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The Friends of the Oregon Caves and Chateau is a non-profit corporation working with the National Park Service in the preservation, stewardship and improvement of the cultural and natural resources of the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve.
The Friends benefit the Monument through the concern, care and philanthropy of dedicated individuals assembled by the Friends.
There are so many ways you can join in the excitement as we share the magic of the remarkable marble caves at the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve, and help preserve this legacy for future generations.
Once the most visited place in Oregon, and loved by so many, we look forward to your stories, photos and support. Please take a second to look through our restoration projects below.
Restoring the Chateau at the Oregon Caves
Your gift has major impact.
Your support allows us to:
- Restore the historic Chateau and Monterey furniture collection
- Increase educational, cultural, and family experiences at the monument
- Research and preserve the history of the Oregon Caves National Monument
2011— 2015 Targets
- Complete the structural and interior restoration of the Chateau.
Key Strategies
- Complete the Model Room to make it guest ready: restore the sleeping room, bath, and add luxurious soft-goods.
- Develop parallel strategies for interior restoration to compliment the NPS Life Safety and Accessibility plan.
- Complete the Capital Campaign Plan
The Oregon Caves Chateau (Chateau), a National Landmark and the primary historic structure in the OCNM, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A significant element in the Chateau's historic character is the historic Monterey furniture collection, believed to be the largest public collection of in the Northwest.
Built by private entrepreneurs during the Depression, the 23 room lodge, still retains the local timbers and cedar bark harvested locally. The Chateau's original lighting and many historic details bring intrigue to visitors.
However, many of the Chateau's original features urgently require attention. Lack of insulation in the guest rooms, creaky plumbing, badly aged electrical and heating systems and worn interiors all require upgrading to allow the Chateau to realize its historic contribution to both culture and the local economy.
The Restoration of the Oregon Caves Chateau will be accomplished through a broad based fundraising effort that will involve every segment of Josephine County, the state of Oregon and national contributors. Business, government, civic organizations, private and public foundations and private citizens will all play an important role in this exciting project. Soon, the Chateau will be an example of community pride and accomplishment – supporting top quality conservation and restoration to retain the value and integrity of the original design and construction. The Chateau and the Oregon Caves will play a vibrant and dynamic role in travel and tourism for the State of Oregon and for the enjoyment of all citizens for the next 100 years.
The Guide Dormitory is in Desperate Need of Repair
The Historic Guide Dormitory housed seasonal employees, college students, from 1934 to 1978. Oh the stories these walls could tell!!
Since then, the unused Guide Dormitory has recently fallen into disrepair. Restoration of this facility will offer lower cost lodging to families, a retreat and community meeting space, which could additionally be used during the off- season (December – March) when the Chateau is closed.
Key Strategies
- Raise $200,000 in individual, business donations, and in-kind contributions
- Submit grant proposals and proposals to partners, to support a new roof and to stabilize the foundation.
- Hold a reunion weekend at the Monument to engage volunteers and to hear those stories!!
- To complete a "green, environmentally, sustainable and historical" restoration of this facility
Our Collection of Monterey Furniture is on the Road to Restoration
The Chateau is furnished with the largest single collection of Monterey Furniture in the country. Wildly popular when it was manufactured by the Mason Manufacturing Company in Los Angeles from 1929—1941, the furniture is crafted from Oregon alder in early "Spanish revival" style. Many pieces include wrought iron accents; some are painted with wildflower ornamentation; others are lightly upholstered with the emphasis always remaining on the wood and it's simple carving. Authenticity is branded on the furniture with a horseshoe symbol and in some cases the word Monterey.
A flood in December 1972, washed almost the entire collection of the dining room furniture down the canyon. Also, many years of wear and tear, plus staff members wanting more "modern" furnishings have reduced the collection by at least 50%.
Jerralynn Ness, who met and worked with George Mason, and Don Williams, Senior Furniture Conservator at the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Materials Research and Education (SCMRE) are our advisors on this project.
Key Strategies
- Create "All Call" for furniture donations in cooperation with Pendleton Woolen Mills
- Develop reproductions of lamps for use in the Chateau and for sale
- Work with the Pendleton Woolen Mills to develop a collection of "soft goods" that will compliment the furnishings.
- Continue to work on the restoration of the Oregon Caves Collection.
- NPS has contracted with MPF Conservation restore 20 pieces of the Chateau Monterey Furniture Collection.


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This trauma-informed approach integrates therapeutic movement and creative arts therapies to gain insight and control of ones emotional experience and assist in alleviating the psychosomatic symptoms of trauma and chronic pain.
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Therapeutic movement is attuned to individual needs. Renae delivers specific trauma-sensitive practices of yoga, aerial therapeutics and rehabilitative pilates in one-on-one sessions or small therapeutic groups.
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Comedian and View sass-pot Whoopi Goldberg has joined the eclectic cast of the Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and also it's 5 p.m. on a goddamn Friday. According to a report from Comic Book Movie, Goldberg will play "Bernadette Thompson," a gender-flipped revision on the "Burne Thompson" character who bossed around April O'Neil in the Ninja Turtles cartoon series. According to us, it's the motherfucking weekend.
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Today, at a breakfast meeting in the European Parliament, LIBER joined EBLIDA in making the case for the role of libraries in improving access to information and knowledge in the digital age.
The event, hosted by MEP Sylvie Guillaume and organised by EBLIDA, served to highlight the need for copyright reform by examining the role libraries play in supporting the citizen's need to access information and knowledge in order to deliver a knowledge-based and highly educated society.
MEPs Julie Ward and Julia Reda, set the scene by emphasising the importance of access to knowledge for civil engagement and for creativity and by reflecting on some of the key issues raised through the European copyright consultation.
EBLIDA President, Klaus-Peter Böttger, outlined the challenges facing libraries in relation to collecting and providing access to e-books and provided a reflection on the responsibilities of libraries in the digital era.
Susan Reilly, Interim Executive Director of LIBER, also spoke about the responsibility of libraries to protect academic freedom and outlined how research libraries are aiming to support world class research through the promotion of transparency in research (open science), collaboration, and data driven innovation.
The challenges of licencing, as opposed to ownership, of e-books were presented by Jukka Relander, Finnish Library Association President as he elaborated on the role of libraries in society.
Lastly, MEP Georgios KATROUGALOS brought the discussion to a close by speaking about the budget cuts that Greek Libraries and Universities have faced. He argued that the discourse about copyright should not only be driven by commercial concerns, but should focus on the importance of access to information for society and for ensuring the preservation and availability of cultural heritage.


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New Bell Island ferry MV Legionnaire bears "Harry's" name along with other noteable Bell Islanders.
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The Rising Tide theatre company in Trinity Newfoundland has been running "Harry Hibbs Returns" for three years. A play about Newfoundland's Favourite Son, Harry Hibbs.


