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Hey, it's Shari Lewis! Back in the early 1960s this talented, New York based actress and ventriloquist became a TV sensation. The bright and cheerful Lewis (Real name Sonia Phyllis Hurwitz) introduced millions of kids to her puppet friends, most particularly a confused little sock puppet named Lamb Chop, with whom she put on a terrific one-woman act.
Lewis was funny in a gentle, sweet way appropriate to small children but also amusing for the rest of us. Her ventriloquism was so good that we accepted Lamb Chop as a second personality; she could switch voices quickly between two characters and barely move her lips or look out of breath. She once joked that she could voice three puppets, but was unfortunately limited by having only two hands.
A Shari Lewis Christmas is an excellent way to revisit Shari's talent and appeal. The main program collects three successive The Shari Lewis Show Christmas shows from 1961 through 1963. Shari is joined by Lamb Chop and her other puppets Hush Puppy and Charlie Horse for light skits with a Christmas message. On one show all the characters want to splurge their $5 gift allowances on themselves, but instead do the right thing and give each other smaller gifts.
Shari also dances with a large dog character and another un-costumed live actor. Although produced for Network TV, the shows have a basic B&W TV studio feel, with roll-up titles and no frills. Audio cues aren't always perfect either, but the so-rushed-it's-almost-live vibe flatters Shari's talent. She carries off her puppetry-ventriloquism scenes flawlessly, and is a cute and perky dancer. One might imagine the young Barbra Streisand affecting a similar persona for her early comedy stage work. Ms. Lewis communicates a natural, positive attitude and her infectious smile leaps right off the TV screen. We may have outgrown the show, but never her.
A child prodigy from a Jewish background reportedly also adept at magic, acrobatics, piano and violin, Shari wore her hair just like the earliest Barbie Dolls -- pony tail in the back and poofy up front. She won twelve Emmy awards, a Peabody Award, a John F. Kennedy Center Award and many others. She also wrote many children's books.
S'More's disc of A Shari Lewis Christmas is a B&W presentation apparently sourced from kinescopes; co-producership credit is given to the UCLA Film and Television Library. The image is what we optimistically call "archival quality", which means the only copy available. Credits are intact only on the first year's show. Since the core content of each show is large close-ups of Shari conversing with her sometimes-shy friend Lamb Chop, this is no drawback. We can see the finesse with which Shari manipulates her fingers to make Lamb chop purse her lips in a smile or rumple them in dismay. They're often talking to one another nose-to-nose, a particularly convincing effect. In interviews, Lewis describes Lamb Chop as her alter-ego.
Included as an extra is a theatrical public service announcement in faded color, in which Shari and Lamb Chop wish the theater audience a happy holiday -- and invite them to patronize "the following local stores!" Even better is a 1958 episode of Hi Mom, the early morning talk show in which Shari debuted the Lamb Chop character, entertaining kids while another performer talks about recipes. The show, which is in better shape than the Christmas specials, comes complete with its own commercials -- one of which touts The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, "now playing at the Roxy!" It makes a great comparison with today's feel-good early morning fare.
Overall, Shari Lewis brings back positive memories of innocence and optimism in TV programming. Shari Lewis shares a sweetness and gentle quality with the great Mister Rogers. She had a varied career as a TV cartoon voice, and later revived her Lamb Chop act for more TV specials in the 70s and 90s. She also co-wrote an episode of the Star Trek TV show.
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Pour the fermented kombucha (finished first brew) into jars,always leave a few cups left in your continual brewing.
Add any juice, herbs, or fruit you may want to use as flavoring, leaving about an inch of head room in each Jar.
I add 1 tablespoons of organic sugar to promote more fizz like soda.
Place lid and let sit in room temperature for 24hrs.
Once 2nd brewing is over you can strain and add to bottles and refrigerate. Refrigerate to stop fermentation and carbonation.
Feeding the mother:
1.Remake the Tea Base to feed the mother: Boil water and add tea bags. Remove from heat, remove tea bags, and stir in the sugar. Then allow to reach room temperature. Once cooled poor into you continuous brewer to feed the mother.
2. You can now start doing the second brewing every other day. Repeat steps 1 and 2 everytime you harvest your kombucha.
3. If you need a break, you can let the mother sit in the reserved tea for a few days and for an elongated rest move the jar to the refrigerator to make her hibernate.
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Clinton, Cosby among speakers at Katz service
- The memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday morning at Temple University in Philadelphia%2C where Katz was an alumnus and trustee.
PHILADELPHIA – Former President Bill Clinton is among more than a dozen politicians, business leaders and education advocates expected to speak at a memorial service for philanthropist and Philadelphia Inquirer co-owner Lewis Katz.
Katz and six others died when his private jet crashed during takeoff late Saturday night in Bedford, Massachusetts.
The memorial service is scheduled for Wednesday morning at Temple University in Philadelphia, where Katz was an alumnus and trustee.
Other scheduled speakers are former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, comedian and fellow Temple trustee Bill Cosby, Katz's son Drew, and author and historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, whose home Katz had visited earlier Saturday.
The service comes a day after a National Transportation Safety Board official said data from the flight recorder show the plane reached minimum takeoff speed but never lifted off the ground before it plunged into a ravine and burst into flames.
The data also showed a rise in brake pressure and the deployment of thrust reversers, suggesting an effort by the crew to slow or stop the doomed aircraft.
Lead investigator Luke Schiada said information retrieved from the Gulfstream IV's cockpit voice recorder picked up a conversation between the pilot and co-pilot about an aircraft control issue. He would not elaborate and stressed that investigators had not yet determined the cause of the crash.
The chief pilot was James McDowell, of Georgetown, Delaware, authorities said. Spouses identified two of the crew members as flight attendant Teresa Benhoff, 48, of Easton, Maryland, and co-pilot Bauke "Mike" de Vries, 45, of Marlton, New Jersey.
The other victims were identified as Katz's neighbor at the New Jersey shore, Anne Leeds, a 74-year-old retired preschool teacher; Marcella Dalsey, the director of Katz's son's foundation; and Susan Asbell, 67, the wife of a former New Jersey county prosecutor.
Information from the black boxes is still being analyzed and a preliminary report on the crash could come within 10 days, the NTSB said. A final report will not be completed for months.
Associated Press writer Bob Salsberg in Boston contributed to this report.


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Sensors for the real world
Over the last decade there has been an increased interest in developing resonators for gravitmetric sensing; however, the sensors' response to variations in temperature has prevented them from being used outside the laboratory. New sensors developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge negate the effects of temperature so that they may be used in industries including health care, telecommunications and environmental monitoring.
Sensors built from high frequency bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators consist of a piezoelectric layer sandwiched between two electrodes, to which a variable frequency signal is applied. The resonator vibrates at a given frequency, and the properties of the resulting acoustic wave allow researchers to determine what is occurring in the environment.
The main application of these nanoscale sensors is to measure a mass load. By tracking changes in the acoustic wave, mass changes on the sensors can be detected. The resonators can be altered to detect a number of different things, from antigens/antibodies to environmental contaminants.
The major issue which has prevented the adoption of these resonators in commercial sensing applications has been their unwanted response to temperature. When the temperature changes, the acoustic wave changes along with it, so it is impossible to determine whether the change has been motivated by something the resonator is trying to detect or a change in temperature. For this reason, the use of these resonators has been limited to laboratories where environmental conditions can be tightly controlled.
Many researchers have attempted to compensate for the effects of temperature, but as these effects are non-linear, they can only be minimised, not eliminated completely. Now, researchers from the Department of Engineering have designed a thin film bulk acoustic wave resonator that allows simultaneous measurement of temperature and mass loading in a single device. The resonator has been designed so that it has two resonances which react differently to mass and temperature changes.
"This has two consequences," says Dr Luis Garcia-Gancedo, a member of Dr Andrew Flewitt's group in the Department of Engineering. "First, we are able to eliminate the effects of temperature completely regardless of its non-linearity. Secondly, we are able to measure mass and temperature with extremely high sensitivity at exactly the same location, which we haven't been able to do before."
With the assistance of Cambridge Enterprise, the team is looking at two primary applications for the resonators: biological systems and physical sensing. The resonators could be used for applications such as detecting viruses in a health care setting, or contaminants in drinking water. Other potential applications include air quality or pressure monitoring.
