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Righty then.
If you look very carefully at certain scenes in which Mikoto the cat herself is present, but not in the actual shot itself, you will see a shadow vaguely resembling the human mikoto cast on the walls/trees/whatever is nearby.
Though compounding to the mystery of whether the cat is possessed by a human spirit is that the cat and the shadow/supposed spirit are never in the same frame together, opening up the possibility that there just might be a completely human Mikoto sneaking around somewhere out there in the MO world...
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Wow interesting, thanks for the new info' Ronin Aquila.
I have a feeling though, that Mikoto will play a much larger role as the series rolls along. (Because the incident in episode 7(?) where Mikoto "dissapers" as the Mikoto look-alike speaks to Arika and Mashiro just sorta tipped me off. And besides, wasn't it Mikoto who jumped on to Arika who pushed Masihro down their in the first place? And she lead them to the Harmonium also, no? XD)
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got a screenie?
by hearing all the new info i certainly think there's more to our fatt tabby then meets the eye
maybe she's a guardian of some sort :3 having her body sealed in the harmonium and her spirit in the fatt cat XD
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Are thaw playing a practical joke ?
If this Mikoto shadow exists please specify at least one ep or scene or anithing
PS : no harmonium red shadow crap
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Err..I think the cat is still gonna stay as a cat...The producer wouldn't make things more complex since we already have tons of unanswered question.
And about the screen shot..the black figure do look like mikoto but still it was projected from the harmonium.
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Actually babuji, the producers still have over 10 episodes to answer any questions they've raised or just make more. In fact, Mikoto is still an unanswered question herself, as none of us really know what's really going on with her. Don't you think it would be just a little early to start wrapping things up?
And I really don't understand what you are talking about with the screenshot. So because you believe it was projected from the harmonium, that would mean...? That Mikoto will stay as a cat? How did you come to that conclusion? Was there a conclusion in that sentence? It's fairly unclear.
I haven't seen any of those shadows talked about, but unfortunately I don't have the Otome episodes with me right now, so I'll have to wait to check it out. Sounds interesting, though. I think so far though, Sunrise seems to be heavily leaning towards a human Mikoto existing.
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To be exact will be 12 episode not counting episode 13 about akane. Not to wrap things up but the harmonium projected the image of mikoto and the cat was a different entity. 2 different individual that can't be 1. I might be wrong too cuz this are all just speculation however about mikoto maybe she will be left out after all not counting Mai might make an appearance later.
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Wench, but not incestous
Mikoto the cat and the Harmonium being two seperate individuals is rather questionable. You may want to pay attention in episode 7, where Mikoto the Cat (MTC) pushes Mashiro and Akira through a hidden doorway.
Now why would a normal cat do that? At that particular time? And why does she lead them towards the organ? Not to mention that when Arika starts to ascend the steps MTC 'dissapears', Harmonium appears, and then after the Harmonium basically says "Screw you guys, I'm going home" MTC reappears. Could that not just be a bit of a hint?
I'm sorry but, Mai's 'maybe, maybe not' appearance should not affect Mikoto's appearance. They may be related cases, but one certainly shouldn't rule the other out. As you said, it's all speculation, but it seems MTC being the Harmonium has a lot more standing than not.
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If they could bring back mai they will bring back most of the old characters. But at episode 7, are you sure mikoto pushed them in??
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They have brought back most of the old characters! Almost all of Otomes characters made their first appearances in HiME. And Mai and Mikoto are protagonists of HiME, so if they can bring back the fat guy with an afro then they can bring back them too.
And yes, I am sure Mikoto pushed them in. She didn't just come out and tell them to. Have you watched it? Pay particular attention to episode 7. Its fairly clear- Mikoto smashed Arika into Mashiro, which in turn opened the passageway. I don't see any other reason for headbutting somebody full force.
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Hey, just tried my first batch using Dr. Pepper method the other day, using 4mg/NaOH in 250 ml of Methanol - everything seemed to settle out nicely, but never cleared stayed cloudy - washed it after a day til water was clear, BD remained cloudy, now after drying for a day there is a separation layer - cloudy BD on bottom and a thin layer of clear liquid on top - any suggestions on what this is?
