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North Texas
fight song composer Francis Stroup ('29) is also a member
of the UNT Athletic Hall of Fame. He played on the North Texas
basketball team in 1928 and '29 and was an accomplished swimmer,
winning the Texas Amateur Athletic Federation state championship
in the men's junior division 10-meter diving event. He now
lives in Illinois. This Eagle Tale was taken from a longer
piece in which he shares memories of North Texas and his ties
with 'Fessor Graham and the Aces of Collegeland. Read "'Fessor
and the Aces."
HAD BEEN OUT OF SCHOOL FOR 10 years and was teaching and coaching
basketball at Prosper High School. I drove to the Saturday night
movie in Denton, and during the stage show, Fessor Floyd Graham
announced a contest for a marching song.
I had been
writing songs for 10 years, and a couple of years earlier I had
hit on a snappy tune I liked enough to play again and again. It
had the same structure as many college songs. To say that I was
elated with Fessors announcement would be an understatement.
I sat down
at the old Kranic and Bach upright piano my mother had bought secondhand
some 20 years earlier. I played the tune a couple of times and wondered
how to start. Naming the school in the first line seemed appropriate.
give a cheer for North Texas State; Cheer
for the green and white.
It sounded
like a good start. A little repetition doesnt hurt, and mention
of the school colors seemed fitting.
Now what?
Maybe the underdog pitch. How about, Whatever the score were
gonna win?
No way.
But reverse the order and put in a few contractions, and you get:
in store but what eer the score.
That does
it. The ideas right, the meters right, and with the
bonus of an internal rhyme. (Im a sucker for internal rhymes.)
Like many
schools, Abilene Christian used the Washington and Lee Swing
for its pep song. When they got to the line, Were gonna
fight, fight, fight for every score, the student body would
join in on the three fights. Well, I upped them one
fight and got a line everyone could remember.
Our men
will ever fight, fight, fight, fight.
I was halfway
through and hadnt had to scratch out a line. What next? In
Stouthearted Men, Oscar Hammerstein said: Shoulder
to shoulder and bolder and bolder they grow.
to shoulder, marching along sounded good. But I remembered
my freshman English teacher, Miss Bessie Shook. She told us it wasnt
a sentence unless it had a verb, preferably in the indicative mood
and active voice. So in the struggle between Miss Shook and euphony,
Miss Shook won. The line became:
to shoulder they march along.
And what
do they do as they march? My first thought was, Waving their
banners high. I wrote it down the only line I had to
scratch out. Football players dont wave flags. But more important,
this line would set the rhyme for the last line. What could I say?
Waving their banners high; North Texas do or die? I
didnt think so. Instead of telling what they were doing, why
not describe them?
Men with
a purpose true.
Now I could
tell what they were doing. That was easy. They were:
the game for the honor and fame.
Ah, another
internal rhyme and a perfect lead-in to repeat the name of the school
and note those people who were asked to cheer in the first line.
Now we could tell them why ...
Of North
Texas State and you.
In no longer
than it took to tell about it, I had written eight lines that were
destined to be repeated more than anything else I would ever write.
On the 50th anniversary
of the adoption of Fight, North Texas, Stroup assigned
the songs copyright to the university. He helped revise the
lyrics after the name of the school was changed to the University
of North Texas.


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Insects, spiders and other tiny monsters that scurry across floors or fly through the air are frightening enough. Under an electron microscope, however, they balloon into terrifying yet beautiful spectacles.
For a few bucks, starting September 12, iPad owners can zoom in on such nightmarish electron-powered portraits using a paid application called "Mini-Monsters."
Each of the app's 567 images of more than 200 unique species is zoomable and comes equipped with a caption. The detailed information covers everything from the monsters' eating habits to favorite hiding spots.
Science Photo Library, a science-centric stock imagery company that hosts some 300,000 images and 20,000 videos, says Mini Monsters will cost $2.99 in the U.S., £1.99 in the UK and €1.99 elsewhere in Europe.
"We supply these images mostly to publications and advertisers, but wanted to get them out to the public in another way," said Gary Evans, who helped launch the app as the manager of scientific relations at Science Photo Library. "The first person I'm going to show this to is my grandson."
Three sets of contributors (Steve Gschmeissner, Cheryl Power and Andrew Syred, and Oliver Meckes and Nicole Ottawa) created images for the app using their own scanning electron microscopes, which are hundreds of times more powerful than optical microscopes.
We preview some of the best mini monsters in this gallery.
Captions adapted from text provided by Science Photo Library
Zebra Jumping Spider Head
Six of Salticus scenicus's eight eyes are seen: one large pair at the front, and smaller eyes on the side. Below the eyes are the two large chelicerae which carry teeth for biting prey. Jumping spiders have acute vision which helps them stalk prey.
Image: Power and Syred/Science Photo Library
Dust Mite
Six of this Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus' eight legs are visible at bottom. Dust mites are relatives of spiders and scorpions but invisible to the naked eye. Millions live inside furniture and fabric in the average home.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Blue Bottle Fly Maggot
The maggots, or larvae, of Protophormia sp. are used medicinally to clean wounds. Their saliva contains anti-bacterial chemicals which maintain sterility in the site.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Seven-Spot Ladybug Flying
Coccinella septempunctata's flight wings (blue) are protected by the hardened outer red wings (elytra). The red coloring is a warning to predators that it can squirt a distasteful liquid from its limb joints.
Image: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library
Hornet Head
Compound eyes are on either side of Vespa crabro's head, with two antennae branching off to left and right. This hornet has a reputation for being aggressive, though it only stings if provoked.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Mosquito Head
Only female Aedes aegypti suck blood and therefore transmit diseases such as filariasis, yellow fever and dengue fever to humans.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Brown Ant on Grass Stalk
A parasitic Dicrocoelium dendriticum fluke has infected this Formica ant. The parasite causes cramping in the ant's mandibles, clamping it to a grass blade for many hours. During this time the ant may be consumed when the grass is eaten by a grazing animal. The fluke will then infect its new host's gall bladder and bile duct.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Tropical Black Ants
Lasius ants are common to a wide variety of habitats in northern temperate regions in both the old and the new world, although some also live in tropical regions.
Image: Power and Syred/Science Photo Library
Wolf Spider Stalking Prey
A Euophrysspider stalks a fly.
Image: Power and Syred/Science Photo Library
Like other termites, Coptotermes niger feeds on wood.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
House Fly
Musca domestica's head is dominated by a pair of large compound eyes, each composed of about 4,000 image-forming facets called ommatidia.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Fruit Fly Head
Two compound eyes are seen on either side of Drosophila's head. This fly is widely used in genetic experiments as it breeds rapidly and has a small, well-understood genome.
Image: Eye of Science/Science Photo Library
Ground Beetle Head
This Carabidae beetle's large jaws can be seen at upper right.
Image: Steve Gschmeissner/Science Photo Library
Vine Weevil
All Otiorhynchus sulcatus adults are female and reproduce by parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction. Its feet possess a pair of hairy pads used for walking on smooth surfaces, and a pair of claws used for walking on rough surfaces.
