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Lehtonen looking to make smooth transition to Dallas summers, grab more of leadership role
In a perfect world, you would probably like Kari Lehtonen to go play in the World Championships, starting May 4 in his native Helsinki.
After all, the Stars goalie has played just two playoff games in his NHL career and struggled at the World Championships last season (2-2 with a 2.85 GAA and .894 save percentage) before bowing out with a knee injury. He could use any experience under pressure he can find.
But Lehtonen has a lot on his plate, so he decline an invitation from team Finland. For the first time in his career, he will not summer in Atlanta and work out with his usual trainer. Instead, he will stay in Dallas with wife Abbe and their newborn son, and he will find a new way to train here.
"I want to spend some time with my family," he said. "I want to take some time off and be a dad. That's exciting. I can start a little earlier to work out and skate and I should be good to go."
Lehtonen had a rough season. At times, he was spectacular. At times, not. The Stars still don't really know if he is an elite goalie or not. He battled a groin injury again (just like last season). He faded down the stretch again (just like last season). He posted a 2.66 GAA, which ranks him 32nd among the goalies who qualify for post-season awards (50). His save percentage of .916 ranks 19th.
Clearly, the Stars have to improve and cut down on shots against _ they were 22nd in the NHL at 31.0 per game _ but Lehtonen also has to improve.
"We had some ups and downs and definitely didn't get the results we wanted," he said. "On a personal level, I don't think I played as well as I wanted to. That will make me hungrier to work hard this summer and get ready for the next year. It's going to be nice to be able to use these guys here to prepare for the season. It was a little iffy there at times with the lockout, trying to figure what is a good thing to do, where to skate. It's going to be nice to go out there and skate with the goalie coach for the whole summer."
The guess is the Stars will retain goalie coach Mike Valley, and he will have a hand in Lehtonen's training this summer. Lehtonen said he has heard new GM Jim Nill preach culture change, and said he has an idea of what that means.
"We have to expect more from each other, for ourselves. Everybody has to get better. I am sure there are going to be new pieces added to the team and hopefully those guys can help us take the next step," he said. "There are too many games that kind of slip by and you have to be more ready. Winning is hard, we all know that, but we have to be ready to go the extra mile."
Lehtonen will start his five-year, $29.5 million contract next season and now is one of the key pieces of this team. He said he understands he has to be a part of the leadership group.
"Goalies are a little different, but still this year I felt that," he said. "Especially when guys started going out the door, you realize that you are one of those players that younger guys look up to. That was a little bit of a new situation for me. I've just been hanging in the background and doing my job, but that is something that is part of this and I am excited to take bigger steps in being a leader off the ice, too. That's something I want to do and I think I need to do."
As for international play, there are the Olympics in 2014 in Russia.
"That would be huge," he said. "That's something I would really love to be part of before I'm done playing. Hopefully, I can be part of it, but we (Finland) have a lot of good goalies. It's a fair game. I have to play well."


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Tuesday, March 30, 1999 Published at 09:00 GMT 10:00 UK
Business: The Economy
Japan's jobless rate hits record high
More Japanese workers are pacing the streets for work
Japan's jobless rate has jumped to a record 4.6% in February, sapping hopes the country will soon emerge from its darkest recession since World War II.
The unemployment rate rose sharply from the previous month's 4.4% - a record for three straight months - and swelled the ranks of jobless to a historic three million people.
"The strength of the recovery is very weak."
The sour figures come as Japan as battles against its deepest economic slowdown in 50 years, and is a bitter blow for a country where many companies once prided themselves on offering the promise of life-time employment.
The government has pumped trillions of yen into the economy in an all-out campaign to persuade consumers to spend.
But amid the worsening jobs situation, spending by Japanese wage earners' households fell 4.1% in real terms in February from a year earlier to an average of 303,264 yen ($2,525).
They spent just 67.8% of their disposable income, down from 70.9% in January.
Spending plans
The grim statistics were already putting pressure on the government to do more to bolster growth.
Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa said he was ready to invest more: "I'm worried about the unemployment situation."
"Although we've taken steps necessary to ease the jobless problem, we're ready to increase budget spending for jobs if necessary."
Slimming down to survive
A major factor behind spreading joblessness is corporate restructuring.
