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The one that had escaped him was a gold medal at world's on the track, but he just wasn't feeling that urge to pursue it with the same vigor.
In short, he was burned out. So from 2012-18, he took a break from track racing, though he'd fit in a road race here or there, winning titles at the Huntsman Games in Utah and a few medals at an event in Denver.
But when he found out the Masters Track Cycling World Championships were coming back stateside, he couldn't resist the urge to complete his connection.
Getting back into a training schedule wasn't a problem, and he hit the velodrome in Erie to help pick up the pace for that style of cycling.
Racing at the velodrome at the StubHub Center in Carson, Calif., Jim won a pair of silvers and finally a gold in the 2K pursuit in the 75-older division. His runner-up finishes came in the 500-meter time trial and the match sprints.
"That was big. It was really big for me. It was awesome," Jim said. "Everything was focus on the pursuit. The competition is better on the pursuit. I like the sprints. The mass sprints are fun, but the pursuit, I've always done best in that.
"It's a fairly short race, but you have to be careful about how you start off. If you start off and go too fast, you don't have any time to recover because the race is so short. You really have to pace yourself."
While Glenna didn't mind the break her husband too, she found she'd actually missed it herself. Through the years, she had grown concerned after seeing a few too many wrecks, with Jim collecting his share of injuries in his career. And when he was training, his schedule was pretty strict.
But traveling out there, she was able to rekindle some old friendships herself, as well as share in her husband's accomplishment.
"The thing I find I missed the most, and I didn't realize it, was the people I wasn't seeing," she said. "I just took a break from it. I did it for a number of years. The team had a little get-together, and it was like, I miss these people.
"I like the socializing part of it. I'm more social than Jim, and I need more. That's one way to get it. You know, whether he's racing or not, he's on the road."
And he still will be — "I'm not selling my wheels," he said, glancing at his wife.
No, he says he's keeping his options open. He's still not ready to go full-bore back into the scene, but he'll be ready if another challenge grabs him.
WASHINGTON -- Ling-Ling, the giant female panda who delighted visitors to the National Zoo for more than two decades, was found dead Wednesday, officials announced.
Ling-Ling, found dead in her outdoor enclosure, was 23 years of age, the oldest panda living in a zoo outside of China, acting zoo director Benjamin Beck said.
In the wild, pandas rarely live beyond their teens. There are about 1,000 giant pandas surviving in China.
'The staff of the National Zoo has devoted over two decades to the health and well being of Ling-Ling and her loss is already being deeply felt,' Beck said.
Ling-Ling, who mated with the male giant panda Hsing-Hsing to produce America's short-lived first cub, was a gift from the Chinese government following President Richard Nixon's historic 1972 visit to Beijing that started the process of restoring diplomatic relations between Washington nd the communist giant.
Ling-Ling's first cub -- the first born in captivity in the United States -- died of pneumonia in 1983 three hours after it was born. A year later, her second cub was stillborn.
Ling-Ling was born in the wild in 1969 or 1970 and arrived at Washington's National Zoo with her mate on April 16, 1972.
Her name is a nickname for Chinese girls and refers to the bells they sometimes wear on their wrists.
Giant pandas are solitary and pair only for breeding. Ling-Ling and her mate lived in separate quarters in the air conditioned Panda House, where they quickly became the zoo's most popular attractions.
In March 1981, the London Zoo lent its male panda, Chia-Chia, to mate with Ling-Ling but the pair proved incompatible.
Mating attempts with Hsing-Hsing resumed in 1982, and during that year and in 1983 artificial insemination was also attempted with Chia- Chia's sperm, flown from London.
After eight years of failed attempts at natural and artificial insemination, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing mated, and she gave birth July 21, 1983, to a 4.8-ounce male cub that died three hours later of pneumonia.
On Dec. 6, 1983, a potentially fatal kidney ailment was detected in Ling-Ling and treated with antibiotics and blood transfusions.
In December 1984, Ling-Ling mauled a zoo keeper who turned his back on the animal to retrieve a piece of bamboo inside her pen. The keeper recovered.