Image: Power and Syred/Science Photo Library
See Also:
- Super Small: Help Choose the Year's Best Microscope Photos
- Scorpions, Spiders and Sharks: Electron-Microscope Images
- Wing Secrets That Help Insects Rule the World
- 6 Super Close-Ups of Crazy Bug Eyes
- Marvelous Destroyers: The Fungus-Farming Beetles
- Hidden Blades, Glowing Scorpions and Bug Genitalia: Great Science Images From the American Museum of Natural History
- 35 Years of the World's Best Microscope Photography
- Soy Sauce, Soap and Saccharin: Microphotography Winners Revealed

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Col. William Edmondson
b.27 October 1736 Cecil County, Maryland
d.30 July 1822 Glade Springs, Washington County, Virginia
Family tree▼
m. 1730
m. 19 Apr 1761
m. 5 May 1781
Facts and Events
Learning of Colonel Byrd's expedition down the Holston, destined against the Cherokees, in 1760, William Edmondson, and his brother Samuel, concluded to enlist, so as to give them an opportunity to examine the lands of the Holston country with a view to future settlement. While on this service, William Edmondson was guilty of the high crime of addressing an officer without taking off his hat, as was required of all soldiers, for which he was severely rebuked, and threatened with punishment. Reaching his comrades in great wrath, Edmondson loaded his rifle, and swore he would shoot the officer who had so grossly insulted him ; and it was with great difficulty, that his brother dissuaded him from it. One of the Virginia officers, who knew Edmondson, wrote to Governor Fauquier, that there was a high spirited soldier in his corps, who, unless commissioned, was likely to get into trouble. On the first of August, in that year, the Governor sent him an ensign's commission to serve on that expedition. But when Byrd got pretty well down the Valley, he took to camp, but made no further progress during that nor the following year. In 1763, Governor Fauquier sent Edmondson a commission of Lieutenant in the militia.Having married a Miss Montgomery, he removed, after the war, to the New River frontiers, in now Grayson County; and subsequently to what now constitutes Washington County, settling on a tract of land received for his military services. In 1774 he was commissioned a Lieutenant in the militia of Fincastle County, served on the frontiers of Clinch and Sandy, and probably in Christian's regiment on the expedition to Point Pleasant and the Scioto: and, in 1776, he was made a Captain, and served on the campaign against the Cherokees in the fall of that year. In 1777, he was appointed a Justice, and failed only a few votes of an election to the House of Delegates. He was, this year, selected by the Legislature one of the commissioners for taking depositions against the claim of Henderson and Company to the Kentucky country.
During 1777, he was in service when the treaty was held at Long Island of Holston, and was much engaged, in 1778, in guarding the frontiers. Early in 1779, he commanded a company on Colonel Evan Shelby's Chickamauga expedition; and early in 1780, he was promoted to Major of the Washington regiment, serving on the expedition against the Tories on New river, and then on the King's Mountain campaign. At the close of the year he joined Colonel William Campbell's force, marching to the Long Island of Holston. He was advanced to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1781, and in 1783 to a full Colonel. During 1781 and 1782, he was much in service in protecting the frontiers.
By two marriages—the second to a Miss Kennedy—he had fifteen children One son, born soon after the death of his revered commander, he named General William Campbell Edmondson. He lived to a good old age, dying July thirtieth, 1822, in his eighty-ninth year. He was six feet, two inches high, possessed a vigorous mind; he was bold, manly, open-hearted, and generous. His attachments were strong, and his hatreds bitter, He served at one time as Sheriff of the County, and for many years presided, with great dignity, over the County Court. Judge Estill, who knew him well, declared, that "few more gallant, useful, and honorable men than Colonel Edmondson ever lived in any country."
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From MySource:Dlbradley1/Howard Valance Jones:
He received a land tract of about 3000 acres from the King of England for his outstanding service in the French and Indian War[6] It was later known as the William Edmondson Tract. The tract made up the land between the north fork and the south fork of the Holston River. Parts of this tract were subsequently deeded, and or given as grants by William Edmiston to other members of the family. The Land was held by Col. William Edmiston under a grant from Charles II, King of England and under the King's proclamation of 1763, Edmiston being an officer in the French and Indian War of 1754-1763. The name Edmiston was used until about 1830 and for some unknown reason was changed at that time to Edmondson.[7]Need source for the forgoing quote.
From Chalkley's Augusta County Records:
Augusta County Records
Military Career
From (?):MySource:Dlbradley1/Howard Valance Jones:
Excerpted from Daughters of The American Revolution Application by Linda Carol Strahan Need verifiable reference to source documentation. Perhaps this should go into the digital library.
Source:Thwaites and Kellogg, 1905:84 provides a different perspective:
From a Wayside marker outside of Abingdon: (probably needs a specific source).
"William Edmiston was named by General William Campbell as the commanding officer of the Virginia Militia at the Battle of King's Mountain, SC. Known for braverary under fire Major Edmiston ordered his troops up the mountain in the first line of fire.
One third of all the men killed and wounded in battle were memebers of the Virginia Militia. Later Major Edmiston served as trustee of the town of Abingdon. He died on 30 July 1822. His place of burial is unknown.
Captain: William Edmiston Lieutenants: William Blackburn, Rees Brown, Robert Edmiston, Sr, and Thomas McCulloch. Ensigns: John Beattle, James Cory, Nathaniel Dryden, Andrew Edmiston, Richard Gist, James Laird, Humberson Lyon and James Phillips. Privates: William Flower, Henry Henniger and Elisha Pepper" The site is also part of the NPS Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail.
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Osama Bin Laden Wives Leaving Pakistan
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(WASHINGTON) — Osama bin Laden's wives and children will be leaving Pakistan by plane in just a few hours, according to their lawyer.
The al Qaeda leader's three wives — two Saudis and one Yemeni — along with nine children, had been held in Pakistan since bin Laden's death during a U.S. Navy SEAL raid in May 2011 and were later convicted of entering the country illegally. They completed a brief sentence in detention and will be deported to Saudi Arabia at midnight, or 3 p.m. Eastern Time in the U.S., their lawyer told ABC News. The lawyer did not say why the Yemeni wife is also apparently being sent to Saudi Arabia.
American officials previously said they were allowed to speak to the wives once, but the oldest of the three was so combative that nothing at all came from the interrogation.
In the course of the illegal entry case against bin Laden's wives, investigators revealed new details about the al Qaeda leader's life in the shadows before he was killed in a nighttime raid last May.
According to a police report obtained by ABC News, bin Laden's youngest wife, Amal Ahmad Abdul Fatah, told investigators that for a majority of the near-decade between the 9/11 attacks and bin Laden's death, he did not live deep in rugged caves in the Afghan border region as was the popular belief but stayed in various houses in major Pakistani cities. While he was hiding, bin Laden managed to father four children — at least two of whom were born in government hospitals in Pakistan.
A video obtained exclusively by ABC News showing the inside of Bin Laden's compound revealed that bin Laden and his wives appeared to have lived on the top two floors of the three story house, but bin Laden could separate himself as much as he wished. The house was built to sustain multiple families independent of each other.
Still, Phil Mudd, one of the men who hunted bin Laden with the CIA, said that bin Laden's last years confined in his walled compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, with multiple wives and children most likely were not stress-free.
"I can only begin to imagine that that looked like American reality TV," said Mudd, "that he was living in some version of the Kardashians in Abbottabad."
Amal, 30, was shot in the leg defending bin Laden during the Navy SEAL raid.
"That kind of self sacrifice was something often discussed by bin Laden and other members of his family," said Steve Coll, author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden.
