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13 October 2006
By Anton Antonowicz
HE chainsaw slices through the base of yet another huge tree in the African forest. We cannot hear it. But we know it happens every day.
A few weeks later, a man fires his shotgun in the new clearing. Again, it is unheard.
The hunter's first cartridge kills a female gorilla. His second slays the male he knows will try to charge.
The hunter relaxes, reloads and searches for the young who will be nearby. He has killed the family's elder offspring for bushmeat. The babies he may keep for sale.
Logging. Hunting. Death. Profit. And the looming extinction of humanity's closest relatives, the African great apes – chimpanzees, bonobos and gorillas.
Since the opening of Africa's forests to European and Asian logging companies, the traditional consumption of wild animal meat in central Africa has exploded. What once was subsistence is now a commercial and completely unsustainable business.
Unchecked, the rate of slaughter of the great apes will bring about their extinction in a few decades. And what of those left alive?
It is a decade since this newspaper launched a campaign to break the trade. It began when I travelled to Cameroon – a nation described as "the most corrupt on earth" by the Environmental Defense Fund.
With campaigning photographer Karl Amman, I witnessed bushmeat trains arriving in Yaounde, the capital. This trade, supposedly banned' this train slowing half-a-mile before the end of the line to offload three tonnes daily. Not a policeman in sight. Just a machete-wielding gang which ordered us away or face a slashing. We stopped to eat at Hotel Le Ranch and found two baby chimps in a wooden cage. Next to a tin of flyinfested fruit was a cardboard whiskybox marked "Fragile". Inside, beneath a soiled rag, a month-old baby gorilla.
The hotel manager offered it for sale at £300. We ignored him. He shrugged. There were plenty others ready to pay the price. And they still are.
For the past year, Karl and I have tracked one of the worst of their kind. The journey traced through Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya and on to Egypt…
This story begins in late January 2005, when six chimpanzees – with a black market value of £10,750 each – were confiscated at Jomo Kenyatta airport in Kenya. The consignment, disguised as a kennel of dogs, had begun its journey from Kano, Nigeria, to Khartoum, Sudan. It travelled on as a tarmac transfer to Cairo. Rejected there, it was redirected to Nigeria, where Kenyan officials impounded it.
ONE chimp died while the five others, so starved they were eating their own faeces, were taken to a rescue centre, where a wealthy American conservationist cares for them. (Chimps live 50 years. The owner faces a potential bill of $1million.)
When no such benefactor is available, the animals are killed. For example, in 2001, Egyptian airport officials drowned an illegally transported chimp and gorilla in a vat of chemicals. It caused an international outcry and a declaration from CITES (Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species) that this would never happen again, with a vow to prosecute the smugglers. Empty words.
Both incidents are linked. Both shipments were sent by 54-year-old Heba Abdel Moty Ahmed Saad. This woman has both Nigerian and Egyptian citizenship. She has, according to Professor Samy El Fellaly, an Egyptian environment department official, been in "the Monkey Business" for 30 years and is one of Africa's major traffickers.
Under the CITES rules, permits are necessary for the import, export and trade of gorillas, chimps and bonobos. In fact, apes caught in the wild cannot be traded at all.
Heba plays fast and loose with permits and rules. "It is easy in Africa to get documents," says Dr Mohammed Assad, quarantine manager at Cairo airport. "Heba makes a lot of trouble. When we ask her why she takes these animals from the wild, she says she does it to save them. So what can we say?"
MIKE Pugh, an RSPCA inspector formerly with the World Society For The Protection Of Animals, shakes his head.
He tracked Heba down to the animal market in Kano in 1997. "There were chimpanzees there which had been taken from Cameroon," he says, "Heba was a well-known buyer. By my estimate she was exporting between 50-100 chimps annually and a dozen or more gorillas. She was notorious for it."
Many of the animals – and only one out of 10 are estimated to survive the journey – are bound for the private zoos of Gulf princes and businessmen. Some are allegedly imported for vivisection. Others go to tourist resorts in Egypt.
Eventually, our trail led to Sharm El Sheik and one of its best-known resorts – the Tower complex, patronised by Tony Blair, ex-president Bill Clinton, Egypt's leader Hosni Mubarak and owned by Gamal Omar.
The zoo he runs is situated behind guest villas. It is his pride and joy. Filming secretly, Karl discovered 11 chimps and two gorillas held in cages. "There was not a blade of grass or a tree. Just bare floors and bars," Karl says. "It is a miserable facility and a real animal welfare issue." Prof Fellaly, also CITES boss in Egypt, says: "We know Omar paid for the animals on the black market but we let him keep them until we decide what to do with them. These creatures are lucky to be living there. It is a good place, a recognised sanctuary by the Ministry. We don't have the money, so we leave it to Omar."
It is a classic Pontius Pilate washing-of-hands. The same reaction we find when we interview Dr Ragy Toma, director of wildlife in Egypt. "What can we do? Confiscate them? Put them where?" he asks.
So, despite the laws, Mr Omar can buy his animals on the black market, parade them for guests, knowing no one is willing or able to touch him. And no one willing to repatriate the animals to their country of origin as CITES demand. So this tragic travesty continues. In countries such as Egypt where traffickers like Mrs Heba flourish.
When confronted at her sixth-floor Cairo apartment, she wailed: "What can I do? I've no sources to get money. I have three daughters at university and I am a poor woman."
SHORTLY afterwards, we photograph her leaving home in her brand-new Renault.
So far, the only organisation to crack down is the World Zoo Association, which has severed all links with official Egyptian zoos. This means that Egypt cannot import any animals from accredited zoos.
CITES itself has only one official dealing with trafficking. He is John Sellar, a former British policeman, who says: "If there is evidence of animals having been illegally imported into Egypt, then we'd be willing to raise such issues with the authorities there. But it is difficult to pursue speculative cases."
Karl believes the problem with conventions like CITES is that they rely on the home country. "If that country is corrupt or poorly run, you have a situation in which the wolves are left guarding the hen-house."
And so laws are flouted. International authorities prefer to look the other way. Traffickers like Heba can give two fingers to the world. The rich can parade their living trophies…
While great trees fall and our closest ancestors scream into oblivion. Unheard.
"These creatures will be extinct in a few decade
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For this month's That's Beijing, a local English-language magazine, I wrote an article on exploring Beijing's spots that serve absinthe. (I know, it was quite the tough gig.) Absinthe has been in the news back in the States ever since last year, when it was un-banned and subsequently started popping up on many bars' lists. So I decided to explore Beijing's options and found a few places that served not only shots but also tasty cocktails. (It's still not online yet, so perhaps I wil have to make a PDF to link to.)
More self-promotion (after all, this is what food blogs are for): In the feature, the 2007 Restaurant Awards for Beijing, I was on the "panel of experts" and gave my picks for restaurants in cagetories including Best Sichuan, Best Indian, and Best for a Romantic Dinner. Though I do have to point out the wording mistake (not mine) in my profile at the end. In NYC I worked as a pastry cook for several months, and did not go through the years of work it takes to become a pastry chef. To those outside the restaurant world this is a minor word issue, but to those who work in the industry, it's a huge distinction.
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The blushing bride was very recently introduced to two women who have had sex with her husband in the past three months. She has no idea and they were lost in a sea of other well wishers.
The blushing bride was very recently introduced to two women who have had sex with her husband in the past three months. She has no idea and they were lost in a sea of other well wishers.
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Kaley Cuoco
That is just poor form, blushing hubby. Keep it in your pants or keep it discreet, yo
It's Matt baby though right? Thanksgiving baby. Those 2 were awfully cozy during Thanksgiving broadcast.
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Kaley seems desperate, i thought all the rumors were him playing non-mixed doubles though? Who is that boring, not attractive SI model who married John Legend? Her
Ugh, what serial cheater invites his conquests to the wedding? SHARKNADO TIME
Nikki sixx just got married
@Seven - I'd think lots of them do. It's part of the thrill of cheating, I'd imagine, having their conquests right under their wife's nose without the wife knowing.
@snookie - like the Nikki Sixx guess. He married some young gal. Makes more sense that Savannah Guthrie, who should be old enough to know better (theoretically).
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I like the Nikki Sixx guess. I think he would have said if the bride was a celeb. Or entertainer or whatever the hell people are now.
I doubt it's Kaley. Whilst Enty hates the husband with the passion of a thousand fires it's always been because he's a money grabbing gold digger not because he's been shagging around.
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I'm voting for the Sixx/Bingham wedding as well.
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FORT BENNING, Ga. -- "Supporting the current fight," was among the three areas of focus Gen. Robert W. Cone, commanding general of the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, conveyed to Soldiers and defense industry leaders during this year's Maneuver Conference in Columbus, Ga., Sept. 18.
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"My priority is the obligation and commitment to you, those who have been in the fight or will soon be heading into the fight," he said. TRADOC currently supports the force by overseeing and providing initial military training, functional training, professional military education, mobile training teams and collective training assistance. Cone also commented on the capabilities of the Asymmetric Warfare Group that gathers and analyzes relevant information from theater operations and applies its benefits in the training environment across the Army.
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"The Army must be able to win the fight, first and foremost, and then we must focus on preventing future threats and, thus, develop the force based on these evolving threats," he said. Building a winning strategy includes the ability to function in a joint operational environment where the Army conducts a wide range of missions, while retaining the ability to focus more narrowly on projecting power to deter and defeat aggression as specific threats emerge worldwide. The combination of a narrow focus within a wide lens allows the Army to adjust more rapidly to potential threats, he explained.
Human transition was the final area of focus during Cone's discussion. He explained that TRADOC addresses human transition through the "Army Profession," leader development, the "Army Learning Model," "the Squad" and "Doctrine 2015." A winning strategy in particular must include changes in how the Army develops Soldiers as members of the profession, said Cone.
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"As leaders, we must tell our Soldiers how important they are to our Army -- they are members of a profession," said Cone. "Leaders are responsible for making the hard decisions when it comes to Soldier care. We, as senior leaders, must make the tough calls as we ask our Soldiers to do the same."


