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May 25, 2019 – July 20, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday, May 25, 2019, 7pm-10pm: RSVP HERE
In Somewhere Between You and Me, young nonbinary transgender artists intimately seek to understand and bring understanding to what it means to experience life as a nonbinary person: the desire to connect, little room for uninfluenced exploration of self, isolation, tenderness, whatever it is to exist while trying to discover who they could've been without the initial, culturally imposed pressure to exist as man or woman, and who they are despite that ongoing pressure.
May 2, 2019 – May 11, 2019
Opening Reception Thursday, May 2, 2019, 6pm-8pm: RSVP HERE
XYZ explores how personal narrative and expression shape the way we relate to one another. Engaging ideas of multiplicity, repetition and diversity, XYZ aims to celebrate the personal and unique experiences of the individual. This selection of portraiture, illustration, photography and video art investigates the commonalities of experience, turning 'me' into 'us' and 'I' into 'we.'
March 16, 2019 – April 27, 2019
Opening Reception Saturday, March 16, 2019, 7pm-10pm: RSVP HERE
Special viewing hours Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm
In Self and Others, Jeff Duka's works position and consider the self as nebulous, an ephemeral and temporal network. The muted opacity of his portraits suggests the occult and ever-shifting balance between what we do and do not share about ourselves, as well as between what we are and are not permitted or able to know about others.
September 15, 2018 – November 3, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, September 15 2018, 7pm-10pm: RSVP HERE
Special viewing hours Mondays & Thursdays from 11am - 3pm
This body of work sets out to unite my visual contemplations on femininity, power and sexuality. In a way, it is somatic therapy - reuniting the body I have been at war with my whole life with my fluctuating sense of self. Taking back my 'self' from my dissociative states and claiming my sexuality as empowerment rather than using it as a form of self-harm.
May 12, 2018 – July 28, 2018
Opening Reception Saturday, May 12 2018, 7pm-10pm: RSVP HERE
Special viewing hours Mondays & Thursdays from 11am - 3pm
Rooted in a disembodied exploration of hyphenated identity, Mojdeh Rezaeipour's ephemeral mixed media works take us on an archeological search for wholeness and belonging. In Fractal Futures, she engages with space, the body and natural elements to invite us to consider transformation through fractal imagination. Working with nature as both a medium and a muse, she examines her own process of healing individually and interpersonally, and continues to pose questions about what makes change possible on a collective, universal level.
January 31, 2018 — March 3, 2018
Public Reception Wednesday, January 31, 2018, 7pm-10pm: RSVP HERE
Celebrating the primal orgasmic energy of creation, Olly Olly is pleased to present The Alchemy of the Sex Witch and Other Tales of Love. As we continue to heed the call and power of playfulness let us immerse ourselves in an extravagant cuddle coven dripping with crystals and glitter and infused with sacred obscenity, sacral chakra energy, sensual revelry, spell casting, and the radical, alchemical powers of bliss, joy, pleasure, laughter, empathy, and community.
October 14, 2017
Public Reception Saturday, October 14, 2017, 4pm – 6pm: RSVP HERE
The Youth Art Re-Imagining Community Project presents a series of banners created by local high school students to promote equity and social change. The Youth Art Re-Imagining Community Program—a partnership between the Fairfax County Department of Neighborhood and Community Services and Police Department, and George Mason University School of Art—represents a unique intersection of youth art and social change established to address social and racial inequities in youth opportunity.
July 22--August 19, 2017
Reception - Saturday July 22, 2017, 8pm-10pm
Because sometimes the darkest hour calls for the brightest lights, Olly Olly presents Beyond the Blacklight, an all-blacklight group show curated by Tariq Omar. Because we can't allow every moment to be an existential crisis. Because we need to heed the call of playfulness and light. Because night. Because summer. Because love. Because we know you're truly dazzling and deserve to be bathed in glowing purple and surrounded by vibrant fluorescent sensations.
May 20--July 8, 2017
Reception - Saturday May 20, 2017, 7pm-10pm
Talk Show immerses us in a world of glitter, harvest gold, shag carpet, and mad talk. Inviting us to explore corporate media bias as well as reconstruct and deconstruct the role of the public intellectual in 21st century U.S. life, politics, art, music, and thought, Talk Show juxtaposes laugh track fueled soundscapes, gluttonous green room indulgence, 1970s faux glamour kitsch decadence, collaborative conversation based performance, and inclusive deep listening.
February 4-March 18, 2017
Reception - Saturday, February 4, 2017, 7pm –10pm
The world's major religions all have similar themes of the world coming to an end, signaled by an unimaginable battle, a period of intense turmoil and chaos, leading eventually to messianic redemption. In addition to the major religions, some groups, movements and uprisings that have eschatology at the core, catalyze these beliefs into an outright revolt. End-of-the-world beliefs encompass struggles with mortality, group fates, connectedness and inform utopian/dystopian philosophies.
November 26, 2016 -- One Night Only
Reception - Saturday, November 26, 2016, 7pm – 9pm
Who says size matters? We do! And we're featuring teeny tiny artwork on the walls of Olly Olly! Can't afford a grown up piece of art? Don't cry about it! Adopt a Baby Canvas!
October 1 – November 5, 2016
Opening Reception - Saturday, October 1, 2016, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present Flesh. Flesh continues a tradition of spirited and revelatory sexual discourse. Come and join us for fearlessly erotic invocations of self-care, sustenance, desire, openness and joy that ask us to slow down and savor a multitude of sexualities, bodies, genders and mindfully empowered and embodied creative energies. Experience a playful and biting irreverent peepshow juicy with truth. Flesh unravels the politics of pleasure and celebrates unrestrained expressions of sexual freedom and liberation in the face of ignorance, repression and misogyny.
August 27 – September 17, 2016
Opening Reception - Saturday, August 27, 2016, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present Lush Life. Co-curated by Yue Li, Lush Life is an immersive and experiential hyper-color art exhibition that creates a dreamy world of luscious extravagance. Deliciously subversive and absurd, Lush Life interrogates materialism, contrasts excessiveness with art-world sustainability, and connects the artistic fantasy to the mundanity of the artist's day-to-day life and practice.
July 23 – August 20, 2016
Opening Reception - Saturday, July 23, 2016, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly, an alternative art space in Fairfax, VA, is pleased to present Making Space, co-curated by Anne Smith. Making Space is an exhibition of artists whose work investigates an awareness of built space, especially the unexpected peculiarities found in rigid structures of architecture and infrastructure. Built structures able to be measured and marked on a map or blueprint become more complex and open-ended in the work of these artists. A wall, a window, a road, or a curb are shown as more than a nameable quantity, but contain tension, uncertainty, humor, and wonder.
May 21, 2016 – June 18, 2016
Opening Reception - Saturday, May 21, 2016, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present Manifesto, an exhibition of five new collections of art by the artists of the Bunnyman Bridge Collective. Featuring sculpture, installation, painting, collage, photography, video, multi-sensory pleasure participation, and embedded sub rosa performance, Manifesto will put on public display private obsessions ranging from hedonism to metamorphosis, from pollution to esoteric science, and including the assertion that we are all sacred.
February 29, 2016 – March 31, 2016
Opening Reception - Saturday, March 5, 2016, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present Domestic Territories, a new exhibition of art curated by Sarah Irvin. For the exhibition, Domestic Territories, DC area artists were invited to consider how they negotiate the use of household space with their children. The work in the exhibition investigates physical and emotional spaces that are separate, shared or disputed.
January 30, 2016 – February 27, 2016
Closing Reception - Saturday, February 20, 2016, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present Embracing the Power of Artistic Practice, a new collection of art in conjunction with Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016, a book arts and cultural festival taking place throughout the Washington, DC area from January through March 2016 commemorating the 2007 bombing of Baghdad's historic book selling street. Inspired by the couplet of 10th century Iraqi poet Al-Mutanabbi, "If you see the lion bare its teeth/do not assume the lion is smiling," Embracing the Power of Artistic Practice features work in a variety of mediums by six DC area artists.
Saturday, November 28, 2015
One Night Only Event
Who says size matters? We do! And we're featuring teeny tiny artwork on the walls of Olly Olly! Can't afford a grown up piece of art? Don't cry about it! Adopt a Baby Canvas!
Join Olly Olly and our fabulous co-curator Jennifer Crawford on Saturday, November 28, from 7pm-10pm for Baby Canvases Five!
September 26, 2015 – November 7, 2015
Closing Reception - Thursday, November 5, 2015, 6pm – 9pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present Threshold, a new collection of art inviting the viewer to wander the ambiguous borders of liminality and its edge regions to enter realms of fluidity that exist between dream and reality, drifting and arriving, fragmentation and continuity, desire and satisfaction. Featuring printmaking and performance, Threshold will also explore the interplay of bodies through ritual, the making of art and meaning, passageways, points of access, and transition.
