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Sol Mertz of Rose Creek Retreat continuously rehabilitates his property, hoping it can be an example to others as a new model of land restoration and conservation. Sol's vision is for long term, stewardship-led land management that steadily improves the land, while sharing it with campers. Rose Creek Retreat's location makes it one of the most captivating campsites in the Pacific Northwest. Perched above the Columbia River, campers are guaranteed to witness stunning sunrises, sunsets, and early morning mists. And if you're lucky, you might even be able to see bald eagles, sea lions, or river otters at the beach across the road.
From glampsites to indigenous lands, wineries to working farms, Sol Mertz is part of an emerging community of landowners and camp hosts who have generously opened their land to the next generation of campers. Dive in to learn more about Rose Creek Retreat, Sol's restoration efforts, and a peek at his camp in our interview below.
Hipcamp: Why did you decide to allow campers to stay on your land?
Sol Mertz: To share it and bring people out here. We want campers to enjoy it and that helps keep it going. It's a different business model, rather than it being a government funded and operated park. People come and experience it, and by paying to camp they're helping to keep it here. All these roses, we've planted thousands of trees, all of that costs money and then you have to maintain it.
That's not necessarily what inspired me to make it, but as far as hosting campers it's to share it with people. Coming from Portland, one thing that I like is that even if you're poor there's always a public rose garden where people can go. You can go up to the Gorge and it's free to walk the waterfalls. I've always been poor and I've gone to all those types of places. So having a place like this, I love it, and when there are no campers, we don't charge a day fee, and we share it with the community. When people come here they genuinely love it. I've had people in the Creekside Camp and they say, "This is paradise," in the summer when it's really warm and the suns trickling through just right. To know what this place looked like before when it was completely trashed, and then people coming to experience it restored, that's a good feeling because they love it. It's bringing life back to a place that's been abandoned and left to just rot.
Top photo by Sol Mertz
HC: You describe this area as a ghost town, how did you learn about this land?
SM: My boss bought the land. He was looking for a tractor online and down in the bottom of his browser he saw a picture for this land. He clicked on it and thought, "How is this not a park?" That was literally one of his first thoughts. He bought it and he was going to live out here but he had some health problems, and it's so remote he didn't feel like he could take care of himself the way he needed to. So I told him let's build it into this eco retreat and have people come out here and we'll just continuously restore it. We'll get agricultural products coming out of it, speciality products, and have visitors, that way we can keep it going, keep it preserved so that it just keeps improving. He started the company so that we could do that and we've been going ever since.
HC: What kind of activities can campers participate in at Rose Creek Retreat?
SM: A lot of it is just hanging out by the river here, enjoying the roses, and the scenery. It depends on what you're doing. In the Rose Gardens, it's mostly to be quiet and gather at the firepit, listen to the stream, watch the shorebirds and all the river life. Birding is going to be a big part of what we're anticipating happening. We have kayakers and a rafting company down the road. Astoria has all the restaurants, brew pubs, cannabis shops and art. Astoria has all the good food and if you're into good beer they've got a lot of breweries. Astoria is about 35–45 minutes from here. That's kind of the destination in part because it's close to Portland and people come from that way. There are some National Parks down there and you're pretty close to the ocean, too.
You can hang out by the rocks and watch the tide come in. I've seen river otters, herons, and sea lions. The sea lions come right up where the water is a little calmer off the channel and they'll fish around. It's pretty neat. People who are into photography come up and take pictures of eagles and trees. We also have biking, Pillar Rock Road is actually a designated bike route. It's such a cool road, during the summer it would be a great ride. You can go down to Grays Bay and walk out into the bay during low tide. If you want a sunset or birds, you have to camp at the Rose Garden. If you want to have a large group and be in the woods, you should take the Creekside Camp. If you want a private space, go up to the Orchid Gardens with the wickiup. Last year we had terrariums in there filled with orchids. It's totally over the top, that's why it's boutique camping. It's not just, "Well, here's a slab and the metal hot dog grill."
You can come out here and you're going to be the only person getting a picture of nine eagles fighting over a duck. Just coming here to have the experience of being in the forest. Now people pay for "forest bathing," literally just sitting in the woods. So yeah, you can put that down as an activity, forest bathing. Forest bathe all weekend in the orchid gardens.
