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Now in its 18th year, the Life Time Miami Marathon & Half Marathon attracts many international elite runners vying for the $25,000 prize purse winnings across categories. Below, you can find a list of our confirmed Elite Athletes for the 2020 edition of the Miami Marathon & Half Marathon, as well as short biographies of each athlete and a link to their social media accounts, if applicable.
2020 Elite Field – Summary
MEN'S MARATHON
Bernard Rotich KENYA 2:10:18
Saidi Juma Makuala KENYA 2:11:11
Mwobi Cyprian Kiogora KENYA 2:14:13
Tyler Andrews USA 2:15:52
Hillary Too KENYA 2:17:01
Bryan Morseman USA 2:19:57
Abdulmenan Kasim Gelatgo ETHIOPIA 2:25:31
Jonatas Freitas BRAZIL 2:26:29
Francis Miaraho KENYA 2:29:54
Johan Caiza ECUADOR 2:31:46
Alvaro Isrrael Vazquez Gonzalez NICARAGUA Debut
WOMEN'S MARATHON
Meseret Ali Basa ETHIOPIA 2:40:41
Leah Jebiwot Kigen KENYA 2:40:46
Rebekah Mayer USA 2:59:05
Aydee Loayza Huaman PERU Debut
Alex Roudayna MEXICO Debut
MEN'S HALF MARATHON
Dominic Korir KENYA 1:01:45
James Ngandu KENYA 1:01:51
Kevin Kochei KENYA 1:01:56
Daniel Nestor USA 1:02:57
Luis Orta VENEZUELA 1:03:09
Daniel Docherty USA 1:03:47
Mario Pacay GUATEMALA 1:03:54
Daniel Kirwa UGANDA 1:04:22
Luis Carlos Rivero Gonzalez GUATEMALA 1:06:03
Joe Farrand USA 1:08:52
Sandro Ezeta Chaves COSTA RICA 1:09:08
Kyle Phillips USA 1:10:17
Victor Leon COLOMBIA 1:10:52
Daniel Rodriguez SPAIN 1:13:05
Mitchell Hayes USA 1:15:00
Sebastian Castro COSTA RICA 1:15:00
Lawrence Kipkoech KENYA Debut
WOMEN'S HALF MARATHON
Jhoselyn Yessica Camargo BOLIVIA 1:14:32
Katie Kellner USA 1:14:39
Beatie Deutsch ISRAEL 1:15:06
Waverly Neer USA 1:16:56
Lineida Mateus Rojas COLOMBIA 1:17:16
Angela Janneth Brito ECUADOR 1:17:23
Alli Gregg USA 1:18:12
Margarita Quintero Petris MEXICO 1:19:41
Rebeka Stowe USA 1:22:53
Melissa Perlman USA 1:24:09
View 2019 Elite Results Here
Men's Marathon Field
Bernard Rotich, KENYA
Bib #20
Personal Best Marathon – 2:10:18
Current Residence: Minneapolis, Minnesota
The 2017 Dublin Marathon & Belfast Marathon Champion, Bernard Rotich also has world-class 5,000m and 10,000m PRs of 13:18.41 and 27:09.8, respectively. Rotich won his debut marathon in Estonia in 2010, the Tallin SEB Marathon, and he is now married with two young daughters.
Saidi Juma Makula, TANZANIA
Current Residence: Arusha, Tanzania
A 2016 Rio Olympian in the marathon for his home country of Tanzania, where he placed 43rd in 2:17:49, Makula says his greatest inspiration in his running is Eliud Kipchoge, and that if he was not running professionally he would be coaching other distance runners to accomplish their own goals.
Mwobi Cyprian Kiogora, KENYA
Current Residence: Eldoret, Kenya
The 2009 and 2010 Hong Kong Marathon Champion, Mwobi Cyprian Kiogora joins us from Eldoret, Kenya after most recently finishing 5th in the Jakarta Milo 10K in Indonesia. In terms of racing in the United States, Cyprian placed 9th at the 2008 Grandma's Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota.
Tyler Andrews, USA
Current Residence: Cambridge, Massachusetts
A graduate of Tufts University, Tyler Andrews is a 2-time U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials qualifier, the 2019 USATF 50 Mile National Champion and 2-time Rock N Roll Washington DC Marathon Champion. When asked what he would be doing if he wasn't running, Tyler says "playing guitar in a rock band". Rock on, Tyler!
Hillary Too, KENYA
Current Residence: Coon Rapids, Minnesota
Our 2017 Miami Marathon Runner-Up and 2018 Miami Marathon Champion, Hillary Too was also the 2017 Quad Cities Marathon Champion and 2017 Steamtown Marathon Champion as well. When asked what he is looking forward to most about this year's race, Hillary says "Won here before and excited to win here again!".
Bryan Morseman, USA
Current Residence: Bath, New York
Bryan Morseman joins us from the great state of New York after recently winning the PwC Bermuda Marathon on January 19th, 2020 – just a few weeks ago. In 2018, Morseman won the Tallahasse Marathon, Knoxville Marathon as well as the Roanoake Island OBX Marathon and followed those wins up by finishing as runner-up in the Mercedes Marathon, Maine Marathon and Mohawk Hudson River Marathon in 2019.
Abdulmenan Kasim Gelato, ETHIOPIA
Personal Best Half Marathon – 1:07:42
Current Residence: Bronx, New York
Jonatas Freitas, Brazil
Current Residence: Suzano, Brazil
Jonatas Freitas most recently finished 3rd at the Floripa Uninter International Marathon in Brazil. Freitas also finished on the podium (3rd) of our Elite Field when asked "How many pairs of running shoes do you own?" with 16.
Francis Miaraho, KENYA
Current Residence: Van Whert, Ohio
Originally hailing from Kenya, Francis Miaraho finished 4th in the 2019 Cleveland Marathon. When asked what he would be doing if not pursuing professional distance running, Francis says he would be a rally driver!
Alvaro Isrrael Vazquez Gonzalez, NICARAGUA
Personal Best Marathon – Debut (1:16:06 for Half Marathon)
Current Residence: Hialeah, Florida
Our reigning 2018 and 2019 Tropical 5K Champion, Alvaro Isrrael Vazquez Gonzalez is one of the few local Floridians (originally hailing from Nicaragua) in this year's Elite Field, and he also currently trains with Fit Zone.
Women's Marathon Field
Meseret Ali Basa, ETHIOPIA
Bib #
Current Residence: New York City, New York
Meseret Ali Basa joins us from the Big Apple where she trains with and competes for the Westchester Track Club under Coach Bill Staab. Basa was the 2014 Jacksonville Marathon Champion and was 4th at the 2018 Ted Corbitt 15K in New York. More recently, she won the 2019 SHAPE Women's Half Marathon in New York, placed 18th at the 2019 United Airlines NYC Half and placed 3rd in the Bermuda Half Marathon just a few weeks ago in January 2020.
Leah Jebiwot Kigen, KENYA
Current Residence: Davenport, Iowa
Racing mostly in Mexico, Leah Jebiwot Kigen is the 2017 Culiacán Half Marathon Champion, the 2019 Powerade Monterrey Marathon Runner-Up and most recently finished 4th at the Mérida Banorte Marathon in January 2020. Like many of her Kenyan compatriots, Kigen derives the inspiration for her running from fellow Kenyan and current Marathon world record holder, Eliud Kipchoge.
Rebekah Mayer, USA
Current Residence: Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Adams State University alumnus and mother of three, Rebekah Mayer was a six-time NCAA Division II All-American while at Adams State and was also a member of their 2003 NCAA Cross Country National Championship team. Mayer finished 22nd at the 2013 Grandma's Marathon, 3rd at the 2017 Fargo Half Marathon and more recently finished 2oth at the 2019 Medtronic TC 10 Mile in Minneapolis, MN.
Aydee Loayza Huaman, PERU
Current Residence: Lima, Peru
Aydee Loayza Huaman, an established world-class trail runner, joins us from her home country of Peru after finishing 9th in the 2019 Trail Running World Championships that was held in Coimbra, Portugal – the first female athlete from South America to complete the 44K distance race. Aydee also finished 4th in the Lima Half Marathon in May 2019, and says that the most interesting thing she has seen during a race is: "Running in the snow in a race in Argentina and seeing all the athletes (including myself) bouncing around and falling all over the place".
Alex Roudayna, MEXICO
Current Residence: Mexico City, Mexico
Alex Roudayna joins us as the 3rd place finisher of the 2014 Mexico City Half Marathon, 2nd place finisher of the 2015 San Francisco Half Marathon and 3rd place finisher of the 2016 and 2017 Mexico Ultra Trail 100K. If she weren't running, Alex says she would be a Criminal Psychologist, and when asked what the most interesting thing she has seen in a race was, Alex said: "I rescued a puppy and carried him the last 30K of a 100K race. I got 2nd place, but most importantly got a best friend!".
MEN'S HALF MARATHON FIELD
Dominic Korir, KENYA
Current Residence: Colorado Springs, Colorado
Coming off a 17th place finish at the 2020 Houston Half Marathon where he ran his current PR, Dominic Korir joins us as our defending runner-up of the Miami Half Marathon. After his 2nd place finish in Miami last year, Dominic went on to place 3rd in the Cooper River Bridge Run 10K and 4th in the B.A.A. Boston Half Marathon – among other races he ran in 2019. Korir, who says his two daughters are his inspiration, also finished 6th at both Grandma's Marathon (where he ran his marathon PR of 2:16:26) and Twin Cities Marathon in 2018 before finishing 3rd at the Pittsburgh 10 Miler later that same year.
James Ngandu, KENYA
Current Residence: Van Wert, Ohio
James Ngandu, a graduate of Tiffin University where he was a NCAA Division II Champion in cross country as well as the 10,000 meters on the track, joins us for the 2019 Miami Marathon & Half Marathon weekend after placing 18th at the 2020 Houston Half Marathon in new personal best time. A 13-time All-American while at Tiffin, Ngandu placed 9th in the 2019 edition of the Houston Half Marathon and then won the 2019 Austin Half Marathon a few weeks later. When asked what he'd be doing if he was not running professionally, James answered: "Garbage truck driver".
Kevin Kochei, KENYA
The 2019 Mercedes Half Marathon Champion in Birmingham, Alabama, Kevin Kochei also placed 12th at the 2017 Cherry Blossom 10 Mile and 7th at the 2016 edition of the iconic Peachtree Road Race. Additionally, Kochei won the 2015 America's Finest City Half Marathon in San Diego, California.
Daniel Nestor, USA
Current Residence: Boulder, Colorado
Coming in as the top American in the field, Daniel Nestor recently won the 2019 Indianapolis Monumental Half Marathon in a new PR for the distance. Nestor also won the 2017 USATF National Club Cross Country Championships team title as a part of Tinman Elite – he finished 14th individually in the race. A graduate of Columbia University and current rabbit ELITE team member, Nestor also stated that the most interesting thing he has ever seen while running in a race is: "1,000 people dressed up like Batman". Hmm.
Luis Orta, VENEZUELA
Current Residence: Broomfield, Colorado
One of the few former Olympians in this year's field, Luis Orta joins us as an alumnus of the University of Kentucky where he was a two-time South Eastern Conference (SEC) Champion. A 2016 Rio Olympian in the marathon for his home country of Venezuela, Orta has also represented his country five times at IAAF (World Athletics) World Championship events. Orta is also the Venezuelan National Record Holder in the 10K and Half Marathon, and more recently finished 21st at the Berlin Marathon in September 2018 and 7th in the 2019 South American Marathon Championships, hosted by the Buenos Aires Marathon in Brazil. When asked what he would be doing if he was not running, Orta said he would be a Farmer.
Daniel Docherty, USA
Current Residence: Richfield, Minnesota
A graduate of Loyola University Chicago and current Minnesota Distance Elite (formerly known as Team USA Minnesota) athlete, Danny Docherty was an All-Conference honoree in college and has really found his stride competing on the roads. Docherty recently finished 3rd at the 2019 Twin Cities Marathon in new PR of 2:15:55 and he was also 6th at the 2019 Garry Bjorklund Half Marathon in Duluth, Minnesota. Also the 7th place finisher at the 2019 USATF 25K Championships, when asked what the most interest thing he has seen during a race is, Danny answered: "An astronaut leading the beginning of the 2018 Peachtree 10k".
Mario Pacay, GUATEMALA
Current Residence: Guatemala
Mario Pacay has represented Guatemala on the international stage several times, his first being at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada where he placed 11th and 7th, respectively, in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters. Pacay also finished 4th and 6th in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, respectively, at the 2015 Mt. SAC Relays in California as well. Other top finishes include 11th and 14th place finishes in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland as well as 9th and 10th place finishes in the 2019 Pan American Games 5,000 and 10,000 meters, respectively, in Lima, Peru. Most recently, Pacay finished 23rd overall at the 2019 Houston Half Marathon.
