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Trail Marathon Training Plan (Novice, Intermediate, 24 weeks), Reusable, Starts Any Week on a Monday
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24 Weeks
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Dream Big. Train Smart. Finish Strong!
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It all starts with your Running Dreams. Crossing the finish line of your target event is a great feeling: this is what you've trained for. Hands in the air and celebrate the moment!
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Starting 24 weeks before your Trail Race, this plan steadily builds towards peaking in week 19 and 21. Your longest run will be a 33 km (21mi) slow and steady run. Peak training week total is 70 km (44mi).
Each week typically contains 3 training runs and 4 rest days per week. During peak training period, you will train 3 days a week. Training runs include: Easy Run, Tempo Run, Recovery Run, Interval, Speedwork and an Easy Long Run during the weekends.
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Freshly Felled Trees is a work from Eirik Johnson's series Sawdust Mountain, the culmination of his four years photographing throughout Oregon, Washington, and Northern California. Focusing on the tenuous relationship between industries reliant upon natural resources and the communities they support, Johnson, a Seattle native, describes these photographs as "a melancholy lover letter of sorts, my own personal ramblings."
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Year Built2019
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This image of Afghanistan might be hard to wrap your head around, but it's totally accurate. Prior to three-plus decades of war, Afghanistan, and Kabul in particular, had a pretty solid setup, one that westerners would often visit.
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Taken by amateur photographer Dr. William F. Podlich in the 1960s, the two women are his daughters (Afghan women, even most men, don't bare arms or legs in public), this and other pictures show westerners and Afghans in western-style clothing, clean streets, and buildings without any bullet holes.
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Have slightly run out of words today. I never run out of words.
Last night, the Pigeon and I sat on the sofa together, watching old episodes of the West Wing. Even the brilliance of Aaron Sorkin could not stop my mind from wandering. I suddenly decided that I must write down every single moment of these last days. I must record the soft, downy feel of her fur, the teddy bear grumble she makes when she shifts position, the gracious line of silver about her mouth, the way she puts her muzzle on my leg and gazes up into my eyes.
I actually rushed to the computer at half-past nine and started to do this. Then my fingers stopped moving. I don't need to write it, I thought; I should just live it.
Everyone is lovely. All the extended family, the Beloved Cousin, the Horse Talker, the Dear Readers. I get incredibly touching messages on Twitter. There is the sweetness of the nearest and dearest, and the kindness of strangers. I move between pretty stoical and intensely sad. In a slightly nuts way, I keep the sadness from the dog. For her, I am bonny and blithe.
She chased her stick this morning. This is my absolute bellwether. She is a bit off her food, and she gives me those heartbreaking searching glances, as if she knows something is not right and she needs me to tell her what it is. But when I pick up the stick, her eyes brighten, and she bounces up and down, and she does her canine grin, and I can catch a glimpse of that antic youth, when she used to swim across the burn and jump over three foot fences and run at thirty miles an hour. (I once timed her and the Duchess up the drive, and they hit a top speed of 34 mph. I was so proud. They were my own little Frankels.)
The mare has her own sweetness. I am spending all my time with the dog, so I just rush up to the field for the most basic feed and groom and checking of legs. Also: for five minutes of intense love. Normally, Red can get quite grumpy if she is not having her due duchessy share of attention. Now, she seems calm and understanding. She puts her head on my shoulder and I stroke the velvet coat on her neck, growing furry now the cold weather is setting in. It is the softest, most comforting thing in the world. All her summer hardness falls away, and there is something yielding and gloriously tactile about her.
She blows down her nose and nods her head and I give her a kiss and run back to my dog.
Today's pictures:
Some autumn leaf action:
Have not had time to take horse pictures lately, so here are a couple from our glorious snow day:
That little pony is a great comfort too. She is so downy and furry now that all I do is hug her. She puts up with it with very good grace. She is another one who grows more beloved every day, and she has a good line in comic turns too, so she makes us all laugh.