The total number of people without jobs rose by 670,000 from a year earlier to 3.13m - the most since the Management and Co-ordination Agency began recording the data in 1953.
Over the year the total number of people in employment shrank by 770,000 to 63.34m, the agency said.
It was the largest-ever decrease in the number of job holders and marked the 13th consecutive month of declines.
'Worse to come?'
The statistics were not much of a surprise to some analysts.
"It's certainly consistent with the weakness we're seeing in the Japanese economy, particularly in private demand," said Cameron Umetsu, senior strategist for Warburg Dillon Read Japan Ltd.
"It promises to get even worse as underlying conditions deteriorate."
The new jobless rate cements the reversal of fortunes between Japan and its top economic competitor, the United States.
In the 1980s, it seemed Japan was on track to supplant the United States as the world's supreme economic power.
Now Japan is suffering from an unemployment rate that is pulling further ahead of the US rate of 4.3%.
The numbers of Tuesday were the latest in a long string of dour economic announcements in Japan.
The government said earlier this month that gross domestic product shrank 0.8% in the last three months of 1998, putting the economy on track to shrink 3.2% in the 1998-99 fiscal year if the pace continues.
Most analysts expect the economy to shrink in the next fiscal year, which begins 1 April.
Japan is fighting the recession with its biggest spending spree in history.
The government has earmarked a mammoth 81.9 trillion yen in the next budget, for public works spending, tax cuts and other stimulus measures.
Officials are also spending 7.5 trillion yen ($62.5bn) to bail out the country's troubled banks, which are saddled with loads of bad debt from the collapse of the speculative bubble in the early 1990s.
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On any given morning between 7 and 8 a.m. perched on the Campbell Water Tower are two special residents–a pair of peregrine falcons–looking down on downtown Campbell.
A falcon nested in a large tree near city hall a few years ago and had eyasses (chicks), according to Campbell public information officer Al Bito.
Since then, he said, city employees working on the Campbell water tower downtown noticed evidence of the birds, including carcasses on a stairwell.
National Geographic describes the peregrine falcon as a hunter that preys on other birds and bats in midflight.
The National Geographic web page on peregrine falcons states, "Peregrines hunt from above and, after sighting their prey, drop into a steep, swift dive that can top 200 miles an hour."
The two peregrine falcons on the water tower aren't the only ones living in the area. Of the many, there are two pairs that are no strangers to the spotlight.
According to a website dedicated to the falcons living atop San Jose City Hall, there are two pairs of well-known falcons in the greater Bay Area.
In addition to Clara and Fernando El Cohete (Fernando the Rockey) at San Jose City Hall, a duo named George and Gracie that nest in San Francisco also have a nestcam.
Webcams have been set up to watch each pair of birds, and in San Jose contests are held when eyasses are hatched.
Earlier this year, the four young birds–two males and two females–were named Blaze, Bolt, Beatrix and Halo by public vote.
The Santa Cruz Predatory Bird Research Group of UC-Santa Cruz studies and protects the predatory birds. The research group was founded in the 1970s when peregrine falcons were an endangered species, according to the group's website.
Jim Roush, an orthopedic veterinarian from Santa Cruz, was inspired by captive breeding of peregrine falcons taking place at Cornell University.
He contacted Ken Norris, a professor of natural history at UC-Santa Cruz, and they met Brian Walton, who led fundraising efforts and coordinated with biologists and breeding.
In 1975, the group started its breeding, management and conservation efforts for peregrine falcons, bald eagles and related species such as condors, elf owls and prairie falcons.
The peregrine falcon was removed from the endangered species list after the success of a large-scale effort to release captive-bred and captive-hatched falcons.


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London Report Part 3 – Monopoly
I am in London with my Englishman and we are having a wonderful time. His family is lovely. They have opened up their homes to my son and me and it has been great. I see the Englishman in a new light here. He is in his element, in the city he loves, with the people that matter most, and I love him even more here.
He is a remarkable and I have tremendous respect for how he loves his family. He is a brillinat son, brother and father. To clarify, nothing I have said to describe this family applies when they are playing Monopoly. When it comes to this game, these fantastic people are quite simply, certifiably insane.
