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In 2000, a few of us training for Ironman Utah, and one guy training for the Leadville 100 Mountain Bike, race decided to do a spring century ride. Unlike this year, the spring weather in Colorado is often snowy, wet and chilly. Since misery loves company, the small group of about half dozen of us rode a torturous, windy 100 miles.
The result of the torture was we all achieved the fitness bonus we were looking for.
In the years since, that spring century ride turned into the annual tradition of the VE100 – or Vernal Equinox 100-mile ride. This spring century is both a training goal and a training boost. What does that mean?
The first goal is to have at least one 50- to 60-mile ride under our collective belts in February. In some winters, this is not an easy accomplishment. This accomplishment is best done in a single ride, though it can be split between two days.
If you've accomplished 50- to 100-percent of the estimated ride distance (in this case a century) or estimated ride time (best used for mountain bike events), within a single ride or two consecutive days, in the two to four weeks prior to your "event" then you will have the endurance to complete your event. Generally, the higher the percentage you're able to complete before the event, the faster, more comfortable or both you'll be during the event.
The previous paragraph is important. I use the 50- to 100-percent rule for much of the endurance training I design for athletes.
Aiming for the VE100 gives all of us a spring target or goal event.
Everyone finds that a few weeks after the VE100, overall endurance fitness is boosted. This boost can then be used to the athlete's advantage.
Out of the twelve people that successfully completed the VE100, none of them have identical race schedules. But, all of them will benefit from the ride.
It doesn't matter whether you target a sponsored event or if you design your own, training for a century ride can, and will, make a positive impact on your fitness.
2012 VE100 crew before the ride began
Photo credit - Dave Newman, rider on the far right.
2012 VE100 Route
Q. I'm using your advanced level 100-mile mountain bike training plan in Training Plans for Cyclists. I want to run two days per week. How can I add running into the plan?
A. If you're not strength training, I suggest moving the day off to Monday and run Tuesday and Thursday. (Substituting one run for strength training and the second run for form work or speed skills on the bike.) If you're strength training and need a day off, I'd put a short run before strength training and substitute the second run for the form or speed workout on the bike. If you're strength training and don't need a day off, substitute the running days for the workouts shown on Tuesday and Thursday.
What do you need to go fast?
I just reviewed recent test/baseline results with an Ironman athlete. He improved his 5k time from 23:23 to 21:49 (a 6.7% improvement). This performance predicts a half-marathon improvement of 33 seconds per mile. I have no doubt he'll get it.
We've worked together just short of a year.
It takes time to:
All the same training principles I used with this fellow are in my training plans.
There is an interval workout assigned for today. You're not sure if you should do it or not because you're just not feeling like your regular self. Should you quit being such a wimp and toughen up cupcake – or – is your body telling you to take it easy?
Here's what I tell my athletes:
The goal of an interval session is to improve your fitness. Anything that might set you back should be avoided.
In addition to thousands of emaails about athletes using the training plans in my books to help them meet fitness and race goals, I've gotten loads of compliments on the cover of my book, Training Plans for Multisport Athletes,second edition. After people tell me how much they like the cover, they often ask "Who is the runner?"
My answer, until a couple of weeks ago, was "I don't know."
Design artists at VeloPress work on the cover presentation for the book. Since great cover designs tend not to be the forte of authors, most publishers hold the right to design the cover in the book contract. They select photos from in-house photographers or file photos purchased from freelance photographers.
When I presented at the Triathlon America conference, a good looking fellow approached me and said, "I've been wanting to meet you. I'm Michael O'Neil and I'm the runner on the cover of your book."
An interesting triva fact for you is that Michael has been the manager for several professional triathletes including Susan Williams and Sara Groff. His company is named "ethos"and is involved in several ventures.
Great to meet you Michael ~
I think most people look upward and forward to define success. What I mean by that is when athletes look at race results; they typically look at what the fastest people in the age group do. If your aspirations are to be on the podium, place higher in your age group or as a higher percentile of the age group, you look up.
Heck, I do this for the athletes I coach. I look at current race times or training times and then scour the race results to estimate placement – for people that want to place high in their category. After the race there is a debrief time to evaluate how the event went – was it a success?
Some people define success as only placement in an event.Yes, that is one measure.
Consider broadening your definition and consider looking back. I'm working with several people right now that are achieving tremendous success – but I am not measuring race performances. I am looking at:
My favorite dictionary definition is, "the favorable outcome of something attempted."
Though today you might be discouraged because you are spending your time looking upward and forward to what others have achieved, or perhaps what you once were able to achieve, I say look back and see what you've accomplished recently.
If you're injured, I know you want to be up and running today, but you must be patient. Perhaps you couldn't walk more than five feet last week. Maybe you were water running last month and your injured foot couldn't bear weight. Maybe the flu bug knocked you down last week. But today…
Either today is already better than you were before – or –you have the opportunity to make it that way. Look back and see what you've already accomplished and remove yourself from any pity party. If you're currently stuck in the pity party, you now – this minute – have the opportunity to attempt something and enjoy a favorable outcome by the end of the day.
Celebrate the seemingly small stuff ~ that is success.
Sorry to be MIA for a few days. My husband Del had full knee replacement surgery last Tuesday. The doctor told him about 10 years ago that he had arthritis in that knee and at "sometime in the future" he would need a knee replacement surgery.
For the last 10 years he gradually lost the ability to do things. He didn't really cause much of a fuss because after all, he could still walk and he wasn't keen on a major surgery. The walking he did wasn't without pain and the pain slowly got more and more frequent over time. Last fall he took a trip to visit his brother Farron in Seattle and the touristy walking really caused him problems.
That pain from his vacation lead to another trip to the doctor and an MRI. Of course the arthritis didn't go away, and in fact had gotten got worse. He had bone cysts and inflammation of the bone surface due to bone-on-bone contact between the femur and tibia. The doctor told him he could continue to put off knee replacement surgery as long as he could stand the pain.
That was the problem. His ability to tolerate pain for so many years gradually stole his mobility and most importantly the fitness in his bad leg. Now that he is post-surgery the physical therapists are saying that the quadriceps muscles in his bad leg barely fire. Those muscles have limited strength and his range of motion is not good. In short, physical therapy will be longer and more difficult for him than for someone that kept a higher level of fitness before surgery.
The big lesson is not to wait too long before getting a bad knee replaced. The lower the fitness is in your bad leg/knee prior to surgery, the longer and more difficult knee replacement rehabilitation will be for you.
Now for the day 2 photo…
It's been a long, long time since I've had a family member in the hospital. That's a good thing.
My husband had knee replacement surgery earlier this week and he'sdoing pretty good today. Being the endurance coaching nerd that I am, I take keen interest in all things trauma and surgery related because fast healing is critical for those situations…and…athletics.
Sometimes the nifty things I learn aren't physical training related, but physical comfort related. I found out yesterday that there is a product available so you can wash your hair without water.