Red, inspecting her view:
The Pigeon, this morning:
What I find hard to comprehend is that someone who looks like that can be coming to the end. I suppose it is good that she is not deaf and blind and hardly able to walk. I know the vet is right. That bloody ear will get her. I am not clinging to false hope. She is on four different drugs and all they can do is hold the inevitable at bay for a little while. At least her final days are not a mess of pain and incontinence and other horrors. It just seems wrong, somehow, that one failing part of the body can overcome all the rest, which is still so filled with life.
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by Richard and Missy Lee
In 1996, two friends graduated from West Winslow-Plainsboro High School in New Jersey. After earning a degree in communications from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania, one of them, Tim Spinner, overcame this collegiate diversion from his true passion — food — by graduating from The Restaurant School in Philadelphia. After college, his friend, Brian Sirhal, who also had some food experience, opted for the suits and ties of Wall Street finance. The two kept in touch, as good friends will.
Tim honed his skills for seven years working with Stephen Starr and especially Iron Chef Jose Garces, becoming Garces' Sous Chef at Center City's El Vez, a Starr enterprise. When Garces left El Vez to open Amada, Spinner followed as Executive Sous Chef, and as Chef de Cuisine at Garces' next venture, Distrito, in University City. Each restaurant earned its share of local praise.
Meanwhile, back in New York, Brian Sirhal had gone from finance to food, beginning as a server and winding up as a manager at New York's famed Rosa Mexicano. From there, Brian at last joined Tim at Distrito in June of 2008, where he became Beverage Manager. In 2010, the two formed a partnership and opened Cantina Feliz in Fort Washington this past January.
Both friends are now married, with young children. (Sirhal's wife, Sandy, grew up in Erdenheim.) During his courting days, Brian would often drive by the then-restaurant, Marita's Cantina, at 424 South Bethlehem Pike in Fort Washington. "Not in my wildest dreams did I think I'd one day run a restaurant, much less a Mexican restaurant, at this location," he said.
But run a restaurant they do, and quite a restaurant it is in the location most recently occupied by Alison 2. On a recent Wednesday, we went early to meet Tim and Brian and have dinner. It was a delightful experience. The décor is Southwest, with desert and tropical colors used to harmonious effect, and there a remarkable mural showing the Day of the Dead, the Mexican equivalent of our, Halloween.
This can become a noisy restaurant since it has tiled and wood floors and painted walls and ceilings with no curtains, carpets or other sound-deadeners. But, put that aside; the food is worth it.
The dinner menu looks simpler than it is because it's on one side of a single laminated page. The drinks menu is on the reverse side. There are 11 appetizers at $7 to $13.95, two soups at $5.95, two salads ($8), five entrees ($14 to $25), seven varieties of tacos from $9 to $18, and more.
The lunch menu includes a two-course prix fixe deal at $12.95. Desserts at lunch and dinner include sorbets, banana-cocoanut cream cake, and more. And there's even a menu for "little amigos;" yes, the place is definitely kid-friendly. This was proved by several parties with children, even babies, as part of the festive crowd when we dined.
When the menus are at least partly in a language not one's own (neither of us knows Spanish), it's essential that the waitstaff be experts at explaining its dishes. If Nina Grisafi, our charming waitress, is any example, Tim and Brian have this base thoroughly covered.
When the one of us who's non-spicy (in food preferences, that is) asked about the Mole Poblano, Nina rightfully suggested Black Bass with poblano cream, potato, spinach and pearl onions as a non-spicy alternative. This dish made a bold presentation and was a perfect choice: moist, rich and generous. (It's also the second-priciest entrée at $24.)
Mr. Spicy then opted for the Mole Poblano (organic chicken breast with plantain rice, pomegranate and sesame seeds, $16) which was simply the most delicious version of chicken I have ever eaten. Both entrees were preceded by an appetizer of Guacamole with dipping chips that could have fed a quartet ($9).
The list of Margaritas, specialty cocktails, beers, wines, tequilas and tequila flights calls for small type indeed to fit onto one page! Traditional tastes are not neglected; we started with an excellent Skyy martini. Cantina Feliz buys their ingredients locally as much as possible. Their exceptional coffee, for instance, comes from Chestnut Hill Coffee Company.
Getting to Cantina Feliz may not be half the fun, since the roads are trickier following a recent reconstruction. From Chestnut Hill, take Bethlehem Pike to a left turn at Lafayette Avenue Connector, then right at the light onto Lafayette, and straight ahead into their parking lot. Caution: watch for traffic on your right.