June 6, 2015 – July 18, 2015
Opening Reception - Saturday, June 6, 2015, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present a new art exhibition, Ephemeral, inspired by the elusive here and now, and the role of delicate forms of reality at play in the understanding of emotion, life, and meaning making. On Saturday, June 6, 2015, from 7pm to 10pm, spend an evening with the artists:
March 28, 2015 – April 11, 2015
Opening Reception - Saturday, March 28, 2015, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present a new art exhibition, Cut/Tear. This exhibition of new work invites you to question and understand notions of embedded ideas and situations torn asunder and reassembled to form a multitude of hybrid worlds and uncanny juxtapositions. On Saturday, March 28, 2015, from 7pm to 10pm, spend an evening with the artists:
January 24, 2015 – February 6, 2015
Opening Reception - Saturday, January 24, 2015, 7pm – 10pm
Olly Olly is pleased to present its inaugural pop-up art exhibition, Bodylore, an exploration of the human figure and an investigation into the body as social construct, tradition, myth, and fairytale. On Saturday, January 24, 2015, from 7pm to 10pm, spend an evening with the artists:


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As I felt the heaviness descending, I chose a spot to sit as far away from the doctor and my parents as I could. It was almost as if I wanted to remove myself from what they were going to talk about. And now that I look back all these years later, I realize that was the moment I started to put up some walls. I figured it was bad enough I was going through all this, but I did not want to be all emotional and making it harder for my parents, my family, and even my friends. If I could make any of this easier for them, I was going to try to do just that.
Doctor Neville seemed awfully young to me, and one of the nurses had said that he was a specialist of some sort that only dealt with special cases. So why was he the one sitting down to have this official feeling "chat" with me?
His first words were that they had received some of the tests back, but that a few further tests would still have to be done. Great, more tests, frig, why couldn't they figure this out so I could go home? But then he leaned forward, towards Mom and Dad and folded his hands. "We believe Verna has something called severe aplastic anemia. It is a blood disorder where her blood cells are just not making new blood products." I am not sure about what Mom and Dad were thinking, but my brain was already racing with 100 questions. My first one was did this mean that I just had to keep getting blood transfusions? No, that would work for a short while, probably for only three months or so. My next question was what would happen after the three months? I remember Doctor Neville looking at me like he hated his job, as he answered.
"We can keep you alive for about three months just doing transfusions, and you would also have to be doing a strong drug regime. But I can't promise you three months, you are already in an advanced stage, and our options are more limited." If I had been standing I am sure I would have staggered. Was this man really sitting here telling me I was going to die? Part of my brain still thought they had me confused with another patient. I am sure we sat in silence for three minutes. My next question was if I had any other options. Yes, maybe, he said, a bone marrow transplant might be another option. But they would have to do tests to see if my body could go through it, and more importantly, we had to find a match, and we had to find a match very quickly.
So what the hell was a bone marrow transplant? I had never heard of it before, I had never met anyone who had such a thing before, and my parents were just in the dark as I was. I don't think Doctor Neville wanted to share too much just yet about what a transplant consisted off, he said it was an option that we could explore. If we did find a match, and if the tests said I was physically able, then I would have to do chemotherapy and radiation in order to do the transplant, and then we would do the transplant and wait to see if it worked.
This all sounded complicated to me, and I hung on every word that Doctor Neville said. We could go through all that, and it might not work? "No, it might not work. I can't promise you that you will be here seven weeks from now, but you may be here five years from now, I really can't say either way, I'm sorry." said the now sad looking doctor. And I suddenly felt sorry for him. As we were sitting there in total chaos, I just remember how sad he looked, and genuine, and suddenly I knew that he actually cared and would not do anything on purpose to harm me any further.
But then another thought struck me, and I was terrified to ask...but I did.
"You said I had to have chemo and radiation, and then the transplant, right? Does that mean I will never have children?"
At this point I am really sure Doctor Neville did not realize that his answer would impact me any further in a negative way then anything he had already said. I am sure he thought that at 19 I just wanted to live and that children were something that could be thought about at a later date.
"Given your condition right now, and what I know from other patients who have had this done, no, you will never have children," was his simple answer. It was then that I could feel the tears starting to well up in the corners of my eyes. Even as I write this 20 years later, I am struggling to see the screen from the tears. To me, my life would never be the same again. I had pictured having a family already for years. Not necessarily with anyone in particular, but I knew I wanted lots of kids. I wanted a house full of children, running me ragged and sharing their lives with me. My friends had kind of a running joke that they never saw me much without one of my siblings or cousins. When I got my license, the car always had kids in it if I was going anywhere, and unlike other teenagers who might have complained, I loved having them with me. And now this man was telling me I would never have a family of my own. I was never going to give birth and be able to hold a baby created in love by me and another human being. I was never going to sing them to sleep every night or hear an, "I love you mom." To say I was devastated would be an understatement. I honestly thought if I couldn't have kids, what was the point of all the rest?
Doctor Neville had continued talking and then realized I was crying. He wrongly thought it was because I was upset about the transplant, and I could see the surprise on his face when I asked again if he was sure I would never have children. This time he didn't answer.
"The first thing we have to do is see if any of your siblings are a match." No way, I thought, I did not want these doctors any where near my siblings! I looked to Mom and Dad, and they were already saying they would make the arrangements for the kids to come to Halifax. Obviously we had some talking to do.
Just as I felt the doctor was not going to share any more information, I stood to go back to my room. Of course, he had some more to add. I would be going into the bone marrow unit in the next day or so, and unfortunately the bone marrow biopsy did not get enough of a sample, so they were going to have to do another one. Oh god, I was still hobbling from yesterday, how long did I have to mentally prepare for the next one? Doctor Neville informed me it would have to be done that afternoon. They would do the opposite hip, just to spread out the agony I thought. But the good news was that over the weekend, I was going to have some pass time to actually leave the hospital, but had to stay close, and be back each night.
Mom, Dad and I must have been the three saddest looking people ever walking back to that room, but I was determined not to break down in front of them. When I got back in bed I begged them for a half hour to go eat lunch, and I would nap before getting the horrid biopsy done again. Once they left, I pullled the curtain around and was getting ready to have a big old cry when another thought came to my mind. I gathered up all the change I could from my room mates, and headed down the hall to the pay phones. Doctor Bernie would know what to say and would spring me out of this god foresaken place. It was early Friday afternoon, and I am sure his office was full to the rafters, but I simply told the secretary my name, and within seconds Doctor Bernie was on the phone, listening to me repeat everything the "other" doctor had just told me. And god bless that man, because what he said that day has stayed with me, and gave me the kick I needed right at that moment.
"Now you listen Verna, you know I wouldn't lie to you. I don't know too much about aplastic anemia, or bone marrow transplants, but I know you...and whatever they do to you in the next few weeks will probably not be very nice, but you can handle it all. I know you can, and when you get better, they can't tell you that you can't have children, they don't know that, we will deal with that on the other end. And Verna, remember, you are a MacLean, we are the toughest of the tough." At the time we still shared the same MacLean name, and I was always so proud of being a MacLean, and he knew that would strike a chord with me. We chatted a bit more about what was happening, and then the elevator doors opened and my parents stood there with my Aunt Ruby, my Aunt Lilly, my Aunt Marion, and a close family friend, Gayle. I had no change left anyway, so I hung up feeling stronger than I had before, and I shuffled back to my room with my new visitors to await my next news.
Monday, August 20, 2012
The "Talk", and the beginning of another challenge.
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Verna, we have never met, I am a friend of your Mom's and I say you are one brave wonderful daughter. I am looking forward to reading your blog.ReplyDelete
Wow Verna. Love your blog. I just found it through Tracey MacDonnell. I remember when you were sick but had no idea at the time what it was all about. Thank you for sharing. It is eye opening for sure and I can't help but appreciate the blessings in my life even more after reading. The things we take for granted...ReplyDelete
- PauletteAugust 17, 2013 at 11:09 AM
you are such a strong person. you shiuld really write a book. for yourself and to help and inspire others. you're a great writer and such a brave person. :)ReplyDelete
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❥ You'll read his texts over and over
❥ You walk really slowly when you're with him
❥ You pretend to be shy when you're with him
❥ While thinking about him, you heart beats faster
❥ By listening to his voice, you'll smile for no reason
❥ While looking at him, you can't see anyone else
❥ You start listening to slow songs
❥ He becomes all you think about
❥ You get high off of his smell
❥ You realize you're always smiling when you think of him
❥ Even though there was no specific name mentioned, you were thinking about him as you read this.
❥ My dear sweet sweetu you may be away from me but my thinking made you close to me and made butterflies on my stomach and feel as you where with me. I Love You
❥ Dear sweetu I would like to be with you like honeybee to lotus, and an ant to sugar, and I never go apart from you. I LOVE YOU.
❥ A Chemical is necessary for a chemical reaction and you are like chemical in my life ... if chemical is not available there is no reaction if you are not there I'll be none ...I LOVE YOU .
❥ My love for you has no depth. it's boundaries are ever-expanding. my love and my life with you are never-ending love story. I love you ...
❥ I'm not a perfect girl. My hair doesn't always stay in place & I spill things a lot. I'm pretty clumsy & sometimes I have a broken heart. My friends & I sometimes fight & maybe some days nothing goes right. but when I think about it & take a step back I remember how amazing life truly is & that maybe, just maybe I like being un perfect
❥ Marriage is a Relationship in which one is always right and the other is the husband.
