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On the travel dreams: for a month I'd do small town Europe vacation rental. Somewhere rural in Provence, southern Italy or Tuscany. I've done a rental in Italy before, and booked but cancelled Provence because of pregnancy. Our kids' savings account is known as "the France account" with plans to return and do at least a week in a small village (St. Martin de Bromes is currently the top contender because of one house there that is both affordable and the kids love the online photos). For ten days I'm less certain....
Geo, I'm interested by less pain when you're focused on speed. Seems very "Born to Run"-ish. Fun, childlike running :)
Plady, hugs. I hope your DD finds her way. I've lived through some very socially awkward times, and totally feel for her. Also, I'm in Ucluelet right now and it's been not raining all day and even got sunny this afternoon! There are rain-free days in the rainforest. To consider for your trip: the Ucluelet aquarium was fantastic, with tons of touch tanks and about a 1:2 staff to visitor ratio while we were there. The staff were all super keen and showed and explained a lot of cool stuff to us. We've spent a lot of time at the Vancouver aquarium over the years, but I think I learned more today than in several visits there. Cathedral grove is amazing, as always, too.
kerc, I hope the rest of your repair is going smoothly!
real, tjsmama, and anyone else fascinated by climate change: you should listen to the This American Life episode called "In our backyards". It's about climate change and the impact on local levels, with a segment on Colorado.
real, maybe if you shove your knitting needles inside your 6' broom they will be allowable....
RR- 5k on the treadmill today. Hats off to everyone that does regular treadmill workouts. If I run there tomorrow I'll have to figure out how to work the tv.
NRR- I'm on the west coast (meaning the west coast of my island- 2 1/2 hours drive from home) for a childhood friend's wedding. Our room is amazing and I want to camp out in the bathroom with amazing tub, shower and heated tile. And the view is pretty spectacular!! The kids are currently enthralled with the big screen tv, and I'm taking advantage of the before sleep tv time to catch up and post.
towson, glad your dad is doing better. Will have to check out This is the End (when it gets to video, that is).
"Guess what? It's a magical world. And when I sing, my songs are in it."
Madly in love with my 7 and 4 year old daughters
everyone else~ and
Back at work for my first of three tonight. So far, the night is going decently. I don't have my student tonight, but will the next two, so I need to enjoy the peace and quiet and goof off as much as possible tonight! The air quality has improved (ie. you can't smell the smoke so much) but it's still definitely smoky in town. For the record, I am nowhere near the fires, and in fact, it would be MAJOR news if I were, because I live in the city proper. It would be a pretty apocalyptic forest fire to get to my section of town. Real is closer to forest fire areas, but still not that close to the current fires.
rr~I took a friend up one of my favorite climbing rides this morning. And I did the ride in my middle ring, without stopping in the switchbacks (steep section)! I don't know what's gotten into me lately! It was about 30 miles (15 up, 15 straight down), about 4800 ft of climbing.
Gaye, single mama to Tyler (5/06) and Baxter the labradoodle
Wait...I signed up to DO an Ironman??? I thought I was signing up to go SEE Ironman!
Whoa. Feeling less and less like a run today. Might just go out and walk a bit.
MelW, I would love links to the France place. Also, I listened to that TAL episode a few weeks back. It had me in tears, freaked out, the whole thing. I still talk about it. The discussion of the CO fires gave me goosebumps.
Gaye, that sounds like a great ride. And a very accomplished feeling at the end!
Geo, thinking about ds's eval, and I guess it does make sense for the pros to approach every least-resistance path as they go along. At any rate, I hope you get helpful information out of the interrogations and exercises. Something to help you with strategies on dealing with school at the very least.
Lofty, how different is the lifestyle up there vs. down there? Are you guys doing a lot of the same stuff, or are you also rabidly chasing from friend to family member to "catch up?" How long do you all stay up north?
Need non-fantasy fiction (or literary nonfiction) recommendations for ds. I like that he reads but I am not terribly pleased that his book choices are OMG so limited in genre. (Acknowledging that I am not a fan of the genre to begin with.)
W30 still going strong, and kids are practically with me on it, especially ds. They are hardly interested in bread at all most of the time, and I think they are noticing constipation when they do eat it, so they are perfectly happy with salads/vegetables and meat like Mom eats. Awesome. Also, a good bit of the inflammation has subsided for me. Aaahhhh. Now, on to the spare tire I gathered...
Speaking of food, Ramadan is now in less than 4 weeks. I have plans to head to Madison on a meat-buying mission, and my sister has a chest freezer I can use, so I don't have to make trips out of town on 17-hour fast days. This is big.