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[Gordon] Beckham gave every indication that he was ready for prime time. He hit the ground running with the White Sox in '09, putting up a .351 Weighted On-Base Average (wOBA) in 430 PA while earning the Sporting News' AL Rookie of the Year Award. Just 22 years old at the time, Beckham looked like a franchise cornerstone and a needed first-round success story for an organization that had recently been criticized for taking low-upside players like Lance Broadway and Kyle McCulloch.
Since then, however, Beckham has been sliding backwards. His wOBA dipped to .305 in 2010, and he's the owner of a sordid .262 wOBA so far this season for a Chicago team whose park-and-league adjusted offense is 12 percent below average. In late April, White Sox hitting coach Greg Walker told the Chicago Sun-Times, "[Beckham]'s swinging at a lot of pitches out of the zone. He's frustrated. He's getting himself out a lot."
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Skyline Releases Men's Soccer Report #6
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The final novel by legendary sci-fi author Arthur C Clarke is to be published in August.
According to the Independent, Clarke's unfinished book The Last Theorem was completed by fellow scribe Frederik Pohl. Publisher HarperCollins coughed six figures to secure the rights earlier this year.
The book appears to have been a truly collaborative effort, with Clarke asking for Pohl's assistance when he became increasingly ill with post-polio syndrome, and also found himself stricken with writer's block. "Arthur said to me that he woke up one morning and didn't know how to write any of the books he had contracted," Pohl explained. "The stories had just gone out of his head."
Pohl worked from notes and an outline to bring the book to life over a period of two years, saying that "everything in the novel is something he either suggested or wrote or I discussed with him". Clarke was able to review the finished manuscript before his death in March this year.
The last theorem of the title is that of 17th-century maths whiz Pierre de Fermat, but if that's too dry there is the promise of space elevator action too.
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Country Stars Share Their Mother's Day Stories
It's Mother's Day, and nothing is more important to country music than honoring your mother. Here, some of country's biggest stars share their favorite stories about their mothers, the mothers of their children, or even their own motherhood.
Alan Jackson says his wife, Denise, set a positive example for their daughters when she wrote the best-selling book 'It's All About Him' a few years ago. "I think it's been great for them to see her do something out there that's, again, not typical for a parent at all," he shares. "But she's a great role model for them anyway and always has been, whether she did anything professionally or not. I could see it in their eyes, you know, that they were surprised -- very surprised, and also, I could see them with interest looking at her thinking it was special for her to do that."
'Wagon Wheel' singer Darius Rucker says his character comes from wanting to please his mother. "I think that's the main reason I am how I am…an innate fear of disappointing my mom," he admits. "My mom's not even alive, and I have a fear of her looking down from heaven and going, 'Man I'm just disappointed in my son.' She could have said anything in the world to me, but if she would have said, 'Son, you just disappointed me,' that would have killed me."
Dierks Bentley says keeping his wife happy on Mother's Day is a big priority. "Any touring husband, anyone who tours who has kids and a wife back home, it's tough, man. It's a lot of work," he acknowledges. "So, I definitely need to step up to think of something great to do this Sunday, for sure. But nothing yet. As usual, I'll probably get something last minute and hopefully, it'll be great, though. She deserves something great."
He may seem like an outlaw from his scruffy image, but Eric Church loves his mama. He has talked before about how much of his musical ability he owes to his mother -- but he apparently feels he owes her an apology for his behavior when he was younger, too, though he doesn't want to say just why. "If I've gotten away with it this long I'm not about . . . I'm not letting it out now [that] I've made it. The guilt is even gone now, I'm good," he says with a laugh. "So probably, but I'm not going to admit any of it. I'll say I'm sorry, just blanket I'm sorry."
Singer Charles Kelley from Lady Antebellum says he and his brother, pop singer Josh Kelley, also owe their mom for putting up with their youthful shenanigans. "We used to play our music loud up above on the second floor, bang on the drums and the guitar," he recalls. "And my mom's just one of those people, she'll do anything for her family and she sacrificed a lot for us boys. Anytime we needed something, she made it happen. And so, we owe her a lot. She's definitely the reason we're playing music."
