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Springtime brings a series of firsts — first robin in the yard, first crocus to open, first warmth from open windows. For runners, springtime offers its own firsts as well — first time to run comfortably in shorts, first run on snow-free trails, first race on the calendar. The sense of renewal and optimism that accompanies this time of year may make it an even better time than New Year's to make running resolutions; after a long winter, we can't wait to get outside and move. No matter how long you've been running, it makes sense once a year to set your running priorities and goals for the year, and then make a plan to make them happen.
Every runner responds differently to training being ing ing plan to best meet our individual needs. There is no reason to reinvent the wheel when training since running has been studied for decades and there are a myriad of training coaches, guides and plans to choose from. Typical training plans include a mix of runs that work towards improving endurance, speed and stamina along with recovery runs. The mileage of any of these runs depend on what race distance you are training for, but for basic definitions, endurance runs, also known as long runs, tend to be run at a slower pace and are at least double in length of your typical run distance; speed work includes running short distance repeats at much faster speeds than typical; stamina or tempo runs aim for sustaining a given pace over a given distance, and recovery runs are easy and done between any hard workouts.Of course, it is human nature to avoid those things we dislike but if we are honest about our running weaknesses, and work on improving those areas, this race season could look very different from last year's. The area I am working to improve on is tempo – in race after race, there comes a point where I can no longer sustain the pace I want and begin to slow. Not surprisingly, I tended to avoid doing tempo runs (20 – 40 minutes at a pace about 30 seconds slower than 5K pace) because I find them to be painful. So this winter I made an effort to overcome this and once a week, I'd hop on a treadmill and do that tempo run. Still painful? Yes. But, I began to see improvement within a month, and can now hold a faster speed for four to six miles outside as well.
If you are well on your way in your training and still looking for ways to improve, you can consider those 'little' things that we sometimes ignore in our quest for better times – sleep and nutrition. Adequate rest allows our bodies to repair and rebuild from the strain of training. A study in the journal The Lancet concluded that chronic sleep loss even among young adults reduced the capacity to process and store carbohydrates. For runners, this means an impaired ability to store the energy we need from the foods we eat. Similarly, a diet that is nutrient-poor will not give us the fuel we need to run our best races. Many runners burn enough calories so that weight control is not an issue, but eating 'junk' won't translate to our best race times compared to a high quality balanced diet.


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The village of Cavariol is 6,50 kilometers far from the same town of Portogruaro to whom it belongs.
To the municipality of Portogruaro also belong the localities of Alta di Portovecchio (1,95 km), Bassa di Portovecchio (1,70 km), Beni Comuni (15,60 km), Borgo di Mezzo (9,29 km), Bussolini (13,78 km), Ca' Cantele (10,31 km), Ca' Gaiotto (9,26 km), Ca' Ghetto (9,82 km), Ca' Longa (4,36 km), Ca' Macchinetta (6,37 km), Ca' Regini (10,16 km), Campeio (2,71 km), Cao Mozzo (16,53 km), Contrada Monteron (15,91 km), De' Franceschi (14,07 km), Debbio (12,86 km), Fornace (2,58 km), Fossalato (2,29 km), Frassinella (10,96 km), Giussago (9,50 km), La Pietra (13,64 km), Le Lame (13,28 km), Levada (3,90 km), Lison (9,62 km), Lugugnana (14,26 km), Marina (14,47 km), Marina di Lugugnana (14,45 km), Mazzolada (5,98 km), Noiare (3,05 km), Nosedo (2,64 km), Osteria al Trovatore (4,72 km), Portovecchio (2,95 km), Pradipozzo (8,55 km), Ronchi (1,79 km), Scuola Serrai (10,85 km), Selvamaggiore (5,67 km), Serrai (10,17 km), Serrai di Giussago (9,60 km), Summaga (4,57 km), Torresella (6,64 km), Vado (9,17 km), Viate (8,10 km), Viola (11,19 km)
The number in parentheses following each village name indicate the distance between the same village and the municipality of Portogruaro.
The locality of Cavariol rises 6 meters abobe sea level.
