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Helping researchers deliver impact
What is impact?
Impact is the demonstrable contribution that excellent research makes to society and the economy.
Research grant applicants are encouraged to explore, from
the outset, who could potentially benefit from their work in the longer
term, and to consider what could be done to increase the chances of
their research reaching those beneficiaries.
According to RCUK, applicants are encouraged to think
carefully about the three questions asked within the Impact Summary and
Pathways to Impact section of applications-
- Who might benefit from their research?
- How might they benefit?
- What will be done to ensure that potential beneficiaries have the opportunity to benefit?
What we offer
UCL Public and Cultural Engagement (PACE) can offer help and assistance to deliver impact. We can help you to:
- develop an exhibition to showcase your research, creating a forum for the public to engage with your research
- organise events and advise on the development of workshops geared towards your preferred target audiences, stakeholders and partners
- host events, workshops and receptions in our museum spaces and the Bloomsbury Theatre
For detailed museum impact case studies search the database on the dedicated UCL Research Impact website. The following examples and costing sheet also give an overview of our offer. Impact costings guide (.doc 41KB)
Small installations
Slade school graduate Mike Tuck and artist Will Tuck approached the Grant Museum with the idea to create the first exhibition of artworks by multiple animal species and to use the unique setting of the Grant Museum to display paintings by elephants, chimpanzees, gorillas and orang-utans next to remains of the species that created them. The exhibition challenged definitions of what counts as art as well as raise issues of ethics.
The exhibition was co-curated with the Grant Museum
manager, Jack Ashby who used his expertise in interpretation and
marketing to deliver an engaging and accessible exhibition to the widest
audience possible. UCL's Exhibitions Co-ordinator Susie Chan mounted
the works on paper and installed objects and display equipment in the
museum. Grant Museum Curator Mark Carnall arranged borrowing objects
from other museums to support the exhibition.
The exhibition was incredibly successful, receiving
extensive national and international press coverage including radio and
televisioninterviews, exhibition reviews and listings. Art By Animals
featured in over 40 publications reaching millions of people from BBC
radio, television and web coverage to The Sun newspaper and Spanish,
French, German and Irish interest.
The exhibition attracted thousands of visitors to the museum and was extended due to demand. The total cost of the exhibition was £850 and 1-2 weeks of staff time.
Large exhibitions
Object Retrieval
Object Retrieval was a mass participation art project that took place from 15-21 October 2009 on a converted Routemaster bus in the main UCL Quad on Gower Street, London.
Object Retrieval was a project by internationally
renowned artist Joshua Sofaer and UCL Contemporary Projects Curator
Simon Gould, in association with UCL Museums & Collections. It was
funded by the Wellcome Trust.
A single object from the UCL Pathology Collections was
exhibited on the bus and explored by thousands of people from their own
personal or professional perspectives for 7 days, 24 hours a day. These
explorations were recorded on the project website in a wide range of
media. The results were astonishing with contributions ranging from the
hyper-scientific to childhood memories via the Gospels, Jack Kerouac,
psychoanalysis and pretty much everything in between. While the event
only lasted a week the knowledge and ideas that surrounded the object
are still being generated to reveal new meanings.
Short-listed for a Museums & Heritage Award for Excellence in 2010, Object Retrieval worked equally well as an art project, public engagement, educational initiative, experimental research methodology, meditation on museum interpretation or a fun day out.
Museum events
UCL Museums & Public Engagement run over 100 events per year from public lectures through to debates, comedy evenings, hands on sessions and film screenings that are attended by hundreds of visitors. The events are programmed, marketed and evaluated by staff at the museums to deliver high impact engagement to UCL's key audiences in the campus and beyond.
By working with museums and collections to run an event you
will receive guidance on how to plan an event to be as engaging as
possible as well as accessing the established audiences of the events
programme. Furthermore, the established marketing channels used by the
museums bring the events to the widest possible audience and are
regularly marketed through Timeout, UCL Brain Food and many online
listing sites.
Beyond the event itself, UCL Museums & Public Engagement has expertise in undertaking evaluation to demonstrate success and there are options for follow-up activities including event write ups on the UCL Museums Blog or the UCL Events Blog.