Top and bottom photo by Mike Hoderman
HC: Can you talk more about the history of this property?
SM: Indigenous people lived here from who knows when. Before the decline of salmon, it was one of the most productive fishing grounds in the world. This was called the Miller Sands by Europeans, who came in starting around 1850. This wasn't even America at that point, but the traders came in and got the canneries going. That kept going until the 1930s and 1940s and they logged in the process. By that point, they were pretty well fished out and it just declined. I know people who have family that grew up here. When this was a town, there was a school, services and shops. Everything was by boat, and this was actually a stop between Astoria and Portland.
I gave this presentation about the Retreat and its history at the Marine Resource Committee Summit in Long Beach. This whole area had been trashed and clear cut. We also have a lot of geologic issues with fracturing because the hillside was blasted out, so now we have a big slide area. We're right in between two ghost towns, Altoona and Cottardi.
During the last big real estate boom here in 2005–2006, I was as an Environmental Consultant to banks, real estate developers, and nonprofits. I went in and looked at a piece of land to do a Phase 1, which is an initial environmental assessment. Part of that is going back and interpreting aerial photos that you get from the Army Corps. You have to special order these, you can't just get them off Google Earth. With that vocational background as a resource, I got all of these aerial photos when I started out here. Through that, I've been able to primarily reconstruct what was going on in the last several decades. In the 1930's it's just pretty much forested and you can see the towns here on the river. Like I said, there were no roads, so you got here, you got off the boat, and then you didn't leave until the boat came back. There were a lot of Finnish, Scandinavian, and Chinese immigrants. The Scandinavians ran the place alongside the migrant workers of the day. I've seen pictures of them where they're doing the fish processing. Altoona brand salmon was a big deal, people in San Francisco I'm sure ate canned Altoona salmon.
In the 1950s, industries came in and logged it and started building the logging road. After that they reforested in the 1970s and 1980s. Then, a guy came in from out of state and bought the property. He carved the land up and wanted to put a development up here. They put 12,000 cubic yards of material in the middle of our valley. That is hundreds and hundreds of truck loads coming up and down this road. The effect of that is the bowl started getting pushed down. Essentially, you have a lot of material sitting on top of a bowl of filled material, getting cut out at the bottom of the base.
So after years of destruction and neglect, this is what we decided to do: ecotourism, wildlife viewing and agroforestry. We never had owls, and then the owls started to come back. I've seen probably close to 10 bald eagles at one time. We have over 30 varieties of roses in here.
Top and bottom right photo by Mike Hoderman
HC: Was there a specific moment when you decided you needed to be the person to restore the natural landscape here?
SM: For a long time I was trying to advocate alternatives to psychiatry, and this was before ecopsychology was such a big deal. Even in the early 2000s, I was working with people who had mental health needs, to get them outdoors. I've also worked outdoors with at-risk youth. This method started with me, nature was therapy for my own struggles. A big part of why I came to Northwest in the 90s was to be in the woods and to find solitude and serenity. I worked and went to college, took internships and served in AmeriCorps to get training in environmental work. I became a geologist and also did mental health activism, promoting outdoor activities. When the recession hit, I lost my consulting job and I started to get into videos. I was making cable-access tv when my boss bought this place. When I came here I said "I could stay here forever, I don't want to leave this place." It was so quiet, when I'm not rambling, this place is just amazing. [laughs]
I wanted this to be a place for people to come where they could work and not be bothered. This is the kind of place where no one's going to hassle or gawk at you. Where you can come and be inspired. But also for people that don't necessarily feel comfortable in a mainstream campground. I've known a lot of people in the LGBTQ community over the years. Even in a liberal place like this there's a lot of queer people that don't necessarily feel comfortable being in a campground with a bunch of people who aren't used to being around different types of people. When you come here there's no issue at all, because I'm the one you're dealing with and I can't think of anybody that would be too far beyond for me. All people are welcome, but at the same time, it's also towards the side of alternative people. We want to be recognized as a place that is okay for people that don't want to be bothered or judged.
Top photo by Mike Hoderman
HC: Can you talk more about your efforts to utilize eco-recreation as a funding source for restoration?
