragic subject matter, this show is careful to highlight the communitarian nature of craft in the camps and how the artists in the show used creativity to transcend their unfortunate circumstances. Art was not simply an individual outlet but a way of bringing together a fractured community. Those in the camps who were particularly skilled in a craft offered classes where they shared their knowledge with other internees. Several small dolls on display, made by made out of old kimono material, thread, toilet paper, pipe cleaners, and scrap wood were crafted by students of Sho Tabata, an instructor interned Topaz, Utah.
Overall The Art of the Gaman is a well-curated, thoroughly moving exhibit. Many of the objects are incredibly beautiful, and even the clumsier ones show an extraordinary attention to detail. The show shines some light on the pain and drudgery of camp life while proving how creativity can provide a silver lining that makes the unbearable seem bearable. The exhibition also allows these objects, some of which had been boxed up for decades, to be displayed. Many of the former internees discarded or put away their camp crafts after their release. These works served as brutal reminders of a terrible time. Tragically, some artists even abandoned their craft all together. Akira Oye, who had been a farmer before the war, taught himself to carve beautiful wooden animals while interned. After his release, he never carved again.


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Yesterday we got wind of possible LivingSocial layoffs and today we can confirm that the news is true.
LivingSocial is firing 400 employees today, reports CNNMoney, which is about 9% of its global workforce.
The job cuts are mostly spread across the U.S. with a few layoffs abroad. The layoffs affect sales, editorial, and customer service departments.
The layoffs come at a time when the daily deal world is in trouble. Earlier this month, Groupon fired approximately 650 employees, and Groupon's board is considering right now whether or not it should fire CEO Andrew Mason.
LivingSocial told CNNMoney that it is moving much of its customer service from its headquarters in D.C. to Tuscon, "so some job openings will be available in that area. Sales and editorial, however, have simply been "streamlined."
"We've gone through two years of hypergrowth, from roughly 450 employees to 4,500," Andrew Weinstein, a company spokesperson, said. "The space has gone through such growth that we needed to catch our breath," LivingSocial says.
LivingSocial denied that these layoffs suggest that the daily deals business is doomed. "We think this actually puts us on the right path for long term growth and profitability," Weinstein said.
We've reached out to LivingSocial for comment and will update this story when we hear back.
Don't Miss: THE MASON INTERVIEW: Groupon CEO Addresses Reports That The Board Might Fire Him >


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Scientist at Caltech have discovered why oh why one of the most basic artifacts on earth, the looming swatter, fails against its winged nemesis, the fly. In fact, using high-resolution, high-speed digital imaging, they have found out what's the secret to the fly's 100 milliseconds evasive manoeuvring. Which is why I hate them so much, and fully explains why my favourite videos are the ones of the wingless fly and the legless fly trying to escape (which I guess makes me some kind of a psycho).
Wingless Takeoff
For example, the videos showed that if the descending swatter—actually, a 14-centimeter-diameter black disk, dropping at a 50-degree angle toward a fly standing at the centre of a small platform—comes from in front of the fly, the fly moves its middle legs forward and leans back, then raises and extends its legs to push off backward. When the threat comes from the back, however, the fly (which has a nearly 360-degree field of view and can see behind itself) moves its middle legs a tiny bit backwards. With a threat from the side, the fly keeps its middle legs stationary, but leans its whole body in the opposite direction before it jumps.
Sideways Takeoff
Backward Takeoff
Legless Takeoff
[Caltech—Videos Copyright 2008 by Current Biology, Card & Dickinson. Used with permission. Thanks Kathy]


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I have been for the past two days trying to create a two cell widget and put in above the page title on a page. I was able to make the widget show up but the issue is that it inherits the styling from the table. What happens, the table border and background and colors comes as an additional layer around the widget. I would really appreciate if someone could give me the exact code. I am on 3.7.3 and the code I am using to create the widget is
PHP Code:
<?php if (is_page()) { ?><?php bfa_widget_area('name=pagetop-twin&cells=2&align=9'); ?><?php } ?>
You can see the twin widgets just above the title "privacy policy" and if you go to the end of the page, you can see a sample table whose styling the twin widgets has inherited as an additional layer around it. All I need is to take out this additional layer without change the table styling.