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Potential new obstacle to Hamdan trial
The frequently-troubled sytem set up by Congress last year to try war crimes charges against Guantanamo Bay detainees is facing another potential obstacle in the wake of a military judge's ruling at Guantanamo on Monday. Military Commission Judge Keith J. Allred, a Navy captain, ruled that Salim Ahmed Hamdan is entitled to a hearing on whether he is to be classified as a prisoner of war. (The judge's four-page order can be found here.)
If, in fact, the judge were to conclude after the hearing that Hamdan is a POW, under the terms of the Third Geneva Convention, it almost certainly would mean that he could not be tried by a U.S. military commission. Article 102 of the Convention declares that a POW cannot be punished for a crime unless that results from the same procedure that a U.S. serviceman would face for a criminal military trial — that is, by court-martial under a system of military justice that provides the accused with greater rights than are provided under the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Hamdan, who already has won a major ruling by the Supreme Court on his rights as a detainee, and who earlier won a dismissal of the war crimes charges (a dismissal that has not yet been finalized), sought a ruling from Judge Allred that he is protected by the Third Geneva Convention's Article 5.
Article 4 of the treaty defines who is a prisoner of war. Article 5 then specifies that, if there is any doubt whether a person captured for "a belligerent act" is a POW, that means they must be treated temporarily as a POW until that status is settled. And, if a POW determination is then made, Article 102's protection on where and how charges may be tried takes effect.
Judge Allred — the same judge who earlier dismissed the war crimes charges against Hamdan (only to be overturned, at least temporarily, by the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review) — concluded Monday that Hamdan's lawyers had satisfied the requirements to get an Article 5 hearing. That proceeding, the judge added, will be before the military commission itself, since he found that to be a "competent tribunal" under Article 5.
The Justice Department, in resisting Hamdan's plea for a Geneva Convention hearing, contended that he was not entitled to it under the Military Commissions Act and, in any event, the status requirement was satisfied by the finding of a Combatant Status Review Tribunal that he is an "enemy combatant."
Rejecting both of those arguments, the military judge concluded that the U.S. is bound by Article 5, and that it does apply to Hamdan because the U.S. as a detaining power under the Convention "proposes to try the accused for his participation in hostilities."
The judge went on to decide that the CSRT determination was not sufficient to answer the plea for a Geneva Convention status determination. That must be made by a judicial tribunal, and CSRT was not set up to be that kind of tribunal, the judge found.
The CSRT found him to be an "enemy combatant," Judge Allred noted, because he was a member of al-Qaeda and worked for Osama bin-Ladin as a bodyguard and driver. But, the decision added, "the CSRT did not address his entitlement to Prisoner of War Status, cite or discuss the Geneva Conventions or Article 5, or address the lawfulness of the accused's participation in hostilities." Indeed, the judge said, the CSRT was not "tasked to" do anything other than determine whether he was an "enemy combatant."
Thus, the judge found, it is up to him and the military commission over which he presides to address the POW question.
When the commission holds a hearing on whether Hamdan is an "unlawful enemy combatant," a decision the commission was assigned to do by the Court of Military Commission Reivew, it will also go into Hamdan's status under Article 5 — that is, whether or not he is a POW.
Although the Military Commission Act provides that those covered by it cannot rely upon the Geneva Convention "as a source of rights," Judge Allred said that Hamdan has not yet been determined to be an "unlawful enemy combatant" — the status he must be assigned in order to bring him under the MCA.


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youth shotguns
dollar for dollar, what is the best youth shotgun? looking for a 20 gauge.
Hard to beat a youth Rem. 870 ;)
The H&R- Nef. guns are real cheap and do everything you need done, BUT, they have alot of recoil for younger shooters. For a gun that will last a life time of heavy use I agree with Rugermike, the 870 rem. The 500 Mossy is a close second. For alittle more and 1100 Rem. will help with the recoil.
Didnt say what it was for, so I'm going with a single shot. I have a Rossi 20ga single shot. I think they have a youth model too, but mine is full size. It was only 87 bucks. Its a blast to shoot, but leaves bruises on my shoulder.
I loved my Winchester 120.
my first upgrade from a single shot 20gauge was a 870 remmington. i used it for dove hunting. it took alot of abuse but was always reliable. but the remming 1100 is just as good and its prettier i think. i know have a remmington over under 20 gauge and its wonderfull as well.
I'll second Matt on the Winny. The model 120 is a plain jane 1200. Fast action. Solid lock up. Lighter than the Remmy and youth models were made. The only problem is they are no longer making them. Good clean used ones are out there. If you get one and don't like it I will buy it from you. I have been thinking about one myself.
My neighbor just bought his son a 20 gauge Remington 870. I think he and I got a lot more enjoyment shooting skeet with it than his son did; I have always shot 12 gauges; but am now looking for a 20 for myself :D
My first shotty was an H&R single shot .410; i loved it & it is still at Dad's house if i need it (about 30 years later).
If you need a pump, my ole crusty mossberg 500 in 12 guage has never failed me; they sell them in 20 guage as well. They are pretty inexpensive & have lots of tacticool options to please the kiddie.
(I've noticed my father uses the .410 on tree rats in the yard and such, now that he is getting older.)
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Just make sure there's no back doors
Just make sure there's no back doors - the last super-copter with a super-computer had a nasty one - had to freeze the whole thing out.
The Santini Air one...
Technically, a Silicon Graphics Altix UV 1000 could play Crysis, but in the case of the machine being installed at Sikorsky Aircraft, its game is more realistic: an advanced helicopter flight simulator to create things that really do blow stuff up. The Altix UV 1000 is, of course, the big gun in the SGI arsenal, able to …
Just make sure there's no back doors - the last super-copter with a super-computer had a nasty one - had to freeze the whole thing out.
The Santini Air one...
I had an evaluation SGI Iris Indigo and monitor turn up loose and unpackaged in a back of a white Ford Escort van. They were worth around £12k back in 1992. Lovely machine to use but not that quick with the software it was tested with.
Windows 2008R2 or Linux?
I think IRIX is mentioned, SGI have been using IRIX since the year dot.
It's SUSE or Red Hat Linux or Windows that are available.
From SGI's website
"SGI UV runs unmodified versions of SUSE Linux Enterprise Server as well as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is also supported across the product line"
Not found any mention of IRIX
As far as I remember they gave up on IRIX for Linux. Running Windows means you can have a Windows partition on the Linux machine.
"I think IRIX is mentioned, SGI have been using IRIX since the year dot."
And IRIX is dead since almost half a decade now, as is the MIPS-based series of computers.
Today it's Linux all along.
Back in 2007/8 the bank I work for set up a 5000 core grid with conservatively 20 TB of memory for one business area. And it was surprisingly cheap, considering. I should probably consider the setting up of a such a thing as an achievement! So, when I read articles like this I tend to think "meh" as I know there are many out those like out there. Show me a 100,000 core grid and I will pay attention...
You may hate banks, but they keep companies like AMD and Intel in business. It sounds arrogant, but I've looked at the server sales figures, and in one year I know just my business area accounted for about 60% of sales of a particular HP server. And that's where the real margins are made by the chip vendors.
You missed the bit about this thing having a _shared memory_ of up to 16TB. That's 16TB of RAM which is directly addressable from any of the processors in the system. Grids are fine for embarassingly parallelisable problems, but there are certain applications which don't map well to grids and just need one big bastard of a computer. Obviously modelling the aerodynamics of helicopters must come into this category.
And by the way, unless you are Bill Gates, you probably can't afford it anyway.
