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As you can probably tell (spoiler alert) I ran 100 miles in March.
I want to preface this by acknowledging that so many of you readers run much further than this on a monthly basis, and after hitting triple digits I bow down to you. Because while I somehow, magically, made it to 100 miles in a month without my knees or shins offing themselves (or losing a single toenail!), it was a close call. As I hobbled into bed last night, I marveled at what I have just put my body through – and I marveled even more at what is POSSIBLE.
How did I accomplish this safely?
Like I said, it was a close call. This past week was especially tough and I don't think I could have done another day. My last run of the month was 7.6 of the longest, hardest miles I've ever done. But I do think that I handled this challenge in a safe way. As someone who literally went from 0 to 100, I knew it was a pretty crazy goal. But I have some tips that I think helped keep my knees and shins safe.
- Take It Slow – Build Up Mileage
- Week 1 – 15.28 miles
- Week 2 – 25.46 miles
- Week 3 – 20.62 miles
- Week 4 – 38.72 miles
- When I first started running again, a long run for me was five miles without stopping. So for my first week, I ran five miles, three times. Simple as that. I slowly started adding in longer and longer runs, until my last week when I repeatedly ran anywhere from 7-9.5 miles like it was chump change. But it happened slowly over the course of the month. I knew I wasn't Superwoman and the last thing I wanted to do was not achieve my goal because I got greedy.
- Obvious, maybe, but yoga became my best friend, especially during the last week. I averaged going once per week (apparently I was a slacker during week two because I skipped yoga AND had my smallest number of miles). The last week, when my mileage was higher than it's ever been, I attended two hour-long classes and even did some of the moves at home. I view yoga as forced stretching (I'm terrible at doing it on my own) and the last week I'm positive that going to two yoga classes on back-to-back days was one of the reasons I was able to finish strong.
- I stopped apologizing to myself about how much I needed to fuel. There were a few days in the middle of the month when I had a lot of guilt for how much I was eating. For the majority of the second half of the month I needed a solid four meals to keep up. And for awhile I wasn't allowing that to happen, which just ended up with me snacking a lot, taking in more calories than I would have if I had just allowed myself another meal. All my food restriction thoughts came flooding back – "I can have 20 Triscuits, three slices of Swiss cheese and a spoonful of peanut butter because that's a "snack", but I can't have a turkey sandwich, because that's a "meal", and I've already had my three meals for the day." Stuff like that. Luckily the last week I pretty much forced myself to snap out of it because I was so hungry. Like, all the time. So I started to eat whenever I was hungry. I didn't always make the healthiest choices, but letting go of "the rules" really helped me maintain that mileage.
- Post-run care
- Stretching
- Lots of calf stretches on the stairs
- Ice
- Always post-run for at least 10 minutes – frozen veggies still hold my heart!
- Compression socks
- Foam Rolling
- 5 minutes per leg up and down the IT band, plus an additional 5 minutes rolling my quads
- Tiger Tail
- Intermittent use on my calves while watching TV
- Stretching
And, the outcome?
I can't remember the last time I've felt more accomplished. The minute I crossed the 100-mile marker I immediately sent mass texts to my parents, my friends, my development leaders at work…I felt like a kid on Christmas morning who just opened the best gift. Except this time I gave the gift to myself. I didn't depend on anyone else for my happiness. I told myself I was going to do something, and I did it.
In other news, I feel stronger and healthier, as you can imagine. I am always in the best shape when running is a major part of my life, and I can feel my body shifting back into the crazy-athletic physique that it is capable of. The only difference this time around is that I don't have an obsession with being "thin" via running. I love the monster calves that I get when I run. And, on the side, I've continued working on my upper body, so I feel stronger than ever.
Another thing that sometimes gets brushed past is the positive effect exercise can have on anxiety. Since I started running on a regular basis I have had zero panic attacks. That's not to say that exercise will be enough forever, but from personal experience it has helped. Lacing up my shoes and pounding the pavement at the end of the day is my happy place. It isn't silent meditation and introspection, but I get more thinking done running than I do when I try to force it. But it isn't the "dwelling" kind of thinking. When I'm physically moving, my mind moves forward as well. So even when a worry or anxiety-provoking thought pops into my mind, it is usually gone as quickly as it came, because you keep moving forward – physically, mentally, emotionally.
What did I learn?
I learned about the power of possibility.
Do you have those voices in your head? The hesitations? The "shoulds" and "should nots"? The limits you set for yourself? Yeah, I have those too. They trap you in your past possibilities. Can you imagine how many doors would open for you if you just eliminated certain words from your vocabulary? Should, try, maybe, I Wish?
No way did I think I'd be able to run 100 miles in one month. For heaven's sake I ran maybe 30 miles total between the months of December and March. My mind couldn't wrap itself around the possibility. But instead of dwelling on that, I set a goal and just went for it. I stepped outside of my mind and let my feet do the talking (so to speak). I did it for myself. No one pushed me to do it, no one else held me accountable (although I did have a great support system at work checking in on my progress). It was all for me. And now I can sit here and revel in the idea that those "past possibilities" don't exist, in any form of my life. In my personal life, in my work life, in my fitness journey. I can do anything I set my mind to. We all can.
It's time to explore the world of possibility. It's time to leave the slow zone. Why? Because it's now, and that's a perfectly acceptable time to start. In fact, it's the best time to start. I can't wait to see what's ahead for all of you.
Now, for the fun part – how should I reward myself?? The top contenders are as follows (and I'm open to suggestions!):
- Donuts: one long john and two donuts so it spells out "100"
- Massage
- A new Garmin charger (since mine broke….oh…fifteen months ago…and apparently I'm a runner now)