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Evaluating Communication
|Make a Lesson Plan | Summing Up the Session | Final Journal
In a classroom of young children, communication occurs in a variety of ways. Teachers communicate with the class and with individual students. At the same time, students communicate with one another -- either as partners, in small groups, or as an entire class. There are many forms of communication that are appropriate for young children. The use of physical movement, concrete materials, models, pictures, graphs, diagrams, words, and numbers helps children make sense of the mathematics they are learning.
Use the information learned in this section to plan a lesson for one of your classes. The task or problem you choose should lend itself to a variety of forms of communication in the settings mentioned above. You may want to choose a task that relates to a concept we have introduced and explored in this session and that can now be extended. Alternatively, you can use a problem you teach in your subject area, or select one of the samples from the Learning Math courses.
After you have created your lesson plan, use the Classroom Checklist (an Adobe PDF document) to evaluate it.
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Sunday, August 9, 2009
Please Keep These Things: Mom's and Grandma's Jewelry
The word prompt for the 16th Edition of Smile For The Camera (hosted by Shades of the Departed) is "Bling, ancestor Bling." I am always drawn to the beautiful jewelry worn by our ancestors in old photographs. The locket that was your Great Grandmother's treasure, the pocket watch proudly displayed by a male ancestor, the beautiful crosses of old, and the children with their tiny bracelets. While not many of our ancestors were wealthy enough to own multiple pieces of jewelry, there was the one good piece that held sentimental value. Some of us have been fortunate enough to inherit those treasures. Show us a photograph of your ancestor wearing their "Bling," or photographs of the pieces you have inherited. Admission is free with every photograph!
This edition of "Please Keep These Things" is devoted to the items of jewelry that I have inherited from my mother and grandmother. There are not many, because when my mother died I picked out the pieces of jewelry that I remembered from my childhood and gave the rest of my mother's jewelry to my Aunt Rene (who did not ask for them but did graciously accept them from me) because she had helped my mother so much through the years. My mother gave the two rings she inherited from my grandmother to me several years before she died.
This "Whispering Leaves" earring and bracelet set was my mother's favorite set of costume jewelry.
I am pretty sure the jewelry that Mom was wearing in this picture is the Whispering Leaves set. It was taken in Palo Alto, California. We were packing up and getting ready to move up to Renton, Washington to join my father and decided to play Fashion Show. Pierre thought he should be in the show, too, since he was so handsome and photogenic.
Here are the other two pictures I have from our Fashion Show. I do not know what happened to the pearl set in the top picture or the gold chain that can be faintly seen in the bottom picture; they may have been lost in one of our many moves or may have been among the jewelry I gave to Aunt Rene.
This was my mother's watch; she had this watch when I was a little girl and it is the only watch I remember her having.
These are the two rings my mother inherited from her mother. They are both supposedly emerald rings, but since I have not had them examined, yet, I cannot vouch for that. The one at the top is missing a stone, and the one at the bottom has one stone that is not the same size as the others – I am pretty certain that the smaller stone is original and the two larger ones are replacements. I used to wear the ring, anyway, and that is why there is yarn on it.
Grandma Eula did not collect many possessions, but she did like pretty jewelry, so that is what her children often gave her for Christmas and for her birthday.
This was my mother's wedding ring set from her marriage to my father.
This was a pin that I picked out to give my mother for Christmas when I was about 8 years old. It is rather gaudy, which I guess reflects an 8-year-old's taste. My mother always told me how beautiful she thought it was.
To my daughters: I am not sure what instructions I should give to you on keeping or disposing of my own jewelry. I will try to photograph and catalog all items that are especially important to me. If you remember giving it to me, or persuading me to buy it, or you know that your father bought it for me, it is important to me, so please keep it.
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You have again been able to pull up some thoughts of mine that haven't been part of my consciousness for awhile. I also purchased some pretty gaudy rhinestone pieces for my Mom for various holidays from the local 5&10 store. Who knows, they are probably worthy to a collector now. Too bad a Pittsburgh landfill their new jewelry box. And secondly, I can remember like it was yesterday, a rhinestone pin in the shape of a crown that my grandmother always wore. I wonder what ever happened to that? I wish I had it.ReplyDelete
I'm so glad this struck a note with you - it's amazing the memories that get dredged up by reading something, seeing a picture of something, etc. I'll often see or read something in a blog that will make me remember an event I haven't thought of in 20 years or more. I actually googled "Whispering Leaves" and jewelry and pulled up several hits where people were offering this jewelry set for sale.ReplyDelete