We were at the home of the Englishman's litle brother who is married with three sons. There was another family with us and they were fabulous. A couple with two beaiutoiful daughters. Proper English people with killer accents and nice manners. They had no idea what was about to happen to them.
The Englishman suggested a "friendly" game of Monopoly after dinner. His brother jumped right in, as did his three sons, my boy, the two yound girls, and their father. Important to note the man joining the game and including his angelic children, is a detective with the Metropolitan Police in London.
It started inocently. The policeman was asked to be banker since it is common knowledge anyone in the immediate family of the Englishman is going to cheat. By immediate family of course I mean anyone who plays Monopoly with this group becomes family and will start cheating almost immediately.
Sidebar: An average amount of time to play Monopoly is an hour or two. This group will not play unless they have 4 hours set aside. By 4 hours of course I mean that needs to be the minimum every player needs to commit in order to properly experience the game. Their game, not a normal game.
I cannot properly explain how detailed the cheating has become for these people, but I will share a couple of the important adaptations they implement when playing.
1) They negotiate indemnity for themselves as part of purchasing property. For example, if I own 3 railroads and someone owns the one I am missing, they can sell me the railroad I need and negotiate that I give them indemnity so if they ever land on it, they don't have to pay me rent.
2) If I own 2 properties in a set and someone else owns the third, we can join forces and own the set together. We each have indemnity from paying rent if we land on it, we share in the cost of houses and hotels, and we share the money won when others land on the set.
Sidebar, if we own a set together and my partner runs into finanical difficulty, he does not need my permission to sell off the houses and keep the money for himself. Important to note that this happened in our game which caused a 45 minute delay and massive headache.
3) They loan money to each other through in an insane series of demands. If you land on a property and owe soemeone $1000, you can trade anything and everything you have as a loan against what you own and pay it back, with interest, when you have a positive cash flow.
Important to note that when the game starts, there is a 30 minute ritual/competition to see who can be the racecar. Apparently it is coverted by all and they roll dice, play rock-paper-scissors, thumb wars, guess numbers, and after someone wins 6 of the mini events, they are the racecar.
After 3 hours the policeman and his kids were sucked into the vortex and they became cheaters. There was screaming and extremne hand gestures as the innocent little girls became sharks. The policeman was a bit confused and appeared to actually be frightened.
This lovely detective, who is not permitted to carry a gun by law, sat in a room with my Englishman and his family and I could see him wishing he had a gun so he could take his own life rather than play Monopoly and watch his children jump over to the dark side.
I have learned a lot about my Englishman's family on this trip. Most of it good, some of great, and then there is Monopoly. It is the dark family secret that I feel both blessed to have been let in on, and also disturbed that they shared. I am scared.
I don't think I am permitted to write about the game of Monopoly and how it is played here, so there may be some fall out. I may be punished, or perhaps shunned, but it needed to be said. I'd loove to hear some of your family Monopoly rituals. Share the madness and keep the faith.


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Last year, Russian defense export agency Rosoboronexport (Hall 1 Stand B13) achieved a new post-Soviet-period record for export of military hardware totaling $6.2 billion. Its previous record of $5.3 billion was established in 2006, a significant rise over $3 billion worth of sales in 2000.
"More than doubling [sales] in such a short time is, indisputably, an impressive result," said Roso-boronexport director general Anatoly Isaikin. "In the last five years, thanks to effective marketing decisions, we have virtually doubled the exports of defense products, increasing our order book to $25 billion." However, many of these orders are still subject to final confirmation by the governments involved.
Aviation products now account for a major part of Russia's defense exports–around 45 to 55 percent of total sales. These days, the principal recipients of Russian military aircraft are countries of the Middle East, the Asia Pacific region and South America. For instance, this month Rosoboronexport expects to seal a contract to supply Venezuela with 24 Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighters worth $1.5 billion. It also plans soon to start talks with the Venezuelans about a follow-up order for Su-35 warplanes, deliveries of which could start in 2011.
At the end of this year, Indonesia is to receive three Su-30MK2 fighters that will join a squadron already operating two Su-27SKs and a pair of Su-30MKs. A $335 million agreement signed at last August's Moscow airshow called for delivery of three Su-27SKMs and three Su-MK2s between 2008 and 2010.