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One of the things on my 101 in 1001 list was to go paint pottery. While I was in college, I worked at You Do the Dishes. It's a paint your own pottery and coffee shop. I loved it there and was able to put my creativity to use every day. I stopped working there 5 years ago and have only been back a handful of times. It's one of those things that I always want to do but can never find the time. Well a few weeks back, over spring break I made the time. I spend a whole day there painting my heart away. I loved every minute of it ... read more
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EMPA is a materials science and technology research institution. It belongs to the ETH domain and as such is an important element in education, science and innovation in Switzerland. It specializes in applications, focused research and development, and provides high-level services in the field of sustainable materials science and technology. Its core tasks are innovative collaboration with industry and public institutions, ensuring the safety of people and the environment, knowledge propagation and university-level teaching. EMPA engages in interdisciplinary work in a large number of specialized disciplines. Its key areas of research are grouped in five programs entitled Nanotechnology, Adaptive Materials Systems, Materials for Health and Performance, Materials for Energy Technologies and Technosphere ? Atmosphere. Over 800 people work at its three sites in Dübendorf, St. Gallen and Thun. There are more than one hundred PhD candidates and hundred undergraduates. EMPA also offers training to 40 interns and trainees.
EMPA 's increasingly good showing in the various scientific indicators testifies to its high standard of scientific activity and achievement. EMPA employees published over 270 times in peer-reviewed journals in 2005 and made hundreds of scientific contributions (more than 300 as key note speakers and invited guests) to national and international conferences and scientific symposia. Empa organized or coorganized 52 conferences. Members of EMPA's staff received 30 prizes and awards in recognition of their outstanding achievements. The EMPA Academy provides a forum for lively information sharing. Congresses, lecture series, seminars and teaching events cater to scientists seeking a dialogue, specialists looking to improve their knowledge and non-specialists who want to find out about current technological developments.
Dr. Johann Michler has significant experience in electron microscopy and published more than 50 journal articles related to materials characterization techniques. In 2000 he built up the Nanomechanics. Laboratory at EMPA that is devoted to the measurement of mechanical properties of surfaces and small devices, especially using in-situ SEM mechanical testing. Within the European project ROBOSEM, he built-up in 2002 the SEM-based processing laboratory. Today, his group consists of five Post-docs and eight PhD students. In 1998 he received the Swiss René Wassermann Award for advances in the field of thin film mechanics and in 2004 the Bunshah Award for achievements in the observation of fracture and plastic deformation during nanoindentation and nanoscratching inside an SEM.
Xavier Maeder worked as a Phd Student at the University of Mainz in Germany and as post–doc at the University of Utrecht in the Netherland in the field of rock deformation and crystalline microstructures from 2003 to 2008. He is a specialist in EBSD (electron backscatter diffraction). Since 2008 he is employed at EMPA. His present work mainly deals with the detailed crystalline characterizations of the laser-crystallized Si thin films and divers mechanical testing.
EMPA investigates mechanical materials properties from the nano to macro-scale using experimental, analytical, and computational techniques. EMPA utilizes the EBSD to determine defect populations, grain sizes and orientations and develops together with the subcontractor University of Oxford the strain measurement capability of EBSD.
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It pains me that I don't love this book. I love Artemis Entreri. My favorite fantasy character of all time or close anyway. This book just didn't reel me in like the others. I struggled to finish it. I feel Salvatore screwed with the character of Entreri AND the character of Jarlaxle too much for my liking. I did enjoy the book. I would still read more Salvatore. I just feel he dropped the ball with this one. Overall a good fantasy book with good action and definitely a fun read for D&D players. Just not nearly as good as other Salvatore Forgotten Realms stuff.
Drivel. Fan's of the early Drizzt books, like myself, should spare themselves the ennui and frustration of reading this hastily plotted potboiler.
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Planetary Resources, a Seattle-based space startup company, said on Tuesday that it is planning to capture water and precious metals from asteroids near the Earth.
"Water is perhaps the most valuable resource in space. Accessing a water-rich asteroid will greatly enable the large-scale exploration of the solar system," Eric Anderson, the co-founder of Planetary Resources, said in a statement.
The firm plans on sending an exploratory vessel into outer space within 2 years and will extract minerals from the asteroids several years after that.
Mining asteroids, the company said, will benefit humanity by sustaining a supply of rare minerals, including platinum.
Planetary Resources is a venture backed by James Cameron, Google chief executive Larry Page, Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Ross Perot Jr., and others.
In the near future, the company seeks to drive down the cost of exploring asteroids and drive down the cost of building spacecraft to explore them.
"Many of the scarce metals and minerals on Earth are in near-infinite quantities in space," said Peter H. Diamandis, the company's other co-founder, in a statement.
More access to the minerals, he added, will lessen "the cost of everything from microelectronics to energy storage" and will provide "new applications for these abundant elements."
For example, the company claims, a single 500-meter (1,640-foot) asteroid rich in platinum "contains the equivalent of all the" platinum that has been mined in history.
"Our mission is not only to expand the world's resource base, but we want to increase people's access to, and understanding of, our planet and solar system by developing capable and cost-efficient systems," Chris Lewicki, the company's chief engineer, said in the statement.
The company first plans to launch several Earth-orbiting telescopes to find prospective asteroids suitable for mining.
Other than mining, the company said it hopes to build a refueling station in space. "Accessing water resources in space will revolutionize exploration and make space travel dramatically more economical," the company said.
Water, along with its life-giving properties, can also aid in the manufacturing of rocket fuel, essentially making the asteroids a "stepping stone" to further exploration, the company claims.


