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Red Sox drop series; no match for Jays' Stroman
Victorino breaks up no-no in seventh; De La Rosa allows seven runs
TORONTO -- A week that started so well for the Red Sox has taken quite a dip following three straight losses to the Blue Jays.
Boston opened the four-game American League East series with a big win on Monday to extend its win streak to five games. But the Red Sox couldn't sustain enough offense and went on to be outscored, 21-7, over the final three contests, culminating in an 8-0 loss on Thursday at Rogers Centre.
"We were behind the eight ball right from the first or second inning, and were never really in this one," said Red Sox manager John Farrell. "It's a little disappointing given the 10-game stretch we just completed going into and coming out of the All-Star break."
Toronto starter Marcus Stroman held the Boston bats to a single hit over seven innings in the series finale, while Boston's Rubby De La Rosa struggled mightily in what was his worst -- and shortest -- start of the season.
The 25-year-old, who entered the game having allowed five runs over his past four starts, gave up a run in the first and a pair in each of the second, third and fifth innings as his record fell to 3-3. De La Rosa has struggled away from Fenway Park this season. He's 0-3 through four road starts, while unbeaten at home.
"It's a stark contrast. Clearly, he feels comfortable on the mound at Fenway and is able to channel the emotion and adrenaline inside Fenway Park," said Farrell. "We've got to do something to try and even out the splits as they stand."
De La Rosa surrendered nine hits and seven runs (six earned), and he was chased from the game after loading the bases with no outs in the fifth.
He experienced considerable trouble from the back end of the Blue Jays' batting order in the early innings. He served up a first-pitch fastball to No. 7 hitter Juan Francisco in the second inning, which was taken deep to center for a triple that bounced off the glove of Jackie Bradley Jr. No. 8 hitter Ryan Goins and Melky Cabrera followed with RBI doubles to give the Blue Jays a 3-0 lead.
Francisco was at it again in the third, this time going over the wall in right with a two-run shot for a 5-0 Blue Jays advantage in what proved to be more than enough of a cushion.
"Every pitcher tries to make his best pitches," De La Rosa said. "It's a little complicated. What happened today, I'll try not to think about it and look forward to the next one."
The Red Sox bullpen finished out the game, with Burke Badenhop, Felix Doubront and Edward Mujica combining for four relief innings.
Stroman, meanwhile, was electric on the mound, and he carried a no-hitter through the sixth inning. Shane Victorino spoiled the no-hit bid in the seventh with a bloop single to center field, but other than that, Boston had nothing on offense..
"He was almost perfect," said Blue Jays manager John Gibbons. "He's pitching like a veteran who's been around a long time, and he's been very successful. He shuts down good-hitting teams. He's a great competitor."
David Ortiz, who hit four homers in the series, sustained a back injury with two outs in the ninth. Ortiz made a check swing on an offering from Toronto lefty Rob Rasmussen and was clutching his back as Jonny Gomes was called in to pinch-hit.
Farrell said the medical staff was still tending to Ortiz fter the game, but the manager suggested the powerful designated hitter will be day to day with back spasms.
Jamie Ross is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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As interim Island County commissioner, Aubrey Vaughan said Thursday he wants to rebuild the connection between Camano and Whidbey islands and help the county through this year's budget process.
"One of the reasons I'm running is I feel there's been a disconnect," Vaughan said. "I promise to restore that."
As the board begins its annual budget cycle, Vaughan said putting together a budget, which is usually adopted in the fall, is going to be one of his primary duties.
"This budget cycle is going to very important," he said.
After interviewing three candidates at a special session Tuesday, Commissioners Jill Johnson and Helen Price Johnson deliberated for approximately 15 minutes in closed session before voting to appoint Vaughan as interim Island County commissioner for District 3.
Vaughan, who lives on Camano Island, was a member of the Island County Law and Justice Council, a seat he will relinquish during his commissioner service.
The District 3 seat was vacated in May when Commissioner Kelly Emerson, a Republican, resigned seven months short of her term's end. Emerson gave one week's notice.
In accordance with state law in such circumstances, Island County Republicans selected three candidates to be interviewed by the commissioners to fill the seat until the next election.
Marc Hennemann of Camano and Richard Hannold of North Whidbey were also nominated by the Republican party and interviewed by the commissioners.
Vaughan will fill the position until the November's general election. At that time, a permanent commissioner will be chosen by voters.
Four Republicans and one Democrat have filed to run for the seat.
District 3 comprises North Whidbey and Camano Island.
"I think the commissioners did a spectacular job getting through this," Vaughan said. "This is not something that happens every day. It's tough because they are having to pick one guy from three who are all good people."
Price Johnson and Johnson said they selected Vaughan because of his experience serving on the Law and Justice Council.
"He can hit the ground running," Johnson said.
While the decision was tough, Johnson said she tried to prioritize what was good for Island County as opposed to her own preferences.
"It is difficult to tap one to sit up here and leave two others to sit in the audience," Johnson said. "It has been challenging for me to think through the difference between the action I take as a commissioner and the way I would vote as an individual with my own private ballot."
Price Johnson said she had a "level of discomfort" about having to choose a fellow commissioner when ballots are going out in a few weeks. She blames Emerson and the former commissioner's abrupt departure.
"In a few short weeks the ballots are going to go out and District 3 will be making their preference known," Price Johnson said. "Two of the names that will appear on those ballots aren't even available for us to consider. So none of us in this room created that situation. It was the outgoing commissioner who established this unfortunate timeline for us with her resignation."
Price Johnson said that the board selection for an interim commissioner is in no way an endorsement for the November election.
"I want to make very clear that I don't see this action today as an endorsement of any kind. We are charged with filling an opening and that's the way that I'm approaching this decision," Price Johnson said.
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Vaughan echoed Price Johnson's plea, saying that he was chosen to fill a short term need and that all candidates on the ballot should be considered by voters.

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A PROJECT to create an official flag for Exmoor is gathering pace.
Dozens of people have entered a competition to design the flag, ranging from a 93-year-old woman in Devon to a two-year-old girl from Brushford, near Dulverton, who has drawn an Exmoor Pony.
The Exmoor Flag Project Team is on the hunt for the winning design and is reminding people that entries can be submitted until Monday, July 21.
Julie Christian said: "The important thing is to get across your idea on your design.
"It doesn't matter if it is drawn with crayons, pencils or professionally produced on a whizzy computer programme.
"All entries will be judged on their interpretation of Exmoor onto a flag and the finalists will be graphically treated to ensure an even playing field when put forward to the public vote in August."
A judging panel will be overseen by Philip Tibbetts, the community vexillologist for the Flag Institute, which is endorsing the competition.
The winning flag will be registered with the Flag Institute to be flown forever more as a symbol of Exmoor.
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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated September 26th, 2013
Adnan Oktar: Surat Al-Anbiya, verses 92-93; I seek refuge with God from the satan "This nation of yours is one nation and I am your Lord, so worship Me. But they disagreed and split into different sects." So God says that they have fallen into disputes. ".. they disagreed and split into different sects. Each one will return to Us." God says that He will take revenge. But those people call such separation a mercy, a benediction. God says separation is corruption, that it is a trouble, yet those people say; "no it is a mercy!"
Surah Al'Imran, verse 103; [I seek refuge with God from the satan] "Hold fast to the rope of God all together, and do not separate." Where is being in dispute mentioned here? Does God tell us to be in conflict with each other? On the contrary, God says; "Hold fast to the rope of Allah all together, and do not separate." God says 'do not fall in dispute with each other'.
[Surat Al-Anfal; Verse 46] "Obey God and His Messenger and do not quarrel among yourselves.." do not fall in dispute with each other. ".. lest you lose heart and your momentum disappear." This is what happened right now, look, Muslims lost heart and their momentum disappeared. "And be steadfast. God is with the steadfast."
[Surat Al-Baqara; Verse 193] "Strive against them until there is no more persecution and the religion belongs to God alone," says God to the Muslims. Look ; "until there is no more persecution.." What does this mean? It means until there is nothing that could be against Islam. ".. and the religion belongs to God alone." So God says, 'strive against them until religion is practiced all over the world' and what do these people do? They say; "separation is a mercy!" God wants religion to rule all over the world and those people are still talking about "separation."
[Surat Ash-Shura; Verse 39] "And those who, when they are wronged, [unite and] defend themselves." God says the whole Islamic world should unite. When Muslims are hurt in any location, in Syria for instance, the whole Islamic world is to unite and defend themselves, says God in the Surat Ash-Shura, verse 39. God does not tell them to be in dispute.
Surat As-Saff, verse 4: "Verily, God loves those who fight in His Way in ranks like well-built walls." So how should Muslims be? Let alone being in dispute, they should be in ranks like reinforced concrete building; that is the extent of their collaboration. For instance there are bridges, well-built structures in which all stones rest firmly on the other, so much so that you cannot pull one stone out of that structure. Right? You know those Ottoman bridges, those ancient bridges.. There were such buildings at the time of our Prophet (saas) as well, there were stone bridges. They are all clamped together in well-built ranks. Even if you pull out one single stone, the whole bridge would fall apart. 'Without ever separating from one another, without letting even one single stone to be pulled apart, strive in the Path of God as clamped together, do not separate, do not fall in dispute,' says God.


