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  SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Health > Fitness
While there are still a few races on the late-season calendar, late October typically signals the end of the triathlon season.
Coronado's Jim McNevin, who has lowered his marathon personal best from 5 hours, 26 minutes to 3:14 the past five years, says the training philosophy the last week before a half is the same as for a marathon.
A look at the major road races for runners in the San Diego area.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/health/fitness   (1783 words)

  
  What Do Union Members Want? What Paycheck Protection Laws Show About How Well Unions Reflect Their Members? Priorities   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To determine whether or not unions pursue priorities that their members support, there would have to be a situation in which union members had the option of declining to support their union on an issue while still remaining in the union.
Unions may well use loopholes to get around these restrictions, but the fact that they need to use loopholes shows how out of touch they are with their members’ priorities.
Under the assumption that the state-specific effects are uncorrelated with the explana­tory variables, the random effects estimator pro­vides an efficient estimate of the coefficient.
www.heritage.org /Research/Labor/cda06-08.cfm   (6572 words)

  
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Let the calum- niators of the colored race despise themselves for their baseness and illiberality of spirit, and hence- forth cease to talk of the natural inferiority of those who require nothing but time and opportunity to attain to the highest point of human excellence.
Many, under the influence of this prejudice, think their own masters are better than the masters of other slaves; and this, too, in some cases, when the very reverse is true.
That cheerful eye, under the influ- ence of slavery, soon became red with rage; that voice, made all of sweet accord, changed to one of harsh and horrid discord; and that angelic face gave place to that of a demon.
www.history.rochester.edu /class/douglass/duglas11.txt   (20980 words)

  
 United Nations Human Rights Website - Treaty Bodies Database - Document - State Party Report - Brazil
Article 20 of this law establishes punishment of two to five years imprisonment for the crime of practising, inducing or abetting discrimination or prejudice regarding race, colour, religion, ethnic or national origin by using means of mass communication or any form of publication.
Under the terms of this law, foreigners are required to obtain an entry visa, though this requirement may be waived where reciprocal arrangements exist, sealed by an international agreement.
Under the terms of this law, preventing or hindering the access of a duly qualified person to any post in the direct or indirect administration or to commissioned posts in public service concessionaires constitutes a crime (art.
www.unhchr.ch /tbs/doc.nsf/0/c021800a90432bc38025655200447629?Opendocument   (14840 words)

  
 Election Poll: Union Members Voted   (Site not responding. Last check: )
When asked whether “unions need to invest time and money in politics and legislation today, to counter the influence that corporations and wealthy special interest have,” 73 percent of members agreed, up from 69 percent when that question was asked in 2002.
Even a majority of union members who voted for Republicans who were not endorsed by their union supported the work their union did to get out the vote.
Focusing on 25 governors races, 16 Senate races, 47 House races and targeted competitive state legislative races during the 2002 election cycle, grassroots activists had the assistance of 750 AFL-CIO and affiliate union staff members to guarantee union members understood the issues and made their voice heard at the polls.
www.aflcio.org /issuespolitics/ns11062002.cfm   (1202 words)

  
 Education Week: Justices Weigh Cases on Teachers' Union Fees, Federal Impact Aid   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Five non-union teachers and the state of Washington sued the Washington Education Association, the state’s largest teacher’s union, for allegedly violating the state law, resulting in two appeals that have been consolidated by the high court, Davenport v.
Gary Davenport, a former high school history teacher who was one of the five nonunion teachers who challenged the union’s political use of his agency fees, was present in the courtroom for the hour of argument on the case.
Under the methodology that the districts contend is mandated by the statute, New Mexico would not qualify as having an equalized finance system and the state would not be able to reduce its aid to the districts by the amount of their federal impact aid.
www.edweek.org /ew/articles/2007/01/10/19union_web.h26.html   (1263 words)

  
 Union College
The red-haired Seward came to Union in 1816 at the age of fifteen and enrolled in the sophomore class.
After a change of heart, he returned to Union and completed his studies with high honors, becoming one of the earliest members of the College’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
Union’s heritage of names is by no means confined to the alumni cited in the main article.
www.union.edu /N/DS/s.php?s=4903   (1975 words)