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If you study any art and you can master learning your own body its movements learning a second art would be easier to understand as long as you can make each movement applicable. Goju is Hard/Soft hard movements are more linear and direct, soft are more circular. Focusing on the soft will open the door for Aikido, whereas blending with your opponent force is the ju of the art. Notice how mawashi Ike is circular it teaches you to move to the opponents shikaku the blind spot. Aikido uses empty hand sword techniques. In Goju we call shuto or knife hand strikes, perfect your knife hand techniques and you can blend both arts easier.
I love Goju because it does simplify every movement of the body in a attacking and defending formation with less complicated forms or patterns. Goju kata are simple and extremely brutal.
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The latest deaths push the death toll of Nato-led coalition to 295 troops in less than eight months. The death toll for the whole of last year was 294.
Violence has escalated in the traditional Taliban fighting season this summer, just as thousands of additional international troops moved into the country.
The coalition currently has 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, including 68,000 Americans and 10,000 British.
US military commanders have told Richard Holbrooke, President Barack Obama's envoy to the region, that they do not have enough troops to do beat the insurgency.
Commanders told him this year's reinforcements had helped but overall numbers were still too low.
A US military statement said the casualties came during a patrol in southern Afghanistan "in one of the most violent areas" of the country.
The milestone was reached in a week which has seen Admiral Mike Mullen, US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, described the situation as serious and deteriorating.
An American opinion poll has also found a narrow majority of people thought the war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting.
Barack Obama has ordered 21,000 reinforcements to Afghanistan in one of his first acts of office. The reinforcements have spearheaded a push deeper into the Taliban strongholds of Helmand and Kandahar this year in an attempt to quash militant forces.
While the Taliban has largely abandoned frontal attacks, it has adopted a tactic of laying bombs to attack troops. A deadly wave of hidden explosive devices has been responsible for more than 60 per cent of casualties.
Britain has also seen its highest casualties this year and in July suffered its bloodiest month in the eight-year-long operation when 22 troops were killed.
Civilian casualties from Taliban and coalition attacks have risen steadily with the increased fighting.
At least nine civilians were killed and 30 wounded on Tuesday when five car bombs detonated together in the second city of Kandahar.
Mohammad Sher Shah, deputy provincial police chief, said: "Once again they've killed children, women, innocent Afghans. They are not human.
They are animals.
"You can see for yourself the destruction of this enemy."
Up to 40 shops were destroyed in the blast targeting a Japanese construction company and the death toll was expected to rise. Gunfire was heard in the streets following the explosions.
The southern city was considered the birthplace of the Taliban in the mid-1990s and has slipped into near anarchy in recent years.Thousands of US soldiers are being ordered to the province after Gen Stanley McChrystal, the Nato-commander, said he would do whatever it took to secure the city.
Gen McChrystal is currently completing a military review of the escalating war and is widely expected to call for more troops.
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Soho House & Co is a private members' club that began in 1995 for people that work in the creative industries, and little over 20 years since its birth, have recently opened another location in its clubhouses' roster – a retreat in rural Oxfordshire. Bringing together a community of like-minded people, with their membership solely for people within the creative industries that include film, fashion, advertising, music, art and technology, Soho House & Co has clubs across Europe and North America, as well as restaurants, cinemas, workspaces, spas and bedrooms. Whatever your opinion on Membership clubs, we are sure you will agree the concept of Soho House & Co absolutely aligns with SATORI & SCOUT's aspirational lifestyle.
Via a collaboration with Michaelis Boyd Architects (London) on this farmhouse, the new rural retreat features 40 individually-designed cabins that have each been assembled about the site's original farm buildings. With a particular focus on the farmhouses' main barn, boathouse, gym, yoga studios, cinema, and this totally-awesome steam and sauna island that they treasure, SATORI & SCOUT cannot find much fault in this project's ideas as it really does live up to its tagline of being a rural retreat.
The club's boathouse features a luxury 16m indoor pool (and a 9m extended external deck pool to make the combined length be 25m) with water that wonderlustly complements the room's timber, the 'electric barn cinema' features 390m2 worth of screening area that is internally fitted with luxury velvet armchairs, beds and cashmere blankets, and the 805m2 barn provides a central place for all the club's guests to gather for drinks and food, featuring fantastic windows that provide immense amounts of natural light, mezzanine dining areas and a very quirky bar area. Throughout the club, all lobby floors have high-quality herringbone floorboards, all the common areas have age-old checkerboard porcelain tiles, whilst all walls are made of reclaimed walnut veneer and acoustic fabric; every aspect of this club's atmosphere and feel is of high importance, and the attention to detail works exceedingly well.
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English: habitational name from any of the places called Bickley, in Worcestershire, Cheshire, and Kent, or Bickleigh in Devon, all of which are possibly named with an Old English personal name Bicca + Old English leah 'woodland clearing'. The first element could alternatively be an Old English word, bic 'pointed ridge'.
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Field work, supplemented by laboratory studies, is a cornerstone for the geological sciences. This volume provides an introduction to general field work through selected topics that illustrate specific techniques and methodologies. One hundred and twenty-three main entries prepared by leading authorities from around the world deal with aspects of exploration surveys, geotechnical engineering, environmental management. field techniques, mapping, prospecting, and mining.
Special efforts were made to include topics that consider aspects of environmental geology in particular those subjects that involve field inspections related to, for example, the placement of artificial fills, sediment control in canals and waterways, the geologic effects of cities, or the importance of expansive soils to environmental management and engineering. In addition, some widely ranging topics dealing with legal affairs, geological methodology, the scope and organization of geology, report writing, and other concepts, such as those related to plate tectonics and continental drift, provide a necessary perspective to the arena of field geology.
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- DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30844-X
- Copyright Information Van Nostrand Reinhold Company Inc. 1988
- Publisher Name Springer, Boston, MA
- Print ISBN 978-0-442-22499-8
- Online ISBN 978-0-387-30844-9
- Series Print ISSN 1388-4360
- Series Online ISSN 1871-756X
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- Number Of Entries 115
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Part of the Encyclopedia of Earth Science book series (EESS)


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I got nominated by Teenage Diary Online for the Q and A tag, so a big thank you to her!
Here's the rules:
- Respond and rework. answer the questions on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your own invention, add one more question of your own. (I chose not to do a few because I couldn't answer them or the answers would be too sad).
- What's your current fashion obsession? Jeans, a geeky t-shirt, and converse. This has been the same since I was 11 years old 😛 Sorry, I'm just not into fashion!
- What are you wearing? Oooh, this is a bit saucy 😉 I am wearing my pyjamas and fluffy slippers. Not very sexy, sorry!
- Hair? I have fairly long, straight, blonde hair which I love!
- Morning go to? When I wake up it takes me forever to actually get out of bed, so I'll just lay in bed and contemplate life for at least 20 minutes. Then I'll check my emails and Facebook etc. then I'll go get breakfast.
- Why is today special? Because I don't have to work! My parents are on holiday, so for two weeks I don't have to work with my dad delivering takeaway. So tonight I'm going to order one, because food always tastes so much better when someone else delivers it to you!
- What would you like to learn how to do? I would love to be able to speak a different language, but my brain just can't!!
- What's for dinner today? I'm having a day off cooking and my brother and I are going to order a Chinese takeaway 😛
- What are you listening to right now? I'm multitasking at the moment, I'm blogging and watching Scrubs on TV. It's one of the best shows ever, and if you haven't watched it yet, where have you been?!
- What are your essentials when travelling? I carry around a massive bag everywhere I go, so I'm prepared for everything! But I have to take my phone, a book, headphones, money, and plasters (because I'm clumsy).
- What job did you want when you were a little kid? I've always wanted to be a scientist, but around that I've wanted to be a: florist, author, lawyer, journalist, and a teacher.
- What is your most challenging goal now? To go to University and deal with it without freaking out!
- Name three things you can't live without. My (boy)friends, my family, and my laptop 🙂
- What would you like to have in your hands right now? My boyfriend's hands. I've had a bit of a sad day today, and I definitely wish he was here right now.
- What would you like to get rid of? Flies. There's at least 6 flies in my room right now and it's so annoying!
- What are you most excited for? University!! I start in two weeks!
- What is your favourite type of music? I listen to all sorts of music, it all depends on what mood I'm in. I love rock, pop, rap, classical, and indie music, it really does depend on how I'm feeling 🙂
- Which countries have you visited? I've been to: England (well, I live there but I think it counts!), Wales, Scotland, Egypt, Cyprus, France, Turkey, and Spain.
- What was the last movie you watched? I watched Warm Bodies with my brother and it was so good!! Best Zombie movie I've ever seen!
- What can you see out of the nearest window? I can see my front garden and the forest that's literally 3ft away from my house, and I think I can see a deer but it might just be a cat.
- Tag seven other people.
Thank you for reading!