The UCL Museums are some of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring places on campus and play host to a number of receptions be it a book launch, AGM or networking event. Hosting a reception with a twist can be a great way to facilitate networking adding a sense of grandeur to proceedings in the relaxing atmosphere of a museum.
Bloomsbury Theatre Studio
As of April 2015, the newly renovated Bloomsbury Theatre Studio will be
available year round for UCL departments, Professional Services and
students to programme activity and events in.
We invite staff and
students across the university to submit proposals, in keeping with the
Studio's strategic and artistic objectives and programming vision. A panel will meet three times a year to consider bids. The first
deadline for bids was in February 2015.
For further information and for guidance on the application procedure and programming objectives visit the Bloomsbury Theatre's UCL Usage pages.
Contact Hannah Umar (firstname.lastname@example.com ext. 32462) to discuss pFACT costings.
Contact Krisztina Lackoi (firstname.lastname@example.com ext.32211 ), Research Coordinator for Museums and Collections, for collections-based enquiries and to be put in touch with a Museum staff member.
The Public Engagement Unit will be happy to advise you on planning and delivery of impact and public engagement activities.
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Zinoviev, Alexander
Zinoviev, Alexander 1922–
Zinoviev is a Russian novelist, philosopher, and logician. His first novel, The Yawning Heights, mocks philosophical thought, particularly Communist ideology, and is full of puns, fury, and disgust. Its tone, subject matter, and style have prompted critics to compare Zinoviev to Rabelais, Hobbes, Swift, Orwell, and numerous other satirists.
Aleksandr Nekrich
[In Ziyayuschiye vysoty (The Yawning Heights)] Zinoviev has succeeded in doing what no historian, philosopher, or social scientist, either in the West or the Soviet Union, has so far been able to do. He has illuminated the closed society from within, in all its hidden, twisted psychological complexities. By rigorously telling the truth Zinoviev has removed the coverings from this system; even the most deeply concealed parts of the organism, seemingly the least accessible to observation, have not escaped his attention.
In the tradition of Hobbes, Voltaire, Swift, George Orwell, Anatole France, and of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, the great Russian satirist of the last century, Zinoviev has written a savage satire on a contemporary closed society, one highly reminiscent of Soviet society. His book is in fact a profound sociological study—I would call it the anatomical study—of the kind of society one finds in the Soviet Union. Zinoviev also appears in this book as a brilliant analyst of contemporary society in general, presenting his own original ideas on the state, ideology, morals, and laws of our times. His book is not only topical but of immense value both for specialists and for general readers.
In keeping with the traditions of the genre, Zinoviev has invented … a place not shown on any map, which does not exist in reality. He calls it Ibansk (a double pun on the most common of Russian names, Ivan, and the verb yebat—to fuck; hence Ibansk might be called a "fucktown for the Ivans")….
In the state of Ibansk, all the inhabitants have the same name, Ibanov, as if to underline not only their common ethnic origins but also their social and psychological homogeneity. But the author assigns special nicknames to various Ibanovs whose writings or statements figure in the pages rescued from the Ibansk garbage dump, names that hint at certain real figures; for example, Pravdets (Truth-Sayer) is Solzhenitsyn and Mazila (Dauber) is the sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, reportedly a friend of Zinoviev. We may suspect that Soviet readers will recognize other figures behind such names as "Shizofrenic," "Member," "Thinker," "Pretender," or "Babbler."
None of these characters appears to us as a person with a life of his own, and indeed the author's...
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John Leonard
Although it calls itself a novel, "The Yawning Heights" defies categories, and perhaps description. Satire? Philosophical romance? Encyclopedia? Obsequy? It is Gogol with elephantiasis. It begins lumpy, achieves an astonishing texture, goes on almost forever, and ends in despair. It contains and dissects and reviles Soviet bureaucracy, rhetoric, science, psychology, philosophy, literature, art, theater, music, medicine, politics, education and journalism. There isn't a Soviet intellectual known to the West who doesn't appear in its many pages, and there are hundreds unknown to us who strut and grovel and inform and disappear. The intelligentsia of the Soviet Union, in fact, is for Alexander Zinoviev what Paris was for Proust: rotten, but significant….