The resonator is able to detect masses to the order of 10-15 grams, which is approximately the size of one virus. The size of the resonator (typically a few micrometres square) means that they can easily be embedded in various devices.
"One of the problems with existing sensing technology is that if you're trying to measure two different physical properties, the sensors are often based on two different mechanisms," says Dr Garcia-Gancedo. "The integration of two different sensing mechanisms means that you often end up with a bulky item. But what we have developed uses exactly the same technology with exactly the same electronics, without any increase in size."
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Massively posted an interesting story last week about people in EVE Online's volunteer program misusing privileged information. In this case it was connected with getting information (such as IP addresses) about the other volunteers, but it does point to one of the big issues with any kind of volunteer service in MMOs.
Games have often used volunteers as extra unpaid GMs, or to help coordinate other players, to mentor newbies or write newbie guides, or help support the community in other ways. These volunteers are drawn from the player base. So in a game like EVE, what's to stop a player from using their volunteer powers to help their own character or faction in game?
In some ways it's smart metagaming to grab as much power and knowledge as possible for yourself in any way possible, including by schmoozing people via out of game channels, buying gold, volunteering to GM for personal in game gains, etc. If volunteers were elected, you could imagine a player organising a huge election campaign with the hidden intent of supporting their own faction after the election. Just like real life, really. And just like in real life, unchecked metagaming leads to corruption in the game world.
But metagaming also leads to a huge increase in immersion. It may not be a good influence on either the game or the player base but it really does benefit players who get into their characters, even outside the game. EVE flaunts the fact that players have the freedom to join enemy corps with the intent to betray them. Is that metagaming? Well, if you lie to your corps mates on a regular basis then you're probably playing a different game than they are. A con game, in fact. (From watching Hustle, I now know that this is known as playing the inside man in a long con – who said TV never teaches you anything useful? ). Is EVE supposed to be a game about con artists? Well, it is now.
Allowing, or even encouraging, some metagaming is a dangerous road to walk. Some people will always take it too far. If the worst that happens is one player stealing another guild's bank or getting a list of volunteer IPs, then you have dodged the bullet. Wait till people start committing RL crimes due to unrestrained metagaming, or harrassment, or being driven to distress or even suicide. We're at the thin end of the wedge, and I am concerned about how having increased social networking and increased continuous access to MMOs is going to affect metagaming in future.
We need solid anti-corruption rules, proper complaint channels, and watchdogs both in game and out to keep players in line. For their own sakes.
The Problem with Volunteers
It is always tempting to volunteers to use their additional powers to help themselves, even if they do it unintentionally. I remember back in DaoC, there was a volunteer network who assisted GMs. If you just happened to have one of those volunteers in your guild, you never had to wait long for a GM to come assist when you hit a raid bug. The volunteers (and we all knew their characters even though it was supposed to be secret) had the equivalent to a GM hotline.
When I was running a MUSH, all the staff were volunteers and many were drawn from the player base. One of their roles was to arbitrate disputes between players – it was hard for some people to be fair when their friends were involved, or even their own characters. We needed to think up rules to stop that and allow other players to ask for a different judge, without compromising the in game identity of our judges because they wanted to play also.
We took the blunt instrument approach. Initially, no players were also allowed to be judges, we had to recruit our staff from other MUSHes. It actually worked well, but if you don't let staff play at all then they lose a lot of insight into what's actually going on in game. Instead they just hear it from the whiniest players. So we relented and let them have player characters, but limited their power. So the most powerful and influential characters never would be staff alts. It helped and people were mostly happy.
You can still never entirely prevent people from wanting to help their friends or other people from abusing their knowledge of who the staff alts are in game. And that was more of an issue in a MUSH because the player base wasn't that huge. In an MMO, you could just restrict a GM from dealing with anything coming from the server on which they played instead.
I'm not entirely sure what sort of policies current MMOs have about how their staff deal with in game issues. I assume they encourage their staff to play for the same reason that we eventually relented on that issue – it's the best possible way to understand what's going on in game, plus encourages staff to make the stuff they want to play themselves. But woe betide the game such as EVE that thrives on metagaming when one of the staff wants to play that game also; they have to consciously restrict themselves from doing what a regular player could do or else be open to (totally justified) claims of corruption from the player base.
The sad thing is that volunteers can add so much to a game. They're already fans. And there is a section of the player base that genuinely enjoys entertaining other players. They're the people who would be GMs in tabletop games; not quite designers but not quite players either. In MMOs they probably now take the roles of guild leaders or raid leaders, and in that capacity are doing a thankless task without which the games would be far far less fun for everyone else.
And many of those volunteers would be utterly selfless in using extra volunteer powers for good. It's just safer for everyone if they don't get the chance.


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It's not easy running a diversified family business, certainly as a young widow. Try it in 1805. The widow Clicquot is one inspiring grande dame, and tonight I'll toast 2010 with her product.
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In 1772, Philippe Clicquot-Muiron established the original enterprise which in time became the house of Veuve Clicquot. His son, François Clicquot, married Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin in 1798. Clicquot died in 1805, leaving his widow (veuve in French) in control of a company variously involved in banking, wool trading, and Champagne production. Under Madame Clicquot's guidance the firm focused entirely on the latter, to great success. [3]
During the Napoleonic Wars, Madame Clicquot made strides in establishing her wine in royal courts throughout Europe, notably that of Imperial Russia. By the time she died in 1866 Veuve Clicquot had become both a substantial Champagne house and a respected brand. Easily recognised by its distinctive bright yellow labels, the wine is roughly pronounced "vuuhv klee-koh". It holds a royal warrant of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Since 1987 the Veuve Clicquot company has been part of the Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy group of luxury brands, and today owns a controlling interest in New Zealand's Cloudy Bay Vineyards.
Madame Clicquot is credited with a great breakthrough in champagne handling that made mass production of the wine possible. In the early 19th century, with the assistance of her cellar master, Antoine de Müller, Clicquot invented the riddling rack that made the crucial process of dégorgement both more efficient and economic.[4] Clicquot's advance involved systematically collecting the spent yeast and sediments left from the wine's first (or primary) fermentation in the bottle's neck by using a specialized rack.
Composed much like a wooden desk with circular holes, the rack allowed a bottle of wine to be stuck sur point or upside down. Every day a cellar assistant would gently shake and twist (remuage) the bottle to encourage wine solids to settle to the bottom. When this was completed. the cork was carefully removed, the sediments ejected, and a small replacement dose of sweetened wine added to encourage the secondary fermentation that gives Champagne its distinctive bubbles.[5]
I drink V-C because I like it, (nope, no free bottles induced this blog!), and because I love to honor the memory of a tough, shrewd, pioneering businesswoman.
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Access to Good Food as Preventive Medicine
According to a new study, nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. That doesn't have to be the case.
The 38-year-old man entered the hospital with a big toe oozing pus and a blood sugar that was three times the normal level. After treating a bone infection and amputating his toe, his doctors and nurses taught him how to manage his diabetes, including what foods to eat. The man told them that the infection was a wake-up call and vowed to follow a diabetic diet and take his medicine.
Two years later, he appeared in my clinic, clutching a bottle of red Gatorade. He had been sleeping on his brother's couch and was only taking two of the five medications he had been prescribed. He told me not to bother renewing the other three, since he couldn't afford the $20 co-pay for them at the charity pharmacy. The other two he could get at a local pharmacy that offered them for free, as part of a promotion to attract customers. For food, he ate whatever he could get, mostly at local soup kitchens. He said he wanted to eat the right foods and take all of his prescribed medicines, but he couldn't find work and had no money. Seeking help from relatives wasn't an option.
"They got money problems of their own," he said.
According to an article this month in the American Journal of Medicine, my patient's predicament is common: nearly one in three U.S. adults with a chronic disease has problems paying for food, medicine, or both. Researchers at Harvard and the University of California at San Francisco studied data from the 2011 U.S. Centers for Disease Control's National Health Interview Survey.
Of the 10,000 adults who reported that they had a chronic disease such as diabetes, asthma, arthritis, high blood pressure, stroke, a mental health problem, or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, nearly one in five said they said they had problems affording food during the past 30 days, a condition called "food insecurity." Nearly one in four said they had skipped medication dosages because of cost. More than one in ten said they had problems paying for both food and medication.
"The strength of the association was surprising," said Dr. Seth Berkowitz, an internist and the study's lead author. "How are we supposed to manage these complex diseases when a third of our patients can't afford food, medication, or both?"