❥ Each day I love you more, today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.
❥ Without you im nothing. With you im Something. Together we're Everything
❥ My daddy said, that the first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.
❥ I may not get to see you as often as I like. I may not get to hold you in my arms all through the night. But deep in my heart I truly know, you're the one that I love, and I can't let you go.
❥ So there is this boy and the way he laughs makes me smile, and the way he talks gives me butterflies and just everything about him makes me happy I love him.
❥ When I tell you I love you, I don't say it out of habit. I say it to remind you that you are the best thing that has ever happend to me.
❥ I love it when my fingers are entangled in yours. My head is on your chest. And I'm listening to your heart beat
❥ true love never dies, it only gets stronger with time
❥ my love for you is a journey; starting at forever and ending at never
❥ my heart could feel you, my heart could sence you, i knew i loved you, before i met you
❥ love looks through a telescope, envy looks through a microscope
❥ And then my soul saw you and it kind of went, "Oh, there you are. I've been looking all over for you.
❥ If I know what love is, it is because of you
❥ love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination
❥ it makes billions of people to make this world, but it only takes you to complete mine
❥ I don't need paradise because I found you. I don't need dreams because I already have you.
❥ if you love someone tell them you never know if they will love you back
❥ I love you every step of the way.
❥ i want to be the only hand you ever need to hold
❥ You are my paradise and I would happily get stranded on you for a lifetime.
❥ I may not be your first date, kiss or love…but I want to be your last everything.
❥ Thank you, my love, for always making me feel like the most beautiful woman in the world.
❥ the more you give the more you get back…thats the way love works
❥ you will never understand how much you mean to me
❥ so there's this boy, he's really got my attention, bottom line if he wants me, i'm ALL his
❥ This is all I want to do with you forever.
❥ You are the source of my joy, the center of my world and the whole of my heart.
❥ i never stopped loving you i just stopped showing it
❥ When I tell you I love you, I am not saying it out of habit, I am reminding you that you are my life.
❥ When I look into your eyes I see the mirror of my soul.
❥ you can love anything even if its stupid and dont let yourself get made fun of for doing it because they probably love something stupid also
❥ Good morning my love, our two souls aflame, with my man I feel two hearts beat the same.
❥ I am very indecisive and always have trouble picking my favorite anything. But, without a doubt, you are my favorite everything.
❥ seduce my mind, and you can have my body find my soul, and im yours forever
❥ Thank God someone threw me away so you could pick me up and love me.
❥ love isn't finding someone you can live with it's finding who you can't live without
❥ I can't stop thinking about you, today… tomorrow… always.
❥ love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proad, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs
❥ Everywhere I look I am reminded of your love. You are my world.
❥ The sun is up, the sky is blue, today is beautiful and so are you.
❥ When I'm a Pedestrian I Hate cars.. When I'm Driving I Hate Pedestrians…
❥ My biggest concern in life is actually how my online friends can be informed of my death..!!
❥ You can never buy Love….But still you have to pay for it ..
❥ Hey there whatsapp is using me.
❥ I love my job only when I'm on vacation…..
❥ Never make eye contact while eating a banana.
❥ Mosquitos are like family. Annoying but they carry your blood.
❥ Girls use Photoshop to look beautiful.. Boys use Photoshop to show their creativity.
❥ Did anyone else notice the sound if you click the like button on my status?
❥ If life gives you lemons, just add vodka.
❥ Life is Short – Chat Fast!
❥ Girls, if he only wants your breasts, legs, and thighs. send him to KFC.
❥ I hate fake people. You know what I'm talking about. Mannequins. 😀
❥ I'm not lazy, I'm on energy saving mode.
❥ A bank is a place that will lend you money, if you can prove that you don't need it.
❥ Whoever says "Good Morning" on Monday's deserves to get slapped 🙂
❥ How can i miss something i never had?
❥ If you are going to speak bad things about me on my back, come to me. I'll tell you more.
❥ I live in a world of fantasy, so keep your reality away from me!
❥ Fact: Phone on silent mode- 10 Missed call… Turns volume to loud- Nobody calls all day!!
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In August 2003 the average high temperature in Palm Springs, CA was 108.1°F, and this was 1.7°F warmer than the average of 106.4°F. The hottest day in August 2003 was 10 August when the temperature reached 116.6°F. Overnight the average temperature in August is 74.8°F and in 2003 the average overnight temperature was 2.6°F warmer at 77.5°F.


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Any of you guys from 2d Platoon, G Company CUPPs 8 and 10 - I'd love to hear from you guys, or anyone that might've remembered me.
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Tue, 26 June 2012
We gather around the lunch table this week with Steve from foodjunk.wordpress.com. On the menu is a discussion of our favorite salty snack foods from chips to pretzels to crackers. We can't seem to agree on many snack food picks, but perhaps we'll concur on favorite high blood pressure medicines in a later episode. In our Nerd To-Dos, we hear about Steve's run through the Godzilla movies, CT's third viewing of The Avengers, Pax's review of Solomon Kane, and Jeeg's glacial progress through Angel and Farscape.
Direct download: NerdLunch_043_DrillDown_SaltySnacks.mp3
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Mon, 18 June 2012
It's a three way dance as Pax, CT, and Jeeg plan out 48 hours of a nerd weekend. Where would we go? What would we do? What would we eat? Listen to find out if our perfect weekend looks more like The Hangover or Weekend at Bernie's. This week's Nerd To-Dos are a who's who of sci-fi franchises with nods to Prometheus, Planet of the Apes, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
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Sat, 16 June 2012
Because the people demanded it, one more round of Would You Rather questions with Jeeg, CT, Pax, and Andrew Bloom. Actually nobody demanded it, but the conversation does include more Mark Dury talk and that alone is worth a listen.
Direct download: NerdLunch_SH_MoreWouldYouRather.mp3
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Mon, 11 June 2012
The Atomic Geeks very own Andrew Bloom takes over the fourth chair this week and runs Pax, Jeeg, and CT though a little game of Would You Rather. The questions cover topics that are fun for all ages: the Nerd Lunch crew dying in various ways, the Nerd Lunch crew killing various pop culture heroes, the Nerd Lunch crew in ambiguously gay situations, and CT's beard. The only question remaining is would you rather keep reading this description or listen to the episode already?
Direct download: NerdLunch_041_WouldYouRather.mp3
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Mon, 4 June 2012
This week CT and Jeeg have to soldier on without the Nerd Lunch ironman, Pax, who has been kidnapped by our arch-rival Valley High. But it's all right, 'cause we're saved by the bell and two returning guests: Aaron Nix of Movie Hodge Podge and Jay from The Sexy Armpit. We spend the episode reminiscing about our favorite moments, the most attractive female cast member, and Casey Kasem's epic Cosby sweaters. Be warned, it's such a lovefest that we're not even fazed by the fact that the show also sounded the death knell of Saturday morning cartoons. In our Nerd To-Do's, we get some love for TV's Dallas, Sherman Hemsley, Taco Johns restaurants, and the Back to the Future iPad game.
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Breakfast with Santa & Holiday Movie Matinee
Saturday, Dec.5 at the Estes Park Events Center
Breakfast with Santa: 8-11am
Start off the morning with a hearty, all-you-can-eat breakfast and fun family activities at the Estes Park Events Complex! Delicious breakfast fare will be served to fill up tummies before lots of fun (prices $6 adults, $5 ages 12 and under, ages 3 and under are free).
Not having breakfast? No worries, free holiday activities abound:
Take your picture with Santa & tell him your wishes
Play Christmas bingo with the Estes Valley Library
Decorate holiday cookies
Play slapshot hockey
Make a Christmas tree ornament
Have your face painted - a reindeer or elf, perhaps?
Gingerbread House Contest:
Get creative by rounding up a team to participate in the Gingerbread House Contest! Teams of up to 3 people will compete for prizes in various age groups. Registration cost is $15 and includes all materials. Construction starts at 8:30am and must be completed by 10:15am for judging. Prizes will be awarded in each of five age categories from 0 to adult!Space is limited and registration must be made in advance by calling the Estes Park Aquatic Center at 970-586-2340.
Holiday Movie Matinee: 11:30am
After breakfast and festive fun, settle in for The Grinch, starring Jim Carrey. The movie is free and treats will be sold for donations to benefit Families for Estes. Movie run time is 1 hr 45 min.


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Globally, sloths have several fans. That is because they are one of the most interesting and funny animals. However, some individuals think they are very weird.
Sloths are adorable, slow-moving animals native to South and Central America. They are solitary animals and just happen to offer a habitat for a variety of other living organisms. For example, did you know that one sloth may be home to beetles, moths, fungi, cockroaches, and algae?
Sloth is a kind of weird-looking animal characterized by their slow movement in trees. There are 5 subspecies of sloths which can be divided into 2 main groups: three-toed and two-toed sloths. They usually prefer life in dense tropical as well as subtropical rainforests.
These animals can't adapt swiftly to the changes in their environment such as habitat loss that drastically lowers the number of sloths in the wild. In fact, some subspecies are already endangered.