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William "Rooney" Lee, son of the famous Robert E. Lee, served in the US Army for two years before leaving to work his plantation. With the coming of the Civil War, Rooney joined the Confederate cavalry, working his way up through multiple promotions over the course of the war. He took part in many battles, including the Seven Days' Battles and the Second Manassas and Maryland Campaigns. At the Battle of Brandy Station on 9 June 1863, the largest cavalry battle of the war, Rooney and his men took up a position near a low stone wall and put up a strong defense. However, during the battle Rooney was wounded in the thigh, and while he was away recovering he was taken prisoner of war until February 1864.


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How about a 100% whole wheat pizza this time? This time I decided to add a little hickory smoke to my new charcoal. Awesome. Okay, let's prep the GW pan with a light spray of oil and a dusting of cornmeal.
Here is the dough all rolled out and fitted to the pan. Once again, I incorporated a little crushed oregano into the dough.
This time, there is no need to partly prebake the dough before I top it. The GW heats up instantly. Here are a couple quick pics of it topped.
And here it is, dough now all risen on just placed on the grill.
After 10 minutes or so, this pizza is cooked. I waited for the chips started smoking before I put it on.
Of course you want to see the crust. It's unfair in a way, 'cause whole wheat already has a brownish cooked color with which to begin. You can sure tell by the texture however!
Lastly, here is a reresentative slice, complete with the cross sectional view. This pizza got topped with moozarella, portabella mushrooms, ancovies, (What can I say?) and jalapenos. The mushrooms look cut wierd because with a large portabello, I had to chop it some way rather than slice it like the little button mushrooms. This is one of my favorite go to pizzas. Every now and then, I get such a hankering for one that I have to do it.


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The Viewpointe (2450 Aurora Ave. N.) on Queen Anne has been a retirement home for seniors, with senior-focused amenities, for 26 years. In April, the owner retired and transferred ownership. Prior to this change, the building opened up to residents of all ages and terminated senior-focused services. For some of the seniors, these services were things they relied on, so they felt forced to relocate.
The building's previous owner, Jim Lampman, discontinued the services prior to transferring ownership on April 30, according to a representative from Timberlane Partners, the new owners. The housekeeping and meal services were to remain through July 1, to "help ease this transition."
Apartment Management Consultants (AMC) is the new property manager. The building is now an all-ages, market-rate apartment building.
Losing to competition
The building had about 90 senior-age residents, and of those, approximately 35 were planning to move out, according to a staff person at the facility.
"Over the last few years, Viewpointe experienced decreasing demand for independent retirement-apartment communities that offer limited services," Lampman said in an email. The management company's attempts to be competitive were often lost to corporate chains that offered full services, while the independent senior-apartment market was "shrinking."
The Viewpointe was not a licensed assisted-living facility, so it was not able to compete with the larger corporate providers, Lampman wrote.
Because The Viewpointe wasn't licensed, the residents there aren't subject to state oversight protections, according to Michael Taylor-Judd of the Seattle Human Services Department.
There are plans to make "modest renovations" to the patio, common areas and individual rooms. Since the dining room will no longer be used to serve seniors' meals, it will become a fitness room. Those renovations began in May, with activity ramping up in July, according to a representative from Timberlane Partners.
When AMC took over, there were 22 staff members at The Viewpointe; all of them were offered new employment offers and retention bonuses, the representative said.
Advance written notice was sent before an in-person meeting on April 16, where Lampman announced the plan to terminate services.
"A large group of senior residents was renting apartments without services, so they would not be affected," Lampman wrote. "To the residents who were taking services, Viewpointe provided contacts for at least five other retirement apartments in the area that did provide services. No one was asked to leave, and no leases were terminated."
'Hardship' for residents
Gillette Paige, 92, moved into The Viewpointe on April 1, with the expectation that the building she was moving into would be senior-focused living, she said. Paige had been looking into The Viewpointe for about five months before she moved, and those services, primarily the activities, were a draw for her.
"It was represented as a retirement home — even the bus had 'retirement facility' [on the side]," she said. "I am disappointed by the way the thing is [happening], the way it was represented to me. I came here with the vision of what was described, and then overnight, it's [not]. Yeah, it's not the easiest pill to swallow."
Paige is on a one-year lease and does plan to fight at least her rent cost because the services are no longer available. She doesn't want to move though, because she is finally settled in.
She said she feels bad for the other residents: "They thought they were settled and they were going to live here and die here and everything is changed, and they have to take a chance on another place, and somehow it doesn't seem fair. But business is business."
AMC is meeting with residents like Paige, who signed leases on April 1 to give them to option to vacate their lease, the representative said.
Ruth Loft, 87, has lived in The Viewpointe for one year. At the end of May, she moved to a new place in Columbia City because of the changes made by Viewpoint's management. She doesn't use the food services, but she does rely on transportation to get her to the grocery store.
"Not being able to go to the market, I could have never remained here without that," she said. "How would I get around?"
The Viewpointe is along a King County Metro bus route, but because there are no crosswalks on Aurora Avenue at that point, people need to climb down a set of stairs, use a pedestrian overpass and climb up another set of stairs to get home.
The Viewpointe ended transportation services in May.
"The previous owner chose not to provide us access to the transportation vans, so we couldn't continue transitional service through July 1 as we'd hoped," the representative from Timberlane Partners said in an email.
Pauline Bernard, 91, has lived at The Viewpointe for four years. She relied on such services as transportation, food and activities. "It's a hardship," Bernard said, adding she was lucky to have her two daughters, who helped her move May 1.
"It was a big surprise, and [Lampman] knew this was happening and he didn't let us know," she said.
The cost to move and the stress of the situation has been difficult on Bernard, her daughter Joyce Major said. Bernard told her one night she couldn't sleep because she was trying to figure out what to do with all of her furniture.
The new owners are sympathetic to the seniors' situations, they said, saying the previous owner made the decision to cut services.
"We welcome any and all residents who wish to stay," the representative said.
In April, The Viewpointe invited some local retirement homes to talk to its residents; Bryant Cornelius from The Stratford at Maple Leaf was one of them.
So far, about 14 residents from The Viewpointe have moved to the Stratford. The Stratford offered to move the residents for free and waive the one-time community-activities fee.
"That way it would be an easy transition," Cornelius said. "A lot of times, moving like that is not easy."
Lampman wrote that The Viewpointe was sensitive to the situation, "which is why 75-day notice was given, and management from both WRM [the former management company] and AMC held events to provide options…, introducing providers to residents," Lampman wrote.
Not everyone agrees that the situation has been handled sensitively.
"For old people, it's so hard to give them such a short amount of time to plan," Major said.
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Adjuvant Therapy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: The Debate Continues.
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Adjuvant Therapy for Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma: The Debate Continues.
Thought that you might be interested in and be able to access this paper Percy.
Hi, Gavin ,
What is the name of lead author and appeared in what journal.
I think I read a similar one but not sure is the same.
Well, that BEAR will win today but the future is well, as usual.
Say hi for your mum for me.
God bless.
Hi Percy,
Doh!!! I forgot to post the link for this!! Here it is -
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Things didn't seem too good at half time today, down by 7 but hey, it's only half time!! Always the Bear optimist here!!! They ain't showing the game live here in the UK tonight, we have the Ravens at the Redskins. Good game and that RG3 is pretty exciting!
For sure i will say hi to my mum from you. She finished her last 7 day course of Preds and Amoxycillin last Wednesday but had to go back on them again on Friday, quite badly breathless lots of the time.
You take care and Go Bears!
Hey, Hey, Hey. What about the PACK. Say you 2 we play the Bears next Sunday!!!
Thanks for the link, Gavin. I am anxiously awaiting the outcome of the BILCAP trial (UK) It will be the first study proving or disproving the benefit of adjuvant therapy with Xeloda. Unfortunately we will have to wait until 2014.
Indeed Marion and hopefully much good will come from it. But 2014, grrrr..... Maybe Helen will have some contact with the bilcap team before then, I think she had a meeting with the team running the trial earlier this year. The waiting albeit necessary does my head in!
And Lainy, Pack, hmmmm......... Looking forward to Sunday here!!!
Hi, Gavin,
This pros and cons about adjuvant therapy after resection discussion are by actually three distinguish doctor specialized in CCA, the other one is Dr. Hogan who both Dr. J.Knox and Dr. Zhu were mentioned. You can read Dr. Hogan final opinion on adjuvant chemotherapy under our chemotherapy experience forum on our web site inside the topic of
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Thanks for this ,and as always, say hi to your mum for me.It is in the 50 's this late in December here in Chicago. I wander if snow will ever come this year in December.
God bless.
Hey, Boys, today is the BIG day! Packer's vs Bear's!
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If you haven't visited the Deceased Online webpage then you should, it's a great place for getting access to the records for those ancestors who were buried in cemeteries rather than churchyards. Cemeteries are either owned by private companies or by councils and their records can be held at the cemetery or in offices which can be quite a distance from the cemetery.
Deceased Online have partnered with cemetery owners and are putting the burial records online. There is a fee for looking at the original scan, but it isn't huge and often much cheaper than locating the burial record yourself. Also some cemetery owners charge a search fee so you end up paying anyway!
The company now have a blog and a Facebook page so that everyone can keep up with what's been added to their collection. Below are the links to their website, Facebook page and Blog.