Hello ACorder, congratulations on your success
The top layer is probably the meniscus of the biodiesel.
Are you drying it in the sun with the top off?
You could just pour the biodiesel into a sayce pan and heat it to around 100deg C and it should clear.
I did this this weekend and when I added the oil I saw a seperation-like activity. Shook it up and then shook it up again a few times.
I have 2 liters of brown liquid with some coagulant looking stuff at bottom of container but not completely seperated.
I think my lye "Rooto" 100% Lye which is the replacement to Red Devil may have been opened. Does this sound like my mixture of methanol and lye may not have been as full strength as it should have been ?
Is there anything I can do to re-attempt the process with the current solution ?
Thank you -robert
Hello rjr311, congratulations on your first successful batch of biodiesel
Can you be more specific as to what you mean by
"coagulant looking stuff at bottom of container but not completely seperated."
How do you know it was not complete seperation?
when I poke the bottom layer it seems to be like thin pudding. I can scrape the sides of the bottle like I was cleaning a dirty aquarium and the gunk on side of bottle drops to bottom ( it so think I can not tell ).
I had 2 sources - one unused cooking oil the other used asian restaurant oil.
The virgin oil seperated into
15-20% clear yellow/gold solution ( BioD
70% cloudy yellow/gold solution ( ???? BioD ????
< 10% darker gold on bottom ( glycerine
Looked great.
The used oil 2 days later is all dark-ish with a semi-solid layer on the bottom which can not be seen through and a possibly less denser layer on top. This seems to be about a 50/50 volume ratio.
Hi Tilly,
I am still a newbie. Working about 100 liters at a time. I just did a test shake in a small bottle of some dryed bio. 12 hours later it has separated but I have thin layer of what looks like emulsion between very clear colorless water and bio.
1. Appleseed processor, at 120 F, pump 2 hours.
2. Have 200L settling tank, let settle for more than 24 hours. Good separation of bio and glycerine.
3. Heated wash tank at 96 F. Mist wash 2 or 3 times depending on how clear the wash looks.
4. Bubble wash until wash is clear, what ever it takes. Have lots of water and easy disposal.
5. Bubble dried for 12 hours overnite.
6. Bio is crystal clear when I put sample in liter bottle and added 75 F tap water. I shook it hard for several seconds. More than 10 but not 30 seconds.
7. Separation was apparent in 10 minutes. 12 hours later I have crystal clear water with soapy emulsion like layer between water and bio. I guess the layer is 2mm thick. The water is clear with no disolved or suspended material.
8. Sorry I forgot. My oil is soy and comes from a chinese restaurant.
Does this appear to be acceptable bio? Am I being too much of a perfectionist? I wanted a perfect split.
One more data point. My house tap water pH is 7.4+, the water via hose to my wash tank is 8.3-8.4. The wash water when clear is 8.3. This is well water and what I get is what I get.
I am having a little frustration. I live in Maine and have about a 3 month window of warm weather to process my fuel. So far it has been pretty slow production.
Thanks again for your wisdom.
Hello penguy
What were the quantities of reactants per litre WVO?
Sorry to be slow to get back. We are building a home in the forest.
11g KOH and 220ml methanol per L of WVO. (In a 97.5 L batch of WVO I use 21.5 L of methanol, for this run I used 1073g KOH, and I also use 13.2 L of glycerol.)
From the forums I read where the use of 10% glycerol helped the production.
Once again thanks for your expertise. I must be on the back side of the clock for you. I'll check back in a couple of hours.
Hello Penguy
The glycerine should not be left in the oil when it is reacted.
The only reason for using glycerine before the reaction is to clear some of the crud out of the oil.
If you do use glycerine this way you need to remove it from the reactor before the reaction or some of your methoxide may become tied up with the glycerine and not used in the reaction.
If your oil titrated 3 or less KOH and you do not leave the glycerine in the reactor, you should get a very good reaction.
OK Tilly,
I will drop the glycerine out of the mix.