SM: People come and they pay to camp and that means we can keep restoring it. We're not asking for a donation, we're giving you something. This isn't a charity, this is your place for how ever many days you pay. I've worked in the environmental field and I know the government model. For example, the Columbia Land Trust, they come in and buy all the old farm land and they push everybody out. What winds up happening is you have nobody to live out here, so you don't have leaders, a tax base, or people showing up to forums. In the other direction, you have people like us moving here and buying up these little properties and working the land in sustainable ways. We come together at places like the Grays River Grange and the Marine Resource Committee in Cathlamet to work on these issues. Wahkiakum has a goat farm, I know somebody up the road who has llamas, we've got speciality farmers on Puget Island that grow all kinds of speciality produce for high end restaurants in Portland. We're all part of that whole movement.
Too often outside eco-interests come in and they do a little bit of initial work when they buy land and then they just let it sit. I've worked for those types of people in the city before and they don't really care what happens to these places when they're depopulated. Whereas what we're trying to do is continuously improve and add to the land. When I worked for Metro in the early 2000s, they owned about 9,000 acres of land. They only had three people as park rangers. They don't have the resources. This kind of fixes that problem. You have somebody in the community who can be involved with community activities and you have somebody constantly working the land.
Rose Creek represents a third way, basically. Put in native edibles and turn a wetland into an agricultural area. This is something I'm trying to promote: agroforestry, huckleberry's, selective clearing to bring the health back, dense edibles for understory, and food for high end restaurants from wetland areas. Imagine if you had "Cascadian Sea Plantain" in San Francisco restaurants. What I want to have is the sea plantain and miner's lettuce salad special for the week. We're trying to advance our wetland edibles and agroforestry as an alternative to logging. This is fish friendly agriculture, which is huge in the Northwest. It's environmentally conscious forestry practices that we employ, and we want to spread this to as many people as we can. This place is a cause more than a business.
HC: When is the best time of year to visit Rose Creek Retreat?
SM: It absolutely depends on what you're looking for. If you want it to be completely quiet, and you love mists and sunsets of a certain variety, you should come in December. It's going to be cold, but you're going to see scenery that you don't normally see. If you really like hazy sunsets, July and August are good. The eagles come and go, I can never predict when they're going to be here. Springtime we have a lot of sea lions, so if you want to hang out by the river and watch them, spring is a great time to come. If you want to see roses, come in July. Anybody can email me and ask, and say this is what I'm looking for, whether a campsite recommendation, what animals might be here at a given time, or recommendations for a restaurant in Astoria. People can contact me and I'll give them the best information I can.
Top photo by Mike Hoderman, middle photo by Sol Mertz
HC: Have you found that you need a lot of spare time to host campers here?
SM: I'm definitely going to be here to at least greet people. If you're renting the Rose Garden I'm pretty much going to greet you, give you the run down, and split. You saw where my trailer is, so unless you text me, I'm no where around. I'm not going to come down here with a spotlight at 3 AM to see what you're doing. This is all about privacy and people feeling safe about being here.
Photos by Mike Hoderman
HC: Any advice or questions for fellow hosts?
SM: So far I haven't had any issues with anyone wrecking anything. Right now we only have one bathroom and this is our best parking. So, how do people deal with bathrooms for multiple campers?
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Being on the sideline sucks – everyone knows that. It's hard to figure out what cuts to make, what throws to try, etc. So, what can we do about it?
When talking about field position on the sideline, it is important that we all know what sideline we are talking about. There are two sides we can be on when the disc is on the sideline: the wide side or the trap side. The wide side is the sideline in which we have a wide open look toward the open side. We can also say that we are on the wide side when the disc is pushed all the way to the break side, but that takes too many words. The trap side is the sideline where the mark is trapping the disc on that sideline. We can also say we are on the trap side when the disc is pushed all the way to the open side but, again, too many words.
Regardless of the offensive formation we are running, it makes sense that being on the wide side would be more favorable, right? A wide open look at the field is much better than being stuck on the trap side between your mark and the sideline. However, the vertical stack sort of complicates both of these situations (Figure 1).