Daniel Kirwa, UGANDA
Current Residence: Gibsonton, Florida
Harding University graduate and current Airman 1st Class in the United States Air Force, Daniel Kirwa was a four-time NCAA Division II Champion in cross country and track & field as well as a 15-time All-American while at Harding. After earning his degree in political science, Kirwa enlisted in the Air Force and he is currently serving at MacDill Air Force Base in Florida as a medical technician assigned to the 6th Healthcare Operations Squadron. As the fastest distance runner in the Air Force, Kirwa placed 3rd overall in the 2019 Air Force Marathon. Kirwa was also the 2011 Huntsville Rocket City Marathon Champion in Huntsville, Alabama.
Luis Carlos Rivero Gonzalez, GUATEMALA
Current Residence: San Marcos, Guatemala
A frequent participant in the Miami Marathon & Half Marathon, Luis Carlos Rivero Gonzalez has ran either the Miami Marathon or Half Marathon six of the last seven years – finishing in the top five of the marathon four different times, once as champion, and in the top five of the half marathon the other two times, most recently in 2018. Luis also won the 2019 Munich Half Marathon and finished 18th at the 2017 Rotterdam Marathon in a time of 2:1631, qualifying him to represent Guatemala at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in the marathon where he went on to finish 69th. Gonzalez also says the weirdest thing he has seen while running a race is "seeing Snoop Dogg sing live".
Joe Farrand, USA
Current Residence: Orlando, Florida
An elementary school music teacher, Joe Farrand joins us after competing collegiately for Simpson College and qualifying for the NCAA Division III Championships as well as gathering multiple conference titles and All-Conference honors. Post-collegiately, Joe won the 2019 Silicon Valley Half Marathon and finished as runner-up in the 2019 OUC Half Marathon. When asked who his inspiration is, Joe says: "Frank Shorter – trained in the heat of Florida and my mustache hero".
Sandro Ezeta Chaves, COSTA RICA
Current Residence: San Carlos, Costa Rica
Runner-up at the 2019 Mt. Charleston Half Marathon, Sandro Ezeta Chaves joins us from Costa Rica. Chaves was also the 2019 Clasica San Ramon Half Marathon Champion, and says that if he wasn't running he would be a Computer Engineer. Chaves also, according to our polling, owns the most number of running shoes out of our 2020 Elite Field at 25 pairs.
Kyle Phillips, USA
Current Residence: Waynesboro, Pennsylvannia
A graduate of Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvannia, Phillips placed 4th at the 2019 Oasis Rock N Roll Half Marathon in Montreal, 3rd at the 2018 Green Bay Half Marathon and 8th at the 2019 Buffalo Half Marathon. When asked who his biggest inspiration for running is, Kyle also said "My father for initially getting me in to running and coming to all my races with me".
Victor Leon, COLOMBIA
Current Residence: Bucaramanga, Colombia
Victor Leon finished 5th at the 2012 South American U18 Championships in the 3,000 meters, 11th in the 5,000 meters at the 2013 Pan American Junior Championships and 3rd in the 2016 Colombian U23 Championships in the 3,000 meter Steeplechase. More recently, Victor finished 6th at the 2019 Half Marathon of the Sea in Colombia.
Daniel Rodriguez, SPAIN
Current Residence: Odessa, Texas
An elite Triathlon first and foremost, Daniel Rodriguez is based in Texas and is the Head Coach of Wolves Factory, and international coaching business and training group. Dani finished 20th at the 2019 Getafe Half Marathon and says that his inspiration to improve is seeing "people working hard day by day trying to get better. Never give up".
Mitchell Hayes, USA
Current Residence: New York, New York
Mitch Hayes, joining us from New York, placed 17th at the 2019 Rock N Roll New Orleans Half Marathon and also competed in the 2019 New York City Marathon, running 2:42.
Sebastian Castro, COSTA RICA
Personal Best Half Marathon: 1:15:00
Current Residence: San Jose, Costa Rica
Currently one of the best male distance runners in Costa Rica, Sebastian Castro was ranked as the 8th best Costan Rican marathoner in 2019. Sebastian also started his marathoning journey right here at the Miami Marathon eleven years ago when he ran 3:28:58. Since that day 11 years ago, Sebastian has taken almost an hour off of his personal best marathon time.
Lawrence Kipkoech, KENYA
Personal Best Half Marathon – Debut (28:41 for 10K)
Current Residence: Durham, North Carolina
A graduate of Campbell University where he was a 9-time NCAA Division I All-American and multiple time Big South Conference Champion, Lawrence Kipkoech is making his half marathon debut at the Miami Half Marathon. Kipkoech has impressive personal best times at 5,000 and 10,000 meters, running 13:42 in the 2019 Duke Invitational for 5,000 meters and 28:41 at the 2019 Raleigh Relays for 10,000 meters.
Women's Half Marathon Field
Katie Kellner, USA
Current Residence: Brighton, Massachusetts
A graduate of Cornell University, Katie Kellner was a two-time NCAA Division I All-American (once in cross country, once in outdoor track in the 10K) while competing for the Big Red. Now a member of the Boston Athletic Association's (B.A.A.) Elite Team, Katie placed 28th in the 2016 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials and has qualified for the 2020 U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials as well, which she will compete in on February 29th, 2020. When asked what the most interesting thing she has seen in a race is, Katie said: "An adorable berne-doodle giving out "high paws".
Beatie Deutsch, ISRAEL
Current Residence: Neve Michael, Washington
Less than three years after she started competitively running, Beatie Deutsch won the 2019 Tiberias Marathon in a time of 2:42:18. Later in the year, Beatie would go on to win the Riga Half Marathon, the Tel Aviv Half Marathon and the Israeli Half Marathon Championships, place 3rd in the Israeli 15K Championships, and place 8th in the Cape Town Marathon in a new PR of 2:36:41. As a mother of five children, Beatie is hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Waverly Neer, USA
As a cross country and track & field athlete at the University of Oregon, Waverly Neer was a PAC-12 Champion and 8-time NCAA Division I All-American. Now working in commercial real estate in New York City, Waverly placed 9th in the 2019 Philadelphia Half Marathon, and says that the most interesting thing she has seen during a race is "Hayward Field lit up with 'Go Ducks' signs".
Lineida Mateus Rojas, COLOMBIA
Lineida Mateus Rojas returns to Miami after finishing 5th in the 2018 Miami Half Marathon. In 2013, she won the San Cristobal Half Marathon in what is still her half marathon PR. More recently, she placed 5th in the 2018 Medellin Half Marathon in Colombia and 9th in the 2019 Dusseldorf Marathon in Germany.
Alli Gregg, USA
Current Residence: Jacksonville, Florida
Currently training with Shott Performance, Alli Gregg is an alumnus of the University of Alabama where she competed in cross country and track & field. Gregg won the 2019 Des Moines Women's Half Marathon and also ran 2:49 at the California International Marathon in December 2019.
Margarita Quintero Petris, MEXICO
Current Residence: Zapopan, Mexico
Our reigning 3rd place finisher from last year's Miami Half Marathon, Margarita Quintero Petris is back to defend her spot on the podium. When asked who her biggest inspirations are, Margarita – who also has a 2:48 marathon personal best – said "Eliud Kipchoge, Jordan Hasay and Alicia Keys".
Rebeka Stowe, USA
A graduate of the University of Kansas and current school teacher in New York, Rebekah Stowe was an NCAA Division I All-American and Big 12 Conference Champion, and she was also a finalist in the 3,000 meter Steeplechase at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Track & Field Team Trials at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon.
Melissa Perlman, USA
Current Residence: Delray Beach, Florida
A graduate of Brown University and current Public Relations Executive, Melissa Perlman recently ran 2:49 in the marathon at the California International Marathon in December 2019, and she also competed at the Boston Marathon earlier in the same year. A former Florida High School State Champion, Melissa says that her Dad is her biggest inspiration for her running.
For more information about our Elite Program, including all Elite Program rules and benefits, please visit: https://www.themiamimarathon.com/race/elite-program/.
Men's Marathon 2:12:22 – David Ruto (2003)
Women's Marathon 2:34:11 – Hiromi Ominami (2006)
Men's Half Marathon 1:03:46 – Brian Sell (2008)
Women's Half Marathon 1:13:53 – Santa Ines Melchor (2016)
Miami Marathon Champions
2020 Saidi Juma Makula 2:22:01
2019 Ezekiel Kipsang 2:16:36
2018 Hillary Too 2:23:03
2017 Christopher Zablocki 2:18:15
2016 Benazzouz Slimani 2:24:56
2015 Luis Carlos Rivero Gonzalez 2:20:47
2014 Samuel Malakwen 2:19:46
2013 Luis Rivero Gonzalez 2:26:14
2011 Tesfaye Alemayehu 2:12:57
2010 Michael Wardian 2:28:39
2008 Jose Garcia 2:17:43
2007 Teshome Gelana 2:17:51
2006 Ruben Garcia Gomez 2:18:15
2005 Elias Rodrigues Bastos 2:17:24
2004 William Gomez Amori 2:14:42
2003 David Ruto 2:12:22
2020 Aydee Loayza Huaman 2:46:54
2019 Kate Landau 2:37:48
2018 Lyubov Denisova 2:40:54
2017 Marta Ayela 2:40:51
2016 Allison Kieffer 2:55:32
2015 Alemnesh Eshetu Habtemikael 2:39:31
2014 Mariska Kramer 2:49:27
2012 Raquel Maraviglia 2:41:39
2011 Alena Vinitskaya 2:44:38
2010 Brett Ely 2:45:36
2009 Michele Suskek 2:43:31
2008 Kelly Liljeblad 2:47:13
2007 Ramilla Burangulova 2:40:22
2006 Hiromi Ominami 2:34:11
2005 Sandra Ruales Mosquera 2:37:00
2004 Stacie Alboucrek 2:42:32
2003 Volga Yudziankova 2:40:22
Miami Half Marathon Champions
2020 Dominic Korir 1:03:52
2019 Isaac Mukundi 1:06:51
2018 Julius Koskei 1:05:48
2017 Panuel Mkungo 1:04:12
2016 Stephen Njoroge 1:05:09
2015 Mariano Mastromarino 1:05:24
2014 Edward Tabut 1:06:45
2013 Robert Mbithi 1:05:44
2012 James Boitt 1:06:41
2011 Kumsa Adugna 1:07:04
2010 Justin Young 1:05:57
2009 Pat Hayburn 1:11:12
2008 Brian Sell 1:03:46
2007 Jared Abuya 1:07:09
2006 Ronnie Holassie 1:08:42
2005 Erick Quiros 1:08:02
2004 Josh Brashears 1:12:24
2003 Johnny Loria-Solano 1:07:55
2020 Beatie Deutsch 1:16:50
2019 Melanie Myrand 1:19:12
2018 Firegenet Mandefiro 1:16:35
2017 Krystalanne Curwood 1:18:49
2016 Santa Ines Melchor 1:13:53
2015 Soranyi Rodriguez 1:19:12
2014 Shannon Miller 1:21:08
2013 Risper Biyaki Gesabwa 1:14:00
2012 Lilian Moraa Mariita 1:16:04
2011 Aziza Abate 1:15:05
2010 Megan Armstrong 1:17:50
2009 Suzanne Larsen 1:20:38
2008 Yolanda Fernandez 1:16:01
2007 Sonja Friend-Uhl 1:19:25
2006 Alicia Cevallos 1:19:50
2005 Debbi Kilpatrick 1:18:31
2004 Deirdre Brill 1:17:44
Top 10 Times in Event History
Marathon – Men
David Ruto (2003) – 2:12:22
Otavio Dos Santos P. (2003) – 2:12:23
Kiplimo Rono (2003) – 2:12:40
Tesfaye Alemayehu (2011) – 2:12:57
William Gomez Amori (2004) – 2:14:42
Genilson Junio Da S. (2003) – 2:15:17
Ezekiel Kipsang (2019) – 2:16:36
Benazzouz Slimani (2009) – 2:16:49
Samuel Malakwen (2012) – 2:16:55
Teferi Bacha (2012) – 2:16:55
Half Marathon – Men
Brian Sell (2008) – 1:03:46
Dominic Korir (2020) – 1:03:52
Daniel Kemoi (2020) – 1:03:55
Panuel Mkungo (2017) – 1:04:12
Stephen Njoroge (2016) – 1:05:09
Joseph Sitienei (2008) – 1:05:14
Mike Morgan (2008) – 1:05:16
Mariano Mastromarino (2015) – 1:05:24
Benson Cheruiyot (2016) – 1:05:26
Robert Mbithi (2013) – 1:05:44
Marathon – Female
Hiromi Ominami (2006) – 2:34:11
Sandra Ruales Mosquera (2005) – 2:37:00
Kate Landau (2019) – 2:37:48
Wioletta Kryza (2006) – 2:39:10
Alemnesh Eshetu Habtemikael (2015) – 2:39:31
Maria De Los Angeles Peralta (2015) – 2:39:33
Volga Yudziankova (2003) – 2:40:22
Ramilla Burangulova (2007) – 2:40:22
Alena Vinitskaya (2003) – 2:40:42
Half Marathon – Female
Santa Ines Melchor (2016) – 1:13:53
Risper Biyaki Gesabwa (2013) – 1:14:00
Malika Mejdoub Camacho (2013) – 1:14:14
Rocio Cantara Rojas (2016) – 1:14:17
Aziza Abate (2011) – 1:15:05
Fiona Docherty (2011) – 1:15:07
Yolanda Fernandez (2008) – 1:16:01
Lilian Moraa Mariita (2012) – 1:16:04
Lindsey Scherf (2016) – 1:16:12
Firegenet Mandefiro (2018) – 1:16:35