The 2011 National Health Interview Survey was the first to include questions asking about ability to pay for food. But the health effects of food insecurity are well-documented. Numerous research studies have found that children who live in families with problems affording food are at significant risk of anemia, depression, learning and behavioral problems, and are more likely to be overweight. Among adults, difficulty affording food is associated with obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes—conditions that are highly influenced by diet. HIV-positive patients with food insecurity are more likely to have uncontrolled disease and to die of AIDS than those without problems affording food. Diabetic adults with problems paying for food are more likely than other diabetics to have erratic blood sugars and to visit the emergency room more often because of low blood sugar. Nutrition researchers explain that difficulty affording food doesn't result in lower calorie consumption, since processed, higher-calorie foods are typically cheaper than nutrient-rich, perishable foods such as vegetables, fruit, fish, and low fat milk products.
"It's not that there isn't any food available, it's that there isn't appropriate food," said Rose Anderson, a nurse practitioner who works with Camillus Health Concern, a Miami-based group that serves low income, predominantly homeless patients. "It's difficult for the diabetics."
Anderson spoke with me outside a soup kitchen, where she was examining and treating people who had just eaten a meal of white rice, chicken stew, pale iceberg lettuce, and chocolate cupcakes. In the parking lot, volunteers unloaded a car full of day-old pastries and bread from a local supermarket.
"They only serve food once a day, and fresh vegetables are in short supply," she said.
Her patient Ed Franco, 51, a legally blind diabetic man who has slept on friends' sofas, in a van and on the streets of Miami since losing his job in air conditioning sales five years ago, said he spends most of his days trying to find food. He frequently goes to one of a handful of churches that offer free meals that he said mostly consist of starchy foods such as pasta and bread, as well as some meat. Some days, he visits a local food court where restaurants offer free samples. On Wednesdays and Sundays, he goes to a local McDonald's that sells burgers for 49 cents.
"I call it poison," he said. "But you can't really choose what you eat."
Franco said he gets $189 a month in food stamps, but he lacks a regular place to keep perishable food, and "the sugar-free stuff is very expensive." Anderson said that his lack of a refrigerator also limits the options for treating his diabetes; insulin has to be kept cold, so she only prescribes him medication that comes in pill form.
The American Journal of Medicine analysis reported that chronically ill adults who reported "food insecurity" were much more likely to skip medication due to worries about cost than were those who denied problems affording food. But the article's findings suggest that two programs, Medicaid and the federally-funded Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, might help. Medicaid usually covers basic medications with a small or no co-pay. WIC pays for specific foods for low-income pregnant women, mothers of small infants or those who breastfeed, and children younger than five. Compared with others of similar income, adults who were enrolled in one of these two programs were less likely to say they had problems obtaining healthy foods or prescribed medicine due to cost.
The researchers didn't find a similar link among adults who said they got food stamps through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), though other studies have found that children whose families got food stamps are much less likely to be "food insecure" than kids in families of similar income. Berkowitz said that this could be because the adults who actually enroll in the food stamp program tend to live in deeper poverty and have more health problems than other adults who qualify but don't enroll, while the use of WIC is more widespread among families who qualify.
"WIC has traditionally been very good at enrolling everyone who qualifies," he said. "It was meant as a health program, to avoid complications of malnutrition in children. SNAP was not meant as a health benefit, and the whole ethos is different. It still has lots of stigma, and the people in it tend to be much worse off."
Learning about food insecurity isn't part of the usual training for doctors who focus on adults, and I have never worked in a clinic that routinely asked patients if they had problems affording food and helped them apply for food assistance. In contrast, my colleagues in pediatrics and obstetrics routinely refer their patients to WIC, and are very familiar with the program. The American Academy of Pediatrics has even issued a position statement urging its members to collaborate with local WIC programs and provide information about WIC to patients who might be eligible. Some of this familiarity stems from the program's rules: In order to qualify, women have to meet with a health professional such as a doctor, nurse practitioner, or dietician who determines whether they or their baby are at risk of having a nutritional deficiency. WIC is often administered by health departments, and frequently has offices in hospitals and clinics. In addition to providing food vouchers, WIC offers nutrition education, helps mothers who are trying to breast feed, and refers mothers and children to social service programs.
The SNAP program, for the most part, operates independently of the health system. Applicants aren't required to meet with a health professional, and most internists and other adult medical specialists don't routinely make direct referrals to the program.
But what if SNAP were more like WIC, and referrals to the program became second nature for clinics serving chronically ill, low-income people? I don't want to add to the lengthy laundry list of problems for which primary care physicians are expected to screen. But some aspects of the WIC program, such as its close collaboration with health departments, hospitals and clinics, as well as its heavy focus on education, might provide a model for how the SNAP program could work with health professionals.
"We should get smarter about how to address these things at a clinic or health system level," Berkowitz said.
One idea might be for clinic check-in staff to screen patients for food insecurity when they arrive for their appointment, perhaps by having them answer some questions on a tablet or mobile phone that would automatically trigger a referral to SNAP. It doesn't have to be complicated—one study found that a single question—"In the past month, was there any day when you or anyone in your family went hungry because you did not have enough money for food?"—was effective at determining food insecurity among parents at a clinic serving low-income children.
Another idea might be to provide some healthy foods to patients directly at the doctors' office. A Spanish study published in The New England Journal of Medicine last year randomized more than 7,000 patients who were at high risk of heart disease to a "Mediterranean diet," which included free supplies of extra-virgin olive oil or a mix of walnuts, almonds, and hazelnuts, or to counseling on a low fat diet that recommended fruits, vegetables, fish, low-fat dairy and bread, potatoes, pasta or rice.
At the end of five years, the people in the Mediterranean diet groups were significantly less likely to have had a stroke than those in the low fat diet "control" group. (There was no significant difference in heart attacks or in the overall death rate, however.)
Some doctors have adopted the strategy of providing healthy food "prescriptions" to low-income children and their families. In 2010, pediatrician Shikha Anand collaborated with Wholesome Wave, a nonprofit, to establish the Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program, which enables teams of doctors, nurses and nutrition educators to prescribe vouchers that can be redeemed for free produce at local farmers' markets. Early data suggests the program is effective in increasing fruit and vegetable consumption and in reducing body mass index, a measure of weight, among overweight and obese children.
"There's a growing body of evidence that this program affects food security," Dr. Anand said. "It's not just the effect of getting the prescription, it's the effect of engaging in that conversation about the connection between food and health with that primary care team that you know and trust."
The Fruit and Vegetable Prescription Program's scope is limited—thus far it has enrolled just over 1,100 obese or overweight children in six states and the District of Columbia.
And even though the 2014 federal Farm Act tries to increase food stamp recipients' access to fruits and vegetables, budget cuts and increased demand make it unlikely that food insecurity, and its attendant health problems, are unlikely to diminish anytime soon. Nor are those of us who live in states that refused to participate in the Medicaid expansion likely to see much of an improvement in our patients' ability to pay for their medication—a recent analysis estimated that more than 32 million people nationally will remain uninsured after the Affordable Care Act is fully implemented. If we're going to succeed at treating our patients, it's crucial we know about their financial problems—and figure out ways to help them manage their illnesses under difficult circumstances.


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Tiny Pacific Island Hit By First Bank Robbery
Police have been flown into the tiny Pacific resort island of Aitutaki, where officials say their bank has been robbed — a first for the small, tight-knit community. Part of the Cook Islands, Aitutaki is famous for its beaches, which ring a large lagoon full of clear, ice-blue water.
Tourism is the island's biggest industry — and that has local officials thinking that the shocking bank robbery was perpetrated by a visitor, not a resident.
"It's the first time something like this has happened here. Police have been here talking to people and they had to close the bank for a few days," Mary Tini, 73, told the New Zealand Herald. "People are very shocked."
Around 2,000 people live on the island, which maintains only a small police force. The thieves made off with an estimated $200,000 in New Zealand dollars, or $166,000 US.
The bank shared a concrete building with the island's telecommunications and customs and revenue offices.
The thieves "broke through the door, and then had to break through another door to get to the safe," Aitutaki Mayor John Baxter told Radio New Zealand.
As for any suspects, Baxter said, "We do not believe this nature of a robbery could be done by a Aitutakian."