When we are on the wide side (right panel of Figure 1), the stack feels like it is cutting off long throws toward the open side and the defense usually recognizes this and shifts their positioning slightly to make even the (normally undefended) break side cuts less viable. When we are on the wide side and the mark goes more or less flat, they cut off our throwing lane so we have to try to squeeze those open side throws into a much smaller window. Throws to the open side of the stack are dangerous because the disc has to travel farther and is any pass is more likely to get blocked. So, dang, what do we do?
When we are on the trap side (left panel), we are in a similar situation, but for different reasons. Our open side throws are difficult because we don't have as much room to lead our cutters out to space for fear of throwing out of bounds, and they have little room to shake their defenders. The break side throws seem like a good option, right? However, when we are throwing around a mark, trying to place a 30-yard throw out to space over the stack is a difficult task. SO, WHAT CAN WE DO!?!?!?
We have a few different options: we can run a side stack to open up a ton of space in the middle of the field, but that leaves us only one side to cut to, or we can run set plays and hope the defense doesn't read them well, oooorrrrr we can run a slant!
The beauty of the slant is two-fold: it reorients the field so we have much more space to work it back toward the middle, and it almost always gives us an easy reset. This is because most teams do not practice this play, and when you don't practice something, it is hard to play perfect defense against it. We will go into the intricacies of the slant in a future post, but recognize that it can be run on either side of the field regardless of the force. When we run a slant, after we get it off the sideline, we should just return to a normal vertical stack offense.
Next post will be concerned with working the disc from the sideline in a horizontal stack. If you have any questions about the vertical stack or the slant, please put them in the comments below.
New terms used in this post:
flat – when the mark is oriented perpendicular to the sideline and forcing all throws toward the backfield.
slant – an angled stack with all six non-thrower players in a line.
trap side – when the disc is pushed all the way to the force side sideline.
wide side – when the disc is pushed all the way to the break side sideline.


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'Slow Food' celebrities break link to farmed salmon boycott
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Two prominent members of the Slow Food Ireland movement have distanced themselves from a call by environmental watchdog, Friends of the Irish Environment, to boycott farmed salmon, saying they had not been contacted in advance of the campaign.
Food journalist and publisher Sally McKenna of the Bridgstone Guide and Darina Allen, founder of the Ballymaloe Cookery School, told Inshore Ireland they did not support the pre-Christmas call to boycott smoked Irish farmed salmon.
A press release issued by Friends of the Irish Environment in the run-up to Christmas welcomed Slow Food International's opposition to intensive fish farming and its contention that open-net pen aquaculture was not a solution to over-fishing.
'In Ireland, Slow Food counts amongst its members Bridgestone's Sally McKenna and that icon of Irish sustainable food, Darina Allen. To have the support of these top names in Ireland in our campaign to bring about sustainable aquaculture is a real boost,' the FIE statement says.
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When asked by Inshore Ireland where they stood in relation to FIE's call, Sally McKenna and Darina Allen however said they had not been asked for permission to link them to the boycott, and that this paper's enquiry was the first they knew of the issue.
Sally McKenna added that while standing by Slow Food's contention that open-net aquaculture was not the solution to the problem of overfishing, she did not support the campaign by Friends of the Irish Environment to boycott farmed salmon.
"The Christmas season is a time of critical importance for Irish salmon smokers. To mount a boycott would destroy the livelihoods of salmon smokers and their staff who live in coastal communities.
"Nobody from Friends of the Irish Environment contacted me before using my name on a press release suggesting I was in favour of the boycott."
In a written comment to Inshore Ireland, Darina Allen declared she fully concurred with Sally McKenna's response and sentiments and 'could not express it any more succinctly'. She added that Slow Food Ireland's name had been referenced and used by both sides in this debate 'without express permission' from Slow Food Ireland.
'Slow Food is not a political football, and permissions need to be sought before any government submission or press release use its name.'
The FIE press release also quoted Richie Flynn of IFA Aquaculture describing the call to boycott farmed salmon as 'reckless posturing, an ill-thought out and malicious protest, and an act of sabotage against marine communities'.
Speaking later to Inshore Ireland, he said the attempt to boycott Irish farmed salmon was "an irrelevant, lazy and desperate stunt to mislead consumers and hurt people who actually work for a living".