We are in Ibansk … where everybody's name is Ibanov. We distinguished among the Ibanovs, as they experience the total Ism, by their professions. Thus, one Ibanov is Sociologist, another Careerist, a third Colleague, a fourth Schizophrenic, a fifth Slanderer and so on. These designations, naturally, are false-faced. Thus, Dauber is a great artist, Slanderer tells the truth, Chatterer speaks profoundly, Writer is a hack and Thinker is a cretin. The exceptions to this deception are Boss (Stalin), Hog (Khrushchev) and Truthteller (Solzhenitsyn). None of them is described. We get to know them all too well by their words and actions.
There are more words than action. What these people do is talk, incessantly, brilliantly, and to very little purpose. They know...
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John Bayley
["The Yawning Heights" is monomaniacal,] complex, brilliant and fascinating. It is a huge book, a philosophical and sociological commentary on a country called "Ibansk," and it is made up of fragments, sober essays that break off and turn into narrative fantasies and anecdotes that merge into explosive soliloquy….
Mr. Zinoviev possesses ample scope and material as a satirist, enough to make Swift and Voltaire look like innocents and strangers to the wicked ways of the world. But Swift and Voltaire kept it short when they were being brilliant and sardonic at the expense of human hypocrisy and folly. Mr. Zinoviev writes every paragraph with a sort of passionate self-indulgence. Economy and understatement are not for him. In a sense this shows that he is not really a satirist at all but a prophet, a preacher, a voice delivering an endless tirade in the wilderness—and an investigator examining a society as tirelessly as Weber or Durkheim might have done.
Mr. Zinoviev is a humorist as well, a master of verbal clowning which, alas, does not come out alive in the translation, competent as it is. The name of his book is a complex pun. The point is that siyayushchie vysoty is a Soviet cliché, glutinously familiar in the mouth of every party hack: it means "gleaming heights"—of socialism, progress or whatever. Change the initial s into z and you get an immense yawn, of a human or an abyss. (p. 1)
There is something here of the weird hilarity in the title and text of "Dead Souls," but Mr. Zinoviev is not concerned to establish such an overpoweringly physical world as that of Gogol's masterpiece. His drab nightmare is built out of abstractions, attitudes, hypotheses….
But the yawn here is a bit contrived: hasn't the bottomless cynicism of Ibansk touched the author himself? He would probably admit it cheerfully. His own book is Ibanskian in the sense that it is obsessed with Ibansk and cannot see life except in terms of it. As a logician he is even in love with it, because it is a society that has calamitously succeeded in being what it set out...
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Deming Brown
As a work of literature [The Yawning Heights] is in many respects a disaster. At the same time it is the most thorough and profound examination of the Soviet regime, from the viewpoint of a disaffected intellectual, that has yet appeared….
Not a novel, The Yawning Heights is a frequently diffuse and inchoate mixture of lampoon, sober argument, diatribe and wild fantasy, its dominant tone one of monumental disgust. In a great many places its analyses of Soviet society are brilliantly incisive; in many others the book seems clumsy, turgid, repetitious and simply tedious. Its virtues come from Zinoviev's acute moral awareness and his intimate, brooding insight into the psychology of his people and their rulers. Its defects come largely from his inability, or unwillingness, to curb his own invention, to refrain from all-inclusiveness, and to observe the bounds of good taste….
The main intellectual threads of the book are to be traced in the monologues and dialogues of those figures who represent the intelligentsia—notably Dauber and several figures who seem to be spokesmen, at least in part, for the author himself—Bawler, Schizophrenic, Chatterer and Slanderer. Through them Zinoviev scrutinizes and savagely criticizes in depth almost every conceivable feature of Soviet existence and the Soviet moral climate. The Party, education, social institutions and behavior, individual and mass deception as a...