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Boston: Rialto's Slow-Roasted Duck with Escarole, Roasted Fingerlings, and Sicilian Olives
A weekly profile on a favorite New England dish.
"This is some of the best duck you'll ever eat. Period."
Before I describe Jody Adams' slow-roasted duck at Rialto, first, a poem:
A Long Island Duckling's Prayer For Jody Adams (written by a frequent customer)
Since I, no cat, Have but one life to give, Let it be my luck Not to fall into the hands Of some dumb cluck: Let me, hopeful duck, Be not just any sir's or madam's— But Jody Adams'! Let her marinate me In my flavorful amico, Balsamico. Let me roast long and slowly, So I may come to table succulent and crisp, Disproportionately wonderful Beyond hope or expectation. So may all appetites for duck— For me! For me! Exalted among fowl— Be thence forever thrall to Rialto.
If this were my high school English class, Mr. Reinke would have us pick apart the poem line by line. But it's not, so we'll stick with the abridged CliffsNotes version here, hitting on the major themes with some notes filled in here and there.
Lines 1-8: Cats are lucky; ducks, not so much. But if you're a duck that's going to become someone's dinner, pray that you end up in chef Jody Adams' kitchen. She can flat-out cook.
(Notes: Before manning the kitchen at Rialto in Harvard Square's Charles Hotel, Jody Adams worked as the sous chef at Hamersley's Bistro in Boston's South End. While there, she made "100 million" of Gordon Hamersley's famous roast chickens (likely subject of a future post), but needed a new item to make her signature dish when she left there to become the chef at the now-shuttered Michela's. That dish turned out to be slow-roasted duck ($36), and it quickly became a cult favorite. In fact, when she left Michaela's for Rialto and didn't immediately bring the duck with her to the new venue, customers complained until she met their demand. Now, more than 15 years later, the duck is still the house specialty.
Lines 9-11: If I can't swim in a lake or pond, I hope I can swim in balsamic vinegar.
(Notes: The duck's exterior gets its sweet-tangy flavor from marinating overnight in a combination of balsamic vinegar and mustard. "It's packed with umami," says Adams, noting that the duck's ultra-savory profile existed long before the term "umami" became trendy culinary lingo.)
Lines 12-15: Be patient. Ducks are fatty and take a long time to render and turn crisp. The results are really, really good.
(Notes: Adams roasts the duck for three to three and a half hours until the meat is really tender and all the fat renders out. Then, she breaks down the bird and crisps each portion to order. When finished, she says, "It almost looks lacquered.")
Lines 16-18: This is some of the best duck you'll ever eat. Period.
(Notes: Maybe the real testament to the dish is that Adams herself still enjoys eating it. "If I'm going to take home food from the restaurant," she says, "this is what I take." The accompaniments—a couple roasted fingerling potatoes, a bundle of wilted escarole, and three briny Sicilian olives—are well played, the former two sopping up the concentrated jus while the latter cuts through the dark, rich meat. Even better, she turns the leftovers into duck sandwiches with Gruyere, gingered figs, and a side of hand-cut fries, and serves it at the bar.
1 Bennett Street, Cambridge MA 02138 (map) 617-661-5050; rialto-restaurant.com
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The title of this post says it all.
I've criticized Arsenal and manager Arsene Wenger a lot recently, although there was every reason for me to do so.
Today, there's nothing for me to do but salute the Gunners' performance in Milan, as they beat the hosts 2-0 and advanced to the Champions League quarterfinals. This was a match that Arsenal had the better of from start to finish and while the final scoreline may be a bit flattering, there is no doubt that Arsenal deserved to win. They had more chances and created more going forward than Milan, and it's as simple as that.