The product is named, conveniently, No-RinseShampoo Cap. "The one-piece No-Rinse Shampoo Cap is latex-free and alcohol-free. It leaves hair fresh and clean and eliminates odor. Cap can be warmed in a microwave for added comfort."
I don't know how well the product does on long hair, but it does a pretty good job on short hair.
So, just in case you need to wash your hair with no water available (long flights, camping, etc.), you have at least one possible solution.
I've written about the Estes Park Challenge in past blogs and the Challenge was in a column that discussed how to set good, challenging goals.
To achieve 12 consecutive months of riding from Loveland, Colorado to the mountain town of Estes Park is not an easy accomplishment. There is often wind, rain, snow,more snow, rain mixed with snow and a shortage of time due to life that can get in your way.
Left to right: Lou Keen, Mike Keen, Bruce Runnels, Lee Rhodes, Scott Ellis, Sherri Goering, Pam Leamons, Brandy Staves, Darcy Tigis, Ron Kennedy, Peter Stackhouse (event host) and Jerry Nichols. MIA: Dennis Andersen, Kathy Forbes, Kirk Leamons, Todd Singiser and me.
For this year's awards, 17 people achieved the goal by December of 2011 and one person will score a solid 12 in April. This year Jerry Nichols made the awards and they were stunning – a big, big improvement from year one when my artistic talent with poo proved to be lame.
As with every year the dried, lacquered and glued elk poo was part of the coveted Turd Trophy. Jerry took that theme, added cycling chain and a collage photo of all the riders to make the great awards. He cleverly included a box of Elk Duds with each award, stating that extra poo was collected. (He was kidding and the caramel duds could be consumed by humans.)
Anyone living near Loveland is welcome to participate. Below are the basic rules.
Estes or Bust
Rules to achieve the world famousTurd Trophy Award
Rule clarification questions or rule change requests can be sent to email@example.com. The Rules Committee will review change requests.
Ride on!
As most people know by now, the federal grand jury has decided to drop the case against Lance Armstrong. A reader dropped me a note and asked if the information that grand jury gathered becomes public or if it is sealed?
I can see both arguments, taxpayers paid for the information so it should be public.
However, if reputation-damaging information is disclosed (whether it is Lance or others on the periphery) then what's the point?
Legal eagles, let me know on my Facebook page.
Here's a good winter workout for you Vasa Trainer users.
Do a warm-up of around 5 minutes. Then do the following swims at Zone 1-2 intensity (intensity guide in the free download section). Between each swim is a 30-second recovery interval, unless otherwise specified:
300, 200, 100
Rest 1 minute, then do:
4 x 50 at Zone 3intensity, keeping the rest interval at 30 seconds.
Swim easy Zone 1 to cool down for about 5 minutes.
The main goal of the workout is for pace to increase for each segment - i.e., 50's pace faster than the 100, 100 faster than 200, 200 faster than 300 pace.
One of the most frustrating things for endurance athletes to deal with is a winter weather. It's tough maintain fitness given cold and shortdays, but to get sick on top of it is maddening.
When I wrote the story on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, one thing that I learned from the research is that aerobic exercise builds the immune system, while long durations of high intensity exercise stresses the immune system.
I was never able to find what experts believe to be the threshold for how much is "too much intensity." Does 30 seconds of anaerobic work tear down the immune system? How about a minute? Is it cumulative? Does 5 minutes spread over an hour tip people over the threshold of tearing down the immune system?
In short, we don't know for sure.
When I have an athlete that is recovering from a cold, but not quite well yet (some seven to 10 days after the onset of cold symptoms), one workout I will include is intervals right around lactate threshold power (LTP). If you are using power now, you know your training zones based on a time trial. If you don't have a system now, you can reference the free download intensity document and chart used in my training plans to give you a place to start.
The workout
Warm up 10 minutes at Zone 1 to 2 intensity
Beginning at the 10-minute mark, do 10 x 1 minute at the prescribed power level. Take 4 minutes of easy spinning at Zone 1 to 2 intensity between each interval. Intensity levels for each interval are:
#1 and #2 = LTP minus 25 to 20 watts
#3 and #4 = LTP minus 20 to 15 watts
#6 through #10 = LTP minus 10 watts to plus 5 watts
For example, if your LTP is 200 watts, your intervals would go as follows:
#1 and #2 = 175 to 180 watts
#3 and #4 = 180 to 185 watts
#6 through #10 = 190 to 205 watts
I've found that this workout helps ease the athlete backinto higher levels of work, without being exhausting. I do adjust the intervals some, depending on the individual athlete. You may have to adjust the power levels some or reduce the number of intervals, but remember the main goal is to recover from the illness to 100-percent health.
Myth #1: Coyotes live in the country or rural areas. (They thrive in cities as large as Chicago.)
Myth #2: Coyotes are shy creatures and won't approach humans. (There were six reported cases of coyotes approaching and biting humans and 11 reports of human-coyote encounters through September of 2011 in Colorado.)
Myth #3: Coyotes are not pack hunters. (If you read the Chicago link above, you'll know that coyotes do indeed exhibit pack behaviors.I'll tell you about a dog getting killed by a pack of coyotes in Aspen later in the blog.)
In yesterday's blog I mentioned that my six-year-old Rhodesian ridgeback tangled with a coyote about three weeks ago. The incident happened in an open field that's close to my house. The field is owned by a developer that has not put houses on the land yet. The field is bordered by houses and city features on three sides, open foothills on the fourth side.
I have visited this field a few times, taking the dogs there for a walk or a romp. I go there because I don't have to deal with the goose poop that litters my local park. When the dogs eat goose poo, they can get a bacterial infection that causes extreme diarrhea.
Additionally, dogs are not allowed off-leash in city parks, even to chase balls, Frisbees or romp with each other. I let my dogs run off-leash in this field to burn off energy on the days I can't take them for a run.
You might wonder why I don't take them to a dog park. The closest dog park is a 30- to 40-minute round trip drive and I'd have more time invested in driving than exercising the dogs. Sometimes just 20 minutes of romping is all they need.
When I arrived at the field, I noticed there were no other people walking their dogs in the big rectangular area. Generally, I don't let the dogs off-leash when there are other dogs or people around. With the coast clear, I let Meeka off leash. Before I had time to let Addie off, Meeka tensed up and took off running like a bullet. I looked up and saw a coyote about 200 to 250 yards away.
Screaming my lungs out for her to "come!" did no good. She responds to the command correctly about 99.5 percent of the time. This was a bad time not to respond.
As I was running toward the pair, still yelling, I saw them touch noses and then a dog brawl broke out. Seeing your dog in an all-out battle is horrible. After only a few rounds, they broke it up and the coyote headed north, Meeka headed back to me.
I was worried about what I would see when she got to me.