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Geoffrey Hosking
Alexander Zinoviev must be one of the world's fastest writers. It is less than four years ago that his first work (outside his professional speciality) was published, and that was a gigantic novel, The Yawning Heights…. Since then, he has published three more novels [The Radiant Future, Notes of a Night Watchman and Anteroom to Paradise]….
Yawning Heights [is] a rambling, surrealist presentation of the recent and future history of the Soviet Union in a variety of tenuously connected and often hilarious episodes….
On the one hand we have a superb satirist presenting an original and penetrating indictment of Soviet society. On the other hand we have...
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F. D. Reeve
If novels were events, "The Radiant Future" would be a circus. Despite its title, it is not science fiction, nor is it a romance about a collective farm: it is a book about the adventures of the mind…. "The aim of the book," Zinoviev writes about a book within this book, "is to give an objective description of communism as it really is from the point of view of its deepest underlying laws, its tendencies and its future prospects." The comment is appropriate to the book at hand.
"The Radiant Future," written in the form of dialogues and intellectual confessions and anecdotes by an unnamed narrator, is directed against the intelligentsia which defends an ideology that prevents people, capable of...
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Clive James
For The Radiant Future one's gratitude is unalloyed. It is nearer than The Yawning Heights to being an ordinary narrative and is thus easier for the reader to follow. There is a central character to get interested in and care about, even though he is not very likable. The central character is the narrator, head of the Department of Theoretical Problems of the Methodology of Scientific Communism…. The narrator's career as a philosopher has some resemblance to Zinoviev's own, and indeed it is possible that an element of self-hatred has been incorporated…. According to one of the cardinal principles of The Yawning Heights, it is impossible to flourish, or even grow up, in the Soviet Union while...
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>Runner's World - My Event Ratings>
In short: Kicks assIn full: A fantastic race well organised and reasonable price enjoyable run Date of review: September 22, 2014
In short: 2015 here we come In full: Only entered the half last Sunday really enjoyed the course glad to see the sights of Liverpool bands I saw we're getting ready so not as much music as I expected Only other gripe 45minutes to collect my bag at the end the gear check area needs sorting for next year separate the half and full woul be a start of water gels lucozade etc and a great finishing area plenty of toilets great bling at the end and decent shirtOn a warm day enjoyed my cold beer rock and roll on next year Date of review: May 25, 2014
In short: First trip to Birmingham In full: Who knew Birmingham had soo many hills !!! Enjoyable race organisation not as good as the Great North and the atomsphere was lacking in parts But overall would do it again and at least next time I know what to expect Date of review: October 20, 2013
In short: An undiscovered jewel in the North West calanderIn full: Well organised reasonable price if you enter early. Hilly for the first five miles but a good course and a run that has impressed me and i will be back next year Date of review: September 8, 2013
In short: Excellent In full: Excellent race run in rather warm conditions but the early start helped keep the conditions cool.Well organised did what it said on the can ran like clockwork The water in the carry pouches was an excellent idea and really helpful giving the heat.Lovely course that was made for speed merchants only down side not a lot of shade Good mixed ability field and a really great atomosphereDate of review: July 7, 2013
In short: OKIn full: Decent course, but need to look at the cost expensive Date of review: October 14, 2012
In short: I earned my Easter eggIn full: Nice way to start Easter Sunday a well organised friendly race that makes you want to come back year after year Date of review: April 9, 2012
In short: Merry ChristmasIn full: The Reindeer 10k simply the best Knowsley is a fantastic setting with a traffic free course thats takes in the safari park and the grounds of Lord Derby estate For a change the weather was good(ok a bit windy in parts) but a great race run with a really friendly bunch of runners all of whom entered into the spirit and wore both antlers and flashing noses. All in a good cause roll on next year Plus a free trip through the safari park as well Date of review: November 27, 2011
In short: First time so improvements can be madeIn full: ConsTraffic Management poor in placesLaps of Sefton Park boringCost on the steep side & poor goody bagDelayed start becuase of TM problemsProsGreat atmosphere for big city run Course good in parts Plenty of water stations For a first event this was good lots of issues that need working on especially TM plan that caused 45min delay and saw vehicles on the course in some places Also price on the steep side but races are getting more expensive Overall 6 out of 10 but could do better if they learn from the issues this yearDate of review: October 26, 2011
In short: The best aroundIn full: Love this race and 12th today. Ran it with a friend from the States and for a change ran with my head up and not worrying about a time.Saw more this than I ever have before yes the numbers are large but you know what to expect so no moans from me.This event is special and has the best atomosphere around made all the more special by the Red Arrows tribute to their fallen colleague.The only down side to this event is the expo which is a complete waste of time and needs a full overhaul.Will I be back next year? Yes love this race and the 54,000 friends I run with :)Date of review: September 18, 2011
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DAYTON — Watching video of Ohio State, Iona coach Tim Cluess didn't see much evidence of the Buckeyes playing at a high tempo. The Big Ten is a witness protection program for speed.