Of course, Mother's Day is also about being a parent. Little Big Town singer Kimberly Schlapman waited a long time for motherhood, and she says being a mom ties her to her own mother. "I see what my mother gave up and her sacrifices and her love and how she made us the most important thing in her life, and that's what I strive to do for my little girl," she says. "It's the most important job I have, and it's the most responsibility that I have, and I try to live up to a great example that I had for my mother."
Shania Twain stresses the importance of expressing love. "It's such a joy to be a parent," she says. "So, I relate to all the mums out there who are getting all their love and appreciation from their kids, and I hope, when you're a kid, a child of somebody, show your mum you love her, because it means everything."


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Published: Sep 5, 2011 22:20 Updated: Sep 5, 2011 22:20
BAGHDAD: Iraq's foreign currency reserves have risen to close to $58 billion and are expected to increase further thanks to a rise in oil revenues, a central bank official said.
Mudher Kasim, a deputy central bank governor, said higher global oil prices had boosted Iraq's federal revenue and could result in a budget surplus for 2011.
"(The amount of reserves) has gradually increased since the beginning of last year, when it was $40 billion. Now it is close to $58 billion," Kasim said.
Last October, Kasim had put reserves at around $50 billion, with 45 percent held in dollars, 45 percent in euros and 10 percent mainly in gold and British pounds.
Iraqi federal revenue depends mainly on oil, and higher oil prices have helped the country earn billions of dollars this year.
Iraq earned $34.1 billion in oil revenue, an increase of $8.7 billion, or 34 percent, over budgeted revenue, in the first five months of this year, Deputy Prime Minister Hussain Al-Shahristani said in June.
Iraq's parliament approved an $82.6 billion budget for 2011 in February, based on an average oil price of $76.50 per barrel and 2.2 million barrels per day in crude exports.
If international oil prices remain at over $100 this year, Iraq would see a 2011 budget surplus of 15 percent, Kasim said.
While the country's current year deficit had been projected at $13.4 billion, officials have said the shortfall will be eliminated if world oil prices remain at current high levels.
The deputy governor said inflation – which quickened to 7.1 percent in July from 6.4 percent in June – was under control but being monitored carefully.
Iraq, battered by years of war and economic sanctions, depends mainly on imports for most goods, including food and building materials.
"If prices continue to increase and the inflation rate approaches two digits, monetary policy tools will be strongly activated to fight inflation," he said.
Kasim said a plan to take off three zeroes from Iraq's currency to simplify financial transactions was awaiting parliamentary approval and said the government should approve the project sooner rather than later.


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State of Origin 2018: NSW Blues bag Game 1 win over Queensland Maroons 22-12
It was all about the "baby Blues" in the lead-up to the game and Brad Fittler's squad of 11 debutants turned up at the MCG on Wednesday.
The NSW Blues triumphed 22-12 but it was one of just six survivors from the squad humiliated last season who stepped up.
Fullback James Tedesco shadowed workaholic hooker Damien Cook for much of the night. Together they prised inroads through the middle of the Maroon defence – which was just as well, because the Greg Inglis-led Queensland dominated defensively.
NSW will attempt to seal a series win before a home crowd at ANZ Stadium in Sydney on June 24.
If the Kevin Walters-coached Queenslanders square the 2018 series, the decider will be played at Brisbane's Suncorp Stadium on Wednesday, July 11.
NSW Blues 22 (James Tedesco, Latrell Mitchell, Tom Trbojevic, Josh Addo-Carr tries; James Maloney 3 goals) defeated Queensland Maroons 12 (Valentine Holmes, Dane Gagai tries; Holmes 2 goals) at the MCG. Referees: Bernard Sutton, Ashley Klein. Crowd: 87,122.


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Speaking of reality
Unfortunately, there's little reality in today's liberal government. I can make a good case to prove my point with examples in this letter and others to come.
What was it former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said in 2010 when Obamacare was being legislated? "We have to pass this bill so we can find out what's in it." Turns out Obamacare has become the biggest legislative train wreck in modern history. She also claimed unemployment benefits would be the biggest stimulus to creating jobs and growing the economy. Really?