Of course, you CAN build a chopper yourself, kits are available. On one of the satellite channels here in the USA they even had a series on how to do it. While something like the kit will go quickly, it probably won't break any speed limits, and will take a couple of minutes around Top Gear's test track (assuming it follows the road course).
What do they program these things with? Occam?


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Girls Basketball: Ellsworth loses on the road
Karly Murphy scored a game-high 17 points, leading River Falls past Ellsworth 47-27 in non-conference play Saturday in River Falls.
Pacing the Panthers (0-3) was junior Kelsey Betthauser, who had 16 points in the loss.
Ellsworth resumes Middle Border Conference play Friday at home against Amery.


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Daimler AG raised its full-year earnings forecast substantially on Tuesday after a strong recovery in global car sales pushed it to a second-quarter net profit of euro1.31 billion (nearly $1.7 billion).
The April-June figure contrasted with a net loss of euro1.06 billion a year earlier.
Daimler confirmed its report earlier this month that quarterly earnings before interest and taxes, or EBIT, came in at euro2.1 billion - a turnaround from last year's euro1 billion loss, and a figure that had exceeded analysts' expectations.
Second-quarter revenue was up 28 percent to euro25.1 billion from euro19.6 billion. Unit sales of cars and commercial vehicles climbed 27 percent to 496,500.
Daimler, which had already announced that it would raise its full-year outlook by an unspecified amount, said it is now targeting full-year EBIT from ongoing business of euro6 billion. It previously forecast more than euro4 billion.
The core Mercedes-Benz Cars unit alone is now expected to produce EBIT of euro4 billion, while the Daimler Trucks division should bring in euro1 billion. It was the second upgrade this year.
The company also said it expects "significant revenue growth" in 2010, along with a significant increase in unit sales.
"Our strategy is paying off: we have a very dynamic development of unit sales and revenue in all divisions," CEO Dieter Zetsche said.
Strong sales in China in particular have helped Daimler and its German peers this year.
Total revenue in China was up 182 percent to nearly euro2.8 billion; Asia as a whole saw an 85 percent increase to nearly euro5.5 billion. U.S. revenue rose 21 percent to euro4.98 billion; and even in western Europe, where car sales have been less dynamic this year, there was a 4 percent increase to euro9.6 billion.
Unit sales at Mercedes-Benz Cars, which includes the premium Mercedes brand and the ultracompact Smart car, were up 19 percent in the second quarter at 342,500. The division's revenue soared by 33 percent to euro14 billion, and its EBIT was nearly euro1.38 billion.
Zetsche acknowledged that China was the division's "key sales driver" but stressed that Mercedes is taking care to "maintain a regionally balanced sales structure."
"As clearly as the importance of the Chinese market is growing, we are not putting all our eggs into the Chinese basket," he said in a conference call with analysts.
He also said that the company has been "reducing discount rates beyond our own objectives," helping profitability.
In the year's second half, Mercedes-Benz Cars "expects the positive trend of the first two quarters to continue, but no longer with the same dynamism," Daimler said.
"Although a continuation of stable global sales markets and an improving economic environment is anticipated, there are still risks of a growth slowdown in some regions," it added.
Zetsche said that even if market conditions worsen, "we would still have reason to be confident about our future," noting that the company has successfully cut costs and enjoys "very good access to global capital markets."
Daimler reported first-half net earnings of euro1.92 billion, compared with a loss of nearly euro2.35 billion for January-June 2009. First-half pretax earnings were euro3.29 billion, compared with last year's euro2.43 billion loss.
Revenue for the first half was up 21 percent at euro46.29 billion from last year's euro38.29 billion.
Daimler shares were lower both before and after the announcement, with the company already having issued second-quarter pretax figures and alerted investors that it would raise its forecast.
They were down 2.5 percent in afternoon Frankfurt trading at euro42.07.


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2966West Columbia Gorge Humane Society Board Member Recruitment (Washougal, WA)
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I found this ad on Craigslist so I want to share...
The West Columbia Gorge Humane Society's Board of Directors is an all-volunteer board comprised of residents from the local community.
WCGHS is looking to add four additional board members to our organization. Individuals who can bring specific expertise in key areas are needed to provide oversight and support of the organization's activities.
A key asset of a prospective board member is the established relationships that person has in the community and can use to assist WCGHS accomplish its goals. This could be access to community leaders and groups, influential individuals, grassroots organizations, or government contacts. WCGHS especially looks to the ability of each board member to provide relationships that aid in raising life-saving funds.
As a working board, expectations differ slightly than a governing board and one can expect to actively participate in the organization's work. Board members should be able to commit the time necessary to responsibly fulfill their commitment to WCGHS. This includes board training, analyzing financial statements, reviewing board documents before board meetings, attending board meetings, serving on committees, attending fund raising events, and occasionally assisting at the shelter among other responsibilities.
WCGHS is currently recruiting for the following board positions:
- Oversee all IT related business processes and procedures including access control, server management and support, desk-side PC support, application management, problem and incident management
- Manage creation and administration of user accounts and the administration of security access to networked data
- Develop processes/procedures for common/recurring tasks and incidents related to databases and software applications
- Assess new technologies for features and weaknesses and advise on best solutions for WCGHS
If you are interested in filling one of these positions, please visit http://wcghumanesociety.org/volunteer/board-recruitment/.


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According to Dr Pritam Panesar, the chairman of Panda Development Company that is undertaking the project, the resort will be built in two phases – the first phase involving the construction of an 18 hole championship golf course and phase two involving the construction of other social amenities.
"Part of the master plan is ready for the first phase and works on the boundaries for the resort are underway," Dr Panesar said adding that the project is expected to be fully complete in seven years.
On completion, the resort will have a championship golf course (to be ready in 18 months), a five star hotel, a club house and luxurious villas. The development is valued at Sh120 billion.
According to the lead consultant for the project Melanie Richards from the UK, the luxurious five bedroom villas will be build on strategic places on the vast piece of land.
The resort will be self-sufficient in terms of water and power supply.
"We shall have some dams that will collect water and we also intend to harness wind power making the resort self-sufficient in terms of water and power supply," said Melanie.
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Dear German learners,
recently I came across some sentences that made me smile and let me think of German language…and as well I had to think about you people who are learning the language as foreigners. I guess sometimes upper and lower case might drive you crazy while learning. I can totally understand…
But look at the following sentences and their spelling. The translation shows, that the meaning of the sentences could be totally different depending on the ortography. So upper and lower case sometimes really make sense:
Die Spinnen.
Die spinnen.
The spiders.
They´re nuts.
Der gefangene Floh.
Der Gefangene floh.
The captured flea.
The prisoner escaped.
Er verweigerte Speise und Trank.
Er verweigerte Speise und trank.
He rejected meat and drink.
He rejected meat and drank.
Der Junge sieht dir ungeheuer ähnlich.
Der Junge sieht dir Ungeheuer ähnlich.
The boy enormously looks like you.
The boy resembles you monster.
Wäre er doch nur Dichter.
Wäre er doch nur dichter.
If only he was a poet.
If only it was leakproof. (Or: If only he was more drunk.)
Vor dem Fenster sah sie den geliebten Rasen.
Vor dem Fenster sah sie den Geliebten rasen.
In front of the window she saw her beloved carpet.
In front of the window she saw her Lover running.
Er hat in Berlin liebe Genossen.
Er hat in Berlin Liebe genossen.
He has nice comrades in Berlin.
He enjoyed love in Berlin.
Beschädigte Liegen in meiner Filiale.