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In 2003, a new standard for water heaters was developed and phased in. It says, "The water heater should not ignite flammable vapors outside the water heater created by the spilling of gasoline onto the floor." The Consumer Products and Safety Commission found thousands of fires, injuries and deaths were related to water heaters. Most of these cases were because of improper storage or handling/spillage of gasoline.
If the tank is in compliance with the FVIR standards, it does not have to be raised 18 inches in garages or similar locations, unless required by the manufacturer or local code authorities.
A FVIR water heater has the following components: 1) a device to prevent ignited vapors from passing out of the combustion chamber, 2) a one-way intake system to control the movement of makeup air into the combustion chamber, 3) an inner door and burner assembly to create a sealed junction with the combustion chamber, preventing combustion air and flammable vapors from entering the chamber through the front of the water heater.
All FVIR water heater tanks have things in common. 1) A flame arrestor plate. Located under the burner, the metal plate is designed to allow combustion air into the combustion chamber but keep flames from escaping downward and igniting flammable vapors below. 2) Thermal cutoff switch. It is designed to shut down the heater if it senses excessive temperatures caused by inadequate combustion air inside the chamber. Inadequate combustion air can be caused by an explosion of flammable vapors, inadequate venting, inadequate makeup air or the accumulation of lint, dust, or oil on the screen. 3) A lint, dust, and oil screen. The screen is designed to protect the combustion process from lint, dust, or oil. The screen openings can become clogged, especially when the tank is located in a basement or utility room.
FVIR System on a Bradford White Defender Water Tank
During normal operation, air for combustion is drawn into the water heater through the openings in the jacket. This air travels down and around the combustion chamber and enters through holes in the very bottom of the corrosion-resistant combustion chamber. The air then travels up through the oriented flame arrestor plate louvers, where the velocity of the air is increased and its direction altered. The air then mixes in a normal manner with the supplied gas and is efficiently combusted, producing very low NOx emissions (nitrogen oxides).
In the case where trace amounts of flammable vapors are present in the air flowing into the chamber, the vapors are harmlessly ignited by the burner/pilot flame. If flammable vapors are in sufficient quantity to prevent normal combustion, the burner/pilot flame is shut down.
Should the flammable vapors continue to the burner, the flame arrestor plate prevents the flames from traveling backwards and igniting vapors outside of the combustion chamber. The calibrated, multipurpose thermal switch recognizes this and shuts down the pilot and main burner. This switch also deactivates the burner and pilot in the unlikely event of restricted airflow caused by severe lint, dust, or oil accumulation on the arrestor plate.
"Hot to Properly Inspect a FVIR Hot Water Tank" – Online training video for property inspectors. https://www.nachi.org/advancedcourses.htm


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Bishop Robinson's initiative is called It Gets Better. In his post Deacon Greg observes that, at least by its initial appearance, It Gets Better by denigrating Catholic, Southen Baptist, and LDS teachings about homosexuality. Predictably, Deacon Greg's observation that "Robinson is entitled to his opinion, and his own moral theology," but that it is impossible to "respect the way he has gone about brazenly dismissing (and, in fact, misrepresenting) the moral teachings of others," does not sit well with many, especially those who vehemently disagree with the Catholic Church's views about human sexuality, which is their right, a freedom we respect.
The upshot of Catholic teaching with regards to human sexuality for homosexual people is not, as one commentator suggested, that "God made junk when He made you, die." Nothing could be further from the truth, not to mention more lacking in charity! It seems to me that presently there are few things about which we are more confused than about our sexuality. For one thing it is over-emphasized by all parties and not just when it comes to homosexuality. To reduce faith to a single issue, be it sex, immigration, abortion, or whatever, is to make the mistake of reducing faith to a kind of moralism, which is never attractive, not to mention inherently un-Christian.
Recent events have convinced me more than ever that we must not define people, or allow people to define themselves, exclusively by their sexual orientation, by whom they prefer to have sex with and how they prefer to have sex. Of course, our sexual desire, our need in this regard, which is not merely, perhaps not even primarily, physical, is yet another manifestation of the need at the heart of our human, that is, our contingent and far from self-sufficent, being.
What the church teaches us is that it is Christ who ultimately satisfies our hungry hearts and that, to quote Springsteen, "everybody's got a hungry heart," that is, a needy heart, a heart that will be satisfied with nothing less than being loved beyond measure! It seems to me that the two groups most at risk of having their humanity reduced to their sexuality are homosexual young men and all young women. Indeed, there is something ideological if not downright sinister about such efforts, which are often subtle, especially when they appropriate the language of social justice.
To the young person who perceives that s/he is "different" and who feels threatened and/or terrified as a result we offer them our love, our protection, our support, as well as our active care and concern. It is characteristic of genuine love that it asks nothing in return. To offer them less is to fail to be Christians. As Deacon Greg said, we can respectfully disagree about the nature and purpose of human sexuality, how it fits into our overall understanding of the human person, especially our transcendent dimension, which cannot but determine how we relate to people pastorally, but to mischaracterize and make false accusations does nothing for Christian fellowship, nor for people caught in the crossfire.
Let's not forget what is most fundamental to Christian faith, summarized well by St. Paul: "For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:6-8). This cuts across all humanity, down to each and every person, heterosexual and homosexual.
In the present cultural moment, our confusion about the nature and purpose of human sexuality is certainly not limited to a particular group. To wit: heterosexual people, including married couples, at least from the Catholic perspective, are just as confused as everyone else. In this light, I appreciate that Catholic teaching on sexuality invites us to consider our sexuality in the context of the totality of our personhood, especially in light of the end for which each one of us is lovingly made, encapsulated well by these famous words of St. Augustine- "God, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless till they find their rest in you." Too often our conception of even our own personal sexuality is mundane, earth-bound, wholly lacking a transcendent dimension, which cannot but blind us not just to the truth, but to the goodness, and the beauty of our very being.