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By Jay Forte, Contributing Reporter
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The National Agency of Petroleum (ANP), reported yesterday, April 4th, that the production of oil and gas in the pre-salt fields recorded an increase of six percent in February, compared with the previous month. This was just days after the organization announced they are planning investments of R$1.24 billion in the four-year period of 2015-2018.
Yesterday the ANP said in a statement, "The production of pre-salt, coming from 54 wells was 873,500 barrels per day of oil and 34.6 million cubic meters per day of natural gas, totaling 1.091 million of barrels of oil equivalent per day (boe/d), an increase of six percent over the previous month."
According to the agency, the natural gas utilization in the month was 95.2 percent. "The burning of gas in February was 4.7 million cubic meters per day, an increase of 43.8 percent compared to the previous month and 44.3 percent over the same month in 2015. The increase in burning natural gas in the month was mainly due to the commissioning of the FPSO Cidade de Marica platform, which started operations in February."
Total production of oil and natural gas in Brazil, in February, according to the ANP totaled 2,950 million barrels of oil equivalent per day. On the other hand, the total oil production in February 2016 was about 2.335 million barrels per day, a decrease of 0.8 percent compared to the previous month and 4.0 percent over the same month in 2015.
On April 1st, the ANP announced they foresee investments of R$1.24 billion in the four-year period of 2015-2018, according to the new phase of the Multi-Year Plan of Geology Studies and Geophysics agency. In the first phase, between 2007 and 2014, the total investment was R$1.1 billion.
Of this total, R$820 million is the budget of the agency, which depend on the federal government releasing funds, and R$420 million can be realized by the private sector or research and development resources.
Some of the projects included in the plan are new seismic surveys in the basins of rivers Parnaíba, Paraná and Parecis; the exploratory well drilling in pre-salt, among others.


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Louis Tomlinson's Instagram Post Got Bella Thorne's Attention!
Louis Tomlinson's latest Instagram post got a reaction from Bella Thorne!
The 25-year-old "Just Hold On" crooner posted the pic on Thursday (February 16), showing himself posing alongside a girlband he is reportedly managing with Simon Cowell. Check it out below!
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"Exciting," Louis simply captioned the snap.
Bella's comment was also a simple one: "Awww."
ICYMI, Louis recently opened up about the surprising way he met Steve Aoki.
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The ACAMS Netherlands Chapter aims to provide a networking and knowledge-sharing platform for AML and financial crimes professionals working within the Dutch financial services arena. The international aspect of ACAMS and close cooperation with other European Chapters provides a unique opportunity to share local experience and knowledge with the international expertise of larger organisations as well as local and international public authorities.
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Pastor Rod Parsley, Pastor Of World Harvest Church Can't Claim Insurance Coverage For Boy's Beating!
Reader Pastor Rod Parsley Ohio megachurch is not entitled to collect $1 million from its insurer toward a $3.1 million settlement with the parents of a 2-year-old boy beaten by a daycare worker, the state supreme court ruled on Thursday (May 12). The justices unanimously rejected a bid by World Harvest Church in Columbus to collect the amount from Grange Mutual Casualty Co. following a lengthy battle in Franklin County courts. An abuse and molestation exclusion in Grange's insurance policy with the church on Gender Road bars coverage of the damages, Chief Justice Maureen O'Connor wrote in the court's opinion.
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When the church settled the case in 2009, Senior Pastor Rod Parsley took to the internet with a fundraising appeal to help the church deal with a "diabolically, demonically inspired financial attack."


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Tags: CD, Pop, Album, Independent, Worship
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Another album of grassroots worship songs from Lincoln-based dB studios Released series.
- 1. Jo Le Page - Take My Hand
- 2. Matt McChlery - The Thousand
- 3. Joel Morris - Speak O Speak
- 4. Chris Gawor - Truth Beneath
- 5. Barry Eatwell - Your Mercy
- 6. Howard Williams - Devoted
- 7. Daniel Caldwell - Broken For Me
- 8. Katharine Davison - Because Of Your Love
- 9. Joel Morris - God Lead Us
- 10. Kev Moss - Dream Your Dreams
- 11. David Buckley - Jesus Lead Us On
- 12. Brenda Taylor - My Desire
- 13. Dan Bowater & Sam Reid - Love Never Fails
- 14. John Wright - The Adventurer
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Cross Rhythms Product Code: 80878
Product Format: CD
Content Type: Album
Cat. Code: Independent DBREL7
Items: 1
Release Date: 2009
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Troll Board Games from the 90's
A user recently commented about a troll board game from the 90's era and it dawned on me that I haven't showed you all my troll games. These are two board games from the 90's - TROLLS: THE MAGIC WISH GAME and Treasures Trolls: Search for the Wishstones Game.