Sloths have been misunderstood ever since different naturalists first described them in the 1700s. Early scientists did describe these slow-moving beasts as useless and lazy and even believed they were unlikely to survive because of its imperfections. Both reputations did not give the real representation of this amazing creature.
Recently, sloths have experienced an image makeover. Currently, they're touted online as the most adorable animals in the universe. Scroll down for an exclusive list of 8 more surprising and exciting sloth facts.
1. Sloths risk their lives to poop!
Sloths always fear for their safety, and that is why the hardly leave the canopy of the rain forest. But once a week, these slow-moving creatures descend to the base of their favorite tree to defecate. The exact reason for this dangerous movement remains a mystery, but scientists believe that it may assist them to maintain the algae in their fur.
2. Sloths can maintain their grip after death
Since they usually spend their time in trees, the limbs and muscles of sloths have been built to climb any trunks to escape predators and also to find food.
According to National Geographic, these mammals spend much of their time in the tree such that a tree holds their life in balance, even after they have died.
The sloth's grip is very firm that at times when they die, they're still found clinging to the same branch they were lounging from when they were alive, thanks to their muscles and claws.
3. Sloths spend 90% of their entire lives inverted
Recently, one researcher in Costa Rica found out that sloths spend nearly all of their time upside down. It was determined by equipping wild sloths with the backpacks which track their movements and activities.
To handle the gravitational pull, sloths have evolved distinct fibrous adhesions which keep their organs in one position for an extended period.
4. Sloths do not sleep all day
Although caged sloths have been famous for sleeping 15-20 hours per day, wild sloths only snooze for ten hours.
5. Three-toed sloths can turn their necks nearly 360 degrees
Being able to turn your neck nearly 360 degrees might not offer much assistance in nature as having sharp teeth or claws (unless sloths visit bars we do not know about now where they entertain their friends with some bar tricks), but the three-toed sloths are a bit more advanced than their two-toed counterparts. They can turn their heads nearly 270 degrees in any direction since they've about three additional vertebrae than the two-toed sloths.
6. The disgusting fungus in the fur of sloths could cure cancer
The previous year, some scientists took different samples of the fungus obtained from the sloth hairs and discovered that some were adept at fighting bacteria, parasites, and even the breast cancer cells. The researchers who conducted this study are optimistic that potentially life-saving drugs could be developed from this fungus.
7. Sloths are good swimmers
Sloths are known to be slow in trees, but they can move up nearly three times faster in water.
8. The metabolism of sloths is as slow as they are
A sloth can take up to one month to digest a single leaf. To avoid any accidental poisoning, sloths do not eat very many leaves from a single tree.
Interesting Facts About Sloths: Home For Minority Groups Of Organisms
Globally, sloths have several fans. That is because they are one of the most interesting and funny animals. However, some individuals think they are very weird.


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D10 9th Annual BCA Carshow
So yesterday we presented you with video coverage of the 9th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness Carshow hosted by Team District 10. Well we've got some more coverage this time some photos shot by out staff photographer/contributor Lauren Pascual. Again huge shout out to Team District 10 for another successful year in the books for this event. Can't wait for what's in store for 2016!
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Marvel Studios
We all already know that Infinity War is going to be an unprecedented, hugely exciting end to Phase 3 of the MCU (albeit spread across multiple movies), and one of its stars seems keen to stress just how unprepared fans are for the ensemble blockbuster.
Caught in the midst of the heavy marketing campaign for Spider-Man: Homecoming, Tom Holland spoke to the Toronto Sun, to say Infinity War ?needs no teasing.?
?That movie literally needs no teasing. It?s going to be the biggest movie of all time. Believe me; no one is ready for that movie. I don?t know anything about it or what it?s about. I know who the villain is, but that?s it. They don?t let me read anything because I?m so bad at keeping secrets.?
That's an interesting approach to hype building, but he's correct in a round-about way. Infinity War is assured of a strong billion dollar haul at the box office, and it could easily be released with no trailers and still make a boatload of money. He clearly does know something though, or he wouldn't be in a position to say we aren't ready. That's a pretty loaded statement.
Meanwhile, Marvel are clearly wary of enthusiastic leakers, as Holland also told ComicBook's Brandon Davis that they are taking measures to preserve their secrets:
"I don't know anything about the film if I'm honest. I just know I'm in it. The funny thing about that movie is I showed up and I was like, 'Can I read the script?' And they were like, 'No, you're terrible at keeping secrets.'"
Smart move.
Are you excited for Avengers: Infinity War? Share your reactions below in the comments thread.


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Automotive Trade In North Carolina
Actually, anybody conscious, the Bugatti Veyron is one in every of fast cars on the highway fence universe. Can the utmost speed of over four hundred kilometers per hour. If the teeth, the so-called dog teeth, make contact with the gear, however the two elements are spinning at completely different speeds, the tooth will fail to interact and a loud grinding sound might be heard as they clatter collectively. Because of this, a modern canine clutch in an car has a synchronizer mechanism or synchromesh, which consists of a cone clutch and blocking ring. Before the tooth can have interaction, the cone clutch engages first which brings the selector and equipment to the same speed using friction. Furthermore, till synchronization happens, the teeth are prevented from making contact, as a result of additional motion of the selector is prevented by a blocker (or baulk) ring. When synchronization occurs, friction on the blocker ring is relieved and it twists barely, bringing into alignment certain grooves and notches that allow additional passage of the selector which brings the tooth together.
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If frisking lambs have ever been described in music, it's from 3:24 to 3:39 here:
This is Milhaud's Concertino de printemps for violin and chamber orchestra, opus 135, 1934. A year of poor health. It isn't Groupe des Six superficiality, but a little masterpiece of French pastoralism. The violin "is […] like a butterfly among flowers that finally disappears in a ray of sunlight" (Paul Collaer).
Milhaud recorded it three times as conductor. The first time with Yvonne Astruc, the dedicatee, and an unnamed orchestra in 1935, the second time with Louis Kaufman and the Orchestre national de la Radiodiffusion française in 1949, the third time with Szymon Goldberg and the Ensemble des Solistes des Concerts Lamoureux in 1958. This is the Kaufman. You can hear the Astruc here and the Goldberg here.
Milhaud wrote many pieces with spring in the title. Aside from the concertino:
Le printemps, violin and piano, opus 18, 1914. I linked to an old recording of this here. It found its way, in orchestral garb, into his incidental music for chorus and orchestra for Claudel's Protée, opus 17, 1913-19, or at least into the symphonic suite made from it (opus 57, 1919, which in a way is his Sacre du printemps).
Printemps, piano, Book I, opus 25, 1915-19. The first of two cahiers of short pieces. They are rarely performed or recorded. The best recording is with Christian Ivaldi on the fine old EMI record of music by Milhaud for one, two and four pianos.
The third string quartet, opus 32, 1916 is subtitled En souvenir du printemps 1914 (post here). It was written in memory of his friend from his youth in Provence Léo Latil, who died on the front in 1915. "We never wearied of walking along between the fields of wheat, blue-green in spring, bordered with almond trees in bloom, dwarf oaks, and pines, through exquisite landscapes, some of which, like the Château de l'Horloge, evoked historical memories: according to Chateaubriand, it was in this solid, roomy farmhouse that Napoleon spent the night on his return from Elba. Sometimes we went as far as Malvalat, the Latils' estate near Granettes, a village that took its name from the painter Granet, who lived there […]." (Notes sans musique)
Symphonie de chambre no 1, Le printemps, opus 43, 1917. This is the first of six very short, radically un-teutonic, chamber symphonies which Milhaud composed between 1917 and 1923.
Printemps, piano, Book II, opus 66, 1919-20
Jeux de printemps, orchestra, opus 243, 1944; also a ballet. This has never, as far as I know, been recorded.
Printemps lointain, voice and piano, words by Francis Jammes (post here), opus 253, 1945. I don't know this either.
There's a Chanson du printemps in Chansons de Madame Bovary, opus 128d, 1933. There may be more individual songs. There are many spring-like movements in his symphonic and chamber works.
In the early '50s, he gave way to the temptation to compose three more concertini to create a Quatre saisons:
Concertino d'automne for two pianos and eight instruments, opus 309, 1951
Concertino d'été for viola and chamber orchestra, opus 311, 1951
Concertino d'hiver for trombone and string orchestra, opus 327, 1953.
If they had been as good as the first, this Four Seasons would be as popular as Vivaldi's. The Concertino de printemps shows what a marvellous composer Milhaud could be. The others have their moments, but show him on more workaday form. Trombonists like the last one.
I remember buying this LP in FNAC in Paris circa 1983.


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Culp, David T. Endowed Fund
Mr. Culp was chairman of UA's Major Events Committee (part of the University's all-campus program board in the '70s) during his time on campus as an undergraduate student. He recalls with pride how he and his staff of fellow student volunteers presented major contemporary concert artists and, on many occasions, filled both Memorial Hall and E.J. Thomas Hall with 3,000 to 4,000 mostly commuter students. After earning his degree, he began his professional career as a social worker and supervisor with The Stark County Department of Job and Family Services. After retiring in 2006, he remained active, working part time at The Mustard Seed Market and Café and Akron's Community AIDS Network.