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And yup, that's all needle-turn applique!
Friday, May 13, 2011
blogger's quilt festival: krystal's quilt
And yup, that's all needle-turn applique!
24 comments:
- ann hermes said...
My goodness, the quilt is gorgeous. I, like your mom, was a bit skeptical about the floral, but when I saw the quilt I knew you werevright.
- May 13, 2011 at 8:16 PM
- Lynette said...
Love this quilt. Your poor friend. I hope all works out well for her soon. THe quilting on it is amazing.
- May 13, 2011 at 8:26 PM
Great quilt! I love bar quilts like this. I hope you're right and your friend is still taking comfort in the quilt!
- May 13, 2011 at 9:32 PM
- canuckquilter said...
So much lovely applique! I just have to enjoy looking at yours because I just don't have the patience to do some of my own. Thanks for sharing the story.
- May 13, 2011 at 9:59 PM
- ---"Love" said...
Another bittersweet story! I hope she got to keep the quilt! It is gorgeous, and your applique is incredible! ---"Love"
- May 13, 2011 at 10:20 PM
- Teresa said...
I love the poppy print. The needle turned applique is really impressive, your a good friend!!! I have made a rule to only gift quilts for ten year wedding anniversaries, and so far no one has made it! But this quilt is different because you made it for your friend, not her and her husband. I'm sure she will still cherish it!
- May 13, 2011 at 11:19 PM
- Sandy said...
This is a lovely quilt, Katie, made for all the right reasons. I hope it will always comfort your friend. What a great story.
- May 13, 2011 at 11:40 PM
- a good yarn said...
Simply stunning! Love that poppy print and yes, I imagine it quilt hugs your friend just right. Ann :-)
- May 14, 2011 at 3:28 AM
- Liriopia said...
Beautiful quilt and I love the poppy fabric. Sorry your friends marriage in on the rocks. Maybe things will mend.
- May 14, 2011 at 6:20 AM
- Becky (My Fabric Obsession) said...
So beautiful! That's so funny that your mom 'stands by it's ugliness". HAHA! It came out beautifully.
- May 14, 2011 at 7:28 AM
- Marsha B said...
Your quilt is beautiful, you did a wonderful job piecing and appliqueing it and your quilter did a wonderful job, too. Thanks for sharing the story even if it wasn't a happily ever after one. I hope she finds the right guy one day.
- May 14, 2011 at 11:18 AM
- Windsom Winds said...
Despite your mom's opinion, I too love the poppys! What a great quilt and the applique is wonderful. I hope your friend find love and comfort under it despite the circumstances.
- May 14, 2011 at 10:01 PM
- Sandra said...
What a beautiful strippy quilt. It reminds me of the antique strippy or bars quilts from Pennsylvania. Love that needleturn and the quilting is wonderful. Kudos.
Come see my entries #211, repro cheddar orange stars and #215 antique 1850 applique flower garden
- May 14, 2011 at 11:49 PM
- Rachaeldaisy said...
Such a beautiful quilt and a lovely story behind it. There's only one thing better than wrapping yourself up in a quilt and that's wrapping yourself up in a quilt made by a dear friend.
- May 15, 2011 at 4:21 AM
- Debbie said...
Glad you stuck with it! Your friend is lucky to have you for many reasons. Lovely.
- May 15, 2011 at 10:04 AM
- stitchinpenny said...
Beautiful quilt and a sad story. Your mom was wrong! The poppy print was perfect.
- May 15, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- Unknown said...
I am so impressed by that needle turn applique. WOW! I'm sure this quilt is giving your friend some much needed comfort right now!
- May 15, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Beth said...
The quilt is beautiful! From the fabric to thestitching to the quilting. I hope that your friend has it to wrap around her and get quilty hugs during this difficult time. If she doesn't, she still has a great friend in you, and she knows that.
- May 15, 2011 at 6:45 PM
- Eileen said...
Awww...sad story but absolutely lovely quilt. Sure hope she still has it and can feel those hugs from you! Thanks for sharing a great quilt and have a great day
- May 16, 2011 at 3:53 AM
- Karen said...
Gorgeous quilt. Glad you stuck with your choice of fabric. And isn't it amazing how quilts have wonderful stories to go with them!
- May 16, 2011 at 8:36 AM
- Sara said...
Beautiful,beautiful!!!!! Love the flower layout:)
- May 16, 2011 at 10:50 AM
- Sarcastic Quilter said...
The quilt is beautiful.
- May 17, 2011 at 7:53 PM
- Unknown said...
What a great quilt. Your friend is very lucky.
- May 17, 2011 at 9:24 PM
- Kristen said...
This is a beautiful gift and I hope she takes great comfort in it!
- May 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM


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Table of Contents
- 1Introduction
- 2The size of the thing
- 3About the measurements used
- 4A visual index
- 5Overview of the head
- 6Step 1.1. The head side-frames.
- 7Step 1.2. The head inner support structure.
- 8Step 1.3. The form (mold) for the hypertufa.
- 9Step 1.4. Hypertufa
- 10Placing the hypertufa
- 11Hypertufa - The curing process
- 12Step 1.5. Slurry
- 13Off with the formwork
- 14Step 1.6. The head side-covers and the crown
- 15The crown
- 16Fixing the trim to the side-covers
- 17Step 1.7. Fiberglass
- 18Step 1.8. Paint - undercoating the head
- 19Overview of the body frame
- 20Step 2.1. Shaping the frame members
- 21Step 2.2. Cutting the frame members to length
- 22Step 2.3. Making the wall frames
- 23Step 2.4. The body frame
- 24Step 2.5. The shackles
- 25Overview of the Neck
- 26Step 3.1. The neck - making the box unit
- 27Step 3.2. The aluminum angle for the sign
- 28Step 3.3. Internal perimeter pieces
- 29Step 3.4. Fitting the neck
- 30Step 3.5. The telephone sign
- 31Step 4.1. The trim around the door and window openings
- 32Door and window overview and plan
- 33Step 4.2. Wood for the door and windows
- 34Step 4.3. Joining the stiles and rails
- 35Step 4.4. Notching the muntin bars
- 36Step 4.5. Fixing the muntin bars
- 37Step 4.6. Painting the door and windows
- 38Step 4.7. The acrylic sheet
- 39Step 5.1. Making the base
- 40Step 5.2. Some painting
- 41Step 6.1. Putting it all together
- 42Some strengthening and the door closer
- 43The desired effect
- 44Step 7.1. The rose and ceiling
- 45Making the rose pattern
- 46Marking, drilling, and cutting the rose
- 47Tapering the rose
- 48Painting and fitting the ceiling and rose
- 49The light goes on
- 50The plans
Step 1.4. continued
Hypertufa – The curing process
This is probably the most crucial segment of the hypertufa application.
CuringThe hardening of concrete. The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization. In concrete application, the process in which mortar and concrete harden. The length of time is dependent upon the type of cement, mix proportion, required strength, size and shape of the concrete section, weather and future exposure conditions. The period may be 3 weeks or longer for lean concrete mixtures used in structures such as dams or it may be only a few days for richer mixes. Favorable curing temperatures range from 50 to 70 degrees F. Design strength is achieved in 28 days. time – The longer hypertufa is left to cure (setHow much the teeth are angled out on a circular saw blade.) the better. I kept the hypertufa moist at all times during the curing process, which went on for ten days. It was easy to contain the moisture with a polythene (plastic) sheetAny broad, thin surface. covering the hypertufa.
Once the hypertufa had been poured, we waited about four hours until the mix had just firmed enough to allow a sheet of polythene (plastic) to cover it without damaging the mix.
Through that initial time we kept the hypertufa moist, mist spraying it a couple of times.
Why cover it with polythene?
As mentioned before, hypertufa must be kept moist during the curing process.
One of the main culprits that causes the hypertufa to dry out during the curing period is evaporation.
Obviously this is even more of a problem in hotter temperatures.
Enter the polythene cover –
By covering the hypertufa with polythene the moisture in the mix can't evaporate because it can't get out.
Therefore, all the drying out is from a chemical reaction that happens between the cementA powdery type substance made from a mixture of earths materials such as limestone and shale, which is sintered (cause to become solid mass by heating without melting), ground, and mixed with small amounts of calcium sulphate and calcium carbonate. Cement is activated by water and when mixed with gravel and sand, forms concrete. and the water called 'hydration'.
I kept the hypertufa covered for a total of ten days. (Note that on day 4 I added a skim coat of slurry – see Step 1.5.).
Once a day I lifted the cover for a look-see. Everything was always still moist but I would give it another hose anyway ( a good old saturation) while the cover was off. Then I would put the cover back on again.
Sometimes in the heat of the day, the cover got pretty hot. But that didn't seem to matter.


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"Much of A'GACI's success lies in understanding how our customers' style, color, and size preferences vary at each store location. MID Retail enables us to improve our attention to detail at every single store, using automation to scale our highly customer-centric allocation processes," said Hackney.
"Since A'GACI is a trend-setter, it's critical to start the season right and then remain in-tune with actual customer demand, immediately responding to trends," he added.
At the start of each merchandising season, A'GACI will use MID Retail's completely automated methods to translate high-level financial plans into actionable merchandise and store plans. As the season progresses, MID Retail's fully integrated solution recalculates the merchandise forecast on-the-fly, optimizing store allocations to meet real-time demand. As a result, customers find the styles they want at attractive prices – and A'GACI drives new operational efficiency that goes from sourcing all the way to the store.
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About A'GACI
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About MID Retail, Inc.
MID Retail helps retailers boost sales, increase margins, and reduce inventory costs through its integrated suite of planning, allocation, and replenishment applications. Customers include Abercrombie & Fitch, Anna's Linen's, Big Lots, Bon-Ton, Clarks, Finish Line, Men's Wearhouse, and Urban Outfitters. The company's solution is the result of over 25 years of research, development, and proven impact on profitability with more than 100 major retail chains. To learn more about MID Retail, please visit http://www.midretail.com.


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WANT-away midfielder Michael McGlinchey's contract saga has exposed an ownership debacle at the Central Coast Mariners.
McGlinchey has been caught in a tug of war between the Mariners and the Wellington Phoenix since returning early from his loan spell with Japanese side Vegalta Sendai in June.
The New Zealand international believes he is a free agent, while the Mariners claim he is contracted to the club until January.
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the confusion stems from the sale of the Mariners in April last year from previous chairman Peter Turnbull, to the club's current owner Michael Charlesworth.
Contracted Mariners players were asked to sign an agreement acknowledging the change of ownership, but by the time the document was drafted, McGlinchey was already in Japan and did not sign it.
McGlinchey's camp insist that proves the New Zealander is a free agent, but the Mariners have continued to fight the claim.
With McGlinchey's case now in arbitration, sources have indicated Charlesworth and Mariners CEO Bruce Stalder approached the players last week asking them to sign yet another agreement, this time stating that ownership of the club was, in fact, never transferred.
Before Charlesworth took over full ownership of the club he was already an investor, so Football Federation Australia insist they have no concerns over which company holds the license.
But current Mariners players are understood to be confused about which company they are contracted to and many of them have been advised by their agents not to sign anything until the situation is resolved.
"There is no concern about the ownership of Central Coast Mariners, or player contracts," an FFA spokesman said.
"This is simply a transfer from one Mike Charlesworth company to another Mike Charlesworth company. There is some paperwork to be finalised by the club, which should be completed in the coming days".
The Professional Footballers Australia has been working with the Mariners this week and the players were briefed by the club yesterday.
Charlesworth, who is overseas, was unavailable for comment.
Meanwhile, McGlinchey was prevented from playing for the Phoenix against English Premier League club West Ham in New Zealand on Wednesday night, leaving Wellington coach Ernie Merrick "appalled" by the saga.
"To leave him in limbo for this long is totally out of order,'' Merrick said. "I'm hugely disappointed."
Initially scheduled to take part in the game, McGlinchey was pulled from the line-up 15 minutes before the game was due to kick off
The PFA, through their lawyers, has already advised McGlinchey that he is free to sign for Wellington and a resolution is expected shortly.