I had a MAGIC WISH game as a child and recall playing it for hours on end...
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Here is the entrance with media voiceover.
Here is the very ending of the Gradual. If anyone can find a better video, let me know.
And the communion chant and polyphonic Psalm.
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Hiya! This week I joined my weekly recap + video all in one post! Click on read more to see what I've done in England the whole week!
Monday. 10 oct.
Monday. 10 oct.
still feeling a bit under the weather so I basically went to bed for the whole day while the girls are at school. I even had to call off my other babysitting job which I always do on Monday morning unfortunately.
Tuesday. 11 oct.
in the morning I had a bit of a pamper morning and in the afternoon I completed all my chores and tidied my whole room because it was literally driving me nuts. Also I just always feel a 100% better and more productive when I've done all of my chores. So the saying: "a tidy room is a tidy mind" is really true. Even though tidying and cleaning everything up can be a pain in the ass sometimes, it's gonna be worth it in the end!
Wednesday. 12 oct.
Went to the gym again! hurray. I literally can't believe how unfit I am at the moment. and I really want to get back into a proper healthy fitness/lifestyle again because I know I'll feel loads better about myself and basically I've just been slacking the last couple of months. Even though I might have worked out a bit too hard in the gym because even walking to my bus stop was difficult and I probably looked like someone who had just pooped their pants because my legs were so sore.
Thursday. 13 oct.
Yup, I definitely worked out a bit too hard/heavy in the gym yesterday. I'm not even able to walk like a decent human being and even getting out of bed feels like a workout itself now. However, I tried to go along my day as I usually would, and I even promised the girls to do some crafts after school because they love doing crafts! We decided to make the vampires (pictured below). However, the paint wasn't dry before dinner so we'd have to finish them tomorrow!
Friday. 14 oct.
Started my day feeling a 100% better! The cold was gone, so even though I'm still not able to walk like a decent human being, the workout must have done something good! While the girls were at school I went into Reading to meet up with another au pair. And when I got home it was time to finish our vampires!
Saturday. 15 oct.
Decided to have a little lay in because I just couldn't be bothered to get out of bed. Watched a whole lot of youtube video's until I basically couldn't find anything else I liked anymore. However, I did head into town in the afternoon because I had to get my mom's birthday present!
Sunday. 16 oct.
After having a lazy morning again I decided to actually get some work done. I was planning on heading into Henley to go to a cafe to edit, but since the family asked whether I wanted to join family dinner tonight I decided to stay home since I otherwise had to be back in time. So I edited all the photo's you're seeing now, my weekly video + some random bits and bobs. And I even skyped with one of my best friends for 2.5 hours..., oops.
Family dinner in the evening consisted of something typically english, and since i'm quite the picky eater I wasn't sure whether I would like it, but I actually loved it! We had some roasted potatoes, peas, roasted beef and yorkshire pudding, yum!
Also, this week I decided to just put the weekly recap & video all in one post since I both got them done at the same time and I figured I might as well just do it since it's a bit easier.
So if you can't view the video, click here! And don't forget to watch in HD!
demi x.
last two photo's are made by Sophie!
So if you can't view the video, click here! And don't forget to watch in HD!
demi x.
last two photo's are made by Sophie!


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It's nice and cool in the cabin right now and it's idling lovely and cool.
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The long-term goal of this project is to develop a comprehensive set of standardized Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) clinical predictors that can be used to successfully characterize, diagnose, prognose, manage, and treat this devastating neurodegenerative disease. Specifically, the goal of this proposal is to identify and prioritize potential clinical predictors by exploring the relationships among measures and data recorded in retrospective ALS clinic patient records.