Beschädigte liegen in meiner Filiale.
Damaged couches in my store.
Damaged ones are lying in my store.
Die nackte Sucht zu quälen.
Die Nackte sucht zu quälen.
The plain addiction to torture.
The naked girl tries to torture.
Surprising, isn´t it?!?
By the way, excuse me for not posting for a while! I´m trying to find more time again to keep you posted!
So see you soon!
How funny. I started taking Rosetta Stone lessons for German just a few days ago. I kept on getting confused why some words were capitalized. It never occurred to me that they were nouns.
Your post makes a lot of sense. Thanks!
Hallo Jan,
wenn ich das richtig verstanden habe, bist du Deutscher?
Mir gefällt Transparent Language sehr gut, ich übe und ergänze hier mein Englisch auf kurzweilige Art.
Dein heutiger Blog gefällt mir recht gut, die lustigen Ausdrücke und Sätze bringen uns Learner zum Lachen.
Ich freue mich auf weitere Beiträge von dir!
Lustiges ganz neues Video auf YouTube!
Vor dem Fenster sah sie den geliebten Rasen.
In front of the window she saw her beloved carpet.
> Rasen means lawn, not carpet…
lol! thanks for your site. We really enjoyed it so much!
Enjoyed this post, was good practice for my German too. I guess in English we must just have more fun with puns when sentences are inexact!
If you happen to know any Bavarian Jan would there be an chance of a post on some fun Bavarian sayings/vocab? I love the accent and having fun trying out my bad Bavarian on my friends in Munich.
Keith Duncan:
I can see how to tell the difference when reading, but how do you tell when speaking…


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AMERICAN-BUILT 2007 DP 01 CHAMP CAR TO FEATURE PAINT SCHEME DONE BY RENOWNED RACING ARTIST TROY LEE AT JULY 28 LAUNCH INDIANAPOLIS (July 28, 2006) -- The new Panoz DP 01 Champ Car that will carry the Champ Car World Series into 2007 and beyond...
INDIANAPOLIS (July 28, 2006) -- The new Panoz DP 01 Champ Car that will carry the Champ Car World Series into 2007 and beyond will feature a paint scheme befitting its status as the Future of Racing as a design from renowned racing artist Troy Lee will adorn the car at the July 28 unveiling ceremony in San Jose.
The legendary designer made his name in the world of motorsports by creating revolutionary paint schemes for the helmets of many of the world's top racers. Now Lee and his crew will undertake the task of designing an entire car for the first time however, as they tackle the new-look Panoz DP 01 that will be the exclusive chassis of the 2007 Bridgestone Presents The Champ Car World Series Powered by Ford.
"This was a great project for us. We love to push the envelope with everything we do and developing the design for the new Champ Car really allowed us to explore new colors and showcase some innovative techniques," said Lee. The car itself is a high tech machine that just screams speed and we feel that the paint scheme really brings it to life and truly captures everything that the car represents."
The car features the latest in Planet Color technology from Sherwin-Williams, the Official Automotive Finishers of the Champ Car World Series, and was completed by PKV Racing brushman Jason Smith and Team Australia painter Scott Turner.
The first Champ Car in seven years to be constructed in the United States, the Panoz DP01 will feature cutting-edge technologies in aerodynamics and chassis design, providing the world's best drivers with a new car that will run better in traffic and will be less affected by cars around them. These advancements are designed to produce closer racing and more passing opportunities for the fans that follow the Champ Car World Series around the world.
"We are very excited about having someone of Troy Lee's status providing the paint scheme for our new car at the launch," said Champ Car President Steve Johnson. "This car represents the future of open-wheel racing in this country and it is only fitting that such an advanced race car carries a paint scheme from one of the leading designers in the sport."
The new DP01 Champ Car will be unveiled to the public July 28 in a ceremony at San Jose City Hall. Tickets for the charity function surrounding the launch are available for purchase, while Champ Car will provide a live webcast from the event on the official website of the series, www.champcar.ws.


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Elbow gloves
October 26, 2011 Comments Off on Elbow gloves
I made the correct transportation choice, which was to accept Iron Mike's offer of a limo ride to the airport. At the baggage check-in, he plops a hundred-dollar bill in front of the clerk.
"You dropped this, buddy," he says with a smile.
The man's eyes get big. "Why thank you, sir! I believe this bag will get personally walked onto the plane." He picks it up and vanishes.
"I get more properly delivered bags that way. Damnedest thing."
As we stand in the next line Iron Mike turns to an Asian couple and speaks his one word of Japanese. They stare blankly, clearly wondering why a stranger in Lycra bike tights is talking to them.
"Sorry, we're from Malaysia," the man finally says.
Next he chats up the TSA staffer. "How's your morning going?"
"Aw, it was going great until the alarm went off."
This guffaw gets him a free pass despite having a heart rate monitor strapped to his chest, a weird cycling outfit, and vegan food items in his carry-on that look like coca paste.
Farther back in line, Triple appears with Coupe Deville, and the bright minds at TSA zero in on Triple as he gets culled from the herd by the largest TSA goon.
"What in the world is this?" says the goon as he pulls a small tub labeled "Butt Butter" out of Triple's bag.
"It's, ah, for cycling, uh, you see…"
"Uh-huh. Step over here, please."
Knotting his basketball-sized fists, the screener starts pulling on rubber gloves that go up to his elbow as the other two assistants tell Triple to grab his ankles. We all look the other way and pretend we don't know him.
Trust me. I do this for a living.
Safely arriving at the gate, we sit, and a few moments later up comes Methuselah. He shows off his hand that got caught in the electric gate, and after the obligatory round of sympathetic "poor boy" and "tough bastard" we pile on without mercy.
"Fuck man, you're a goddamn electrician. What's up with that?"
"How many electricians does it take to get their hand caught in an electric gate?"
Now everyone is scared shitless because he's going to be descending on the bike with one hand and, what's worse, will need someone to hold his dick when he pisses.
The lobby has filled up and the fully caffeinated mantourists begin asking Methuselah, "If your hand swells up so large after being stuck in the gate for a few minutes, why don't you stick your pecker in it?"
Airport. Working. Uh, yeah.
At that moment the gate attendant walks over and asks everyone to please pipe down because people are "Trying to work!" The people include a gentleman slumped over with last night's beer drool mixed with puke draining onto his sleeve and several chicks reading about orgasm enhancement techniques in the latest issue of Cosmopolitan. Being told to "shush" has the predictable effect of making all the kindergartner mantourists run around the lobby shushing each other to a fare-the-well. Pilot turns and says, "You know, I've been in the business for thirty years, and I've yet to see people at the gate get shushed because of all the people 'working' here."
Just because I look crazy means I am.
One of the working passengers is dressed in a dark blue suit, gets out of his chair and approaches us, saying thus: "How can I join your ride next year?" He's been eavesdropping on our curses and insults and enviously reading our t-shirts and wants to join the fun.
A glance at his earnest demeanor and funny combover indicate he's batshit crazy.
"Well, first you'll have to join Ironfly," says Canyon Bob.
"And then you'll have to stop being a dork," someone adds.
Batshit then launches into a detailed lecture to Canyon Bob and Cadillac about how we can improve the route and turn a tidy profit.
"Let me get this straight," I say. "You haven't even stopped being a dork yet and you're already telling us how to improve the ride? Shut the fuck up, please."