The population of Cavariol counts 17 inhabitants.Please find in what follows:
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Now, THAT is a worthy mind apple strudel.
Gah! The handle makes my brain hurt!
what's the illusion? i can't see it...
imsochady wrote:Neat. But pass.
I agree. It's cool - but not worth $10 to me. I would wear it if I received it as a gift, or if I got it in a random.
Like a popscicle eaten too quickly, this shirt makes my brain hurt.
once again woot, just a wee bit late to the party.
This is the kind of shirt that'll make your friends wonder if they're falling victim to heat stroke.
Perfect for the ice cream truck driver, if you ask me. What better way to lure customers than by convincing them they're overheating?
williehsu wrote:what's the illusion? i can't see it...
Look at the popsicle stick/handle thing
popstical illusion lmao! oh that was funny :D
This shirt reminds me of all those fantastic summer days when I was a kid, and look its even dripping like in my memory! Or is that a vampire in disguise? Oh noes thats the illusion! You're buying a vampire!
This would have been nice and patriotic 4 days ago.
So, does that mean there's a hidden third popsicle in this as well?
Nice one. Congratulations.
Love this shirt, but I'll pass.
I see the artist is from Bellevue, WA. I absolutely love that town. I go out there for work about 5 times a year.
I'll go ahead and say that there are 3 sticks on the off chance that it will give me an extra popsicle.
jakewalczak wrote:I'll go ahead and say that there are 3 sticks on the off chance that it will give me an extra popsicle.
OR extra safety when handling a popsicle!!!!!
The fact that I didn't even see the illusion at first, only confirms that I think with a dirty mind.
Yeah there is definitely another popsicle on the other side, hidden, its a 3 for 2, excellent.
I usually don't like too many of the shirts on here, but this one... this one I like.
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arioth wrote:This would have been nice and patriotic 4 days ago.
Didn't they teach you anything in High School? July 8th is when our founding fathers all chillaxed and ate popsicles.
You know, something with colors like this really would have sold well BEFORE Independence Day, not the movie mind you, I don't see any ugly @$$ aliens on this shirt, maybe they are hiding inside, or on the back....
Seriously woot? Why not pimp this shirt before a day where everyone wants to have patriotic colors on their shirt?
Maybe it is because it resembles a backwards French flag, and really, who likes the French?
or am I??
At least it's patriotic.
xxchange wrote:At least it's patriotic.
Yay France!!!! Right? ...Right?
Well this has been a morning of discovery for me. I thought 'popsicles' were what are apparently merely called 'pops', and had no idea that it was actually equivalent to what I would call an ice lolly. Madness.
This Popsicle is the perfect solution for when you are sharing with one other person, but one of you has multiple personalities. The multiple personality can have the Popsicle in the middle. It's just as real as he/she is!
Am I the only one who sees the popsicle sticks are in the shape of 'the shocker'
Sorry to bring something up like that, but my friend had a t-shirt on with a simple drawing of it and that just jumped out to me. I'm sure the artist never intended for any such thing to be on there...
The Popsicle was George Washington's favorite food. But not yellow. He hated yellow. Reminded him of kindergarten when all the kiddies made fun of his teeth.
kylemittskus wrote:Yay France!!!! Right? ...Right?
Red, white, blue? No?
xxchange wrote:Red, white, blue? No?
itym 'non'.
Does this shirt come with a tape player so you can hear the angels singing with that shiny white light?
I'd get this if I didn't look so awkward in big blue shirts :P
But it is a nifty graphic
I love how the popsicle sticks look like electrical prongs, which is fitting since the popsicles are like (patriotic with these colors) fuel. MMMMMM, consumed in America!
theraccoon wrote:itym 'non'.
Rouge, blanc, bleu, non?
xxchange wrote:Rouge, blanc, bleu, non?
il ya singes dans mon jardin
Cette chemise a pu vous rendre collant
What if you wear this shirt and somebody tries to take your Popsicle?
I like popsicles.
I like optical illusions.
I don't like this shirt.