An avid runner and hiker, one of Mr. Culp's regular routes is from his home in Highland Square eastward through the campus of The University of Akron. He has watched his alma mater transform itself into a beautiful green metropolitan campus. This transformation has been a source of great satisfaction and inspiration for Mr. Culp. With that in mind, he established The David T. Culp Endowed Fund to be used at the discretion of the vice president for capital planning at The University of Akron. Annual income from the endowment is to be used for the area of greatest need as related to campus enhancement and beautification and to help sharpen its distinction from its non-campus surroundings.


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Meet the Team
SCRR staffs a phenomenal team dedicated to serving its members and the running community.
Jennifer began running in 2011 as a way to try to keep up with and stay healthy for her son with autism. She downloaded the Couch to 5k app to train for the Great Race and caught the running bug after that, joining SCRR in 2012. She has since completed one full marathon, 13 half marathons and countless other races. More recently, Jennifer has really enjoyed being a part of the SCRR Pace Team.
Jennifer loves that running has become a family affair. She regularly runs 5ks with her older son, while pushing her toddler in the jogging stroller. Her husband Mike, also a SCRR member, runs the Pittsburgh half every year, just for "fun."
When not running, Jennifer is the Communications Director at a local autism nonprofit and serves on the communications committee at her church. She enjoys cooking and dance parties with her two sons, and visiting local breweries with her husband.
Questions? Email her here
Elijah started running in 1999, not in high school or college, but in the Navy where he first gained a passion for running. Since then he has continued to train and race in distances ranging from one mile to marathons. Along the way he has made many friends and deepened his passion for the sport.
Elijah's background in the sport includes; leading marathon training groups, serving on the Board of Directors for a running club, directing an 8K race, and he even coached high school track and cross country.
In 2008, after being coached by a good friend for several years, Elijah began coaching himself as well as a few individuals training for specific goals.
What he loves most about running is that it can be a very personal experience and a group/team sport at the same time. Everyone is supportive of you no matter your ability and we can all achieve our goals at the same time regardless of where you are in the pack!
In late 2010, Perry went from not running at all to registering for a half marathon as a way to get in shape. Since completing that race, running has become a passion for Perry. He has run over 20 half and full marathons to date and plans on many more.
Running serves as way for him to stay active, but also as a way to meet others along the way. This has been especially true since joining the Steel City Road Runners in September, 2011.
Perry became an RRCA certified coach in June 2015 as a way to help others along their running journey.
In addition to running, Perry also enjoys incorporating CrossFit, mobility and cycling into his training.
Brittany slipped into her first cross country uniform in fifth grade. Her love for running only continues to grow. After competing in high school, she took a year off before competing in Division III athletics. She was a member of the first cross country team at Chatham University where she also served as the sports information assistant as a graduate student.
At Chatham, Brittany learned that running is just as much about the community, as it is fitness and personal goals. It's with Steel City Road Runners that Brittany truly developed a passion for distance running. She even met many of her close friends during long runs! Her primary distance is half marathons, but she completed her first full marathon in October 2014 in Niagara Falls.
After dealing with the effects of environmental stress, Brittany has put a strong focus on her overall health by practicing a clean diet and increasing her strength and conditioning. She works with a personal trainer at SHAPE and has a "non-running" goal of completing 100 pushes and 10 pull-ups.
As a coach, Brittany wants to help runners of all levels achieve their goals anywhere from racing to improving diet and general fitness. Running and physical health are gateways to many different things in life. Brittany wants to help her runners make note of these small joys as they work towards and accomplish their goals.
Brittany interns in the athletic department at Carnegie Mellon University and covers high school track and field, and cross country for the Post-Gazette.
Her other interests include hot yoga and baking. Her favorite running book is "Running with the Buffaloes," by Chris Lear.
Betsy Magovern - Coach
Betsy began running for fun and exercise while in college 42 years ago. She has run more 5k and 10k races than she can remember. She began her longer distance running career in 1999 at the Montour Trail 1/2 Marathon and has run many half marathons since. She ran her first full marathon in Pittsburgh in 2000, and to date has completed 20 with a few more on the horizon.
She joined SCRR in spring 2013 hoping to find friends who shared her passion for the sport. She certainly did find them! She began pacing SCRR training runs for the Pittsburgh Marathon in January 2015 and local races after that. Pacing and coaching other runners to help them meet their goals are two of her favorite reasons to run. She received her RRCA coaching certification in June 2015, and is a coach on the SCRR Leadership Team. She has coached the P3R North Hills kids summer running camp for three years and will do so again this summer.
Other interests include skiing, golf, tennis, travel, cooking and entertaining at home with family and friends. Betsy has four children: Paul, 37, Megan, 34, Charlie, 28, Molly, 24, and a daughter-in-law, Dora, 35, all of whom enjoy running. Also, granddaughter, Marin, 5, who has already shown a love for running with her Nana, as well as new grandson James who is 1 1/2!
Victor Siclari - Coach
Victor used the Galloway program to get back into running in 2012 after a decade of back issues and a desire to do something longer than a 10K. He wanted a healthier existence, a way to manage stress, and to experience the excitement his wife did in completing several Pittsburgh full and half marathons.
He attended an SCRR orientation meeting in October 2012, listened to a presentation about the Galloway run/walk/run training program and joined on the spot. Anxious to begin, he signed up for the Galloway full marathon training because it was kicking off three months before the half marathon training. By mid-November, every long run became a new PR. By religiously attending training runs on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, he completed his first marathon in May 2013 at the young age of 51, proving you can teach an old dog new tricks if you have the right training program. He has since completed 3 fulls in Pittsburgh (2014, 2015, and 2017-- had his first bad running day in 2016 so wisely detoured at the Birmingham Bridge to enjoy the post-race activities in half the time), his first half in Baltimore in October 2015, the Gasparilla Michelob Ultra Challenge in 2016 (4 races in 2 days: 15K, 5K, half marathon and 8K for 30.4 miles), and PA Ragnar in 2017 (200+ mile relay in 36 hours). He also enjoys helping others succeed by pacing races ranging from 5Ks to the EQT 10 miler.
Victor loves the "universa-utility" of the Galloway program with its application to beginners, intermediates and elites to increase distance and performance with lower risk of injury and better post-run recovery. He and Danielle have co-coached the Galloway full and half training program since 2014; during that time, program membership has quadrupled (>100 participants), and the EQT 10 miler training program was added in 2017. However, the program wouldn't be where it is today without its participants' promotion to others and the support provided by the pace group mentors that help "run" the program.
Danielle Yeager - Coach
Danielle is a coach for the Steel City Road Runners Galloway program. Danielle started running after completing her MBA. She decided to run her first marathon last May after attending a Jeff Galloway seminar. As a certified RRCA and USATF coach, she's excited to share her coaching and Galloway program knowledge with runners in the Pittsburgh area. Outside of running, Danielle is a volunteer and advocate for Animal Friends.
Daniel Heckert - Coach
Daniel has been running for years, though his initial running wasn't for the love of the sport. As a former high school and collegiate wrestler, running was done as weight control. While in high school, Daniel ran with the York Road Runners and competed in their Winter Series Races numerous times. Little did he know that he was laying the groundwork for a new passion later in life. Due to some injuries from wrestling, he got away from running until the marathon came back to Pittsburgh. The energy around the running community sparked a new fire in him and gave him a way to "compete" in a post collegiate world.
Daniel ended up joining the Steel City Road Runners in its very first year. This soon became more than a bunch of runners, they became family. Some of his closest friends are people he met through SCRR. He loves that regardless of speed or distance, members of SCRR bond together over the common goal of running. Daniel is also very active with the SCRR Pace Team and enjoys that he can help out runners in reaching their goal during race day.
His journey through running started with the 5k and the marathon relay. However, crossing the finish line with the full marathoners while doing the relay sparked Daniel to want to experience the "pain and glory" of running longer. He soon transitioned to running 10k's and half marathons. Daniel also became a RRCA Certified Coach in 2016. He wanted to better understand his training as well as give back to the running community. In 2017 Daniel ran his first full marathon, however that may be his only one as he enjoys the shorter distances. His favorite race is actually the Liberty Mile because the six minutes of all-out running reminds him of the feeling he had during a wrestling match (also typically around 6-7 minutes).
Daniel has been married to his wife Elisa (fellow SCRR Member) since 2004. Daniel has also been coaching high school wrestling since 2004. He spent 11 years at Pittsburgh Central Catholic before moving to his current position with North Allegheny. When not running, Daniel enjoys golfing, hunting, fishing and working on their "small" garden..
Sara Angelilli - Coach
Sara started running in 2013 after finally caving in to the Heckert's. It took them three years to convince her that she could run three miles. After running that first race, it was all over. She was immediately captivated by the energy of race day morning and the enthusiasm of the runners. She quickly progressed from 5k to marathon in that first year while learning many lessons the hard way. Since then, she takes a smarter approach to training to keep balance and minimize injury risk.
During that first year, she became an active part of the Steel City community through the group runs. Being a shy person it was nice to have a welcoming and supportive group to push you with your training goals. Later on, she became more involved as a pacer for training runs/races and filled in for the occasional track Tuesday.