  
 Politics of the Republic of China Summary
Another lesser known principle that the Republic was founded upon was five races under one union" (五族共和), which emphasized the harmony of the five major ethnic groups in China as represented by the colored stripes of the original Five-Colored Flag of the Republic.
However, this five races under one union principle and the corresponding flag were abandoned in 1927.
The ROC is governed under the Constitution of the Republic of China which was drafted in 1947 before the fall of Mainland China and outlined a government for all of China.
www.bookrags.com /Politics_of_the_Republic_of_China   (5886 words)

  
 KET's Underground Railroad - Anti-Slavery Prisoners in the Kentucky State Penitentiary
However, he was only one of forty-four men and women of both races who were sent to the Kentucky State Penitentiary between 1844 and 1864 for "Assisting Slaves to Runaway." Over eight of these forgotten heroes died during their confinement.
Under the law of 1830, persons found guilty of persuading a slave to run away were required to give security for good behavior.
Kentuckians, therefore, chose to strengthen their laws rather than the militia in response to the growing threat from "fanatical Northern abolitionists." Historians have since debated whether their fears were truly justified.
www.ket.org /underground/research/prichard.htm   (2032 words)

  
 FORMULA ONE RACING AND THE FIA FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL DE LA AUTOMOBILE
Races are a little over 300 (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)) kilometres (180 (A unit of length equal to 1760 yards) miles) long and are limited to two hours, though in practice they usually last about ninety minutes.
For each race, two separate sessions were run: the first qualifying session took place on the day before the race (Saturday) at 13:00; the second qualifying session started four hours before the start of Sunday's race; in both qualifying sessions each driver drove a single timed lap.
Cars were required to carry their race fuel in the second qualifying session; refuelling was not allowed between this and the race.
www.solarnavigator.net /formula_one.htm   (4815 words)

  
 Pico Union Articles
LOS ANGELES PICO UNION Los Angeles is said to be one of the most problematic cities in California.
Five doctors and nurses who used to bring medical supplies every week and treated a series of patients, Tuesdays and Wednesdays for five hours each day.
Oscar A. Romero regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, ethnic group identification, ancestry, gender, sexual preference age, condition of physical or mental handicap (as defined in CFR 60-741.2), in accordance with requirements of federal and state laws.
members.tripod.com /pico_union/id8.html   (4284 words)

  
 The Hill Blog» Blog Archive » Union Voters Deliver on Election Day
Unions are not an arm of the Democratic Party, and we base our endorsements not on party affiliation but on individual candidates’ records on working family issues.
Members of union households–and of our community affiliate for nonunion workers, Working America–were intensely aware that under Bush and the Republican Congress, this country was heading in the wrong direction and their well-being was deteriorating.
Some 76 percent of union members who reported receiving a lot of information from their unions on working family issues voted for the union-endorsed candidates.
blog.thehill.com /2006/11/12/union-voters-deliver-on-election-day   (1025 words)

  
 Balkinization
Similarly, under the common law rules one was permitted to rent or sell to refuse to rent or sell real property because of race.
Under this new regime you could refuse to serve a person because they were not wearing a shirt or shoes, but you could not refuse to serve them because they were fl.
The fact that neither Scalia or Thomas has ever confronted the history of the Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment in any of their opinions on race and racial equality is, to say the least, interesting, and tends to undermine confidence in the principled nature of their attachment to the concept of originalism.
balkin.blogspot.com /2003_01_19_balkin_archive.html   (8821 words)

  
 GRAND PRIX MOTOR RACING DEVELOPMENT AND HISTORY | FORMULA ONE RECORDS AND RACING SPEED ACES | THE BLUEBIRD ELECTRIC ...
Racing in Europe continued on closed public roads but these were not profitable as it was impossible to charge any entrance fee, besides the races were very dangerous do to lack of crowd control.
From 1927 to 1934, the number of races considered to have Grand Prix status exploded, jumping from five events in 1927 to nine events in 1929 to eighteen in 1934 (the peak pre-World War II year).
The race was one of attrition and the fourth victory at the principality for Hill.
www.speedace.info /grand_prix_history.htm   (14761 words)