I'm very confused. ):
APerfectC wrote:You know, something with colors like this really would have sold well BEFORE Independence Day...
My first thoughts exactly.
However, I still wooted within fifteen seconds of seeing it. Epic design, and with care it will last until next 7/4.
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Recount called for in race car driving school vote: Measure failed by 14 votes
Saturday, March 16, 2013
LEE — With just 14 votes halting the opening of a race car driving school at the Lee USA Speedway, a recount will be submitted to the town to double check totals from Town Meeting Day.
Ellen Paquette, mall manager, said the car show is something she loves hosting at the facility.
Article 3 petitioned voters to amend the racing ordinance so as to allow for the school without considering any driving school sessions as an "event." Currently, Lee Speedway is allowed 23 events between April and October. The driving school would allow 28 sessions no more than four times per month between those same months and allow no more than four NASCAR-like stock vehicles on the track between the hours of 12 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Watson said the likelihood of booking or scheduling the full amount was slim. He expected, he said, roughly a half dozen actual racecar driving school days.
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October 7th, 2012, 01:54 PM #16
What I'm about to say isn't meant as an attack on anyone or their writing: an infinite universe allows for infinite variation, so write what you love and be happy.
I guess I was lucky. Although I enjoy Tolkien and some authors who followed his path by including elves/dwarves/orcs in their stories, I was always more drawn to the works of Howard, Lovecraft, Leiber, and such. So when I started crafting my own stories, the idea of using "fantasy" races didn't really occur to me.
Note: I did write one novel aimed at Wizards of the Coasts that included the typical D&D races, but it just didn't feel right. Like I was copying off someone else's homework. Thankfully, it will never see the light of publication.
From my own personal perspective, when I see a modern fantasy cover that has an elf/dwarf/etc (or, gods forbid, a drow) on the cover, it doesn't exactly turn me on. If an aspiriting fantasy writer asks me about using those races, I advise them to think long and hard about it. What are you saying by writing about a drow ranger? That you think they are a cool character in D&D? Fine, then write reams about them--for yourself. (Hell, most writers have loads of stories and snippets hidden in their closets and hard drive that they don't ever intend to publish.)
You need to figure our what you're trying to say. What does Zork the Drow Ranger represent? An attempt to capture the idea of being separated from your home and people because you are "different?" Why do you need a drow to do that? There are people all around you who live lives of loneliness and non-acceptance. Start there.
You may discover that your story just cannot work without a dark elf character. Or maybe you'll discover that what you thought was a tool for inspiration was actually a crutch holding you back.
Infinite variations.
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Re: Drow... so true. Clearly, a Chaotic Good Drow Ranger escaping from his oppressive Lawful Evil kind (TM) has been done before (hilariously depicted in The Order of the Stick, and defeated not by strength of arms or strength of magic but by copyright infringement law). I might have a drow ranger in a D&D session for a joke, but a carbon copy in writing, for seriousness, would be too obvious.
I started a series, with a D&D influence, and it was pretty much textbook D&D. It never went anywhere, however some of it was rewritten as a 2nd-person, present-tense, choose-your-own-adventure style story on Protagonize.com, and tidied up so I could use it for a Youth and Children's Writing class at University. It received a Distinction, so I was happy with that. So textbook D&D = nothing special, as is textbook fantasy in general. But textbook D&D/fantasy in general in a non-textbook tense, person or some other thing? Potential critical success, not to mention fame, money, whatever. Well, you can hope for that, and you might actually get some too on the basic that what you're doing is, if not never done before, at least not done any time *recently*. You know, fresh. "New". That's always worth the risks involved - ie the risk of critical failure. But you probably won't get that, if you're doing old stuff re-envisioned in a fresh perspective.
October 8th, 2012, 03:10 PM #18
But each generation of authors swears that this is a very important issue, and that their works "re-envision" for the first time or the first time in a long time all the "old stuff." It's a selling tactic and it's psychological as well. Each new author is unquestionably new and what they do in their stories and character voices will be different from others, and may catch on or not, but while acknowledging the infinite variations, as Jon does, the community still likes to pretend that reams and reams of past fantasy fiction in their infinite variations doesn't exist. I'm talking scholarly articles where they also pretend thousands of books never existed. And that's a tribute to the power of symbols. But the symbol itself will be there whether it's in plate armor or a monocle and red coat.