This month is a good one for test-driving Ramadan strategies, but I don't want to run in the dark until I really have to. But I am very pleased to report that a solid run-active rest balance is already working to increase my endurance. One day soon, I will be back in the 10-miler range.
Holy brick work! The "30 minute" swim was actually 45 minutes and .9 miles. It was a much better swim than last week. No freak out, can't breathe moments. It takes a little adjustment to get used to the wet suit and how to breathe in it. I had forgotten that. Also, no nausea, feeling like I was going to puke in the lake. Things I did not like so much. At the end, I saw two fish. Like, under me. Swimming, and doing fishy things. Now I know that it's a lake, and there are bound to be fish (see people fishing all the time), but I really don't want them to really be anywhere near me. Plus, a few strokes later (I was still recovering from the shock and startlement of seeing the little things), I hit some big seaweed (remember, it was at the very end of the swim, and we were near shore). I had to stroke through it, and pretty deep into it. All I could think about was that there were probably schools of unseen fish hiding in there, and what if I grabbed one by accident, or what if I grabbed a turtle instead?! I decided that looking at the seaweed wasn't helping, so I tried to pick my head up and swim. That was when I discovered that my wetsuit was still rubbing at the back of my neck, causing some significant chafing (in spite of the generous amount of bodyglide I used). Anyway, this is the beauty of it being at the end. Because this freak out moment was mercifully short. Made it back to shore without being molested by any fish with ill intent, and somehow managed to get out of the wet suit (with a discussion of whether there would be wet suit strippers at the race), and climb into my running gear. The plan was to leave our stuff and run back to where we all had our cars parked (we carpooled to one of the coach's parents house for the swim) for a 9 mile run through the forest preserve. I happen to know these trails and have run/ridden on them many times. They are, however, not flat. I believe the term my friend used to describe them was "roller coaster ride". Lots of hills. I have a rough time with hills. I was feeling my hamstring a little in the beginning, so decided to start out with a 5 minute run / 1 minute walk interval until that warmed up. After about 30 minutes, I switched to a 10 minute run / 1 minute walk. By the time I got back to the car, we had gone 8.3 miles. That's when I discovered that I did not follow directions very well, and was supposed to have taken my stuff and put it in the person's car that was driving it back. Whoops! So, I decided I would run home to make it a solid 9 miles (there may have been a discussion about my OCD tendencies and the need for complete miles), showered quickly, and got a ride from DH out to the lake to pick up my stuff, and head back to the car. All in all, while it wasn't a fabulous, angels singing run, it was very manageable with the walking breaks. I felt pretty strong throughout with only some slight toe cramping that I was able to stretch out on one of the walk segments. A skillet, pancakes and coffee at the local greasy spoon and I'm feeling pretty good! On deck tomorrow, 40 mile bike and 20 minute run!
Not perfect, Just amazing!
bec~ I am at your description of your swim! Accidentally grab a turtle? (I'm never swimming in a lake again.) That workout today is seriously awesome!
Mama to three crazy, wonderful kiddos: dd1--12/2002, dd2--3/2005, and ds--3/2006
How old is your son? I love, love Kate DiCamillo's novels. The Magician's Elephant could really suit all ages. Tales of Desperaux is a bit younger, Because of Winn Dixie better for a bit older kids. Her prose is so lovely and she trusts kids to understand big emotions.
Bec, sounds like an awesome, but daunting, brick workout!
We saw a gray whale from the breakfast table this morning. We could also see the bride to be doing morning yoga on her balcony. Then made a quick trip to Long Beach to play in the sand and watch the surfers. Back to the suite for lunch and a short rest, then we're off to the pool and hot tub while my husband has groomsmen duties for the rest of the afternoon. We'll probably go back to the nearby black rock beach again, too.
"Guess what? It's a magical world. And when I sing, my songs are in it."
Madly in love with my 7 and 4 year old daughters
Believe me, I was laughing at myself, too. But those are the things that go through your mind when swimming. And the fish were not all that little. I would say they were a good 6-8 inches long!! The two of them would have made a decent meal!
Not perfect, Just amazing!
And 100 squats to boot! 3 days in a row! Here's to a firm ass and being able to run up hills!
Not perfect, Just amazing!
Bec, What a brick! (Does that make you want to sing, "She's a brick..." I hate that slimy, reedy, weedy, algae feeling, too.
Kerc, Ugh on the cancelled bike trip! Our last day is Thur, the 18th. We've asked for an extension but it's extremely unlikely. Would love to see you (and would really love to offer a room... but have friends coming up from Texas that week + possible friends celebrating 50th with dh...?) But... maybe... camping somewhere...? Camping while we're here...? (we have beach, boats, kayaks to share + great nearby hiking) Is it that whole week? The weekend prior or the weekend after that is open? Both? Hmmm...thinking... and googling maps...