The specific aims of this proposal are to: 1) Construct a multi-variate relational ALS patient database that organizes and translates raw records, both on a patient and per-visit basis, into unified structures required for data mining analyses;2) Assess correlations of ALS patient clinic measures using standard parametric/non-parametric analyses as well as novel, dynamic relational analyses capable of revealing temporal changes/patterns with disease progression. The primary outcomes of this R21 proposal are a prioritized list of promising ALS clinical predictors and the developed plans by which to pursue them in future in-depth statistical studies. The secondary outcome is one of the largest, detailed, and all- inclusive data sets on clinical ALS.
This project is highly relevant to public health as it seeks to identify demographic, onset, prognostic, and treatment clinical predictors that aid clinicians in the management and intervention of the neurodegenerative disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
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Despite our swagger around the gym here in Vauxhall and a general smugness, us trainers are actually just like you. We have our weaknesses. The chinks in our armour that hold back our training, just as you do with yours.
We can also be a little neglectful with these weaknesses too. It's human nature to want to gravitate towards your strengths and leave your weaknesses on the back burner despite us preaching to you that you have to address your own.
But for 30 days we want to change all that.
CrossFit SE11 coaches Rachel, Kat, Carolyn, Colin and myself will all be picking out a skill or training weakness that we want to improve. This is what we will be covering:
RACHEL: air squat
KAT: handstands and handstand push ups
CAROLYN: push strength (specifically ring dips for Carolyn but you'll read in a moment why we can't restict it to just this)
COLIN: double unders
CHRIS: thoracic mobility (for those of us that have tight upper back/shoulders and struggle with locking out overhead)
What incredibly complex strategy do we have in order to attack each one of the above? We plan to dedicate FIVE minutes each and every day for 30 days to our weaknesses. That's it.
Which is kinda why we can't just have Carolyn do ring dips because most of us don't have gymnastics rings in our homes and it's unlikely you'll be in the gym every day. We need to make this as easy to follow as possible.
We will be kicking this off on Monday July 8th 2013 for 30 days.
Just five minutes. It may mean slightly less time commenting on each other's Facebook status' each day but that's a sacrifice we're willing to make. The rationale is that if you make something a habit, a routine then with that exposure improvements will be seen. Perhaps five minutes isn't long enough but it's sure as sugar better than no time at all. And this is also about building a routine.
And we want to invite you along with us. We want to recruit members to join up with one of the coaches above so that you can improve your air squat, handstands, pushing strength, double unders or thoracic mobility with our guidance.
Each week we'll set a seven day programme for the daily five minutes. We'll email our group with what we want you to do at the start of each week and we'll ask that you respond to us with a 'compliance update' at the end of the week telling us that you did (or didn't God forbid) complete five minutes of work each and every day. We'll also ask for some feedback on how you're getting on so we can shout about how amazing our group is and be crowned as SE11 Supertrainer!
Ok so there isn't a prize for SE11 Supertrainer as it will be a bit difficult to judge progress across totally different skills BUT we will be taking a great deal of pride in the fact we are helping our beloved members and in the process making a difference to our own training.
The idea of all this is that we get to work on a skill that is appropriate to us. No doubt lots of you will have similar weaknesses and so we get to help you. And everybody gets some accountability. Plus the added benefit of some healthy competition between the coaches.
As we see it, we have nothing to lose.
Interested? Then email the coach who has the weakness you want to work with. Tell them you want to join their group. For best results this should be measurable so go along to a class and do a quick assessment so we can test progress at the end of the 30 days. And then dedicate just five minutes each and every day to doing the exercises we have set you.
Ideally, we would have you just follow one trainer so that we can maintain the spirit of just five minutes of work. But if you really want to commit to more than one, we won't stop you.
We're waiting for your emails. And no doubt there will be some 'no pressure' encouragement from each coach that you join their group. Let the challenge commence, contact us NOW and say "I wanna join your 30 day challenge group":
Air squat: email@example.com
Handstand: email@example.com
Push strength: email@example.com
Double unders: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Knicks 102, Hornets 94
Porzingis Gives Knicks, and Fans, a Charge
After he had dazzled and dunked, after he had sealed the win with a rebound and two free throws, and after the crowd had filled Madison Square Garden with the sound of his name being chanted over and over, as if he were a rock star being called for an encore, Kristaps Porzingis carried an armful of towels for his teammates.