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Raymond Westbrook, the W.W. Spence Professor of Semitic Languages and professor of Near Eastern studies at the Johns Hopkins University, died on July 23, 2009, after a long battle with cancer. He was 62.
Westbrook was a leading expert in Near Eastern legal traditions as well as Classical Greek and Roman law. His recent BAR article, "Good as His Word" (BAR 35:03), set the Jacob narrative from Genesis in the broader context of Ancient Near Eastern law, contractual practices and ethical behavior to illuminate the Biblical text.
He earned a bachelor's degree in law from Oxford University and a master's in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem before pursuing a doctorate in Assyriology from Yale University. Inspired by his rich legal background, he sought to bring modern political scientists and legal historians together with colleagues in Ancient Near Eastern studies through a number of scholarly conferences. He also encouraged dialogue between classicists and Ancient Near Eastern specialists to learn more about their respective legal traditions.
Westbrook taught for three years at the Hebrew University before becoming a professor at Johns Hopkins in 1987. He continued teaching until his death. His most recent book (together with Bruce Wells), Everyday Law in Biblical Israel: An Introduction (Westminster John Knox Press), was published posthumously at the end of August.
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>Running 101>McMillan's "new" paces
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This is confusing to me because the easy runs in your log before Boston 2010 were the same pace as your marathon...
This is confusing to me because the easy runs in your log before Boston 2010 were the same pace as your marathon...
I was recovering from an injury and didnt train for boston. And I spent the first 18 miles of boston trying not to puke on the course.
My last real marathon was portland 2008
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"When I got too tired to run anymore I just pretended I wasnt tired and kept running anyway" - dd, age 7
I don't really agree that easy runs are the least important part of training.
Neither do I, that's why I never said that. But how fast we're doing them might be, at least for most of us. I think there is a fairly wide range of paces you can hit on your easy runs and still get the right training response, since the primary purpose of easy runs is building our aerobic base while letting us recover for the hard days.
Almost all of us know the answer if we want to get faster: Run more, and do bigger workouts. In order to do those two things, most of the people on this board would actually have to slow down on their easy days. There's low hanging fruit all around us, and it's not in nitpicking our easy pace. Once we've gotten to the level where we're doing the other 99% of things that elites are doing (like running 140 miles a week with 3 workouts for starters) it might make sense to put the same level of analysis to our easy runs.
However, for kicks I calculated my "Salazar" Easy pace using the 69.7 to 73.8% of 5K race pace formula that heatherruns worked out. I get 7:29 to 7:54 per mile based on my best recent 5k....that's pretty close to what I do now (maybe I go a little slower when I'm tired or wearing five layers of clothes because it's 7 degrees out.)
That actually sounds reasonable and is a fairly huge difference from the McMillan Easy pace, which for me comes out to 6:39 to 7:38. So I stand by my original position that the McMillan easy paces are whack, and should be ignored.
Runners run.
I was recovering from an injury and didnt train for boston. And I spent the first 18 miles of boston trying not to puke on the course.
My last real marathon was portland 2008
Okay, well if we all take our absolute PR marathon pace, the vast majority of the time it's going to be really hard. I can agree with that.
Mikey's post is good, especially the first paragraph.
What drove this thread was my claim that for slower runners marathon pace can be more or less easy pace. I still claim that there is a point X where the duration of a race is such a challenge that you more or less run your easy pace. I can be convinced that this point X is not at 4 or 5 hours but at 6 or 7 hours or 19 or 20 hours if you are Dopplebock (but despite all the hand waving and percentage calculating I don't really think that it's all that different from 4 or 5 hours, and there are a million training logs that prove this.) But I think that's different from saying that all 4 or 5 hour marathers should be running at MP every day. Obviously there will be recovery days and days where you feel like crap, but every now and then, I'd imagine a 6 or 8 mile run at MP might not feel so hard. Call me nutso.
Easy runs should be run by effort. I guess my big thing is that for some runners they MIGHT consider running a base phase where they "get after" it on easy days without running hard. My suspicion is that as soon as people start doing this, they would rather call those runs tempo runs or steady state runs or whatever and then start calling the runs where they are tired recovery days. Fine. Then it's a semantic argument.
In the end, though Mikey is totally right that no one should go out trying to hit X pace on their easy days. Hell, I don't even wear a watch on my easy days, most days. You can see how often I do by looking at my log.
The Logic of Long Distance
I think McMillan's calculated easy run pace is too fast, and my opinion really matters since I'm an expert on easy run pace!
Age: 49 Weight: 202 Height: 6'3" (Goal weight 195)
Current PR's: Mara 3:14:36* (2017); HM 1:36:13 (2017); 10K 43:59 (2014); 5K 21:12 (2016)
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Okay, since I typed out several paragraphs several times and it won't let me post because Running Ahead has clearly become self aware and is acting in self preservation... bullet points.
100K or Bust
I suspect this is implicit in some of the comments so far, but I'm not certain anyone has explicitly made this point: easy run pace and easy runs are not synonymous. A long run at an easy pace is not an easy run. It becomes a long run with McMillan paces showing a correspondingly slower pace range. This would fit with the contention that there is a duration or distance at which easy pace and race pace are equal, a point probably well beyond when running at an easy pace was still an easy run.
2017 Goals: for races not to be exercises in futility
wc, you're looking to run an ultra?! I thought you were more of a middle-distance track type guy.
Yes, and I am. In fact I have a track meet tomorrow where I plan to run the mile and 800m. I got intrigued last year by reports from friends who either ran or crewed at Badwater. I joined the crew from RWOL BF at NC 24 last fall to see first hand for myself what it was like. After several months of consideration I decided a timed event would be a good intro and exposure to an area of running I've never considered before.
Consistently Slow
Nope. What I said was that between 4 and 5 hours race pace gets close to easy training pace. But if you want to keep pretending I look down on slower runners, be my guest.
Nope. What I said was that between 4 and 5 hours race pace gets close to easy training pace. But if you want to keep pretending I look down on slower runners, be my guest.
You are right, at least for me. My 5:09 @11:34 pace at Disney is my easy run pace. I never ran McMillan paces in training to BQ. Paces were too fast.
Run until the trail runs out.
The pain that hurts the worse is the imagined pain. One of the most difficult arts of racing is learning to ignore the imagined pain and just live with the present pain (which is always bearable.) - Jeff
This whole MP thing by just goes back to effort vs time.
Take your traditional tempo run, which is often said to be a little faster than half marathon pace. This holds ture for alot of runners but not for those at either end of the continuom. If you can run a half in 59 minutes, running for 25-30 minutes at a bit faster than half marathon pace is going to be darn near race effort. On the other hand if you are a two hour half marathoner then to run around half marathon pace is similar to like 1:45-2:00hr race pace, which is drastically different than the classic "hour race pace" people like to say for tempos.
So what we have going on here is easy pace, which is we wanted to classify it would technically be "X Hours race pace". What the value may be for X is up for debate, but for those saying marathon pace is close to easy pace they are suggesting X likely falls in that 5-6 hour range.
Ontopic: The faster 2/3 or so of the McMillian easy pace would definitely be too fast for me on most days, but I might get down close to there at the end of an easy run where I am feeling great, as to me easy is about a certain rhythmn and feeling, generally one where you are just in the groove your body wants to go on that day. At the end of a good run that can get decently quick. I'd venture to guess my typical easy run pace average is somewhere near the slowest end of his given paces.
They say golf is like life, but don't believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. "If I am still standing at the end of the race, hit me with a Board and knock me down, because that means I didn't run hard enough" If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. "Don't fear moving slowly forward...fear standing still."