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'Music, the language of souls'
Once a week I host a writer who uses music as part of their creative process – perhaps to open a secret channel to understand a character, populate a mysterious place, or explore the depths in a pivotal moment. This week it's my turn, and I'm talking about the music behind My Memories of a Future Life . And below you have a chance to win a very special version of the print edition….
Soundtrack by Grieg, Beethoven, Michael Nyman, Bill Nelson, Daryl Runswick, Joe Jackson, Meredith Monk, Seal, Handel, Massive Attack, Emeli Sande, George Michael
Begin, like my narrator Carol, lying on a floor trying to think of nothing. Her brain's like a searching radio, snatching music out of the smallest sound, or the footsteps of the yoga teacher walking around her.
That's me too. If you're talking to me and I detect music, no matter how quiet, my brain will align to it and you'll become the background.
My brain is also a noisy beast. It crackles with images, connections and ideas, but far too fast for its poor operator to catch. Music freezes the hurricane and allows me to play with an idea, stop time and rewind so I can examine and explore. So it's pretty much essential to my writing.
A life steeped in music
My Memories of a Future Life is a novel steeped in music. Its narrator, Carol, is a classical pianist. In the story there are a number of standard pieces that have special meaning for her (Ludwig Van's Moonlight Sonata, Grieg's piano concerto in A minor – which I marinated in so long that I developed absolute pitch). But to write Carol I needed to understand what it meant to devote your life to an instrument. An obvious place to start was Michael Nyman's theme for The Piano, a windswept reel where a piano speaks for a person. But under Carol's classical poise is a more raucous urge. Enter Bill Nelson's Scala, an operatic aria gone feral. I listen to that cliff of sound and it tells me the joy of connection that Carol feels at her instrument:
Their faces weren't critical. They were soft and open. Music, the language of souls. That was why we played. To do that to each other.
I've never worked out if Scala is, in fact, a joyous song. The lyrics might even be Bill Nelson's shopping list. It does not matter. When I'm writing, music guides my gut, not my head.
Mysterious pain
Carol's career is halted by a mysterious injury. She's desperate to play again but medicine can't give her any answers. So she seeks them from an unusual source – herself in a future incarnation. The story splits into two threads: Carol now, and her next life.
One of my earliest decisions was how the two narratives would work together. I found a guide in Joe Jackson's Lullaby. It's a slow snow-fall of a song with a flavour of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds and a floating female vocal. It made me think of blue hallucinations and deepest winter. For a long time I planned the modern-day action to take place at the bitterest time of year, frozen like Carol's life. But once the characters were setting their own agenda, the quality of winter became a person: Carol's hypnotist Gene Winter, a complex, mesmeric man who has
a soul of solid steel. A surgeon's soul.
The dreamy blue from Lullaby became an underwater city in the future. There, Carol's future self, Andreq, is a healer struggling to cover up a secret. He needed his own voice and soul, distinct from her. His eerie composure came from the extraordinary composer-vocalist Meredith Monk in this track, Lost Wind. Even her track titles made me want to write – especially Travel Dream Song.
Crazy daydream
Of course, what Carol is going through is pretty odd. She's experiencing her future self, and increasingly questioning the influence of Gene, who's teasing it out of her. I was out driving one day, my favourite mode for daydreaming, and Seal's Crazy swam out of the radio. Crazy is so famous you probably don't have to click the link. Certainly I knew it well from its days in the charts. But once a song crosses into my undercover soundtrack, it's like hearing it for the first time.
That song created, in sound, a scene I had been feeling for. A party in a darkened house, where everyone is 'dancing to not be there' and Carol realises she is hoping for miracles.
'As the music swept everything away I imagined that I could talk to Gene about what we were doing, that we could slip off our inhibitions like these people here, that we could talk about what was me and what was him and what was neither'
What is Carol searching for? At one point she thinks she's got it. Handel's brooding, thrilling aria Ombra Cara, from Radamisto examined the moment perfectly, in the music at least. What the words are, I haven't a clue.
Much of the novel's action is at night, a 3am desert where normal rules are suspended. When I needed to loosen my bones I'd go running. I liked to go out after dark, listening to songs that were too invasive to write to but kept me in Carol's mind. One was Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy for its restlessness. Last summer, on final edits it was joined by Emeli Sande and Heaven – which to me sounds like Unfinished Sympathy cloned in helium.
Long before I knew what the end should be, I knew how it should feel. It came from George Michael and this fragment from his album Older. It has only one lyric. I had it on repeat while I ran in the dark, mile after mile, searching for the way there. Like Carol.
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Special album sleeves are de rigeur in music, so I thought I'd try it in books. I've made a special version of My Memories of a Future Life with an adventurous variation on the cover. (And yes, it goes around the back too.)
The text inside is the same as the red edition, except this has an inscription about the cover and its own ISBN. It's not for sale, it's a one-off piece of authorly whimsy. I'm giving away two copies, which I'll sign and number.
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Editor's note: A 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Wednesday off the coast of Guatemala, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Guatemalan officials say at least 48 people died and about 125,000 people were without power. The quake, centered about 15 miles from the coastal city of Champerico at a depth of 26 miles, was felt throughout Central America and as far north as Mexico City. Below are updates:
[Updated at 9:27 p.m. ET] At least 48 people were killed as a result of the earthquake, Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina said.
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Buried Treasure
Once upon a time, there was an old man who lived in Benares. He had a very good friend, who was known to be wise. Luckily, or perhaps unluckily, he also had a beautiful young wife.
The old man and his young wife had a son. The man came to love his son very much. One day he thought, "I have learned that my beautiful young wife cannot always be trusted. When I die, I am sure she will marry another man, and together they will waste the wealth I have worked so hard for. Later on, there will be nothing left for my son to inherit from his mother. So I will do something to guarantee an inheritance for my deserving son. I will bury my wealth to protect it for him."
Then he called for his most faithful servant, Nanda. Together they took all the old man's wealth deep into the forest and buried it. He said, "My dear Nanda, I know you are obedient and faithful. After I die, you must give this treasure to my son. Keep it a secret until then. When you give the treasure to him, advise him to use it wisely and generously."
Before long, the old man died. Several years later, his son completed his education. He returned home to take his place as the head of the family. His mother said, "My son, being a suspicious man, your father has hidden his wealth. I am sure that his faithful servant, Nanda, knows where it is. You should ask him to show you. Then you can get married and support the whole family."
So the son went to Nanda and asked him if he knew where his father had hidden his wealth. Nanda told him that the treasure was buried in the forest, and that he knew the exact spot.
Then the two of them took a basket and a shovel into the forest. When they arrived at the place the treasure was buried, all of a sudden Nanda became puffed up with how important he was. Although he was only a servant, he had the power of being the only one to know the secret. So he became conceited and thought he was better than the son. He said, "You son of a servant girl! Where would you inherit a treasure from?"
The patient son did not talk back to his father's servant. He suffered his abuse, even though it puzzled him. After a short time, they returned home empty-handed.
This strange behavior was repeated two more times. The son thought, "At home, Nanda appears willing to reveal the secret of the treasure. But when we go into the forest carrying the basket and shovel, he is no longer willing. I wonder why he changes his mind each time."
He decided to take this puzzle to his father's wise old friend. He went to him and described what had happened.
The wise old man said, "Go again with Nanda into the forest. Watch where he stands when he abuses you, which he surely will do. Then send him away saying. "You have no right to speak to me that way. Leave me."
"Dig up the ground on that very spot and you will find your inheritance. Nanda is a weak man. Therefore, when he comes closest to his little bit of power, he turns it into abuse."
The son followed this advice exactly. Sure enough, he found the buried treasure. As his father had hoped, he generously used the wealth for the benefit of many.
The moral is: A little power soon goes to the head of one not used to it.


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Bret Easton Ellis Thinks The Hills Is "A Modern Masterpiece"
So: Bret Easton Ellis is on the cover of expensive Amsterdam-based magazine Fantastic Man, drinking a Diet Coke. In it, he calls the soul-sucking experience that is The Hills "the greatest show that I have ever seen in my life."
The profile details Ellis' move to L.A. and comes in the middle of his writing the "sequel" to his first book, Less Than Zero (which made him a literary superstar at the age of 20), which is tentatively titled Imperial Bedrooms. The article - which isn't avalible online - paints Ellis as kind of sad and living a very existential, somewhat disconnected life. Also, he thinks The Hills is genius. The full quote, transcribed from print:
He is, however-and on this subject, he is highly animated-a huge fan of MTV's scripted reality series of the young and the monied in L.A., THE HILLS. "I think THE HILLS is the greatest show I have ever seen in my life," he says, sincerely. "It is a modern masterpiece. I think that ADAM DeVILLO is a mad genius. He creates it and controls it perfectly." Mr. ELLIS is very specific about the way he watches THE HILLS. "I'm holding off on Season 4 right now. I started watching a bit of it, but I'm waiting until the DVD comes out because I want to see it all so beautifully mastered. Even if you download the show there is that irritating MTV logo in the corner. It doesn't work for me that way. It has to be on a big screen with the sound right up. It blows me away...I'm sorry, but whoever invented HEIDI MONTAG and SPENCER PRATT are just...nothing matches it. I've never see L.A. look more beautiful in a work of art. There are no movies that are as beautiful as that."
This is why I'm never moving to L.A. Just like The City is why you should never move to New York.
He was also, interestingly enough, called out on a social networking site on a date going out ("BRET ELLIS is not a fan of social-networking sites. He has been "caught out" by someone on a dating site, though understandable doesn't care to flesh out that story. He won't try it again.").
Thing is, this makes an interesting point that I've never really considered before. The Hills is the tame, boring drug-less version of Less Than Zero (note to Hills producers: show them doing blow, and I'll watch). A bunch of severely disaffected brats, fucking around with their parents' money, creating an awe-inspiring charade of lives inextricably tied to the celebrity culture of Hollywood. This raises the question: was Less Than Zero the predecessor to The Hills? Do we blame Ellis for Speidi? Is Paul Telegdy off the hook today?
Meanwhile, Fantastic Man, which could be a test-tube baby between Esquire and McSweeny's, is kind of a fascinating product. It's a giant, pretty magazine with nice pages and a strange sense of humor. It costs $11. And it has Bret Easton Ellis on the cover, drinking a Diet Coke. This should tell you what kind of magazine it is: at once both kind of genius and a complete waste of one's time. I love it.
For example, in one issue, there is:
- A 1,000 word essay from the Editor-In-Chief of Interview on waking up with a hangover in Paris.
- A 1,000 word treatise on the greatness that is toast.
- A designation of the word "Super" as their word of the season. This is written on their masthead.
- A selection of single meals art-world people have had recently (one of them: pervy photog Terry Richardson's meal of a vegetarian burrito from Pinche Taqueria in New York. "For dessert, he had a pack of sour Skittles, also very 'yum yum.'").
- And a cover story featuring Bret Easton Ellis with nothing to promote. Did we mention he was drinking a Diet Coke?