Jooj, you must still be feeling the dregs of jet lag. How is dh? Until big blocks of family arrive, we are still in school-mode. They have daily math, daily assigned fiction and daily assigned non-fiction + language lessons and sometimes I throw in something else like handwriting or oral reviews. But it's at 1/2 speed compared to year-round. (1/2 hour in the morning + an hour or more mid-day + 1/2 hour late afternoon) (Oh, plus daily piano/violin practice which I don't count because there's regular daily music playing going on) And it's only until the big group gets here in a week. So far, it's been cousins, aunts, uncles dropping in and staying for a couple days each. But once school is officially out here (at the end of next week) there will be lots more kids around that are their friends, too. Small town. Small lake. 5 generations. Lots of catching up to do... What about you? How will the kids fill their days here?
RR: Hah! So much for kayaking and running. The water was smooth as glass this morning, perfect. But ds2 desperately wanted to get the dock and the boat in the water. So we put on swimsuits and spend the entire morning in the freezing lake. My toes were so numb that when I kicked a lead pipe, I didn't even realize it till later. Ouch. The wind picked up. Brrrr... It was the kind of chill that gets in your bones and you can't get it out. I spend the second half of the day with goosebumps hovering with a blanket and a book in front of the fire. Read a lot but am enjoying feeling fit and don't want to lose it! Grrr...
let's play a game. (err, positive camp-counselor in me): let's pretend you were planning on doing a long bike ride with a friend. long as in ride your freaking bike across the state of iowa. So 8 days of bike riding. Insert family circumstances (not mine). Now you're not. (Well I guess I could go alone, but it would be more fun with the couple I was planning on riding with). Here's the game: you have a bit of cash and suddenly 10 open days. What would you do? (Lofty are you home 3rd week in July? Plady? Sorry Ohioans, we will ahve just returned from the state).
I'll be here. I'll be co-teaching theatre camps all day and have a wedding on that Thursday but the guestroom is open and available!
Bec you're hysterical. I love that whole story.
Real and Gaye - on the local craziness. I'll have to track down that TAL. And, back to Real's mention of radioactive dust, could there be any connection? Or is the Denver area really not any crazier than other areas?
MelW- Thanks for the tips! I forgot to update that I did book us into Bella Pacifica for three nights. In the end the proximity to town and beach turned the tide from Uclulet and the hot tub cg. Where are you staying? It sounds lovely! Beautiful girls!
Towson, glad your dad is feeling better. I've seen some things like that with my dad, awkward pretty much sums it up but it's a good lesson in not having control over everything.
Sparkle - I'd either go someplace familiar like Ireland or someplace new and exotic I've always wanted to see like Vietnam. I hope I'd go to Vietnam. Sorry about the violence close to home.
Geo - Ugh! I'm sorry that you keep having to retread old ground, hopefully this will all lead to new and useful insights.
RM - Wow! You sound ready for your new responsibilities though, I'm sure you'll do great! Love the pink bike!
Jo -
Lofty, and all, thanks for the commiseration and thoughts about dd. I hope it was more painful to watch than to experience. She would definitely prefer one or two good friends but she's had that and it goes through cycles of being okay and then the other girls just dumping her. She's getting more resilient, I'm really proud of her for keeping positive but it was hard to watch. However, she's just joined the swim team (with Ali G, smallest yet most enthusiastic new member) and two of the boys on the team just love her. They play at the pool a lot and 'fight' over her which I'm sure makes her feel good. And they are nice kids, I honestly prefer that she have boy friends at this age because the boys are just not doing the snarky who-shops-at-Justice stuff and I can see dd just relax and be herself more around them. Of course, at school the boys too are more self conscious about who they play with and how they play so I know it's not the perfect solution, but for now at least she has a comfy haven.
RR: Nope.
NRR: Just spent 2 nights camping with the girls on the island. We had a beautiful site and the weather was perfect. They are both great campers and we had a good time. I'd been a little apprehensive about going without dh (he's in St. Louis visiting his mom) but it went really well and I think we all felt good about having a girls only trip.
A little bit grasshopper a little bit ant
tjsmama--thanks for the bike advice, and WTG on the ride! I came down Bear Creek Canyon (in my car) today and it blows me away that people ride that, as in, they are cool in ways I don't think I will be anytime soon. Someone was telling me that Deer Creek Canyon is a lot more popular because it has shoulders, whereas Bear Creek Canyon really doesn't.