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Q: Vertex AI was unable to import data into dataset. It says maximum 1M lines while my dataset only have 600k I'm importing a text dataset to Google Vertex AI and got the following error:
Hello Vertex AI Customer,

Due to an error, Vertex AI was unable to import data into
dataset [dataset_name].
Additional Details:
Operation State: Failed with errors
Resource Name: [resoure_link]
Error Messages: There are too many rows in the jsonl/csv file. Currently we
only support 1000000 lines. Please cut your files to smaller size and run
multiple import data pipelines to import.

I checked my dataset which I generated from pandas and the actual CSV file, it only have 600k lines.
Anyone got similar errors?

A: So it turns out to be an error in my CSV formatting.
I forgot to trim newlines and extra whitespaces in my text dataset. This solved the 1M lines count. But after doing that, I then get error telling me I have too much labels while it was only 2.
Error Messages: There are too many AnnotationSpecs in the dataset. Up to
5000 AnnotationSpecs are allowed in one Dataset.

And this is because I created the text dataset using to_csv() method in Pandas dataframe. Creating a CSV file this way, it will automatically put quotes when your text include a "," (comma character) only. So the CSV file will look like:
"this is a sentence, with a comma", 0
this is a sentence without a comma, 1

Meanwhile, what Vertex AutoML Text wants the CSV is to look like this:
"this is a sentence, with a comma", 0
"this is a sentence without a comma", 1

i.e. you have to put quotes on every line.
Which you can achieve by writing your own CSV formatter, or if you insist on using Pandas to_csv(), you can pass csv.QUOTE_ALL to the quoting parameter. It will look like this:
import csv
df.to_csv("file.csv", index=False, quoting=csv.QUOTE_ALL, header=False)