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Major stream systems of my beloved home of Michigan, rendered as an urban transit network. I originally intended to do one map per state (or group of states, for the smaller ones), starting with Michigan, but I decided later to use watersheds, rather than political boundaries, as the basis for a map series.
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Approximate driving times (in hours) from major cities to Stage Neck Inn are: Portland, ME, ¾ ; Manchester, NH, 1; Boston 1½ ; Worcester 2; Providence 2½ ; Hartford 3; New York 5; Montreal 6; and Quebec 7.
Stage Neck Inn is just 2½ miles off I-95 in York Harbor, Maine. Detailed directions are included below.
As noted above, Boston's Logan Airport, The Portland Jetport, and The Manchester Airport are an easy drive from Stage Neck Inn. Click here to see a map showing the proximity of these airports to the Inn. Just minutes away is Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth, NH. Less than 30 minutes away is the Sanford Municipal Airport (207-324-0905), a private airport with a 6000-foot runway.
The Portland International Jetport is serviced by most major airlines. For an up-to-date list of carriers, please visit PortlandJetport.org.
The following firms offer airport limousine services to the Stage Neck Inn:
C&J Trailways, 800-235-6426
Flight Line, 800-245-2525
Great Bay Limousine, 800-820-6117
Regal Limousine, 800-709-3500
If you are flying into the Portland Jetport, rental arrangements can be made within the terminal. Major carriers are listed below. If you fly into Boston, you may opt to be shuttled to Portsmouth, NH, which is just 15 minutes south of York. A car may be rented there or in York (York rentals available through Enterprise Rent-A-Car).
Avis Rent A Car, 800-331-1212
Budget Rent A Car, 800-527-0700
Enterprise Rent-A-Car, 207-351-1790 OR 800-321-1972
Hertz Rent A Car, 800-654-3131
National Car Rental, 800-227-7378
Google mapping directions may be accessed by clicking our address in the footer or here.
The Inn is located at the tip of York Harbor on Stage Neck Road, only a few minutes off I-95 and The Maine Turnpike.
From the north, take the Maine Turnpike south. Take York Exit 7 after the southern-most toll plaza.
From the south, take Route 95 north to York, Exit 7 (last exit before Maine Turnpike Toll Plaza). Do NOT exit in New Hampshire before the Hampton toll.
Follow signs to US Rte 1. Bear right at light onto Rte 1 south. You must almost immediately cross three lanes of traffic to make a left-hand turn at the first light (¼ mile south) onto Route 1A. Go 1¾ miles through York to York Harbor. Watch for the US Post Office on the right. Stage Neck Road is your second right after the Post Office.
For more information, please call Ruth Alibrandi, Director of Sales, at 207-363-3850, extension 410.
You may also contact Ruth by email Ruth AT StageNeck DOT com.
Our fax number is 207-363-2221.
You may submit a digital "Request for Proposal" (RFP) here.


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PEABODY — Debra D. Brewer, 54, passed away at her home on April 6, 2013. She was born May 2, 1958 the daughter Wallace "Vic" and Betty (Newton) Seibel. Debra worked as a housekeeper at Westview Nursing Home.
On July 17, 1976 Debra married Bruce Brewer in Peabody, Kan. — he survives of the home. Other survivors include two daughters, Melissa and husband David Coleman of Topeka, Kan., and Shandy Lett of Newton, Kan.; her mother, Betty Seibel of Peabody, Kan.; three grandchildren, Breanna Lett, Brenton Lett, and Malicai Coleman; two brothers, David and wife Deb Seibel of Des Moines, Iowa, and Rick and wife Sharla Seibel of Amarillo, Texas; two sisters, Judy Eskridge of Valley Center, Kan., and Patricia and husband Gary Hall of Wichita, Kan.; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her father, Wallace "Vic" Seibel; and her brother-in-law, Ronnie Eskridge.
Visitation was Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at Petersen Funeral Home Chapel in Newton. The funeral was to be Wednesday, April 10, 2013, at 1 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, Peabody, with burial following at Whitewater Center Cemetery in rural Burns, Kan.
A memorial has been established with Peabody State Bank in Lieu of flowers. Petersen Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.


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PROVO, Utah (AP) — No. 2 Gonzaga knew Brigham Young wouldn't be a pushover this time.
On Thursday night, the Cougars even threw a converted football player at Bulldogs star Kelly Olynyk.
Olynyk withstood the hit and Gonzaga withstood a furious rally for a 70-65 victory before a raucous crowd of 19,731.
Olynyk scored 19 points, Gary Bell Jr. hit four 3-pointers and Gonzaga won its 10th outright West Coast Conference title.
It certainly wasn't as easy as the 20-point win at the Kennel four weeks ago.
"There was a lot of clawing, scratching, pushing, shoving and that's what the score (shows)," Olynyk said. "That's what you live for and what we want to play like.
"This place was rocking and everyone was getting all excited, in the end it was a great game."
The Bulldogs (28-2, 15-0 WCC) host Portland on Saturday and a win there could mean Gonzaga's first-ever No. 1 ranking.
"Our guys really want to finish up the conference really strong and go undefeated," Gonzaga coach Mark Few said. "This game was going to be hard for us whether we were ranked, 10th, 12th or 20th or whatever. We knew that when we looked at it on the schedule."
Gonzaga led by 11 points with 10:51 left but BYU fought back.
Consecutive 3-pointers by Brock Zylstra, another by Craig Cusick and two free throws by Brandon Davies tied it at 60 with 4:18 remaining.
Olynyk hit a key jumper with 43 seconds remaining and Kevin Pangos made two free throws to give Gonzaga a little breathing room.
After Cusick was fouled on a 3-point attempt and made all three free thows, BYU had one final chance with 6.6 seconds remaining and down three points. Gonzaga fouled Cusick before he could attempt a 3, and Elias Harris' free throws at the other end provided the final margin.
Tyler Haws, who was 0 for 9 in the first meeting, scored 19 points to lead BYU (20-10, 9-6).
Davies added 12 points and 11 rebounds in his final home game for the Cougars despite being plagued by foul trouble.
"It's crazy," said Davies, who returned after being thrown off the team two years ago for violating the school honor code just as BYU had climbed to No. 3 in the rankings. "It didn't really hit me that this was my last home game until I was walking out with my family and my fellow seniors."
Davies had two fouls in the first 2 1/2 minutes.
"That hurt us. You have to be smart," he said.
Olynyk was nearly perfect in the first game, going 9 of 9 from the field and 8 of 8 from the free throw line for 26 points.
This time, he probably felt as if he were in a football game as it was rough-and-tumble from the start, with a Cougars football player — 6-foot-7 freshman Bronson Kaufusi — even called for an intentional foul on Olynyk as he drove the lane.
He finished 7 of 10 from the field despite battling Davies and Kaufusi inside.
Bell was the lone Gonzaga player to have any success from the perimeter.
Pangos was 1 of 12 from beyond the arc and the Bulldogs 6 of 30 overall from 3-point range.
"It was there zone," Few said of taking so many 3s. "Their zone was very, very content on taking away (Olynyk) in the high post. They were really squeezing him there. They played so hard in their zone that it was tough to find any openings. We tried to attack it inside out, and those were good shots.
Pangos said he was trying to get BYU's D to respect him rather than packing it inside.
"If I had to do it over again, I'd take the same shots," he said.
"This just shows what this team is all about. We kept grinding for the whole 40 minutes and never let up, even through the ups and downs."
Gonzaga held BYU to 36.5 percent shooting and had a marked advantage at the free throw line. The Bulldogs made 20 of 34 attempts, compared to 13 of 22 for BYU.
BYU's hopes of a seventh straight NCAA appearance may come down to winning the WCC tourney in Las Vegas. The Cougars also could see their streak of six consecutive 25-win seasons end.
At least the Cougars know they pushed Gonzaga to the limit.
"I knew it was going to be an incredible environment and I knew BYU was going to give us everything we could handle," Few said.
"They play unbelievably hard. They not only did that tonight, but they stepped up and made big shots. Give them a lot of credit for taking it down to the wire."
Should Gonzaga ascend to the top spot, the question remains whether the Bulldogs would garner a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament — something they have never achieved.
Their only losses this season were to Butler and Illinois when both were ranked No. 13.
Provided they defeat Portland, they will have won 12 straight heading into the WCC tournament.
Do they deserve to be No. 1?
"I have no clue," Olynyk said. "I haven't looked into it at all. If they vote us that, great for us. If not, we're still going to come out and play the next game."