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USA Columbine school shooters stated "He doesn't deserve the jaw evolution gave him. Look for his jaw. It won't be on his body." Thus said Dylan Clebold on the video he and Eric Harris made prior to the school shootings in Columbine USA. Harris added "This is the thought process, the evolution I've gone through for the past year." (from video tapes released to media by Jefferson County Sherrif's Office)
Editorial Comment: Columbine's problem was not guns - it was the theory of evolution, and its kill or be killed mentality, taught in the public school classroom and which teaches students to have no respect for man made in God's image. How about a Million Mums march against it!


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BAY CITY, Mich. - A benefit will be held Wednesday at UDetroit Bar and Grille for a Bay City man who donated his kidney to a 10-year-old girl.
Brian Martindale, who gave his kidney to 10-year-old Jessica Schwerin, will be at the benefit, along with Schwerin and her mother, Stacey Schwerin.
Stacey said her daughter Jessica needed a new kidney back in the fall after she was diagnosed with chronic kidney failure, but the staff at a hospital in Ann Arbor told her it would take some time to get one.
Taking matter into her own hands, Schwerin said she stood on a busy street and held up a sign that read "Help Me! My daughter needs a kidney. I can't lose her!"
More: Mom seeks kidney donor for daughter with roadside sign
Then, the day before Thanksgiving, Schwerin was given a call back from the hospital saying they had found a donor. That donor turned out to be Martindale.
Event organizers said the benefit is being held to help "defray costs of a random act of kindness."
Detroit band LectricKramer will also make a special appearance at the benefit. The band says they have been wearing the donor's line of Karma shirts across the country while on tour.
The benefit will begin at 6 pm Wednesday at UDetroit Bar and Grille, located at 1427 Randolph Street in Harmonie Park. A "webathon" phone number will also be on the webcast on their website for any donation that would like to be made throughout the night.
Costing $20 at the door, food, drink specials and live entertainment will be featured at the benefit.
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Guardian Dragons have large shields on the end of their tails. Although the shields appear to be heavy, they are light, yet nearly unbreakable. Guardian Dragons use their tail-shields, as well as their wings, to deflect attacks and protect others. Often, they will guard the eggs and hatchlings of a nest while others are away. They are generally peaceful, and will not retaliate unless necessary. They have no need to forage or hunt, as they are fed by those they protect.
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
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A Whole New SeasonLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
Five friends were discussing their favorite shows of the new television season. From the clues provided, determine each friend's favorite new show, the star of each show, and what time it aired (one was at 9:00pm).
Shows: CSI Podunk, Desolate Husbands, Wheel of Fate, Dr. Cure, Cuddles in the Country
Male- Justin Time, Chance Ripley
Female- Chiquita Jalapeno, Lily Gardens, Rosie McDougal
1. Isaac's favorite show aired 1/2 hour after the one starring Justin Time but before Dr. Cure. Desolate Husbands aired either at 8:00pm or 10:00pm.
2. The five shows are the one at 8:30pm, Melinda's favorite, the one starring Chance Ripley, CSI Podunk and Wheel of Fate.
3. Charles really enjoyed the work of the male starring in his favorite show, which was on after Chiquita Jalapeno's show. Ruth's favorite show was the last one on.
4. The show starring Chiquita Jalapeno aired before CSI Podunk. Rosie McDougal's show and Cuddles in the Country aired one after the other in some order.
5. The two shows airing at 8:00pm are the one starring Lily Gardens and Michael's favorite.
AnswerIsaac: CSI Podunk, 9:00pm, Rosie McDougal
Melinda: Desolate Husbands, 8:00pm, Lily Gardens
Charles: Cuddles in the Country, 8:30pm, Justin Time
Michael: Wheel of Fate, 8:00pm, Chiquita Jalapeno
Ruth: Dr. Cure, 10:00pm, Chance Ripley
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A 46-year-old man has been arrested for numerous charges including a break and enter to City Furniture that occurred Jan. 28 at 6 PM.
Police were called to an alarm at City Furniture on Lakelse Ave shortly before 6 PM Jan. 28. Within minutes police were on scene and observed that entry was gained through the damaged front door.
Meanwhile, police were attempting to check a man on Lakelse Ave. This man fled. Another police officer in the area heard the unfolding events and observed the man running.
This police officer followed him and found him hiding beneath a flight of stairs on Park Ave. The man was intoxicated and arrested for breaching his probation condition of no consume alcohol.
The investigation at City Furniture was unfolding and police observed surveillance video which showed a man matching the description of the man recently arrested. His backpack was searched and break and enter tools were found. Possession of these tools was in contravention of his current probation order.
Communication and teamwork were key to an arrest being made in this crime. There were five RCMP members involved in this investigation simultaneously. Each one had a crucial piece of the puzzle to contribute resulting in a quick arrest, says Cst Angela Rabut, media relations officer of the Terrace detachment.
The man is held for court. Police have forwarded charges to Crown Counsel of break and enter, two breaches of probation, and possession of break and enter tools.
If you have information about this crime contact the Terrace RCMP at (250)638-7400 or anonymously through Crime Stoppers by telephone at 1-800-222-TIPS, online at www.terracecrimestoppers.ca or by texting TERRACE plus your message to 274637 (CRIMES).


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Hi, I need to change the way a form on my page works. As currently when you enter in the form information and hit send, you get sent to another page that loads up for testing purposes a basic 'message sent' message. I want the HTML page to load within the ID#Contact which is stylized with a width and a height. I've been directed to the following procedure but I don't know how to make it come together.
jQuery.post() – jQuery API.load() – jQuery API.ready() – jQuery API
Another issue with the suggestion I was given is the amount of jQuery needed to complete this, is there not a simpler method ?
Sorry do not understanding what you are trying achieve.
The page you directed us to
is a server side script. So clearly you are working server side with PHP.
I filled in the form supplying the name, email address, message and captcha and then click the Submit (not Send) button. This presented me with the page
with a message "Thank you for the message".
Could you elaborate on what you mean by
I want the HTML page to load within the ID#Contact which is stylized with a width and a height.
Normally you would have a form action which refers to a PHP script so that that script is executed server side. It gathers the data provided, handles it and generates a return HTML page.
jquery is essential browser side. Why do you think it has a relevance here?
The thank-you.html page I want to appear within the ID#Contact and conform to the dimensions of the DIV, understood ?
There are three techniques I can envisage
Instead of the action being thank-you.html make it thank-you.php and return the same page with the thank you message in place of the form.
Put the form within an  the html for the form would have to be in a separate url, contact-form.html (for example), and would be displayed in the iframe.
Use javascript probably in the guise of jquery.
The order indicates my preference and probably the order of difficultly. In your post you seem to be indicating the third route as your preferred on. What has influenced you in that decision?
I was given that suggestion by someone. Which is the route I prefer but with the jQuery links I posted in my original message it seems a little bit much for this task, why I'm open to any other suggestions as well as how to make this work !
Search around a bit I came across this site
30 Awesome JQuery Contact Form
The first
A Fancy AJAX Contact Form | Tutorialzine
is not dissimilar to what you want to do. Even uses a ajax approach to post the form to the web site
$.validationEngine.buildPrompt(".jqTransformSelectWrapper","* This field is required","error")
return false;
$.validationEngine.buildPrompt("#captcha","* Wrong verification number!","error");
$("#contact-form").hide('slow').after('
Thank you!
');
I have to use a new contact form, to achieve what I want. I can't implement something within the contact form I have now using some form of jQuery ?
I offered the site to enable you to see how what you were trying to achieve could be accomplished with jquery. I was not suggesting that you replace what you have with something else.
Essentially what the implementation does, via jquery, is validate the data in the form, capture the submit event of the form, transfer the content using an ajax method, give the user the thank you message and finally cancelled the submit.
Do you have jQuery / Javascript experience ? I hope it's not a stupid question in a forum dedicated to that specific topic, I'm just new to the language and if I run into a road block if I could get some help ?
It appears that the A Fancy AJAX Contact Form | Tutorialzine requires you to use that contact form, unless I'm wrong and you only implement the code onto my contact form !?!?
Do you have jQuery / Javascript experience
Plenty of Javascript, less so on jQuery - I have been a bit stand offish, what I produce I have to support and if I am building on top of something else I need to have confidence in it. I think I am there with jQuery but probably not on a lot of its plugins.
It appears that the A Fancy AJAX Contact Form | Tutorialzine requires you to use that contact form,
No, as I said in a previous post - learn from it, take what you need from it.
Below is a snippet for your page. When the form is submitted the event is captured and the data from the form submitted to a server side routine submit.php (your need to write this) which can be responsible for recording it. On a successful return the form is hidden and the thank you message given.
Note: on the <form> tag I have changed the name attribute to id.