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Comm-Unification: Toronto Reggae Conference Apr. 29, 2018
Tasha T and Lady Sharon at the Toronto Reggae Conference. Photo by Paul Corby.
In the fifty years since reggae music began to germinate on Canadian soil, the community that supports it has shown demonstrable ingenuity in publicizing and presenting itself to an ever-increasing fan base. Its combination of aggressive street-level marketing, immediate radio support for releases and shows, and collaboration with enthusiastic stores, distributors and artist co-operatives has also set an example for watchful entrepreneurs in other genres of music. Reggae strategies and sounds have always been quickly adopted and deployed, undercutting local reggae's struggle to be heard as unique and meaningful. Even the word "roots" as a descriptor of music has been appropriated.
What has failed to materialize, to propel these artists beyond Canada since the reggae wave crested in the 1990's, is the cohesion required to portray a united front to the global marketplace. The predominance of slippery cash transactions, an inured alienation from the musicians' union and the media, and the dissipation of venues, radio stations and record stores have all served to block the arteries of the music and have, unfortunately, made the once-healthy competition for an audience meaner and more desperate.
Enter Masani Montague, who has long been a distributor of diasporic-themed books and records in Toronto. Her pivotal moment came while attending the Jamaica Music Conference four years ago and realizing that she was the only Canadian there. The open co-operation, the sharing of strategic data and the positive awareness at the event made it obvious to her that there was a different way to effect progress, and that she was going to have to make it happen in the third largest Jamaican city in the world: Toronto.
Masani Montague. Photo by Paul Corby.
"It was long overdue," she insisted, "Should have happened twenty, thirty years ago. It's easy to make the music but what do you do next? Black musicians have not grown past their local limitations in answering this question."
So this past month, in the welcoming rotunda of The City of Toronto's Metro Hall, she assembled a slate of knowledgeable and articulate panelists, grouped according to their field of expertise, including production, promotion, media, branding, copyright and intellectual property, radio, management, grant writing, accounting and book-keeping and women's issues. With occasional pauses to calm the exuberant social sounds of old friends reconnecting, group after group laid out guidelines for a realistic consideration of musicians' career goals and obstacles.
The seminars were run tightly and respectfully, (and filmed and compiled for immediate public Facebook review). Among the outstanding voices heard were foundation community radio personalities Ron Nelson and Sweet T., pioneer artists like Jay Douglas and crossover flag bearer Michie Mee, contemporary singers Tasha T. Lenn Hammond and Carl Henry, publisher Donna Makeda, and entertainment lawyer Lloyd Stanbury, as well as Masani herself.
Michie Mee speaking as part of the women's panel. Photo by Paul Corby.
Noted attending dub poet / media omnivore Clifton Joseph remarked, "I stand in gratitude for all these chunks of information and perspectives I've picked up, such as the importance of encoding meta data on recordings, and the truths spoken by the women panelists about suppression and addiction. It was a noble effort, and there were lots of possibilities for positivities, but I found the absence of many key players disturbing. Unfortunately it was a pyrrhic victory. WHY? WHERE IS THE PROBLEM?" The non-appearance of many prominent musicians and organizers was remarkable indeed for a free event, centrally located, on two sunny weekend afternoons in April.
"We are challenging at least thirty years of disorganization," replied Masani, "It is a fragmented audience; some of those who knew about it were skeptical, jealous, some thought they should be doing it instead, and many have just lost hope. Next year the outreach will be broader, with new panelists, new topics, and we will include more of a performance aspect to attract outliers, to create interest and, most importantly, employment for local musicians."
This year's concert attraction, starring Jamaican star Nadine Sutherland, was held in a west end venue and had very little crossover participation with the conference. During the women's seminar, however, Nadine's wisdom and heartfelt discussion of the music's twin flashpoints of sexuality and spirituality turned out to be a meaningful high point of the weekend, along with Michie Mee's testimony to the whirlwind days of Toronto reggae in the 80's:
Nadine Sutherland. Photo by Paul Corby.
"It was a bit overwhelming being a 14-year-old and writing a record deal. Not understanding what exactly we were doing, and what platform we had, we jumped bravely into it . We styled ourselves, with the roundaway girls doing our hair, going to Bi-Way, getting the glue, adding a few sequins, practising in the community. Crack was there – hustlers proud of you, giving me jewellery to wear. There was no management appearing, no one was interested in us, much less in protecting us, 'cause we were bringing a new genre. We wanted to prove that it wasn't just disco. It felt really good being a hip-hop artist, but still being a part of the reggae community. I knew I couldn't write reggae cause it's a different scene, and spiritual, so, when I was writing and growing up it was hip-hop, but I was bringing the Jamaican funk; nobody else was taking that chance. There were older people actually doing the same things like me but they weren't documented."
Kwasi Bonsu, head of the Jamaica Music Conference, attended the entire weekend and remarked that, "If you want to make something vital in reggae, whether you want to admit it or not, you'll have to come to the source. Come to Jamaica to see how it's done first."
Must Jamai-Canadians return to the place where they began and know it for the first time? For her next step, Masani has big plans along these lines.
"I plan to take a large group of stakeholders to the Jamaican conference this fall. Until Canadian reggae artists can take on the serious job of creating a strong and united international identity, selling them worldwide is like taking sand to the beach."
(Writer's aside: How many other Canadian roots music categories need this lesson?)
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Are smartphones on Cisco's wish list‾
Apr 6, 2009 8:00pm
Cisco Systems‾ Make smartphones‾ The idea isn't as far-fetched as it may sound, says RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Sue. 'Considering its big push into the consumer market, we believe Cisco may be developing a smartphone of its own, slated for mid-2010,' Sue wrote in a recent research note.
Sue's note isn't the only source of speculation that Cisco (CSCO), a maker of Internet routers and switches, might be mulling a foray into wireless phones. A series of recent patent filings and the company's own recent expansion into consumer electronics suggest Sue's speculation may not be off the mark.
On Mar. 31, Cisco was awarded a patent for managing time delays in relaying video wirelessly to consumer electronics devices. The same day, it received a patent for a network-connected phone able to stream video. Many of Cisco's recently filed patents mention a personal digital assistant as a device that could potentially use the innovations described.
A history of expansion
Cisco won't comment on the smartphone talk. 'There are a lot of things people thought we wouldn't do that we can do,' says Ken Wirt, vice-president for consumer marketing at Cisco. 'We've done some things that have been surprising to people.' Former high-level Cisco executives say a move into smartphones would fit well with Cisco's strategy.
Under Chief Executive John Chambers, Cisco has a history of expanding beyond its core market of networking equipment for companies and communications providers. In 2003, Cisco acquired Linksys, which sells Wi-Fi access points that provide wireless broadband coverage in homes, cafés, and airports. Later, Cisco bought set-top box maker Scientific Atlanta. This January, Cisco unveiled its own wireless-enabled home stereo system, and in March, Cisco acquired Pure Digital, the manufacturer of Flip camcorders. Even before that acquisition, as of last fall, Cisco had sold a total of 168 million consumer gadgets, more than the total number of iPod music players sold. 'What we are looking at doing is becoming a next-generation (consumer experience) company,' Wirt says.
Cisco has a lot to bring to the smartphone table. One of the company's chief aims is to help consumer devices connect to networks and eat up such bandwidth-hungry services as online video. That, in turn, drives sales of its bread-and-butter networking gear. Current smartphones are limited in their ability to provide a range of multimedia interaction, such as two-way wireless video interaction, Wirt explains. 'The camera is not in the right place' and the device has to be held in a way that makes conversations uncomfortable, says Wirt, who used to head global marketing efforts for handset maker Palm (PALM), where he helped develop Palm's first consumer PDA. Cisco's know-how could be brought to bear to improve two-way wireless video communication and other features.
Leader in 'Telepresence'
Other Cisco executives with smartphone experience include former Motorola (MOT) Chief Technology Officer Padmasree Warrior, hired as Cisco's CTO in 2007. Cisco's manufacturing chief Angel Mendez is a former Palm exec. In addition to its deep knowledge of gear for wireless networks like Wi-Fi and WiMAX, Cisco became a leader in so-called telepresence, which allows for virtual video, audio, and Web meetings, through its 2007 acquisition of WebEx. Earlier this year, Cisco released its iPhone WebEx app, which not only allows several people to get together for audio calls but also to view presentations, a sign Cisco is developing mobile-phone software expertise.
U.S. wireless networks are finally getting to the point where they can better handle more technologically challenging communication. In 2010 and 2011, major U.S. wireless carriers like Verizon Wireless and AT&T (T) will have widely deployed high-speed wireless networks that allow for high-quality real-time video transmission between two people. 'In five years, 50% of all telepresence use will come from consumers,' says Susan Eustis, CEO of marketing consultant Wintergreen Research. The market for telepresence equipment added up to $765 million in 2008 and is expected to grow to $2.9 billion by 2013, according to Wintergreen.
A video smartphone could also appeal to companies in such industries as health care. A telemedicine company called Wound Technology uses new two-way video software from startup iVisit to monitor diabetes patients in their homes. The new software allows a technician visiting patients in their homes to get advice and guidance from physicians reached via mobiles. 'People have looked at this as a consumer application, whereas we believe there's a very high [return on investment] for enterprise applications,' says iVisit CEO Orang Dialameh.
Big players already in smartphones
Cisco would have to contend with formidable established players, a possible deterrent to entering the smartphone market, say former Cisco executives. The company typically pursues opportunities where it can build a $1 billion-a-year business and lead in market share. But mobile-phone makers Apple (AAPL), Research In Motion (RIMM), and Nokia (NOK) would put up a tough fight. 'It is crowded,' says Will Stofega, an analyst with researcher IDC. '[To enter it], you need the 'wow' factor.'
Yahoo (YHOO), Google (GOOG), and eBay's (EBAY) Skype enable messaging and video conversations online and are working on ways to weave them into mobile devices. On Mar. 31, Skype unveiled an iPhone application that lets multiple users talk and send instant messages.
One way for Cisco to enter the smartphone market would be with an internally developed handset. Alternatively, the company could snap up Palm, which could sell for less than $1 billion, estimates Tom Taulli, founder of business valuation service BizEquity. Other acquisition options include Motorola, which is struggling financially. The company could also buy equity in Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between Sony (SNE) and Ericsson (ERICY) that's under pressure.
No matter which way it goes, Cisco will have to prove its chops as a consumer brand. The company has been running TV ads for the past three years, ever since the start of its consumer push. And shows like 24 and The Office have used Cisco's WebEx product in their scenes. The result is promising: A February survey Cisco conducted among 1,100 U.S. Web users showed that 69% of the consumers were aware of the brand. 'Chambers talks about [consumer electronics] all the time,' Wirt says. 'It's an area where we see a lot of potential upside.'
Kharif is a senior writer for BusinessWeek.com in Portland, Ore.