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Katy Perry Roars Like Crazed Fan ... At Crazed Fan (VIDEO)
(TMZ) -- Katy Perry rarely gets like this ... going ABSOLUTELY BERSERK meeting a fan.
Katy -- who looked ridiculous with post-breakup hotness -- freaked out Sunday, moments before heading inside the iHeartRadio Music Awards. Why? She met the super fan who runs the IG account, Katy Perry Rares ... which has more than 70k followers.
She had to admit ... "you know my life better than I do."


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The site offers medical equipment and respiratory services for both pediatric and adult patients. Maternity products are also available, so new moms can order diapers from the comfort of home.
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Patients often need equipment or supplies at home after they are discharged from the hospital. A Home Medical Equipment or Respiratory Care Services representative delivers items to the hospital or to the patient's home—anywhere in the eight counties we serve. The representative can also set up the equipment and teach the patient and family how to use it.
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FREEPORT (WIFR) -- Those who are homeless constantly struggle to find a warm meal or a place to sleep. And for a Freeport man, he's in the half way through a ten day journey going homeless for awareness.
Since Monday, community activist Dean Wright has left work and set out to find a place to call home. We caught up with him as he headed back into the woods to his bed, consisting of a pallet and a few blankets he found. As for food, Wright was fortunate to get a meal from an area food pantry that his organization works so hard to stock. One of the biggest things Wright has learned along the way is how valuable all the little things are. Things that so many of us take for granted everyday.
"You have to be resourceful and I think a lot of the guys that are out there, that is probably their strength. Just their resourcefulness. They have figured out how they can survive out here and I am learning and have made some mistakes along the way," Wright said.
If you're interested in helping out the Freeport Area Church Cooperative will be having a lunch fundraiser on December 6. This is the organizations largest fundraiser and helps support the more then 100 individuals they reach out to every year.
For more information on the event call (815) 233-0435.
FREEPORT (WIFR) -- If you think it's cold outside, imagine spending every night outdoors. Some local families are forced to do just that, and for the next ten days a Freeport man will do the same to raise awareness for poverty.
Community activist Dean Wright will spend the entire time outside and plans to sleep in different spots around the city.
Wright said he is concerned about dropping temperatures and potential crime. If things start getting too dangerous he plans on staying at a shelter if there is a bed available. He will spend no more than $6.50 a day.
"I expect it to be cold," said Wright. "I seem to be increasingly fearing cold and hunger more than anything else. Surely there's a safety issue out there, but I'm really starting to fear that hunger and that cold.
Again, his journey begins tomorrow.


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WASHINGTON — After billions of dollars, hours of debates and frantic last-minute pitches from the candidates, it's up to the voters today to decide whether to give President Barack Obama a second term or change course with Republican Mitt Romney.
Also at stake is control of Congress. Thirty-three Senate seats and all 435 House of Representatives seats are up this year, and while the House is expected to remain in Republican hands, Senate control hinges on a host of tight races.
Turnout will be one key to handicapping who's winning the White House and congressional battles, heading a long list of unknowns. Will the relentlessly negative campaign help or hurt? Did superstorm Sandy benefit the president? Did early voting give him a big advantage?
Once the polls close starting at 6 p.m. EST in Indiana and Kentucky, a number of early clues will signal whether Obama or Romney will get the 270 electoral votes needed to win. Polls on Monday continued to show the race a virtual tie nationally and in most of the 11 battleground states.
The first hints of how the night might go will come in four early poll-closing states: Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire and Indiana. Obama won all four in 2008.
Romney needs all four if he's to become the sixth person in 100 years to defeat a sitting president. Should he falter in even one, or the results become too close to call, this race won't be over quickly.
Obama, on the other hand, can score an important win early by taking Florida. Losing its 29 electoral votes would be a huge blow to Romney, who has pushed hard for the state's votes and began his last full campaign day Monday in Orlando.
"Tomorrow we begin a better tomorrow," Romney told about 1,000 supporters, stressing his closing argument that Obama bungled the economy and is too fierce a partisan to work with Republicans.
The president was in Madison, Wis., where he appeared with legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen.
"I stood with President Obama four years ago, and I'm proud to stand with him today," Springsteen said. Obama hugged the singer and reminded the crowd, "We've got more change to make."
Turnout was expected to be down somewhat from 2004 and 2008, according to models developed by the Gallup Organization. Voters "have not been quite as engaged" in the election, a Gallup analysis said, and many voters could be distracted by Sandy, whose impact is still being felt in parts of the Northeast.
As the night unfolds, here's how to watch the returns:
Most states are solidly for Obama or Romney, so 11 are likely to decide the race. All have polling places scheduled to close by 10 p.m. EST. All went for Obama last time, and he has to hold on to most of them to win again.
Hour by hour:
7 p.m. EST: Virginia. Obama's 2008 victory was the first there by a Democratic presidential candidate since 1964. Romney needs its 13 electoral votes.
7:30 p.m. EST: Ohio, North Carolina. Romney needs Ohio and its 18 electoral votes; no Republican has won the White House without the state. North Carolina is another state Obama won in 2008, the first time a Democrat had taken it in decades, but Romney is counting on winning its 15 electoral votes. If not, he's probably in trouble.
8 p.m. EST: New Hampshire, Florida, Pennsylvania. If Obama wins Florida, Romney's chances would get shakier. But if Romney wins Pennsylvania's 20 electoral votes, which Obama has regarded for months as his, the president should start worrying. The four electoral votes of New Hampshire _ Democratic in the last two elections _ matter if the race stays close.
9 p.m. EST: Wisconsin, Colorado, Michigan. A Romney win in Michigan _ a state Obama won last time by 16 percentage points _ would be another sign that the president is faltering. Wisconsin and Colorado are tossups.
10 p.m. EST: Iowa, Nevada. Nevada has been trending Democratic. A strong Latino turnout would be a signal that Obama is doing well. Iowa is another tossup.
Turnout.: Conventional wisdom says Democrats tend to dominate early voting, while Republicans do better on Election Day, so a big turnout could mean a big day for Romney.
Latino voting: Tuesday marks the culmination of four years of registering new voters in hopes of harnessing growing Latino clout and finally shattering the reputation that Latinos are apathetic voters who can be ignored. In 2008, 50 percent of eligible Latino voters cast ballots, compared with 65 percent of blacks and 66 percent of whites, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
The National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials estimates that 12 million Latino voters will visit the polls in this year's election, which would be a 26 percent increase from 2008. More than 3 million Latinos are expected to vote in their first presidential election. A big turnout could mean the difference in Colorado, Nevada and perhaps Arizona.
Long lines: Polls might stay open past closing time, delaying the vote count. But if lines are too long and people get discouraged, they might go home.
Hurricane Sandy: Will voters be more sympathetic to Obama in hard-hit states such as Pennsylvania or New Hampshire? Or blame the feds for being too slow to respond?
Romney plans to vote early today at a Belmont, Mass., polling place near his home. Obama voted last month. Once the results are in, the president plans to address a rally at Chicago's McCormick Place. Romney will host supporters at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
One of the night's most unpredictable cliffhangers involves control of the Senate.
Democrats now control 53 of the 100 seats, and they're defending 23 to the Republicans' 10. Close races in Virginia, Indiana and Massachusetts might offer early hints as to whether Republicans can achieve the net gain of four – three, if Romney is elected – to win control.
The next group of close races is farther west, notably in Wisconsin, Montana, Nevada and Arizona.
In the House, Democrats need a net gain of 25 for control, but independent analysts don't expect the party to gain more than 10.
In most areas, full election coverage begins at 6 p.m. EST on CNN and MSNBC, at 7 p.m. on ABC, Fox, CBS, NBC and Univision, and at 8 p.m. on PBS.