When she got to me, I could see a bite on her rear leg. Luckily, the coyote didn't "hamstring" her. It was a skin wound and not a tendon wound. I'm assuming this is where the term "hamstrung" came from and that is when an animal severs the hamstring of another animal in order to cripple it.
I also noticed a bite in her side, where the coyote got a piece of her skin sliced open and pulled away from the underlying tissue a bit. It was "V" shaped with each leg of the "V" at about ¾-of-an-inch long.
I loaded her into the car and took her to the vet, which was only a few blocks away. When I arrived at the vet, the tech that checked me in asked if I saw any other coyotes. I didn't, but then I wasn't looking around much and didn't see the first one before Meeka saw it.
Just the day before, the vet tech had an experience in eastern Colorado where she lives. A lone coyote enticed her Doberman to chase. Her Dobie, normally good about returning on command, continued to chase the coyote and ignored her calls to "come."
The tech looked up and realized that the coyote was leading her Dobie back to the pack. She jumped on her four-wheeler and raced to break up the pending disaster. Luckily, she arrived in time and her Dobie wasn't attacked by the pack.
She told me should I decide to leave the dog off-leash that I needed to be aware that coyotes will lure domestic dogs into a chase. Sometimes the pack sends a playful female in heat to entice dogs to chase or play. Once lured back to the pack, the pack surrounds the dog and kills it. A dog was killed in Aspen last year prompting a statewide alert, which I somehow missed.
City-dwelling coyotes, like the ones in Bel-Air, California, find dogs in a backyard to be easy prey. One was killed on Christmas morning last year.
Meeka ended up with stitches in her hind leg, in three spots. She had stitches and a drain tube in her side. The tube came out in two days and the stitches were removed in two weeks. On the happy day her stitches were removed, she and Addie had a giant play-fest in the back yard.
Somehow, Addie ended up with a slit in her back leg so it was a trip back to the vet that day to get four staples in Addie's leg. (Hence two dogs in neck donuts.) We inspected the yard for nails sticking out of the fence, sharp corners on the b-b-q grill, etc. We can't find what caused Addie's injury. There's a chance it could have been a play accident caused by a tooth or foot nail.
Both dogs are happy and fine now. My long-term goal is no more vet visits due to injuries. The short-term goal is to make it one month. I'll build from there.
Knowing what I know now about coyotes, I'm afraid to let the dogs off-leash. I don't know how that will change, or if it will.
If you have, or have had, a dog you are surely familiar with "the cone of shame." The term became more familiar to non-dog owners in the film UP. The highfalutin term for the cone of shame is an Elizabethan collar. When a dog has had some sort of wound, surgery or stitches, the vet recommends putting the cone of shame on the dog to keep the dog from licking open the stitches or making a wound worse.
Below, you can see Meeka modeling the cone of shame.
You can hear her saying the same thing as the dog in Up, "I do not like the cone of shame."
An alternative that I wasn't aware of, until recently is the donut. The donut is more comfortable for the dog and doesn't cause as much house damage. Non-dog owners may wonder, "House damage?"
Yep, the dog goes bashing through the house allowing the cone to run into walls, corners, woodwork, coffee tables, nick-knacks, etc. I just know they are wishing to destroy the cone – whatever it takes. Below you will notice that Addie indeed destroyed her cone and managed to eat some of the parts. Don't worry, the parts came up (yes up – like in barfing) two nights later at 2:00am. Nothing will get you out of bed faster than the plunger-I'm-about-to-barf noise.
Addie was wearing her cone in late December when she got spayed. Meeka, in the first photo set, was wearing her cone and a t-shirt to cover the wounds she got during a kerfluffle with a coyote. (More on that in the next blog.)
The day Meeka got her stitches out, Addie managed to get a slice in her rear leg that required four staples. Two trips to the vet that day and three trips (due to multiple product problems) to PetSmart for donuts.January was a rough month.
Both dogs in donuts…
Man I'm glad January is over. The 1st to the 26th was rough. February has been much, much better.
The next blog is what I've learned about coyotes recently.
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Fighting for Peace. Screaming for Silence.
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Photo and caption by Christine Whorwood
In awe of Ireland's natural haunting beauty I glanced over at an old abandoned canon. To my surprise a rainbow was perfectly in line with the opening of the canon. Inspired, I took a photo and was reminded how we "fight" for "peace". It seemed the once violent war weapon, presented an illusion of a burst of natural beauty.
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The Cape's oldest weekly newspaper has been sold by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp to Newcastle Investment Corp, an affiliate of Fortress Investment Group, LLC, the principal shareholder of GateHouse Media.
GateHouse owns hundreds of weeklies and dailies, including The Barnstable Patriot's latecomer (1830 vs. 1836) rival, The Register. In a statement to employees, GateHouse Media CEO Mike Reed said that Fortress has engaged his company "to provide management services for Dow Jones Local Media Group."
In addition to the Patriot, the group purchased The Cape Cod Times, The Standard-Times of NewBedford, and The Inquirer and Mirror, founded on Nantucket in 1821. The sale included all 33 dailies and weeklies of The Dow Jones Local Media Group.
"Philosophically," Reed wrote to employees, "we will rely on the local publishers to maintain strong businesses, embrace new growth initiatives, communicate with you frequently, and nurture each publication's role in the community."
A subsequent statement from Newcastle said the purchase price for the Local Media Group was $87 million. The sale was made, according to the statement, with a total equity investment of $54 million, including transaction expenses, and $33 million in debt financing.
Newcastle, which said it owns 52 percent of GateHouse's $1.2 billion of debt, said it has reached an agreement with other creditors on a potential restructuring plan for GateHouse under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code.
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Acquired: Signed as a free agent by Detroit on July 17, 1985.
Drafted: QUE / 1980 NHL Entry Draft
Round: 5th (87th overall)
It wasn't until McRae signed as a free agent with the Minnesota North Stars in 1987, however, that he became an NHL regular. Landing smack in the middle of what was called the "Chuck" Norris division, McRae launched himself into a boiling pot of rivalries held within the division. With the North Stars, he became a fan favorite who racked up an average of 313 penalty minutes per season, during his five-year stint with the team.
McRae prided himself as an enforcer who always worked at improving his limited skills as a two-way player. He also played an honest game, respecting the rules whenever possible. He counts himself as a success, having lasted 16 seasons as an NHLer with throngs of critics, fans, and foes left in his path.
In 1992, McRae broke his leg and was then left unprotected in the expansion draft that transported him to Tampa Bay. There he broke his leg again before being shipped to St. Louis where he settled in for one final big-league run. He then put in eight games with the Blackhawks before retiring in 1996.
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Pubcon NOLA 2014 Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Bruce Clay, Inc. BlogMarch 18, 2014
#Pubcon Liveblog: How SEOs Can Deal With Algorithm Chaos
These three speakers (Jake Bohall, Bill Hartzer and William Atchison) will sort through issues of the volatile algorithm with the aim of educating and making us less vulnerable to the constant change. Jake Bohall kicks it off the session.