MelW--sounds like a fun trip so far, and love the pic!
1jooj--bring on the 10-miler (in a few weeks). Do you think you'll get there before or after Ramadan? (During it sounds rather painful, but that could just be my wussy self.)
ETA: x-posted with Plady, but no, I don't think plutonium, uranium or any of the other crud is responsible for craziness. I'm quite convinced that most major national revolutions, riots, and random crimes are at least partly heat-related. There aren't a lot of North American countries that celebrate the beginning of a new government in the winter, yk? Add in the fact that it was snowing on May 1 but 100 degrees by June 9 and well....there you go. This line of thinking is a spin-off of something my meteorology prof said about crime and the Santa Ana Winds. He also once speculated that Colorado's high suicide rate might be due to the extreme weather variations (this was at a college in NW Indiana, but it stuck with me).
RR: Mountain trail run! I was expecting more of a rolling hill setting like in some of the other area parks, but this was steep with nearly 600 feet of climbing in 1.25 miles. There was walking and gasping for air, but with a nice view at the top. I got on a nearby and much more manageable trail after that. In sum, 1760 feet of climbing over 5 miles. I'm hoping it will serve me well for the mountain half-mary in a couple of weeks.
NRR: The kids hadn't driven DH out of his mind by the time I got home, so I worked in the garden for a bit and then headed out to the bike stores. I test drove one at one store but wasn't entirely thrilled. That one was a tad too big; the one that fit better was also notably heavier. I don't want heavier. So then I went to the other store to test drive the bike I'd seen on Friday and yeah, it was sweet. I looked at a couple of other cheaper ones, but they also were notably heavier. The sale was pretty good and they were running a deal where you get 30% back in store credit. That's a lot of credit (enough to drop the price of the bike down to below what I was looking to spend), so it will pay for bike shoes, pedals, spare tubes, etc and if I work it right, will leave enough to get R a bigger bike too (when she finally learns to ride on 2 wheels, which is one of my summer projects). They run a ton of sales, so if I can combine the credit with sales, it will go a long way. And the best part? The bike came with platform pedals and toe clips, so I can use those until I get clipless ones.
RR: Father's Day ride for just under 40 miles today. It's so funny the perspective difference. Real, you talk about a 1760 foot climb. I had just over 50 feet of climbing here (and thought it was a pretty hilly ride) and Map My Ride thought it was so noteable it gave me an award (I have no idea what for, but it was 24 points!). I might have trouble in the mountains! It was a really nice ride, but my main riding partner (same running partner and HIM training partner that I have talked about) were on pretty tired legs. We have been bumping around from pace group to pace group to find the right one, and are struggling a little with that. Today's group was not too bad, but there were a few that were scared to draft, so (if we were behind them) would fall far behind the rest of the group. That was a little frustrating, but a little coaching and they started doing better. The other was that there was a much faster biker who had started out with his wife (who ended up dropping back and forming a smaller group of ladies that were having trouble keeping up) who was very annoying to ride with. He kept on going out of order of the pace line (wouldn't wait for his turn to pull, but would zoom the line of bikes to get to the front, where he would only coast on the downhill, leaving everyone to struggle up the uphill, where he would get way far ahead). It made it difficult to have any rhythm or consistent speed, and people were not able to take their fair share of pulling (I like being in the front of the line because it really challenges me). Plus he kept on talking about all the winter rides he went on, etc. Really, just showing off. It was annoying. Anyway, it was good.
NRR: Came home, showered and made homemade biscuits, eggs and bacon for a Father's Day brunch. And after, took a 2 hour nap!!! This is the 2nd big nap I have taken this weekend. Life is good, indeed!
Not perfect, Just amazing!
Really excited. Just came up with a training schedule for my 9.5 year old DD for a half marathon (she's been pestering me about it for a solid 6 months and is a pretty good little runner). I looked into the Galloway schedules, and found the beginning one to be exactly what I was looking for. I did do a little modifying on it. She is going to top out at an 11 mile long run instead of the called for 14 miles. I'm excited, and she's excited.
Not perfect, Just amazing!
JG - hold him back! He's living the high life!
Can I just add another day of 100 squats! It may be getting easier to do!
Not perfect, Just amazing!
Hmm, I wonder if our dhs could be related? I was actually kind of happy that dh wasn't here today, Ali G and I volunteered at the local marathon for about 10 minutes until the pack had run through our intersection, then we had breakfast at a nice restaurant sitting on the deck overlooking the harbor, then we picked up C from a slumber party and went home and tidied up a bit. Then I had to work a local private school graduation (12 grads) and the girls wandered around town together and went to the library. When I was done we went to see Man of Steel. It was the kind of day I love but which would make dh very anxious that we wee spoiling the kids or too busy, or having too many 'special treats' all in one day. Maybe I should call it Mother's Day since Mother's Day nearly always conflicts with dh's birthday for which he'd prefer to clean the house.