Over the years, her love for running continued to grow and she became a RRCA certified coach in 2017. Obtaining that certification has afforded her the opportunity to take on personal coaching clients. Coaching runners has truly become a passion. She enjoys helping them to refine goals, push their limits and achieve their personal bests. This passion has led to her most recent certification as a personal trainer. Sara believes that running and strength training should go hand in hand.
When Sara isn't running or training with her husband Aaron, she is working as a nurse educator. She also plans to continue her training related education with additional specializations. She is really excited to continue to give back to the running community and is looking forward to connecting new runners to this network to ensure that they also feel like they belong.
Jason Pergola - Coach
Jason started running in 2012 to become healthier. Running was always something that he despised doing and never thought that it would become something that he enjoyed. When starting out running he started with a couch to 5K program. This seemed like the best way to start out, especially for someone who really did not like running in the first place. It was not until 2013 that he got up the courage to run a 5K. His first 5K was the Burgh's Pizza 5K, now called the National Tunnel 5K in Cecil.
In 2014, Jason decided it was time to challenge himself as he started running longer distances by signing up for his first ever half marathon in Pittsburgh. That fall while picking up his packet for the EQT 10 miler is when he became introduced to SCRR on first signed up. Even though he signed up at EQT it was not until January of 2015 that he attended his first SCRR group run while training for his first full marathon. Running with Steel City while training for the 2015 marathon is what really made running something that has become a passion for Jason.
Since then Jason has run 6 marathons and numerous other races of varying distances in between. His favorite race to date is the 2017 New York Marathon which he managed to break his personal best marathon time which held since his first in 2015. One thing that Jason enjoys with running is helping others accomplish their goals through pacing. During the spring of 2018 Jason got the opportunity to pace his first big race at the Cleveland Half Marathon.
Jocelyn Johnston - Coach
Jocelyn is a native of Brookville, PA, who finally lives in Pittsburgh after years of commuting to SCRR runs from Freeport. Jocelyn has been a runner for over twenty years. She is an RRCA certified coach and has been a member of SCRR since 2015. She can often be found leading the 8:30 pace group on Saturday long runs, and paces local races with the SCRR pace team. Her Pittsburgh Marathon Sunday has involved running a leg of the relay and dashing off to church to preach.
She first qualified for the Boston marathon in the fall of 2016, but missed the cut by four stinking seconds. She has since qualified two more times, and is super looking forward to running the Boston Marathon in 2019. In addition to running, Jocelyn has biked the entirety of the Great Allegheny Passage and C&O Canal trails from Pittsburgh to DC.
She is a diehard Pittsburgh sports fan with a commensurate woman cave. She has also heralded herself with the moniker, "IPA Queen", as she is a lover of craft beer, and especially hoppy IPAs. Jocelyn is excited to help runners develop training plans and achieve their running goals.
Rachel started running in 2006 when a friend asked if she wanted to train for the Philadelphia half marathon together. Having grown up playing soccer, Rachel was tentative about jumping right into running with a half marathon, however she was instantly hooked.
Since the Philadelphia Half Marathon she has run 18 half marathons and does not plan to stop any time soon. Her favorite half marathon to date is the Tobacco Road Half Marathon in Cary, NC. Rachel has also run three marathons and even tried a triathlon last summer.
Her favorite running experience though has been participating in the Girls on The Run 5K program with her niece the past two years. Hearing her niece say she wants running shoes just like hers was music to her ears.
Rachel loves participating in races and will try her hardest to get others to sign up with her. Be careful of her Jedi mind tricks, you might just find yourself signing up for a new race!
Shelly McGonigal - Ambassador
Shelly has been a Steel City Road Runner member since the inception of the club and has enjoyed every single step. Since her involvement, Shelly has made her way into pace groups at various races throughout the year. Shelly enjoys the camaraderie and relationships that she creates on the training runs and through the pace groups.
In the community, Shelly enjoys volunteering at her local parish, St. Teresa of Avila and participating in community events through her employer, Allegheny Health Network. In her daily job at Allegheny Health Network, Shelly serves as the Director of Safety and Quality.
As an ambassador, Shelly looks forward to being instrumental in organizing group events such as: yoga and strength training workshops, good form running classes and running nutrition.
Jenn Cicchini - Ambassador
Jenn started walking 5Ks in 2012, and she soon decided to try to run them, even if shecouldn't run the whole thing, and quickly got hooked. She signed up for the SCRR Campus Challenge in 2013, and timidly went by herself. She met a lot of great, welcoming people there and decided this was something she wanted to stick with and a group she wanted to be a part of, so she joined SCRR! After a couple of injuries while training for a half marathon, she wasn't ready to give up, so she joined the Galloway group and has been both a member or a mentor ever since. She's now completed 7 marathons and numerous half marathons using the run/walk/run method. Jenn also enjoys being a member of the Pace Team, along with her hubby Jeff, to hopefully help others reach their race goals.
Jenn works as a teacher in the Monessen City School District where, along with a fellow SCRR member, they are excited to be organizing their first year in the Kids Of Steel program!
Jeff Cicchini - Ambassador
Jeff found his love for running in high school and college as a sprinter on the track team.After college, he thought his running days were over. In 2013, his wife, Jenn, had joined the Galloway program in hopes of completing a half marathon. Jeff spent many Saturday mornings waiting in the car and watching all of the runners during the group runs. He finally decided to try to run a mile to see how it would go. It was rough! But the love of running was back and finally Jeff decided to leave the warm car and try a group run. He was hooked! He soon wanted to try a longer distance and joined the Galloway program to train. He has since completed two full marathons, many half marathons and other distances.
Jeff loves SCRR because of the support and encouragement of all of the members. Regardless of pace or distance levels, we are all one big happy running family! Jeff also enjoys being on the Pace Team to help others to reach their race goals.
Aside from running, Jeff also plays golf and shoots pool. Future goals include completing a beer mile!
Sylvia Gilbert - Ambassador
Sylvia started running regularly in the fall of 2014 after a friend suggested a half marathon in Puerto Rico the day they left on a cruise. Since then she has run two more halfs and the Pittsburgh full in 2016. She runs so she can drink more of her husband's margaritas! Her other interests are biking, scuba diving and raising chickens. She and her husband Brian have been married since 1993 and they have two teenage sons, so be careful out there on the roads. ;)
Nancy Tullar – Ambassador
Nancy has been a member of SCRR since 2013 and a Galloway mentor since the 2014-2015 training season. She is currently co-administrator of the P3R Galloway Training FB page. She joined SCRR at the 2013 Marathon expo, because of that big selling point – the food tent at the finish line. She soon learned how friendly and supportive everyone is and how easy it is to develop relationships with runners of different abilities – from beginners to BQ-ers,
On non-running days, Nancy enjoys cycling, swimming and walking. She stays active to counter balance her love for food and local craft beers.
In addition to her SCRR involvement, Nancy is a 'Girls on the Run' coach in her school district. When not training, she does volunteer work at her church. As a member of BMWCCA, she volunteers annually at the Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix in Schenley Park. On 'rest days', she and her husband 'Bear' may be seen sampling a new beer at one of Pittsburgh's craft breweries, or she may be attending one of her niece or nephew's school activities.
Being a 'back of the packer' herself, Nancy has a soft spot for newer/slower/older runners. She gets great satisfaction in helping them gain distance and confidence with each training run. (Many of the new Galloway runners have never run more than a 5K. During the early stages of training, some find running 5 miles to be daunting. Fast forward to the last training run, she usually hears someone say, "We only have 7 miles to run".) With the continuing growth of the Galloway program, Nancy hopes to help more people cross the finish line for the first time
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Junior Kerrianne Dugan and freshman Brooke Bailey each tallied 12 points, but Central Connecticut State University fell to Rhode Island by a score of 64-52 at home on Wednesday night. It was Dugan's third double digit scoring performance of the season, while Bailey reached double figures for the first time in her young career at Central. CCSU falls to 2-4 on the season while the Rams improve to 3-4 overall.
Rhode Island went on a 10-2 run near the end of the first half to open up a 31-21 lead with 36 seconds remaining. The lead was enough to hold off the Blue Devils for the rest of the game as the Rams led the entire second half. CCSU made things interesting in the final moments of the opening frame, starting with a jumper in the paint by Bailey with eight seconds to go. Sophomore Shontice Simmons then stole a Rhode Island pass and threw it off of a Ram player to gain possesion with three seconds remaining. Simmons then found Bailey for a layup off of the inbounds play to cut the deficit to 31-25 at the half.
Bailey led with six points at the half, while senior P.J. Wade recorded five. Junior Leanne Crockett had eight rebounds in the first half of play. URI got out to the first half lead on 46.4 percent shooting from the field, while the Blue Devils were held to just 32.4 percent shooting and were one for eight from three point land.
CCSU picked up on the defensive side of the ball to start the second half, recording six steals in the first four minutes. Sophomore Alexzandria Dowdy tallied three, Crockett picked up two and Dugan grabbed one during the stretch. The Blue Devils' defense did not convert itself into offense, as CCSU outscored the Rams by a mark of 2-0 during the four minute span.