India's defense ministry has declared its intention to buy three more Russo-Israeli Falcon AWACS surveillance aircraft, based on the Ilyushin Il-76TD airframe. Its air force has submitted a $2 billion contract proposal for government approval of the purchase. The three aircraft would be delivered by the end of 2012.
In September, India also is due to receive the first of three Falcons it has on order as part of a $1.5 billion contract signed in 2003; the other two are to follow in April 2009 and August 2010. Meanwhile, the Indian navy awaits September delivery of the first four of 16 ship-based MiG-29K/KUB fighters, which are under construction. Indian pilots are scheduled to begin training for those aircraft this summer.
In Brazil, Rosoboronexport is competing with Italy's Agusta for a contract worth $500 million to supply more than 12 strike helicopters. The Mi-35 and A109 helicopters built by those groups, respectively, have been shortlisted.
Algeria Row Settled
According to Rosoboronexport, the recent dispute between Russia and Algeria over the north African country's refusal to go through with a contract to buy MiG-29 fighters is settled. Algeria has instead opted to buy Su-30s for its air force.
Rosoboronexport had signed a $1.3 billion contract in March 2006 to supply 28 MiG-29SMTs and six MiG-29UBs, with deliveries to have been made between late 2006 and February 2008. However, in May 2007, Algeria refused to accept the aircraft because of alleged inferior quality of some subsystems and components. In February, following protracted talks, Rosoboronexport and the Algerian air force signed an agreement for the rejected MiGs to be returned to Russia.
The Su-30s, which are to be delivered to Algeria in 2009, will have new-generation avionics. Upon completion of the delivery, the aircraft will undergo some modifications to equip them for joint operations Algeria will undertake through an alliance with NATO.
Rosoboronexport also has run into some problems with China, which, after receiving 105 of a 200-unit order of component packages for licensed assembly of Su-27SKs, refused to acquire the remaining 95 packages. Now, talks are under way for China to take Su-35 fighters instead of the Su-27SK kits.
Also still pending is a contract for Rosoboronexport to supply China with military transport aircraft and aerial tankers. China canceled an earlier deal, signed in September 2005, for the supply of 34 Il-76MD military transports and four Il-78MK aerial tankers with a total value of more than $1 billion.
The deliveries were due to start 16 months after the contract was signed and be complete by 2011, but China abandoned the contract because Rosoboronexport's production partner, Tashkent-based Chkalov Aircraft Production Plant, where the Il-76 aircraft assembly line is located, failed to fulfill the order on time. Now under consideration is a possible new order for Il-76 and Il-78 aircraft that would be built in Russia instead of in Uzbekistan.
Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Rosoboronexport is working on a possible deal to supply Saudi Arabia with 150 attack and military transport helicopters worth around $2.2 billion. It also is discussing a contract to supply a large number of aircraft to Libya.


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Loving the beta. Loving the game. Only beef, which might be sizeable as I roam with a regular crew and we are 4. 3 player teams seems very restrictive. It is putting quite a lot of people I know off the game. We know about the 6 man raids but that limits us to playing that. Is this set in stone? Will it ever change? 5 would be an amazing number. Other than that, loving the game and thanks very much for releasing such a polished and stable beta for us to have a go at. Hopefully we will get to play with more people. Thanks.
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Edited by Aussie JR: 7/28/2014 5:54:37 PMFor a modern open world game it is ridiculous to limit the explore mode of Destiny to three people. We can't just do raids every time more than three of us are online. Come on Bungie, are you serious with this. You haven't thought this through or it is a consequence of the damn 360 and PS3. Damn annoying. Not everyone wants to play adversarial and with all the good games coming out, we will just move on because we can't get together and have fun in free roam. Raids aren't the answer so don't tell me that. To many good experiences coming up if you don't address this issue for PS4 and Xbox One owners.
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Senator Frank Lautenberg Won't Seek Re-Election in 2014
U.S. Senator Frank Lautenberg, a five-term Democrat from New Jersey who, at 89, is the chamber's oldest member, said he won't seek re-election in 2014.
His announcement comes almost two months after Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a 43-year-old rising Democratic star, said he would explore a run for the seat. Others, including New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a West Deptford Democrat, also have expressed interest in seeking the post.