Nic - I thought of that Mother's Day/Birthday conflict when I saw that it's your birthday today. So glad you got a good run in.
Bec you are just on fire!
Real -Congrats on your new ride!
Shanti -
Lofty - Ow! Careful swimming while numb, that sounds like </lifeguard voice> it's just not safe!</lifeguard voice>
A little bit grasshopper a little bit ant
Nickarollaberry, is it your birthday?
Plady, yeah, no more getting in the water till it's warmer or wetsuit arrives. Your day in town sounded marvelous, treats and all!
Bec, you are a machine! 100 Squats!!!
Not much to say. I woke up with a rare migraine that makes me feel nauseous and dizzy. Not much working out happening since we've been so busy working on the property, moving many, many, many cords of wood, and then doing schoolwork with the boys. Definitely not having a vacation just doing work in a beautiful place. Wish I knew why I woke up with this weird headache. Wonder if Aunt Flo has anything to do with it.
Thanks Lofty. Yes, yesterday was my birthday. It was crazy busy. I did my own personal Happy Birthday To Me Private Half Marathon early in the morning because I wanted to see if I could do better on a decent weather day than the train wreck of a race I had two weeks ago. I did pretty well, considering no course support and no company and I had to stop at the Mobil station to buy water: 2:04 and change. Still shooting for a sub-2 but it at least seems in reach. I am going to look for a fall half and/or full to see about those goals; clearly summer racing isn't for me. After that dh ran a morning Father's Day 10K, then I took dd1 and a couple friends to a bat mitzvah, then took her to my school's commencement ceremonies, then home where I made my own cake (gluten free/vegan baking even from a mix being clearly out of dh's skill set). I got a lovely poster and some cards from the kids, and they bought me new tablecloths.
which is odd considering i raced in the heat all the time when we lived in FL but I guess there my body was acclimated to it; here we seem to fling between temps in teh 50s and temps in the 90s. .
Having some existential birthday angst, as usual. Well maybe it's just regular existential angst compounded by having a birthday. Trying to figure out if it's worth going back to school to do something else (read: law school) so at least I could make decent enough money to support me and my kids if need be. I'm so tired of being constrained in my choices by not having sufficient earning potential. I don't want to be a lawyer very much, at least not a regular kind (academic/teaching I could see) and I am allergic to 12-month desk jobs, but...I don't know. I am going to get in touch with a grad school colleague and see if there is any viable way to resurrect my academic career short of going back for another ph.d. but I doubt it. I've been out so long, and getting back in requires a university/college to work at in order to be taken seriously, which requires publishing to get a job at, and publishing requires being at the university to be taken seriously...you see the problem. Possibly an adjunct appointment but then I can't work full time at my current job and make at least a little bit. Kind of a catch-22.
Sorry about my whining.
Goals for my 45th year (I just turned 44 yesterday! HOW did that happen?!) as far as fitness/running go: sub-2 hour half; sub-4:45 full; first triathlon.
No clue if I have any of those in me really but why not set goals?
Back to my melancholy cave.
"Now bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible." (William Shakespeare -- Julius Caesar)
MelW - thanks for the link
Kerc - I guess I would do something northwest, like a visit to Plady and MelW territory...
Jo - yay for getting back on the wagon and the decrease in inflammation and having the kids on board. Woot! I hope you figure out a workable plan for Ramadan
RR: bike intervals 60 min, run/walk intervals 20 min. Felt pretty good considering I went to bed at 1am and woke at 6:30 after an epic day yesterday...
NRR: .... during which I was at a climbing gym in UT for almost 10 hours, from 8:30-6:30, then to the airport to catch a 2-leg 8:30p flight that got us home at 12:30a. DD1 competed in "Divisionals" this weekend; semis on Saturday and finals yesterday. Our Division is CA, CO, NM, AZ, UT. Its the most competitive one in the country. Long-story-short, she came in 5th (first 3 were from the "excellent" Boulder team) and got an invitation to Nationals. right? Well, sort of. Nationals are 4 days long (2 qualifiers, a semi, and finals) and are in Atl Georgia. I just looked at flight prices and that doesnt count staying at a hotel, renting the car, and eating out for every meal (which I hate for many reasons. I just spent two days trying desperately to find a NON fast-food restaurant. Yuck.) Its 4 days of living at a climbing gym and out of a bag over my shoulder. A lot of stress (thankfully, both her semis and finals this weekend were done before 10am, so I only had to endure the Cortisol overload for a few hours each day). It's just a lot. I really want Dh to come with, but we just dont have anyone to watch the other two, and the expense for all 5 to fly - ugh. Dh and I calculated how much we spend on climbing per year and it is shocking. I JUST wanted her to climb to her potential, which I knew was Nationals level; I dont actually want to go to Nationals!
edited to add: Hey Mel38 - wanna drive over and meet me there?
sparkle - congrats to your DD for making Nationals! A tough decision for you though. Ugh.