I do not have anything on hand to test for soap, that stuff is in the mail. I can wash some more or do I need to reprocess this current batch? Or should I just fuel up with the current batch? Now at almost 24 hours there is still some residual foam or emulsion still left at the bio water interface. Any feelings about this?
Should or can I send a picture as an attachment?
And then I will leave you in peace.
Thank you.
Hello penguy
I use my eyes to test for soap.
If the wash water is cloudy there is soap present.
If the wash water is clear there is not much soap present.
If the biodiesel is crystal clear at the lowest temp it will experience it is ready to use.
You can not visually determine the conversion of the biodiesel by looking at it.
What type of engine are you using the bidoesel in.
I would personally use the biodiesel but that is finally for you to decide.
Hi Tilly,
Done. I rewashed it overnite. Almost dry again. I will burn it (Oops, drive it). Several diesels, 2000 Jetta TDI, 97 Dodge Cummins, then generators, saws. etc.
Thanks again for all your help and advice.
Hi Tilly, thanks for all the BD info. I am a newbie and tried the Dr. Pepper processing technique. I am using waste restaurant oil. I titrated it at 4.5 Ml. I heated oil to 60 degrees C., added methoxide mix of 10G NAOH and 250 ML of yellow HEET. I shook mixture about 40 shakes. Then shook it again 10 minutes later and let it sit. I ended up with three layers. Top layer is golden yellow (Not clear) middle smallest layer is whitish jellow like, bottom layer is dark. I thought the top layer was the BD and the bottom layer the glycerol. I don't know what the middle jellow like layer is. Soap? Any ideas? How would I get rid of besides draining it away. Thanks for all the help!
Hello grandpa, welcome to the forum and congratulatios on your first successful batch of biodiesel.
Are you from Allentown Maryland? I used to go to the Tayac Elementary school in Allentown!
I suspect the middle layer is soap.
It may have some biodiesel tied up with it so you might try to wash it very gently.
Please keep us informed.
tried my first small batch after four hours no seperation yet. when I put in the methoxide it boiled. should it have done that? I used new oil. heated it to 140 F. I did not see any color change.
Hello Keith
If the methanol boiled you have lost at least some of it. this is not a good thing.
140f= 60C which should not boil the methanol. Possibly your thermometer is inaccurate.
I will get a new thermometer also when i put the hot oil into the plastic bottle it melted the bottle. I then went and bought a glass bottle. but now i would like to make a batch about 4 X as big. do i just multiply by how much more i want to make. the amount needed for the dr. pepper one ltr thanks for the help one day i hope to be makeing enough for my tank
Hello Keith
Did you go to 140deg F or C?
Yes, just multiply everything by 4.
Hey Tilly, just been browsing a Lister engine group on Yahoo and noticed that recent threads are questioning the Dr Pepper method (and you personally).
Any body else find "it doesn't make very good
biodiesel" I have never had a problem with quality.
Reading a bit further it seems like Steve Spence holds Keith Addison in high regard so that probably says enough about him so should be ignored.
Just thought you may be interested in what was being said in other places, I guess others may have seen it.
yeah, that's what I thought
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225 South St.
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|Finding aid written in English.
A Guide to the Robert Sterling Clark Reading Library
|Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives
225 South St.
Williamstown, MA 01267
|Clark, Robert Sterling, (1877-1956)
|Reading Library
|113.5 linear feet(ca. 1012 books)
|The personal reading library of Robert Sterling Clark includes collected works of fiction and history with significant subject development in cookery and horses.
|English, French
Arrangement of the PapersThe collection is arranged alphabetically by author and title.
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The Robert Sterling Clark reading library is comprised of ca. 800 titles that document a broad range of interests. Fiction and history predominate, though there is significant subject development in cookery and horses. The collection includes multiple volumes by a number of authors, including substantive first edition holdings of Pearl S. Buck, John Galsworthy, Sinclair Lewis, and P. G. Wodehouse. Many of the volumes include minor penciled annotations by RSC which record reading dates and brief thoughts on the volume in hand.