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Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Yearstechdirt.com
Following the news that cops are trying to sweat down an Amazon Echo in hopes of hearing murder-related conversations, it's time to revisit the eavesdropping that's gone on for years prior to today's wealth of in-home recording devices.
One of the more recent examples can be found in a 2014 warrant that allowed New York police to trace a vehicle by demanding the satellite radio and telematics provider SiriusXM provide location information.
In this case, SiriusXM complied by turning on its "stolen vehicle recovery" mode, which allowed law enforcement to track the vehicle for ten days. SiriusXM told Forbes it only does this in response to search warrants and court orders. That may be the case for real-time tracking, but any location information captured and stored by SiriusXM can be had with nothing more than a subpoena, as this info is normally considered a third-party record.
It's not just satellite radio companies allowing cops to engage in surreptitious tracking. OnStar and other in-vehicle services have been used by law enforcement to eavesdrop on personal conversations between drivers and passengers.
In at least two cases, individuals unwittingly had their conversations listened in on by law enforcement. In 2001, OnStar competitor ATX Technologies (which later became part of Agero) was ordered to provide "roving interceptions" of a Mercedes Benz S430V. It initially complied with the order in November of that year to spy on audible communications for 30 days, but when the FBI asked for an extension in December, ATX declined, claiming it was overly burdensome.
In 2007, the OnStar system in a Chevrolet Tahoe belonging to a Gareth Wilson in Ohio contacted OnStar staff when an emergency button was pushed. As noted in a 2008 opinion from the case, Wilson was unaware the button had been hit. Subsequently, an OnStar employee heard the occupants discussing a possible drug deal, and allowed an officer from the Fairfield County Sheriff's Office to listen to the conversation. When the vehicle was located and searched, marijuana was found and an indictment filed days later. Ironically, the suspect hadn't even signed up to the OnStar service, but it hadn't been switched off.
The 2001 case didn't end well for law enforcement. It wasn't that the court had an issue with the eavesdropping, but rather that the act of listening in limited the functionality of the in-car tech, which the court found to be overly-burdensome.
OnStar is also asked to engage in real-time tracking by law enforcement. While OnStar denies it collects location info, it too has a stolen car recovery mode that allows OnStar to track vehicles. OnStar also says it will only do this in response to warrants and court orders -- or unless "exigent circumstances" necessitate the bypassing of these constitutional protections. What OnStar definitely won't do is let the public know how many times law enforcement has asked to track vehicles. The company told Forbes it "doesn't release the number of these requests."
Plenty of vehicles come with built-in GPS-reliant devices, most of which perform some sort of data retention. Anything not considered to be "real-time" can be obtained without a warrant, thanks to the incredibly-outdated Third Party Doctrine. Private conversations can be captured and recorded with warrants, which makes a large number of vehicles on the road confidential informants on standby.
Courts have generally been sympathetic to law enforcement use of in-car technology, finding the use of built-in "tools" to be less intrusive than officers installing their own devices on suspects' vehicles. Certainly law enforcement finds these pre-equipped listening/tracking devices more convenient as well.
The expansion of in-car tech has led to a great many opportunities for law enforcement, at the expense of privacy expectations. While drivers certainly can't "reasonably" expect their travels on public roads to be "private," the collection of location data by third parties basically puts drivers under constant surveillance, relieving law enforcement from the burden of actually having to dedicate personnel, vehicles, and equipment to this task. And if cops can't get this location info from in-dash systems, they can probably grab it from the drivers' cell phone service providers.
Law enforcement may find encryption to be slowing things down in terms of accessing cell phone contents, but everything else -- from in-car electronics to the Internet of Things -- is playing right into their hands.