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People get up to a lot while they're asleep
Sleepwalking is almost always terrifying. Seeing your friends and family stumble around the house late at night unresponsive has no doubt inspired countless weird-shuffling horror villains in movies that can't afford actual special effects. And that's not exactly a knock. Like we said, sleepwalking is creepier than any ghost or monster I've seen on screen recently.
But, every once in awhile, somnambulism can be hilarious. The unconscious stumbling creeps can give way to some genuine belly laughs in the right situation. Plenty of those were on display when Reddit got together to talk about their oddest nocturnal adventures.
Leap Of Faith
When I was a kid I used to leap down the short flight of stairs from my room to the living room for fun (while awake). Well, one night I woke up mid jump.(Shittypasswordmemory)
Casual Stroll
Toss up between smacking my fiancee on the head to see if she were real, or jogging nude.(mysterious_baker)
The Horror
I had never been around people who sleepwalked before, but it runs in my wife's family. I was on vacation with her family and we were staying in a house in Portugal and her youngest niece sleepwalks all the time (but I didn't know this).
One night I woke up in the middle of the night and I turned my head to the door and saw her standing there staring at me with these scary dead eyes and not moving. I was so freaked out I just turned my head into my pillow and waited until she went back to bed. (Matt95110)


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The Third Party Option
In November, the citizens of the United States elect a new president. The current mindset, reinforced by the media, is that there are only two viable political parties, Democrats and Republicans. However, there are always several third parties added to the mix.
Political third parties have made a major impact in the past.
The Liberty Party was formed in 1840 to abolish slavery. Although unsuccessful, they did exert influence leading to the abolition of slavery a couple of decades later.
The first war on drugs was against alcohol. In 1892, the Prohibition Party was formed in an attempt to eliminate alcoholic beverages from society. This policy was eventually adopted in 1920 and repealed in 1933. During prohibition, as with the current war on drugs, criminal activity skyrocketed to meet public demand.
Collectivism was a popular concept in 1900. The Socialist Party was introduced with a platform including child labor laws, unemployment compensation, a national Department of Education and a graduated income tax. Twenty-four years later, socialists created the Progressive Party seeking a takeover of large corporations and the railroads by the federal government. Eventually this coalition became supporters of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Teddy Roosevelt won 9 of 12 Republican primaries in 1912 but they gave the nomination to William Taft. So Roosevelt formed the Bull Moose Party and ran as a third party candidate. The Democrat Woodrow Wilson won.
In 1980, conservative Ronald Reagan opposed liberal Jimmy Carter. John Anderson, a disaffected Republican, ran as an independent on fiscal conservatism and social compassion, winning seven percent of the vote.
Ross Perot formed the Reform Party in 1992 and ran as an alternative to Bush #1 and Bill Clinton. His major issue was balancing the federal budget and opposition to free trade. He had impressive poll numbers early (20%) but soon faded after scoring high marks on the screwball-o-meter.
Third parties can make a difference. Here is a list of several alternatives to business as usual.
1) The Libertarian Party -- believe in less government and individual liberty. They want a free market economy, a voluntary retirement system, to end the war on drugs, and a hands-off foreign policy.
2) The Green Party -- proclaim to be environmentalists who believe in human rights, social justice and nonviolent resistance. They dislike corporate-dominated society and actively participate in political protests.
3) The Reform Party -- main issues are balancing the budget, trade restrictions, campaign reform, lobbying reform, congressional term limits and a new "paperless" tax system.
4) The Natural Law Party -- vow to bring smart people together to resolve problems and make contingency plans to prevent future problems. They call it a common sense approach. To some it sounds a bit vague.
5) The Constitution Party -- want to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations, abolish congressional pensions and foreign aid, eliminate paper money (coins only), and phase out Social Security.
6) The American Party -- support Biblical and constitutional principles of life, liberty and property. Oppose global trade, gay rights and illegal immigration. Support school vouchers and the return of the Panama Canal.
I didn't include the Socialist Equality Party, the Socialist USA Party or the Socialist Worker's Party. If you yearn for wall-to-wall government confiscating and redistributing wealth, you can always vote for the Democrat.
I also didn't include the Anarchists who want zero government and unlimited freedom. If you yearn for wall-to-wall chaos, you can always move somewhere where there is no government, such as Neptune or Pluto.
Of course, many of these political parties won't be on most state ballots. Apparently those in power don't want the American people to have more than two alternatives -- they might do something rash, such as voting for a political philosophy they actually believe in rather than going along with the herd.
It's no secret that the two parties in control, Democrats and Republicans, have collaborated to drive this country into a $10 trillion national debt with no end in sight. Democrats want a large, all-encompassing government to manage society whereby the central bureaucratic apparatus redistributes the wealth and shepherds its subjects from cradle to the grave. The Republicans want a strong, powerful government to keep the global economy churning at full capacity and impose itself on the rest of the world as self-appointed global cops.
The Democrats offer us Barack Obama and Joe Biden. Obama is a charismatic young lawyer whose only real experience seems to be a couple of years as a community organizer in Chicago. He has the most liberal voting record in Congress and a costly, oppressive socialistic agenda of an expanded federal government. Biden is a 6-term senator who was caught cheating in law school.
The Republicans offer us John McCain and Sarah Palin. McCain is an honorable military man from a military family who graduated near the bottom of his class, 894 out of 899, at the U.S. Naval Academy and would continue our costly, mettlesome policy of being self-appointed global cops. Palin is a popular governor from the state of Alaska who shoots guns.
Those who want neither of these two costly, intrusive alternatives have other choices, one of which is to vote for the candidate of a third party that shares their preferred notion of the function of government. Or they can simply bang their head against the wall until the pain exceeds the mental anguish.
Choose wisely. The future you save may be your own.
Quote for the Day -- "A primary duty of every citizen is to defend their liberty against their government." Bret
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GOJIRA Frontman On Touring With METALLICA: 'They Make Us Feel Important'
Guitarist/vocalist Joseph Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA was recently asked by U.K.'s Metal Hammer magazine what it's like to be touring with their heavy metal heroes METALLICA. "We ignore it," Duplantier laughed. "'Cause otherwise we would have a heart attack or something. I don't know. It's really amazing. We talk to these guys on tour. We see them. We go in their dressing room, or they come to our dressing room. I mean, it's amazing. It's not just a big institution, with people working for them. They're still paying attention to every detail and they talk to the opening act. They're gentlemen. It's very good to be around them. We feel blessed. They make us feel important when they talk to us. It's very rewarding and it's a very nice feeling."
GOJIRA opened for METALLICA — along with LAMB OF GOD — on a North American tour in September/October 2009 and recently made a number of European festival appearances with METALLICA.
In a 2009 interview, Duplantier stated about sharing the stage with METALLICA, "It's like a dream come true. We are a band because of METALLICA. We owe so much to [the METALLICA guys]. When I saw them, the only thing I [wanted] to tell them is, 'Thank you very much,' and what [METALLICA guitarist/vocalist] James Hetfield answered is, 'You're welcome.'"


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Our 13th season took place in Radost camp Horni Jeleni where we hosted 193 students and 39 staff members from 12 countries. Symphony orchestra students who came to our camp for both sessions played the whole Dvoraks 8th Symphony under the direction of Haig Utidjian (England / Cyprus). Symphonic Band was directed by Jon Waite (USA). The season was opened on July 23 by Salome Wind Quintet from Prague featuring Prague Music Academy students and graduates. The second part was opened by violinist Lada Fedorova and pianist Lucie Kaucka who performed in our camp 5 years ago.
Thanks to a great cooperation with Horni Jeleni public school we could place Piano and English Theatre departments in the school building. The campsite also hosted Recorder Ensemble and Harp majors.