Biographical Note
Born in 1877, Robert Sterling Clark, along with his three brothers, was heir to the Singer sewing machine fortune. Their father, Alfred Corning Clark, was the son of Edward Corning Clark, Isaac Singer's business partner. RSC attended Yale University and graduated in 1899 with a degree in engineering. He joined the army and his service during the Boxer Rebellion earned him the commission of first lieutenant. In 1908, RSC undertook an expedition to the Shaanxi and Gansu provinces in a remote area of northern China. He intended to carry out ethnographic and zoological research, as well as conduct surveys and create maps. His partner in this undertaking was Arthur de Carle Sowerby. Sowerby, in addition to being a naturalist, explorer, artist and editor, collected specimens for the British Museum and other museums of natural history in the United States and China. The expedition came to an abrupt end when Hazrat Ali, their translator and surveyor, was murdered.
Shortly thereafter, RSC moved to Paris. In 1909 he inherited various pieces of art from his family and these pieces became the foundation of the collection he was to build over the ensuing decades. He made his first purchases in 1912 and was initially attracted primarily to Dutch, Flemish and Italian old masters. Soon, his interests expanded to include silver, prints and drawings, rare books, and more contemporary artists such as Renoir, Degas, Sargent and Homer.
During this time RSC met Francine Clary. Formerly an actress with the Comedie Francaise, Francine was the mother of a daughter, Viviane Modzelewska. Francine and RSC began seeing one another in 1910, but didn't marry until 1919. Their relationship was a source of tension with RSC's family and eventually led to a rift between him and his brother, Stephen. Stephen, the youngest of the Clark brothers, had shouldered the daily administration of the family's fortunes. RSC felt that he was at a disadvantage because of the way the Singer trusts were constructed. Should something befall RSC, the money would pass back into the Clark family rather than to Francine and her daughter. When he was unable to resolve the issue within the family, he and Stephen had a falling out that would never be mended and RSC sued unsuccessfully in court to break up the trusts.
RSC and Francine were partners in assembling the collections that would eventually be housed at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, visiting galleries and dealers together. Another keen interest was horse breeding. RSC owned large operations that bred, raised and trained racehorses, first in Belgium and then in Virginia. In 1951, his horse, Never Say Die, won the Epsom Derby, the first American-bred horse ever to do so.
After considering various options for the eventual disposition of their artworks and objects, including donation to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and founding a museum in New York City, RSC and Francine decided to locate their collections in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Beginning in 1950 and continuing through RSC's death late in 1956, their lives were focused on building the Institute, both physically and administratively.
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Robert Sterling Clark's Collection of Rare Books was accessioned into the library in 1971. Selected volumes were incorporated into the general collection, while the remaining volumes were designated rare and housed in the old Rare Book Room. Selected rare volumes, including early editions and illustrated texts, were eventually shifted to locked compact storage. Roughly 800 titles remained in the old Rare Book Room and were accessioned into the Archive as the Reading Library series of the Sterling and Francine Clark Papers.
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[Cite the item (as appropriate)], Reading Library Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.
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In February 2008 the Sterling and Francine Clark reading library was transferred from the library to the archives.
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The books that comprise the Sterling and Francine Clark reading library have been individually catalogued, labeled, and reshelved. Uncatalogued volumes were catalogued and existing records were updated to document transfer to the archive.
Related Material
The Robert Sterling Clark Collection of Rare Books, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Related or similar material can be found in the following series in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Archives, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Correspondence Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Diaries Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Financial Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Images Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Personal Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; and Realia Series, Sterling and Francine Clark Papers; Records and Papers of David Brooke, Director, 1977-1996; Institutional Oral Histories.
Portions of Clark's original collection of rare books were sold or donated to other institutions prior to the establishement of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Clark initiated the development of a turf library at the Thoroughbred Club of America, Lexington, Kentucky, with a gift of racing manuals and studbooks. In 1961, H. P. Krause donated the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of Books of Horses and Military History to the The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
Separated Material
Some time after the original accession in 1971, The Robert Sterling Clark Collection of Rare Books was divided between the general collection and rare volumes.