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Football stadiums transformed into unique 'StreetGolf' venues for young people
Wednesday 1 June 2016
Professional football clubs in England are helping young people get into golf thanks to the Golf Foundation. The R&A provides £400,000 to the Golf Foundation each year as part of its continued investment in golf development and education.
Keen golfer and former footballer Mark Bright was a guest as the Golf Foundation and Crystal Palace FC Foundation created a special nine-hole course at Selhurst Park.
Bright, who made over 200 appearances for Crystal Palace from 1986 to 1992, helped the schoolchildren attending the event to complete the course, including hitting shots down the tunnel, chipping into the dugout, shooting into the goal, driving from the stand onto the pitch, and putting in the trophy room.
The creative format of the game is known as 'StreetGolf' and gives young people the chance to design their own course to suit their environment. StreetGolf offers an immediate link to a range of local community sports projects across the UK and signposts further opportunities for youngsters at golf facilities in their area.
Crystal Palace is the latest Premier League team to offer golf as part of their Premier League 4 Sport (PL4S) programme. Eighteen professional football clubs now work with the Golf Foundation to help deliver HSBC Golf Roots, which has the ultimate goal of bringing all the benefits of golf to young people as one of their favourite sports.
The StreetGolf event at Selhurst Park was made up of young people from HSBC Golf Roots projects linked to golf venues and PGA coaches throughout the region, including two schools for children with special needs. One of those, Sunnydown School, was the winner on the day.
A similar big stadium golf event was held at Derby County's iPro Stadium the previous week with teams from Derby, Aston Villa and Stoke City battling it out in their own StreetGolf challenge.
Brendon Pyle, Chief Executive – The Golf Foundation, said: "The staff at Crystal Palace were absolutely superb in welcoming all the young people.
"The Premier League 4 Sport partnership is very exciting because it provides golf with the opportunity to reach a much wider audience using the power of football, telling the golf story to potentially thousands of new youngsters."
"We are extremely grateful to the Crystal Palace FC Foundation and also to the team at Community Golf, the PGA professionals involved and the local schools."
Duncan Weir, Executive Director – Working for Golf at The R&A, said: "The R&A spends around £5 million each year in supporting golf development activity, which includes significant investment in projects across the UK. This is all made possible by the success of The Open and the revenue it generates.
"Projects that promote and help grow the sport are vital to golf development at home and abroad, and the work that The Golf Foundation accomplishes through the HSBC Golf Roots initiative is a wonderful example of how the sport can be accessed and enjoyed by all."


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Q: Perl awk regex differs to standard regex? int abc0/0.1
int abc0/1
int abc0/1.2

I'm using regexr to create a regex rule that will match a line if there is a '.' near the end of the line. I have the following rule:
int [A-Za-z]*[0-9/]*\.[0-9]*

which works perfectly in regexr but it doesn't work when using it with awk. Is there some differences I need to know about?
This is the line I am using. It's worked fine on previous, simpler matches, just not this one.
`awk -v RS=! -v ORS= '/int [A-Za-z]*[0-9/]*\.[0-9]*/{print FILENAME}' file`;

Thank you

A: You need to escape / inside the regex:
awk -v RS=! -v ORS= '/int [A-Za-z]*[0-9\/]*\.[0-9]*/{print FILENAME}' file

A: There is no such thing as a regexp. There's only regexp for tool X, where X is your tool of choice. There are some general guidelines for regexps, but every tool has caveats and its own rules for which flavors of regexp it uses and how to specify them.
For example, / is a RE that matches a forward slash but try using / in a regexp context in awk or sed:
sed '///' file
awk '///' file

and both will fail with syntax errors since the / char is also a regexp delimiter and so literal /s need to be escaped while with grep on the other hand:
grep '/' file

it will work just fine. Every tool has it's own caveats and many tools have multiple ways of specifying the same regexp, none of them being exactly the same way as other tools.
This might robustly be what you're looking for:
$ awk '/int [[:alpha:]]*[[:digit:]/]*\.[[:digit:]]/' file
int abc0/0.1
int abc0/1.2

but the RE you posted should have worked just fine:
$ awk '/int [A-Za-z]*[0-9/]*\.[0-9]*/' file
int abc0/0.1
int abc0/1.2

A: no standard for regex. if you have to ask, the original regex has only 3 meta character: ., *, ?. the rest characters represent themselves. regex varies, but after perl came out, it gradually took the majority of the "market" and the engines after it always try to be compatible with perl's. therefore, you will see a noun "perl compatible regex syntax", but it's still not a standard.


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Trine – Review
12/05/2010 in Reviews
Trine, PC – £4.99 delivered
Review by Laura Michet
A friend of mine sidled over and took a peek at my laptop screen. "Wo-oah," he said. "That's pretty."
During the twenty minutes he spent watching me play Trine, this friend of mine came up with a number of bite-sized summaries of the game. According to him, Trine is "Lost Vikings with a chick in it," "Lost Vikings: Bloom Effects Edition," "Better than Lost Vikings because the guy who kills dudes with the sword is also the guy with the shield," "Better at puzzles and platforming than Lost Vikings," and plain-old "Better than Lost Vikings." As he explained it, Lost Vikings was a critical part of his childhood. "Are you sure you don't want to have a go at this yourself?" I asked. I wasn't so sure that Trine really did trump Lost Vikings. "You know, to make sure it isn't destroying your childhood memories completely?"
He declined. "It's awesome just to watch," he said.
And I suppose it is: Trine is gorgeous. It's one of those games that go heavy on the bloom effects, yeah, but its setting is the kind of charming fantasy world that seems to require bloom. The environments are colorful, complex, and filled with careful detail. Moving from area to area within a level will sometimes trigger dramatic lighting changes that shift the whole mood of the game in an instant. Passing from a squalid and grey-green underground cave onto a sunny hilltop, or into a twilight forest of cool blues and crisp white moonlight, is absolutely beautiful. Graphically, Trine is a standout.
I disagree with my friend, however, about the ways in which it's comparable to Lost Vikings, and I'm pretty sure that he would have disagreed, too, if he'd played it when I offered him the mouse. Single-player Trine doesn't actually feel much at all like Lost Vikings. Lost Vikings, as you may recall, had all three characters onscreen at once, and each depended on the presence and positioning of the others. Single-player Trine, rather, has only one character in the game-world at a time: they replace one another with a keystroke and a flash of light. In Lost Vikings, none of the characters were self-sufficient; on the other hand, the neatest part about Trine is that each character can solve practically every puzzle in a different way. Though Trine is clearly indebted to the earlier game, particularly in its multiplayer, it's impossible to not appreciate the quality of Frozenbyte's fresh creative flourishes. The game feels unique and masterful.
At any rate, you've got three characters with three separate ability-sets. The Knight has a shield, lifts and throws heavy objects, and melees enemies; the Thief grapple-swings like Spiderman and shoots foes with her bow; the Wizard can levitate things and build his own physics objects. Most puzzles can be solved in three completely different ways, depending on which characters you use. Sometimes a deadly error forced me to solve a puzzle with the exact characters who seemed least-suited to handle it. The moments of victory which follow these challenges are among most satisfying in the game. As the set-piece puzzles grow in size and difficulty, they begin to involve hilarious combinations of swinging, spinning, and sliding environmental objects. Using the Wizard to transform a giant cog into a catapult to fling your knight across a pit filled with spikes, then switching to the thief at the last moment to claw to safety, hand over hand up your grappling rope, is incredibly satisfying, not to mention charmingly absurd.
The combat, on the other hand, is much less entertaining. There are about five different kinds of basic enemies, mostly variations on the "evil skeleton" formula. The first you meet is a skeleton with a sword. Then a skeleton with a bow. The next has a shield and a sword. The next has armor and a bow. There's a firebreathing skeleton. There's one with a stronger shield and a bigger sword. Blah, blah, blah. By the time you acquire weapon upgrades, defeating them becomes busywork. Also infuriating are the bats—for some reason, a cloud of bats can kill any character in about five seconds unless they run like hell in the opposite direction. Even if you've got the Knight out, with his increased health, you can't target them very easily. Sometimes, you'll just vault up into a cloud of the furry little jerks as if you've come to say hello, and while you swipe ineffectually with your sword they'll devour you like midair piranhas. Which seems, frankly, stupid. Nevertheless, this bland and sometimes frustrating combat isn't game-ruining. In fact, it's actually rather fun in multiplayer, because you can kill everything twice as fast. It's the sheer excellence of the rest package that makes me so conscious of the occasional ultra-lameness of the fighting.
Why are we fighting these skeletons anyway, you might ask? Well, Trine has a plot to explain that, but it's paper-thin: it seems more like mood-setting or atmosphere than actual plot. You're saving the world from some, uh, evil guy. He shows up in the last level. You're able to control three characters at once because they all touched this one glowy thing while it was being magic and stuff. The wizard is a smooth-talking ladies' man. The knight is brave and stupid. The Thief is secretive. The narrator sounds like a version of your grandfather who smokes a pipe and wears velvet. It's exactly what people mean when they say 'fairy-tale'—I felt like drinking a glass of warm cocoa while I played this, but I couldn't figure out how to do that while also using the mouse and keyboard. This plot is brilliant in that it manages to set the exact right tone for the game without wasting any of your brain-power! Trine is a mood, ladies and gentlemen. Trine is both a physics puzzle-platformer and a feeling, simultaneously. Does this make sense to you? It makes sense to me.
As for the co-op multiplayer: it is marvelous. You are certainly cheating yourself out of at least fifty percent of the fun of the game if you don't play multiplayer at least once. After beating it in single-player I completed about three-quarters of the game through in multiplayer, at first with only one partner, then with two others. The game feels quite a bit like Lost Vikings when you can't switch at will between the characters. Puzzles which were once simple can become quite complicated when you've got two other people to worry about, while puzzles which took me fifteen minutes to figure out in single-player sometimes took less than a single minute with someone else onscreen to help. Though it's disorienting, this keeps the puzzles fresh: playing through in co-op is just as exciting even after you've finished the single-player game once already.
Once, however, while caught as the thief at the bottom of a pit filled with skeletons, watching the wizard gleefully drop physics objects and spiked balls on my head while the knight hopped away offscreen like an armed mental ward escapee, I realized that this game is incredibly entertaining when you play like a dangerous maniac. It becomes a physics playground draped in bloom-effects, and there's no reason not to take advantage of that, even if it means dropping skeletons on your friends until they shout at you. We saw no reason to always play the multiplayer 'straight'. The characters are all a little bit self-sufficient—your friends can stand having a crate kicked in their face once or twice a level. Or three times. Or every other second. At any rate, the multiplayer is hands-down excellent, no matter what attitude you bring to it.
However: the camera control in multiplayer is pretty terrible, particularly in three-person co-op. Occasionally, characters will run off of opposite sides of the screen and die invisibly because the camera can only zoom out a very, very limited distance. Every level had a few problems related to this, and it eventually became frustrating, particularly since some of the levels seem to give good strategic reasons for the characters to split up.
Overall, however, I had an incredibly positive experience with Trine. It gets so much right that its few faults are pretty easy to ignore. Its single-player can be brain-wrenchingly challenging, and its multiplayer adds solid replay. Particularly if you plan on playing with friends, Trine is a brilliant way to take a break from the sometimes-tiresome rigmarole of gunplay-based co-op games. It's like 'Splosion Man in that way, I think: interesting already in single-player, but rewardingly fresh in multiplayer, too. You and your friends will probably finish it in only a few play sessions, and then maybe decide to take on the free, mind-bogglingly-difficult, so-far-PC-only DLC, Path to a New Dawn, together. I haven't even beaten that in solo play yet—it's crazy-tough. Whether or not it will also be coming to PSN is unclear at this point, but even if it doesn't, it's still a game I would energetically recommend.
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Rei Onryou #
"I felt like drinking a glass of warm cocoa while I played this, but I couldn't figure out how to do that while also using the mouse and keyboard."
Try this: http://www.baronbob.com/Drink-HatYellow-main.jpg
This was a good review of a charming game. Just need to get round to playing it more. A shame that it only allows local multiplayer though.
Harbour Master #
Nice review Laura. You sound more excited about than I was – now, that I'm done with it, I feel no need to run back to Trine, I don't miss it. Perhaps co-op makes the difference?
(Path to New Dawn, yuck. Jump die three times and you'll have to restart the level, no checkpoints.)
And although the bats were annoying, I just took them out with a several spreads of arrows with the thief – didn't have run around too much.