Liberals claim our economy is getting better since unemployment numbers are dropping. We have 92 million Americans out of work, the jobs being created nationally are part-time, not full-time. Millions have given up looking for work because there are so few jobs; however, they're not even counted as unemployed. Cooking the numbers with fuzzy math and leaving out important data does not add up to the truth.
When I think of liberalism, I think of "feel good, surreal, no facts."
How many liberals do you know who think our $17 trillion national debt is no problem, even though Barack Obama has added to that debt all by his lonesome, so to speak, more than all other presidents combined? Just counting to a trillion would take more than 9,000 years. Try that many years times 17, yet liberals think it's no problem to continue spending more. The word "insanity" comes to mind.
Other words that come to mind as I think of liberalism are "artificial, ambiguous, nuance, utopia, wishful thinking, abstract." And, that's just off the top of my head.
How about Democrat Bill Clinton, when he was our first black president, forcing lending institutions to give poor people, especially minorities, home mortgages? How does a poor person, obviously with little or no money, pay a monthly mortgage on a $150,000 home? We still are trying to get out from under the housing crisis that negatively affected our economy. The idea of home ownership for every warm body is totally unmitigated, unrealistic liberal thinking.
Why the obsession by liberals over global warming when there were periods of time prior to the industrial revolution the earth's surface was warmer than today, and there hasn't been significant warming for the past 16 years? Many liberals actually believe in this myth, but there are many who know this is another way to control all of us with mandates and regulations; an excuse for more big government.
I am trying to figure out why our liberal-controlled government is so gung-ho on redistribution of wealth, big government socialism, equality and the like, when historically facts prove it never has worked before in other countries? Why do liberals insist on going down the same road that has yet to succeed?
How realistic is it to continue with the same agendas of the past five years to reduce income inequality (according to Obama's State of the Union message) when it was those same programs causing greater income inequality? When is this guy going to get real and all the other like-minded people who support him?
Too many Americans voted in 2008 on feelings and emotion. In 2010, there were some using their heads but then ignoring facts again in 2012. I hate to think what this country will be like if a majority vote again with unrealistic expectations in November's congressional elections and the one involving a new president in 2016.
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The woman who weaved together the magical world of Harry Potter (netting her an estimated $1.6 million every day), is no longer a part of the billionaires' club. Forbes magazine, which last year recognized J.K. Rowling as the world's first female billionaire novelist, released an updated version of its World's Billionaires list last week with the 46-year-old notably absent.
It's not that the world is no longer is love with all-things Harry Potter (the brand itself is estimated to be worth more than $15 billion), but rather Rowling's charitable giving and taxes that have knocked her back into the millionaires' club.
"New information about Rowlings' estimated $160 million in charitable giving combined with Britain's high tax rates bumped the 'Harry Potter' scribe from our list this year," stated Forbes.
Naturally, none of this likely bothers Rowling, who from the beginning has made giving back a priority for her wealth.
"You have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently," she said in a past interview.
That giving includes supporting organizations linked to poverty, multiple sclerosis, children's welfare and illiteracy. Three books that she has written for charity — "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," "Quidditch Through the Ages" and "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" — have raised almost $30 million for various initiatives.


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The IRS has issued a report of the "Top Errors for Taxpayers and Paid Preparers on Return Submissions" for January 1, 2011 through December 28, 2011.
Regardless of whether the return filed was a 1040, 1040A or 1040EZ, was prepared by a paid tax professional or the taxpayer himself/herself, or was submitted on paper or e-filed, the biggest error in all categories was –
"Based on information provided on your return we have determined you are eligible to claim the Making Work Pay and Government Retiree Credit and have computed the credit for you."
And, except for paper-filed returns prepared by taxpayers themselves, another top error was –
"We changed the amount claimed as Making Work Pay. There was an error in the computation of the total amount."
First there were Dubya's rebate checks, which caused massive confusion and error on tax returns.
Under BO the rebate morphed into the Making Work Pay Credit, which in many cases totally FU-ed withholding, especially on pensions for taxpayers who were not eligible for the credit, resulting in surprise balances due, and, as evidenced above, caused massive confusion and error on tax returns.