He added that the island is now in "full yachtie season," when boats that are cruising around the Pacific often visit its harbor.
"Police are checking up on these yachties that have left the island," Baxter said.
You can hear Baxter's interview with the network:
In addition to its natural beauty, Aitutaki is renowned for its high number of churches — said to be the most per square mile in the world. And since February 2010, the island has been recovering from its encounter with Cyclone Pat, which damaged a reported 80 percent of the island's houses.
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Every agricultural organization out there has to be a little envious of the Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS). And it's not just because of the group's ability to amass huge sums of money and attract members, but its ability to claim and hold the moral high ground – whether it's deserved or not.
HSUS went after its critics this week, attacking Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman and Rick Berman, a prominent lobbyist for the restaurant industry and an avowed HSUS foe. Berman has been raising questions about HSUS's money-raising tactics, namely that most of its members and donors erroneously are led to believe they are supporting an organization (HSUS) that runs animal shelters or cares for abused animals. In actuality, pet shelters are a minute and token part of HSUS's budget and an even smaller priority.
Of course, standing for animal welfare and standing up against the establishment and modern agriculture is a popular thing to do in some circles, and HSUS is great at it. HSUS also likes to point out its agreements with agricultural groups like the Ohio Farm Bureau, the Nebraska Farmer's Union and the United Egg Producers. And the organization is eloquent and vociferous in its pronouncements that it wants to work with the livestock industry to provide animal protection. The reality is that everyone wants to provide the best care available for animals; nobody opposes that.
You must understand that many of the groups that have "cooperated" with HSUS were almost forced to do so in order to avoid costly battles. In many cases, the resolutions were masterful, in that any harm to the industry was minimal and concerned changes in practices that a relatively uniformed public would likely highly support.
I acknowledge that most people I know who have worked with organizations like HSUS at the highest levels are convinced that the organization's true commitment is the eventual demise of livestock production. Of course, HSUS denies this.
It presents a dilemma to the industry. If HSUS is an entity we can work with and is truly only concerned about animal welfare, then they should be an ally. But, if HSUS is truly driven to end animal agriculture, then we are, in essence, aiding the organization in a drawn-out process that will result in death by a thousand cuts.
Personally, I believe HSUS's ultimate intentions are clear, but I don't blame any of the ag groups that have aligned with the organization. By doing so, they avoided worse outcomes of a confrontation for which they had neither the money nor political power to match what HSUS could bring to bear.
I hope I'm wrong, because if I'm not then HSUS's money and numbers combined with a divide-and-conquer strategy will be unstoppable. That is, unless the industry figures out how to claim the moral high ground, and that means absolutely eliminating any perception of animal abuse at all times.
Certainly words are not enough. No one disputes that animal welfare is not only the right thing to do, but the economically right decision for producers as well. But as long as the livestock industry wears the black hats, we'll continue to pay the price.


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Yesterday (28th), I lost a dear friend. He was not a friend in the sense that we talked regularly. He was not a friend that I could meet regularly because he lived on our West coast. We really did not know each other that well … but we knew enough that mattered.
He was born in Israel and served in their military as (I believe) a tank commander. For reasons that are not known, he chose to move to Canada where he met my (then) sister-in-law. They decided to get married and move back to Israel and, as a part of that move, stayed in England for a short time … which was when we met.
His view of life was very refreshing, and rather frustrating! It was refreshing because nothing seemed to bother him unduly. It was a "live for today" perspective. It was frustrating because he saw limited value in planning ahead. Those two perspectives would possibly come from his military service.
They couldn't settle in Israel and so soon returned to England, which is where he made his "mark"
There was a knock on our door one evening, and there stood Benny. The following conversation went something like this:
B: "Hi Colin. Can you paint?"
C: "Paint? What? Pictures? Houses?"
B: "Buildings!"
C: "Well I've done lots of interior painting, and some exterior. Why?"
B: "Is it easy?"
C: "Well it's not difficult."
B: "Will you teach me how to paint?"
C: "Benny … why are you asking these questions?"
B: "We have a contract!"
C: "WE have a contract?"
B: "Yes! We're going to paint the synagogue!"
C: "Benny … I've never been in a synagogue before, let alone painted one."
B: "It won't be difficult!"
C: "That's great coming from somebody who is asking how to paint."
B: "When can we start? They would like it done as soon as possible."
C: "You'll have to take me there and show me the building first."
Therein followed enough stories to fill a small book. The "auditorium area" had a very high ceiling, and we did not own any scaffolding, so it was done a little at a time from a ladder. The price that Benny had agreed to (he simply undercut the lowest bid that had been received for the work), allowed us to break even on the project.
From a business perspective, it made no sense whatsoever, but Benny and I learned so much about each other that it was an invaluable experience.
So many people will be thinking about him with a smile on their face, as will I, and although I have many reasons to fondly remember him, the highlight of our relationship has to be that synagogue painting contract. It said so much about his personality.
Rest in peace dear friend. You left us far too early, but you certainly left your mark on so many people.


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SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Delivering a four-core foreshadowing of innovations to come for PC enthusiasts worldwide, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today unveiled the upcoming AMD Phenom processor family name and publicly demonstrated the first all-AMD enthusiast platform, codenamed FASN8. The industrys only true quad-core client processors are expected to deliver the ultimate visual experience, especially when paired with AMDs new DirectX 10 ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, which began shipping today (see related press release: AMD Introduces the ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series, Delivering The Ultimate Visual Experience for Desktop and Mobile Platforms). AMD expects true quad-core and dual-core AMD Phenom-based desktop systems will ship in the second half of 2007.
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AMD has always enjoyed a great bond with the enthusiast community, and the introduction of the AMD Phenom processor family will take our relationship to new heights, said Bob Brewer, corporate vice president and general manager of AMDs desktop division. We continue to focus on listening to and addressing users evolving needs. AMD is confident the performance enhancements enabled by true quad-core client technology in computing-intensive environments will allow them to realize new possibilities and find new inspiration.
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AMDs quad-core processor rollout will put more computing horsepower at PC users fingertips, observed Nathan Brookwood, research fellow at Insight 64. Quad-core innovations come at a time when many users are finding that the combination of Microsoft Vista, multi-threaded applications and DirectX 10 no longer delivers the crisp performance they experienced on last years fastest systems running last years software. The AMD Phenom processors ability to deliver significantly more performance within the same power and thermal envelopes as its dual-core antecedents should make this quad-core processor a fitting follow-on to earlier AMD dual-core processor offerings.
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Enthusiasts, digital content creators and mainstream users alike are seeking more immersive, visual computing experiences developing and navigating rich 3D worlds, finding new ways to create and share digital media and memories, and pushing the limits of productivity with intense multitasking. AMD Phenom processors are designed for the exceptional performance and capabilities customers want, employing state-of-the-art platforms and a next-generation processor architecture.
Quad-core technology like the AMD Phenom processor family will enable Dell customers to enjoy their personal computers in entirely new ways, said Neil Hand, vice president marketing, Dells Consumer Product Group. With a quad-core CPU, the desktop PC can now truly act simultaneously as a server for home digital media devices, while keeping customers secure and productive in their mainstream use.
As we demonstrated with AMD in San Francisco, Nero is pleased to be on the leading edge, delivering applications that are optimized to take advantage of quad-core processors, said John Tafoya, GM of Global Alliance at Nero. The increased performance of AMDs latest processors, coupled with Neros quad-core optimized applications is helping bring about Neros vision of a true Liquid Media Revolution.
For enthusiasts who demand cutting-edge performance on their system, AMD Phenom FX processors are designed for systems that offer extreme megatasking capabilities. True quad-core platforms and octa-core platforms with the Dual Socket Direct Connect (DSDC) Architecture can provide enthusiast-class features and performance, to enable our customers to deliver professional-grade results. Moreover, AMDs quad-core processors and unique eight core solutions, with four processing cores on one die, coupled with the latest platform technologies, including the new ATI Radeon HD 2000 series, can deliver the ultimate enthusiast PC platform. AMD Phenom X2 and X4 processors will offer true quad- and dual-core advanced technologies for seamless multitasking and optimum energy efficiency.
The quad-core architecture behind the AMD Phenom processor family correlates nicely with Alienwares relentless push to provide customers with the most powerful, immersive experience possible, said Frank Azor, senior vice president of Alienwares Worldwide Product Group. Quad-core performance helps optimize the productivity level of Alienware users while further heightening their gaming enjoyment.