This new 116th Congress, the most diverse in history, is the best shot we've had in years to pass the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Despite the fact that the Equal Pay Act was passed 55 years ago, the gender wage gap still exists and it hurts women of color and mothers the hardest. The good news is that solutions are possible.
What Is ALEC's Sexual Harassment Policy?
A dozen members of the American Legislative Exchange Council stand accused of sexual misconduct, yet ALEC has remained silent.
The #MeToo movement has helped unearth instances of sexual harassment and impropriety at dozens of restaurants across the country, from New York to New Orleans.
It's 2018, but women are still being shortchanged by gender and race wage gaps. Black American women are typically paid 63 cents, Native women 57 cents, and Latinas 54 cents for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men.
In yet more evidence that oppression is the business model and the entire economy is based on ----ery, a new study finds that being an academic superstar might actually hurt women's job prospects.
As decades of activism meet the #MeToo moment, could the food-service industry be poised for sweeping change?
The #MeToo social media campaign and the growing list of sexual harassment allegations against powerful men in industry, politics and media highlights the pervasive nature of sexual harassment in the workplace.
A Delhi court has directed the Enforcement Directorate to file within a week its charge sheet against a man arrested in over Rs 5,000 crore-bank loan fraud case against Gujarat-based Sterling Biotech for allegedly sending Rs 25 lakh cash to the official residence of a senior Congress leader.
The court, which had earlier issued open-ended non-bailable warrants against pharma firm's directors, including Chetan Jayantilal Sandesara and Nitin Jayantilal Sandesara, passed the directions after being told by the ED that its report was in final stage.
An "open-ended NBW" does not carry a time limit for execution unlike non-bailable warrants (NBW). Additional Sessions Judge Satish Kumar Arora also extended the judicial custody of Ranjit Malik alias Johny, who was arrested by the agency for allegedly sending through a man named Rakesh Chandra Rs 25 lakh to the politic...
The custody was extended till October 9 on the request of ED's special public prosecutor Nites Rana. Besides Sandesra brother, the court had also issued NBW against Chetan's wife Dipti Chetan Sandesara, also a director in the firm, and her brother Hiteshkumar Narendrabhai Patel.
The open-ended NBWs were issued after Rana told the court that the four accused were likely to have left the country. In its charge sheet, filed through advocate A R Aditya, the ED had told the court that the directors of the firm, along with others, had taken loans of over Rs 5,000 crore from a consortium led by Andhr...
The agency also arrested a former director of Andhra Bank, Anup Prakash Garg, in February and a Delhi-based businessman, Gagan Dhawan, last November in connection with the case. Malik was allegedly a middleman for Dhawan.
They were named as accused in the case by the ED and the CBI. The ED registered a money laundering case in this instance after taking cognisance of an FIR filed earlier by the CBI.
The CBI had booked Vadodara-based Sterling Biotech, its directors Nitin, Chetan, Dipti, Rajbhushan Omprakash Dixit and Vilas Joshi, chartered accountant Hemant Hathi, Garg and some unidentified persons in connection with the alleged bank fraud case. According to the FIR, the total pending dues of the group of companies...
Parents in Compton, Calif., in early December prepare to file petitions seeking to have McKinley Elementary School turned into a charter school in the 2011-12 school year. Parents, from left: Marlene Romero, with son, Ivan, 8; Ismania Guzman, with daughter, Alexandra, 6; and Shamika Murphy, with daughter, Kiari, 7.
Education advocates and organizations are closely scrutinizing the first use of California’s “parent-trigger” law, after parents in Compton, Calif., last month invoked the new statute to decide their children’s failing elementary school must become a charter by the 2011-12 school year.
Similar laws are being considered across the country even as controversy swirls in Compton, where some parents are trying to block the charter school conversion, arguing the other parents’ actions were not taken in a public enough way and were influenced by outside groups.
The California state board of education is trying to open a dialogue between both parent groups and asked the state attorney general to investigate the accusations of an underhanded process.
Still, the Dec. 7 petition by a group of parents at the low-performing McKinley Elementary School in Compton could add momentum to a push in other states for similar legislation, in the view of Robin Lake, associate director of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, at the University of Washington, in Seattle.