Bohall notes that in 2011, Eric Schmidt testified in front of Congress and said there were more than 500 changes to the Google algo. This graph shows just eight named changes. All the changes we don't even know about happening behind the scenes have an effect on what SEOs do.
We've also seen negative SEO rising. Matt Cutts has said that doesn't happen and it doesn't have any noticeable effect, but Jake sees a lot of it happening all the time because they're digging into link cleanup efforts.
Inconsistency with Guidelines: Google has clear guidelines that instruct webmasters to avoid tricks intended to improve search engine ranking including any links intended to manipulate PageRank or a site's ranking in Google results. Even "natural" links would be considered a way to improve your ranking, so there's some inconsistency there.
So what's an SEO to do? Read more of #Pubcon Liveblog: Algo Chaos.
#Pubcon Liveblog: Keynote — Robert Cialdini On the 6 Universal Principles of Persuasion
Dr. Cialdini has changed the way business is done. Principles of Influence have come to be the measuring stick on which business decisions are made. Considered among the top business and marketing book lists. He has taught at Stanford's business school and Harvard's government school. He is the most cited social psychologist in the sphere of business.
He's going to talk about 2 things:
One is good for moving people in our direction, while the other is not. Uncertainty is a time when people freeze and want clarification before moving forward. So how do we persuade people that now is the right time and that what we suggest is the solution?
There's a challenge in that you may not know the exact merits that would solve the particular problem a consumer is facing. However, Dr. Cialdini can tell us the best way to present the information so that they open their ears and minds to the offering that you are presenting.
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VIDEO: Dallas Public Safety Committee Chair Dwaine Caraway gives NFL quarterback Michael Vick key to city
Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, who happens to oversee the City's Public Safety Committee, apparently thought it was a good idea to present NFL quarterback Michael Vick with a key to the city over the weekend.
Caraway tells our Rudy Bush today that he believes "a great majority" of the people of Dallas would have supported his decision, despite Vick's federal conviction for running a vicious dog fighting ring.
"I gave it to him, sure I did. The wayward children that were there needed to have hope," he said.
Read Rudy's full post on the interview.
What do you think about the decision to give Vick a key to the city? Good move?
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A man should always have an exit strategy: ours is to become Robocop after we die. And it turns out we've all been training for it our entire lives. Your body's loaded with durable metals that will one day be mined from your remains and used to make foil wrap. Or maybe that's not an economical plan. All we know is that much like Norway's music scene, the human body wouldn't function without metal. And speaking of metal, just like Ozzie at his least sober, you are Iron Man. And his lousy sidekick, Magnesium Boy. Plus eight other heroes thanks to these metals in your body:
10) Copper
Percent of Mass: 0.0001%
Copper is very in demand these days, so don't let any thieves know you have any inside you, or they may stripmine your cells for it. Assuming you're a Man Cave writer, you're a 200-lb. pillar of pure, rippling muscle. That's enough copper for roughly 1.5 pennies – but only the copper coating (modern pennies are 97.5% zinc).
9) Lead
Percent of Mass: 0.00017%
Occupying a mere portion of your frame, here's the heavy metal that drove Roman emperors mad and caused centuries of headaches and fatigue for printers. Lead is toxic at any dosage, so congratulations! You were born into poisoned madness. And you'll probably die of a blood clot after marrying your horse. But a more positive way to look at is now you have an excuse to go crazy now and then.
8) Strontium
Percent of Mass: 0.00046%
Strontium! That's something to do with nuclear power! We know you have dreams of firing radioactive blasts from your fingertips, but sadly, naturally occurring strontium is stable. Besides, if everyone could do it, it wouldn't be a superpower. Sadly, some people do get Strontium-90 (the fission byproduct) in their system, and it takes the express train to their bones. Basically, if Peter Parker had been bitten by a radioactive spider in the real world, he would have died of a horrible cracking bone disease. Not you, though. You're strong–STRONTIUM strong!
7) Rubidium
Percent of Mass: 0.00046%
Silicon had enough percentage to take this spot, but we're not dealing in metalloids, son. Rubidium reacts violently with water, much like demons in an M. Night Shyamalan film. And just as that movie was a really dumb metaphor, this is a really dumb metal for the human body to contain, especially since it's biologically useless. It gets in by passing itself off as potassium. We're not sure how why it doesn't react with all the water in your body, but the answer is probably science or something.
6) Zinc
Percent of Mass: 0.0032%
In addition to having the best name that doubles as a sound effect for sharpening a knife, zinc is what keeps you growing. Sadly, you do not contain very many pennies, so you cannot leave yourself in a tray at the Qwik-Mart so a beautiful woman can take you if she needs you.
5) Iron
Percent of Mass: 0.006%
Even at a thousandth of a percent, iron's prevalent enough in the human body to make a three-inch construction nail. Just don't try hammering it with your forehead unless you're brimming with other metals. Here, you'd better drink this vial of strontium just to be safe. THERE'S NO TIME FOR QUESTIONS!
4) Magnesium
Percent of Mass: 0.05%
Like spark plugs in a car, magnesium is that one little kick that the whole mechanism requires to get moving. Do you like having DNA? Thank magnesium. It's the coolest metal: it barely weighs anything, it makes life possible, and it starts fires. Magnesium is just like that absolutely insane girl you dated junior year of high school. (Hi, Danielle!)
3) Sodium
Percent of Mass: 0.15%
A 200-lb. human body contains a little under 1/3 lb. of sodium. Whew! That's a lot of table salt. Or baking soda. Or baking powder. Look, no one's judging how you ingest your precious metals, even if it is in big, powdery fistfuls, as your dry tongue whips impotently around your desiccated lips. Anyway, the point is, a canister of table salt is usually 737 g, and it takes almost a fifth of that if you intend to cook up a fully functioning clone of yourself. Americans eat almost 50% more sodium than we need each day. Are the world's millions of death due to hypertension worth the explosive flavor of a perfect steak? Yes. The answer is yes.
2) Potassium
Percent of Mass: 0.25%
Man, one metal left and we're still at fractions of a percent. Still, a 200-lb man is toting around half a pound in potassium: he must eat a lot of bananas. Who'd have guessed that in our culture of salty cuisine, you'd have more potassium than sodium in your system? The two elements are similar, though. In fact, if you have too much sodium, your doctor will recommend you switch from table salt to salt substitute, which, is in fact, no substitute at all, but a different kind of salt that uses potassium instead of sodium.
1) Calcium
Percent of Mass: 1.4%
In addition to having one of the coolest electron configurations on the periodic table, calcium is your one-stop element for bone fortification. It's found in your bones and teeth as hydroxylapatite, with its grizzled partner, phosphoric acid. Their methods are unorthodox, but dammit, they get results, considering they're the only part of your body that even stands half a chance against physical trauma.
So there you have it! Don't let anybody ever tell you you're worthless. You're nature's scrap metal shop, baby!