You can dress the set however you like. You can even make it a major focus of the enterprise. But the meat of the story seldom has to do with the clothes or whether a dwarf is drunk or sober. (And for the record, non-alcohol swilling dwarves have been done before, and wine swilling ones and cocaine snorting ones and vegetarian ones and who knows what else.) I like your set-dressing, I do, but it's never going to be the engine that drives the story entirely. It can set the stylistic tone of a story, which helps with the symbolism, so that you've got a bit of a steampunk feel going to some of what you're bouncing around is something to note, especially as you want to throw time travel into the mix. Maybe you have a natural inclination to go Victorian. That's something to consider.
But something else to consider -- the character alignment bit of D&D is effective in the game because it's about symbolism. And when you are playing with that, you're simply playing with symbols that are more about telling stories and thinking about emotions and ideas than they are about playing D&D. It's not that the dwarf is sober, cheerful and a bartender. It's what having a sober, cheerful bartender means in the story.
Alright, I have to go cook a big dinner, so I'll stop the ranting. All of the above is just my own opinion, except for the part about there being no correlation with this stuff. That's fact. There's no getting around that data. Of course, you might come up with something interesting from trying to get around it, but it's still not going to change the publishing field. Elves and no elves are all welcome and may succeed or sink irrespective of their presence or lack thereof or wardrobe therein.
October 8th, 2012, 04:09 PM #19
I agree that you can have a good story with an elf, dwarf, drow etc. in it or a bad story. It's as irrelevant as if your character is male or female. Cliches go round and round in circles. But I also think there are certain trends in publishing that I take notice of. Suddenly, vampires and zombies are all the rage. I am personally sick of elves, since I've read 13 books involving elves and could really care less about them, but there are always readers who may or may not be new to the elf world who will find them fascinating. Elves aren't going away any time soon and there's nothing wrong with that. I think if your true passion, as a writer, is to write about elves, more power to you; BUT, I myself would love to see more originality on book covers these days.
October 8th, 2012, 04:55 PM #20
As I said in my post, everyone is free to write whatever they want. You don't need my permission.
October 8th, 2012, 08:32 PM #21
OK so: (1) I finished my book. I mean properly finished, edited and re-written many times and polished until it hurts. Next step, submissions, but in the meantime (2) I gave myself permission to come back online and visit the forum for the first time in a few days and I've been reading all the responses to this thread with great interest.
A lot of very interesting and sensible things have been said and it is good to see where the discussion has moved on to while I have been studiously ignoring the internet.
To bring things back to the genesis of my original question, and if anyone has the appetite for it, I would welcome some thoughts on the way in which I am approaching the Elven in my writing. For me the starting point was (sorry Jon Sprunk and others) Lords of the Rings, although just for the record Elves had been part of mythology for a good thousand years prior to that, taking a number of sometimes radically different forms. In particular, I was interested by the ending of the book, as [spoiler ] the Elves depart into the West and the days of magic come to an end.
Bear in mind that this (when I was thinking about the content of a book/world) was post 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq. The idea of a race who, if only in their own minds, are superior in strength, intelligence and technology/magic, who intervene in other race's domestic affairs to their own ends and then, after the main battle, declare "mission accomplished" and disappear off into the West, resonated on several levels for me.
From there, I worked backwards, and forwards. Looking backwards - who are the Elven? How do they think about the world around them? Very quickly, I thought that they would be pretty didactic and not very good sharers. They would deploy observers and seek to guide the policy and development of the races that they were assisting. But they would keep secrets and they would be sceptical about anyone who doubted or challenged their ideas. I thought about the Chicago School, Burma and Chile under Pinochet.