It's time for me to eat a bit of crow and I will do so. I picked Milan to win this tie and prove that experience was more important than youth, something I still believe regardless of this result but will have to question more when the case arises again.
Great result for Arsenal and as I said, they were the better team on this day.
I would be remiss to not also salute Paolo Maldini, who played his last European match for AC Milan today. Maldini has been a great servant to his club and has played in over 1,000 competitive games for the Rossoneri, which is unheard of today. Along with Franz Beckenbauer, I believe Maldini is the best central defender in international history.


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Welcome to the University Living Lab!
The University Living Lab is developing the University of Manchester campus as a site for applied teaching and research around sustainability and low carbon. This site provides a platform for collaboration between researchers, students, external sustainability stakeholders and the Directorate of Estates and Facilities to deploy and monitor new technologies and services in real world settings.
On this site you can find people, courses and projects relating to specific research areas. The opportunities tab is regularly updated with opportunities to work with the Estates Directorate and sustainability stakeholders in Greater Manchester, many of which are associated with the £1 billion relocation of the North Campus. It also hosts an application form for proposing projects to them. Other tabs at the top of the screen provide case studies of existing projects, news and updates, as well as more academic resources relating to the Living Lab approach.
Please email us at email@example.com if you have any feedback or would like to be added to our database.
The University Living lab initiative has been generously funded by the University of Manchester Research Institute and the Higher Education Innovation Fund.
Sustainability Database
There are hundreds of academic and professional support staff at the University who deal with sustainability.
There are more than 80 current and recently completed projects in the field of sustainability taking place across the University.
Sustainability is covered by a large range of organisations across the entire University, ranging from individual disciplines to large research centres.
Sustainability Keyword Search
- Using the Manchester Uni campus (& 6 million hours of student effort) as a lab for urban sustainability: http://t.co/H604Y0anOq @citiesMCR — 4 years 8 months ago
- University Living Labs- applying 6 million hour of student effort to sustainability? http://t.co/H604Y0anOq @McrCyclingLab @CUREManchester — 4 years 8 months ago


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I was delighted to discover this morning that you can buy the original Prince of Persia for both the iPhone and iPad for a penny shy of a dollar on either system.
Prince of Persia Retro includes all thirteen of the original game's levels and you can jump to any of them from the menu.
There are four on-screen arrow buttons for controls, and you tap anywhere else on the screen to use the action button.
The graphics and animation seem fluid and colorful as the original. I've only spent a few minutes playing with it on the iPad, and it's so worth a buck.


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Psy's 'Gangnam Style' Dethrones Bieber
In just five months, Psy's 'Gangnam Style' music video set a new record for most-watched video on YouTube. Buzzfeed's Matthew Perpetua joins digits to discuss what the new viral looks like. Photo: Getty Images.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Germany, Australia and Switzerland have pulled a few Simpsons episodes from airing because of potentially sensitive nuke jokes in light of Japan's nuclear situation.
The Hollywood Reporter specifies on which episodes are being pulled from airing:
Austria's ORF has already pulled two episodes set to broadcast: Episode 66, Marge Gets a Job, which features scientists Marie Curie and Pierre Curie dying of radiation poisoning; and Episode 346, On a Clear Day I Can't See My Sister, in which characters joke about a nuclear meltdown. Tagesspeigel says ORF has held back eight Simpsons episodes until the end of April, when it will review its Springfield disaster policy.
Here in the US, FOX has handed out a list of episodes that contain jokes that could be objectionable and allowing whether or not to air them but no decision has been made yet. New episodes won't be affected by this at all. [Hollywood Reporter via Mediate]
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Capital: Suva
Language: English, Fijian, Hindustani
Currency: Fijian Dollar (FJD)
Religion: Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Sikh
Time Zone: UTC +12
Electricity: 240V/50Hz
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This morning, I stepped out into 55 degree goodness. A little nippy, but not too bad. I had some cargo pants on (chamois liner beneath) so my legs stayed warm. My partially-zipped ski jacket shell kept my upper body temperature regulated.