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Four new inductees boasting outstanding achievements in the diverse fields of diamonds, gold, uranium and copper, joined the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in the twenty-fifth annual ceremony in Toronto on Jan. 10.
This year, former Mining Association of Canada president Gordon Peeling took over as master of ceremonies for the evening from usual host, Pierre Lassonde, who was one of the inductees.
The evening's first inductee was Chuck Fipke, whose hard work, perseverance and innovative exploration techniques led to the discovery of Canada's first diamond mine, Ekati, in the Northwest Territories.
Before Fipke's discovery, there were few who believed a diamond mine in Canada would ever be a reality. But Fipke's discovery in 1991 spawned a staking rush in the north and the start of a brand new industry for Canada — the success of which no one could have foreseen.
Ekati started production in 1998 and today, Canada is the world's third-largest producer of diamonds by value. The industry employs about 2,000 people and adds $1 billion to the national gross domestic product.
Born in Edmonton, Fipke studied geology at the University of British Columbia, then travelled the world working for major companies such as Kennecott and Cominco after graduating in 1970.
During that time, he developed an interest in one particular exploration technique: heavy mineral geochemistry. Back in Canada in 1977, he established his own lab specializing in processing heavy mineral samples, CF Mineral Research, in Kelowna, BC.
Fipke soon became involved in diamond exploration in northern Canada through Superior Oil, and then with Dia Met Minerals, a company he founded in 1982 with fellow geologist Stu Blusson.
Early on, the partners heard that De Beers was exploring at Blackwater Lake in the Northwest Territories and started to stake claims in the area, where they found diamond indicator minerals.
"In working the claims, we realized basically that the indicator minerals there must have been brought in through glaciation," Fipke said in a video presentation before the induction. "And the more we sampled eastward, we kept finding indicators in the tills."
This successful detective work led to a joint venture deal with BHP Minerals in 1990, thanks to the late BHP geologist Hugo Dummett (inducted in 2010), and the pivotal Ekati discovery at Lac de Gras one year later.
CF Mineral Research became and remains a leading processing facility in the world of diamond exploration, and Fipke published the first guide to diamond exploration using indicator mineral geochemistry in 1995.
Born with a sense of adventure, Fipke worked in far-flung regions of Papua New Guinea, Brazil and South Africa during his career, as well as the Arctic. While he had some close calls, including surviving cerebral malaria and a helicopter crash, Fipke confessed in the video presentation that he doesn't fear anything.
"It's crazy," he said. "I should fear more."
Stepping up to the podium to accept his award, however, Fipke admitted "I do fear one thing and that's what I'm about to say — in front of all these people, it is a little scary."
Visibly overwhelmed by the honour, Fipke thanked those who nominated him and explained that he hadn't realized he was worthy of the Hall of Fame.
"I always thought you'd need to find at least two to three mines in order to get inducted!" he said to audience applause and laughter.
Touting the Ontario and Yemen-based projects being advanced through his current company, Metalex Ventures, Fipke added: "Maybe I'll redeem myself and I will make [up] my deficit."
Fipke acknowledged that the key to making the Ekati discovery was a top notch team that included his partner at Dia Met, Stu Blusson, as well as Hugo Dummett, John Gurney and many others.
"But I have to say, probably the most important person that helped me out right from when I was born was my mom, she's here today," he said, gesturing to his mother in the audience.
Notably, Fipke affirmed that money has never been the driver behind his thirst for discovery.
"Just about every geologist and prospector knows what I'm talking about, the find — you want to discover, it's what you were trained to do and that's what you want to do," he said. "You don't really do things for money, it's trying to find something."
Before he left the stage, Fipke counselled that success — whether in exploration or athletics — comes down to hard work and discipline.
"Most people don't do their best," Fipke said. "I find the harder I work, the luckier I get."
The second inductee of the evening was Gerald Grandey, under whose stewardship Cameco became a world leader in uranium production, nuclear safety and the largest corporate employer of aboriginal people in Canada. Upon his retirement in 2011, Cameco's market capitalization had grown to $9.6 billion from $2.1 billion at the start of his term, and the integrated nuclear energy company represented 16% of the world's uranium output, with mines in Canada, the United States and Kazakhstan.
Grandey joined Cameco as senior vice-president of marketing and corporate development in 1993 before becoming chief executive in 2003. Under his watch the company deftly handled water inflow and other technical challenges at McArthur River, the world's largest and highest grade uranium mine, and at Cigar Lake, the largest undeveloped high grade uranium deposit, both in Saskatchewan's Athabasca Basin. He also engineered, in co-operation with the government of Kyrgyzstan, the spinoff in 2004 of Cameco's gold assets, including the Kumtor gold mine, creating Centerra Gold and raising $871 million, enabling Cameco to focus on its core business.
Among his many achievements was Grandey's leadership in negotiating the complex Highly Enriched Uranium agreement, under which Russian nuclear weapons were dismantled and the displaced uranium sold to Western nuclear power plants to generate electricity. The implementation of that agreement was the biggest "swords-to-ploughshares" program ever undertaken, and elevated Cameco and Canada on the world stage.
It took six years to negotiate that transaction and, in the process, Grandey said he travelled to virtually every secret city in the former Soviet Union. "I can remember on one of my first visits seeing a sign that said: "Well, if this is your first trip to Russia, you are welcome to it," he recounted, to widespread laughter in the audience.
Grandey recalled that when he joined Cameco, the industry's prospects were fairly dismal. "Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, reactors being postponed, electricity demand declining, public acceptance at an all-time low," he said. "And yet we were optimistic and we did know that uranium demand was growing."
But he said that was "ephemeral optimism" greeted by massive liquidations of uranium inventory.
"The question for all of us in the industry was how to survive," he said. "Part of our strategy was to put our hands around as much of the inventory as we possibly could, and that led to our involvement in the dismantling of 20,000 Russian nuclear warheads over a twenty-year period."
Along with efforts to mitigate the market impact of seemingly infinite inventories, Grandey and his team pursued the development of "two of the most spectacular orebodies on the planet," McArthur River and Cigar Lake, while at the same time trying to extend Cameco's reach into Kazakhstan and Central Asia.
"We pursued the vision because we firmly believed the benefits of nuclear energy would one day be rediscovered," he explained. "Well here we are now, in a similar situat ion because of the catastrophic failure in Fukushima. Notwithstanding this setback, we are still dealing with the same vexing issues of energy security, climate change, clean air and energy diversity with renewed faith that this technology will continue to grow and provide those benefits to mankind."
Grandey graduated with a degree in geophysical engineering from the Colorado School of Mines in 1968 before obtaining a law degree from Northwestern University in Chicago. Ironically he spent his early legal career opposing the licensing of nuclear plants in the United States, some of which later became Cameco's best customers. But he had a change of heart and in 1978 joined Denver-based Energy Fuels Corp., growing the company from a small uranium producer into the largest producer in the United States.
In 2011 he was appointed chairman emeritus by the World Nuclear Association and also received the Ian McRae Award from the Canadian Nuclear Association for his role in advancing nuclear energy in Canada. He was nominated the same year by the Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce for the Oslo Business for Peace Award in recognition of his efforts to aid disarmament through the HEU deal, and in 2005 received Saskatchewan's Centennial Medal for contributions to the province and the quality of life.
In his remarks Grandey noted that whatever success he has enjoyed is attributable to the help and support of the fine people he has had the honour to work with over the years, both within and outside of Cameco, and thanked his wife Tina and his children. "They endured lengthy absences while I pursued a vision of creating within Canada a globally dominant nuclear energy company," he said.
Nobody would be more pleased with his induction than his parents, he added,. "Most people would say the same thing but there's a little bit more than just parental pride here," he explained. "My father worked on the Manhattan project, hence was part of the very first application of nuclear technology. If I do the math correctly, I was conceived in Los Alamos. So you see, it was inevitable that I enter the nuclear business, because I was exposed in the womb."
James O'Rourke was the third inductee of the night, in recognition of the leadership, integrity and dedication that led him to build successful companies, operations and lasting partnerships over his long and fruitful career.
O'Rourke played an important role in developing and revisiting some of British Columbia's well known operations, including the Cassiar asbestos mine, the Quinsam coal mine, the Endako molybdenum mine and copper mines Gibraltar, Huckleberry and Similco. The latter was revived and reopened as the Copper Mountain mine.
Along with building quality assets, O'Rourke led mining companies, including Princeton Mining and Copper Mountain Mining, which operates its namesake mine near Princeton, BC. The Copper Mountain mine officially opened in August 2011 and is expected to produce 80 million lb of copper in 2013, along with gold and silver by-products.
O'Rourke said his induction into the Hall was a "great honour" and attributed his success to the excellent people he has worked with over the past 50 years.
"I've been very fortunate to spend most of my career involved in developing and building mines — the part of the business I find most exciting and most challenging," he said. "It's extremely rewarding to be a part of a team that visually witnesses a transformation of a barren site into an active mining operation with people running around."
But O'Rourke admits he knew nothing about mining while growing up in Prince George, BC, other than the fact that his grandfather toiled in a mine. Once he enrolled in the University of British Columbia, O'Rourke decided to try his hand at mechanical engineering, but quickly dropped it to study mining.
"After taking a drafting course, it was very clear that I didn't want to do it, and mining was a nice alternative," O'Rourke said in a video presentation before the induction.
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in mine engineering, O'Rourke joined Placer Development. "This was a great decision," he noted, because the company was expanding, and so it allowed him to take part in the start-up of several mines.
During his first 10 years at Placer, O'Rourke said his wife and children lived at six different mines, including Endako and Gibraltar in British Columbia and Marcopper in the Philippines. On stage, he thanked his wife and four kids for being his "greatest supporters."
"They willingly adjusted their lives and embraced the pioneer spirit as we moved mine to mine in Canada and internationally, and I'm deeply indebted and thankful for their flexibility and their support."
After 14 years with Placer, he joined Brinco and spearheaded the development of the Quinsam mine on Vancouver Island, before becoming the president of Princeton Mining.
Throughout his career, O'Rourke has been praised for his ability to motivate and relate to his employees.
Commenting on this, he said it may have something to do with being raised in a female dominated household.
"Shortly after I was born my father was killed, so I was brought up with my mother, my grandmother and my two sisters. So I definitely was brought up in a woman's world, and I think it probably just gave me a real strong respect for everyone regardless of their gender, and any other aspect of their personality and whatnot," he said in the video.
While employed at Huckleberry near Houston, BC, O'Rourke attracted Mitsubishi Mining and three other Japanese firms to invest in the $140-million operation. Huckleberry started up in 1997 and should keep producing until 2021.
More recently, he engaged Mitsubishi again to come onboard as a 25% partner of the Copper Mountain mine.
"Although our business is extremely capital intensive, it is the people that really make things happen," he said.
Along with cultivating relationships overseas, O'Rourke has connected with First Nation communities at home and made philanthropic contributions locally.
He's the founder of the "Mining for Miracles" campaign, which supports the BC Children's Hospital and has raised more than $20 million since 1988.
Some other awards O'Rourke has received include the Order of British Columbia in 2011 and the Edgar A. Scholz Medal for excellence in mine development in 2005.
At an age when most people are enjoying retirement, O'Rourke is eager to keep working, and he serves as the CEO of Copper Mountain Mining.
"It's basically my hobby," he said. "I really enjoy being involved in mining. There are a lot of nice people, and you know, it's just a lot of fun."
The night's final inductee was Pierre Lassonde, cofounder of the wildly successful, trailblazing royalty firm Franco-Nevada, and educational benefactor.
He was introduced by business associate of 33 years, friend and previous inductee Seymour Schulich. Living up to their reputation as mining's version of the Rat Pack, the pair took to the stage in matching gold lamé blazers, to howls of laughter from the audience.
Referring to Lassonde's usual role as a raucous emcee at the annual event, Schulich joked that "this guy couldn't speak English when I met him, and he's turned into a silver tongued devil."
Seymour noted that "some people say Pierre and I fell into a sewer, and we came out with a gold bar in one hand and a bouquet of flowers in the other ... To me, men like Pierre Lassonde have done an enormous job building bridges across Canada, and uniting our great country, and he is most wor thy recipient of this award."
In congratulating Fipke for his induction, Lassonde quipped that "Chuck is quite a special man … the voices in his head may not be real, but let me tell you, they have some good ideas."
Born in Saint-Hyacinthe, QC, Lassonde picked up a degree in electrical engineering in Montreal, followed by an MBA from the University of Utah in 1973. After graduation, his first wife started working in Bechtel's nuclear department in San Francisco, and Lassonde got involved in the firm's construction department. "I thought I'd learn a lot about construction and then start my own firm," Lassonde recalled. "But I started speculating in junior mining stocks, and that's when I got the bug. After that, there was no turning back."
Lassonde then moved to Beutel Goodman & Co., where he managed its gold investment fund for a decade and met Schulich. The two started Franco-Nevada as a private company in 1982, took it public in September 1983, and in 1985 hit on the idea bringing oil and gas-style royalties into the world of mining.
Testing the waters, Lassonde recalled how they'd asked their geo in Nevada to keep his eyes peeled for any mining royalty for sale. "Well, our geologist was sitting at his desk on a Friday morning, reading the Reno Gazette and drinking his coffee, and on page three was a box ad, two inches by three, 'royalty for sale', with a phone number in Texas."
After a phone call, Lassonde met with the potential vendor in Salt Lake City the next Monday morning. Lassonde realized it was either $2 million or nothing, because the man had a bank loan due. "Anything less than that, and he was bankrupt anyway." And so Lassonde and Schulich forged Franco's first ever royalty deal, even though it consumed their entire treasury.
After Lassonde and the vendor verbally hammered out the deal, they immediately went to the lawyer's office, dictated the contract terms, and signed it after lunch.
"When he went back to his office, guess who was at the door there to meet him, but the manager of the little mine next door, and he was there on orders to buy the royalty," Lassonde recalled. "If I had not been there that Monday morning and taken him right to the lawyer to sign, we would have never had that royalty."
Lassonde said it was a lesson: "Carpe diem, seize the day. Grab the day by the you-know-what and don't let it go. A year later Barrick bought the property, and it turned out to be the Goldstrike royalty. From a $2-million investment, there has been more than $700 million in cash flow so far."
Lassonde then turned to current Barrick Gold CEO Jamie Sokalsky at the head table, and said with big smile, "Thank you, Mr. Sokalsky. Love it, and keep it coming."
A few years after that fateful royalty purchase, Barrick had discovered 20 million oz of gold at Goldstrike, and Franco-Nevada's stock had gone from 65 cents to $15.
"'Oh boy, we were rich.' we thought. 'There's nothing to this game — we need to sell Franco and do it all over again,'" Lassonde said. So they hired an investment banker, and wrote up documents to sell Franco-Nevada.
"We went to the Holt-McDermott mine opening. I was all puffed up … 'look at me, look at me!'" Lassonde remembered. "I was telling Brian Meikle, the guy who discovered Goldstrike, our plan. And Brian said, 'Pierre, you don't understand, do you?' And I said, 'What do you mean, I'm smart, I made all this money, I'm nouveau riche.'"
Lassonde described Meikle's response as being "very, very prophetic words: 'this is not a discovery of a lifetime, this is a discovery of three lifetimes.' And boy, it was like someone stuck a pin in my balloon. That whole day and the rest of the night, those words kept coming back at me."
Lassonde recalled telling his partner the next day, "Seymour, we are the two dumbest bastards. Brian is absolutely right. We will never have a chance to do something like this again."
He then asked the induction ceremony attendees, "When was the latest time you heard of a discovery of a hundred million tonnes at over ten grams per tonne — that was Goldstrike in its early days. An incredible discovery, and to this day it has never been equalled."
Lassonde then turned deadly serious for a moment: "That day we made the decision to build a real company. That day changed our lives. Luck may bring you riches, but it will never bring you wisdom. Wisdom walked in that day in the form of Brian Meikle, and we owe him so, so much."
Franco-Nevada was eventually sold to Newmont Mining in 2001 for $3.2 billion, creating the world's largest gold miner in a three-way merger with Australia's Normandy Mining, with Lassonde as president.
In 2007, Lassonde and a group of investors arranged to buy Franco-Nevada back for $1.2 billion, leading to what was, at the time, the largest ever initial public offering for a mining company on the TSE. Today the company is worth $8 billion.
"The reason I'm here tonight is because of all you that are here tonight: the counsel, the advice, the support and the love of family and friends, is really what gets us up here," Lassonde said. "And I have a special debt of gratitude for Seymour – without him none of this would have been possible."
Lassonde also paid tribute to current Franco-Nevada CEO David Harquail, who he said had "good hand-to-wallet reflexes" and retired Falconbridge president and centenarian Marsh Cooper, who he joked had taught him that "impotence was just Nature's way of saying, 'no hard feelings.'"
Schulich noted that Franco-Nevada has sometimes been criticized for being a "virtual company," but said, "there is nothing 'virtual' about Pierre's support of the industry. He will have given more than $120 million to support mining and business education in Ontario, Quebec and Utah in 10 projects."
Lassonde established the Lassonde Chair in Mining Engineering at the University of Toronto in 1996, followed by the Lassonde Mineral Engineering program and the Lassonde Institute for Engineering Geosciences in 2000. Other large donations have been made to York University and the University of Utah, among others.
Lassonde's numerous awards include the Order of Canada in 2003.
A full list of inductees and their biographies are available at www.mininghalloffame.ca
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I am writing a c++ program for windows using the API. My program needs to be able to get some text from the clipboard, import it to the program's scope as a string, and do work on the string.
[what I have tried]
cout << GetClipboardData(CF_TEXT) << endl;
cout << GetClipboardData(CF_UNICODETEXT) << endl;
Both of these printed/returned zero, which, msdn says, means the functions failed.
I found the MSDN documentation wanting...an example would have been nice.
Even if the above functions returned a non-zero result, I am not sure how I would use the returned data handle to get the data as a string.
[other ideas]
I could post a paste message to a temporary text file, then import the text using fstream, but this is rather a backwards way of going about it.
I am hoping someone would please shed some light on how to get text from the clipboard as a string into my c++ program.