Falcon Northwest understands what enthusiasts want and continually strives to deliver the ultimate gaming experience, said Kelt Reeves, president, Falcon Northwest. The advent of AMDs quad-core processor technology represents an industry-defining change for multi-threaded gaming that spells immediate benefits in terms of absolute performance. By combining Falcon Northwests gaming prowess together with AMDs commitment to performance and future platform offerings, including AMD Phenom processors and the ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT, we are excited to help drive the future of multi-core computing.
AMDs open platform approach allows for AMD Phenom processors and platforms that are compatible with a wide range of solutions, including motherboard and chipset partners ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI and NVIDIA.
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With true quad-core processors, AMD expects to see performance enhancements in multitasking, computing-intensive environments, and multi-threaded applications, as well as gaming.
Like AMD, we too envision quad-core technology as an enabler of a more immersive experience, said Phil Taylor, senior program manager of Aces Studio at Microsoft Game Studios. Multi-core technology is already opening up a new world of significant possibilities with the Service Pack1 release for Microsoft Flight Simulator X. SP1 contains multi-threaded code for terrain loading and in-flight generation of terrain textures; as well as for the batching of Autogen vegetation and buildings. This code is written to allow SP1 to use all available cores. We are excited about AMDs upcoming quad-core technology, which we believe will further enable our mutual customers to dial up the visual details when using SP1 and see more of the highly detailed world contained in FSX.
AMDs new quad-core technology should provide a great performance boost for todays high-end PC games, said Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games Inc. Our Unreal Engine 3 game technology can take advantage of four and even eight processor cores, improving performance by accelerating physics and AI calculations, and increasing the realism of the game environments our artists can build. Upcoming games like Unreal Tournament 3 will truly fly on these new CPUs.
Havok envisages quad-core technology as an enabler of more immersive technology, said David Coghlan, VP of Development for Havok. Havoks product suite of Physics, Animation and Behavior has been designed to take full advantage of multi-threaded architectures to deliver more intense and realistic gaming experiences. We are excited by the possibilities for unprecedented performance levels in gaming offered by AMDs upcoming quad-core technology.
Lionhead is excited with the possibilities that multi-core will bring to gaming and believe that AMDs quad-core technology is another step in delivering the power we are looking for, said Tim Rance, CTO of Lionhead. We are eager to push the detail in our simulations ever deeper, make our physics more fine grained, our AI more emotional and our lighting more dynamic. All of this will enable us to deliver the mass-market experiences that our customers are looking for.
We are really excited about the upcoming introduction of AMDs native quad-core solution, said Markus Mäki, Development Director, Remedy Entertainment. The technology behind Alan Wake is built to take advantage of multiple CPU cores and gamers with quad-core systems will have an even better experience. AMD Phenom processors should be a welcome addition for all gamers.
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The Godless Girl. A Cecil B. DeMille silent film. Athiests vs. Churchies at a High School clash and it gets uglier than anyone could expect.
Persona - While this film didn't quite click with me, it was still a powerful experience. Beautifully shot, I quite like Bergman's somewhat still and tightly composed shots, and with two great performances, this one sits somewhere in the middle of the Bergman films I've seen.
Volver - Another knock-out from Pedro Almodovar; has this guy ever made a dud? His films have many similarities (they are vibrant, often amusing and always affecting, melodramas) but always avoids retreading the same ground. Penelope Cruz is absolutely smokin', in all categories, in this.
Frozen River - A great little film this one. A tale of two women who, due to hardships, form an unlikely partneship smuggling immigrants, tt sort of reminded me of The Lookout. Although visually it is more gritty than that stylish little number, it is similarly a tightly plotted story focused on a small group of characters in a somewhat isloated environment. Despite being quite bleak at times and completely uncomprimising it's never gets too weighty and plot moves briskly, creating plenty of tension in the closing scenes. Highly recommended.
Personally I like the classics Hitchcocks but Spellbound will always be my favourite, partly as the movie that introduced me to Ingrid Bergman, but also simply because it's a very good story.
I watched The Dam Busters this week-end, excellent war movie. I can see where Lucas got his inspirations now. I loved it. Plus they filmed it in the fifties when there were still quite a few Avro Lancasters in flying condition and so it's the real deal, and god the roar of these engines is glorious. To think they flew these monsters at a bare 60 ft... !
I hear Peter Jackson is working on a remake, I'm not so sure what to think about it...
I also saw Flyboys (the one with James Franco), and for all the inaccuracies it's got, it puts a good show, I quite liked it.
Pleasantly surprised, knew pretty much nothing of it before hand other than the subject matter and it featured much to my surprise, not only Bill Nighy but Eddie Izzard too, who just gets better and better.
Tom Cruise was in it. He is also a scientlogist but not in the film so it was all good
Valkyrie is a very well done film - so much so, one can forgive that Tom Cruise is in it - and was quite possibly the best film I've seen recently. Still, you can't beat Downfall for a good Hitler film.
Who says it wouldn't be funny if Cruise played a scientologist?
I've never been much of a fan of The Birds though. It's certainly well made and has great scenes of building tension but the attacks themselves are muted somewhat by the dated effects and poor acting from the 'attacked'. The film is also saddled with flat, unconvincing melodrama and two awful lead performances. Tippi Hedren, who was better in the somewhat underrated Marnie, shows her inexperience and Rod Taylor redefines bland.
Valkyrie was very good and I thought Tom was very good in it. The mark of someone being good in a film, for me, is that I forget I'm watching the actor and only think of them as the character. I think he pulled it off. Another memorable performance of this ilk was Denzel in Training Day. I've never liked him but in that he was great. I think more actors should play roles you wouldn't imagine the in (up til then he was always a "goodie"). This is part of my rational for wanting Eddie Murphy as the next Bond baddie. He would be sinster as hell.
To be honest, I think Tom Cruise gets a lot more flak for his acting than he deserves. He's not the actor with the widest range in the world, but with a good director and script he does very good work (e.g. Collateral, Magnolia, Interview with a Vampire (I don't particularly like the film, but he does a great job in it)). Yes, he's probably a dick and a kook, but if we dismissed the work of all dicks and kooks because that's what they are, we wouldn't be left with much to enjoy.
Speaking of monsters, I just watched the original 1910 version of Frankenstein produced by Edison.
...and who ever said special effects didn't make a film fantastic?
I love silent films, gunsmoke. BTW- Have you seen the 1984 Moroder version of Metroplois?
I really liked the old-style special effects in Coppola's Dracula. More so than the snippets of digital effects.
SFX belong to fantastic cinema like a baby to a tit, but it's always the sensibility of the filmmakers which makes them look good or bad. New wonderful technologies can temporarily create a wave of distasteful uses of SFXs, until the filmmakers and audience accustomize to them, then comes then time when they are used sensitively and show true aesthetic potential.
Having said that, though, I do appreciate a well done CGI effect, especially if it's seamlessly integrated and invisible as an effect or if it shows us something that simply wouldn't be possible otherwise.
Back to Tom Cruise for just a second, I didn't realize that he offered to step into Heath Ledger's shoes for the uncompleted (at the time) Gilliam film: Dr. Parnassus
Blade Runner(The Final Cut)
Watched it for the first time, Harrison Ford is awesome in it and I love his gun
Roy(or whatever the name of the replicant leader is) was my second favorite character, he was pretty eccentric.
Currently watching the second half of House M.D. season 5. It's still enjoyable, but I definitely think that before long I'll get tired with the writers' laziness. The show has always been one of the most formulaic shows on TV, but it's starting to grate. Hugh Laurie is still fun, though.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
I'd been waiting to see this for years and I finally got it on a Blu-Ray deal. Loved every bit of it, and the slightly anachronistic touch makes it even better. And Redford and Newman are excellent.
3:10 to Yuma
The remake, with Bale and Crowe. I never saw the original, but this one is very good. Hard and cynical, no sugar coating. Highly recommended if you're a fan of the genre.


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Yes, I know, you don't do speedwork. You run for fun, relaxation and fitness, not to induce pain. You've seen those interval training articles before, but you page right past them, because that just isn't what you and your running are about. You're probably ready to skip this one, too.
Before you go, though, at least take a minute to meet Sally Lavin, a 44-year-old runner who, until two years ago, was just like you. No speedwork. And that was with 17 years of consistent, year-round running to her credit.