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A Kansas State researcher suggests it's time to make sure feeding programs really pay their way.
The days of basing the economic value of a hog feeding program on feed cost/lb. of gain alone may be over, according to a Kansas State University (KSU) researcher.
Producers need to be using more inclusive measurements of profitability, says Mike Tokach, KSU Extension swine specialist. Margin over feed cost is easy to figure and provides a more complete picture of the impact of a nutritional change on profit, he says.
Case Study Proves Point A trial showed an increase in diet cost; therefore, feed cost/lb. of gain actually resulted in increased profitability.
Some 1,200 barrows and gilts were fed a corn and soybean meal-based diet with varying levels of lysine from 40 to 80 lb. to determine lysine's impact on growth performance and carcass composition. Diets with 6% added fat contained a range of lysine levels: 0.80, 0.95, 1.10, 1.25 or 1.40%.
The greatest performance boost occurred when lysine levels were increased from 0.80 to 0.95%. There were further improvements in feed/gain as lysine levels were raised. Growth was optimized at 1.10% dietary lysine. Feed/gain improved slightly through 1.40% lysine.
To determine the best lysine level, Tokach and fellow KSU researchers used a 10-year historical price series for corn, soybean meal, choice white grease and market hogs. They calculated which diet provided the lowest feed cost/lb. of gain and the greatest margin over feed cost. The average value is shown in Table 1.
The diet of 0.95% lysine provided the lowest feed cost/lb. of gain in 100 of the 120 months (10 years) or 83% of the time, explains Tokach. The diets with 1.10% lysine or 1.40% lysine had the lowest feed cost/lb. of gain in five (4%) and 15 (13%) of the 120 months, respectively.
But, the results were slightly different when a value was placed on the extra weight gain of pigs fed the higher lysine diets, says Tokach. Diets of 1.10, 1.25 or 1.40% lysine provided an extra $1.27 to $1.63 return over feed cost compared to the diet containing 0.95% lysine. An additional $2.57-$2.93 return over feed cost was captured when compared to the diet formulated with 0.80% lysine.
Overall, in 118 of the 120 months, the diet containing 1.40% lysine provided the most return over feed cost. The diet containing 1.10% lysine provided the greatest return in the other two months.
"The optimal lysine level (1.10% to 1.40%) would rarely have minimized feed cost per pound of gain, but almost always maximized margin over feed costs," Tokach says.
Diet Cost Still Matters Despite those results, diet cost is still important, says Tokach. It's still important to keep down ingredient costs. Unless average daily gain is improved by the higher diet cost, those diets that provide the lowest feed cost/lb. of gain will continue to produce the most profit.
In short, producers should focus on factors that will either reduce feed costs without affecting productivity or on factors that will boost returns.
Just remember, when trying to increase revenue by adding lysine, energy, growth-promoting agents or a carcass modifier to the diet, make sure the increase in revenue exceeds the increase in feed cost, stresses Tokach.
Tokach spoke at Pork Academy, an annual event sponsored by Pfizer Animal Health the day before World Pork Expo.
Kansas State University (KSU) researchers have developed new sow feeding guidelines. Research indicates litter weights and milk production increase with larger amounts of feed.
Guidelines suggest feeding sows, before farrowing, up to 6 lb. in two feedings, morning and night. On farrowing day, feed three times at 2 lb. each, provided the feeder is empty after each feeding period. If the feeder is not empty, the sow is not to be offered the next round of feed during the first couple of days of lactation.
The day after farrowing, feed sows 9 lb. a day in three separate feedings. If feed is left from earlier feedings, reduce the amount or skip the next feeding time.
After the third day of lactation, sows should get 8 lb. of feed three times a day. If the sow leaves less than 2 lb. of feed, only offer 4 lb. of feed next time. If she leaves more than 2 lb., don't add feed until the next feeding time. An illustrated sow feeder card for the farrowing barn is now available from KSU. The front-and-back laminated card uses pictures of feeders to tell how to feed sows.
For a copy of the sow feeder card, contact Penny Adams at the KSU Northeast Area Office at (785) 532-5833. The charge is $4.