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Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH) was established by law of the Ondo State House of Assembly in December 2007. The University commenced academic activities on January 10, 2011 first from the take-off site now known as the Mini Campus and subsequently at the Permanent Site now known as the Main Campus. The two campuses are located in Idepe-Okitipupa and Igodan-Lisa, all in Okitipupa Local Government Area in the Southern Senatorial District of Ondo State.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. – Recent terror alerts, including U.S. embassy closings and travel restrictions, can trigger a surprisingly broad range of responses in individuals, says a University at Buffalo psychologist who studies the impact of terrorism.
Daniel Antonius, PhD, assistant professor of psychiatry at UB and a forensic psychologist who studies terrorism, violence and aggression, says that individuals and societies respond to terror alerts and news foretelling terror events in different ways.
Antonius is co-editor with Samuel J. Sinclair of a book, forthcoming later this month, called "The Political Psychology of Terrorism Fears" (Oxford University Press) that examines how emotional responses to terrorism, especially fear, can influence the political process.
He explains that firsthand experience with a terror event, such as the Boston Marathon bombings, can lead to increased susceptibility to future terror threats and heightened levels of anxiety and depression in a given community.
"One might expect people in Boston, or at least the city's more vulnerable populations, to experience heightened levels of worry, fear, avoidance and possibly anger," he says.
"People already prone to mental health problems, people with disabilities and immigrants have been found to be more susceptible to terror threats," says Antonius.
"While such symptoms likely won't reach the level of a psychiatric disorder, they may influence how people carry out their daily activities, such as avoiding public transportation or air travel, being in public or in large crowds," he adds.
Still, even in Boston, he says, the likelihood that large segments of the population would experience such fears in light of elevated threat levels is low.
"Due to our biologically built-in resilience to trauma, most people are not likely to experience these symptoms, or at least not consciously," he says. "In my previous book, co-authored with Justin Sinclair, The Psychology of Terrorism Fears, we discussed the paradox of how fear can negatively affect people and societies, but it can also be a central force underlying resilience and post-traumatic growth in the context of terrorism."
Antonius' new book describes how, in some societies, a terror event can lead to these kinds of responses. An example is Norway and the aftermath of the terror event of July 22, 2011 in which Anders Behring Breivik killed 77 people in a premeditated terror attack.
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Alexander Men was the child of a Jewish family that converted to Christianity when Alexander was less than one year old. In fact, Alexander was baptized on the same day that his mother was and his initiation into Christianity was completed. Yet, there was more in store for Alexander and his family as the Soviet empire continued to grow and flourish in Russia. With the growth of the Soviet ideals, there was an expectation that Christians--clergy and lay--would swear allegiance first to the State and second to the Church.Many in the Church bought their relative safety through this idolatry but Alexander's family--and by extension Alexander--were part of the movement that refused to do so. They were part of the Russian True Orthodox movement--specifically, they were part of a group called the "Catacomb Church." This group knew they must meet in secret if they were to meet at all because they had run afoul of the imperial powers simply by existing and refusing to bend their knee before a broken and corrupt State.
Of course, such allegiances have their cost even if they are a holy and Christian thing. In 1958, Alexander was expelled from college for the sake of his allegiances and commitments. The powerful did not approve of who Alexander approved of and, so, they refused to accommodate him. He had already committed to becoming a priest and this obstacle only spurred him onwards. A few years later, he graduated from Leningrad Theological Seminary and was ordained as a priest in the Orthodox church. Alexander was known as a priest of the intellectuals and engaged in rigorous and exacting debates with Orthodox and atheists. He expressed a powerful commitment to ecumenical theology throughout his clerical life and called upon his students and spiritual children to have faith and courage in the face of both Soviet rule and denominationalism. Recognized as an intelligent man and good teacher, he routinely was invited to teach on religious topics in a variety of places but was hated by those in power because of their distrust for Christians. He was routinely arrested and questioned by the KGB in an attempt to coerce him into silence. Alexander was unchecked in his devotion.