"I thought, 'Why would I want to go faster?' " says Sally. " 'I'm content with what I'm doing.' "
I can vouch for this because she's my sister-in-law, and I've known her all that time. I would watch her run with relative ease, finishing well enough in most races but, to my mind, far behind where she could have been. I would urge her to add a little interval training--speedier running for short distances, interspersed with recovery jogs--to her daily workouts, but my advice always fell on deaf ears.
"It didn't sound like fun," admits Sally. "Running was something I did for relaxation and fitness, and speedwork doesn't exactly fit that mold."
All of that changed for Sally when she took over as assistant cross-country coach at the high school where she teaches. Mostly she ran easy miles with the team, helping newcomers adjust to basic running. But to set a good example, she also participated in speedwork sessions. And before long, she noticed she was running smoother, faster, stronger and with less effort. Not just on the track and in races, but in daily runs.
"I hate to admit it," says Sally, laughing. "But speedwork definitely makes you a stronger runner."
No surprise there. The body, after all, has an uncanny ability to adapt to physiological demands. Train at the same pace day after day, week after week, year after year, and that's the kind of running the body adapts to. But break out of that comfort zone with a little speedwork now and then, and the body will learn to deal with the new demands. The heart will get stronger, the cardiovascular system more efficient, the muscles better able to function at full force. That will translate to greater strength, faster times, easier daily runs. And you'll just plain feel better.
That's where this article wants to take you. We want to ease you into speedwork. Show you how to do something faster now and then, without a lot of fuss. Break you out of that daily rut of yours and improve your running. So let's get to it!
First, a question: Are you ready for faster-paced running? A certain amount of basic training is necessary before speedwork is advised--even the easy variety outlined here.
"You should wait until you've run for a while," says Benji Durden of Boulder, Colo., a 1980 Olympic marathoner who now coaches runners of all abilities. "You need to get your running legs under you."
What exactly does that mean? Beginning runners come in all shapes, sizes and pre-existing conditions, so there's no magic formula for determining exactly how much basic running is needed before you start speedwork. Most experts, though, recommend three or four months of preparation.
"You want to make sure all the bones, ligaments, tendons and joints can handle the stress," says Coach Roy Benson of Atlanta, Ga., chairman of the Road Runners Club of America's coaching committee. "So you really need at least 12 weeks of building up--from being out of shape to being able to jog 3 miles nonstop three or four times a week."
Keep it simple. Okay, then, let's say you're at this point. You're doing at least three or four runs a week, and you feel pretty good. You're just not sure how to bump it up from there. Maybe speedwork seems too complicated with all those distances to reckon with, times to record, heart rates to monitor, rest intervals to pay attention to. Then, too, there's this business of going to a track and acting like the Bigshot Runner. That whole arena is for the serious-minded Olympic aspirant, isn't it?
Well, not really. Most tracks are public facilities and, when not being used for official school practices, open to runners like you. But coaches know that beginners often are intimidated by the track setting, and most have devised ways to nudge their charges into faster-paced running without leaving the venue that feels like home.
Pick up on pickups. "We simply introduce pickups during a run," says Bob Glover, who supervises training programs for the New York Road Runners Club.
Pickups are segments of faster-paced running injected into an existing run. Glover calls this "modified fartlek" (fartlek is the Swedish term for "speed play"), which is step one in a system he outlines in the chapter entitled "A Simplified Twelve-Week Speed Training Program" in his newly revised Competitive Runner's Handbook (Viking Penguin, 1999). In this first step, runners on a favorite 3-mile course begin choosing landmarks and running to them at a quicker-than-normal pace.
"It might be the next street light, it might be the top of a hill," says Glover. "We tell them to do six or eight of these during the run."
Same loop, same scenery, just the occasional decision to run slightly faster for a while.
"This takes away the stress of going to a track," says Glover, "because in the minds of many of these people, you don't go to the track unless you're good."
Glover isn't alone in using this approach. Many top coaches use it as the first step to faster running. Durden urges his runners to use telephone poles as targets, running to the first, second or third one up the street, then jogging an equal distance to recover. "Run a little harder between poles," he says, "but not so hard that you're dying and can't do another one."
Pace yourself. Pace is one of the trickiest parts of advising new runners in an unstructured system like this. Beginners almost always start too fast and end up winded after only one or two pickups. If a runner has racing experience, the coach can advise an effort equivalent to 5-K pace. If not, the advice is more general.
"I tell them to run at a controlled faster pace," says Glover, "a pace they know they can hold the whole way."
Benson advises running slow enough that your breathing doesn't become labored.
To keep his runners at that effort level, Benson tells them to do shorter segments, workouts that improve form without risking injury. One favorite he calls "stopwatch fartlek," which involves 15 seconds of quicker running alternated with 45 seconds of jogging. His runners do three to four laps of this on the track, or about a mile on the roads. If a runner doesn't want to use his or her watch, Benson advises counting footsteps, limiting each sprint to 20 to 24 strikes of either the left or the right foot, a rough equivalent of 15 seconds. "It's almost impossible for someone, even sprinting all out, to get in trouble in just 15 seconds," says Benson.
If you can resist the urge to run too fast, longer versions of stopwatch fartlek are also possible. I've alternated 1-minute repeats during my own training to make the transition from easy winter running to more elaborate, faster workouts in the spring. It's a great way to start claiming, or reclaiming, some leg speed after a long period of mostly easy running.
All coaches agree that a good warmup is mandatory before fartlek or any kind of faster running. Ten to 15 minutes is the standard, followed by a couple minutes of light stretching if it doesn't disrupt the flow of the workout.
Head for the hills. That kind of warmup also goes along with another favorite introductory speed workout: hill repeats. Hill work can be difficult, but the natural resistance inherent in uphill running provides another way beginners can adjust to harder efforts.
"It might be a bit scary the first time," admits Durden. Still, a set of three or four moderately paced uphill runs of 45 to 90 seconds each can be a great workout for speedwork novices.
A gentle climb is the key. "The hill should have enough of a slope that there's a little bit of work involved," says Durden, "but not so much of a slope that you're developing mountaineering skills."
Benson always stresses the importance of a controlled pace in adding hill work. His recommendation is a set of six repeats, with the first two at 45 seconds, the next two at 30 and the final two at 15. "That enables you to avoid that terrible multiplier effect of fatigue," says Benson, "when you're just dragging during the last few repeats."
Make strides. Fartlek and hills are two good ways to ease into speedwork, and strides are another. Basically this is what Benson's alternating track workout of 15 seconds fast, 45 seconds easy is all about. Striding is a kind of controlled high-speed running, not quite sprinting but certainly fast and short in duration.
Strides can be incorporated into the middle of a workout or tacked on at the end. Either way, the goal is the same--to get the body moving in a quick, fluid motion, rehearsing fast running so the muscles and nervous system adjust to it. "The key is to enjoy the pure movement of flying down the road," says Benson, "that wonderful rush you get when you run fast."
Not a bad goal for speed training in general. We don't invent new stresses so we feel bad, but rather so we feel better, at least eventually. That won't happen immediately, of course. The human system needs stress to improve, but it also needs rest--time to recover and rebuild.
"If you do any kind of speedwork," says Benson, "you definitely should follow it with an easy day." This may not seem necessary, but gearing way down on the day after working hard is key to avoiding injury.
Using the workouts mentioned above, and following every fast day with a day or two of easy running, should allow you to develop speed without undue risk of injury. At first, one speed day a week will begin gearing up the system. Once that adjustment is complete, you can add a second day. From there, gradually increase the number, distance and pace of your speedwork intervals for greater effect. But never do more than two speed sessions per week.
In this first step, the initial introduction of the body to speedwork, remember that you're nudging your body along, getting it to make the necessary adjustments.
"I think the key word is transition," says Glover, "a transition from running at a comfortable pace, just for fitness and recreation, to running a speed workout."
Two simple, faster-paced sessions a week will make a big difference. So will occasional racing. A 5- or 10-K race every month or so, especially if you carefully monitor your mile splits, will help you learn to run a controlled pace over a longer distance. Racing also will help you to learn the benchmarks--your current 5- and 10-K pace--that are commonly used to develop more individualized workouts.
Even for runners who never make the transition to more sophisticated workouts, easing into speedwork will lead to more enjoyable running.