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Does the 1.8Kg include the extended battery pack?
Lenovo has unveiled the latest range of ThinkPads, which includes the T420s - a lightweight notebook with a battery life of up to 30 hours. The PC maker revealed six models on Tuesday: the T420s, T420, T520, L420, L520 and W520. All come with better power management and voice calling features, with the latter boosted by dual …
One wonders just where this extended battery goes too. Is it the "replace the DVD drive" type? Or perhaps just an oversized 12/15-cell battery wart? The 30hrs most likely means 50% screen brightness, WiFi/BlueTooth turned off, no DVD player (in the machine at all, likely), idling at the desktop. Give me numbers looping a DiVX or AVID at 100% brightness with WiFi turned on (even just idle WiFi is fine) and I might believe it more.
Though a "business class" laptop that looks more like a very expensive excuse for a suit to tote a dvd player around doesn't really convince me of its enterprise-ness. But the battery life is indeed a good start.
So I'll take that battery life with a 4:3 screen (maybe a 3qi one?) and, hm, a keyboard bezel without touchpad*, and a slight realignment of the keyboard. No windows keys, move the fn key one to the right, drop the two extra keys around the arrow keys because I want to be able to find those on feel alone, and hm break out another key on the inside of the shifts and call it compose. Yes, I use that key quite a lot. Much better than turning some keys into add-an-accent keys and having to type <key><space> to get the unadorned version all the time. fn-compose can be menu for all I care, just like fn-alt might double as "windows" key. Or "super", fn-ctrl "hyper", and fn-shift "meta", as you like. Nice to see the enlarged esc key though. Took'em long enough to catch on there.
* the trackpoint is wonderful for not having to move my hands around; a touchpad just gets in my way, it always does. I'm not fond of multi-fingered acrobatics there when I could just as easily assign a couple keyboard macros or something. It's nice and playful but not strictly useful. Programmable macros under otherwise unassigned fn-key combinations would be useful, and some keyboards already offer that.
I never use them. Not even on (insert your favourite unix-like system here, and) Xorg. Altough I have finally figured out how to shuffle the caps lock function under shift-caps lock, so I don't have to turn it off entirely but don't accidentally hit it either. And I have the unadorned key to turn into something else, like ctrl, or meta.
Note that I didn't advocate removing windows keys entirely: I said to shuffle them under fn-alt, which isn't unreasonable compared to how often I use them. If you find you use alt+key combinations even less, well, swap them. Though I still think that with ctrl for apps and alt (aka option) for the system, there really wasn't a pressing need for even more bucky keys. It was pure micros~1 vanity or perhaps apple logo envy, clearly visible in how long it took for the keys to gain some use in the first place. Nevermind the grief caused to gamers.
To me having a few bucky keys be well-accessible (and not teeny-tiny) is more important than having as many as can be crammed on the keyboard and tough luck if you can't find them without looking. Or a looking glass.
I never use the extras around the arrow keys, as the systems I use generally don't support them and have other keys that do more or less the same. Maybe if they're tactilely differentiated or maybe fn+shift+numpad and a bit of training could save even more hand movements. Some training because I don't use the numpad for numerical input even on a full-sized keyboard. Agree on the backspace, just as I also mis-hit backslash then enter too often. But anyway.
I think laptop keyboards tend to be more crammed full of keys under half-baked tradeoff sauce rather than being carefully engineered. Which is why I liked ibm keyboards without windows keys better than the lenovo "oh we need to do an also-ran and add more keys" take.
But I like seeing the enlarged esc key. Haven't yet tried though.
Now, I like the back and forward keys around the arrows. I desperately miss them when I'm on a normal keyboard (I use a who-knows-how-old X40 bought second-hand in preference to my desktop). My gripes are the backspace and delete keys - both are a bit fiddly to hit reliably.
I definitely agree with the trackpoint - mice and trackpads just mess up the flow. I don't know why trackpoints haven't become industry standard, because they are so much more ergonomically efficient.
Compare 6 month old Dell Inspiron with 2.5 year old T500. T500 a joy to use and used all day nearly every day and travels a lot. Dell stays at home and gets used a bit by family in the evening - not very nice to use (terrible keyboard, terrible trackpad buttons, shiny screen). T500 still works as new. Dell has broken keyboard (so now even worse - no spacebar), rattling DVD drive etc.
I think 'enterpriseness' has a lot to do with being robust and having a keyboard that feels good and lasts.
When will they learn that people who do work on laptops (write documents etc - although maybe for some people that's not work...), don't want a stupid letter box for a screen which is only useful for watching films?
When you factor in the start bar, the tool bars etc (which got even bigger in the latest Office) you are left with about 4 lines of visible text. Bah!
(I'd still have one though)
Does one HAVE to use windows? At times, I have a sneaking suspicion that the battery life we read is coupled with ms & the battery makers optimizing the design to windows and to the detriment of Linux.
OTOH, wayyyy back in mid or late 2003, I ran into a guy in Mountain View coffee shop who claimed he got 6 hours out of his (then IBM) Thinkpad (IIRC, it was around 12" or 13" diagonal screen, so....). Compared to my 2001 Sony Vaio with an AMD CPU, if felt a mix of lucky and cheated to get (initially) only 1 hour out of my battery. Even today, with my 2007 Gateway 17" of display and my year 2009 HP Pavillion DV 7, 1h 50 minutes was about max. Eventually, in under a year, each machine saw only 5 minutes of battery life. And that is with the then current ACPI/etc power management tools available.
I feel that batteries are the New Toner. But, at $75 to $150 a battery and any store-offered $300 full protection programs, $450 is close enough to just buy a new laptop in 2 years. Wasteful if only for the battery, but at least RAM, CPU speed, and other things improve.
I have a 2 month old company supplied and fully configured with every option ticked - Core i7 T510, 8GB of RAM, with all the power management stuff turned off (not helpful in my line of work) the battery lasts around 5 hours - which is pretty good considering the performance that is available.
You know, the T23 also had a 14" screen and a keyboard that filled out to the entire width of the case. It cut a bit too close actually as the bezel tended to^W^Winvariably did break there; reinforcement or maybe a 1cm wide bezel there would help.
But these things have gone widescreen, keeping the same diagonal, but kept the old width keyboard. So you get an overly crammed keyboard with room to spare. I know that most laptop designers do stupid things like that, including apple. But I still can't help but think opportunity lost whenever I see that.
OTOH given the choice I'd go for a hi-res 13" or 14" 4:3 screen because 768 pixels in the vertical just isn't enough for my needs. I also have a wm with titlebars tacked vertically onto the side, simply because I have more room to spare in the horizontal than in the vertical. To me, screens real estate is best used by content, not eyecandy. And that's before switching to widescreens.


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by AJ Johnson
1. Fitness is nothing without proper pacing
Everyone racing the GoPro IRONMAN World Championship is in the best shape of their life. There are high expectations and every athlete works hard to meet lofty goals. As experienced competitors know, race-day performance goes beyond hard work and fitness—it's how you put your fitness to use that matters.
For example, a well-paced bike that sets you up for a strong run is always the best option. As the Quarq power files from second-place finisher Luke McKenzie of Australia (above) and age-group overall winner Kyle Buckingham show, it's important to bike within your limits to run strong. As we can see in the below file, McKenzie's Variability Index is 1.05. This indicates that even given the surges within the pro field, he was able to keep his power output steady all day. (VI measures how "smooth" or consistent your power output is; a 1.0 VI indicates a perfectly smooth ride). Buckingham was even better, posting a VI of 1.02. In addition, both kept their Intensity Level, or IF at .8, or 8 on the RPE scale (rate of perceived exertion). That's a number we see for pros and top age groupers, but for most competitors it should be around .6 to .7.
Takeaway: Successful IRONMAN athletes keep their output steady and their effort level in check.
See McKenzie's Quarq power data in TrainingPeaks
See Buckingham's Quarq power data in TrainingPeaks
2. Learn from past races and have a long-term plan
Last year Luke McKenzie imploded on the bike and struggled to a 24th-place finish. His average cadence during the ride measured quite low at just 74 rpm. Leading into this year, McKenzie specifically addressed his cadence and was able to hold an average of 92 rpm. On the other hand, American Linsey Corbin, who finished 10th, found that her cadence was a bit too high in years past and worked to lower it.
Takeaway: Pinpoint your weakness (cadence, functional threshold, or even position) and work on it consistently.
View Corbin's Quarq power data in TrainingPeaks
3. Adapt to the conditions and dynamics of the day
You should always have a plan for race day revolving around heart rate and/or power. Still, the race is dynamic and numerous variables will always come into play. This year the top athletes had a tailwind as they started out the bike. McKenzie's goal was to hold 290 watts, but with the wind and the fact that he was still in the top three, he was still able to hold 271 watts. This allowed him to be strong when the wind turned into a headwind on the return to Kona and he was able to hold an average of 285 watts on the way back.
Takeaway: Have a plan B for the variables that might impact your race.
4. Race to your strength
If you are a strong cyclist, build your strategy around that. The same goes for running. McKenzie told Quarq and TrainingPeaks that he felt he focused too much on his running last year and got back to his strength—the bike—in 2013. On the age group side, Belgian Sam Gyde set a new bike course record of 4:29:47—no doubt he built his entire day around pushing the bike. To his credit, Gyde heeded rule number one, dropping only 17 watts from the first 56 miles to the second, and still ran a 3:00:30 marathon.
See Gyde's SRM data in TrainingPeaks
5. Power meters are becoming the norm
For the pros and top age groupers, the power meter is now a standard piece of equipment. Power meters provide greater accuracy than any other method of monitoring your effort; many pros train exclusively by their power meter, then use it as a guide on race day. McKenzie pointed out that once in the lead he used his power meter in just this way—to keep his effort where he wanted. While expensive, a power meter can ensure that every session on the bike is a quality session. With 34 percent of Kona athletes racing with a power meter on their bike (according to the official bike count), it's clear that a large contingent of age groupers would agree.
AJ Johnson is a coach and power specialist with TrainingPeaks. For more insights into power data from Kona, visit TrainingPeaks.com/Kona.