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Q: How to programmatically create check-in place on Facebook? How do you programmatically create a check-in place on Facebook? The graph API allows you to check-in on existing place (which is represented by a page. You pass coordinates and server returns an array with places with given accuracy and then you can select where to check-in). What I need is to be able to pass coordinates (long and lat) and either check-in if the page of place is exists or create new (I have all the information, ie. address, phone, id etc.).

A: Unfortunately you can't do it with current FB public API.
There is a bug report: http://bugs.developers.facebook.net/show_bug.cgi?id=13388
See also discussion on: http://forum.developers.facebook.net/viewtopic.php?id=82074
You may also try as workaround use webview showing touch.facebook.

A: You cannot create new places via the API, only check into existing places.


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Daniele Zanni
Daniele Zanni (°1985, Milan, Italy) is an artist who mainly works with photography. By taking daily life as subject matter while commenting on the everyday aesthetic of middle class values, Zanni investigates the dynamics of landscape, including the manipulation of its effects and the limits of spectacle based on our assumptions of what landscape means to us. Rather than presenting a factual reality, an illusion is fabricated to conjure the realms of our imagination.
His photos establish a link between the landscape's reality and that imagined by its conceiver. These works focus on concrete questions that determine our existence. By exploring the concept of landscape in a nostalgic way, he considers making art a craft which is executed using clear formal rules and which should always refer to social reality.
His works are often about contact with architecture and basic living elements. Energy (heat, light, water), space and landscape are examined in less obvious ways and sometimes developed in absurd ways. By focusing on techniques and materials, he often creates work using creative game tactics, but these are never permissive. Play is a serious matter: during the game, different rules apply than in everyday life and even everyday objects undergo transubstantiation.
His works sometimes radiate a cold and latent violence. At times, disconcerting beauty emerges. The inherent visual seductiveness, along with the conciseness of the exhibitions, further complicates the reception of their manifold layers of meaning. By emphasising aesthetics, he focuses on the idea of 'public space' and more specifically on spaces where anyone can do anything at any given moment: the non-private space, the non-privately owned space, space that is economically uninteresting.
His works are notable for their perfect finish and tactile nature. This is of great importance and bears witness to great craftsmanship. In a search for new methods to 'read the city', he seduces the viewer into a world of ongoing equilibrium and the interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted that only exist to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.
His works are characterised by the use of everyday objects in an atmosphere of middleclass mentality in which recognition plays an important role. Daniele Zanni currently lives and works in London.