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Women having babies in their thirties and forties is nothing new. For generations, and still in some areas of the world, it was common place for women to have children until menopause. My paternal grandparents both came from very large families. I myself, born well after my older siblings, had older parents. What has changed is what the census bureau refers to as a delayer bloom. The average age for women to begin having children is 29, and the number of women waiting until their thirties is climbing.
While optimal fertility occurs in a woman's early twenties and women interested in becoming an egg donor must be between the ages of 21 and 30, new educational and employment opportunities available to women are resulting in later births as a whole.
Women over the age of 35 who become pregnant can look forward to the medical community referring to their pregnancy as a geriatric pregnancy. Statistically speaking, older mothers are more likely to be educated about pregnancy and birth choices than their younger counterparts and have more confidence to stand up for themselves. It's no wonder the traditional medical community, which forces unneccessary interventions and scoffs at women who come in with birth plans or refuse procedures, has labelled these women high risk.
There isn't any right age to start or stop a family. Learning about pregnancy, birth, and parenting is beneficial at any age. Loving your child and treating him or her with respect is what matters.


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KU vice provost candidates to give presentations
Four finalists will take questions from faculty, staff
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas says four finalists for vice provost for diversity and equity are scheduled to give public presentations.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1oEYZsv) the candidates will also take questions from faculty, staff and other members of the university over the next two weeks.
Only two of the candidates have been publicly identified so far.
DeBrenna Agbenyiga is associate dean for graduate studies in the College of Social Science at Michigan State University. Her presentation was scheduled for Monday afternoon at the Kansas Union.
The other finalist identified by the university is Gilbert Brown, associate dean in the College of Education at Missouri State University. His presentation is scheduled Wednesday afternoon at the Hall Center Conference Hall.
The other candidates are scheduled for presentations March 31 and April 3.


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MILWAUKEE -- A Milwaukee man will not face any charges after shooting a robbery suspect at a Milwaukee grocery store.
On Friday, the Milwaukee County district attorney praised his actions.
Nazir Al-Mujaahid first told 12 News that when he saw a man holding up a sawed off shotgun threatening a cashier in Aldi's on Monday, he knew it was time to use his concealed carry training.
"There was a gentleman behind him. I nodded him to get out of the way. Thank God he saw and got out of the way, and that's when I had to fire at the gentleman," Al-Mujaahid said.
He fired six or seven times and is made it clear Friday that he stands by his actions.
"The guy dropped the shotgun, dropped the bag of money, and people were safe. That's the most important thing, and I'm not suffering any consequences for practice my constitutional right," Al-Mujaahid said.
The district attorney is not releasing the surveillance video.
"The surveillance video showed he acted reasonably and in a controlled manner," Chisholm said. "He disrupted an act that potentially exposed himself and others to death or great bodily harm. And under the unique facts and circumstances of this case, it would not be appropriate to charge him with any potential crimes or ordinance violations."
Chisholm said the shooter was courageous, and put himself in danger to protect others, therefore he won't be charged.
As for Al-Mujaahid, he had never been to that Aldi's before, didn't plan on going in and didn't see the No Weapons sign, but now he's the first conceal carry permit holder in Wisconsin to use a weapon for protection.
"It doesn't matter if I was the first person or the 100th person, the thing is that I was alive, and people were safe in the situation," Al-Mujaahid said.
He said he now hopes to teach others the importance of conceal carry training and education.
Al-Mujaahid has set up a website, www.ccwadvocates.com , to share his story.
The suspected armed robber and the getaway driver were both charged Friday.