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The Legality of #mintthecoinComments
I have a piece up at the Prospect explaining in more detail that the trillion dollar platinum coin is 1)unambiguously legal, and 2)is preferable to allowing the GOP to either shoot the hostage and crash the economy or to make this hostage-taking an institutionalized feature of the American political system.
The argument that the platinum coin is illegal, then, must rely not on technical legal arguments but on arguments that the coin would violate settled norms of presidential behavior. But Congress using the debt ceiling for blackmail also violates long-established norms. When choosing between unprecedented innovations, it seems obvious that the one that ends a constitutional crisis is infinitely preferable to the one that would make constitutional crises an entrenched institutional feature that may result in economic disaster. I agree that norms are important, and that we should not always rely on hyperformalist readings of the law when they violate settled norms of behavior. But in the context of a minority party transforming what has always been a symbolic vote into a yearly threat to destroy the functioning of the American government, it's difficult to take the argument that norms should preclude a lawful but unprecedented response from the Obama administration seriously.
There's an even bigger problem with Drum's argument. The Obama administration minting a trillion-dollar platinum coin would not violate the law. Complying with a refusal to lift the debt ceiling, however, would require Obama to violate the law.
Krugman has more.


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Prince William and Kate's royal baby to be Prince or Princess of Cambridge
We don't yet know the birth date, gender or name of Prince William and Kate's soon-to-be-born royal baby, but we now know what the little one's title will be.
"The royal couple's child will officially be known as His or Her Royal Highness Prince or Princess of Cambridge," a palace spokesman confirmed Monday.
The child's title follows the dukedom bestowed on William by his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, on his wedding day in 2011.
"It is a great honour and I'm sure the people of Cambridge will appreciate it greatly," the mayor of Cambridge, Councillor Paul Saunders, told the Daily Mail.
That style of title is the same one Elizabeth had before she was queen (she was HRH Princess Elizabeth of York), People notes. The same style is also used by William's cousins Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie of York.
Earlier this year, the queen issued a royal decree allowing this royal baby -- and all of William and Kate's children -- to be titled prince or princess.
The decree said "that all the children of the eldest son of the Prince of Wales should have and enjoy the style, title and attribute of royal highness with the titular dignity of Prince or Princess prefixed to their Christian names or with such other titles of honour."
The Duchess of Cambridge is due to give birth sometime this month. That child will be third-in-line to Britian's throne, regardless of whether it's a boy or girl.


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Recently I ran across a post on Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog that lets you calculate the worth of your blog (via BabyChaos) by submitting it's URL. Of course, there's no way to resist the attraction of knowing, in nickels and dimes, how my schizophrenic posts on lolcats, cigars and crazy beards is worth. I was impressed, my blog is worth more than I expected. In theory, anyways.
My blog is worth $1,129.08.
How much is your blog worth?
Wow. For a minute, I had delusions of retiring to blog for a living. Of course, this figure is just monopoly money. It looks really great, but it won't buy you an americano when you need one. Since it's not actually worth anything, I thought it might be fun to use it as a yardstick to measure my blog against Technorati's top ten blogs.
To save you the effort of doing this yourself (I'm all about convenience), here are the figures.
- Engadget.com – $15,510,736.50
- BoingBoing.net – $11,645,895.66
- Gizmodo.com – $10,410,117.60
- TechCruch.com – $10,068,006.36
- HuffingtonPost.com – $7,941,384.18
- LifeHacker.com – $7,989,370.08
- ArsTechnica.com – $7,344,100.86
- PostSecret.blogspot.com – $6,736,091.28
- DailyKos.com – $6,627,699.60
- MichelleMalkin.com – $5,826,617.34
Total Value of the Top Ten: $90,100,019.46
Interestingly enough, though the HuffingtonPost is listed as more popular on Technorati, LifeHacker is actually worth slightly more money. I wonder how that works. (Both the rating scheme and the value calculation are based on statistics from Technorati.) Also amazing is that #1 Engadget is nearly 3 times as valuable as #10 MichelleMalkin. The gap between Engadget and #2 BoingBoing is also the largest in the top ten.
Of course, I can't just stop there, I need to know the stats on some other websites I frequent.
- Scott Hanselman's blog – $571,314.48
- Steve Pavlina's blog – $1,674,990.18 (I haven't been there as often recently, he's zipped a bit far out of my orbit with his most recent stuff, but his posts on Polyphasic sleeping, coffee addiction and other sleep strategies were excellent.)
- The Freakonomics blog – $996,413.10
- The Dilbert blog – $1,502,240.94
And no post of mine would be complete without some mention of cigars. I'm building a pretty good list of cigar themed blogs in Google Reader, here's some of my current favorites. (If you're not on the list below, I may not have found your blog yet!)
- The Stogie Review – $11,855.34 (Seriously, I would have thought they'd be up for more than that!)
- Cigar Jack – $10,726.26
- Humiblog – $7,339.02
- Smoke Signals – $3,387.24
- CigarBeat – $2,822.70
It's interesting to compare the differences in calculated values between the cigar blogs and other blogs out there. The gap in values doesn't surprise me, after all, cigar smoking is still very much an offline activity. And most major manufacturers still have a very minimal and sometimes primitive presence on the web.
[UPDATE 5/18/07: I just realize that I left off the single most important, hard hitting news blog out there: I Can Has Cheezeburger. I.C.H.C. is worth $893,102.28.]
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text: The Swiss Animal Protection Agency has released a harrowing report that chronicles the Chinese fur trade, which produces approximately 85 percent of the world's fur products and whose animal treatment is almost completely unregulated. Although the practices employed - beating animals with a metal or wooden stick or swinging the animal until it slams to the ground, then skinning it alive - are horrifying, SAPA spokesman Mark Rissi said that fur producers had no qualms about opening their farms to the organization: "As animals are considered objects in China, there is little or no awareness for the suffering of these sentient beings," he said, essentially describing a stark cultural divide, and adding that "the cruelty found was beyond our expectations, and it was hard to document without interfering. It caused nightmares to the team." (Warning: the descriptions and videos are very graphic. Possibly NSFW - certainly upsetting.) [World Net Daily]