As I rode up Quivira, I passed the ever-busy Liquor store. I can only guess what the heck a liquor store is doing open before 6:00AM, but the place stays busy. Usually, it's no problem, but occasionally, you get the people who seem to be already drunk as they pull in to get their daily dose of mind-numbing liquid. This morning was one of those mornings. I didn't really get almost hit, but I had to stop in the middle of the road because I couldn't tell if the guy was going to stop or mow me over.
A mile up the road, I ran into another brilliant set of carbon-based creatures. A family, I suppose.
Before I continue, let me preface this. Joggers are a bizarre breed. For some reason, they really like to jog in the middle of the road against traffic. I'd imagine that they are in the road to avoid the seams in the sidewalk, and against traffic so they can see and avoid oncoming cars. They can easily hop up onto the grass or sidewalk if a car is coming. Why some CYCLISTS ride against traffic? I still don't get that one. They can't as easily avoid an oncoming car unless they're really good at bunny-hopping curbs sideways.
Back to my rant, though. This family (a man, woman and dog), were jogging three abreast against traffic, in the dark, with clothing that wasn't strikingly visible from a distance, much less reflective. A jogger on the road against traffic? Okay, just get out of my way. Two one-after-another? Acceptable. A dog on a leash in the street? Kind of ridiculous. All three abreast, and made no attempt to clear the road when they saw cars (or me on my bike coming)? I don't like to use the word often, but that is RETARDED.
So, with all of these morons out of the way, I proceeded to push the pedals at a reasonable pace to keep my body temperature regulated. I wasn't fast, but I was faster than Friday morning.
When I got near Rainbow, I had a semi-tractor pass me, then pull in front of me (gave plenty of room) but then it slowed down to turn. With no traffic in the middle lane, I was stuck with a decision. Get stuck at a red light after waiting for this behemoth to take its turn, or take the center lane and zip through a green light and carry my momentum? I chose the latter. I dropped the hammer, HARD. Push Push Push Double-Shift PUUUUUSH PUSH Push Push! 30 MPH came. 32, 35... Running a full-on sprint, I muscled past the slowing tractor before it reached the intersection, and just kept pushing with my speed in the mid-30's. As I started slowing down, I noticed something was wrong. My face was going numb. So were my arms. I was getting tunnel vision. My calves were tightening, and I was starting to pant uncontrollably. Yay! I'm BONKING! (Moron)
I Coasted and took a 10-ounce gulp of Gatorade; In what seemed like one solid swig, I downed half the bottle. I let my speed drop below 10 MPH, then shifted back to the middle chainring and pushed gently. I never got the dizzy or sick feeling of full-on bonk, but it was fast approaching. That's what I get for skipping breakfast.
I took the Baltimore slog after that (I'm a genius, aren't I?) which was surprisingly easy since I took it at a granny pace.
When I left the coffee shop, I saw the guy on the orange scooter that locks up to the bike rack at work. I pulled out beside him, but gave no attention. With a quick sprint up 11th street and a shortcut through some old, torn-up parking structures, I beat him to the rack by over a minute. Bicycle wins again!
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Drunk Moron, Retarded Morons, Bonking Moron.
This morning, I stepped out into 55 degree goodness. A little nippy, but not too bad. I had some cargo pants on (chamois liner beneath) so my legs stayed warm. My partially-zipped ski jacket shell kept my upper body temperature regulated.
4 comments:
- Doug said...
I don't think you're using the word "bonk" correctly here. Bonking refers to when your muscles and liver are completely depleted of glycogen. Once you bonk you can barely turn the pedals. Even without breakfast, unless you've starved yourself yesterday, your muscles aren't going to be depleted of glycogen that quickly. Sounds more like you maxed out your heart rate sprinting for that light.