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Looking for a relaxing moment in Outback Queensland? The Warrego River at Augathella is an idyllic shaded spot with a sheltered picnic and barbecue area. Arguably one of the most attractive spots along the Warrego River, it is here you can soak up the peace, quiet and tranquility. The perfect place to get away from it all, the choice is yours; bird watching, bushwalking or a just simplyrelax in a deck chair by the river banks for that quiet snooze.
Dawn and dusk are ideal times for photographers to capture the beauty of this section of the river.
The Warrego River (from an aboriginal word meaning 'river of sand'), runs north from its source in the Carnarvon Ranges to its junction with the Darling River, in the south.
The river drains into a catchment area of around 65,000 square kilometres. The towns of Augathella, Charleville, Wyandra and Cunnamulla are located on the banks of this river.


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What does 2010 hold in store for the European Union? With people in Brussels only just drifting back to work after a couple of weeks of snow, sub-zero temperatures and seasonally adjusted flu, it seems too brutal to plunge straight into topics such as the "2020 Strategy", the "Reflection Group" and other elusively named EU initiatives of which we are certain to hear more as the year moves on.
What one can say is that the EU ended 2009 feeling rather more pleased with itself than perhaps it had expected 12 months previously. Despite suffering the most severe economic contraction in its history, the EU avoided a meltdown of its financial sector, stuck fairly well to its rules on fair competition and free trade, and even witnessed a return to growth in certain countries. Read more


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Lady Flames Withstand Late Wagner Rally to Win, 12-11
The Liberty Lady Flames lacrosse team withstood a furious second half comeback attempt from the visiting Wagner Seahawks to win its third consecutive game, 12-11, on Sunday afternoon at the Liberty Lacrosse Field.
With the win, Liberty improves to 4-2 for the first time in program history. Wagner, who entered the game riding its best five-game start since the 2001 season, falls to 4-2 with the loss. The Lady Flames three-game winning streak equals the program record set during the 2011 campaign. The four total victories already eclipses last season's total of three wins.
After Wagner opened the contest with a goal from Stephanie Peterson at the 26:25 mark of the first half, Liberty reeled off three consecutive goals to move ahead 3-1.
Morgan Becker began the scoring for the Lady Flames, notching her 12th goal of the season less than one minute after Peterson's tally to knot the game.
Liberty took the lead when freshman Kallie Britton assisted on Sam Struss' sixth goal of the season. Britton recorded another assist on the Lady Flames next score, finding Nina Dunay for her 12th tally of the year, and a 3-1 advantage for the home team.
The Seahawks responded with a 3-0 run of their own to retake the lead, 4-3, with 14 minutes elapsed in the opening stanza.
The trend of 3-0 runs continued. Liberty went on its second run of the contest, beginning with a Kacie Fogle goal with 14:36 remaining in the first half to even the score at four apiece.
Britton notched the next two goals of the contest to help push the Lady Flames advantage to 6-4 with just over 10 minutes left until halftime.
The remaining 5:38 of the first half saw each team score twice. Dunay recorded her second marker of the contest, before Candice Parsons found the back of the net for the third time this season for Liberty. Annie O'Connor tallied both goals to conclude the half for Wagner, making the halftime score 8-6 in favor of the Lady Flames.
The Lady Flames extended their lead to five, at 11-6, with three consecutive goals to begin the second half. Becker fired the ball between the pipes for the second time on the afternoon, before Dunay scored her team-leading 14th goal of the season. Jen Freymond concluded the 3-0 run with her ninth goal of the year at the 22:18 mark of the final stanza.
Wagner trimmed the lead to four, after a goal from Jessica Mills, but the Lady Flames' quickly pushed their advantage back to five, when Fogle scored her second goal of the afternoon less than two minutes later.
The Seahawks concluded the contest with four unanswered goals, but it was not enough as Liberty held on for the 12-11 victory.
Liberty held the overall advantage in shots, 27-23, while Wagner held the edge in ground balls, 22-19, and caused turnovers, 16-12. The Lady Flames were successful on 10 of 16 clear attempts, compared to 13 of 19 successful clears for the Seahawks.
Liberty gained 18 draw controls, including the final draw with 21 seconds left in the game to seal the victory. Wagner finished the contest with seven draw controls.
Kristen Masullo recorded seven saves in between the pipes for Liberty, while Wagner goalie Katie Ferraro notched eight stops.
Next up, the Lady Flames will travel to Cincinnati, Ohio to face the Cincinnati Bearcats on Thursday. Game time is scheduled for 2 p.m.


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I could not stress to you any more deeply the major and primary points I have been making about crude oil production and capital expenditure absolutely controlling the energy space right now and through 2013. Today is the perfect day to point that out again, through the quarterly reports of EOG Resources (EOG) and Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD).
The action in both of these stocks has been a case study for oil investors in the precise factors I've been working so hard to beat into your head: 2013 is all about crude production and capex for that production.
Where are you getting your crude? How much is it costing you? And how much will it continue to cost you? When those numbers add up and the result is efficiency and growth, you've got a stock that you can confidently hold outside of all the other "known knowns" of stock metrics .
Look hard at what I mean in EOG, a recommendation of mine that has just been tearing it up in the last six months:
There was another beat in the fourth quarter, but that's hardly what interested me in its report. EOG's continuing stellar production numbers and continuing guidance for its operations in the Eagle Ford are turning that area into the most compelling play for U.S. crude independence, even outstripping the Bakken, and EOG has a major stake there. EOG is guiding production at a 28% increase in 2013, and the initial production numbers confirm that Eagle Ford continues to hit high percentages of long-producing assets. EOG will tighten spacing and add 400 wells. Eagle Ford is not just another U.S. shale oil "play" -- it is a game-changer.
This makes EOG still a raging buy, even after their big move in the last six months. As increasing and sticky oil prices hover internationally close to $120 a barrel, EOG will mint money through 2014.
Pioneer Natural provides a great contrast, as it is a bit more over its skis than EOG. But it is also attempting to play the volume game to its advantage.
But Pioneer's big play is in the Permian Basin, which has required more capex to find resource growth and continues to marginally disappoint on production growth. In its latest report, Pioneer has increased its capex guidance to $3 billion, leading to the secondary stock offering of 8 million shares on tap overnight. While production from one of its big Wolfcamp developments is increasing, it's not the type of blowout growth that EOG, for example, has guided on in the Eagle Ford.
Still, investors liked the report well enough, and they believe in the potential of Pioneer's Permian assets, bidding the stock up 3.5% today. This is a move I'd rather fade, not because I don't believe in the production guidance but because I want to be investing in the strongest cycle, which is clearly in the Bakken and Eagle Ford.
But the important takeaway is again production growth. While your homework might lead you elsewhere than these two, production growth still must be the No. 1 thought in choosing the right oil company in 2013.


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THE parents of a man killed by one punch in Blackburn town centre have welcomed calls to review sentencing guidelines.
Adam Rogers, 24, from Blackburn, had been on a night out when William Kingsley Upton, 17, from Rishton, hit him, causing him to fall and hit his head.
He was sentenced to four years in jail, but served two years and spent the rest on licence.
Now, secretary of state for justice, Chris Grayling, has asked the Sentencing Council, headed by the Lord Chief Justice, to report on the adequacy of sentences available to judges for killing with one punch.
Mr Grayling told a national newspaper: "I want to ensure everyone can have full confidence in sentencing of these crimes Pat Rogers, Adam's mother, said the length of the maximum sentence available to judges should be increased.
She said: "I think it needs to be looked at because every punch is different, but there are some much more violent than others.
"The young man who punched Adam was drunk and aggressive, but he was not a vicious, violent thug and there is a difference.
"One of the things my husband Dave and I feel really strongly about is that it is much more important what happens to the offender when they are in prison in terms of rehabilitation.
"We know from the impact Adam's story has on offenders that sometimes it takes them a while to get to the point where they can understand the victim's point of view."
Adam's death in 2009 prompted the launch of the Lancashire Telegraph's anti-violence campaign, Every Action Has Consequences, working with the Rogers family to raise awareness of the devastating effects of spontaneous violence.
The request for a look at the sentencing guidelines comes after Lewis Gill, 21, who killed Andrew Young, 40, with a single blow in Bournemouth, Dorset, was sentenced to four years in prison.
The term was appealed by the attorney general Dominic Grieve, but three judges in London decided not to make any change.
Mr Rogers, whose son was Padiham Ladies' football coach, said: "Offenders do not realise the severity of the damage they might cause and I think longer sentences would show that the community is taking it very seriously."