Thankfully the latest evolution of the rebate, the payroll tax holiday, did not involve the 1040 (or 1040A or EZ). Though I am sure it caused confusion and error by employers, especially so in its current two month temporary extension.
I do not recall ever seeing any concrete evidence that this political trick, basically a form of buying votes, did any good in boosting the economy, in whatever form it took. Please let me know if I am wrong.
As an individual I was thrilled to get the extra checks from the government, or pay less tax on my 1040, or withhold less Social Security from my wages. I can certainly put the money to better use than the federal government. But as a tax professional and concerned citizen I know that this was a mucking fess, consistent with the inability of the idiots in Congress to do anything right.
FYI - most of the IRS determined top errors concerned refundable credits. More evidence of what I have been saying for years – refundable credits are bad tax policy.


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Take two aspirin and call me in the morning…
It was a great win by Freddy
Garcia on Saturday (six innings, two hits and no runs) in the Yankees' 5-2
victory over the Texas Rangers. The
superlatives about Garcia poured in after the game including one comment that
compared Garcia to David Cone in terms of the latter pitcher's ability to find
ways to win when he didn't have his best stuff.
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I do not doubt Garcia's
ability. I can recall many times over
the years when Garcia completely shut down the Yankees. It didn't matter if he had been struggling at
the time or was fighting some ailment.
He always seemed to shine in the most difficult moments. My concern with Garcia is his ability to
sustain the effectiveness he showed yesterday.
There's no doubt, in my mind, that we'll see Kevin Millwood and/or
Carlos Silva in the rotation at some point.
I am not trying to be
pessimistic, but rather just a realist.
With Phil Hughes on the DL, it is not an automatic that he'll regain his
velocity by simply receiving rest and treatment. A.J. Burnett showed that he is still
vulnerable after giving up two home runs in one inning against the Baltimore
Orioles last week after pitching so well in the prior six innings. We'll have the opportunity to see what
Bartolo Colon can do, but my concern about him is not with his arm. His weight and ability to stay healthy are
the key issues.
It was disappointing to hear
that reliever Pedro Feliciano will need season-ending surgery. Given that lefty Damaso Marte is also on the
shelf, the Yankees will need to find another lefty to complement Boone
Logan. Unfortunately, the rest of the
league knows that and they'll be looking for a King's ransom in any potential
At this point in the season,
it's nice to see the Yankees in first place with an 8-5 mark, while the Boston
Red Sox sit in last place at 3-10.
However, with just under 150 games still remaining, I would be very
foolish to think that the current standings will stay unchanged. The Red Sox will figure it out and they'll be
an offensive force through the summer. I
am concerned that the key reason the Yankees have been winning is their home
run production (24 homers in 13 games).
Hopefully, they'll begin to find other ways to win as the season
It bothers me that the
Boston Red Sox will avoid a luxury tax penalty by delaying the announcement of
Adrian Gonzalez's extension until this week.
Perhaps they did the same thing with Clay Buchholz, but the Gonzalez
signing was a foregone conclusion. It
was obvious that the Sox had reached an agreement with Gonzalez before the
start of the season. It was clear they
simply circumvented the system to avoid paying the additional tax.
To go a bit off topic, I am
excited about the upcoming NFL Draft despite the current lockout. I remain hopeful that the owners and players
will reach an agreement before the loss of any games. With the draft, I really hope the Minnesota
Vikings can find a quarterback. However,
their draft position at #12 is not ideal for their search for a franchise QB. The top tier QB's, like Blaine Gabbert and
Cam Newton, will be gone and it will be too early to take somebody like Jake
Locker. It will be interesting to see
what the Vikings can do. The Vikings
chief rival, the Green Bay Packers, seem to have a knack for finding QB's. They coaxed one great season out of Don
Majkowski. They traded for Brett Favre after
they missed out on the opportunity to draft Troy Aikman. They drafted Aaron Rodgers despite having
Favre and a few other highly touted former college QB's on the roster. Hopefully, the Vikings can replicate the
Packers blue print to find their next great QB…


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?This is another critical milestone toward creating a statewide system that will serve a wide range of existing and potential users,? said Lt. Governor Heineman. ?We want to acknowledge the spirit of cooperation and collaboration, which made this project possible.?