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Soccer's bad boy bites opponent at World Cup
Biting opponents, racist comments — all that looked to be behind Luis Suarez, as soccer's bad boy was maturing into a star for his club and country. Then, the old habit that most people leave behind in nursery school cropped up again in front of an audience of millions.
Faced with a smothering and frustrating Italian defense in a must-win World Cup game yesterday in Natal, Brazil, the Uruguayan superstar responded with his front teeth.
It came about the 80th minute, when Suarez and Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini got tangled up in front of the Italy goal. The apparent chomp happened in an instant, but, caught by television cameras, it became a worldwide sensation and could lead to Suarez being kicked out of the World Cup.
The referee didn't see a bite, and no foul was called despite Chiellini pleading and pulling down his jersey to show a red mark on his shoulder.
About a minute later, Uruguay scored the winning goal in a 1-0 game that sent Italy home.
Uruguay will continue playing, but the federation that runs the World Cup will investigate and may suspend Suarez, who has twice before been disciplined for biting opponents in league games.
FIFA officially announced an investigation early today, saying the Urguayans had until late the next afternoon to present evidence. A ruling will be announced before Uruguay plays Colombia on Saturday.
Suarez didn't confirm or deny the bite but said he was angry that Chiellini — one of the best defenders in the world and known for his physical play — had hit him in the eye during the game.
"These are things that happen on the pitch. We were both in the area. He thrust his shoulder into me," Suarez said in Spanish. "These things happen on the pitch, and we don't have to give them so much" importance.
Suarez, 27, should be celebrating a career year. After asking to be sold before the season, he stayed with Liverpool, won the scoring title and was named the English Premier League's player of the year.
Now, he'll have to try to start rehabbing his reputation again.
Uruguay Coach Oscar Tabarez and Suarez's teammates immediately defended their star.
"I want to say that if he's attacked, as it has begun in this press conference, we'll also defend him, because this is a football World Cup, not of cheap morality," said Tabarez, who said he didn't see a bite.
Suarez was suspended following biting incidents in the Netherlands in 2010 and in England in 2013. He also was suspended for racially abusing an opponent. British tabloids have teasingly called him a vampire, and social media artists have had fun manipulating his photo into images of Dracula and Hannibal Lecter.
And he was responsible for one of the most talked-about moments of the 2010 World Cup, when he purposefully used his hand to prevent a Ghana goal near the end of the quarterfinals. Suarez received a red card and was banned for the next game, but Ghana missed the penalty kick and was eliminated.
BETTORS WIN BIG ON BITE: Suarez's practice of biting opponents seems to be a safe bet.
More than 150 people across Europe put money down that he would do it again during the World Cup and raked in winnings 175-fold, a Swedish gambling company said.
The biggest win went to a punter in Norway whose bonanza amounted to $2,700, while someone else in that Scandinavian country took home $916, Betsson group spokesman Mikael Mellqvist said.


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I Asked a Beautiful MILF Sales Clerk in the Fitting Rooms to Help Me Hem My Pants...
Step Mom caught Step Son jerking off and help him to cum quick Part 7
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She lost her anal virginity for helping with homework
Brother helps step sister make a cuckold porn for her boyfriend.
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I forbid my husband to jerk off his dick
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Girl helps guy fucking her friends ass
I hire a therapist friend to help me with a pain I have in my back
Girl caught a guy jerking off and helped him cum
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He fucks a BBW milf after helping her out
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Blonde mother in law helps him cum
MILF helps her stepson cum in his tree house
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I apologize for being a bit late on this one but I assume you'll forgive me when you hear that I chose swimming in lakes, long walks, and watching the sun fade into the ocean instead of sitting inside writing this post. But now we are home from vacation and I am so happy to be back in this space. I miss it when I'm gone.
It's Friday, which in most cases means I post some recent images I've taken on film.
Here are a few other Film Fridays to peruse at your leisure.
All images were shot using Kodak Portra 400 using a Canon A1 50mm 1.4.
It's been awhile since a "Dating My Husband" post has appeared on the blog and the reason for this is simple, we hadn't been doing a good job of dating. I didn't say it was a good reason, just a simple one.
The effects of this quickly became evident in our marriage. Without time spent reconnecting I began to see my husband, my partner in this crazy life, as a roommate. Someone I share our space with but that's about it. Our conversations cover matters of all things practical and that's where they end. The tasks get completed, the children are cared for and loved, the businesses tended to, and after that we're tired.
Long days of caring for three kidlets who require more of me than I ever thought possible, cause me to want to curl up and jump into my own world after they get tucked into bed. In this world the only person I have to think about is myself. I settle in there, content and eager to have nothing and no one who needs me because really, I feel I have nothing more to give.
But there is someone else and although he doesn't whine as loudly as the three other members of this family he does need me and I need him. Even when I feel as if I have nothing to give him I must, because my marriage is my most important relationship on this earth and it requires time and energy in-spite of the fact that in this season, there is very little of that.
So we arranged for someone other than ourselves to tuck the kidlets into bed and we went out, on a date.
With cameras in hand we played tourist in our own city scavenging the market after hours looking for the right shot. When we weren't shooting we walked side by side and enjoyed the golden glow of the summer evening. Sharing our passion for photography we compared camera settings and talked composition, falling deeper in love, in a nerdy sort of a way.
by Gabe
We laughed as we wandered the streets trying desperately to find the perfect restaurant for the evening after we found out our favorite was closed for the night. I can get a little too philosophical about restaurant selections and can put far too much pressure on the night by fearing the wrong choice.
Gabe stepped up and made the final decision, Seatown Snackbar. For that night, it was perfect. We cozied up to the corner table with a view of both bustling action and the setting sun. The food was comforting, satisfying and familiar. Fitting for the night as we set out to reconnect and find that comfort in one another that we had inadvertently lost.
In no time at all we had found each other again. Not the person I argue with over whose turn it is to change the latest dirty diaper but my husband, my partner and my best friend. I found the man that I used to stay up with until the sun started a new day. The one I would watch drift in and out of sleep as he desperately tried to stay awake so we could enjoy another moment together. I would giggle over the soft rumble of his snores, finding it endearing when the thought of waking up to him and his rumbles every morning was just a dream.