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Not sure if this is the correct place to ask the question, but I will start here:
I run my site on the localhost, and use firefox to view the site.
I have a small form on the page, a simple username and password box that will store information on the MySQL database. I use a php script to run the storing of data on the MySQL database. However, when I fill in the fields and click submit, it does not run the script, it makes the page go blank and nothing happens, and the address bar says "file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/runscript.php". I know the script does not run, because the MySQL database where I told the script to store the information is empty. However, when I run the script by directly typing in "http://localhost/runscript.php" it will run the script (not properly, because it is missing the fields).
What is wrong, and how do I fix it?


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8-Under Focus MEETING
Medina Entertainment Center
Address: 500 Highway 55, Medina, MN 55340
February 18th, 2020
6:30pm to 8:30pm
Going in to our 6th official league year we appreciate any feedback that you can provide. We have grown from 26 teams to 66 teams in 2019. Even if you are not currently participating we want to hear your opinion. For those of you that have been around for a long time remember when 10-under was added? We now have over 200 teams in the metro area alone.
Our goal for the 2020 season is to have 70+ teams participate.
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You Want To Run A Marathon?
About Several In a Row?
So You Want To Run A Marathon?
How About Several In a Row?
July 2017
by Claire Nana
by Claire Nana
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vison for the limits of the world."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Running lore holds that for runners the true test of their ability is the marathon. If they can last a grueling 26 miles, push through the ubiquitous "wall" at mile 20, then they have earned the right to call themselves a runner. Adding to the sheer impossibility of the test, inaccurate interpretations of Greek history, commonly hold that the marathon was precisely the distance Pheidippides ran before his death.
For ultrarunners, however, the story is something different. A marathon is not the finish line, rather, it is a sort of start line. For many, a marathon is nothing more than a training run. And when you string a few together, you have a pretty solid training cycle.
This was perhaps what Jesper Kenn Olsen, the Danish
National Coach had in mind when he sent Tina Andersen running across Denmark
pushing a baby stroller in preparation for the six day race in Hungary. Her
instructions: "Run as much as you can every day, learn how to pace yourself,
how much you can take, and how much time you need to recover." Andersen later
broke the Danish and Scandinavian National six day records at that race,
besting the previous record – which she set herself just seven months prior at
Icarus Florida UltraFest – and setting a new age group world record of 741 kms.
Olsen, himself, is no stranger to this type of
training. Although his runner career started with a 2:27 marathon at age 24, he
later twice ran around the world (becoming one of only handful men to do this),
and along the way, won the six day race in Australia, running an incredible 756
kms. Years later, in 2014, after a long break from running, Olsen returned to
win the Icarus Florida UltraFest six day race, with 712 kms.
For Olsen, multiday training (or running several long days in a row) not only speeds running recovery, but builds a kind of mental toughness that only comes from repeated bouts of exhaustive training. As Olsen states, "Running long for several days in a row works on the specific mental preparation and toughness needed to run ultramarathons."
Lisa Smith Batchen, an accomplished Ironman
competitor, nine time Badwater finisher, and the first American to win the
Marathon des Sables, seconds Olsen's approach. Having coached several athletes
to top finishes at races like Badwater, Marathon des Sables, and the Keys 100,
Batchen frequently uses several long bouts of successive training to ready her
athletes for races. When David Green, a student of hers mentioned that he
wanted to run the Marathon des Sables – which consists of five consecutive days
of marathon distance or more across the Sahara desert – Batchen instructed him
to run a marathon a day for eight days.
For both Olsen and Batchen, training like this makes use of the body's inherent adaptive response to running – and in particular, running with little recovery time. As Batchen notes, "The purpose of back to back long days is to get your body ready and customized to doing what you are going to be asking it to do day after day."
And what these two accomplished ultrarunners and
coaches may have arrived at intuitively, a research team headed by Uwe Schutz,
a specialist in orthopedics at the Department of Diagnostic and Interventional
Radiology at the University Hospital of Ulm in Germany, have validated
scientifically. Following 44 competitors in the Trans Europe Foot Race, which
entails running 4,487 km over the course of 64 days, Schutz and his team used
an MRI scanner to examine the runners every three to four days, along with a
panel of blood and urine tests.
The results showed that with the exception of the
patellar joint, nearly all cartilage segments of the knee, ankle, and hind-foot
joints showed significant degradation over the first 1500 to 2500 kilometers of
the race.
But then something interesting happened. All of the same areas that had initially shown degradation began to regenerate. Foot, knee, and ankle cartilage thickened, as did the runners' Achilles tendons. As Dr. Schultz explains, "Interestingly, further testing indicated that ankle and foot cartilage have the ability to regenerate under ongoing endurance training. In general, we found no distance limit in running for the human joint cartilage in the lower extremities."
No distance limit. It is a point that is worth
noting especially considering that it is diametrically opposed to what most
people think the human body is capable of.
And yet other researchers have suggested that it is
exactly this adaptive capacity that played a fundamental role in our survival.
According to University of Utah biologist Dennis Bramble and Harvard University
Anthropologist Daniel Liebermen, "Running
has substantially shaped human evolution. Running made us human – at least in
an anatomical sense."
For Bramble and
Leiberman, running isn't just one of the most transformative
events in human history, the emergence of humans is uniquely tied to the
evolution of running. Of the 26 traits Bramble and Leiberman examined for their
study, relatively few were needed for walking. On the other hand, the majority
aided running. Leg and foot tendons and ligaments that act like springs, foot
and toe structure that allows efficient use of the feet to push off, shoulders
that rotate independently of the head and neck to allow better balance, and
skeletal and muscle features that make the human body stronger, more stable and
able to run more efficiently without overheating, all combine to give a functional
understanding of how the ability to run – and particularly long distances –
The reason that
humans were bestowed with traits that support exceptional endurance and not
sprinting, was precisely because the ability to sustain long distances aided
survival. Bramble and Lieberman note that scavenging – which requires traveling
long distances and covering a broad area – is a "more reliable source of food
than hunting", which requires outrunning prey that is likely much faster than
you are.
What we can learn from studies like this is that back to back long distance training follows an evolutionary pattern of adaptive response underscored by the words of Batchen, "Your body is very smart and adapts to what you do to it." So what is the difference between running one marathon and several in a row? Well you might just experience that "no distance limit" that Uwe Schutz refers to. And you might just run farther than you thought you could.
Schultz, U. et. al.
(2012). The Transeurope Footrace Project: longitudinal data acquisition in a
cluster randomized mobile MRI observational cohort study on 44 endurance
runners at a 64-stage 4,486km transcontinental ultramarathon. BMC Med. 2012
Bramble, D., Lieberman, D. (2004). Endurance running and the evolution of Homo. Nature. 2004; 432:345-352.
Claire Dorotik-Nana, M.A. regularly writes for several professional organizations including Professional Development Resources and International Sport Science Association, and also pens the popular blog, "Leveraging Adversity" on Psychcentral. Her first book, Leverage: The Science of Turning Setbacks Into Springboards is now available on Amazon.