Batshit takes the abuse with the practiced wimpy, beaten down smile of a married guy and continues his lecture. Everyone walks away as the boarding siren goes off.
A short time later we land, and it's public toilet pandemonium as we dash into the head, strip buck naked, and pull on our kits.
The bikes are lined up outside the airport. It is rad. Fuckdude, Fireman, and M8 pulled it off despite farting each other half to death in the cab of the U-Haul for eight hours. The mantourists who drove up the day before are only slightly hungover. We take the gang photo, throw a leg over, and we're off!
Let MT4 begin!!
Or not!! Hairball, known for his great preparation, woke up at the crack of seven for his 7:55 flight, fixed his oatmeal, made his coffee, read the paper, and then began packing for the five-day trip. Oops! The darned airplane took off without him, ensuring his star in the Hall of Shame and earning the bonus Doofus of the Day Award. After chilling at the airport we finally leave without him, but in the nick of time he arrives so we abort the ride and wait another hour while he shaves, takes a faucet shower, and changes into his kit.
The other no-show is Dr. Jekyll, who shows us the superiority of NorCal mass transit by hopping the train in Oakland and riding it until it runs into a car, chops it in half, and falls off the rails. Jekyll, who carries all his shit in a giant cardboard box, has to ride twenty miles to the airport, looking like a pack mule.
Finally we're off. It's a glorious sunny day and we're happier than pigs in shit. Dr. Jekyll has assured us that the climb this year is easy, so we're not bothered by the gradual rollers on Moody Road. After a couple of miles Davy Dawg starts killing it and we're stretched out single file.
The road makes a sharp hairpin right up Page Mill Road and the group explodes on the steep ramp. Dr. Jekyll attacks and rides away. Davy Dawg cracks. I struggle as Triple, Pretty Boy, JC, and the Fireman go by. I latch onto the Fireman, who drags me for a few miles until I blow. The road is vicious, steep, punishing, and endless. Jekyll cracks and gets dropped by Triple and Pretty Boy, Fireman reels in JC for fourth, and I struggle in for sixth.
At the top of the climb we regroup and everyone stands around looking like shit and completely blown 24 miles into the ride. On the descent it's the domain of the gravitationally challenged, with Bluebeard bombing the tight, deadly turns at terrifying speed. Cadillac is on his wheel, followed by Woodenhead and Jekyll, with Hockey Stick close behind. Sticks, rocks, sketchy turns, overheated brakes, and chattering front wheels get us to the bottom, where we again regroup. The drop has been amidst stunning redwoods, and the clean air invigorates us all.
Over a small bump we form a group of about 12 and start drilling it into Pescadero. Woodenhead hits the front multiple times, with Davy Dawg, Fireman, and Artiste smashing the pedals. There's an amorphous sprint in Pescadero taken by the Fireman, and then we stop for a late lunch.
Well, some of us do. Hockey Stick doesn't get the memo, misses the turn to Pescadero, and pedals ten miles on to the coast. Not seeing anyone for an hour, and not thinking to use his phone, he's lost and hungry and fucked. Luckily, the Anchor has taken a wrong turn, too, and finds Hockey Stick flailing, bonked, and hopelessly lost. He bundles him into the paddy wagon and drives him to Santa Cruz.
Meanwhile, we finish lunch, hit PCH, and all hell breaks loose. The Fireman splits the flailing wankers who are still belching and farting from their double-meat sub sandwich in Pescadero. The tensing 25 miles to Santa Cruz is a death feet of attrition, with only Davy Dawg, Triple, Coupe Deville, Coolhand, Fireman, and me surviving. Coolhand takes the sprint, tying for points with Firehand.
We load up on beef, coffee, and pie at Hula's in Santa Cruz. That's it. Done til tomorrow.
MT4 Day Five: The end of innocence
October 16, 2011 Comments Off on MT4 Day Five: The end of innocence
By day five, if we were tomatoes in the produce department, we would be bruised, spoiled, and after the briefest inspection by the produce boy, tossed in the dumpster. Sunrise, heralded by Hallmark cards as "The first day of the rest of your life," rings in a dull, aching misery for what you can only hope will be the last day you ever, ever, ever see a bicycle.
The clever roomie with whom you so gaily chatted on Day 1 is a boring, grating twit whose every utterance unleashes a barely restrained, primal urge to strangle. The lovely scenery of California, so awe-inspiring in Carmel and Big Sur, has become a blurred, hostile moonscape of asphalt, road striping, and flat tires changed at inopportune times. The bravado and heroic imagery of the Man Tour has had its chintzy veneer stripped away, revealing what everyone else saw from the beginning: a creaky bunch of saggy, wrinkly, balding, ill-tempered, pot-bellied drunks who are too cheap to vacation in Italy.
And a hundred nasty miles still await.
Making matters worse, the biggest prize of the entire tour, the one that carries bragging rights, eternal glory, and spiteful resentment from everyone else until next year, sits at the sixty-mile mark: the L.A. County Line on PCH. There will be a fierce attack somewhere in SLO, perhaps earlier, where the group shatters and a breakaway emerges. From the entrance onto PCH, past the Rock at Pt. Mugu, and all the way to the county line there will be a surging, pounding, frenetic race between a handful of wrung out, surly survivors.
However, a nasty surprise awaits those who aren't following this blog: the county line sign has been stolen, and all that remains is the wooden post itself. The only way to recognize the finish line is by the abrupt change in pavement color, where it shifts from the thrifty Ventura County road department's hot mix of dirt, holes, straw, glass, nails, and warm tar into the firm, dark, hardened paving of Manly Los Angeles County. The canny victor in 2011 will be the one who lunges for the line while the other peckerheads are sitting back, craning their necks to the side in vain to spy the nonexistent green sign. Will the Wankmeister claim his second consecutive victory, or will the Fireman douse his parade with the Lethal Hose of Sprint Fury?
Come on pretty boy, gonna make you a man
The group of weary warriors regroups for lunch at Trancas and then pushes on towards home. The familiar landmarks become sharper–the funny bump in Malibu just past Cross Creek; the big cracks in the road near Moonshadows; the nasty bump in the road just over the hill past the Getty; the grate on the shoulder at the last light before Temescal…and with each landmark the exhaustion fades and the singularity of the accomplishment begins to sink in and rejuvenate tired legs, except for Woodenhead, whose wife has been calling every thirty minutes for the last two days telling him that he'd better quit fucking off and get home and help change the poopy diapers.
Suddenly it's a victory parade all the way to the Ironfly World Headquarters. Friendships re-blossom. Well-wishers like G$ meet us on PCH or at Will Rogers and escort us back through the Center of the Known Universe and on to WHQ. Knoll tips a cup of Peets in our direction. Lies that, a few hours ago were mere middle of the road whoppers become full-blown fields of bullshit. The longing for beer wells up in the back of one's throat again, and it's just in the nick of time, as Mel has tapped a fresh one at the World HQ. The arthritis, achey prostates, and Ben Gay joint rubs are an ancient memory, at least until we get home. MT4…in the books!
MT4 Day Two: The big country of the south
September 18, 2011 § 2 Comments
When large numbers of overly aggressive, underly fit old farts get together to compete, strange things happen. At yesterday's Texas-UCLA beatdown, for example, we showed up to our seats with two large chicken burritos apiece, a plastic tub filled with Indian curry, four containers of fries, extra-large cups of lemonade, a blanket apiece (not necessary in the 90-degree heat), and an assortment of satchels, backpacks, and oversized handbags. We fit barely into the tiny Rose Bowl seats, kind of like that extra dollop on the taco that makes all the grease and beef and juice dribble out the end when you bite into it. The season ticketholder (50-yard line, Row 10) sitting in front of us watched our arrival in horror and disgust. These were literally the best seats in the house, and there was more orange than blue in the surrounding seats.