A three point basket by Rhode Island's Megan Shoniker with the shot clock running down gave the Rams a 54-44 lead with 3:33 remaining in the game and put it out of contention. CCSU did not get closer than seven points the rest of the way, as URI hit free throws down the stretch to come away with the 64-52 victory.
Dugan and Bailey led Central with 12 points a piece. The former added six rebounds, four assists and three steals, while the latter recorded five rebounds in the defeat. Crockett finished with a game high 13 rebounds, which gives the forward five double digit rebound performances in CCSU's six games this season. Dowdy ended with a game high five steals for the Blue Devils. It tied the sophomore's career mark in the category.
Rhode Island was led by Shoniker's 22 points, while three other Rams chipped in with 10. Freshmen Ashley Rivera and Anisha Wilson, as well as senior Andrea Buck each reached double figures in the victory. Buck and senior Lindsay Harris led URI with eight boards a piece.
CCSU, now 2-4 on the season, will next travel to Long Island for the first Northeast Conference contest of the year. The tip off is set for 2:00 p.m. in Brooklyn, NY.
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JUNE 4, 2018 - VOL. 54 No. 8
Chair's Column
New Members
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Our members do more than follow the news. They make the news.
Job promotions and hirings. New projects. New partnerships. Awards. Every day we hear about exciting accomplishments, historic milestones and other positive aspects of our member businesses that deserve to be shared. Faces & Places is great way to use your membership to be seen. This column appears each month in Chamber News and features information about Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce members and volunteers. Submissions may include grand openings, changes in management, moves, expansions, major developments and award recognition.
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Corey Weide, Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC-Corey Weide; Lyle Dabbert, Brown & Saenger; Dean Karsky, Farmers Insurance Group/Karsky Agency; Jessica Kerher, Serendipitous Events; Amy O'Connor-Hoback, Kleenrite Company and Ryan Konz, Service First Federal Credit Union were the Ambassador Team of the Year. Lynda Billars, The Lynda B. Advantage/the real estate company was Ambassador of the Year.
Karen Noonan, Carriernet Group Financial, Inc., was awarded Diplomat of the Month and the Reinvestment Award honors for September. Second place honors and the Ribbon Cutting Award went to Daren Anderson, Big D Technology Solutions/Big D Online Solutions, and third place honors went to Tammy Beintema, Sioux Falls Business Magazine. David Johnson, DAKOTACARE, was the recipient of the Retention Award. The Diplomat Team of the Month for September was: Captain David Johnson, DAKOTACARE, Karen Noonan, Carriernet Group Financial, Inc., Deb Peterson, CorTrust Bank, Kristina Wolfe, Travel Leaders/Village Travel, and Mike Larson, Swenson Investments & Commodities.
Jack Dyvig, Sioux Falls Morning Optimists Club, was recognized as the 2012 Diplomat of the Year. Dyvig has been a member of the Diplomat Committee since 2004 and chaired the committee in 2010-11. The Diplomat Committee is the servicing arm of the Chamber and sponsors many events, such as the monthly Membership Mixers and Operation Thank You.
Four volunteer directors were recognized for their service to the Chamber's Board of Directors at the 106th Annual Meeting: Michael Bender, Bender Commercial Real Estate Services, and Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Directors; Doug Berkland, Sayre & Associates; Brian Jans, Jans Company; and Chrissy Meyer, American Heart Association.
The Chamber annually honors an individual who has achieved professional distinction and made significant community service contributions both locally and statewide. It is named in honor of long-time volunteer Bernie DeWald. To be considered, a person must be a Chamber member, assist the Chamber in reaching its goals, be involved in other community, professional or charitable organizations; and present a positive attitude and professional image on behalf of the Sioux Falls Area Chamber of Commerce. The 2012 recipient is Rod Carlson, Sanford Health.
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Marco recently hired Richard Petty and Aaron Unruh as Copier Service Technicians.
Candlewood Suites is now open and welcomed Kayla Dannenbrig as the General Manager. Deb Boen also joined Candlewood Suites as the Sales Director. Boen has over 15 years experience in hospitality sales.
Bell Incorporated, hired two new sales executives. Patrice Calmels is vice president of sales. Calmels brings more than 15 years of domestic and international packaging experience to his new role at Bell. He holds a bachelor's degree in Pulp and Paper Technologies from the University of Grenoble, France, and a master's degree in Forest Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Michael Milosch is the new Midwest regional sales manager. Milosch, who has a bachelor's degree in technical packaging, will work at Bell's Chicago offices.
Keith Williams joined Farm Bureau Financial Services as an agent. Williams received his bachelor's degree from the University of Sioux Falls and has more than seven years financial services experience.
Jeri Breck was elected to the Board of Directors at RSArchitects. Breck has been with the company for 19 years and is in charge of business development. Brooke Bennett joined the design team, providing support in the interior design department.
Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP hired three new attorneys and a marketing professional. Mark Krogstad is an Associate Attorney and will work in the areas of taxation, estate planning and business succession planning, probate, trust administration, employee benefits, and business law. Robb Schlimgen is an Associate Attorney and will work in the areas of tax, employee benefit and banking/financial institution law. Kyle Groteluschen is as an Associate Attorney and will work in the areas of corporate and business law, real estate, and trademark and copyright protection. Kristen Townsend is the new Marketing Director. Townsend previously worked for Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center as Regional Marketing Specialist.
Henry Carlson Co. promoted three employees. Pam Cox was promoted to Controller from Assistant to the Project Management team. Sue Harms was promoted to Director of Finance. Harms was initially employed by Henry Carlson Company in 2004 and had been serving as the Controller. She previously worked as a Retirement Plan Officer at First PREMIER Bank and as a Certified Public Accountant at Eide Bailly, LLP. Eric Bender was promoted to Director of Field Operations. Bender has been with the company for 15 years and previously worked as a Superintendent.
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Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP received top rankings in 12 practice areas of the 2013 Metropolitan "Best Law Firms" issued by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers, a comprehensive survey of America's top law firms. In addition to Davenport Evans' top Tier 1 rankings, the law firm received Tier 2 rankings in five practice areas, and Tier 3 in one. Tier rankings are given to firms rated as distinguished in the market.
Howie Long, Sheehan Mack Sales & Equipment, placed fourth at the North America presentation and sales competition. The competition included 400 dealers and more than 1,400 salespeople. Long was judged on presentation ability, technical information, sales skills, familiarity of Mack pedigree uptime components, business solutions, and overall product knowledge of Mack trucks.
Ryan Reiner was named one of the Top 100 New Agents for State Farm. This prestigious award recognizes the top 100 new agents out of more than 1,300 new agents across the nation. Reiner and his team opened their agency January 2012.
The Sioux Empire Society for Human Resource Management (SESHRM) sponsors the annual Workplace Excellence Awards to acknowledge those companies that have made significant strides in employee practices to establish a highly desirable work environment and to recognize them for their leadership, culture and best practices. The winner of the Small Category (1-100 employees) was Interstates Control Systems; the winner of the Medium Category (101-500 employees) was Children's Care Hospital & School; and the winner of the Large Category (501-plus employees) was Sammons Financial Group/Midland National Life Insurance.
The Family Visitation Center elected the following individuals to the 2012-13 Board of Directors: President Anthony Hohn, Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith, LLP; Vice-President Marilyn Korsten, Gunderson's Jewelers; Secretary/Treasurer: Nancy Kunz, First PREMIER Bank; and directors: Todd Benda, P&M Steel; Jeannie Blackman, Egger Steel; Jennie Doyen, South Dakota Public Universities & Research Center; Audra Eide, community volunteer; Helen Henkin, Edith Sanford Breast Cancer Foundation; Toni McEntee, Sanford Health; Michele Munson, Woods, Fuller, Shultz & Smith P.C.; Casey Murschel, community volunteer; Connie Mutchler, LodgeNet Interactive Corp; Cindy Ober, Citi; Thomas Otten, Avera McKennan Behavioral Health Center; and Ann Randall, community volunteer.
The Evangelical Lutheran Good Samaritan Society received a bronze "Quality Through Technology" honor for their LivingWell@Home program in the first annual McKnight's Excellence In Technology Awards. The LivingWell@Home program has been conducting research since June 2010 to study the effects of combining sensor technology, telehealth, personal emergency response systems and central data monitoring as a proactive approach to healthcare for seniors.
Ryan Hembree, Executive Chef at Trail Ridge Senior Living, was certified by the American Culinary Federation, one of approximately 3,000 Certified Executive Chefs in the world.
Avera Heart Hospital of South Dakota was named one of the nation's 50 Top Cardiovascular Hospitals by Truven Health Analytics. This is the sixth year that Avera Heart Hospital has been recognized with this honor.
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The Obituary Writer of Ann Hood's title is Vivien Lowe, who offers clients with imagination an extraordinary gift. The occasional bereaved person might turn away in disappointment because this writer cares little about date of birth, age, occupation or even manner of death — basics deemed important by conventional chroniclers of lost lives. She works from the theory that mere "facts — "degrees and numbers and jobs and affiliations — were not what made a life," and she's right.