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Wendy's Market Cap 2006-2019 | WEN
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There's A General Yuck In The Air
June 9, 2009 By Jeff 92 Comments
It's as humid as a New Orleans butt crack up here today. Oh, how I hate it. It's still not hot, but there's a general yuck in the air, which hints at the terribleness to come.
Yeah, it won't be long before we have to lug the Soviet humbox window units up from the basement, and fill the house with a continuous roaring noise:
"Could you pass me the salt?"
"The salt! Pass the salt!!"
"Oh, I don't know. Five or six."
"Tomorrow, dammit! Tomorrow!!"
Not a fan of summer… Pass the Gold Bond medicated crotch blower.
Apparently I'll be going to an ultra-rare rock show next week. I'm not the most spontaneous person at this point in my life (it takes too much energy), but Steve and I decided yesterday, all willy-nilly.
He called while I was driving to work, and I mentioned that the New York Dolls were going to be at the Trocadero, in Philadelphia, soon. "Wanna go?" he said. "Yeah, I do!" I answered.
So, we checked our schedules (got the go-ahead from our wives) and ordered tickets. We bought them around six o'clock, and by the time I got home from work last night it was showing SOLD OUT. Did we get the last two? Excellent.
I don't have the new Dolls album yet, but the previous one is great. And, of course, their stuff from the '70s is iconic. Should be a fun show. Even though three of the original members are long-dead, including Johnny Thunders. But let's try not to focus on the negative…
If the Eels tour this summer, which will probably happen, it's very likely I'll attend TWO shows in a single calendar year. Pretty good, huh? Who says I'm a pathetic old burn-out?
Hello? …Hello?
Speaking of phone conversations while driving, I spoke with Metten on Sunday while careening down Interstate 81. We'd never actually talked before, we'd only communicated through email and text messages. It was kinda surreal.
He said I sounded different than he thought I would. Maybe it's because I was using my "sassy black woman" voice? I don't know… Next time I'll hit him with my "enthusiastic Chinese business-owner," and maybe that'll work better?
We were discussing who should write Monday's post at Mockable. I volunteered, and cranked out this little morsel of ridiculousness in about thirty minutes. Funny thing, though. It's one of my favorites so far.
A guy at my job reportedly won $100,000 with a scratch-off lottery ticket yesterday morning. Supposedly he showed up for work last night, and told his boss he wouldn't be returning.
I'm not sure that's the wisest move on his part. But what do I care?
And I need to stop right here. I'm all outta time. I don't really have a formal Question today…
How about the last concert/show you attended? Any good? Also, have you ever met someone you've only known through email, or over the phone at work, and had them pictured completely wrong? Tell us about it. And finally, the lottery dilemma… Would you quit your job for $100,000 of found-money?
I'll see you guys tomorrow.
Now playing in the bunker.
Uncle_Wedgie says
Depeche Mode – something gay
That guy went a step further than I would have if that $100K was mine – He actually showed up at the office the next day to quit in person.
My boss would have gotten a nasty email.
Luckily I skipped lunch today.
Toby Keith, it was free with free beer in a VIP seating area with a designated driver.
Being debt free, 100K would allow me to pursue something else.
@Uncle_Wedgie – yep, that's why I like them. I'm all about gay music…the gayer, the better.
Went to a Pet Shop Boys concert once. Now THAT was gay.
Last show I saw was Blue October..it was Great!
I speak to a lot of people on the phone and when I do meet them they NEVER look like how they sound…I gave up long ago.
No, I would not quit my job for $100,000.00…maybe $100,000,000.00…
Ashley in NYC says
Def would not quit for $100,000 – I actually like my job (most days that are not today). I would, however, move to a bigger apt. And maybe get that vacation to Tahiti finally!
Last show was four bands of punk/rock guys under 30 who you've never heard of. Most recent actual "concerts" were Buckcherry, Gaslight Anthem, & Katy Perry. Kinda all over the map.
My first "serious bf" was a friend of a friend who I talked to on the phone for almost a year before we ever met – my friend had me convinced that he was ugly & dorky. I was (very pleasantly) surprised the night we met and he was neither. Blond curls & blue-green eyes – as my 13-year-old self would put it, sooooo dreamy! 🙂
Here's a shitty little eatery in North Alabama. I don't know what they serve. This picture was taken with my cell phone, but you can just make out the name of the place: "BEST FOOD YES"
http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1018/bestfoodyes.jpg
Most of you guys know I'm a regular concert-goer, so I won't bore you. Last concert I went to was one of the "surprise" gigs by Green Day at a small club because I know their Tour Manager – Michael Schenker is next on Thursday night. Jeff, saw the Dolls last year for the first time in eons and they rocked. You'll love it.
Currently unemployed, but if I was working there's no way in Hell I'd quit my job for $100,000. That's just crazytalk.
Happy Tuesday, Surfers!
J Shifty says
Saw the Bad Plus with Wendy Lewis last month, and squealed like a teenage girl. I think they're ginchy.
Uh oh…I just read that the founder of Bennigan's, Norman Brinker, died today.
I had the same experience Metten did with you, Jeff, when Jim from jimformation called me about a computer issue he was having.
I have followed his site since 1999 – just a great writer. Not comedy like you (which I love, obvs) but short stories and essays.
Of course all of those years of reading his work I had an idea of how he might sound and I was wayyyy off. His voice was higher than I expected. Not gay high (not that there is anything wrong with that) just higher than I imagined.
Any more on doing that podcast you were considering?
Also to Jeff and the other night owls out there:
I have a friend that will be on Coast To Coast AM this Thursday night talking about his movie Generation RX.
http://www.generationrxfilm.com/
His name is Kevin Miller and it will be the first time I will hear his voice.
He wants me to call in and I told him I would try since he was kind enough to send me the DVD. I get right through on Computer America but I never tried calling Coast To Coast before.
Been a long time fan and always liked Noory so we shall see. I know you have been listening while working this new job.
Dudley Dawson (Booger) says
Last Concert – Jeff Beck at Irving Plaza in NYC in April – good show.
Last one before that was Ray Davies at Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC last december. Another good show.
Lilm4105 says
Last concert…..bruce springsteen and the E street band last month. Fan-frickin-tasic. How he didn't have a heart attck running around like he was, I'll never know but I'm glad I got to see them before they stopped doing shows.
Last concert – Nickleback, one before that was James Blunt – I went to that as a favor for a friend who had tickets at the last minute. After every song I thought 'Oh, I know that song and I hate it'. Took every ounce of energy I have to not run on stage and kick his ass for singing like a girl.
James Blunt looks just like I expected…..
The Evil Twin says
I gotta agree with Swami Bologna – Buster and Sylvain Sylvain do not The New York Dolls make. I guess I put those two Dolls LPs on such a high pedestals that I never really loved any other post-breakup Dolls stuff except for a few of Thunders' releases, and I think his "So Alone" was the only one that really came close to greatness. It would be interesting to see what they're doing, now, but it depresses me to think about it. They didn't sound too half bad in the footage of the "New York Doll" documentary and some of the newer live stuff I've heard. But, it's sort of like the Stooges/MC5 reunion thang a while back. The Stooges were God-like to me when I was younger, and I had everything they released, but I don't think in a million years I'd want to see a bunch of paunchy, fat old men on stage belting out Stooges songs, further impressing the point that I'm just a paunchy, fat old fan standing there watching them. I'd feel like one of those grey-haired oldsters that I see pathetically twisting at old Sha Na Na shows at state fairs. I just can't get past the reunion thing; it feels sort of sad and pathetic. I love nostalgia, but I think it seriously tarnishes the memory of the band of how glorious they were back in their heyday. The Dolls were part of a huge pivotal point in Rock and Roll history, and I'd like to remember them that way. Blue Oyster Cult played here a year or two ago. I LOOOOOOVE BOC with a brokeback passion, but I knew I'd just get depressed, so I stayed home. Same with The Pixies. It just won't work for me…
However, Cracker will be playing in Louisville in July, which should get me off my ass to see 'em. They're one of the few touring bands that I could really give a shit about anymore…
>>@retrollama: Morrissey, Franz Ferdinand, and Paul McCartney. *blink blink* One of these things is not like the other.<<
So you mean the guys in Franz Ferdinand aren't total fags?
ETW – I used to work with Victor Krummenacher from Cracker (and Camper Van Beethoven). We see each other every now and then Let me know if you want to go and I'll give him a call…
@AngryWhiteGuy, Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction! Dang, they're all over the place. My 19-year-old nephew saw them Friday night in Boston, and my boss is at the same show right now in Virginia.
Last concert I went to was Orange Tulip Conspiracy a few weeks ago at the Black Cat in DC. Last "big" concert I went to (i.e. a band you might have heard of) was King Crimson a few years ago at the Birchmere. Both were excellent, absolutely worth the time and effort.
Dave Brubeck is in town again this summer, and I'm thinking I ought to go. I don't much care for his recent work, but I do like his old stuff. Plus, he's an American icon and he's not going to be around much longer.
the great MES says
Flipper, last Sunday night and it was totally excellent.
DTO says
Bonnie Raitt (twice)…Lyle Lovett…k.d. Lang…Gypsy Kings (twice)…not all in one night. Small venue…Hard Rock in Vegas when I lived there. Absolutly killer every time.
100K is just enough to take a year off and learn something. I'd start with two new languages and spend all my time practicing to get back my trumpet chops.
I've heard myself on my answering machine and I don't think I look like anything I sound like. First of all I have a fully developed nose. Not a big schnozz, but not a little nub either. Also, my eyes are a lot bluer than somebody that sounds like that. I'm a lot taller too!
mountie9wv says
The Avett Brothers (with Dave Matthews). Yeah, I've mentioned it before, and, like JCIII, fear retribution. Oh well. Loved the opening act like a fanboy and will be going back in July (without Dave Matthews).
As for the 100K, definitely not enough to quit unless you have a backup. Maybe the guy is opening a bar or taking a sabbatical.
Biff Spiffy says
Last show paid for: Dave Matthews in Raleigh, before LeRoi Moore kicked the bucket. Free shows: Puddle of Mudd headlined a free show with Saving Abel and some other openers. Left before POM started playing. It was fully meh.
@ tadpolegal: My first show was the Tubes, I was wondering if those ole farts were still around…
I'm self-employed, so $100k would buy me a workshop and a week off.
Forgot to add my first concert was Van Halen (I was in love with Eddie). Was a gift from friends – ticket cost $7 I still have it . Does that make me feel old?
Last concert? I went to a new years show that had H20 (Hardcore NYC punk) that was in KC.
@ Jeff.
You have all of these advertise here things going on but you need to inform of how to acquire space. I have looked all over and nothing is listed.
Can you work on that?
I can think of 2 friends that might pay to add traffic to their site since they use google ad words and live in PA and can fix computers remotely like me.
More info is required.
Great Googly Moogly says
What would I do if I won a hundred grand?
I'd spend every last dime on wine and hookers.
Senor Kaboom says
Jeff: try the cornstarch variety of gold bond. Much more effective.
@ Knucklehead:
Thanx, I'll do that! I love all the Cracker/CVB/Monks of Doom stuff. I saw CVB live four times, and met them all and hungout for one of their soundchecks once (when they played a show with Tiny Tim back in the 80s), but I've never seen Cracker live. Really looking forward to it if I can manage to get there!
I'll take that last statement back, I did sort of see Cracker live once – caught Dave Lowery and Johnny Hickman doing an acoustic set – but it still wasn't Cracker per se…
WhiteTrashBarbie says
Last show? Ben Folds on my birfday. Out-Standing! I just love that little man.
Quit for 100k? Uh, no. Even before taxes that wouldn't cover my debt. Thank you law school.
Meet someone who didn't look like they sound? I worked in radio for a really long time, so, yes, I have met a lot of people who don't look like they sound, including myself. I sound like I am tall and dark and exotic looking. I am not. Well, I am tall, but not as tall as I sound. Sometimes I even disappoint myself.
last show – Radiohead and before that, Dave Matthews Band, before that, Chris Smither. going to see DMB in a couple of weeks, too. I do not fear retribution. don't give a damn.
If I won $100K, I'd quit this job, fo sho! I'm self-employeed and working this temp pay-for-shit data entry job to help with finances since our medical bills have stacked up considerably (hubby had prostate cancer – all the men out there, get your PSA#s checked). I'd take the $100K, pay the bills and get back to my biz.
Reminds me – its Wed and I'll play the lotto today.
Karin says
100k might get me to drop this joint. I won't be able to live on it but it might be a push to get me to pursue something else. I'm a cubicle monkey. Gray walls, lots of typeing.
Last concert? Don't even remember. I'm pretty cheap about such things so its been awhile. Black Crowes maybe. Maybe if I win 100k I can go to all the concerts I want and work part time? Hmmmm….
bikercheck says
Mmmm….$100,000. Quit?…no…. but would start something else, for sure.. to get the fuck out of here. All ready have a side busness that is my passion…would like to do that full time.
Just saw Zac Brown Band at PNC Park as I stated in another writing. The concert before that was Alan Jackson. Always great. I'm a country girl at heart! Jamboree in the Hills coming soon! WHOO-HOO!
Hate the heat of summer….humidity sucks. Sweat like a fat kid with no cake.
I'd pick up Karin's joint and finish it. Then I'd point out to her how awesome ceiling fans are. Check it out, chica, it has blades and it's chopping up the air in little pieces and raining it down on us. Far out. Then we'd go to White Castle and spend some of that $100k.
Cas G in Knoxpatch, TN says
My last show was Southern Culture on the Skids with opening act Malamondo's. Scots always puts on a great show and the Go-Go Dancers with Malamondo's were NICE!!!!
$100K would be great but not enough to quit working. It would keep me living the dream with Wendy's #2 combo each day though!
Biff Spiffy,
The Tubes are, indeed, still around. Just saw them a few months ago at the Red Devil Lounge (max. cap. 350 – if that). Hilarious.
Average age of attendee: 50+.
tadpolegal says
@Biff Spiffy & Knuckelhead-
Yes They are old, but still put on a great show. We see them everytime they come around. There is somthing about Fee Waybill in spandex, platform shoes and a dildo shoved in his pants that everyone should see once~!
New to PA says
last show: billy joel and elton john
AngryWhiteGuy says
NDfaninAZ- Isn't it funny that Shirley Q offended Rupaul? Hey…about thirty comments disappeared. Now this answer doesn't make sense.
Freaky! Now the comments only show up in the black space at the bottom and keep disappearing in the white space. Sort of like when Ashcroft was reading the site. Anyway, NDfan in AZ, Shirley Q Liquor is awesome.
Did you know- Arby's sandwich meat is made with bull castration fragments?
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P.S It crashes in English, but I have only the Italian Language Pack installed, and when i log in it says something like "Windows Security Center isn't active" and it turns out that isn't on Windows. I tried SFC /scannow it's not repaired, tried DISM, again not repaired, I tried again with applying patches, but Windows crashes when doing it.
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Home News Government committed to tackling bottlenecks affecting business community
Government committed to tackling bottlenecks affecting business community
-President Ramotar at Chambers of Commerce meeting in Berbice
PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar yesterday joined members of the Chambers of Commerce in Berbice at its annual meeting at Albion, Region Six. He was accompanied by Ministers Ashni Singh, Robeson Benn, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy and Irfaan Ali. The meeting presented the forum for members of the Berbice Chamber of Commerce and Development Association (BCCDA), Upper Corentyne Chamber of Commerce and Industry (UCCI) and the Central Corentyne Chamber of Commerce (CCCC) to bring to the fore, matters that are affecting the business community as well as make recommendations on the way forward.
Some of the problems raised include the need for fire hydrants, streetlights, modern sporting facilities, improved security arrangements at the Guyana-Suriname border, and regularisation of the backtrack route among others.
President Ramotar assured members of the Chambers of his government's commitment to doing all that is required to eliminate the bottlenecks that are hindering the development of the business community in the region.
He pointed out that business in Guyana is being done in the face of very challenging international circumstances, alluding to the economic turmoil being experienced in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Greece and other parts of Europe.
These unstable economic situations in these countries, which are Guyana's main trading avenues, have consequences for the local economy and the 36 percent EU price cut that the sugar industry has and continues to suffer from, stands as testimony to this.
The Head of State explained that the industry is currently in the process of reorganisation and retooling, a task to which the People's Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C ) administration remains committed, recognising the importance of the industry to Guyana's economy.
"This challenging situation means therefore that we have to be more efficient and more focus on many of the things that we do to maximize our benefits here…Government has been working hard to try to create the necessary enabling conditions to make doing business in Guyana easier," the President said.
To this end, the administration's entire social programme is designed to boost the business sector; creating jobs and generating wealth, while at the same time improving the services offered, the President explained.
He aid this is being done through heavy investments in the education sector with the aim of improving the quality of workers in Guyana which will in turn redound to the benefits of the business sector.
Focus is also being placed on issues such as taxation; this saw the reduction of the corporation tax in 2011 which enabled many companies to retool.
President Ramotar said that businesses have to take full advantage of the benefits that accrue from the use of cutting edge technology in order to overcome many of the challenges and made reference to Government's investment in Information Communication Technology (ICT).
"We have to ensure that every Guyanese know how to use the computer, this is central to the economy as we go forward into the future…this is a new area that cannot be ignored; the more people become familiar with new technologies the better it would be for businesses as well as our country," he posited.
The Head of State also spoke of the vibrancy of the mining sector in Guyana; making reference to the new mining enterprises such as the manganese operation in the North West District, Region One. Over the past two years, mining has been the leading contributor to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Guyana.
With regards to agriculture, the President said that the possibilities in the sector are endless and spoke of the prospects of bio-fuel owing to high fuel prices.
"In Guyana we have the opportunity to not only secure our own food supply but also to earn a lot of money in the production of food," he said.
The President also emphasised the need for stronger business ties with neighbouring Brazil, which only two weeks ago was named the fifth largest economy in the world, surpassing the United Kingdom (UK).
Chairman of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Ramesh Dookhoo in his remarks said that Guyana has made significant economic progress over the years as a result of sound policies and increased efforts of a vibrant, growing private sector.
In Berbice, the private sector is rapidly expanding owing to an increasing number of business establishments.
Dookhoo posited that: "We now have to look at the capacities of government agencies, regulatory bodies, and other institutions to accommodate the growth that is taking place in Berbice. If Guyana is the bread-basket of the Caribbean, then it equally can be said that Berbice is bread-basket of Guyana; this region hold some of the most fertile agricultural lands in the country and with the advent of the Berbice Bridge, our farmers have greater access to Georgetown and internationally."
Meanwhile, Regional Chairman, Region Six, David Armogan in his remarks made specific reference to the expansion in the housing sector as a result of more lands being developed. This in turn, has given way for the construction sector to take off.
Much was said about the No.63 Beach, which is touted as one of the main tourist attractions in the Region and plans are on stream which are being spearheaded by acting Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce, Irfaan Ali.
Armogan also spoke of the partnerships between the regional administration and non-governmental organisations in tackling social ills such as domestic violence and abuse.(GINA)
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John A. Russell Corp. v. Bohlig
739 A.2d 1212 (1999)
Vermont Supreme Court
James Bohlig (plaintiff) was terminated from his job for his dishonest use of company expense accounts. Bohlig then got a new job and entered a three-year contract to work as an officer for the John A. Russell Corporation (Russell) (defendant), a construction company. Bohlig got Russell's permission to use its employees and equipment to renovate his house. However, the project got larger and more expensive than Bohlig had represented, and Bohlig did not pay Russell for more than $200,000 of the work. Russell terminated Bohlig's employment contract early. Russell sued Bohlig for the unpaid construction work, and Bohlig sued Russell for unpaid severance. Bohlig argued that the employment contract gave him 12 months of pay and benefits as severance if Russell ended the contract early. However, the severance provision did not apply if Bohlig was terminated for dishonesty in the performance of his job duties, and Russell claimed that was why it had fired Bohlig. At trial, Russell was allowed to present evidence that Bohlig had lost his previous job due to dishonest conduct. The jury awarded Bohlig only around $2800 for his severance claim. Bohlig appealed, arguing that the trial court had erred by allowing evidence of Bohlig's prior dishonesty. On appeal, Russell claimed that the prior-dishonesty evidence was admissible because it showed context for Bohlig's job change to Russell, helped establish the dishonesty element of Russell's defense, and was not unduly prejudicial.
Holding and Reasoning (Johnson, J.)
Character Evidence
Propensity
Federal Rule of Evidence 404(a)(1)
Propensity Inference