"I didn't get season tickets to be surrounded by Texans!" she snapped. This lady, who I'll call Nasty Bitch from Hell with a Sorry Fucking Attitude, or just "Nasbitch" for short, was in her late fifties and obviously trying to recapture her glory sorority days when she was the floor whore at her house as a UCLA undergrad.
Look before you leap
Unfortunately for the ex-dorm queen, we attended the game with my mom, who grew up in a small Texas town, is in her 70's and takes no shit from anyone, especially rude women with an attitude.
"We'll do our best not to bother you, honey," Mom said in her sweetest Texas twang.
"You're already bothering me!" Nasbitch said. "Where did you get your tickets from, anyway? Stubhub? And you've got too much stuff!"
"Now don't you mind us, honey," Mom said. "We're just going to be quiet as church mice. Where did you get that pretty bracelet, honey? That is so cute."
"I didn't get it at Wal-Mart," Nasbitch snarled as she turned back for kickoff.
Mom then accidentally kicked what was left of the curry off the little ledge and it spilled into Nasbitch's very cute $1,500 Vuitton bag that she had tucked under her seat. "Oh goodness me, honey, look what I did! I'm so sorry!" Nasbitch went berserk just as the Texas contingent began to roar at the first interception of the game. "Oh honey, look! Everyone's cheering!"
"Yeah, mom. Texas just got a touchdown!"
"That's good, isn't it?" she asked in a stage whisper.
"It's awesome, mom. It means we scored points and are going to beat the crap out of UCLA."
"Don't talk ugly. And it's not their fault that they can't play football very well. They are from California, after all."
For the next two quarters I roared "Hook 'em!" and "Stuff him like a cheap taco!" and "Good job, UCLA Ruins!" and "Touchdown!" and "Fumble!" and "Another Texas beatdown!" and "Chokers!" and "Score!" and "Barbecue the bastards!" and "Touchdown!" and "UCLA sucks!" until Nasbitch picked up her stuff and left.
Santa Cruz to Big Sur: rum, sodomy, and the lash
Day Two of MT4 is kind of like that football game…one long-ass, miserable, never-ending beatdown.
"Big Sur" gets its name from the region's original Spanish appellation, "El país grande del sur," which can be roughly translated into English as "The great southerly land where Chief realizes he should have gotten in more MT4 training miles."
In addition to stunning natural landscapes, Big Sur boasts endemic plants such as wild orchid, and a small population of California condors. The native Americans of Big Sur were largely exterminated by the Spanish, who through through slavery, pestilence, rapine, torture, and murder taught the heathens the gospel and virtues of Christ.
Day 2 of MT4 relives the enslavement by the early conquistadores, as the gang leaders flay the weak, sick, and frail, driving them mercilessly from Santa Cruz to Monterrey with a hail of oaths and strokes of the cat o' nine tails. Driven like hogs to the slaughterhouse, the tour goes through one of the most beautiful places on earth–Carmel, California. But the bloodied and weary Roman galley slaves never see it, as their sweat-filled eyes are glued to the wheel in front, suffering like dogs with each stroke of the lash that goads them on to their destination.
Mixing the waters of the earth
Weary, beaten down, and ready to quit many hours ago, the sinners shackled to the train of pain roll onto Bixby Bridge, one of the great iconic structures in California. The road-weary wankers dismount stupidly and fumble for their shrunken wrinkly, sometimes for minutes, as they hurry to pee into the Pacific Ocean before the train thunders off again.
Woe unto the stragglers who fail to land their plank in the Roman galley before the vessel of woe sets sail! The next ten miles are uphill, rolling, and windy beyond belief. What was once the misery of being beaten and thrashed by heartless taskmasters has become something even worse: hanging onto the end of the taut rubber band, wondering when it's going to snap and leave the broken oarsmen stranded on their own, battering helplessly for mile after mile into the teeth of the ferocious coastal gale. Just as things seem like they can't get any worse, they do! A series of hard accelerations splits the small group that has launched off the front, and the New Mexican Fireman drives a stake through the skulls of the hangers-on, flying home alone to the sprint finish in Big Sur itself.
Beer, medicinal herbs, slabs of steak, more beer, potatoes slathered in butter, and more beer will presage an evening spent howling and crying at the massive leg cramps that twist the downtrodden mantourists into new yoga postures of pain. MT4 Day Two: in the books.
MT4 Day One: Blood on the saddle
September 15, 2011 § 1 Comment
Day One of Man Tour goes from San Jose to Santa Cruz. It is an epic day for some, a rude awakening for others, and leg-breaking batterfest for all. Day One of Man Tour is rife with tales of glory and preludes to crushing defeat. Last year, Pretty Boy spanked all comers on the climb out of the state park, proving that a summer spent training in the French Alps and a kit change every time he got sweaty could overcome three dozen elderly slackers on stone cold legs and tummies filled with barbecue roast beef.
Day One saw Gonzo's chain snap at the bottom of the first climb. It saw the entire peloton come within inches (a very few inches, actually) of getting arrested in Cupertino when we stopped to gang-piss in the shrubbery along a major thoroughfare. Day One saw certain mantourists dismount on the climb and walk. Others were rumored to have hitched a ride with the sag. Day One in years past has seen the likes of Knoll set a blistering pace for two days that no one could match, only to crack and crater on Day Three such that he was bundled into the follow car and unable to complete the Tour. Mostly, though, the significance of Day One is discovered on Day Two.
Those who have prepared properly will finish up with the 6000+ feet of climbing, 80-mile day with a big meal. They will stroll through quaint and scenic downtown Santa Cruz, carefully stepping around the spirited youth who line the sidewalks smoking meth, shooting heroin, and puffing away at the local pot crop. After the meal, they will settle in for a long, refreshing sleep. They will wake up the next morning and enjoy a modest breakfast of eggs, bacon, oatmeal, toast, jam, butter, biscuits, wagonwheel gravy, link sausage, flapjacks, maple syrup, more butter, a large fruit bowl, cereal, and two tankards of pitch black, triple-bitter coffee laced with a cup of sugar and heavy whipping cream. Once on the bike, they'll note some residual poison in their legs which flushes out by mile 10, and, ant-like, they will happily soldier along the flat-to-rolling terrain of Day Two. Life is good. The road is open. It's a beautiful place to be, and no one's telling you to lift the toilet seat or put down the lid.
My body's a temple, and I pillage it regularly
Not so pleasant is Day Two for the lazy grasshoppers who fiddled away the summer. Those whose MT training consisted mostly of cheeseburgers and beer find Day Two to be a whole old day. Even though it's much flatter and rather scenic, Day Two to these recalcitrant grasshoppers feels almost exactly like Day One, only worse. There's no euphoria at rolling out of San Jose Intergalactic Airport hundreds of miles from responsibility with fresh legs, a happy heart, and the silly smugness that comes from wearing the same outfit as everyone else. There's no wonder and awe at the majesty of this great state. There's no spryness or spring in the legs. Rather, from the moment they're awakened by their partner's groaning snores at 2:00 a.m., they have the sickening realization that the deep-bone aches, the cramping calves, the stiff neck, and the painfully sore back are only going to get worse. Much, much worse.