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Award-winning novelist Tayari Jones will read from her work at 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 8 in Korb Classroom in the Fine Arts Center. Jones is a guest in the Will Hays, Jr. Visiting Writers Series, and will spend a few days in residence at Wabash.
Tayari Jones was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia where she spent most of her childhood with the exception of the one year she and her family spent in Nigeria, West Africa. Although she has not lived in her hometown for over a decade, much of her writing centers on the urban south. "Although I now live in Illinois," she explains, "my imagination lives in Atlanta."
Her first novel, Leaving Atlanta, is a coming of age story set during the city's infamous child murders of 1979-81. Jones herself was in the fifth grade when 30 African American children were murdered from the neighborhoods near her home and school. When asked why she chose this subject matter for her first novel, she says, "This novel is my way of documenting a particular moment in history. It is a love letter to my generation and also an effort to remember my own childhood. To remind myself and my readers what it was like to been eleven and at the mercy of the world. And despite the obvious darkness of the time period, I also wanted to remember all that is sweet about girlhood, to recall all the moments that make a person smile and feel optimistic."
Leaving Atlanta received many awards and accolades including the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction. It was named "Novel of the Year" by Atlanta Magazine, "Best Southern Novel of the Year," by Creative Loafing Atlanta. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The Washington Post both listed it as one of the best of 2002. She has received fellowships from organizations including Bread Loaf Writers Conference, The Corporation of Yaddo, The MacDowell Colony, Arizona Commission on the Arts, and Le Chateau de Lavigny ( Switzerland.)
Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor of English at The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she teaches creative writing. Her second novel, The Untelling, was published by Warner Books in April of 2005.
The Will Hays, Jr., Visiting Writer Series, through a generous gift from the Hays family, was established in 2002 at Wabash to celebrate Mr. Hays' distinguished career as a writer, public servant, and a tireless supporter of secondary and higher education. Currently, every two years, the series, coordinated by the English Department, recognizes a prominent creative writer selected from a broad range of categories to reflect Will Hays' own varied writing interests.
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The phoenix is a large swan-sized scarlet bird with red and gold plumage, along with a golden beak and talons, black eyes, and a tail as long as a peacock's. Its scarlet feathers glow faintly in darkness, while its golden tail feathers are hot to the touch. Phoenixes are known for nesting on mountain peaks. They are gentle herbivores and are not known for fighting. As phoenixes approach their Burning Day they resemble a half-plucked turkey. Also, their eyes become dull, their feathers start to fall out, and it begins to make gagging noises. Then the bird suddenly bursts into flames only to rise from the ashes shortly after. In a number of days, they grow back to full size.[1][2] Hence, phoenixes are practically immortal.
Domesticated phoenixes Edit
- "...they make highly faithful pets."
- —Dumbledore describing phoenixes to Harry.[src]
Phoenixes are very difficult to domesticate, as Newton Scamander says in his book Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: "The phoenix gains a XXXX rating not because it is aggressive, but because very few wizards have ever succeeded in domesticating it."[2] There are two known domesticated phoenixes, one Albus Dumbledore's pet phoenix Fawkes[1], and the other Sparky the team mascot for the New Zealand Quidditch team the Moutohora Macaws.[3]
Phoenixes that have been domesticated are extremely loyal to their owners, and would depart to find their own paths if their owners die, rather than finding a new master.
Abilities and traitsEdit
- "Fascinating creatures, phoenixes. They can carry immensely heavy loads. Their tears have healing powers."