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ABC's Robin Roberts Coos to Obama: 'How Difficult Is It to Stay on Message?'
ABC's Robin Roberts conducted a fawning interview with Barack Obama on
Wednesday's Good Morning America, downplaying controversy and instead offering
fawning softballs such as "How difficult is it to stay on message?" The
GMA host previewed Obama's big health care speech to Congress and only gently
broached the difficulties that the President has had with the legislation.
Earlier in the segment, Roberts vaguely wondered, "Is there a new approach that you're taking to getting your message across?" The ABC co-host mentioned controversial (now former) green czar Van Jones, but managed to not actually ask a question about him: "You talk about talk radio and the things that are being said. Glenn Beck, for instance, really going after Van Jones. Forced to resign. Controversial things that he said about 9/11 and Columbine. How difficult is it to stay on message?"
That's the best Roberts could do? Why not ask if the President agreed with Jones' statement about Columbine that "only suburban white kids shoot up schools" or press Obama on the ex-official's connections to the 9/11 Truth movement and whether or not President Bush had advance warning of September 11?
Instead, Roberts followed up by replying to the President's assertion that he doesn't worry about scoring political points. She sympathized, "Does that surprise you about the political points?"
Later, the network anchor highlighted the criticism surrounding Obama's speech on Tuesday to school children. She laughably cited two administration officials condemning conservative complaints and then asked the President to comment on his own subordinates: "Your Education Secretary called the controversy surrounding this, he said, 'It's just silly.' Your press secretary called it an 'Animal House food fight.' How would you describe the controversy?"
On May 19, 2008, Roberts talked to Barack and Michelle Obama and fretted about how the then-candidate would deal with nasty Republicans: "Should you get through this process and you have the general election ahead of you, that this is what you can expect more and more of. Are you prepared for that?"
A transcript of the September 9, 2009 segment, which aired at 7:02am EDT, follows:
ROBIN ROBERTS: I sat down with President Obama for an exclusive interview on Tuesday. And we talked about what is at stake tonight. After the speech, will the country know whether or not you are willing to sign a health care reform bill without a public option?
BARACK OBAMA: They will have a lot of clarity about what I think is the best way to move forward. Now, I've given some broad principles and parameters that a health care plan shouldn't increase the deficit, that it should cover the uninsured. That it should have insurance reforms in there, so the people who do have health insurance have better protection. So, there's some core principles that I have already laid out previously. We're going to be providing a much more detailed plan. I'm not going to give you a preview, but I want everyone to tune in.
ROBERTS: I understand you want to save the details of the speech. Are there must-haves? Are you going to draw any kind of lines in the sand?
OBAMA: There are principles that if they're not in the bill, I will not sign it.
ROBERTS: Public option?
OBAMA: And I will give you an example, I already mentioned. If it adds one dime to the deficit, if it's not fully paid for, then I will not be supportive.
ROBERTS: Is there a new approach that you're taking to getting your message across?
OBAMA: I, out of an effort to give Congress the ability to do their thing, and not step on their toes, probably left too much ambiguity out there, which allowed, then opponents of reform, to come in and to fill up the air waves with a lot of nonsense. Everything from the this ridiculous idea that we were setting up death panels to false notions that this was designed to provide health insurance to illegal immigrants. And then, this broader notion of a government takeover of health care, which none of the bills that worked their way through Congress ever envisioned. So, the intent of the speech is to make sure that the American people are clear exactly what it is that we're proposing. To make sure that Democrats and Republicans understand that I'm open to new ideas. That we're not being rigid and ideological about this thing. But we do intend to get something done this year. And to dispel some of the myths and, frankly, silliness, that's been floating out there for quite some time.
ROBERTS: You talk about talk radio and the things that are being said. Glenn Beck, for instance, really going after Van Jones. Forced to resign. Controversial things he said about 9/11 and Columbine. How difficult is it to stay on message?
OBAMA: It's not hard for me to stay on-message. My job is not to be distracted by the 24-hour news cycle. My job is to stay focused on what is actually going to help the American people. And not spend a lot of time trying to score political points.
ROBERTS: Does that surprise you about the political points?
OBAMA: Look, it is frustrating. It doesn't completely surprise me. I certainly think that I've tried to maintain a tone. And my White House has tried to maintain a tone that is open to all comers. That is not sharply partisan. And yet, you know, despite all that, I think there is still just this unyielding partisanship. In some ways, I think it's gotten worse. Part of the frustration I have is that, on the Republican side, there are wonderful people who really operated on the basis of pragmatism and common sense and getting things done. Those voices have been, I think, shouted down on that side. And I hope that the Republican Party can rediscover that voice. I think they'll find that they'll have a partner in the White House on a whole range of issues.
ROBERTS: We met with the President on Tuesday morning at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, just before he was to deliver his back-to-school speech to students around the country.
OBAMA: You cannot drop out of school and just drop into a good job. You've got to train for it and work for it and learn for it.
ROBERTS: A speech that was under fire days before, after some, including conservatives, question whether the president was trying to push a political agenda.
RUSH LIMBAUGH: I don't think he's fooling anybody.
ROBERTS: Your Education Secretary called the controversy surrounding this, he said, "It's just silly." Your press secretary called it an "Animal House food fight." How would you describe the controversy?
OBAMA: I guess it was puzzling. As you know, for a long time, I've been talking about the importance of education. Not just in terms of government programs. But also parental responsibility, turning off the TV set, put away the video game. Ironically, a very conservative message, right, about each person to take responsibility to make sure that their kids are learning. It's a message of self help and personal responsibility. And I think it's an important one for all of us to deliver. I have a bully pulpit. And I thought that would be a good way to kick off the first day of school.
ROBERTS: Personal responsibility, you talk about. But, you know there's a number of schools across this country that are failing.
OBAMA: Yeah.
ROBERTS: And what do you say to a kid, a child in one of those schools, trying to do the best that they can? But as you said, there's so much failure, for various reasons in education.
OBAMA: Well, look, first of all, we as a society, have to understand that nothing will determine our economic competitiveness more than our education system. Everything else pales in comparison. If we have the best-trained workers, if we've got the best scientists, the best technicians, then we're going to succeed. If we don't, we won't. So, we all have a vested interest in this. That's why in my budget, in the recovery act, across the board, we've been trying to make sure that we're putting money in there to save the jobs of teachers who are in danger of being laid off in this recession. Making sure that we're training the very best teachers to fill slots in the classroom. Making sure that we've got schools that are up to snuff. Those things are all important. But you're absolutely right that there's going to be some schools that need extraordinary help. And there's no silver bullet. It's going to be a long slog. And my message to kids in those schools is, hang in there. Help's on the way. But in the meantime, even in the worst and most difficult situations, if you apply yourself, you can find some help and you can succeed.
-Scott Whitlock is a news analyst for the Media Research Center.


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A Prayer for the Repose of Souls
O Master, Lord God Almighty, Who dost at no time reject Thy servants and despisest not the souls of them that pray to Thee:
give rest to the souls of Thy servants, all departed Orthodox Christians, in the paradise of consolation,
in the land of the devout, overlooking their sins whether committed in knowledge or in ignorance.
Grant them that place of sweetness; unite us with them in Thy joy, and preserve us in the remission of sins, through the prayers of our most pure Lady, the Birthgiver of God and Ever-Virgin Mary, the holy and heavenly Angelic Powers
[this last phrase in the Greek but not in the Slavonic version-tr.],
the holy John, Prophet and Forerunner and Baptist; the holy and glorious Apostles, and all the Saints which have been well-pleasing unto Thee from all ages.
For Thou art He that blesseth and sanctifieth all, and unto Thee do we send up glory: to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Another Prayer for the Departed
O God of spirits and of all flesh, Who takest of Thine own unto Thine own;
Who hast said, All souls are Mine, and Who callest them and keepest them till the day of Resurrection;
Thyself, O Master, deliver the souls of Thy servants [names may be inserted] ,
whom Thou hast taken to Thyself, from every action of the enemy power;
set as guides for them, Angels of peace; propitiously grant them to see Thy countenance;
overlook their misdeeds in this life, whether voluntary or involuntary;
make them worthy of the portion of Thy Saints and establish them in the bosom of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
Thy righteous ones, whence grief, distress, wailing and gnashing of teeth have fled;
and for us, arrange all things as is good and pleasing unto Thee.
For Thou art a good God and lovest mankind, and to Thee do we send up glory: to the FAther, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.
Provided by Fr John Shaw, via email
These two prayers are taken from a manuscript Sluzhebnik of the 17th or 18th century from the Serbian Hilandar monastery on Mt. Athos. They were translated from the Church Slavonic text, but are close to the Greek prototypes that appear in other old manuscripts and were published in the 19th century. These are kindly provided by the Monks of Hilandar Monastery


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New Threads WEDNESDAY!
Ribby Shell
Designer: Bonne Marie Burns
Yarn: Lorna's Laces *Sheperd Worsted* – 2.3 skeins
Color: Irving Park #205
Gauge: 20 sts/28rows over 4″
Needles: #7
Ok, I admit it. Even though one of the biggest parties in Chicago is coming up Sunday and I really don't need an excuse, I'll admit it.
I need a new outfit!
[i'll admit it – I LOVE NEW CLOTHES!]
And even though I can't Make it in MEE.am.MEE I can make it quite alright in the Big Windy.
Tropical Colors? No problem…
I have no Fear!
This is my favorite-favorite-shirt, a chiffon, chartruese, semi-sheer tailored number. It has made appearances in many a Captial City, busted a move in many a night spot, dressed UP, Dressed down.
It wants to go to the Game.
Who am I to say No?
This is a size 38. I made the ribbing longer, the shell 1″ shorter and the neck decreases at the same time I started the armhole decreases. I am in the process of adding these options and more sizes to this pattern – sign up HERE to be notified of Chic Knits UpDates…


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Green Revival
IN EARLY FEBRUARY I dined with two local chefs, David Padberg of Park Kitchen and Troy MacClarty of Lovely Hula Hands, each of whom uses mostly locally grown, organic produce in his restaurant. This meant, of course, that they were both in the middle of the four-month period in which rutabagas, turnips, potatoes and squash must continually be spun in novel ways. As we dined on squash gnocchi, they both admitted to winter-vegetable fatigue. What they really craved was something lighter, something green, something…
"Fava beans," said Padberg, dreaming of the day two months hence when favas would, finally, come into season.
"Faaava beans," repeated MacClarty, drawing out the first word as though he were intoning the name of his newborn, or perhaps something holy.
Their fervent anticipation was not merely the eager expression of a couple of poetic cooks, but of their innate appreciation for this harbinger of spring. The appearance in mid-April of the mild, buttery fava bean—small, bright green and hard to open—has for many cultures signified abundance and renewal. For instance, the fava (also known as a broad bean or horse bean) has been placed on St Joseph's altars for centuries as insurance against famine. On the other hand, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras advised against their consumption because he believed they contained the souls of the dead. Which must mean the mathematician never had the pleasure of partaking in the fava's silken flavor.
Or perhaps Pythagoras was merely annoyed with the vegetable's laborious preparation requirements. Favas come encased in pods that toughen and become inedible as they mature. Inside, the beans are nestled in tiny divots of delicate down. And even once you've pried the beans out of the pod, they're covered in a chewy outer skin that, later in the season, must be removed by boiling them in water for a few minutes before consuming the bean itself.
Despite the stubborn nature of the legume—which, from April through July, can be found at stores like New Seasons and Pastaworks, as well as at local farmers markets—just about every chef in town is in love with its versatility. When I recently visited chef Jack Yoss at the Pearl District's Ten-01 restaurant, where fava beans are featured prominently on the spring menu, he exhibited the same ardor MacClarty and Padberg had.
"They have a little muskiness, which makes them perfect with morels," he says. "I also like to use the fava leaves like you would pea tendrils; you can sauté them and mix them with a little citrus, and it's a natural complement to the beans." He also uses them in soups and as an accompaniment to salmon.
One of Yoss's favorite things to do with the fava is also the simplest: whisking them into a vinaigrette, which he says proved so popular last summer that one customer came in every day requesting a side of it with everything she ordered. "It was a little bit labor-intensive," he says—but he understood, "because they're just that good."
Fava Bean-Feta Vinaigrette
Jack Yoss likes to drizzle this vinaigrette over cured meats, especially Ten-01's house-made lamb prosciutto. To transform the vinaigrette into a dip, the shelled fava beans may be lightly mashed before being tossed with the vinaigrette.
Makes about 3 cups
- 1 lb fresh fava beans in the pod, or 1 cup shelled fresh fava beans
- ¾ cup extra virgin olive oil
- ¾ cup canola oil
- 3 oz champagne vinegar
- 3 oz small dice or crumbled feta cheese
- 1 tbsp chopped preserved lemons or ½ tbsp lemon zest
- 1 tsp finely chopped fresh oregano
- 1 tsp finely chopped fresh mint
- 1 tsp finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tsp finely chopped chives
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Remove beans from 1 lb of fresh fava pods.
- Cook beans in boiling water until tender, approximately 2 minutes.
- Transfer to ice water. Peel off outer hulls. (You should have about 1 cup of hulled beans.)
- Prepare vinaigrette: Place remaining ingredients in a mixing bowl. Stir together and season with salt and pepper.