What little Cluess did see, though, gave him pause.
"I said to my coaching staff and my players that if they ever played at our pace, they may just really, really give us a problem," he said.
Ohio State did that tonight, and in the process ran the nation's second-highest-scoring team out of the gym.
The Buckeyes outscored Iona 34-11 in transition and 29-9 off turnovers in a 95-70 victory in their NCAA Tournament opener in University of Dayton Arena.
"We ran into a buzzsaw," Cluess said.
Deshaun Thomas scored 24 points on his son Deshaun Jr.'s first birthday, and Sam Thompson had career highs of 20 points and 10 rebounds, as Ohio State had its highest scoring output of the season and kept the Gaels 17 points below their average.
The Buckeyes (27-7), the No. 2 seed in the West Regional behind Gonzaga and winner of nine consecutive games, will play Iowa State in a third-round game at 12:15 p.m. Sunday. The winner advances to the Sweet 16 and a regional semifinal Thursday at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. In the late game, No. 10 seed Iowa State beat No. 7 Notre Dame 76-58.
Tavon Sledge led Iona (20-14) with 20 points. Guard Lamont "MoMo" Jones, the nation's third-leading scorer coming into the game with a 23-point average, was limited to nine.
The day before the game, Jones said he didn't think Ohio State's defensive dynamos, Aaron Craft and Shannon Scott, would be "something we'll have a problem with." Craft had six steals and, with Scott, Thompson and Lenzelle Smith Jr., limited Jones to three field goals in 14 attempts.
Craft said he had heard a few quotes from Iona players but "nothing specific" directed at him.
"We didn't want to make it a one-on-one type game," Craft said. "This was about our team and how we needed to play defense together. We did a good job of taking them out of their offense and kind of making them have to go one-on-one sometimes."
Jones said he would give credit where it was due. "Can't knock the guy," he said. "He played some good defense."
Ohio State feasted on Iona's turnovers to build a 27-8 lead less than 11 minutes into the game, gave up all but four points of the lead, then regained momentum with a 6-0 finish to the first half and a 9-0 start to the second. Thompson had 10 of the 15 points, including two dunks in transition that had fans standing and roaring as the grew to 52-33.
Thompson said he thought the Buckeyes' speed and athleticism surprised the Gaels.
"Defensively we were able to get some stops and get out in the open court off of missed shots and get some easy ones early on, and I don't know if they were expecting that or not," he said. "We set the tone."
A seven-point run brought Iona within 52-40 with 17:11 to play, but Thompson had four more points in a 12-2 run that boosted the margin to 22 points in the next three minutes and the Gaels did not get closer than 18 again.
"We said going in, 'If they want to run, let's run,'" Ohio State coach Thad Matta said.
"Our biggest concern was we weren't going to trade baskets with them. What happens a lot of times is we say we're going to run with them and we don't care if they score. That was not going to happen tonight. They got us in the first half on two transition baskets and that was a huge topic of discussion at halftime."
What Matta liked most about the pace was that the Buckeyes had 25 assists and only 10 turnovers. Scott and Craft had 17 assists and four turnovers between them.
"We made really good decisions," Matta said.
DAYTON — Watching video of Ohio State, Iona coach Tim Cluess didn't see much evidence of the Buckeyes playing at a high tempo. The Big Ten is a witness protection program for speed.