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Slaves of the Muslim faith were brought to South Africa from India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
You'll find the Bo-Kaap Museum which showcases South Africa's Islamic heritage in the cheerful Bo-Kaap neighbourhood of multi-coloured houses established centuries back by freed slaves, many of whom hailed from South East Asia and practiced the Muslim faith.
These former slaves became known as the Cape Malay, and it's believed that they were instrumental in the formation of the Afrikaans language, a version of Dutch simplified for easier communication between the Dutch settlers and workers.
The Bo-Kaap Museum in Wale Street, falls under the Iziko group of Cape museums. It's in the process of transformation into a social history museum that will tell the story of the local population within a cultural and socio-political context.
The museum occupies a 1768 original house, and is furnished as a 19th century home of a Muslim family.
As you relive the history of the Bo-Kaap community you'll learn about its customs and beliefs, and how it was affected by the political ideology of apartheid and its discriminatory legislation.
Despite the efforts of the government of the time to move all communities of colour outside the boundaries of Cape Town, this vibrant working class population stubbornly continued to exist on the doorstep of the city on the slopes of Signal Hill.
After your visit to this urban museum in Cape Town, take a walk around the area and if you're there at the right time of day, listen out for the muezzin's calls to prayer.
Not far from the museum you'll find the oldest mosque in South Africa, the Auwal Mosque built at the turn of the 18th century. Nearby is the oldest Muslim cemetery in the country, the Tana Baru.
The Bo-Kaap is also the heart of traditional Cape Malay cuisine so treat yourself to a spicy curry and some syrupy munchies. And spend a few moments chatting to the people of Bo-Kaap for some great insights into their daily lives.
Travel tips & Planning info
Who to contact
Bo-Kaap Museum
Tel: +27 (0)21 481 3939
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
How to get here
The Bo-Kaap is a short drive from Cape Town's city centre. If you don't have a car, take a cab.
Best time to visit
The Cape is at its best in the summer and spring.
Around the area
From the Bo-Kaap you are just a short distance from the major city attractions as well as other museums such as the Gold of Africa Museum, District Six Museum and the Castle of Good Hope.
Tours to do
A private guide will take you around Bo-Kaap visitng the museum, the cemetry and the mosque, at the same time filling you in on the area's culture and religion. The tour takes around two hours and costs about R120 per person. Contact the Bo-Kaap museum for guide references.
Get around
The best way to absorb the Bo-Kaap vibe is on foot.
What will it cost
Entrance fees: Adults R20; 16 to 18 R10; children free. Free entrance on selected commemorative days. The museum is open from 10am to 5pm from Mondays to Saturdays.
Length of stay
Schedule at least a couple of hours for the museum visit and the neighbourhood.
What to pack
A comfortable pair of walking shoes. Dress modestly if you intend going into one of the neighbourhood mosques.
Where to stay
Just about anywhere in Cape Town, although there are many accommodation options near the museum, in the city bowl as well as surrounding suburbs.
What to eat
Keep an eye out for Cape Malay dishes in the Bo-Kaap, like a spicy bobotie (baked mince with egg custard) or a sticky-sweet pastry know as a koeksister. Some restaurants with long-established reputations are Biesmiellah and Bo-Kaap Kombuis. Note that the festival of Ramadan may affect restaurant trading hours.
What's happening
Check the listed Cape Town Tourism website for event details during your stay.


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Arrests campaigns in Damascus and Latakia
Syrian forces nabbed scores of civilians in a Damascus neighborhood and the coastal city of Latakia in overnight raids, activists said Wednesday. In the northwestern Idlib province, a bullet killed a man as he stood on his balcony, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,. Troops were carrying out raids in the area at the time, the AP reported.
Earlier Wednesday, a woman died of her injuries two days after she was wounded in Latakia, according to the observatory and The Local Coordination Committees, another activist group. The LCC said a man was killed in the city late Tuesday.
The Damascus raids concentrated in the Kurdish neighborhood of Rukneddine where dozens were detained after electricity was cut in the area, the observatory said. The area has witnessed intense anti-regime protests in the past weeks.
In Latakia, hundreds of security men conducted house-to-house raids in the al-Ramel neighborhood, the observatory and LCC said.
Meanwhile, the foreign ministers of Turkey and Jordan renewed their call on Damascus to immediately stop the violence. In a joint news conference held on the sidelines of an Islamic nations' meeting to discuss famine in Somalia, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said: "The bloodshed must stop, all soldiers must be withdrawn from the cities and life in these cities must return to normal." "It's important to stop this raging violence and implement reforms," Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh said. "We reject the continuation of the killing."


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Macmahon surges after contract win
Published: January 22 2013 - 9:13AM
Shares in Macmahon Holdings have soared more than 15 per cent after the mining contractor sealed a $1.8 billion deal with Fortescue Metals Group.
The five-year contract is the biggest ever signed by Macmahon in the mining services arena and will see it provide services to help Fortescue expand its Christmas Creek iron ore mine in Western Australia's Pilbara region.Shares in Macmahon were four cents, or 15.7 per cent, higher at 29.5 cents, while Fortescue shares were eight cents higher at $4.61.
The contract miner has hired 600 workers for the project, with 500 already on site.
Macmahon chief executive Ross Carroll said the contract brought the company's mining order book to $3.6 billion, the highest level in its history.
''This is an exciting project that builds on the existing success of our surface mining operations, securing a stronger foundation for the company's mining-focused business over the next five years,'' he said in a statement this morning.
Macmahon expects to draw on its recent equity raising to help fund the $30 million it believes it will spend while working on the mine expansion project.
Fortescue chief executive Nev Power said the Christmas Creek expansion was a key component of the company's expansion plan to produce 155 million tonnes of iron ore per annum by December 2013.
News of the deal comes weeks after Macmahon agreed to sell its construction arm to its biggest shareholder, Leighton Holdings, for $20 million.
However, it has been fending off a rival $25 million offer for the business from India's Sembawang in recent weeks.
This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/business/macmahon-surges-after-contract-win-20130121-2d3u3.html


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IT-Security by Hardware
Bernd Klauer, Helmut-Schmidt University
Friday, January 23, 2009, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
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This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series
The concept of "malicious code" has always been associated with software. Recent work in the IT-security domain shows that simple hardware modifications can grant the privileged access to computer systems. The descriptive complexity of malicious code is extremely small in the software domain. For the hardware domain it has been shown that about a thousand gate equivalents are sufficient to implement malicious structures into a microprocessor circuit. From Moore's law we learn that we will soon be able to build one billion or more gates into integrated circuits. It is obvious that such malicious structures are hardly visible as they take less than 1/1000000 of the space of a silicon circuit. The presentation will show a classification of malicious "software" code by its visibility by anti-x agents. We will then derive some minor changes in common hardware architectures to increase their resistance against malicious software. In the second part of the presentation it will be shown how future malware generations can attack hardware structures.
About the Speaker
Bernd Klauer studied Computer Sciences and Physics at the J.W.Goethe-University in Frankfurt. He earned his M.Sc. in 1990. He received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on parallel pattern recognition methods in 1995. After leading a research group on parallel computer architectures he received his Habilitation in 2004. He followed a call from the University of the Federal Armed Forces to chair the department of technical computer sciences as a professor in 2004. He is a member of the GI, ITG, and VDE leading a GI/ITG/PTG special interest group on Physics and Computer Science.