Looking forwards - what sort of places would they leave behind them when they had decided that they had had enough and upped sticks? If you have seen magic/power/glamour first hand how do you react when it is snatched away from you? Firstly, you try to emulate what you have lost. Secondly you are always twitching and looking over your shoulder, because you know - you know - that what you are trying to do just can't be done. You don't have the magic (to paraphrase Scottie).
So that gave me the world, the setting for my novel. It's a world that is almost exclusively populated by humans, but where magic is an historical fact. A world of half-baked attempts to mimic the ideological purity of a long-vanished master race, whose influence is still felt in every aspect of life from politics to economics to warfare. A world where an awful lot of things have never been attempted because, meh, without magic what's the point? It's a world in which the defining characteristic of my Elves/Elven is their absence, but in which they still cast a long shadow...
Ramble over. It's late and I need sleep. This is where you all tell me that nothing in what I've outlined above is original and that it's all been done 6 months / 3 years / 5 decades ago by a much better writer than me! I hope not, but since starting to write I have been trying to steer clear of anyone in the post-modern fantasy vein (Brandon Sanderson, for example?) for fear of being influenced/discouraged and frankly now it's written I'd rather know before submitting it if it is likely to be discounted as lacking in originality.
Obviously, if anyone thinks that this sounds like the sort of book they'd like to read, I'd love to know that too!
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Hmm. Master race. Elven nazis? Just throwing that out there.
October 8th, 2012, 11:48 PM #23
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Will, again, what others do is not the key factor. Your novel sounds interesting to me. Your novel touches on a lot of poly sci stuff on Afghanistan, though one of the things prevalent in these situations is that the old human culture in this case doesn't lose influence either. The vacuum would create many different forms of extremism and ideology. You are working less with a post-modern idea than a lost magics idea, but the symbolism sounds interesting.
October 9th, 2012, 02:23 PM #24
For me the starting point was (sorry Jon Sprunk and others) Lords of the Rings,
October 10th, 2012, 03:37 PM #25
And for the record, Jon's use of shadow magic is way cool and I like Mike Sullivan's elves too.
October 11th, 2012, 06:24 AM #26
Frankly, the trouble with elves and their kin is that they hark back to one particular fantasy franchise. Anyone who wrote a sci-fi novel in which the aliens just happened to be Klingons or Daleks, let alone Martians equipped with tripedal war-machines and heat-rays as invented by H. G. Wells in 1898, even though the story had nothing whatsoever to do with that particular franchise, would be laughed at for having no imagination at all. So why does fantasy, a genre in which by definition absolutely anything goes, have to be saddled with these ancient cardboard stereotypes?
It's true that, as several people have already said, elves and whatnot have a long and very complex pre-Tolkein history that gives you plenty of scope to do unexpected things with them. But if that's your approach, why bother to call them elves, thereby dragging in all that Tolkein baggage? If people see an elf on the cover, they'll expect it to be predictable off-the-shelf D&D-derived cliché-ridden fantasy fodder. And since some people like that sort of thing, it will sell to that demographic. If that's all you're after, fine, and good luck to you! But if you want to write fiction that rises above the ghetto that would once have been called "pulp", you'll have to go a bit further than plundering the rules of a very popular game in terms of world-building.
And by the way, anyone who honestly thinks that taking a cliché and turning it on its head, thereby making a joke that only works for people who were familiar with the cliché in the first place, turns it into something other than a cliché, doesn't really understand what a cliché is.
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October 13th, 2012, 11:36 AM #28
Michael B, I have to respectfully disagree with you. The big difference between elves and castles - and this is the point that I'm really trying to make - is that castles are a pretty basic real-world thing. In fact, since I live in Edinburgh, Scotland, I can prove to myself that castles really do exist and were taken seriously in warfare for a very long time just by looking out of the window. But I have yet to look out of the window and see an elf.