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Winter 2002
Volume 6 Number 2
Nineteen Princeton alumni/ae whose lives, congregations, and ministries were closely affected by the terrorism on September 11 in New York, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania share stories of that day and the weeks that followed. Many told inSpire how grateful they were for their seminary education at Princeton as they ministered in these difficult days. They witnessed to the gospel of God's love in Jesus Christ at a time when profoundly good news was needed.
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Imagine nothing.
Are you picturing empty space?
Guess what? Space is not nothing!
As explained in another Space Place Amazing Fact, the great scientist Albert Einstein said that space curves around mass. So if space can be curved, it must be "something," rather than nothing. How weird is that?
According to Einstein, the curvature of space by mass creates gravity.
For example, the Sun is a huge mass. It curves the space around it for billions of miles. The planets that orbit the Sun are really just following the curvature in space created by the mass of the Sun.
Many experiments have supported this idea.
Going a step further . . .
When a big boat moves through water, the water has to get out of the way to make space for the boat. The water has to curve around the boat! When the water moves out of the way, it makes ripples or waves on the surface.
Like a boat moving through water, massive objects moving through space make ripples or waves in space. A massive star or black hole moving through space causes waves in space. We call these waves gravitational waves.
A passing gravitational wave squishes and stretches, squishes and stretches space itself and anything in it, like this balloon.
Credit: National Science Foundation
As we gaze at a starry sky on a quiet night, we cannot imagine all the violence taking place out there. We do not hear even a whisper of the massive black holes that may be orbiting closer and closer to each other in a violent death spiral. We do not hear a massive star exploding in a supernova at the end of its life.
But these violent events create intense gravitational waves.
This video, made by a computer, shows how the gravitational waves might appear, if they were visible—which they certainly are not.
Credit: National Science Foundation
And these waves can be interpreted as sounds of a sort too—the kinds of "sounds" carried through space itself by the gravitational waves.
In the video below, a computer draws the waves produced when a star spirals into a massive black hole. The video squeezes one year into one minute. At the end, the black hole finally swallows up the star in one quick "hoo-it"! The gravitational waves stop. It is suddenly "quiet."
Credit: Steve Drasco, Albert Einstein Institute
A mission to "hear" gravitational waves
No one has yet detected a gravitational wave. Gravitational waves are very, very weak by the time they reach us from some far distant event. But scientists are very close to having instruments precise enough to sense these faint ripples in space.
LIGO is a mission to detect gravitational waves. LIGO stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory. Unlike the LISA (the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) mission to detect gravitational waves from space, LIGO will detect the waves from Earth's surface.
LIGO has two observatory locations: one in Washington state and one in Louisiana.
Each observatory has two long arms at right angles. Each arm is exactly the same length. Inside each arm is a long tube with a laser beam shining from one end to the other. Very precise instruments detect the slightest change in the length of the arms. A gravitational wave passing by will make one arm longer and one shorter, then the other way around, and so on. The difference could be as small as 1/1000th the width of a proton—one of the tiny particles inside an atom!
Scientists need both LIGO and LISA to study the objects and events that create gravitational waves. If gravitational waves were sound waves, LIGO hears the high notes and LISA hears the low notes.
LIGO and LISA each "hear" a different size of gravitational wave, which are created by different types of violent space events. LIGO will study pairs of very dense neutron stars that orbit each other and smaller black holes. LISA will study much more massive black holes found in the centers of galaxies like our Milky Way.


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I was very fortunate to be invited by Yukon Tourism on a trip to Whitehorse during the Olympic Games on February 20th, 2010. It was an absolutely amazing day! We left Vancouver on an 8:30am flight, spent the day in and around Whitehorse and were back in Vancouver just after midnight the same day. Awesome!
I will be posting a series of posts of my experience of that day, but one I would like to feature here is Captain Dick's Sourtoe Cocktail of Dawson City.
What is a Sourtoe Cocktail you ask? Well… you may be sorry that you asked… I tried not to think too much about it when I drank the cocktail and you will understand why in a moment…
A Sourtoe Cocktail is your choice of either Yukon Jack Whiskey or Klondike Vodka, both distilled in Yukon. Then… the Captain drops a dehydrated human toe (toe nail and all!), which is stored in salt, into the drink!