The California law, passed in January, allows 51 percent of parents at a school that has failed to meet “adequate yearly progress” requirements for three consecutive years to sign a petition that prompts one of four actions: converting to a charter school, replacing the principal and staff, changing the budget, or clos...
Mississippi passed a similar law in July, and Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, and West Virginia also are considering parent-trigger laws.
Frank Wells, a spokesman for the Southern California Teachers Association, which is affiliated with the National Education Association, said he is concerned that the law does not require a review of the petition process.
“Some parents who signed the petition are now saying they weren’t educated on the issues when they signed the petition and would like their signatures removed,” he said.
On Dec. 15, the California school board asked the state attorney general to investigate complaints about the petition process.
Karen Frison, the acting superintendent of the 27,000-student Compton Unified School District, said the district would launch a parent-empowerment initiative that would allow for a conversation about the parent-trigger law, the petition process, and the four options parents have.
Parent Revolution, a pro-charter parent coalition based in Los Angeles, led the charge for the parent-trigger law and helped the Compton parents with the petition, which received the signatures of 62 percent of those with children at McKinley.
The Associated Press and McClatchy-Tribune Information Services contributed to this article.
Homophobic graffiti and posters have been found in and around the men’s bathroom in the basement of the Walker Memorial Building multiple times over the past few weeks — the latest in a string of incidents dating back at least two years, according to police reports. The messages are particularly disturbing because of t...
The graffiti, which states, “Homosexuality may be politically correct, but it will never be biologically correct,” was found on a blackboard in the men’s room on Sept. 8, 12, and 19, according to MIT police reports. The same message was seen written in this location in October of last year, but the frequency of the pos...
Although the graffiti has been a main concern for both the campus police and the LBGT Issues Group, no progress has been made in catching the offender. Following a surge of similar graffiti in October of last year, a Hate Speech and Harassment Subcommittee of the LBGT Issues Group was formed, and met to discuss possibl...
“We are trying to create a comfortable place for all students to study, and this type of incident, which thwarts that goal, is completely unacceptable,” DiFava.
The posting, however, most likely would not qualify as hate speech under Massachusetts law, since the way the arguments are presented is protected under right of free speech, DiFava said.
“Anonymous comments like this can’t be considered free speech,” said Francis, and DiFava called the poster a “coward” for not being able to speak his mind straight to the LBGT community.
“Even if it is legal, it is not acceptable,” said Sean Delmore, graduate assistant for the Rainbow Lounge. If state law isn’t being violated, the MIT Committee on Discipline can still ban the perpetrator from entering campus and impose other sanctions. Security can be tightened only to a certain extent because of priva...
The most likely way the poster will be caught is with help from the community. “I cannot stress enough how helpful it would be for everyone who sees this sort of graffiti to report it immediately to the campus police,” said DiFava. “It’s important, however, to not confront a suspect yourself.” DiFava said that anyone w...
EVERTON defender Phil Jagielka has blasted critics of Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart - claiming the England squad never worried about his drop in form.
Hart made a series of excellent saves for Roy Hodgson's side last night, despite falling to a 1-0 defeat to Germany.
Having lost his place in the City team, Jagielka insisted the weight of criticism levelled at his international team-mate was "harsh".
"He's been in for some criticism, some of it a little bit harsh," Jagielka said.
"But Joe's a big boy and that's the only way he can prove his critics wrong by making some fantastic saves.
"He won't be getting that many pats on the back from the lads because we expect him to do it.
"I've backed Joe all the time, all the players have backed Joe all the time."
Re: “Why is Denver so cheap?” Sept. 12 A&E story.
Contrary to your article, the Boettcher Concert Hall project is not in danger of being scrapped but was temporarily placed on hold with the full blessing of the city while the symphony recovers from the recent economic recession, implements the proper internal systems, and engages the personnel necessary to realistical...
In the meantime, we have successfully installed a management system, software, website, staff and world-class marketing and development programs which will support mounting this major concert hall renovation project.
The Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s new vice president of development, Tracy Tajbl, was hired because of her successful track record with capital campaigns. Tajbl spent four years as campaign counsel to the Nashville Symphony’s $122 million campaign to build the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
In Denver, Tajbl has successfully increased our individual gifts from $1 million to more than $2 million in just nine months. We now have the largest base of active and generous individual donors that the organization has ever enjoyed. Margaret Williams, the new vice president of marketing and communication, has presid...
Concert hall capital projects require generous time frames. Of the concert hall projects cited in your article, the Walt Disney facility began in 1987 with a significant gift from the Disney family but was opened in October 2003 — 16 years after the initial gift was made. The Dallas facility you cite took nine years fr...
The Colorado Symphony Association will ensure that taxpayer dollars are used in the most cost-effective way and won’t waste a dime of the precious resources allocated for the renovation of the Boettcher Concert Hall. The symphony will launch this major campaign with a sound structure and is committed to being responsib...
James W. Palermo is president and CEO of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra at Boettcher Concert Hall in the Denver Performing Arts Complex.
Jennifer Celotta (left) with Jennie Tan of the indispensable Office fan site >OfficeTally.com; a still from the episode "Goodbye, Toby," which Celotta wrote.
Jennifer Celotta is an executive producer and writer on The Office. She and Paul Lieberstein are the assistant showrunners under Greg Daniels, who created the American version of The Office.
VF Daily: What are some of the new developments we can look forward to on the show?
Jennifer Celotta: After we took a break from production last fall, we had an idea—and we’re not really talking about the specifics of it—but it’s motivated by this guy coming in and taking over as Michael’s boss. He’s kind of the new Jan, or the new Ryan, and it’s Idris Elba, who played Stringer Bell on The Wire and is...
No, I came second season, so I missed the first six episodes.
I was working on Malcolm in the Middle, and I left Malcolm and had a deal with NBC, and I loved The Office. “Diversity Day” was one of the best things I’d ever seen on television. I heard Greg [Daniels] wanted to meet with me, and I met him at a Coffee Bean somewhere. I desperately wanted to work on the show. I thought...
I guess it has a little more in common, in terms of those elements, with Malcolm in the Middle than with most shows on TV.
A little bit. Malcolm did that very well, too. And I was only at Malcolm briefly. But where Malcolm had the broader elements, I feel like I appreciate more of the subtlety of this show. This has been my favorite show to write for, for sure. I missed some of the earlier years of Malcolm, so I don’t know exactly what it ...
What do you think makes it unique?
Well, one of the episodes I wrote was “Grief Counseling,” and I constantly think about that episode. It was an internal story: Michael was dealing with grief [over the death of his former boss]. On most shows you don’t even write internal stories, because they’re a little bit hard to—on some other shows the storytellin...
Right. And this is the episode where the rest of the employees didn’t even know the guy who died, right?
Yeah. And this was an internal story where the character it was happening to, Michael, wasn’t even aware that it was happening to him. So to be able to write that was just such a treat. And Steve Carell is just a genius, so he can convey the inner workings of his brain with just—you know, I don’t know how he does it. H...
Would you say that’s your favorite of the episodes you’ve written?
It was the most rewarding episode that I’ve written. But I really enjoyed “The Duel,” too [from the current season, in which Andy and Dwight square off over Angela]. That one also felt different to me. When I wrote it, we knew that we were leading to a duel in a parking lot, so what I spent most of my writing time doin...
When you have a long-running plotline like the love triangle between Andy, Angela, and Dwight, do you know when you first conceive of it how it’s going to end up?
Not when we first conceived of it. But we had the idea for a duel, I think, at the middle of last year. I think it was Paul [Lieberstein]’s idea. I’m pretty sure that the duel and the Prius running on silent was Paul’s idea. That was a fun one to write.
I get the sense that it’s a very collaborative process.
Oh yeah. It’s fantastic. There’s no hierarchy with the writers. Whoever comes up with a great idea or a great joke, that’s what we use. Everybody gets along incredibly well here. An interesting thing about the way this show is run is that everybody’s so invested, not only in the show as a whole but also in their partic...
No, the directors are really collaborative, too. It’s kind of great all around—sort of a perfect storm of greatness.
And you’ve directed a couple episodes yourself, right?

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