- October 01, 2007 3:53 PM
- Noah said...
it's hard telling. There are many things that can cause one to feel crappy from over-exertion. While I don't hang out with many professional cyclists or runners, the active-types I talk to seem to use "bonk" as a general term for most of these situations. Blowing past your MHR, hyperventilation, dehydration, staying above your aerobic threshold too long, etc.
Honestly, I don't know which of them it was, but it sucked. Given how long I sprinted (not that long, but long for me) and my lack of training, my guess is that I was anaerobic.
So, maybe not "scientifically" bonk, but I don't know another word for it, especially without knowing the actual cause other than me being a dumbass.
- October 01, 2007 5:47 PM
- Doug said...
Sorry, I didn't realize there are people that use the term bonk for a broader range of symptoms. I'm old school and take it to mean hitting rock bottom with no hopes of recovery in the short term. I looked up bonk on Wikipedia and it has my old school definition.
I have to admit I've done my fair share of sprinting to beat a light only to regret it when I start hyperventilating.
- October 01, 2007 7:40 PM
- Dan said...
You know, I don't get that jogger on the left thing either. When I'm driving, I assume the runner will remain in the lane regardless of which direction they're traveling. I'm usually right.
- October 02, 2007 6:13 AM
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 - An instructor at a Minnesota flight school warned the F.B.I. in August of his suspicion that a student who was later identified as a part of Osama bin Laden's terror network might be planning to use a commercial plane loaded with fuel as a weapon, a member of Congress and other officials said today.
The officials, who were briefed by the school, said the instructor warned the Federal Bureau of Investigation in urgent tones about the terrorist threat posed by the student, Zacarias Moussaoui. Mr. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Morrocan descent, was indicted last week on charges of conspiring in the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Representative James L. Oberstar of Minnesota, who received the briefing and is the ranking Democrat on the House Transportation Committee, said the instructor called the bureau several times to find someone in authority who seemed willing to act on the information.
Mr. Oberstar said the instructor's warnings could not have been more blunt. The representative said, "He told them, `Do you realize that a 747 loaded with fuel can be used as a bomb?' "
Mr. Oberstar described the instructor as "an American hero" whose actions resulted in Mr. Moussaoui's arrest and might have prevented another suicide hijacking.
Congressional officials said the account by the school, the Pan Am International Flight Academy in Eagan, outside Minneapolis, raised new questions about why the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other agencies did not prevent the hijackings.
Officials said the Arizona branch of the school alerted the Federal Aviation Administration earlier this year after finding that a student spoke little English. The Saudi student, Hani Hanjour, has been described as being at the controls of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.
The instructor in Minnesota has not been identified. But Congressional officials said he was a former military pilot who grew suspicious after encounters in which Mr. Moussaoui was belligerent and evasive about his background and because he was so adamant about learning to fly a 747 jumbo jet despite his clear incompetence as a pilot.
Mr. Moussaoui, 33, was arrested in August on immigration charges. But despite the urging of the school and federal agents in Minnesota and despite a warning from the French that Mr. Moussaoui was linked to Muslim extremists, F.B.I. headquarters here resisted a broader investigation until after Sept. 11. Last week, he became the first person indicted for involvement in the events of Sept. 11, charged with conspiring with Mr. bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Mr. Moussaoui faces the death penalty.
Some federal law enforcement agents said they believed that Mr. Moussaoui was intended to be the 20th hijacker.
Until now, the bureau and the flight school have been unwilling to provide details on what raised suspicions about Mr. Moussaoui. But several weeks ago, the school offered to brief a handful of House members and their aides who were involved in aviation. Two lawmakers were from Minnesota, Mr. Oberstar and Martin Sabo, a fellow Democrat, and they first discussed the briefings today in The Star Tribune in Minneapolis.
In interviews today, Mr. Oberstar and a spokesman for Mr. Sabo said the lawmakers were alarmed by what they heard. They withheld information from the public about the briefings until this week, they said, because they did not want to interfere with the inquiry that led to Mr. Moussaoui's indictment.