Nic - Happy Birthday!!!!! Good luck with your future-plan making. Personally (and I'm 45, so I know...) being in the mid-forties isn't my favorite age.
Lofty - may the headache go away quickly. I have one too .
Jo - glad you're still on the wagon. I'm not. And I feel like dirt.
RR - walked 3 miles at the Y this morning.
NRR - Both DDs have Vacation Bible School all week and DS is doing a surf-rider class with two friends all week, so I have my mornings free. Now to find my motivation to actually DO something with those free mornings.
I think I need to find a therapist who specializes in eating disorders. Twenty years of binge-restrict and I'm really, really done with it all.
bec~I'm over your open water swim description. I've done a ton of OWS, and I don't think I've ever seen a fish! I don't know if you just had clearer water, or maybe just that you were looking for them.
real~Congrats on the new ride! Now we can meet up and ride!
sparkle~Congrats to your DD! I don't envy the thought of a trip to ATL, though...wouldn't be my first choice of a trip in the summer!
I survived my three in a row, and now have a few days off to swim, bike, run, read, and sleep. A week in, I have now hit the point of DS's absence where I really would like to snuggle him for a while, but a week to go still. I've got a little time left to play, though. Tomorrow, I'm going to go for a bike ride, then meet a friend for an open water swim and then lunch. This is shocking, because it will be the first time in my 6 years of triathlon-ing that I have ever done an OWS as a practice and not in an actual race. Track and a bike ride on Wednesday, followed up by sushi lunch and match.com profile making with a friend (EEK, but it's time), and a concert at Red Rocks Wednesday night, before back to work on Thursday night.
Gaye, single mama to Tyler (5/06) and Baxter the labradoodle
Wait...I signed up to DO an Ironman??? I thought I was signing up to go SEE Ironman!
JayGee - Sounds like a therapist might be the right tool for the job.
Lofty - Yeah, hefting cords of wood is not vacationing.
Sparkle - Congrats on Nationals! That's awesome! There are a bunch of Dingos there, I bet they could steer you in the direction of at least some decent food.
What does dd think of her success?
Nic - I can see the rational behind the law school idea but ugh, it's a lot of time to get there. Although I guess any fresh degree would be too. Good luck with untangling the thoughts.
RR: None today. Hopefully I'll box tomorrow. I'm already over juggling working and summertime kids. I'm putting too much on dd1 as far as watching Ali G but I don't see a lot of alternatives. At least today she met up with a friend and they spent the day creating greeting cards and selling them to raise money for dd's "Wave Goodbye to Bullying" campaign.
A little bit grasshopper a little bit ant
Sparkle, congrats to dd! That is pretty amazing. And yes (!!!) to what P said--some super Dingoes in ATL, fo sho.
Nic, I am kinda thinkin the same as P on law, esp if you were thinking an academic angle. I dunno, though. What about ed admin? I think with some more sleeping on it you will come up with a good idea. I really do think so.
bec, YES, ha! On the fish. I swim in the ocean and we spend a lot of time in the company of the crabs and fish, but it never ceases to ook me out when something shifts under my foot or nudges me somewhere. I still sometimes scream. But what fun!
JayGee, I really and truly understand. Some days are just a dragon to slay, aren't they? I recently read (most of) Radical Acceptance, and some of it spoke directly to me. But someone to help you with recognizing triggers maybe a little sooner so you can head off some of the crap before it comes down...yeah, that would be good.
Gaye, enjoy the time off! I hope you get some good swims, bikes, runs and maybe mostly sleeps! I cherish my sleep these days, and am happy when my kids sometimes declare (rather than "what are we doing tomorrow?"), "tomorrow, I sleep in!"
Lofty, that migraine sure could have to do with AF. I hope you feel relief already, and that you have some sweet relaxation ahead.
NRR: My sister is out of the hospital and doing well--great relief! I took her kids and mine to my parents' for Father's Day so she and her dh could have a little time together. Our hometown does a 2.5-hour parade. Weather was perfect and it was a nice day.