- —Professor Albus Dumbledore[src]
The most startling of the phoenix's abilities is its ability to regenerate itself. It periodically bursts into flames when its body becomes old, and rises from the ashes as a newborn chick. This event is called burning day, and gives these birds a great life span (if not forever), to the point of virtual immortality, as well as the ability to take the full force of a Killing Curse and still be reborn.[4] Phoenixes are immune to the gaze of a basilisk, which would normally kill anyone who has direct eye to eye contact, or petrify through indirect eye contact.[1]
The phoenix can also disappear and reappear at will in bursts of flames and take whoever is holding them along, similar to Apparition, and boasts magical tears and song. As stated by Dumbledore, they are extremely loyal creatures, and are capable of arriving to the aid of beings who share a similar devotion, which was how Fawkes arrive to assist Harry in killing the Basilisk down at the Chamber of Secrets. Their tears have potent healing capabilities. For instance, phoenix tears are the only known antidote of basilisk venom. Their tears are also able to bring a person back even from the brink of death, while the phoenix song will increase the courage of the good and strike fear into the hearts of the evil.[2] Phoenixes are capable of lifting a great weight with their tails, such as being able to effortlessly fly up a distance with four people holding on to its tail.[1] They can also leave messages by bursting into flame to reappear elsewhere, leaving behind a single golden tail feather.[4]
Materials made from phoenix feathersEdit
Phoenix feathers are a powerful magical substance, and as such are an accepted wand core. Fawkes gave two feathers, which ended up in the wands of Harry Potter and Lord Voldemort,[5] which is said to be the reason why they locked in Priori Incantatem when the two wizards attempted to engage in a magical battle in the Little Hangleton graveyard.[6] Due to phoenixes being very difficult to tame, the wands with such feathers are the pickiest of owners, and usually act on their own accord, due to having the most initiative of all core types. Phoenix feathers are sometimes used as writing quills.
Albus Dumbledore and the phoenixEdit
Albus Dumbledore has many connections to the phoenix, starting with his companion Fawkes and illustrated by his phoenix Patronus.[6] He named his anti-Voldemort organisation the Order of the Phoenix,[7] after Fawkes.
Known phoenixesEdit
Fawkes was a phoenix who was owned by Albus Dumbledore. Fawkes lived with Dumbledore at Hogwarts Castle for a large part of his life. He was instrumental in helping Harry Potter defeat the Serpent of Slytherin, bringing the Sword of Gryffindor, blinding the basilisk and saving Harry from the venom. He was also used as a communication between his master and the Order of the Phoenix. Fawkes assisted Dumbledore fighting Lord Voldemort. After Albus Dumbledore's death, Fawkes performed a phoenix lament, which is a mournful song designed to feel like it is inside the listener. After the lament was completed, Fawkes departed Hogwarts as a free phoenix, and was never heard from again.
Sparky is the phoenix mascot of the New Zealand Quidditch team Moutohora Macaws.
Behind the scenesEdit
- Besides representing its element of fire, sometimes a phoenix can also represent death, and the element of wind. According to legend, they are always female. However, Fawkes is male.
- The phoenix is Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling's favourite magical creature.[8]
- The phoenix is the only life-form in existence that defies the otherwise absolute rule of nothing can truly bring back the dead.
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (First mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (film) (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (film)
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game) (Mentioned in organisation name)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Appears in flashback(s)) (Mentioned)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (video game) (Mentioned only)
- Quidditch Through the Ages (real)
- Harry Potter: A Pop-Up Book
- LEGO Harry Potter: Characters of the Magical World
- LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4
- LEGO Creator: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- Harry Potter LEGO Sets
- Harry Potter Trading Card Game
- Pottermore
- Harry Potter for Kinect
Notes and referencesEdit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (real)
- ↑ Quidditch Through the Ages (real)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- ↑ World Book Day Interview, available via Accio Quote!


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I would like to pre-set the ComboBox in XAML. For example, there are 3 options: 4800, 9600, 19200. I know that the text of the pre-selected item is 9600. Which properties of ComboBox should I assign? Is it possible to do it entirely in XAML without writing code for looking up the index from the item text.
So far, Ive tried this:
But it keeps selecting the 1st option 4800, probably because the index is initially set to 0.Code:<ComboBox Name="cboBaudRate" Grid.Column="1" Grid.Row="1" Margin="0,2,0,0" HorizontalAlignment="Left" Width="72" Height="20" VerticalAlignment="Top" SelectedItem="9600" IsSynchronizedWithCurrentItem="True" ItemsSource="{Binding Source={StaticResource SerialPortOptions}, XPath=./BaudRates/BaudRate }" />
Suggestions, insight, references are much appreciated.
- Nick