As the grasshoppers pedal out of Santa Cruz, the first ten miles feel okay, not nearly as bad as the night presaged. By mile thirty, they're ready to call it a day. By mile fifty, the whole thing, which they knew deep down was a bad idea, has become a poster child for what happens when bad judgment mates with fantasy and sport. By mile sixty, the grasshoppers have gone from miserable to angry. By mile eighty, they're whimpering. When the group rolls into Big Sur, the grasshoppers are fused into a permanent hunch over their bikes and have to be pried off with sticks, blows to the head, and open bottles of cheap beer wafted under their noses.
Day One, then, sets the tone for the rest of the tour, a kind of rectal exam that tells the doctor whether or not you'll need a colonoscopy or whether you'll get to put your shorts back on and go home with a clean bill of health. You'll never feel better than you feel on Day One, but you can assuredly feel a hell of a lot worse.


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DEWIS can be developed by a school counseling department, built into a strategic plan for a school and/or district, and integrated into a school improvement plan for your building principal. The basic functions are necessary to build a system at either the local or state level:
School Counselors can use a variety of products to help identify students who may be at risk of dropping out. The Renton Public Schools Publication Getting to High School Graduation: Identifying Early Warning Indicators to Prevent Dropouts is an excellent article to get familiar with universal screening factors necessary to identify students at risk of dropping out of high school.
The main universal screening factors that School Counselors can focus in on are:
EZAnalyze is a Microsoft Excel Add-In designed to enhance the capabilities of Excel by adding "point and click" functionality for analyzing data, creating graphs, and creating new variables. It works on both Macs and PC's, except for Excel 2008. EZAnalyze is free to use by any School Counselor. EZAnayze can be used in conjunction with a tool like Data Mining. Student Data can be mined then a School Counselor can use EZAnalyze to filter and group students based on universal screening factors like grades, discipline, and attendance. Here is a link to the Features found within EZAnalyze. EZAnayze can be used for universial screening of researched support indicators like attendance, behavior, grades, GPA, state testing scores to build groups of students who may be at risk of dropping out of school.
Develop an Intervention Map of your school then determine which interventions will be used with which students over time
Here is an example of intervention mapping of an elementary school, middle, and high schools.
Please download tool to map out interventions found within your school.
School Counselors will need a set of tools to connect time spend with a particular student and/or group of students to an intervention. EZAnalzye Time Tracker is not dependent on a school district's student information system. Any School Counselor can download EZAnalyze Time Tracker for free. The School Counselor sets up their own intervention codes, imports a list of current students, and can begin tracking time linked to an intervention in a matter of minutes. The School Counselor only needs a computer with EZAnalyze TTE and Microsoft Excel. The database file can be saved on the local School Counselor's computer, or saved on a thumb drive that can be locked in a file cabinet. Another tool avaliable to School Counselors who use Skyward tools like WESPaC and/or Web is the Guidance Module. The Guidance Module is not a stand alone setup for a School Counselor like EZAnalyze TTE. The Guidance Module is integrated with the school district's student information system. School Counselors can run data minner reports, roll up data from elementary, middle, to high school, and create a check-in point for any student coming into a counseling or career center.
The EZAnalyze TimeTracker is a free macro-enabled Excel workbook designed to perform note-keeping and time-tracking functions, and generate reports for accountability and improved service to students. It now works on both Macs and PC's, except for Excel 2008.
The Guidance Module is a tool found within WESPaC. School Counselors can load student engagements that need to be tracked over time into the guidance system. The School Counselor then can setup a student kiosk to track time spend on a particular intervention.
School Counselors are going to need a way to evaluate if the interventions they are using with individual and/or groups of students is making a positive difference. School Counselors can use a survey to measure pre- and post- perceptual data with students to determine if their beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions about their situation has improved. At the same time, School Counselors can use a data analysis tool to measure if attendance has improved, grades have risen, negative behavior has decreased, failure rate has decreased, testing scores have improved, GPA has risen, and etc.
Survey Tool for Perceptual Data: The great piece about using surveys from counselingtechnology.net is that you can setup the survey to work with EZAnalyze. At the same time, this survey tool is free to any Professional School Counselor.
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A suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate of a police station in northern Iraq on Thursday, killing at least six people and injuring 13, authorities said. The blast occurred in the Tal Abta area, some 50 miles west of Mosul, police Brig. Gen. Mohammed al-Waqaa said.
Those killed included five policemen and one civilian, while the 13 wounded included 10 policemen, according to al-Waqaa.
Elsewhere, 10 members of Iraq's security forces died on Thursday, including five police who were hit by a roadside blast while patrolling south of Baghdad, according to security and medical officials. Lieutenant Hamza al-Waeli of the Hilla Police told AFP that five members of a police task force died and two injured by a roadside booby-trap near al-Dagharah, 120 kilometres south of the capital.
Another five security force members were killed while conducting a joint raid against an alleged Al-Qaeda stronghold just west of Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit in northern Iraq, security officials said. Two policemen and three Iraqi army soldiers were killed in the raid, including an army major, according to an Iraqi army officer in Tikrit. Another army officer was wounded in the fighting.
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The Cheapest Way To Go
In Africa sunbirds fill the ecological niche that hummingbirds fill here. Like hummingbirds, they feed on nectar, have long down-curved bills and come in beautiful iridescent colors. The main difference is that sunbirds perch instead of hover.
Like hummingbirds, sunbirds also pugnaciously defend their nectar sources and spend a lot of time chasing and fighting. What is the advantage in doing this? Doesn't it cost more energy than peaceable feeding?
In 1975 Gill and Wolf studied the energy expended by territorial golden-winged sunbirds in Kenya. Their results were a bit surprising. It costs less energy per day to defend really good nectar sources than it does to feed at undefended low-nectar flowers.
Here's the math:
- Undefended flowers have less nectar because so many birds are feeding at them. Foraging burns 4 kilojoules of energy per hour but it takes 8 hours to get enough food. 8 hours * 4 kilojoules/hour = 32 kilojoules burned.
- Defended flowers have twice as much nectar so it takes only 4 hours to get the same energy. 4 hours * 4 kilojoules/hour = 16 kilojoules burned while foraging.
- Defending these flowers is energy intensive (12.5 kilojoules/hour) but if it doesn't take much time it's worth it. If it only takes 20 minutes to defend those flowers in that same 8 hour period the results are: 0.33 hour * 12.5 kilojoules/hour = 3.7 kilojoules burned in defense.
- What does a territorial sunbird do with all that extra time? He sits around and watches his flowers. 3.7 hours * 1.7 kilojoules/hour = 6.3 kilojoules spent sitting.
- Therefore his total energy expenditure is 26 kilojoules, a savings of 6 kilojoules in 8 hours.
That's why hummingbirds are so belligerent at our feeders. They're making the calculation that defending a great food source is the cheapest way to go.
Photo of a golden-winged sunbird from Wikimedia Commons. Click on the image to see the original.
Today's Tenth Page is inspired by page 310 of Ornithology by Frank B. Gill.)


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Aphrodite Necklace
Product Code: NKC 5154
Metallic necklace with metal lines.
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Measurements: Length 16.5"-18.5" adjustable; Bib: Length 5.25" x Width 3"
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Oct 17, 2014
Interesting piece
I like this lovely necklace, it's artsy, but I don't wear it that often because it doesn't always work with some of my necklines.