Brendan McGinley is editor round these parts when not writing comics or Cracked columns. He has an 11th metal in his body, and no it's not adamantium. Ask him about it on Twitter @BrendanMcGinley.
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For the second time Sunday afternoon the Pittsburgh Penguins had let a lead slip away -- and the momentum along with it -- after John Carlson's wild goal tied the game at 4:03 of the second period.
Chris Kunitz and the Penguins wasted little time in responding though, as moments later Kris Letang and Kunitz scored just 37 seconds apart, sending Kunitz on the way to a hat trick and putting Pittsburgh ahead for good in an eventual 6-3 win against the Washington Capitals at the Verizon Center.
The win puts Pittsburgh just one point behind the Boston Bruins for the top spot in the Eastern Conference.
Carlson's goal had seemingly turned the game on its head early in the second, when his clear from the neutral zone took a sharp bounce off glass and trickled into the net. Penguins goalie Tomas Vokoun had already left the crease to play the puck behind the goal, but instead watched the Capitals celebrate a game-tying score. Carlson, skating to the bench for a change, had his back to the net when the puck went in.
"I really like our team responding to that bad bounce that happened on the wall," Pittsburgh coach Dan Bylsma said. "Now it's 2-2 - and our team responded well with the penalty kill and getting some goals."
The Penguins initially took the lead just 3:37 into the game when Paul Martin took the puck off a clean faceoff win by Sidney Crosby and wristed a shot from the blue line that was deflected past Washington goalie Braden Holtby. Holtby would make amends 56 seconds later by stoning Zach Boychuk twice on a breakaway. Just over half a minute later, the Capitals' Mike Green tied the game on a rising one-timer from the edge of the right faceoff circle.
Pittsburgh took a 2-1 lead into the locker room after the first period courtesy of a one-timer by Deryk Engelland that slipped through a screen put on by Matt Cooke, but the Penguins wouldn't take control of the game until Letang and Kunitz scored in the second period. Kunitz scored again at 13:59 of the second to put the game out of reach and capped the victory with his third goal of the afternoon with just eight seconds to go in the third.
Kunitz thought he scored four instead of three, saying he got his stick on the puck to redirect Martin's shot from the point in the first period.
"I didn't know they took the other one away from me," Kunitz said. "That's how it bounces. No one really cares around here. ... We're worried about the two points."
Mike Ribeiro scored his second goal of the season for Washington 3:33 into the final period. Vokoun finished with 21 saves on 24 shots to get the win for Pittsburgh. Holtby made 20 saves on 26 shots for the Capitals, who have lost seven of nine and remain seven points out of first place in the Southeast Division.
"I think the biggest thing is just our mental game right now isn't strong enough," Holtby said. "We're playing a good team game. It's just those little breakdowns, and like myself on that third goal."
We made a couple mistakes, but other than that, I thought we played a good, solid hockey game," Caps coach Adam Oates said. "Yeah, there's things we can do better, of course, and we'll address that, but I don't look at that game as that it got away from us, because we were playing well."
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Paul Collingwood and Dale Benkenstein tipped the balance Durham's way on the first day of the LV= County Championship Division One relegation battle against Surrey at the Emirates Durham ICG.
The experienced duo shared an unbroken stand of 61 to take Durham to 119 for four after Surrey chose to bat first in sunny conditions and were dismissed for 129.
Durham slipped from 37 for one to 58 for four and Collingwood initially looked ill at ease, edging Tim Linley for four and surviving a big lbw appeal from Jade Dernbach.
But in the battle of two four-man seam attacks, Durham carried much more threat as Ben Stokes emerged with a season's-best 4-40.
It threatened to be a frustrating morning for Durham until Stokes struck twice before seeing Jason Roy run out two balls before lunch.
When Arun Harinath was bowled by Chris Rushworth straight after the break, Surrey had lost four wickets for 26 and were struggling on 67 for five.
Harinath top-scored with 28 and put on 35 for the second wicket with with Rory Burns, who was bowled by a swinging yorker from Stokes.
Two overs later the all-rounder nipped one back to have Zander de Bruyn lbw for a duck.
The run-out then followed when Harinath looked for a single to square-leg and Roy failed to beat Mark Stoneman's direct hit.
Coming together at 80 for seven, Gareth Batty and Jon Lewis put on 37 - the latter pulling Rushworth in front of midwicket for six on his way to 23.
However, both men then departed with the total on 117 and it was not long before Durham were batting.
Stoneman fell in the third over, caught at midwicket off Dernbach, to bring debutant Keaton Jennings to the crease.
The former South Africa Under-19 captain, whose mother is from Sunderland, edged his first ball wide of the slips for four but otherwise looked very composed in making 23.
He was run out when de Bruyn made a diving stop at deep gully and threw down the stumps with Jennings unable to scramble back.
Stokes followed shortly afterwards, lobbing a leading edge off Linley to mid-on, but Collingwood survived 19 overs to reach 17 and Benkenstein prospered towards the end to finish on 40.
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The Sassafras LbNA # 11568
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Continue on for the next box in the fall foliage series, beyond The Oak letterbox also along Brooks Run.
"the Sassafrass"
Next to to river and through the woods keep running along the brook, We've got box #4 hiding so you'll need to look, two more brown rails line your trail. Then a ways up the road there's a "Hidden Valley" bumble bee gate on your right, but don['t be afraid it won't sting or bite. Next on your right you will see a little brown sign
that says Pine Valley
Fill you jugs
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Fresh mountain spring water. Standing with the porcelain tub on your left facing the road walk to the road and proceed about 10 steps from where you came in . You'll see the black water hose snaking under the road. Directly in front of you if you face the side where you parked you'll see 2 small, very smooth barked trees. If you go to them and grasp the "right" one with your left hand, your right hand will be free to go below the neighboring tree... and then you can set the sassafrass stamp free.
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Huntington, Tennessee native, Michael Dwayne "Mike" McLemore, age 67 died at his home on Sunday, July 15, 2012, after an extended illness. Mike will be remembered for his contributions to his chosen field of waterfowling, his love of sports, his charismatic personality, and his strong Christianity.
Mike was a Tennessean who loved duck hunting and made some of the best duck calls of any Tennessee call maker. He won the World Championship of duck calling three times. He also won the Champion of Champion Duck Callers Championship once.
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Zing welcomed their customers and friends along to an open day to celebrate being one year in their new premises in the Loughanhill Industrial Estate.
Not only have Zing, who began life as a business in 1960 under the title Display Aids Printing, managed to maintain their reputation over the years as a top quality printing business, but they have constantly pushed ahead in terms of innovation and technology.
Guests saw their online marketing and print automation service, PingPong in action.
Hot from its official launch at Belfast's Smart Business show, PingPong impressed visitors to the open day with its clever template based editing system.
Chamber President Ian Donaghey MBE remarked, "It's really great to see this magnitude of innovation from a business with such longevity as Zing.