"They're going to get a marked improvement in leg strength," says Benson. "Which is going to translate into running easier on regular days."
And that, for most, is well worth the effort.
"Doing speedwork automatically strengthens you," says my sister-in-law, Sally, now a true believer after all those years of same-paced training. "And it's actually a lot of fun, too."
For Starters
Ease into faster running with these introductory workouts:
1. Easy fartlek. Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to--telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance. If you're with a group, take turns choosing, sometimes revealing your choice ahead of time, sometimes not.
2. Stopwatch fartlek. After 10 minutes on a 30-minute run, begin alternating 15 seconds quick, 45 seconds easy, 15 seconds quick and so on, until you've done five or six faster segments. Some sports watches can be set to beep every minute to indicate when you should change pace. Otherwise, you can just glance at your watch periodically to keep track of when it's time to change.
3. Hills. Warm up with a 10-minute run to the base of a hill that has a steady (but not overly steep) slope. Run up at a constant pace for up to 45 seconds, then jog back down and repeat four more times. Move at a speed that allows you to finish each 45-second segment without gasping. The hill will present resistance; your job is to run controlled and steady, focusing on form.
4. Strides. On a track, run quickly for about 15 seconds every time you start a straightaway, then ease off and jog the rest of the straightaway and the turn before beginning another 15-second stride. Do this for a mile or so (eight to 12 strides). You can also do strides after a run (grass fields are nice), striding for 15 seconds one way, then jogging back and repeating eight to 10 times.
5. Races (5- and 10-Ks). Entering races now and then will do two things: First, it'll help you learn to run at a constant pace over a longer period of time. Second, since much training advice is based on a runner's 5- and 10-K times, knowing your personal benchmarks at these distances can help you tailor your speed workouts more effectively.
Speedwork Rules
Remember these 10 tips when you start adding the fast stuff to your running program:
1. Graduate from basic training. If you're a beginning runner, you need at least three to four months of building up before starting speedwork. Meaning? You should be comfortable running steadily for 30 minutes three to four times a week.
2. Scout out the right course. Avoid traffic and other hazards. Also shun fast downhill running. It looks easy, but it's actually tough on the muscles and can lead to injuries in a hurry.
3. Consider the surface. Grass and dirt trails are nice, but a smooth surface is even more important. Tree roots, sidewalk cracks and potholes can be dangerous. Rubberized tracks--smooth and springy--are often your best bet.
4. Warm up and stretch. Always begin with 10 to 15 minutes of easy running before picking up the pace. Combine that with stretching for optimum results.
5. Don't start too fast. Beginners usually err on the speedy side of speedwork. Hold it steady, and don't run so fast that your breathing and heart rate go crazy.
6. Focus on form. Speedwork improves your system's bio-mechanics, so think about form when you run fast. Visualize yourself running lightly, smoothly, and efficiently.
7. Find the fun. Faster running is a new kind of effort, but it doesn't have to be grim. Reduce stress by playing speed games and just plain enjoying the zestier pace.
8. Rest the day after. If you're used to running the same pace day after day, you'll need to work at developing true rest days. Slow way down, cut back on distance or skip running altogether on the day after a speed session.
9. Start with five. That's a good number of repeats to begin with for most speedwork sessions. And one session a week is wise at first. After your body adjusts, add a second session.
10. Be careful when you race. A little speedwork can instill a false sense of overall fitness. Be cautious about your ability to maintain a fast tempo. Learn to run at a pace you can hold the whole way.
Pick Up Speed
A little speedwork can help you run smoother and faster. And it's not nearly as hard as you think
Yes, I know, you don't do speedwork. You run for fun, relaxation and fitness, not to induce pain. You've seen those interval training articles before, but you page right past them, because that just isn't what you and your running are about. You're probably ready to skip this one, too.
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Thanks to all our Chicago readers who sent in their speed test data from their iPhone 3G and 3GS. Here's our conclusion: the 7.2Mbps AT&T's testing in Chicago doesn't really make any difference right now in speeds.
The 3GS turned out to be slightly faster in downloads (1202kbps vs. 1161kbps), but just about the same in uploads. Its latency was much better 175ms vs. 210ms, which reflects the same thing we found in our iPhone 3GS review and is probably attributable to its faster processor.
Either AT&T's 7.2Mbps isn't really widely deployed yet even in Chicago, a city they've been running deployment tests on for a few months now, or it makes no real difference in everyday usage. We'll test this again once 7.2Mbps gets rolled out to more cities to find out which.
And if you're still not sure about what 3G speeds mean, or the differences between different phone techs, see our Giz explainer on all the mobile terms. And the next generation technology? 4G? See what's coming up in that explainer. [Thanks to all our readers who participated!]
Update: AT&T tells us that the trial is only live in Chicago on a handful of cell sites and on an internal basis, so none of you guys should be connecting to the faster network. The public trials are coming later this year, so it makes sense that the speeds are exactly the same.


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Story highlights
CIA collects bulk records on international money moves, says source
Source: The program is an outgrowth of terror-finance tracking programs
Most transactions are purely non-U.S., but some are to or from the United States
CIA says it doesn't comment on "alleged intelligence sources or methods"
The CIA is collecting bulk records on international money transfers, using the same Patriot Act legal authority that has become the center of controversy in U.S. surveillance programs, a source told CNN.
A person familiar with the program said the agency's efforts are an outgrowth of terror finance-tracking programs that were established in the wake of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks and revealed that al Qaeda funded the hijackers using methods such as smuggled cash, money transfers, and credit and debit cards.
The Treasury Department and the National Security Agency have other programs that similarly focus on financial transaction data. The CIA program provides some redundancies intended to catch transactions that may not draw attention in other programs.
The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times first reported the existence of the CIA program Thursday night, saying it has sparked concerns from lawmakers.
The revelation comes amid debate in the United States over whether to pare back some surveillance in light of privacy concerns raised after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked documents describing secret spy programs.
The CIA program focuses on transfers that the agency believes could be the source of terrorism financing and that use services such as MoneyGram and Western Union. The vast majority are purely non-U.S. transactions, but it includes some transactions to or from the United States.
Such U.S.-related transactions could raise concerns about data of U.S. people, which the CIA is generally prohibited from collecting.
The court that oversees Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has established legal rules governing the CIA program, as it has with NSA surveillance programs, and requires evidence of a connection to potential terrorism before data belonging to U.S. people can be accessed, the person familiar with the program said. The agency works with the FBI to target potential financing of terrorism.
A U.S. intelligence official said any activity in such programs includes what the government calls "minimization procedures to protect U.S. person information" and court-approved restrictions on specially trained analysts who can query the data, and on the length of time such data is allowed to be retained.
The CIA said it doesn't comment on "alleged intelligence sources or methods."
Dean Boyd, a CIA spokesman, said that "the CIA protects the nation and upholds the privacy rights of Americans by ensuring that its intelligence collection activities are focused on acquiring foreign intelligence and counterintelligence in accordance with U.S. laws."
Boyd said that the agency's activities are overseen by Senate and House intelligence committees, the FISA court, the Justice Department and other agencies.
A Western Union spokesman said: "We collect consumer information to comply with the Bank Secrecy Act and other laws. In doing so, we also protect our consumers' privacy and work to prevent consumer fraud."
CNN also received a similar statement from MoneyGram.
"We value our customers' privacy and work hard to protect it, just as we work hard to protect customers and others from fraud and other crime. We comply with the laws of all the countries where we do business, including the laws that govern privacy, government investigations, and compliance with lawful subpoenas and court orders," the company said.
"We have reporting obligations related to suspicious transactions, money laundering and other financial crimes around the world. The laws to which we are subject generally prohibit us from discussing details."
While the details of the CIA program provide new information on the scope of Patriot Act bulk records collection, U.S. government monitoring of financial transaction data has become well known since 9/11.
The 9/11 attacks cost al Qaeda between $400,000 and $500,000 to carry out, according to the 9/11 Commission, and the plotters transferred much of the money through readily detectable means via banks, money-transfers, travelers checks, and credit and debit cards. At the time, the financial transactions didn't raise any flags. Among the transactions uncovered after the attacks were MoneyGram and Western Union money transfers, the commission said.
Since the attacks the United States has tightened banking rules. The government collects data from the Belgian-based Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or SWIFT, which operates a global system that helps banks clear financial transactions. Banks, money transfer outfits and casinos are also required by the United States to flag suspicious transactions under the Bank Secrecy Act, which also is the law used to police money laundering and other illicit financial transactions.