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OK, so maybe it wasn't exactly a group hug. But make no mistake: The grudging acceptance of President Barack Obama's signature health care reform by the nation's governors during last weekend's get-together with POTUS marked the fall of another political obstacle to Obamacare.
While not all of the governors "of the great state of ..." who attended Sunday night's chow-down at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. were willing to make nice, the tone of the gathering was decidedly conciliatory.
"Before the (2012) election, it felt like a cockfight," Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin, who heads the Democratic Governors Association, told The Associated Press following a private lunch session Saturday. "Down there, we were talking about ways we could cooperate."
Their eyes toward the elections
The group tweet from the guvs might read something like this: "Ocare? Whatever helps my peeps helps me get elected. Dump it? Too $$. Fix it? We'll see. Not our fight. Can no longer afford the snark."
The sudden change of heart may have more to do with the rather delicate tightrope walk that some Republican governors face going into the fall midterm elections than with anything remotely resembling an "a-ha!" moment. There are 36 gubernatorial seats up for grabs in November, most of them currently held by the GOP.
Several Republican governors, including Rick Snyder of Michigan and Pennsylvania's Tom Corbett, have opted to expand Medicaid under the attractive terms laid out by Obamacare, even as their party continues to treat the nearly four-year-old law as Public Enemy No. 1.
Watching the numbers
Then there have been those inconvenient statistics recently that suggest Obamacare may be working. Despite a rough online debut, nearly 3.3 million have signed up for health insurance, including 1 million in January alone. It's got to grate a little that signups have been as strong or stronger than predicted in red states, including Florida, Idaho, Maine, Michigan, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
Sure, there's still plenty of quibbling. Even New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan, a first-term Democrat who expanded Medicaid to cover 50,000 uninsured residents, told the AP, "Overall, I'm very disappointed with the early implementation and rollout," while conceding, "I think we're making progress."
But, in that same report, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana, a staunch opponent of Obamacare, may have best captured the new, unofficial consensus among state leaders toward health reform.
"I don't think that it's so deeply entrenched that it can't be repealed, but I do think, as we argue for repeal, we have to show folks what you replace it with," he says.
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AiG's Creation Museum is being challenged once again by the secularists, this time in the renowned magazine Scientific American.
The event began in the planetarium, which was dedicated with prayer, followed by words from Ken Ham and Mike Zovath.
The Dragon Hall Bookstore offers visitors not only a wealth of Bible-affirming science, worldview and family resources, but also a unique environment.
In regard to the Field Museum's near Evolving Planet exhibit, the unsuspecting public does not realize that there is "storytelling" going on … in the guise of what is called "science."
On Monday, August 22, Mike Zovath, vice president of the Creation Museum, will introduce you to the new Creation Museum website and the addition of a museum blog.
Ken Ham discusses his favorite room or exhibit in the Creation Museum.
After many months of planning, prayer and the provision of God's people who have been sacrificially giving to AiG–USA, four AiG offices have now become one!
No, Answers in Genesis–USA is not moving to Russia or Florida, but to the lesser-known Northern Kentucky city of Petersburg—twenty-five minutes west of the current offices in Florence, Kentucky.
A small legion of motorcyclists will be mounting their iron horses on Saturday, 21 August—riding in from several directions and nearby states—for the 'Creation Museum Rally 2004.'
I want to share with you an emotional moment I had recently (and then some web testimonies), which I believe will illustrate what the AiG ministry is all about.
The Garcia family has completed 115 beautiful baby quilts in just under two months-a monumental undertaking-to offer to AiG supporters in exchange for a donation to the Creation Museum.
This year, the cicadas' path will cross the Creation Museum property in Northern Kentucky, just as we begin planting 1,250 young trees and shrubs to beautify the grounds.
It seemed like an impossible task, but the Creation Museum team has finally located them—Methuselah's hands.
AiG will be participating in a special Worldview Weekend bringing along Creation Museum models, artwork, artists, sculptors and AiG's own down-to-earth speaker Carl Kerby.
We want guests—especially non-Christians—to recognize that God holds them accountable for their lives and beliefs, and the coming Judgment is just as sure as the historical judgment in Noah's day.
I didn't think it would ever happen, but the most-asked question we receive at Answers in Genesis has changed!
Joe Taylor is the owner and curator of the Mt Blanco Fossil Museum and is known as one of the foremost fossil restorationists. Yet, Joe Taylor is also a creationist!
Jon Taylor, Museum Illustrator, has drawn an aerial view of the current design for Creation Walk and Corruption Valley of the museum's walk through history.
The Lord keeps dropping new talent into the laps of the Creation Museum's exhibit design team.
Great news! It is "getting dark" inside AiG's Creation Museum (under construction near Cincinnati in the USA), which means the roof and walls are being completed.
The Creation Museum team is excited to have Cheryl Reese interning with us until 19 July 2003.
Answers in Genesis–USA is in the process of building a one-of-a-kind Creation Museum near Cincinnati, Ohio.
In this day and age, an effective museum cannot be solely an attractive building with artifacts and text-heavy signs on the walls, it must be designed and developed as 'edu-tainment.'
Answers in Genesis would like to thank the many people who have been praying for the progress of the Creation Museum, under construction in Kentucky, USA.
AiG has successfully completed all of the preliminary permit requirements, and has the site plan approval in hand for the Creation Museum in NOrthern Kentucky, USA.
No results found in Creation Museum News.
Answers in Genesis is an apologetics ministry, dedicated to helping Christians defend their faith and proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ.


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A THIEF stole a pensioner's wedding and engagement rings as she had surgery at Royal Blackburn Hospital.
Heartbroken Marlene McGuirk-Ruane had gone to the hospital for a keyhole operation to check if she had cancer.
But she was devastated when she found her two wedding rings, two engagement rings and a pair of gold necklaces had been taken from her bag as she lay on the operating table.
A leading patient campaigner described the theft as 'despicable' and warned patients to be vigilant.
Police said the incident was one of nine thefts from the hospital reported to them since October 1.
Other items stolen included items from a handbag, a mobile phone, a bike and clothes taken from a staff area.
Mrs McGuirk-Ruane, 77, said she had received one of the wedding rings from her late husband, Jim, 60 years ago.
She said: "I only realised when I got to the hospital that I had forgotten to take my jewellery off.
"When they asked me to change I put everything inside a case I had taken with me.
"We thought I would be in overnight so my husband, Michael, went home and the nurse said I could leave my case at the hospital and it would be safe.
"As I was leaving they got my case and I went home in a taxi."
Mrs McGuirk-Ruane and her husband, who she married in 2009, had arrived at the hospital at 9.30am for a 10am appointment.
While she was having her blood pressure taken in a small room she was asked to step behind a curtain to get changed.
At that point she put her clothes and jewellery into the case.
She was then taken to another room and she said she did not see her case again until 4.30pm after being told she could go home because her lump was not cancerous.
Mrs McGuirk-Ruane, from Blackpool, said she was so consumed with relief she did not notice the missing jewellery.
She said: "I had been waiting for a month for the surgery so I had been quite upset.
"I had told Michael to take the case home but the nurse said it would be safe so he left it and went home.
"When I checked the case the next day at home I found out it had all gone. I was in shock.
"Nobody should have to go through this. I can't buy those rings again, they meant so much to me.
"The people who have them should burn in hell."
Russ McClean, from the Patient Advice and Liaison Service (PALS), said he was horrified to learn of the theft.
He said: "What sort of despicable person would steal from somebody who is in hospital having treatment or an operation?
"I would ask all patients to be extra vigilant and if they see anything suspicious to report it to a member of staff.
"I would also advise people not to take valuables with them if they are going to hospital."
A spokeswoman for East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust said: "The trust has been made aware of this incident.
"The trust is undertaking a full investigation into the allegation and a PALS officer is in the process of contacting Mrs McGuirk directly following her contact with them."