  
 Tocqueville: Book I Chapter 18
The government of the Union wishes to transport the broken remnants of the indigenous population of the South to the portion of this country that is nearest to Mexico and at a great distance from the American settlements.
The most formidable of all the ills that threaten the future of the Union arises from the presence of a fl population upon its territory; and in contemplating the cause of the present embarrassments, or the future dangers of the United States, the observer is invariably led to this as a primary fact.
The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the states; and these, in uniting together, have not forfeited their sovereignty, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people.
xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/DETOC/1_ch18.htm   (19133 words)

  
 Indian Troubles, Union County, Oregon
The Grande Ronde Valley, being centrally located, was an ideal rendezvous for the several Indian tribes to gather for such a purpose, and thus it was that in the summer of 1856 the greatest warriors of the Walla Walla, John Day, Deschutes, Yakima, Cayuse, Umatilla and Nez Percé tribes met there to plan their strategy.
At Union the Court House was pressed into service as a place of security, and at Elgin a temporary building known as Fort Baker was hurriedly made for a refuge for the residents of that district.
The remains of Myres and Smith were interred in the Union cemetery and graves are marked by suitable monuments.
www.oregongenealogy.com /union/indian.htm   (1824 words)

  
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The kingdom thus constituted was for two centuries under the dominion of Persia, till B.C. 331; and thereafter, for about a century and a half, under the rulers of the Greek empire in Asia, till B.C. For a century the Jews maintained their independence under native rulers, the Asmonean princes.
At the close of this period they fell under the rule of Herod and of members of his family, but practically under Rome, till the time of the destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. The city was then laid in ruins.
He shows that the means of union with God are, (1) on the part of Christ, his atoning work (1:7; 2:2; 3:5; 4:10, 14; 5:11, 12) and his advocacy (2:1); and (2), on the part of man, holiness (1:6), obedience (2:3), purity (3:3), faith (3:23; 4:3; 5:5), and love (2:7, 8; 3:14; 4:7; 5:1).
www.ccel.org /e/easton/ebd/ebd/T0002000.html   (12640 words)

  
 UNION CITIZENSHIP ACT, 1948
(4) On the joint application of a person admitted to citizenship under sub-section (2) and her husband, the Minister shall for the purpose of recognizing as a citizen include in the certificate granted to the mother any minor child not already a citizen and born before the date of grant of citizenship for the mother.
Provided that the loss of citizenship by the parent or parents under this section shall not, ipso facto deprive the children, who, prior to that loss, were citizens, of their status as such.
Provided further that after five years from the date of grant of the certificate of naturalization or the certificate of citizenship, no action shall be taken for purposes of clause (f).
www.ibiblio.org /obl/docs/UNION_CITIZENSHIP_ACT-1948.htm   (2215 words)

  
 Union Jack (II)
Union Jack fought the vampire and stabbed him with a silver blade, forcing him to flee and thereby thwarting Baron Blood's attempt to murder a leading Member of Parliament.
However, in a battle between Union Jack and Baron Blood in a cave beneath the Falsworth estate, the vampire hurled a massive boulder at Union Jack, crushing his legs and leaving him permanently crippled.
Lord Falsworth's career as Union Jack was over, but as a result of being bitten by Baron Blood and then receiving a blood transfusion from the original Human Torch, an android, Falsworth's daughter Jacqueline became the superhumanly powerful Spitfire and joined the Invaders herself.
www.marveldirectory.com /individuals/u/unionjackii.htm   (1447 words)

  
 F1A&G - Legendary Races
Hard under braking for the hairpin, Senna thrust his McLaren into the lead, driving as if the track were bone dry and asserting his wet weather supremacy with major assurance.
Having passed five cars to move into the lead before the first lap was half over, Senna cruised to an easy win as the rest of the field spun and shunted themselves out of contention.
With five laps left, holding a 1.5s lead, Jacques was given the "slow down" sign by the Williams pits, as telemetry revealed a potentially fatal oil pressure problem.
www.f1-grandprix.com /races.html   (4566 words)