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When it concerns the issues between Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim, fellow rapper Remy Ma says the problem between the two artists needs to "get better on its own." She revealed that she would likely be unable to mediate the situation between the two, and later credited the media and fans for fueling the beef between Nicki and Kim, which has gone on for years.
"The beef that happened with Nicki and Kim, I think it's something that they have to handle," Remy Ma said. "I don't think I would be able to mediate the situation. Cause just based on some of the interviews that I've seen with Kim she seems very, very upset…I just think sometimes when people are hurt and they believe that something was done to do them wrong, it's kind of hard for people to just come in and say 'Oh, we need to fix this. Let's make it better.' Sometimes you just gotta let things take its course and get better on its own."
Prior to addressing the feud between Nicki Minaj and Lil Kim, Remy was asked to name the newer artists she's a fan of. Among the artists the Bronx lyricist named were singer/rapper Drake and Philly emcee Meek Mill.
"I like Drake," she said. "I think Drake is dope. And not just on a song tip. I really listen. I'm one of those people that really listens to what people are saying. You can have a dope beat and your hook is catchy or whatever, but I wanna listen to what you saying. And I think what he does with words is crazy. It's so many of his records that I like. I tell people all the time. I like Meek. Because he's just so hard and raw and gritty and it reminds me of when The Lox had first came out. And DMX. And everybody was just spitting. And he does it. And he makes records. And he's being accepted. So, just to see somebody who's actually spitting be received by the masses like that is a wonderful thing."
When asked about her time spent in prison, Remy went on to rattle down the list of artists who supported her during her incarceration.
She revealed that singer Keyshia Cole was one of the first artists to offer her assistance. Another artist Remy said proved helpful during her incarceration was 50 Cent who helped in signing letters for her appeal.
"When I needed letters for my appeal," Remy said. "Saying that if in fact I was released I would have a job and this is how I would stay out of trouble and reintegrate into society. 50 Cent had no problem not once, but twice signing letters saying that 'She would definitely have somewhere to work.' And it wasn't a delay. I didn't feel like I had to chase anybody around…I think they genuinely felt for my situation. They really understood that not only was—Like they didn't look at me as Remy Ma the rapper. I was Remy and 'Whatever you need I got you.' And I never felt like anybody I was talking to was fake or just saying it because I was on the phone with them. Cause for what? They didn't have to."
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Speakeasy CakeApril 26, 2008 at 3:20 pm | Posted in book review, cakes & tortes, sweet things | 14 Comments
Here's the third recipe I made from Melissa Murphy's cookbook The Sweet Melissa Baking Book (well actually the fourth–the ice cream in the photos is her brown sugar vanilla ice cream, and it is divine). It's a dense, moist chocolate cake that she calls the "Speakeasy" because of a whopping 2/3 cup of brandy in the batter!
It's a cousin of Dorie's Almost-Fudge Gâteau, but not quite as dark and fudgy. If you prefer semi-sweet chocolate to bittersweet (and like a little booze with your chocolate), then you will like this one.
Speakeasy– makes one 8-inch cake
from The Sweet Melissa Baking Book by Melissa Murphy. All rights reserved. Copyright © Melissa Murphy, 2008
For the cake:
6 ounces best-quality semisweet (58%) chocolate
10 tablespoons unsalted butter
2/3 cup brandy
4 large eggs
1 1/3 cups sugar
1 cup plus 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon salt
For the chocolate glaze:
6 ounces best-quality semisweet (58%) chocolate
½ cup heavy cream
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
Before you start:
Position a rack in the center of your oven. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Lightly butter an 8 x 2-inch round cake pan. Line the bottom with an 8-inch round of parchment paper.
To make the cake:
– In a medium bowl set over a pot of simmering, not boiling, water, melt the chocolate with the butter and whisk until smooth. Whisk in the brandy until smooth. Set aside to cool.
-Separate the eggs. Place the yolks in a large mixing bowl, and the whites in an electric mixer bowl.
– Add half of the sugar to the bowl with the yolks and whisk until thick. Add the chocolate mixture to the yolks and whisk to combine. Sift the flour, cinnamon, and salt over the chocolate batter and stir to combine.
-In the bowl of the electric mixer fitted with the whip attachment, make a meringue by whipping the egg whites until foamy. In a slow steady stream, add the remaining sugar. Whip until the whites hold stiff but not dry peaks.
-Briskly stir one-third of the meringue into the chocolate mixture to lighten the batter. Gently fold the remaining two-thirds of the meringue into the batter until no streaks remain.
– Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Spin the pan to level the batter. Bake for 80 to 90 minutes, or until a wooden skewer inserted into the center comes out clean. (Do not do the skewer test until the cake has been baking for at least 70 minutes or you will deflate the batter!) Remove to a wire rack to cool before glazing. (Steph's note: I made a half-recipe in a 6-inch cake pan and it took only 40 minutes to bake.)
To make the glaze:
– When the cake is cool enough to glaze, coarsely chop the chocolate and place it in a medium bowl.
-In a small saucepan over medium heat, heat the heavy cream until scalding, or until the cream is steaming and tiny bubbles have formed along the edges. Do not boil.
-Pour the hot cream over the chocolate. Let stand for 5 minutes, then whisk until smooth. Stir in the corn syrup.
To complete the cake:
-Place the cake upside down on a rack set over the prepared cookie sheet.
-Pour the glaze over the cake, letting the glaze spread itself. You may have to push it over the sides a bit, and use a small metal spatula or butter knife to smooth the sides. Try not to touch the top though, so it will be glossy and unmarred. Let the glaze set at room temperature for at least 30 minutes. Once the glaze is set, transfer the cake to a serving plate.
*The cake keeps in a cake saver at room temperature for 2 days. For longer storage, refrigerate for up to 1 week.
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Oh, yum! I am all over this one! Will try it with the Peruvian Pisco though.
Comment by Gretchen Noelle— April 27, 2008 #
It looks so moist… YUM!
Comment by Patricia Scarpin— April 29, 2008 #
Glad you made it as I was very tempted and now with your good review, I shall, if we don't drink the brandy first…
Comment by Tartelette— May 13, 2008 #
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Saturday 11/09/2013
CLEMSON, SC – Clemson started fast, put together a 17-0 run midway through the opening half, and cruised to a 71-51 victory over Stetson in the season opener for both men's basketball teams. The Tigers held the Hatters to 15 points in the first half, the lowest by a Clemson opponent since Jan. 15 of last season when Wake Forest had the same amount. Overall, it was Clemson's 29th consecutive win in a season opener.
K.J. McDaniels scored a career-high 20 points to pace the Tiger offense on Friday. The junior out of Birmingham, AL made sure to get the Tigers off to a sizzling start, as the junior nailed his first three attempts from long range and scored Clemson's first 11 points of the game. Rod Hall and Damarcus Harrison added 11 and 10 points, respectively, as 10 different players scored against Stetson for Brad Brownell's squad.
Clemson made 10-of-23 from three-point range, a 43 percent success rate. It was the most threes in a season opener by a Tiger team since the 2009-10 squad made 14 against Presbyterian.
After Jordan Roper buried a three from the right wing to put Clemson up 28-12 with under eight to play, Stetson Head Coach Corey Williams used his first timeout. The Tigers later used a 14-0 run punctuated by a pair of layups from red-shirt freshman Jaron Blossomgame, who had a solid debut in a Clemson uniform. The Tigers held the Hatters scoreless from the 9:01 mark of the opening frame until Brian Pegg converted a layup with 1:54 to go.
Stetson employed a zone defense early in the second half, slowing the game's pace dramatically. Clemson struggled to adjust in the second half, as the Tigers were outscored 36-25. As good as Clemson shot from the arc in the first half, the Tigers were less than stellar in the second with a 4-of-14 clip.
A three by B.J. Glasford drew Stetson to within 21 points at 53-32, but Harrison answered decisively on the other end with a three from the left wing. His basket sparked an 8-0 run, one that was countered with an 8-0 run by Stetson to make it 61-40 with 7:52 remaining. The Hatters never pulled any closer than 17 points the rest of the way.
The Tigers return to action on Wednesday, Nov. 13 at home against Delaware State. The game will tip off at 7:00 PM and will be streamed live on ESPN3.
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