RR: Sticking pretty well to my very-few-runs plan. Three is a perfect number to shoot for, it would seem. Our social schedule is still nutso. 5 miles this morning (yay!), took an hour (waahh!). Going to need to begin doing some sort of real speed work of some kind. Not sure how I feel about that.
Off to bed with me. 'Night, Dingoes.
Plady, we stayed at Black Rock Resort. We hit the rainforest trail and the playground in Tofino before heading home yesterday, but I had planned so well with food and snacks that we didn't get to eat at Tacofino since there was a lot in the cooler that needed to be used up.
sparkle, good luck with the travel plans! I hope you both have an amazing time!!
tjsmama, have fun with the rest of the kid-free time, and good luck with the profile
Jo, I'm glad your sister is recovering well and congrats on the workable run schedule.
bec (I think?) how fun that your DD is doing a half
JayGee, hugs. Hoping that you find a terrific therapist.
Hi to everyone else that I missed. iPad posting can be a hassle if I'm forgetful.
RR- Just a bunch of yard work today. When it's my only RR, I'm at least grateful for the reel mower.
NRR- Busy day of getting unpacked, laundry, groceries, caught up on the wild lawn, and our last fiddle lesson of the year. Tomorrow and Wednesday are 12 hour day shifts, Thursday is last minute end of semester stuff, and Friday my students write finals in both of my courses, followed by a 12 hour night. I have no other work booked after that until early July, so I took what I could get despite the stupidity of working day and night on Friday. I'll probably get to run and take myself out to dinner in between jobs.
"Guess what? It's a magical world. And when I sing, my songs are in it."
Madly in love with my 7 and 4 year old daughters
sparkle--I am at your dilemma about qualifying for vs actually going to Nationals, though I'd feel the same way in your situation. Congrats to your DD!
tjsmama--yes, we'll have to ride sometime...when I actually have any endurance or speed. Have fun with your ride tomorrow!
MelW--is it me, or are nearly all of your weeks packed solid? Kudos to you for keeping it all together.
1jooj--glad your sister is out and it sounds like you had a nice weekend.
lofty--hope the headache is gone.
Plady--hope you're able to box tomorrow.
RR: 10 miles on the (new!) bike and then 3 miles pushing a sleeping J in the jogger. She's been clingy lately and went into hysterics when I tried to bike yesterday when she was getting ready for bed. The girls had swim lessons today but for reasons I don't understand, J was flipped out by having a male/female pair of instructors and didn't want anything to do with the male one. (Yes, I was the mother of the kid shrieking "mama" as he piloted her around the pool. ) I guess she thought it was going to be another parent/tot class and she'd have her previous swim teacher, an older lady? Maybe I didn't prepare her adequately enough. I didn't think it was an issue after she'd done several months of dance classes where they opened the door, said "come on in dancers" and she trotted off without so much as a backward glance. At any rate, when I came home from the bike ride J was begging to stay with me and I was happy to push her to sleep.
The new bike is fabulous. It rides well and is so much faster (just like everyone says!). Now I'm in the thick of trying to figure out what kind of lock to buy, what kind of bike shoes (road shoes with the completely smooth sole or the kind that you can actually walk in for a bit? probably the latter...I like to check out things on longer runs and can't imagine biking will be much different), how to inflate the tires (clearly not with my current floor pump, though not for lack of trying...). Bikes and swimming always remind me how very simple running is.
NRR: other than J being "that" 3-year-old in her preschool class, and probably also the youngest, the day was good. R the anxious child who has spent countless hours fretting about the very idea of swim lessons did not freak out and actually enjoyed it.
I'm going to quickly reply so I'm going to miss all sorts of you:
Nic and Lisa: happy birthdays!
on phd job market: don't discount adjunct teaching as a way to build your resume. You won't land a job at an R1, but if you have a few years of AP teaching + some community college teaching/night teaching and were able to present (note not write an actual article, just present something), you would be well suited for a job at my institution. Also: my husband and I have each (he still does) taught as an adjunct in two different systems. The minnesota state colleges and universities are unionized. When you teach 5 credits or more you are placed into the union payscale. The union payscale includes # of credit hours of graduate credit AND # years experience. We put all sorts of experience down when we filled out our applications to be placed on the payscale. As a graduate student I was a teaching assistant for numerous years. I put those down, as did my husband. They gave me credit for teaching middle school. etc. Anyhow point being that the FT pay for a faculty member with about 10 years of experience and a phd (working 9 months a year) is somewhere between 60 and 70 thousand a year. In minnesota. When you are PT they prorate it -- at 60k you're making $2000/credit hour. WIth no expectations of research.