Before you drink it, the Captain recites, "the toe goes into your drink. You can drink it fast, or you can drink it slow. But the toe must touch your lips, and I must witness that."
As you will see in the video below, I became a member of the Sourtoe Cocktail Club that day. I received a certificate and wallet card to prove it! In fact, I am member number 34,958! Wow, that's a lot of people kissing a dead toe!
For more information about the Sourtoe Cocktail, please visit the Sourtoe Cocktail Club website.
For more photos of the event and more of the Yukon trip, please visit my Flickr page.


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (168 votes).
In short: Great PB courseIn full: As a former rower I have been to this venue close to 100 times I would have thought so knew what to expect. 2k rowing courses tend not to be overly exciting places but do offer pancake flat courses and no traffic. Really enjoyed the race and found there to be a full range of abilities. I did find that the heat got to me a bit in the 2nd lap and perhaps I could have hydrated better at the water stations, but overall a very good event and I'm looking forwards to doing this again next year where I hope I can smash my time from this year. Date of review: June 8, 2008
In short: Just missed a PBIn full: I don't think I can blame the course or organisation though. I thought i was going to enjoy this even more than I did. The long stretches, as one other reviewer has already said, are pretty dull - and I do prefer a bit of shade. Still brilliantly organised and can easily manage the numbers.Date of review: June 8, 2008
In short: I really enjoyed the scenery and run inspired pbDate of review: June 8, 2008
In short: Good flat, quiet (traffic free) location & well organised.In full: Nice setting - open space, flat & traffic free, with good PB potential...if only I had not run the Yateley 10k the Wednesday night before!!! Great goody bag & a nice medal. Will be back next year - many thanks to the organisers, marshals & pace setters. Must remember the sun cream next time...Date of review: June 8, 2008
In short: Excellent organisation, best goodie bags yet! Well done DD's!Date of review: June 8, 2008
In short: first time on this event but found it a bit bland, flat tarmac path for 10k around a featureless man made lake. gDate of review: June 7, 2008
In short: perfect 10K. Best goodie bag ever had!In full: Thanks to the marshalls, they were mega enthusiastic and cheery. Date of review: June 7, 2008
In short: Great venue, made for a PB, excellent organisation and superb medal and gooddy bag. New PB made it just about a perfect morning.Date of review: June 7, 2008
In short: i am quite new to running and enjoyed the flat course - going round twice was hardIn full: It is a good venue as you run round the Eton School boating lake and seems well organised. Lots of people bought family including chidren along and I can see that it is well suited to that as rhere is plenty of open space.Date of review: June 7, 2008
In short: Hot but fantastic!In full: My first Dorney Dash, will definitley be back next year. Great atmosphere, fantastic marshalling and excellent medal and goodie bag. Achieving a PB was the icing on the cake.Date of review: June 7, 2008
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because you were never a pizzamaker
Again you have intervened in this post talking about something you have never seen or used...
I have talked about two things I have seen and used.
If he was saying " I like to use one of these ovens to produce a pizza like this: http://www.pizzamaking.com/forum/index.php/topic,5028.0.html , well I would not even have intervened... It looks like was made for a supermarket shelf.
I have read many of Marco's posts and I do believe he is extrmely educated on brick ovens. However, he is pushing his own product and keep that in mind. He also feels the need to talk to people like he is the big brother and he has to talk down to you instead of trying to understand where you are coming from. So if the oven master wants to impress people and sell some of his ovens, I think a little respect from him would be appreciated. Who wants to buy an oven from someone that doesnt appear to have customer service and understanding.-Alessandro
There was nothing that could be seen as offensive about Marco's original reply to the post that Shango posted. [...] It doesn't seem to be at all disrespectful.
These are huge ovens, more like bread ovens then pizza as they also consume tons of wood and do not really cook quick enough for Pizza Napoletana.
I was letting Arti know that if we look at Marco's original reply to Shango, he seem to be offering a fairly reasonable response, in my opinion, to Shango's original question.