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Asal Sekolah : Jakarta International School
Sekolah yang Dituju : Les Roches – Gruyere University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
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Comment: Testing, testing
More and more tests for medical conditions are becoming available, and
as their sophistication increases, so does the level of skill needed to
understand their results. Yet all the evidence suggests that people – from
the patient to the doctor to the insurance provider – are not prepared or
not willing to deal with the complexity of information such tests can produce.
Scientists still have much to learn about the ways in which people will
deal with information about the state of their health. We desperately need
to find out more about what patients understand and remember about testing,
what advice their doctors offer, and what of this information they pass
on to their families. And we need to be assured that both advisers and
advised can understand concepts of risk and probability.
The problems are apparent in two different gene tests, both discussed
in this issue. Screening for the gene for cystic fibrosis provides the first
example (see This Week). Present screening tests can identify most, but
not all, carriers, so there is a slight chance that someone who has a negative
result could still be a carrier. The first studies coming out of the US
show that some people understand this and that the uncertainty deters them
from having a test. Other studies show that a few people who decide to take
a test 'forget' their result or fail to inform their partner of it.
A second set of problems is presented by tests, likely to be available
in the near future, for carriers of the so-called breast cancer gene (see
'Breast cancer: a lethal inheritance', this issue). A carrier is likely,
but not certain, to get breast cancer, and if she does it may (or may not)
be curable. A 'positive result' therefore presents the patient with a list
of new questions. Will she develop cancer? Will she detect it earlier than
she would have if she had not taken the test? Can she take steps to prevent
the disease? Will treatment work if it's needed?
The onus is on doctors, counsellors and insurance companies to ensure
that they fully understand these complex issues themselves. Otherwise they
will fail to foresee patients' needs and leave them frustrated by poor answers
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The 100 Push Up Challenge is a Weekly Calisthenics Challenge running all Year! Each week we introduce a new push up variation, getting progressively harder each week, from basic to super extreme.
Yo Yo Yo! Rhys here with Week 29 of the 100 Push Up Challenge!
This week we are brining in Thigh Tap push ups!
If you missed last week's challenge check it out here - Week 28
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But for now, let's get into this Week's challenge.
The 100 Push Up Challenge Week 29
The Workout
Set 1 - 20 Thigh Tap Push Ups
Set 2 - 20 Wide Pseudo Planche Push Ups
Set 3 - 20 Cross Hands Push Ups
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Thigh Tap push ups are another Plyometric Variation, one that trains reactive speed and explosive power.
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Ophelia Jensen's good witch granny Abigail revels in her paranormal powers. But Ophelia never asked for her bothersome psychic abilities -- especially since they proved worthless when the thirty-something librarian's best friend Brian was murdered by a still-unknown assailant.
Now, five years later, another friend is gone, killed in almost identical fashion. Even dear old Abby isn't safe, distracted as she is by her fight to prevent a massive, mega-polluting pig-farming operation from invading their small Iowa town. And Ophelia can't count on her snarling, scoffing nemesis, police detective Henry Comacho, to get the job done, so she'll have to take matters into her own hands. Because a common thread to the crimes -- and a possible next victim -- is suddenly becoming troublingly apparent . . . and it's Ophelia Jensen herself!


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Fox "News" has finally decided to cover the widening GOP Voter Registration Fraud Scandal. Sort of. Barely. And they've decided to include me in their coverage.
It took more than a week, and it was becoming embarrassing that they hadn't said a word about the national scandal rocking the Republican National Committee, so they had to say something because, ya know, "Fair and Balanced" and all.
I was interviewed by their "voter fraud" correspondent Eric Shawn late last week for use on Thursday night's Special Report with Bret Baier. He ended up running lengthier excerpts from the interview the following day on of their afternoon shows.
The video of both packages are posted in full below.
It's been rather amusing watching the Rightwing's pretend "news" sites twist and turn to find new ways to not cover the growing registration fraud scandal which has now resulted in a criminal investigation being launched by the Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement, as well as by prosecutors in the state of Colorado...


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It's starting to look and feel like a game I might even be done on time.
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This looks amazing, looks like the kind of thing I originally had in mind but I failed horribly. Can't wait to play this
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Snap Judgment: White Stripes' 'Icky Thump'
Last night, I stumbled across a leak of the new White Stripes album, Icky Thump, and I'm happy to report to those who failed to find the band's eclectic last record, Get Behind Me Satan, as "distinctive" or "inspirational" as a lot of critics did, that Jack White (pictured, left, with drummer Meg White) has definitely gotten reacquainted with his gee-tar and is still willing and able to do balls-out rock 'n' roll. This record is more in the high octane spirit of Elephant and White Blood Cells than the experimental "I'm so brilliant I can succeed at whatever I try" character of the piano-driven Satan.
That isn't to say that Icky Thump is a return to the duo's more primitive early days (as some, though not the Stripes themselves, have said). Despite the Zeppelin-esque title track and first single, there's also a lot more bagpipes on Thump than anything they've done before, and the mandolin makes a return as well. Still, White may pepper Thump with exotic sounds (some Scottish folk music, call-and-response between a guitar and a mariachi band), but there are also moments of pure rocking abandon that should sate the appetites of those who may appreciate Jack and Meg's ability to pull off disco-inflected soul music, but really prefer it when they plug in and make their ears bleed.
Any other PopWatchers who got their hands on Icky Thump (and naturally, followed-up by immediately pre-ordering the CD for the official release on June 19) care to weigh in on what you heard? Those who haven't heard it, what do you expect/hope for? Anyone wish Jack would just chuck the marimbas and go back to the simpler days of "Big Three Killed My Baby?"


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Alpha-N, a tuning shop out of Germany has just shown the world their plans for the recently unveiled BMW M2. And damn do those plans look good.
Though just renders and numbers for the moment, Alpha-N foresees their kit adding 110 horsepower to BMW's 380HP inline-six N55 motor by use of water-injection and an ECU tune. That's totally M4 GTS territory, and I bet you this guy will be even lighter (faster) as well.
Oh, and how about that additional aero? Alpha-N's M2-RS Clubsport will have a four-way adjustable spoiler in the rear, a carbon-fiber splitter up front and some more CF bits strategically splashed over the front lower intakes. Hot damn.
For suspension and rubber, the M2-RS Clubsport has an adjustable coilover setup, sitting on 19" OZ Superforgiata wheels with 245mm tires up front and 265mm tires in the rear. That should keep you planted nicely.
If you want to go full track car, a roll cage and track bucket seats will be optional with the M2-RS Clubsport.
I'll take mine in that Java Green color, thanks.
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