When Soviet rule was coming to an end in Russia, many Christian missionaries were surprised to find a people thirsty for spiritual growth and Christian teaching instead of solely committed atheists. Surely, there were many who rejected the work of the missionaries but there were others who had found sustenance for their faith even from within the iron curtain--they had known men like Alexander and had found Jesus at a cost. Alexander's commitment to his faith persevered through the falling of the Soviet Empire but he was claimed as one of its victims in 1990. At the age of fifty-five, he left his home one morning bound for a teaching engagement. As he walked the path, he heard the patter of footsteps. Before he could turn around, an unknown assailant (or perhaps assailants) cleaved his skull with an axe. Alexander Men died because he refused to submit himself to the Empire or its powers. Instead, he remained committed to a Lord who was crucified and buried to conquer death. No walls fell or resolutions were passed with his death but his work continued long after his death and authentic Russian spirituality flourished because Alexander--and people like him--refused to give up on his faith even when confronted by adversity and death.
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The outsider. Albert CamusWednesday, December 5th, 2012 | tags: 4 smiles, book, darned French, music video, read it, reviews, stranger |
I found Albert Camus's 'The outsider" profoundly disturbing. In just under 115 pages it moves the reader from a funeral through a killing to legal conviction and sentencing with straightforward and gripping prose. The protagonist appears to lack pretention. He lives with an uncomplicated world view, within a world that requires he play a role, demostrates conformity to social complexity.
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'The Outsider' appears to be one of those books that teenagers are encouraged to study – there are plenty of reviews online. Somehow my teenage self missed this book, making do with 'The catcher in the rye', 'To kill a mockingbird' and slighly later with 'On the road'
I found the book disturbing because it was so easy to identify with the protagonist, to be him. To feel his pleasure, pain, passage of time and the way others criticise any lack of socially acceptable expression of strong emotions.
I picked up my copy from Reading town's Oxfam, this 2nd hand copy came littered with the study notes of someone who read the book in a radically different way from me. I found the notes almost as disturbing as the book itself. The notes accuse the protagonist of being unemotional, unfeeling. Yet I read him as experiencing a wide range of normal feelings described in short sentences, using very physical descriptions.


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Honestly going up there in the inspirational category with Spirit of the Marathon.
Kid's bike speech gets my lazy bum going.
I'm reposting this from video of a kiddo's inspirational speech after his first bike ride I first found at Steve in a Speedo, because I have honestly watched it several times laughing and applauding. Then I set aside my brownie, put my chocolate milk back in the fridge, and got off my lazy arse to go for a run this afternoon.
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Green Bay Marathon Race Recap
5:00 am in the morning on May 15th I woke up extremely nervous, but also very resolute. It was the morning of the Green Bay Cellcom Marathon. The day of my first full marathon.
Making the morning trip to Green Bay with me was my personal cheerleader/photographer/mother extraordinaire. She wears many hats, and today it was a stocking cap because although it was raining and windy the day before, on this day it is just cold and windy.
The start was at 7am on the dot. This race director means business. Knowing that this is my first marathon which means I have really no expectations, I start near the 4:45 pace group but my main goal is to just finish.
Can I just say that I love that purple NorthFace jacket the gal behind me is wearing. I admired it as she promptly passed me. Looked for it later on the course, but I'm guessing that was not a throw away jacket.
Also note, I am not grimacing in that photo--yet--I'm looking for my mom.
Mom was diligently waiting for me up a head. She was calling for me to pose, but the gal behind me yelled out, "She can't stop, she's running a marathon!"
I gave her a wave and went on my way knowing I would see her again between the 4 and 5 mile mark.
One of my coworkers was about at this point along the race route cheering on her daughter who was running the half marathon. I mentioned what I would be wearing to her the day before. She saw me a couple times on the race route. Both times she credited my awesomely bright pink socks for spotting me in the crowd. They are not just for compression, they ARE a fashion statement.
When I saw my mom again around the 4.5 mile mark, she was on the other side of the street. I tried my best to play frogger and make it across the street without getting in front of anyone. I kind of liked my gloves, so I did not want to drop them on the course. So quick photo op and glove drop off.