"I cannot believe that after watching Booker for the last few weeks he gets a free ride" from fellow Democrats to his party's nomination, said Jennifer Duffy, senior editor of the Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan Washington-based political news service. "The national stage is a little bigger," than where Booker has performed as a mayor, she said.
Booker led Lautenberg 51 percent to 30 percent, according to a Jan. 23 poll released by Quinnipiac University. While New Jersey voters approved of Lautenberg's job performance, 71 percent said his age made it too difficult for him to do the work of a U.S. senator, according to the poll.
"While I may not be seeking re-election, there is plenty of work to do before the end of this term," Lautenberg said in a statement announcing the move. "This is not the end of anything, but rather the beginning of a two-year mission to pass new gun safety laws, protect children from toxic chemicals and create more opportunities for working families in New Jersey."
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"Senator Lautenberg has been a strong model of leadership and service to me since before I even considered entering elected office," Booker said today in a statement. "Since I have been mayor, he has been an invaluable partner in so many of Newark's recent accomplishments and successes."
Sweeney didn't respond to a telephone call seeking comment. Other prominent Democrats potentially eying the seat include U.S. Representatives Frank Pallone and Robert Andrews.
The question is whether the Senate Democratic campaign effort has "attached their star to Booker yet or are they going to see what develops," Duffy said in an interview.
The Rothenberg Political Report, a nonpartisan newsletter and website based in Washington, rates the seat "safe" for Democrats, even after Lautenberg's decision to retire.
"Republicans have not shown an ability to win a United States Senate seat" from New Jersey, said Nathan Gonzales, a deputy editor who follows the upper chamber of Congress. Clifford Case was the last Republican elected to the post from the state, in 1972.
Republican Prospects
"Do Republicans have a prayer here?" Duffy said. Republicans need "a candidate who can raise the money and be pretty acceptable beyond" the party's base. Duffy said she rates the seat "likely Democratic."
Lautenberg said he will travel tomorrow to Paterson, New Jersey, where he was born, for the formal announcement that he won't run again.
Lautenberg enlisted in the U.S. Army at 18, where he served in the signal corps in World War II. After the war, he graduated from Columbia University, where he studied economics, receiving his degree from then-Columbia President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Lautenberg was a co-founder and former chief executive officer of Automatic Data Processing Inc., a payroll-services company based in Roseland, New Jersey.
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He first won election to the Senate in 1982 and served three terms. He decided not to seek re-election in 2000.
Two years later, Lautenberg came out of retirement to step in as a candidate for the seat held by Democrat Robert Torricelli after the senator withdrew from a re-election campaign amid an ethics inquiry. Lautenberg won a fifth full term in 2008.
In the Senate, Lautenberg focused on transportation issues and sponsored a 2008 law overhauling Amtrak, the nation's inter- city passenger rail service. He authored bills that increased transit spending in New Jersey by half and highway money by 30 percent. He also secured $500 million for New Jersey Transit's Secaucus Junction Station, which bears his name.
Lautenberg pushed for the federal legislation that standardized the legal drinking age at 21 and lowered the legal threshold for drunk driving to 0.08 percent blood-alcohol content, from 0.1 percent. Lautenberg sponsored the law that banned smoking on airplanes.
Jersey Advocate
"Throughout his time in the Senate, Frank has fought tirelessly for workers, veterans, members of our military and their families, and immigrants, and he continues to make extraordinary contributions to our nation's safety, and the health and welfare of our citizens," President Barack Obama said today in a statement.
"He has been a champion for New Jersey," said Senator Robert Menendez, the state's junior senator and also a Democrat. "I am sure he will spend the next two years doing exactly that."
Lautenberg was known best in Washington as an advocate for New Jersey, said Brigid Harrison, who teaches law and government at Montclair State University.
"We're going to see a lot of political wrangling here for this seat," Harrison said by telephone. "There's a lot of people waiting in the wings."
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
What a great weekend. Girl's weekend was so much fun. I was probably on my legs more than I should've been but it was worth it. It was a nice desraction from my race. On Friday we just shopped at the mall for almost 12 hours. Needless to say I was tired. On Saturday my cousins came with me to pick up my race package & I took them over to the start/finish area so they could see just how big of an event this was gonna be. Then we went to the outside market & walked around. Around 3ish I dropped them off at there hotel & went & checked into my hotel. I was staying with them for the weekend except for the Saturday night. I figured I'd keep my hotel so that way I'd get to rest & do my morning race day ritual that I seem to have adopted.