Porzingis, who had done just about everything Tuesday night in the Knicks' 102-94 victory over the Charlotte Hornets, seemed to anticipate that some of the older players on the team would want to remind him of his lack of seniority. So he went straight for the towels — a pre-emptive move meant to disarm them, and another smart decision in a night full of them.
"The guys were like, 'O.K., I see you, man,' " Porzingis said after scoring a career-high 29 points and collecting 11 rebounds.
Booed by fans who knew nothing about him when the Knicks drafted him in June, Porzingis captivated the crowd in his 12th N.B.A. game. On a night when they wore throwback uniforms, the Knicks (6-6) would not have survived without the player who represents their future.
All of it was there — the outside touch and the post positioning, the rebounding and the defending.
"The easy part is playing one game like that," Porzingis said. "The hard part is to keep playing at this level."
It will not be there every night for Porzingis, a 7-foot-3 power forward. He was coming off a subpar outing against the New Orleans Pelicans on Sunday, when he shot 4 of 15 from the field and spent much of the second half on the bench. Coach Derek Fisher said he had been pleased with Porzingis's effort, though. He wants Porzingis to remain aggressive. If there are occasions when his shot selection is questionable, there are far greater sins.
"I'm very reluctant to take away from a player's natural instincts to go make a play," Fisher said.
Against the Hornets (5-6), Porzingis shot 10 of 17 and made both of his 3-point attempts. The Knicks outscored the Hornets by 20 points when he was on the court. Carmelo Anthony finished with 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Knicks, who were challenged by the Hornets' speed — and by Kemba Walker, in particular, who finished with a game-high 31 points.
Anthony largely operated as a facilitator. He found Langston Galloway for a 3-pointer to punctuate the third quarter. And when Arron Afflalo and Jose Calderon made back-to-back 3-pointers early in the fourth, the Hornets appeared to be out of answers — except that the Knicks nearly did a face-plant.
Late in the game, the Knicks went nine straight possessions without a point. Porzingis sat on the bench for four of them. Fisher said he had wanted to be cautious with Porzingis's minutes, indicating that fatigue had played a role in opting for a different lineup. The Hornets whittled the Knicks' lead to 98-94 when Nicolas Batum made a 3-pointer.
Fisher finally called on Porzingis, who ended the scoreless streak after he was fouled grabbing a defensive rebound with 11.3 seconds left. He sank both free throws.
"Don't miss these," Porzingis, who played 31 minutes, recalled telling himself at the foul line.
It was the Knicks' second meeting with the Hornets in seven days. Last Wednesday, in Charlotte, the Knicks lost at the buzzer when officials ruled that Porzingis had released his go-ahead 3-pointer after time had expired. Any disappointment was tempered by the realization that the Knicks, months removed from last season's grease fire, were playing competitive basketball.
Against the Hornets, Porzingis shot 4 of 6 from the field in the first quarter. His presence at both ends was unmistakable. When he went to the bench for a breather, the Knicks led by 7. When he returned early in the second quarter, the Knicks trailed by 8. And then their situation improved, over just a handful of possessions.
Porzingis sank a 3-pointer. He grabbed rebounds. He earned trips to the foul line. And how about this? Anthony passed up at least two open shots to get the ball to Porzingis, who scored a season-high 17 points in the first half alone as the Knicks trimmed the deficit to 48-46.
"Everybody was saying that I was a project, to wait a few years," Porzingis said. "I will get better in a few years, but I knew I was able to play right now. That was my mentality."
Anthony said: "I want him to succeed. He puts in the work."
Facing the Hornets, the Knicks got a reminder of their not-so-distant past. Jeremy Lin, a familiar face to Garden denizens, made his entrance off the bench for the Hornets late in the first quarter to a chorus of boos. The days when he left the arena enthralled are long gone.
Yet Lin played a big role, as the Hornets' reserves erased an early 9-point deficit, his nifty pass to Jeremy Lamb early in the second quarter leading to a dunk. Lin later darted through traffic for a layup. In some ways, it felt like the old days.
But as the game wore on, and the Knicks seized control, Lin became little more than background noise as a new star emerged.
The Knicks did not win their sixth game last season until Jan. 19.