Military installations with thick stone walls go back before recorded history - Jericho, for instance, had walls 15 feet thick, and whoever built Zimbabwe invented castles before they invented writing, which is why we don't know who they were. Building huge stone fortresses is a really basic idea. And so is wrapping your warriors in the toughest kind of armor you can come up with. The development of armor is all about the practical issues of protection versus weight. For example, an Ancient Greek warrior whose bronze armor weighed about 80 pounds but could be put on very quickly paid a servant to follow him around carrying his armor, so that he wouldn't pointlessly tire himself out prior to the battle. And the first bit of plate-male to become obsolete was the bit you wore on your legs, because even a very strong man becomes tired very quickly if he has to run with lumps of steel attached to his legs! And incoming damage was far more likely to hit you above the waist anyway.
So, whatever you call them, armor and castles are a basic thing which obviously has its uses. But elves are not. They are completely fictional, and very culture-specific indeed. Consider genies. Or, to use a more correct word, djinn. Almost everybody who read that word instantly thought: "Blue guy who lives in a lamp, has infinite magical powers, and is a bit of a joke." However, if you happen to be a devout Muslim, you will know that the djinni are officially recognized as sentient life-forms who, since they have free will, may theoretically convert to Islam if they are so inclined, though apparently most of them aren't. Still, at least one mosque exists for this specific purpose. Which is more than Catholicism ever did for the elves.
All I'm saying is that off-the-peg stereotypes are useful if you want to sell totally predictable fiction to the bottom end of a market that's supposedly all about imagination. You can even do interesting things with traditional folklore (depending on which religion it derives from - some of them will still murder you for disagreeing with them...). But using stereotypes ripped off from a major franchise because blondes with pointy ears spell "fantasy"? NO!!! Sorry, there's no word to describe that except "lazy". In any other genre, this would be a joke. But since fantasy has taken over the niche formerly occupied by sci-fi in which square-jawed men with ray-guns saved screaming ladies in space bikinis from bug-eyed monsters, it's become a kind of retarded relative who does the best that he can, and if it happens to be feisty teenage girls learning important life-lessons through their relationship with a unicorn, we'll all pretend that this rubbish is good because he can't help it.
Excuse me, but enough of the stereotypes already! Incidentally, unicorns are almost unkillable supernatural creatures who are strangely obsessed with putting their horns in the laps of sexually immature females of an entirely different species. Is it just me, or is there something a wee bit peculiar about unicorns? And why haven't we read about it yet? Somebody should write a book in which unicorns have to go to support groups where they obsessively talk about having The Horn.
October 13th, 2012, 11:43 AM #29
October 13th, 2012, 11:49 AM #30
Vinegar Tom,
I hear what you're saying, but we should all be careful when assigning certain genres/subgenres to the rubbish bin. As Kat often says, there are people (a lot of them, actually) who enjoy reading about elves, or wizards tossing fireballs, or little green men from Mars. It's not the trappings that determine the value of a story.


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by Blanchee » 07 May 2009, 14:57
by clsev » 07 May 2009, 21:03
Blanchee wrote:Yes I would find it interesting to go to your site and also please a translation in English. I don't speak, or know any Italian!! Shamelss.
And, yes I knew that there were a couple of placenames in Italy with 'Corletto'. I found this on the internet.
by Blanchee » 08 May 2009, 13:51
by clsev » 08 May 2009, 16:35
by Blanchee » 09 May 2009, 07:07
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by f5JON » 29 May 2009, 07:56
CORLETTO SURNAME HAS NO FRENCH ORIGIN AND HAS NEVER EVER BEEN ALTERED REGARDS JOHN CORLETTO GLASGOW SCOTLANDclsev wrote:Blanchee wrote:Thanks for your info. Is Corletto an Italian name? Some of the family say that they heard that the name was originally Corlett (French) and that at some time ancestors moved to Italy and added the 'o'. Personally I don't think so, but maybe I'm wrong.
I have never heard from my relatives that the family Corletto was of french origin but one never knows...
I have posted all the informations I have on this subject in my genealogical tree: http://www.geocities.com/clsev/Marino-R ... .htm#sposa
You will have to browse a litte in this page... furthermore it's written in italian.
Il you think it could be interesting I can send you a translation.
Have you tried to look for both "Corletto" and "Corlett" with Google? You will find some places with that name in Italy.
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