Woke up & did the morning ritual..bath, pack, get ready & left at 6:30. I had a small panic attack when I went to drive to the event. The road I was suppose to take was closed down for the race (last year I went the route but because I was sooooo early the road was still open). I finally found my way to the parking area & went in. I walk around & finally sat down to veg out till it was time. I was starting to get a bit ansey & the nerves were just starting to hit when I saw 3 girls walk by & saw something fall. I looked on the ground & it was a folded up $5 bill. I stood up, & said excuse me, walked over to the money & picked it up & when they looked at me, I told them one of them dropped it & handed it to one of the girls. I sat down again & when I looked up I saw a lady sitting there looking at me & she smiled at me. I smiled back & thought 'I'm gonna do alright' with this race & a calmness came over me. Not sure why her smile made me feel that way, but it did.
Now my main goal was to finish in under 2:30. But I really wanted to beat last years time of 2:25:04, so I wore a time braclet for 2:25.
So I lined up with the 2:30 pace bunnies because I figured I'd be able to try for 2:25 but if the 2:30 group caught up with me I'd be able to finish with them and make at least one of my goals. Because we were so crammed in the correl, I made a joke about it being to late to back out now. It made a few people chuckle, which was good. Next thing I know I'm running. I slowly worked my way away from the 2:30 group, but I forced myself to run around 6:26km/minute even though I felt good & like I could go faster. I knew I didn't want a repeat of last year (took off way to fast & paid dearly for it). I also drank water at all the water stops & drank my own at all my walk breaks (10 & 1's). This was one of BIGGEST problems last year..didn't drink enough & I was so dehydrated & sick for 2 days. I also wore a visor to help with the sun. So glad I did becuase it was hot & not a cloud in the sky. When it was possible I also would run in the shady areas, anything to help keep the sun off me.
Last years event I started going downhill fast at 11kms. This year I still felt strong at 11km. I felt really good until 15km. Then I started to feel the heat & like I was slowing down, which I was. I was now at a 6:33km/minute pace. That's okay, I kept telling myself, it's faster then walking & walking is faster than stopping.
At 17kms the 10 minutes running where also getting alittle tougher, but I kept going & would slow my pace to a 6:45km/minute pace & kept repeating my mantra for the race, it's faster then walking & walking is faster than stopping. I also kept reminding myself that it's an easy few kms away, I'm strong, I got this. At this point I'm telling myself anything to keep moving forward & forget about how I'm feeling.
At 19km water station I was feeling it...I drank water, then took a cup & dumped it on my head...I heard someone say that's one way to do it. Then I grabbed a cup & dumped it between my camelback & back...I needed to cool down I was sooo hot & feeling drained.
I knew the end was now closer so after 5 minutes in my set I decided to walk (I needed a break from running & my hips were feeling stiff) I walked for 1 minute & still needed more time so I told myself I could walk for 1 more minute. I looked over & saw the finishing area through the fence & field, I had 15 more seconds of left of walking, I decided not to wait so I started running. I then realized I only have 4 minutes to get to the finish line if I want to make my 2:25 goal. I don't think it's gonna happen, but I can try my best, it's not gonna be easy though.
The 20km sign..WooHoo..my mind said there is no way I'm gonna be able to sprint to the finish line...well somewhere along the way my heart must have talked to my legs cause they took off..then I heard my name over the loud speakers...'and here comes ' my name' finishing strong'!!! I realize, hey that's me & crossed the finish line with a proud 2:24:41 PB!!!
I recieved my medal & walked around a bit. Stood under the mist tent to cool down, stretched alittle, teared up alittle, had brunch & headed back to my cousins hotel. My cousins were at the mall so I went back to the room, had a bath & a 30 minute power nap. I was sooo tired. I felt great after my nap, so I met them at the mall, had lunch & told them about the race & did some more shopping. I was alittle slow, but they understood. They were just happy I was there. They hadn't expected to see me until way later in the afternoon/evening.
Next day I got up & was only alittle stiff. Not bad..way better than last year. Today same thing, alittle stiff, but nothing major. It only feels stiff when I start walking then it loosens up & the legs feel good.