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"Zing has clearly invested in something which could save local businesses a great deal of time and money, which is great for everyone really." Thanks for a great day, Zing.
It was wonderful to see one of Coleraine's longest standing businesses still going strong.
Zing highlighted their Ping Pong product at Northern Ireland's first ever Smart Business Show in Belfast - with some excellent feedback.


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On the day of the Strangling Ritual, the maiden was bound by ropes on her ankles, wrists, and neck. The ropes were attached to teams of oxen or horses to rip her limbs from her body, quartering her. The ropes used to bind her appendages would then be soaked in her blood and laid over the gateway of the portal. They believed that this would seal off the portal for another half century until the ritual had to be repeated.
During the last recorded Strangling Ritual it is said that the maiden had fallen in love with a man who tried to save her from the ritual. This "tie" to Earth tainted her blood and spirit and ruined the ritual altogether. Upon learning of the maidens love, the master took up his sword and brutally murdered all of his family members, before finally, in fear of what would soon happen, fell upon his own blade.
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I read all this white wash creative stuffff and want to puke . 50th anniversary of vet affairs denying claims to vets who are dying at an alarming rate of more than 3,000 per and v.a. aint doin nuttin for us. But God bless the gulf war vets they might have a better chance since the U S didnt poision EVERYTHING like they did in viet nam
Hope u and the trash v.a. sends have a great time. I thought you a vet orientated mag guess i'll save my monry next time. love u l8tr by phil
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|Aug 30, 2016
|As of 7.0.3, Rarity no longer tracks AOE looting. This is due to changes Blizzard made in the client that make it impossible to track. If this affects you and you'd like to see it fixed, here is the thread for it on the official forums: http://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20747794934 Rarity tracks how many times you've tried to obtain various rare items like mounts, battle pets, and toys. It will tell you how likely you are to obtain the item, track how long you've been farming for it,...
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|RaidChecklist RaidChecklist provides an at-a-glance overview of which core buffs, debuffs, dispels and crowd control abilities are available in the raid at the moment, and what class/spec/pet could bring each. It doesn't try to be a full-featured raid planner, but is instead targeted at those who want a more casual add-on which can assist them in putting together a balanced raid on the fly. It is also very useful for hunters wanting to pick a pet to fill a void in the abilities otherwise...
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|Keeps account of attendance, loot and DKP for raids, parties, battlegrounds, arenas and now solo for questing. Works with SexyMaps, Minimap Button Frame, Titan Panel, FuBar, and others for easy access menus, and a minimap icon if no other manager or bar is installed. Provides export strings for DKP for most popular DKP posting formats. Supports loot filtering via loot options window /rt io, or on the minimap menu. Chat commands: /rt - main window /rt o - options /rt io - item options /rt help...
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|Right now Recruitment is in the process of being written. So far, it does not work. Like, at all. I'll remove this disclaimer as soon as I've made sufficient progress. Until then, here's what Recruitment's about. About Recruitment Recruitment automatically sends guild recruitment ads to the GuildRecruitment channel. Usage Just to get it out of the way: one thing you can not change and will not ever be able to change is the chat channel Recruitment uses. The add-on sends its ads to the...
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|Recruiter AddOn for World of Warcraft Recruiter is a tool for coordinating recruitment activities accross guildmates. It is intended to help provide a consistent message in recruiting activities and prevent spamming community members with invitations. It is also useful for managing guild membership with tools for removing inactive members and banning players so they are not re-invited by a recruiter after being kicked from the guild. Features Show leads similar to the /who list with filtering...
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|Redprints Are you tired of hovering over each individual blueprint in your Garrison when looking for a blueprint you have not yet learned? Then this addon could be for you! What it does This incredibly lightweight addon will highlight all of the Garrison Blueprints your character knows in a colour of your choice. The default colour is red, but you can change it to green, blue or grey. Unlearned blueprints will remain the default colour and will be easier to find. Configuration The colour of...
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|This is a from-scratch version of Kaelten's old KC_Rundown/KC_Items addon from 2005, which has long since died. It was sorely missed in my household, and there were no replacements that fit my needs exactly. Necessity being the mother of invention, this addon was born. Rundown does substring searching of your bank and bag contents. It works cross-character and cross-realm, so you can track down where you left that stack of crafting materials. It can search guild vaults. It uses as little...
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|RoleCall allows you to easily see the talent specializations and roles of everyone in your group. Additionally, it allows you to set all group members' roles based upon their talent specializations, and to report to the group if specs and assigned roles don't match. Further, you can view talent choices and average item level for each group member.
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|Sends spawn and kill notifications of rare elite NPCs. Background When you target a rare or rare elite NPC, RareCaller will automatically announce the mob to the General channel. For example: [1. General]: Garrick Padfoot is up 57,48 (100%) Unlike RareCoordinator and RareAnnouncer, RareCaller is not limited to Timeless Isle, nor does it have a fixed list of rare and rare elite NPCs. RareCaller automatically learns the list of rares as they are discovered (using the UnitClassification() API)....
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|Tired of running tools like Raid Slack Check and Exorsus Raid Tools and getting inaccurate results? Want to stop being that guy that always alerts in LFR? Want to make sure people actually put the buffs on after checking? This is a stripped down buff checker designed to make sure everyone is ACTUALLY ready. Co-ordinates with others that have this addon to make sure that there isn't a giant pile of spam if everyone in the guild runs the addon. Localization Help Needed! Lots of work has gone...
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|Reflux is a small lightweight profile manager. With the coming of dual specs, and people building UI compilations. I built this little manager. Its goal it to allow you to quickly switch all your addon profiles in one fair swoop. For addons that don't support profiles it emulates a profile. All emulations are done by the user and none come pre-configured out of the box. The user chooses if he/she wishes to emulate a profile for any addon. Emulation is not needed for any addon that uses...
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Amir Khan has vowed he will never lose another professional boxing bout again as he prepares for his first fight in the UK for two years against American Julio Diaz next month in Sheffield.
The former world light-welterweight champion and Olympic silver medallist has lost his last two fights – to Danny Garcia and Lamont Peterson – and understands that his career, boasting 27 wins and now three defeats, cannot afford any more setbacks.
"It's a fight I clearly need to win," the 26-year-old year-old from Bolton admitted speaking from his training camp in Oakland, California.
"If I do it will take me back to challenging for the world titles I once held. You can say it's make or break time for me. It's the first time I'll be fighting in front of home fans for two years and I can't lose in front of them.
"In fact, after the Garcia defeat I've vowed never to lose another fight again. This time I won't cheat myself in training like maybe I have in the past. In fact, I started training for this fight even before the fight was on and the official training camp began. That's how motivated I am."
There has been some question marks over how big a challenge Garcia, 33, will present, even though he is a former IBK world lightweight champion who has not boxed for a year. Garcia insists he could end Khan's career.