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A Return to Heritage: 2014 Jaguar F-TYPE convertible
The new Jaguar F-TYPE represents a return to the company's heartland: a two-seater, soft-top convertible sports car focused on performance, agility and driver involvement. The F-TYPE is a continuation of a sporting bloodline that stretches back more than 75 years and encompasses some of the most beautiful, thrilling and desirable cars ever built.
Taking inspiration from the C-X16 concept unveiled in 2011, the front of the F-TYPE features a new interpretation of the bold angular Jaguar grille from which flows the muscular clamshell bonnet with its signature 'power bulge'. The all important heart line begins its journey in the blade dissecting the shark-like gills on either side of the grille before leading the eye to the top of the front wing, emphasized by the bi-xenon headlamp and integral LED daytime running lights, into the door and towards the rear of the car where it gracefully disappears.
Its journey is taken up at this point by the second heart line which swells out to form the muscular rear haunch before sweeping dramatically around the sensual low tail, made possible by the inclusion of an active rear spoiler which deploys at speed to reduce lift. Full LED rear lamps create a new Jaguar sports car signature by reinterpreting classic cues from the past and, by wrapping around to the trailing edge of the rear wheel arch, emphasize the powerful stance of the car and its rear-wheel drive sporting potential.
Available in F-Type, F-Type S and F-Type V8 S models, power for the all-new Jaguar two-seater is generated by a trio of prime movers: a new 3.0L V6, developed from Jaguar's highly acclaimed 5.0L V8, is available in base or S variants; while a newly developed 5.0L V8 supercharged power plant is an available option. Torque is communicated to the street through a set of eight closely-spaced, sporting ratios in its Quick shift automatic transmission, giving the driver greater control. The V6-powered S model also includes a Dynamic Launch feature, which optimizes acceleration from rest.
Featuring the most advanced iteration of Jaguar's acclaimed rigid and lightweight aluminum architecture to date, the F-TYPE has ideally balanced weight distribution that allows its involving rear-wheel drive dynamics to be explored to the full. In order to maximize the benefits of its advanced structure, the F-TYPE features all-aluminum double wishbone front and rear suspension and a quick-ratio steering rack for ultimate responsiveness. The aluminum architecture has been optimized to provide the stiffest possible underpinnings for the suspension with rigidity gains of more than 30 per cent in key areas compared to any other Jaguar application.
Inside the passenger cabin, the focus on driver involvement and sporting performance in the F-TYPE is emphasized by the 'one plus one' layout. Taking inspiration from cockpits of fighter airplanes, the controls are ergonomically grouped by function. Further aeronautical inspiration can be found in the joystick-shaped SportShift selector controlling the eight-speed transmission. The air vents on top of the dashboard will only deploy when instructed to by either the driver or complex control algorithms, staying tucked discreetly out of sight in other circumstances.
Dimensions & specifications
Wheelbase: 103.2; overall length: 176.0; width: 75.7; height: 51.0 (51.5 V8 S)
All vehicle measurements are in inches.
Engine: 3.0L V6 – 340 hp at 6,500 rpm and 332 lbs-ft of torque at 3,500-5,000 rpm; 3.0L V6 S – 380 hp at 6,500 rpm and 339 lbs-ft of torque at 3,500 -4,500 rpm; 5.0L Supercharged V8 – 495 hp at 6,500 rpm and 460 lbs-ft of torque at 2,500 -5,500 rpm.
Transmission: eight-speed 'QuickShift' automatic
EPA Fuel Economy: 3.0L V6: 20 city/28 hwy.; 3.0L V6 S: 19 city/27 hwy. and 5.0L Supercharged V8 – 16 city/23 hwy.
Cargo capacity: 7.1 cubic feet
Safety features
Smart Airbag System (including two front airbags), roll over protection system, dual seat-mounted airbags with head protection, four-wheel disc brakes with anti-lock, electronic brake-force distribution, emergency brake assist, traction control, dynamic stability control, intelligent stop/start, open differential, drive-away locking function, engine immobilizer, Jaguar Smart Key System™ with keyless start, two stage unlocking, perimeter sensing and alarm, remote control central locking, tire pressure monitoring system, Bluetooth hands-free phone system, navigation system, cruise control with Automatic Speed Limiter (ASL), automatic headlights, rear fog lights, rain-sensing windshield wipers, and Jaguar tire repair system. F-Type S adds limited slip differential. F-Type V8 S adds electronic active differential.
Basic: 4-year/50,000 mile
Corrosion: 6-year/unlimited
Roadside Assistance: 4-year/50,000 mile 24-hour
The base Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP) for the 2014 Jaguar F-Type convertible starts from $69,000 for the base model, $81,000 for the F-Type S, and $92,000 for the F-Type V8 S. Destination charges add $925.


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Backbreaker's addictive Tackle Alley minigame put you on the field as a ballcarrier juking and spinning his way through 100-yard touchdown runs. Backbreaker 2: Vengeance puts you in the game on defense, blasting those showboats out of the water.
Backbreaker 2: Vengeance, the iPhone (and iPod Touch)-only sequel to Backbreaker: Tackle Alley, hit the iTunes store last week. In it you get more moves on offense and a "super showboat" move to rack up even higher scores. On defense, all of those moves are available to you save showboat; instead you're going to hunt down the opposing runner and clean his transmission. As you progress through the game you unlock teams for use and additional moves, although the full set becomes available to you early in the game.
One note here, there's no game audio, just my narration, because of a technical difficulty on my end (basically, I'm in the stone age filming with a tape-based mini-camcorder, and it has a squeaky gear that makes everything sound like your roommate having sex. You should see my newborn cousin's christening video, it's awesome.) I'm trying to get that fixed. But if you've played Backbreaker on the PS3 or the Xbox 360, the sounds (including in the menu) are consistent with that game's look and feel and the roar of the crowd is top notch.
[Update] In the video above I erroneously describe the trucking skill's utility; defenders haloed in yellow may be run over with the truck move; defenders in red may be leaped.


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1. your Query looks awkward,
2. you can't sort on your columns,
3. you can't display your column totals
In case you didn't know, you may use a trick to work around that problem:
a) crate a normal query like this:
SELECT LPAD (ROWNUM, 4, 0) ROW_NUM, deptno, empno, ename,
sal, comm
FROM emp
b) In the HTML expression of your columns put the following for each column accordingly:
<input id="f03_#ROW_NUM#" type="text" style="text-align: right;"
value="#EMPNO#" maxlength="4" size="4" name="f03"/>
c) You may use the items in your custom update process and in your javascript the same way you do when you use apex_item or the wizard generated table.
Now, you may create column totals and sort on such created items. And your SQL query looks much better.
As always, there is a proof of concept in my Demo Application on this page http://htmldb.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=31517:168.
By the way. Around 100 people from all over the globe asked and received a personal account for the Demo Application. If you are also interested to look behind the curtains, please feel free to send me an email with your contact details.