Today I got an email saying the pictures were up. So I went to the site typed in my bib # & it comes back with 'sorry no pitures avalible'...Bummer..No pictures of me on the course or crossing the finish line. Oh well I have the bling & huge smile to show I did it!!
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You accomplished something that wasn't easy - and a PR at that! Congratulations, and sounds like a great weekend!
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OMG, I teared up for you!!! A PB! Congratulations!
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YAY YOU DID GREAT!!!! Congratulations on your personal best!!!! I'm hoping they put up some pictures of you later? It seems ODD they wouldn't have at least one! Was your bib number showing???? Big kudos to you!
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Great blog, thanks for the play by play. Congrats on your PB - I bet it feels great!!!
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CONGRATULATIONS Ms. Butterfly!! I KNEW you could do it!! Great job on finishing strong and exceeding your expectations!
Glad that your girls weekend turned out to be fun and that you accomplished your goal!
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The realm of Eorzea is ancient, with a conflicted history marked by cycles of prosperous "Astral," and disastrous "Umbral" eras. Past interpretations of this led many to predict that the current Astral Era would last into eternity, but now the land stands poised to enter another age of decline, a period known as the Seventh Umbral Era. On the eastern border, the Garlean Empire masses its troops for invasion, while the native beast tribes summon their deities, the otherworldly primals. The threats facing Eorzea will not easily be overcome, but overcome they must be.
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Eagle chip on final hole wraps up historic victory for McKinney's Chris Ward
LEWISVILLE — Chris Ward learned to play tournament golf as a Northern Texas PGA member. The McKinney native competed in about 100 events from age 10 through his teenage years.
"I played those little junior ones where you'd get the little pin you could clip on your hat," he said.
Ward, 26, came full circle on Sunday. He won the NTPGA's Bright Realty Texas State Open by two strokes over Stuart Deane of Arlington and John Kimbell of San Antonio. Kolton Crawford of Mansfield was low amateur, tying for sixth at 9 under.
Ward should get bonus points for dramatics. Tied with Deane and Kimbell at 12 under on the 72nd hole at the Lakes at Castle Hills, he holed a 90-foot chip for eagle.
This NTPGA victory was a tad more lucrative than his junior days. He brought home $25,000 and a shiny trophy.
"It's a little better deal now," Ward said.
The former Texas Tech player also etched in his name in Texas golf history. He became only the third player to win the Texas Amateur and Texas Open, joining Ben Crenshaw and Terry Snodgrass.
Ward has been building for this win. He considers his co-low amateur finish at the 2009 State Open one of the biggest accomplishments of his amateur career. Sunday's victory is the highlight of his young pro career.
"I always play well in this tournament," Ward said. "I've finished top 15 every time I've played in it. And I usually play this course really well."
Ward posted rounds of 69-70-67-68 to finish 14 under. After a six birdie, one bogey round on Saturday, he continued his nearly flawless form Sunday with birdies on 1, 6, 8 and 12.
But he began feeling the pressure down the stretch as Deane applied heat. After hitting drives into the left rough on 15 and 16, Ward surrendered two strokes to Deane, who made a three-putt par on the short par-4 15th and then a 7-foot birdie on the par-3 16th.
With his swing getting loose, Ward compensated by getting up and down from 80 yards on 17.
On the par-5 18, Deane and Ward drove to left side of the fairway. Deane hit his second shot into the left greenside bunker and Ward hit his just off the front of the green.
After Deane blasted out to about 10 feet, Ward's 56-degree wedge shot tracked perfectly, rolling down the hill and into the cup. He hit a similar shot on No. 13, where he chipped to 1 foot to save par.
"I love downhill chips," Ward said. "My depth perception of downhill chips is usually really good. It was almost the exact same shot as the chip I had on 13, downhill and down grain, so I knew how to hit the shot exactly."
Those two chips made the difference. On the par-3 13th, Deane failed to get up and down for par.
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The announcement of a pair of planets orbiting a 12.5 billion-year old star flies in the face of conventional wisdom that the earliest stars to be born in the Universe shouldn't possess planets at all.
12.5 billion years ago, the primeval universe was just beginning to make heavier elements beyond hydrogen and helium, in the fusion furnace cores of the first stars. It follows that there was very little if any material for fabricating terrestrial worlds or the rocky seed cores of gas giant planets.