"We're both under the same pressure," Garcia said. "A loss for Amir would be devastating. My plan is to capture one more world title and he's in my way of this. I'm training to knock him out and to hurt him because I don't want to leave it to the public and the judges in the UK."
Khan is also expecting fireworks in the ring, even if this is a 12 round, non-title fight at a catchweight of 143 lbs that sees him moving up from 140 and Garcia down from 147. "It's a fight between two guys who can both punch," he explained. "He's a former world champion who is very motivated and confident enough to take on this fight against me in front of my home fans. I respect him for that."
Khan also dispelled any notion that he is likely to fight either Kell Brook or Ricky Burns in the near future, although his personal views on the two British fighters contrast.
"Tickets are selling out for my fight really fast in Sheffield which is Kell Brook's home town," he said. "I went to Sheffield a couple of months ago and got mobbed in the streets. I can't imagine it's the same for him. I have to get past Julio Diaz forst and if or when I do then I'm focussing on fighting Garcia and Peterson again, not him.
"I'm a big fan of Ricky Burns and think he's a great fighter but after my next two or three fights I'll be moving up to 147 pounds and that means we'll probably miss each other in he rign because of our different weights."
Tickets for Amir Khan vs Julio Diaz can purchased from www.motorpointarenasheffield.co.uk or by calling 0114 256 5656
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Right when the TV series was in the offing, there were efforts to get Forum to bring the books back into print, including some e-mails from us urging them to that effect. The staggering popularity of the new novel, and the series in general following HBO's television adaptation, seems to have finally swayed Forum to give it another chance.
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Anybody but Newton.
Anybody but Bowers and Green.
^^ I'd be fine with any of those guys but Bowers.
^^ I'd be fine any of those guys but Bowers.
I don't want Bowers, thrilled with Green, DT or Peterson.
Is this really a thread? really?:shocked:
Yes it is.
any particular reason?
I think you meant anybody but Clausen.
anybody but you and this thread
Fairley is good for 1 sack and 2 personal foul penalties a game. If he can stay angry and not do silly things he will be a good one. Especially on passing downs


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2012 Center for Ancient Studies Symposium – Third Circular
Architecture and Construction in the Pre-Modern World
at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
30 March-1 April 2012
The symposium assembles specialists in various fields to examine building practices in the pre-modern world, with an emphasis on aspects of construction and structure in ancient Greek, Roman, Byzantine, medieval, and early-to-middle period Islamic architecture.
Note: There is no registration fee; however, if you plan to attend, please let us know at email@example.com. For updates on the symposium, visit our website at http://www.sas.upenn.edu/ancient/.
Accommodations: Due to exceptional popularity, rooms at the conference hotel (Club Quarters) are fully booked. For other hotels in the area, google: "Hotels near University of Pennsylvania." The Sheraton and the Inn at Penn are on campus; any hotel near Rittenhouse Square will be easily accessible to campus by public transportation or by foot.
Preliminary Schedule
All sessions will meet in Claudia Cohen Hall
Friday, 30 March
5:00-7:30 pm: Plenary Session I (Chair: Lothar Haselberger)
Organizers' Introduction
Lynne Lancaster, "Pendentives, Pitched Brick, and Diocletian's Dome in Split"
Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt, "Still higher and more audacious: The brick masonry of the imperial palaces on the Palatine in Rome"
John Ochsendorf, "Engineering Analysis of Historic Masonry: Challenges and Opportunities"
7:30: Reception
Saturday, 31 March
8:30 Coffee
9:00-10:30: Plenary Session II (Chair: Renata Holod)
Katia Cytryn-Silverman, "Pragmatic Building Techniques in the Early Islamic Period as evinced from the Tiberias Excavations"
Lorenz Korn, "The Great Mosque of Golpayegan (Iran). Architectural survey and archaeological soundings"
10:45-12:15: Parallel Sessions
III. Technology in Context (Chair: Frank Matero)
Katja Schröck, "A Comparative Look at Stone Setting Techniques"
María de los Ángeles Utrero Agudo, "Building Churches in the 8th-10th Centuries in the Iberian Peninsula. Technology and Context"
Pere I. Schneider, "Detecting Ideas of Rationalization in Medieval Islamic Building Design: The Case of the Rizk Camii in Hasankeyf, Turkey"
IV. Workshop Practices (Chair: Michael Davis)
Nikos Tsivikis, "Considerations on Chronological and Geographical Limits of Early Byzantine Architectural Planning: The Case of Some Monuments from Greece"
David Khoshtaria, "Medieval Architectural Design and Building Process According to the Sculptural Images of the Church at Korogo"
Chris Henige, "The Contractors of Chartres Revisited"
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00: Parallel Sessions
V. Large-Scale Experiments (Chair: Brian Rose)
David Wendland, "Analytical and Experimental Studies on Geometric Design and Construction of Late Gothic Vaults"
Marco G. Brambilla, "Large Scale Building Techniques in Ilkhanid Iran"
Attilio Petruccioli, "Fathpur Sikri: Indian Wood Architecture Materialized in Stone"
VI. Urban Buildings (Chair: Robert Maxwell)
Giulia Annalinda Neglia, "Architecture and Construction of the Dead Cities in Northern Syria"
Bernhard Flüge, "Construction and Conception Techniques of Residential Buildings and Urbanism in Medieval Europe around 1100 AD: The Example of Cluny, France"
Judith Ley, "Building Construction at the Turn from Antiquity to the Middle Ages: The Carolingian Palace in Aachen"
3:15- 4:45: Parallel Sessions
VII. Building in Time (Chair: Ann Kuttner)
Allyson McDavid, "Renovation and Redesign in Late Antiquity: the Hadrianic Baths of Aphrodisias"
Robert B. J. Mason, "Monks and Masons at the Monastery of St. Moses, Syria"
Karin Uetz and Manfred Schuller, "A Close Look at the 11th-Century Cross-Domed Church of St. Mark's, Venice"
VIII. God is in the Details (Chair: Alessandra Ricci)
Seth Bernard, "The Two-Piece Corinthian Capital and the Strategies of the Roman Builder"
Stavros Mamaloukos, "Observations on the Doorways and Windows in Byzantine Architecture"
Ahmed E. Wahby and Dina Montasser, "The Ornamented Domes of Cairo: The Mamluk Mason's Challenge"
5:00- 6:30: Parallel Sessions
IX. Logistics and Materials (Chair: C.L. Striker)
Brian Sahotsky, "Masons, Materials, and Machinery: Logistical Challenges in Roman Building"
Jordan Pickett, "The Energetics of Monumental Construction in the 13th Century: Four Cross-Cultural Case Studies"
Philip Brune, "The Re-fabrication and Fracture Testing of a Trajanic Mortar"
X. Arches, Vaults, and Domes (Chair: Michael Meister)
Bernard O'Kane, "The Carved Stone Domes of Cairo"
Stefan Bürger, "Irregularity as a Stimulus for Order or an Impetus toward Chaos: The Virtuoso Art of Stone Masonry in the Marienkirche in Pirna"
Stefania Petralla, "Arches and Ribbed Vaults of the Iranian Tradition"
7:00 pm: Speakers' Dinner chez Ousterhout
Sunday, 1 April
8:30 Coffee
9:00-10:30: Plenary Session XI (Chair: Robert Ousterhout)
Dimitrios Athanasoulis, "Masons and Workshops in the Medieval Peloponnese."