She gets to the essence, digging like any good reporter to unearth the unique qualities of each person and bringing joy to survivors. She has a loyal, one might say "cult," following when Hood introduces her in California in 1919 as one of two main characters living for the most part in different eras, but forming the backbone of The Obituary Writer.
Miss Lowe lives and writes in Napa, helping others and seeking solace for her own grief from the presumed loss of her lover, David Gardner, in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. The search for David is the other touchstone of her life.
She asks potential clients to describe the deceased and writes, for example, that Frank raised songbirds and could imitate every chirp and call. This man paid attention to the glorious minutiae of nature. Sometimes his wife thought he cared more for his birds than for her, but then she would soften as she talked to Miss Lowe about his gentleness in nursing her through consumption. She always chooses a few lines of poetry, in Frank's case from William Blake's "The Birds." "Dost thou truly long for me? And am I thus sweet to thee?"
Miss Lowe comforts a husband drowning in grief over the death of his wife, Gyöngyi (Pearl), an immigrant from Austria-Hungary who sold her pastries in the street. She describes "the flakiness of her crusts, the smoothness of her creams, how she perfectly balanced fruit and nuts and sugar in her strudels." For her, she picks Keats: "Asleep! O sleep a little while, white pearl."
Before we meet Miss Lowe, Hood introduces us to the other protagonist, Claire, married to Peter, with a young daughter Kathy, and living in 1960 in the Virginia suburbs near Washington, D.C. Men leave green and leafy neighbourhoods to work in the U.S. capital, while wives stay at home spraying cheese on Ritz crackers. When Claire tells her husband she really believes in John F. Kennedy, he replies he thought she only volunteered for political campaigns out of boredom. It's the era of Mad Men where women listen to heady (if hyped) accounts of office polititicking from their husband and gossip — the calm before the coming storm of change.
Hood's first sentence is intoxicating: "If Claire had to look back and decide why she had the affair in the first place, she would point to the missing boy." We know immediately that loss plays a significant role in Claire's life, as it does in Miss Lowe's. So do love and forbidden love and, of course, the connection between these two women. Hood tells a subtle story with tantalizing surprises.
A prize-winning author, she writes literary fiction, rare enough these days. It's a slim, sparely told book, with action verbs and adherence to the motto, "show, don't tell" — a talent fading faster among writers than polar bears on ice floes. Hood offers clues to the mysteries of the human heart, an area where I at least need all the help I can get.
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We've all seen the television shows one by one start to 'go dark' as they run out of episodes during the writers' strike. Some of my favorite shows are already into reruns or off the air all together. Even with American Idol back and Lost starting up again tonight, it's leaving me with either a lot of extra time in the evenings - or a much smaller load of guilt since I'm no longer watching tv instead of doing other things that I should be doing (like oh, housework, dishes, laundry). And oh yes, it's left me more time for blogging and blog-reading! :)
I actually am enjoying not being beholden to the television in the evenings - I can watch it if I want to (there's a still a few shows on our DVR that I need to watch, or new episodes of some of my favorite cable network shows), but I don't feel like I have to. It's made me realize a couple of things - first that I watch way too much television, and second that if I actually turn off the television, I have more energy and interest in doing other things than I thought I would.
Here are my favorite shows that have already 'gone dark':
- Criminal Minds
- CSI: Miami
- Grey's Anatomy
- Heroes
- Law & Order: SVU
- Numb3rs
- Private Practice
- Without a Trace
And since that's only 10, here are 3 more popular shows that I don't watch but which also have run out of episodes - this isn't the entire list, but you can see the full list of which shows do and don't have episodes left at TV Gui*e.
- 30 Rock
- Desperate Housewives
- The Office
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The purpose of the meme is to get to know everyone who participates a little bit better every Thursday. Visiting fellow Thirteeners is encouraged! If you participate, leave the link to your Thirteen in others comments. It's easy, and fun! Trackbacks, pings, comment links accepted!
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- Oral presentation
- Open Access
Design of an HIV Env antigen that binds with high affinity to antibodies against linear, conformational and broadly neutralizing epitopes within V1/V2
- L Liao1,
- M Bonsignori1,
- K Hwang1,
- AM Moody1,
- R Park1,
- S Crawford1,
- H Chen1,
- TL Jeffries1,
- M Cooper1,
- X Lu1,
- R De1,
- N Karasavvas2,
- S Rerks-Ngarm3,
- S Nitayaphan4,
- J Kaewkungwal5,
- S Tovanabutra2,
- P Pitisuttithum6,
- J Tartaglia7,
- F Sinangil8,
- J Kim2,
- NL Michael2,
- GD Tomaras1,
- Z Yang9,
- K Dai9,
- M Pancera9,
- GJ Nabel9,
- JR Mascola9,
- PD Kwong9,
- A Pinter10,
- S Zolla-Pazner11,
- MS Alam1 and
- BF Haynes1
© Liao et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012
- Published: 13 September 2012
- Surface Plasmon Resonance
- 293F Cell
- Conformational Determinant
- Immune Correlate
- Nickel Column
The RV144 HIV-1 vaccine trial showed protection from HIV-1 acquisition with vaccine efficacy of 31.2%. Study of the immune correlates demonstrated an inverse association of V1/V2 antibodies with infection risk. A key task for HIV-1 vaccine development is to improve the level of efficacy seen in the RV144 trial with subsequent vaccine designs.
E.A244 V1/V2 Env tags contains an N-terminal Ig leader sequence and C-terminal Avi- and His6-tags linked to the V1/V2 domain, was expressed in 293F cells and purified by nickel column. Binding of Tier 1 neutralizing mAb CH58 from RV144 vaccinees, V2 conformational mAb 697D and broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAb) CH01 and PG9/PG16 to 33 HIV-1 gp140/gp120s and 12 HIV-1 V1/V2 scaffold Envs was tested by ELISA and surface plasmon resonance.
Among 45 HIV-1/SIV Envs tested, E.A244 V1/V2 tags and E.A244 gp120Δ11 Env were the only Env antigens recognized by all three types of mAbs: CH58, 697D, and bnAbs CH01, and PG9/PG16. E.A244 V1/V2 tag bound CH58 with a Kd of 0.33 nM and 697D with a Kd of 117 nM. Although PG9 preferentially recognizes trimers, PG9 bound well to both E.A244 gp120Δ11 (Kd = 47.3) and E.A244 V1/V2 tags (Kd = 83.3 nM). BnAb CH01 bound V1/V2 tags as well (Kd = 334 nM). E.A244 V1/V2 Env tags was also recognized by the unmutated ancestor antibodies (UAs) of CH58 with ELISA EC50 = 4.9 nM and CH01 with EC50 = ~1μM. E.A244 V1/V2 tags and AE.gp70 V1/V2 scaffold were the best recombinant Envs for detection of plasma V1/V2 antibodies in RV144 vaccinees.
Recombinant E.A244 V1/V2 Env tags Env expresses linear as well as conformational determinants recognized by V1/V2 mAbs and some of their UAs. This V1/V2 construct is a candidate immunogen to target RUAs and intermediate ancestors of V1/V2 antibodies to drive their induction.
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We describe a novel application that integrates real-world data on the face-to-face proximity of individuals with their identities and contacts in on-line social networks. This application was successfully deployed at two conference gatherings, ESWC09 and HT2009, and actively used by hundreds of people. Personal profiles of the participants were automatically generated using several Web 2.0 systems and semantic data sources, and integrated in real-time with face-to-face proximity relations detected using RFID-enabled badges. The integration of these heterogeneous data sources enables various services that enhance the experience of conference attendees, allowing them to explore their social neighbourhood and to connect with other participants. This paper describes the architecture of the application, the services we provided, and the results we achieved in these deployments.
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The FCA Mission
To present to coaches and athletes, and all whom they influence, the challenge and adventure of receiving Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, serving Him in their relationships and in the fellowship of the church.
Recent news reports that Boulder, Colorado is one of the least religious cities in the United States. Our goal, through Fellowship of Christian Athletes is to see the world impacted for Jesus Christ through the influence of coaches and athletes. We aim to build strong relationsips with our community and everyone thats supports our efforts in bringing the good news of the Lord into Boulder County. God bless, stay faithful and trust in the Lord.


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Mobile manufacturer Sony Ericsson is set to launch three handsets based on the latest Android operating system in the first six months of next year.
The PSP Phone, which has been the subject of much speculation over the past couple of months, is now going to be joined in early 2011 by two more smartphones, called the Hallon and Anzu, according to TechRadar.
Significantly, it appears that the Anzu will be a revamped iteration of the Xperia X10, rather than a brand new handset altogether and is likely to arrive with a 12 megapixel camera to rival that of the Nokia N8.
Reports suggest that the Anzu will feature a 4.3 inch display which will be the equal of the HTC HD2. The Hallon will also be a reimaging of an older mobile, this time the Vivaz, with the Symbian operating system ditched in favour of Android 2.3.
Although Sony Ericsson has not confirmed any dates for mobile launches in 2011, it looks likely that January will see the Xperia range growing with new additions intended. The Mobile World Congress event in February will surely be the venue for these handsets' full unveiling.