Mr. Sabo, ranking Democrat on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Transportation, was traveling today. His chief of staff, Michael S. Erlandson, who was at the briefing, said the flight academy's account was scary. "The Pan Am people," Mr. Erlandson said, "are heroes who worked very diligently to make themselves heard at the F.B.I."
He said Mr. Moussaoui raised the suspicions in a first encounter, when he told the instructor that he was from France but refused to converse in French with the instructor, who also spoke it. The suspicions grew, Mr. Erlandson said, when Mr. Moussaoui repeatedly proved himself incapable of understanding basic flying techniques but still insisted on learning how to fly a 747, the largest commercial jet.
Mr. Erlandson said the flight school had arranged the briefings. "They called up," he said, "and said that they were constituents and that they had an almost unbelievable story they would like to share."
A spokeswoman for the academy did not return calls for comment. Spokesmen for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Federal Aviation Administration also had no comment.
Mr. Oberstar said he was also troubled by the F.A.A. response to the Phoenix instructors' concerns about Mr. Hanjour, who enrolled speaking little English, which is required for all commercial pilots. According to the school, it contacted the F.A.A. this year to ask what it should to do with Mr. Hanjour. Mr. Oberstar said the agency offered the services of one of its employees to help tutor Mr. Hanjour.


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Dogs bite. No big surprise there.
But did you know that almost 5 million people are bitten every year in this country, or that 800,000 Americans receive medical attention for those bites annually?
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1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
¼ cup raspberry liqueur
2 cups fresh raspberries
1 pound bittersweet chocolate, chopped
½ cup unsalted margarine
¼ cup granulated sugar
1 ½ cups ground toasted almonds
1 cup all-purpose flour
5 eggs, separated
2 cups pareve whipping cream
To prepare the cake, line the bottom and sides of a 10-inch spring form pan with aluminum foil. Put the brown sugar and liqueur in a medium sauté pan and cook until melted. Whisk to make a smooth sauce. Pour the sauce in the bottom of the prepared pan and distribute the raspberries over the bottom of the pan. Set aside.
Preheat the oven to 350°. Melt the chocolate and unsalted margarine in the top of a metal bowl set over gently simmering water. Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the sugar, almonds, and flour. Mix well. Add the egg yolks and mix well.
Put the egg whites in the bowl of a heavy –duty mixer and whip until soft peaks form. Gently fold the egg whites into the chocolate batter, using broad strokes.
Put 1 cup of the pareve cream in the mixer bowl and whip on high speed until soft peaks form. Gently fold the pareve whipped cream into the chocolate batter. Pour the batter over the raspberries in the pan.
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RNC makes time for March for Life
The Republican National Committee has reworked the schedule for its upcoming winter meeting to allow its members to attend an annual rally protesting abortion.
The RNC said Monday that the start of its conference, set for Jan. 22, will be pushed back to allow for attendance at the annual March for Life, a demonstration that takes place every year on the anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion.
This year marks the 41st anniversary of the decision and the 40th march.
RNC spokeswoman Kirsten Kukowski said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus made the decision to alter the schedule.
"This is the first time in recent memory that the RNC Winter Meeting has coincided with the March for Life. Because the members of the RNC are going to be in D.C. for the meeting, many were interested in attending the March for Life while they were here," Kukowski said. "Life is an important part of our Republican platform, and Chairman Priebus decided it was important to give everyone an opportunity to go if they wanted to attend and support the march."
Priebus will also attend the event.
The RNC's annual three-day Winter Meeting traditionally starts midday on a Wednesday in January. This year the first day fell on the same day in the same city as the March for Life, which runs from noon to 1 p.m., with the rally on the National Mall followed by a march to the Supreme Court.
Kukowski said the RNC is pushing back the start of a few of the larger sessions and providing buses to and from the march for members who want to attend.