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The antichrist's objective is to prevent people living by Qur'anic moral values and to neutralize the struggle waged by the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). To that end he will attempt to prevent people seeing the auspicious activities that these holy personages perform. He will even misrepresent the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) to society and will do all in his power to make people hostile to them. He will seek to influence large numbers of people, and with this community he thus establishes he will wage a major campaign against these blessed individuals. According to the indications in the hadiths of our Prophet (saas), these propaganda techniques employed by the antichrist will play a major role in the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as) not being recognized by the majority of society when they first appear.
Propaganda techniques are one of the best-known methods of shaping public opinion. Large masses of people can be directed in the desired direction by means of exaggerated reports or reports with no truth to them at all. Mass indignation can even be evoked. The indications in the hadiths show that the antichrist will employ various propaganda techniques to prevent people obeying the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). These propaganda methods will resemble the methods employed by unbelievers through the ages. Allah tells us in the Qur'an that unbelievers will resort to such methods as making conspiracies against believers, seeking to incite society against them by various lies, using false proof, using a deceptive style of presentation and a style that intensifies a potential atmosphere of indignation. Allah shows how unbelievers will use the means at disposal to give the impression that something is one way when it is in fact not, and that they will thus be able to lead society in the direction they desire.
Thus the antichrist may attempt to use such propaganda techniques, with various lies and slanders, in order to mislead society in the End Times. One very important characteristic feature of the antichrist noted in the hadiths is the way that he has the means to enable his slanders and lies to reach a great many people. The hadiths contain signs that the antichrist will engage in his propaganda by making use of the press and publishing vehicles.
When the antichrist appears he will shout and scream in such a way that the peoples of the East and West will hear him. (Ibn Kathir, al-Nihaya, 1:96)
A voice will be heard saying, "The antichrist has entered your homes and taken your children captive." (Al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, Al-Burhan fi Alamat al-Mahdi Akhir az-Zaman, p. 73)
These expressions tell us that the antichrist's voice will be heard all over the world and that he will enter everyone's homes by using methods of mass communications. Therefore, the antichrist will be able to enter more than one place at the same time. According to the signs in the Qur'an, the antichrist will aim to blacken the reputations of true believers by using these means to spread his evil propaganda.
Means of communication such as radio, television, the Internet, newspapers and magazines are today the most important ways that people communicate and are kept informed. In the same way that these can be used for such purposes as raising people's cultural levels, telling the public about day-to-day events and calling on people to live by proper moral values, they can also be used to spread slander and false reports, to misdirect people for evil ends, and to encourage immorality. According to the signs contained in the hadiths, the antichrist will attempt to blacken the reputations of believers by using these vehicles to spread his wicked propaganda. Using television and the press, he will spread slanders about the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as), accusing them of being "perverted," or "bewitched," or "encouraging ignorance" or "deception." In a climate of non-stop propaganda in which the characters of believers and people with proper moral values are blackened, many people who lack the requisite information will regard the antichrist as strong and powerful in their eyes and thus align themselves with him. Some ignorant Muslims who, albeit unknowingly, fail to analyze all these events in the light of Qur'anic moral values and the beliefs of the Ahl al-Sunnah, will support the antichrist and further strengthen his propaganda. As revealed in the words of one hadith, "The antichrist will bring with him what will resemble hell and paradise, and what he will call paradise will be actually hell," (Sahih Bukhari, Vol. 4, Book 55, 554) the antichrist will depict good as evil and evil as good. As a result of this propaganda, the great majority will not recognize the Prophet Jesus (as), Hazrat Mahdi (as) and other devout believers, and will even regard them as evil.
Since the antichrist behaves as the public wish and in line with their worldly desires, they will love him and follow the path he shows them. Many people will imagine that the antichrist is actually calling them to what is good and thus follow him and turn their backs on those they should be following, the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). They may even actively oppose them. Since this false propaganda of the antichrist's will be entirely compatible with people's worldly desires and interests their preferences will be in opposition to Muslims.
As described in detail in previous sections, some people will fall under the influence of such propaganda by the antichrist and will abandon Hazrat Mahdi (as). Some hadiths indicating this read as follows:
They will strive alongside Hazrat Mahdi (as). Then Medina will be rocked and the unbelievers will be expelled from it... Only pure Muslims will be left there, and later they will migrate to Bayt al-Maqdis ...(Al-Barzanji, Al-Isha'ah li-ashrat al-sa'ah, 8th edition, p. 256)
The Day of Judgment will not happen until a group from my community rule over everyone. They will pay no heed to the departure of those who abandon them, nor to those who help them. (Muawiya (ra); Buyuk Kiyamet Alametleri, 476/9, Major Portents of the Judgment Day, 476/9)
It needs to be made clear that in the same way that the antichrist employs overt propaganda during all these activities, he may also seek to misdirect people by using covert indoctrination. In the same way that he may employ a style intended to blacken the names of believers during the course of this propaganda, he may also employ a style intended to target them indirectly and to establish a false impression of them in society. For that reason, Muslims must be on their guard against all the antichrist's methods and ruses. What Muslims who wish to understand the antichrist's trickery and avoid his fitnah need to do is to fully comply with the moral values of the Qur'an and to take the Sunnah of our Prophet (saas) as their guide. In the Qur'an Allah tells the faithful to:
You who believe! If a deviator brings you a report, scrutinize it carefully in case you attack people in ignorance and so come to greatly regret what you have done. (Surat al-Hujurat, 6)
Muslims who comply with this commandment of our Lord's will not, by Allah's leave, be taken in by the antichrist's falsehood and slander-based propaganda. When they analyze every report they hear or every piece of information that comes their way using the criteria of their reason, conscience and moral precepts of the Qur'an, they will be protected against confusing good with evil and right with wrong.
The End Times are an age when the honesty required by religious moral values, justice, protecting the needy, observing the rights of the weak, giving alms, and being compassionate are all in decline. These virtues will be replaced by lies, fraud, ruthlessness, intransigence, selfishness and aggression. In such a climate, where helping others is regarded as a kind of naiveté, honesty is seen as unnecessary, when people look askance at compassion and gentleness, when justice is not done, and when cruelty and oppression spread, people will find it difficult to distinguish what is good from what is bad, and what is right from what is wrong.
The values and criteria by which good and evil are determined are of the very greatest importance. If people determine good and evil on the basis of their own personal interests and other value judgments, terrible turmoil will ensue. That is because people can only come to real goodness by thinking in line with Qur'anic moral values and following the voice of their consciences. The fact that people will turn away from the moral values of the Qur'an in the End Times will cause them to confuse good and evil and thus turn their backs on the truth.
There is no doubt that this state of affairs will play a major role in the antichrist's struggle. The antichrist, the main defender and proponent of systems and ideologies that are incompatible with religious moral values will draw strength from this corrupt climate in the End Times and thus cause the majority of people to behave in accordance with the indoctrination he provides. For that reason, it is of the greatest importance to identify the way the antichrist turns people away from the true path and the methods he may employ in order to prevent people recognizing the Prophet Jesus (as) and Hazrat Mahdi (as). These methods are considered in this chapter. Our hope is that this information will prevent people being taken in by the antichrist's deceptions when the Prophet Jesus (as) returns to Earth and when Hazrat Mahdi (as) appears.


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TORONTO — Since the Winnipeg Jets really jumped into the fray about 10 days ago, the race in the NHL's Eastern Conference has taken on new intrigue.
You aren't imagining this — the latest plot twist sees the Jets as the third seed this morning.
Their wild 5-4 shootout win over the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday night at Air Canada Centre vaulted them over the Carolina Hurricanes and into the lead of the Southeast Division with 32 points.
The Jets coughed up a 4-1 second-period lead and eventually took the game on a goal by Zach Bogosian in the tenth round of the shootout, the longest of the NHL season.
"A good game for Hockey Night in Canada, exciting from that standpoint but a little bit too exciting for our liking," said Jets coach Claude Noel, his team 10-3-1 in its last 14 games.
"But we're happy we got the win. The shootout was a little nerve-racking."
Winnipeg, Toronto and New Jersey are all at 32 points.
The Leafs and Devils share sixth today, while Carolina is now eighth in the standings after losing to Tampa Bay on Saturday.
First period
Joffrey Lupul's early goal for Toronto — he's just back from missing 25 games with a broken arm — pushed the Leafs to the lead after just 1:32, then the rowdiness began again.
The teams had a physical battle Tuesday in Winnipeg and it resumed when Toronto's Colton Orr and Winnipeg's Chris Thorburn squared off again. Four minutes later, Jets defenceman Zach Bogosian was jumping in to scrap with Korbinian Holzer, who had wanted to fight with Evander Kane.
"I thought it was good," Noel said. "I think the fact that he didn't think it was a fair trade-off with Evander Kane, he thought we're not going to take liberties like this."
Second period
The Jets jumped to the attack almost from the faceoff to start the period. It took them five minutes to cash a goal, and within a 10-minute span, they had four.
James Wright had the first, converting a rush pass from Kyle Wellwood, then Antti Miettinen scored for the second game in a row, batting a puck out of the air near the net. Blake Wheeler added two more, 3:26 apart, and the Jets were ahead by three goals and ACC fans were starting to jeer
Toronto rallied late, getting a faceoff win goal by Nikolai Kulemin and turnover conversion by Lupul within 25 seconds to get it within one by the intermission.
"The only real disappointing thing was how in control we had that game," Wheeler said. "But that's hockey, it's a game of momentum and they made a couple of nice plays going into the third."
Third period
Phil Kessel scored on a wide rush at 5:50. It took the Jets nearly 10 minutes to get a shot in the period.
The overtime produced chances both ways, the best for Toronto's Nazem Kadri and Winnipeg's Kane.
The shootout saw Wheeler score with Winnipeg's first shot, Tyler Bozak with Toronto's second then Jets' Ondrej Pavelec and Toronto reliever James Reimer shut the door. Winnipeg, shooting second in each round, had eight straight shots to win the game and finally did it with Bogosian's glove-side snapper.
After the buzzer
Winners of three straight, the Jets are right back it in Ottawa today (4 p.m., TSNJets, TSN1290). Ottawa has 34 points, the Jets 32.
"Now the goal is to move onto the next game," Wheeler said after the long shootout.
"Tomorrow's two points are just as important, probably more important. It's less about where we are now and more where we want to go. You've got to scratch and claw your way to be higher up in those standings, so that you're not just teetering on the edge every game."