As a side note, I find it strange that you care about how this oven is represented. You don't work for the oven company. You don't intend on using one. You have no real world experience using the oven and for all intensive purposes don't know anything about it. Still you care about how it's being represented enough to try to argue with someone that has volumes of experience above you. I mean Shango never asked the forum members for there scientific analysis of the oven compared to other ovens, did he?
I just wonder why you would hijack the post in the first place. You don't know anything about the oven, never used it and will never use it but seem bent to argue about it and went so far as to take over the post. I forgot, it's because you care about how the oven is represented. Whatever.
1. The use of reasonability in my response relates to the fact that Shango was asking for an opinion and not some objective evidence about the oven. Marco's response is reasonable because Shango is asking for only an opinion. That's fairly clear to see.4. I didn't think this thread was about contributing technical information. Certainly, that wasn't what was asked by the person who started the thread. Is this the direction you want to take the thread?
Has anyone here heard of, used or know anything about these ovens?Any info would be appreciated.
Worse yet, you tried using the companies website to cast doubt on his opinion
Now can you comprehend why I have a problem?
November cares with facts and good representation, without having ever used one he thinks he can extrapolate all the info from few measurement... What a miss..
I struggle to see the difference with an home electric oven... and this is someone talking about wood ovens.....
Maybe if I just don't tell you where I am working it will be okay to post comments and pics..


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (4 votes).
In short: Amazing, never pushed so hard to finish. Satisfaction after finishing was fantastic, cannot wait until Hell in the middleDate of review: November 14, 2012
In short: Great laugh, tough event.In full: Loads of hills, mud, hills, water , mud, sand, hills, mud, water, mud hills (think I forgot to mention that it's a hilly course).First time down South, I've been Up North for 5 Hellrunners and In The Middle for 1. Matches up to the rest.Really enjoy the whole series and look forward to picking which to do next year!Date of review: November 14, 2012
In short: Ouch, I ache!In full: I knew it was going to be hard when I guy behind me said - oh they've changed the route this year - you'll like it if you like hills!Well, hills there were - hills and hills and hills. And where there weren't hills there was mud and water, and sometimes mud and hills together!Brilliant though - you've just got to laugh or you'd cry. Everyone's in the same boat (actually, a boat would've been nice!) so there are a lot of laughs, helping hands, and shoves on the bum to help you along. Will be there next year, but will spend the next 11 months strength training as I am wrecked today!Date of review: November 12, 2012
In short: Fantastic - great fun ! Laughed all the way round.In full: This the first time my friend and I have taken on Hellrunner, having spoken to many who had completed it before. Had a brilliant time, loads of mud, hills and wading chest deep in icy, muddy water. We laughed all the way, enjoying the friendly atmosphere of the other runners and marshalls. The kit was thrown away at the end - no amount of washing will get that clean! Can't wait to do it all again next year.Date of review: November 12, 2012
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marinate venison backstraps in italian dressing, garlic cloves, onion powder and pepper for about a day. Then put it on indirect low heat on the grill till it is done.
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Robert A. Wlodarek, age 75, of Bolingbrook, Ill., passed away January 26, 2013 with his loving family by his side.
He was born July 26, 1937 in Dunkirk, the son of the late Florian "Tup" and Blanche (Miga) Wlodarek.
Robert was a member of Cardinal Mindszenty High School's first graduating class in 1954. He lettered in football, baseball and basketball. Following graduation, he served in the U.S. Navy where he was a radio operator. He then attended Tri-State University in Indiana.
Mr. Wlodarek retired from the General Accounting Office (GAO) in Chicago after 30 years of service.
He was past president of Bolingbrook Community Basketball and served on the Little League board of directors for many years. He also was a coach for many years for Community basketball, Little League baseball and Flag Football.
Beloved husband of Marian (nee Hennig). Loving father of Joseph, John and Kathy. Also survived by a grandson; a brother, Tom and sister-in-law Pam Wlodarek, brother Joe Wlodarek and sister Jackie Wlodarek, all of Dunkirk.
Funeral services were held in Chicago.