The company's shares were the biggest fallers on the FTSE 100 – down 4%.
"Underlying financial results are ahead of expectations, with good growth in profit and cash flow. Following the restructuring we announced in June last year we are starting to see the crucial behavioural changes needed to sustain our momentum," chief executive Warren East said.
Last year, a fault with Rolls-Royce's Trent 1000 engines grounded planes at British Airways and other airlines.
At the time, the company said the issues would take "some years" to fix. It said parts in its Trent 1000 engines were wearing out faster than expected but that it "had a solution" to the problem.
As a result it had recorded an exceptional item of £186m in the 2018 results which "relates to onerous contracts, tooling write-offs and the acceleration of depreciation and amortisation on associated Trent 900 programme assets".
However, it has said it will no longer compete to supply engines for Boeing's proposed new mid-sized jetliner to fill a gap between the narrow and wide-body aircraft.
"We are unable to commit to the proposed timetable to ensure we have a sufficiently mature product which supports Boeing's ambition for the aircraft," Rolls-Royce said.
Hargreaves Lansdown equity analyst George Salmon said many parts of Rolls-Royce were operating efficiently than they had in the last few years, "but Warren East hasn't quite got Rolls-Royce firing on all cylinders".
There were "bright spots", he said, such as a £611m net cash position and £568m of free cash flow, "a critical figure for Rolls since management put it front and centre of the investment case".
However, he added: "While Rolls deserves credit for freeing up cash by changing its supplier terms, much of the improvement is being driven by extra upfront payments and £70m of restructuring costs have been excluded.


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Independence vs. Interdependence in NVC
Submitted by Bob Wentworth, Aug, 2020
I'd like to share something that might help illuminate one aspect of some differences in views that I've been sensing in the NVC network. I have hope that this might also contribute to people's journeys of learning and practicing NVC. This topic is important to me because I see growing our skills around engaging with Interdependence as what offers hope for a more peaceful world.
I have an idea that there are several orientations to relating to self and others which are relevant as people learn NVC and deepen their practice:
Enmeshment - In...
Three Strategies for Working with Worry
In these times of global change, you might find your mind lost in worry more than ever. Letting worry take over inhibits joy, health, and wise, compassionate action. It's important to be able to work with it effectively so that you can contribute to love and well-being for yourself and others.
NonViolent Communication and Politics
From PuddleDancer Press
What is the connection between Nonviolent Communication and Politics?
Is there room in politics for Nonviolent Communication (NVC)?
Does Nonviolent Communication have a specific political agenda?
NVC aims for a world in which everybody's needs are met and conflicts are resolved peacefully.
Together You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation
By John Lewis
From The New York TImes
While my time here has now come to an end, I want you to know that in the last days and hours of my life you inspired me. You filled me with hope about the next chapter of the great American story when you used your power to make a difference in our society. Millions of people motivated simply by human compassion laid down the burdens of division. Around the country and the world you set aside race, class, age, language and nationality to demand respect for human dignity.
View From A Young Black Prisoner
Submitted by Tina Taylor, Jun, 2020
June 19, 2020 ("Juneteenth")
One of my former NVC students at the Oregon State Penitentiary was transferred to another prison out of state many years ago, and we have kept in touch by mail from time to time. I'll call him Joe, to protect his anonymity. He wrote to me recently, after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the George Floyd murder, and I was so struck by his words, I want to share them with you. Joe has given me permission to do so, and I have only edited lightly for clarity. As a bit of background: Joe has been in prison since he was 15 years old, and he just turned...
How can NVC be helpful in Transformative Times today
By Roxy Manning, PhD
Even in the midst of all that is moving in the world, three experiences left me particularly shaken today. Each gave clarity about what NVC can offer in the midst of these times, and where we need to be vigilant. Here are the three events that shaped my day.
Fridays Zoom Group: Report from the COVIDEO NVC Support Circle with QuaranTina
I was delighted to be the recipient of a Zoom-subsidizing grant from ORNCC for my pandemic-time online practice group. Thank you, ORNCC Board!
We have met on Friday afternoons, 2:00 to 3:30, since the start of May. We've grown to 11 of us, and average four to six at each meeting. Thanks to the magic of tech, we beam in from Toronto to Santa Barbara, Michigan to Portland, as well as Corvallis and Salem. We start with a Quieting and a reading, and then a brief, lightly guided check-in. Anyone wanting some time for an empathy circle can then ask for it. I coach us along the way, and...
Acknowledging PuddleDancer Press and Responding to Racism
Submitted by Gary Baran, Jun, 2020
PuddleDancer Press (PDP) published the first edition of Marshall Rosenberg's book, Nonviolent Communication, in 1999 and since then has published many more books dealing with Nonviolent Communication. PDP has also donated many NVC books for use in prisons and for people who could not otherwise afford them. PDP is, in my view, one of the most effective agents for spreading NVC and I am deeply grateful for what it offers.
PDP publishes a free monthly e-newsletter. Material from the current newsletter seems to me to be especially relevant at this time. It includes an essay addressing...
Request for Financial Support for the Center for Nonviolent Communication
Submitted by Gary Baran, May, 2020
Dear Friends of NVC,
From its inception the Oregon Network for Compassionate Communication (ORNCC) has strived to work in tandem with the Center for Nonviolent Communication (CNVC), the international organization Marshall Rosenberg founded in 1984. Having both an international as well as local organizations such as ORNCC has helped draw people to the process we have found so valuable. For many years CNVC has been largely dependent for financial viability on income from International Intensive Trainings (IITs), along with contributions by CNVC Certified Trainers and others in the...
How to Listen and Find Aliveness in Containment
By Lashelle Lowe-Chardé
For many, staying at home during this time can be disorienting. It can be more difficult to find a sense of purpose without feedback from coworkers and customers. Knowing how and where to direct your energy can be hard too. Without a consistent schedule, every moment means making a choice. Given that we are greatly supported and regulated by routine and community, finding your own rhythm can be challenging. You still have responsibilities, but how you go about them is completely by your design.