Five Mile time: 48:50
The first miles on the course were through a residential area with lots of turns and hills. People kept yelling, "It's all down hill from here" when we would reach the top of one.
I would like to take the first time marathon coordinator's mantra instead, "It's a smooth, gentle decline from here." My shins appreciated that thought.
Ten Mile time: 1:38:38
As we were about to approach the part of the course where the marathoners turned right, and half marathoners turned left, I thought back to the expo the day before during the race course presentation.
"Full marathoner's plug your ears for a moment," the presenter whispers conspiratorially, "Half marathoner's when you hit that turn point Lambeau Field will be in your sights. You are almost done! This is when you start to laugh at the full marathoners because you are about to enjoy some beer and brats and they have another couple hours to go. Okay, half marathoners plug your ears."
"Now full marathoners listen up," the presenter continued, "When those half marathoners turn to the left, you can start laughing. Those pansies have nothing on you!"
At this point I'm kind of in agreement with him, I'm feeling great and thinking, "See ya later half marathoners!" This mentality is going to come back and haunt me in about six more miles.
13.1 Mile time: 2:10:12
We turn down a more commercial area with wide open spaces between buildings. This is our first experience with the open wind. So far the residential area has been blocking quite a bit and also mostly at our backs.
One parking lot that is not paved, but has gravel and dirt takes a gust of wind. It kicks it up and a whole pack of us runners have to shield our eyes and run sideways for a moment until the wind drops for a second. That was the first sign things were going to be a little rough.
15 Mile time: 2:31:01
After we pass the 16 mile mark we cross over a bridge and literally hit a wall of wind. On a normal day miles 16 through 22 would be beautiful. They are on a paved trail along the Fox River. Today it is going directly Northeast and into 20-40 mph winds. There is little blocking the wind, and this six mile stretch is not just hitting the physical runners wall, there are moments when I ran into a physical wind wall.
This face is not a smile, it's a grimace in disguise. I choose to walk though water stations during that stretch of the race and tried to draft off a couple of folks. But most of the time I was working this path on my own.
The highlight came right before mile 20. A church congregation brought in about 200 people to cheer, yell, and encourage the runners. Seriously, I could have cried at that point, their enthusiasm took my wind battered body and helped drag it over the bridge and get the wind literally at my back.
Mile 20: 3:31:17
At this point I am just thinking about seeing my family by the finish line. The highlight of this race is the final leg is a run around the inside of Lambeau Field, home to the current Superbowl Champion Green Bay Packers.
I'm dreaming of touching the tundra.
To get into Lambeau we had to go through a long concrete laden tunnel, and at the end we emerge from the players tunnel. I may or may not have hammed it up a bit for the photographers on field.
And on the other side I am trying to get the crowd to make some noise as I come in.
A sight for sore eyes, my favorite cheering section. The big guy in the middle has an awesomely loud voice perfect for cheering on his favorite
Coming in for the high fives. Darn wispy hair is still giving me the Donald Trump comb-over look.
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And finally back out of the stadium toward the finish line. My cheering squad rushed out to catch me finish my first ever marathon in 4:53:18
Not the fastest run by any means, but I kept thinking to myself, "Be Courageous". This run is me against myself (and a ton of wind). At the end of the day, no matter what my time came in at I could now say, "I am a marathoner".
And since the Packers did just win the Superbowl, the metals were inset with a bit of good old pigskin. I think this is my favorite metal so far. Especially since a couple days later it was confirmed the course was 800 feet too long and adjusted our times. So in less then a week I had a new PR.
Not too shabby if you ask me.
Bonus benefit of this marathon, after I collected my metal, we were treated to brats and Stevens Point beer. Only in Wisconsin.
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There is just something about this picture
I'm working on my first full marathon recap which should be up this weekend. And oh what an update it will be, filled with wind, triumph, wind, Lambeau Field, wind, crazy awesome runners, and WIND!
But there is one picture in particular that keeps drawing me in. There is just something about it that I cannot stop looking at. Something that seems a little amiss.