Gionata Rizzi, "Masons, Masonry, and the Mysteries of the Façade of Parma Cathedral"
10:45-12:15: Parallel Sessions
XII. Architectural Transmissions (Chair: Campbell Grey)
Oleg Ioannissian and Gleb Ivakin, "Construction Materials and Building Constructions in the Architecture of Medieval Rus' from the X to the Beginning of the XII Centuries"
Heather Grossman, "On Transmission and the Practice of Building in the Crusader Mediterranean"
Michalis Olympios, "Architectural Legerdemain: Some Remarks on the Design of the West End of the Cathedral of St. Sophia in Nicosia, Cyprus"
XIII. Structure and Construction (Chair: Eric Ivison)
Nikolaos Karydis, "Limiting the Use of Centering in Vault Construction: The Early Byzantine Churches of West Asia Minor"
Matthew Savage, "Observations on a Vault Construction Technique in 9th- and 10th-Century Constantinople"
Charles Anthony Stewart, "Flying Buttresses and Pointed Arches in Byzantine Cyprus"
12:15- 1:15: Concluding Session XIV
Respondent: Kostis Kourelis
Closing Remarks: Lothar Haselberger, Renata Holod, Frank Matero, Robert Ousterhout
1:15 Lunch
Getting There
Philadelphia is easily accessible with an international airport and good train service. Taxis are plentiful. From the airport a taxi to center city will cost around $30; there is also train service from the airport via campus [University City station, just off the southeast corner of the map] to 30th Street Station [at 30th and Market Streets, just off the northeast corner of the map].
If you travel by Amtrak or a regional train, you will arrive at 30th Street Station. A taxi from there to the Rittenhouse Square area will cost around $10.
All sessions will take place in Cohen Hall [#1 on plan] on the University of Pennsylvania campus. From Club Quarters or the Rittenhouse Square area, take the 42 bus on Walnut Street going west; it will cross the river and turn onto 34th Street. Disembark at 34th and Spruce Streets [*] by the Irvine Auditorium [#3]. City buses cost $2 cash. Walk past Houston Hall [#2] to Cohen Hall; use terrace entrance.
To return, catch the 42 bus at the corner of 33rd and South Streets [*] at the corner of the Penn Museum [#6]. It will go toward city center via Chestnut Street.
From the Sheraton [#7] or the Inn at Penn [#8], enter campus via 36th Street. Parking garages are indicated by P on plan.


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DENVER (AP) - Littleton's Becca Huffer two-putted only seven times to shoot an even-par 72 to take the lead at the class 5a high schol girls' golf tournament at Raccoon Creek Golf Course.
Huffer finished fifth last year after winning the medal in 2006.
Four other players were tied for second place five shots back at 77, including defending champion Brooke Collins of Monarch, Bethany Buchner of Loveland, Robin Lee of Highlands Ranch and Melissa Martin of Central (G.J.).
Highlands Ranch lead the team scoring with 237, followed by Cherry Creek at 254, and Grand Junction at 257.
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A portion of the service for certain Jewish festivals, consisting of Psalms 113–118: [as modifier]: the Hallel psalms
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- It was a better way of thanking God for salvation than just reciting the Hallel, which is also recited on other major festivals.
- The primary motif is Hallel, thanking Hashem for the great miracle of Jewish survival in general and Chanukah in particular.
- He also argued that the evidence that the Hallel would have been sung at the Passover meal, came from the Talmud, which was written 300 years after Christ.
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From classical to jazz study, the saxophone teachers are fun and educated instructors that will not only have you playing on the first lesson, but understanding what it is you are playing. Lessons focus on a number of music studies including classical and jazz theory, musical notation, improving sight reading skills, and memorizing major and minor scales. Music lessons are given on site at our studio located in Minneapolis Dinky Town, or in your own home. Parents are welcome to attend lessons any time they like.
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Bridal event planned for Jan 6 at college
Bridal Extravaganza 2013 will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. Jan. 6 at Dyson Baudo Recreation Center at Marietta College. Registration is at 12:30. Admission is $5 per person.
For information: Marcia Stewart, 376-2679 or www.mariettabridalshow.com
Watertown Twp. to hold meeting
Watertown Township will hold a year-end business meeting at 8 a.m. Dec. 31 at the township building. The 2013 organizational meeting will be held immediately following the business meeting.
AEP response to outage topic of talk
The December program of the Marietta Natural History Society will be presented by Paul Prater, community affairs manager for AEP in Ohio and West Virginia. His topic will be "How AEP Responds to Widespread Power Outage." He will be speaking about the extraordinary coordination and collaboration involved across the country as utility crews are dispatched after an event of this magnitude. This presentation will be at 7 p.m. Thursday in Selby Hall, Room 150 at Marietta College. The public is invited to attend.
Food pantry to hold Christmas 'sale'
The Western Washington County Food Pantry in Vincent will hold a $2-a-bag Christmas clothing sale through Dec. 31. The hours are 10 .m. to 1 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays and 1 to 4 p.m. and 5:30 to 7 p.m. Thursdays.
For information: 678-1065.
War-era wedding topic of program
Laura Seebaugh of Waverly, W.Va., will bring a program to the Western Washington County Historical Society at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Barlow Library. For more than five months, Seebaugh researched a Civil War-era wedding and then spent more than $20,000 recreating a wedding with authentic 1861 details. Cindy Mallahan of The Village Cakery will make a miniature version of the cake she made for the wedding. Visitors are welcome to attend.
Library to show 'Oliver' on Dec. 29
Adults of all ages are invited to a Saturday afternoon matinee featuring the classic musical "Oliver" at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 29 in the Marietta Library meeting room at 615 Fifth St.
To register, stop by the Information Desk or call 373-1057, Ext. 208.
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We Americans like war more than good health
Here's a question: Why is it that this country knows how to go to war with Iraq, send hundreds of thousands of soldiers, many to die, ship loads of equipment, and spend trillions of dollars, all on a place thousands of miles from our shores, but we just can't figure out how to give decent health care to all our citizens right here in the U.S?
Maybe, just maybe, it's because we just like war a lot more than we like good health. What do you think?
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Mixtape: 9th Wonder – Black American Gangster
January 1, 2013 | Mixtapes/Albums
Producer 9th Wonder has released countless remix projects before and today he returns with another one. This time he gives us his take on Jay-Z's 2007 album "American Gangster".
Tracklist and download link below.
Download: 9th Wonder – Black American Gangster
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