ANALYSIS: Most Ancient, 'Impossible' Alien Worlds Discovered
This argument has been used to automatically rule out the ancient and majestic globular star clusters that orbit our galaxy as intriguing homes for extraterrestrials.
The star that was announced to have two planets is not in a globular cluster (it lives inside the Milky Way, although it was most likely a part of a globular cluster that was cannibalized by our galaxy), but it is similarly anemic as the globular cluster stars because it is so old.
This discovery dovetails nicely with last year's announcement of carbon found in a distant, ancient radio galaxy. These findings both suggest that there were enough heavy elements in the early universe to make planets around stars, and therefore life.
PHOTOS: Top Exoplanets for Alien Life
However, a Hubble Space Telescope search for planets in the globular star cluster 47 Tucanae in 1999 came up empty-handed. Hubble astronomers monitored 34,000 stars over a period of eight days. The prediction was that some fraction of these stars should have "hot Jupiters" that whirl around their star over a period of days (pictured here in an artist's rendition). They would be detected if their orbits were tilted edge-on to Earth so the stars would briefly grow dimmer during each transit of a planet.
A similar survey of the galactic center by Hubble in 2006 came up with 16 hot Jupiter planet candidates. This discovery was proof of concept and helped pave the way for the Kepler space telescope planet-hunting mission.
Why no planets in a globular cluster? For a start, globular clusters are more crowded with stars than our Milky Way - as is evident in the observation of the dwarf galaxy M9 below. "It may be that the environment in a globular was too harsh for planets to form," said Harvey Richer of the University of British Columbia. "Planetary disks are pretty fragile things and could be easily disrupted in such an environment with a high stellar density."
ANALYSIS: Many Dwarfs Died In the Making of This Galaxy
However, in 2007 Hubble found a 2.7 Jupiter mass planet inside the globular cluster M4. The planet is in a very distant orbit around a pulsar and a white dwarf. This could really be a post-apocalypse planet that formed much later in a disk of debris that followed the collapse of the companion star into a white dwarf, or the supernova explosion itself.
Hubble is now being used to look for the infrared glow of protoplanetary disks in 47 Tucanae. The disks would be so faint that the infrared sensitivity of the planned James Webb Space Telescope would be needed to carry out a more robust survey.
If planets did form in the very early in the universe, life would have made use of carbon and other common elements as it did on Earth billions of years ago. Life around a solar-type star, or better yet a red dwarf, would have a huge jump-start on Earth's biological evolution. The earliest life forms would have had the opportunity to evolve for billions of years longer than us.
This inevitably leads to speculation that there should be super-aliens who are vastly more evolved than us. So... where are they? My guess is that if they existed, they evolved to the point where they abandoned bodies of flesh and blood and transformed themselves into something else - be it a machine or something wildly unimaginable.
However, it's clear that despite (or, because of) their super-intelligence, they have not done anything to draw attention to themselves. The absence of evidence may set an upper limit on just how far advanced a technological civilization may progress - even over billions of years.
Keep in mind that most of the universe would be hidden from beings living inside of a globular star cluster. The sky would be ablaze with so many stars that it would take a long time for alien astronomers to simply stumble across the universe of external galaxies - including our Milky Way.
There will be other searches for planets in globular clusters. But our present understanding makes the question of a Methuselah civilization even more perplexing. If the universe made carbon so early, then ancient minds should be out there, somewhere.
Perhaps they really are "vast, cool, and unsympathetic," as science fiction writer H.G. Wells once put it.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In a story for last Saturday's paper, I pointed to the increasingly serious problems as New Mexico's snowpack begins to melt out:
The problem, according to Raymond Abeyta of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, is that the early snowmelt does not appear to be showing up yet in the streams and rivers that provide the state's water supply. "We're not really seeing it," Abeyta said.
David Gensler, the water manager for the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, pointed me today to a helpful example. First, here's today's graph of the automated snow measurement site at Quemazon, in the Jemez:
That lightish blue line at the bottom is the snowpack disappearing beginning around the first of March. Now here's the USGS stream gauge on the Jemez River. At a time when the Jemez should be rising steadily with the spring snowmelt, just a few days' blip, then nuthin':