Okay, so there are a few things wrong, such as my heal strike, but one thing in particular is really bothering me.
The wispy hair.
It's uncontrollable. I bought these awesome large Bondiband headbands to try and contain the hair.
But it refuses to be contained.
My hair has a mind of its own. The shining strands in the sunlight, it kind of reminds me of a head crown.
Or better yet, a really awesome superhero helmet.
But there is one picture in particular that keeps drawing me in. There is just something about it that I cannot stop looking at. Something that seems a little amiss.
Okay, so there are a few things wrong, such as my heal strike, but one thing in particular is really bothering me.
The wispy hair.
It's uncontrollable. I bought these awesome large Bondiband headbands to try and contain the hair.
But it refuses to be contained.
My hair has a mind of its own. The shining strands in the sunlight, it kind of reminds me of a head crown.
Or better yet, a really awesome superhero helmet.
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Watson is a supercomputer named for the former chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM - Free IBM Stock Report), Thomas J. Watson. It was the result of a project, called DeepQA, a collaboration between an IBM research team and leading universities, that began in 2006.
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Humans acquire such capabilities by interacting with others and via exposure to the world around them. To prepare Watson for Jeopardy!, IBM had to teach Watson skills, like how to process natural language and how to form hypotheses (as well as rank them according to the likelihood of their accuracy to arrive at an answer). The supercomputer reportedly also can learn from its mistakes. IBM says that Watson is now 24 times faster than at the time of the Jeopardy! competition, and is considerably smaller, having shrunk "from the size of a master bedroom to three stacked pizza boxes."
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Since the Jeopardy! contest, IBM has been gradually putting Watson to work in helping to solve real life problems, notably in the healthcare sector. The company points out that medical information about doubles every five years, and it is impossible for doctors always to have access to all relevant data. Watson can quickly retrieve medical data and cross reference information from cancer patients to design better treatments by identifying which work best.
According to IBM, the financial industry also provides opportunities to put Watson to commercial use "to help make informed decisions about investment choices, trading patterns, and risk management". In 2012, Citicorp (C) announced an agreement with IBM to explore uses of Watson in its businesses. There may also be opportunities to apply Watson's technology in the retail and telecommunications businesses. However, we believe Watson hasn't been a big money maker for IBM yet.
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In early January, IBM announced it will set up a new business unit called IBM Watson Group, "…dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive innovations." IBM says it doesn't intend to sell customers a "Watson box", but rather, Watson "will remain a service on the cloud." It plans to invest over $1 billion in the operation. This sum includes $100 million to support the development of cognitive applications (apps) powered by Watson.
The Watson Group will be led by Michael Rhodin, previously senior vice president of Software Solutions, and have its own headquarters at New York's Astor Place that will serve as an incubator for the development of Watson-based apps. It will employ about 2,000, but will also tap the expertise of IBM's research, software, and services divisions, as well as experts in industries such as healthcare, financial services, and telecommunications. IBM indicated it will "engineer" Watson in order to deploy it on Softlayer, a cloud computing infrastructure business that it recently acquired.
IBM has already announced three new Watson-based services to help industries uncover connections in their research work; make it easier for researchers to derive Big Data insights without advanced analytics training; and help users share data-driven insights and develop applications. There has already been some interest in these offerings. The Wall Street Journal reported (January 10, 2014) that over 750 entities have contacted IBM about working with Watson. In January, Singapore-based DBS Bank said it intends to use Watson in its wealth management business to improve advice to affluent clients and customer experience.
IBM's goal is for Watson to generate annual revenue of $10 billion by 2024. Data analytics is a growing, but no doubt competitive, area, and it will probably take some time for IBM's Watson to achieve this objective. As mentioned, IBM will have to adapt Watson for use on Softlayer. And it's unclear whether Watson will steal revenues from IBM's other analytics products, although management doesn't expect it to do so. Nonetheless, Watson's potential is interesting. Time will tell whether IBM can turn this former research project into a money maker.
At the time of this article's writing, the author did not have positions in any of the companies mentioned.