  
 Heart Disease Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Today, more than one in five Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease, with more than 2,500 Americans dying from it each day.
Of those with heart disease, 52.2 percent are male and 47.8 percent are female; 88.2 percent are white, 9.5 percent are fl, and 2.4 percent are of other races.
The highest death rates were in the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
www.fi.edu /biosci/healthy/stats.html   (215 words)

  
 Star Trek: Birth of the Federation - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
The Cardassian Union was formed by the civilian Detapa Council 300 years before the Federation came into existence.
Races, such as the Bajorans, who are conquered by the Cardassians find their worlds strip-mined of all resources in order to support the Union.
Also, having a minor race join your empire through diplomacy generally means greater morale, and thus increasing production and research, and also reduces the susceptability of being bribed away by a rival.
memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Star_Trek:_Birth_of_the_Federation   (2551 words)

  
 Governor Henry Haight of California   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Either they were and are in the Union as States, and their citizens bound to obey the Constitution, and entitled to protection under it, or they were and are out of the Union, and their people not bound to obey the Constitution, and not entitled to protection under it.
It is insisted by those who argue in favor of the reconstruction measures, that the southern people rebelled, and that rebels ought not to possess political rights or franchises; that the disloyal whites cannot be trusted, and that, therefore, the control should be given to the fls.
These States are not out of the Union, unless we falsify all our professions during the war; and if they are in the Union, their representatives are entitled to admission to Congress.
www.governor.ca.gov /govsite/govsgallery/h/documents/inaugural_10.html   (5711 words)

  
 The Races/State of the Races
The Union hoped that Picard would know Starfleet's defense plans for Minos Korva, a Federation planet close to the Cardassian border which the Union attempted to annex during the war.
Certain hard-liners within the Union were unsatisfied with this agreement, and soon, Cardassian operatives were doing all they could to make life very uncomfortable for the Federation colonists living close to the Cardassian side of the DMZ, hoping that they would leave their homes so the Union could claim them.
However, the Maquis, who had taken advantage of the Union's misfortune would be successful in claiming some of the replicators for themselves.
www.greatlink.org /stateraces/cardassians.asp   (3772 words)

  
 Schumacher still has races to run - theage.com.au
Schumacher made the pass under a yellow flag, but McLaren-Mercedes did not challenge the move.
"Going into the race in terms of pace, I wasn't expecting to be able to race the people we ultimately went toe to toe with today," Webber said.
Coulthard is one of only two non-Ferrari drivers to win a formula one race this year.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/07/22/1027332347255.html   (508 words)

  
 Flatland: A romance of many dimensions
You may perhaps ask how under these disadvantageous circumstances we are able to distinguish our friends from one another: but the answer to this very natural question will be more fitly and easily given when I come to describe the inhabitants of Flatland.
Under the skillful generalship of the Circles almost every Woman's charge was fatal and very many extracted their sting uninjured, ready for a second slaughter.
No, no; neigbourhood is needless for the union of hearts; and the birth of children is too important a matter to have been allowed to depend upon such an accident as proximity.
www.geom.uiuc.edu /~banchoff/Flatland   (16440 words)

  
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But voters were split over how the commission should be formated, whether it should remain at five commissioners or increase to seven.
Voters were asked if the commission should continue to have five members elected countywide or seven members with five elected in districts and two countywide.
Under the current format, residents vote on all five commissioners.
www.jacksonville.com /tu-online/stories/111106/nep_6110674.shtml   (576 words)

  
 Heart Disease Statistics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Today, more than one in five Americans suffer from some form of cardiovascular disease, with more than 2,500 Americans dying from it each day.
Of those with heart disease, 52.2 percent are male and 47.8 percent are female; 88.2 percent are white, 9.5 percent are fl, and 2.4 percent are of other races.
The highest death rates were in the Soviet Union, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia.
sln.fi.edu /biosci/healthy/stats.html   (215 words)

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