Other system: well, the pay isn't nearly as good. FT is like $40,000. But you should feel good about that because as a FT tenure track professor, with almost 5 years of experience they still brought me in at $48,000. And the guy who was hired last year? $49,000. <snark>Hopefully once Governor Scott Walker privatizes the university system we all start making what we're actually worth </snark>.
If you are really thinking about looking at that level of work -- my suggestions are to do a tiny bit of research, get one or two recent college/university courses under your belt and then when you write your letter address you recent work history --- you love teaching at the AP level and realize that you love working with college students. Poly sci, no?
In the meantime: if you're teaching AP next year, go on the Educational Testing Services website and tell them you want to grade AP exams. Get your parents to help with your kids and go talk to poly sci academics. You get paid travel costs + close to $2000 for the week.
Also: we have a friend with a phd in history from Carolina. She works as a paralegal and does the research end of stuff. If you have a phd in humanities, then you're trained to do that kind of research and she makes about 3 x what an academic makes. BUT she works summers and sometimes at night.
ok must get some other stuff done today.
Sparkle - Way to go for your DD!!! Ugh, on ticket prices. Is driving an option? Is it cheaper?
Nic - I have near constant career turmoil. I think your goals for the upcoming year are absolutely reachable. You are so close to that sub 2 half!
Gaye - The water was very clear. But even in clear water, I have never seen a fish before! Trying not to think about it. Practice lake swims are critical for my confidence. That, and I need to build up a callous for where the top of the wetsuit rubs on my neck. No amount of bodyglide helps that.
Lofty - I hope your headache is gone.
RR: Yesterday was nothing. Unless you count running after a troop of girl scouts all day. Then, I did oodles. I plan on running today. Em has half an hour, and I have to meet with my C25k buddy for 25 minutes. So, I'll have around an hour when all is said and done.
NRR: Girl Scouts yesterday. We were power badging it. We finished 2 complete badges, all but finished another 3 and worked on another 2. Some of the activties served for more than one badge, but it was still a busy day of flowers, navigating, geocaching, bugs, birds and nature!
Not perfect, Just amazing!
NRR: yeah, bought the tickets yesterday. Rumor has it that they're moving rope Nationals to Denver next year... thanks (next year she goes up to the next age group and will likely not make it to Nationals)
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Start with these 10 tips:
- Take a hunter safety course. You and your children should complete a certified hunter safety course. Even if your child is too young for certification you can bring them along or teach the course criteria at home.
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- Always keep your firearm unloaded until the hunt begins. Many firearm accidents occur in and around vehicles as hunters begin or end a hunt.
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- After the hunt when you get back to your truck, unload your firearm, store it, lock it up and then secure your ammunition before doing anything else. After that chore is completed you can then enjoy a field lunch.
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Apartamento Belmonte nestles snugly in the heart of the Mondean coastal town of Alassio. On the top floor of house - located in the centre of the pedestrianised zone (Budello of Alassio) - you will find the elegantly furnished two-bedroom apartment, with double bed and bunk beds respectively, a living room with pull-out sofa, a fully equipped and furnished kitchen, and a shower. From the living room there is a magnificent view of the sea as well as the pulsating life of Alassio with its superb facilities that include bars, beach cafes and innumerable restaurants. The apartment is ideal for anyone wanting to be close to the sea and keen to experience Italian life at first hand. In addition, the apartment is perfect both for trips into the Ligurian hinterland and along the coastal regions.


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i want to start e commerce site about fashion dress trends. what are the requirement for e commerce site I means certificate like ssl or others. Where I can start cant ba much more idea but need information about e-commerce sites.
It depends on your needs and skills. You can build it yourself or use some hosted service.
There are many steps to build a profitable online store by yourself. - Buy a domain- Order hosting service (VPS or dedicated, not recommend for shared host)- Server configuration- Purchase and setup SSL cert (this can be ignore if you use paypal cart)- Setting up the shopping cart (e.g. Prestashop, Magento, opencart...etc)- Design the layout - Upload product- Marketing and sell!
So, you need some basic programming skill and server setup experience.
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Interesting question, I also have plans on putting up my own ecommerce site.. thanks for the links.
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If you look very closely
At the raindrop
Resting on a blade of grass,
You just might discover
The sun's return reflected there!
By Martha L Shaw ©10-7-2015
If you look very closely
At the raindrop
Resting on a blade of grass,
You just might discover
The sun's return reflected there!
By Martha L Shaw ©10-7-2015
They say the storm's not over yet
with damage yet to come,
but here I stand and offer thanks
for the bird singing outside my window.
Healing has begun!
By Martha L Shaw ©10-5-2015
There is a stirring within me.
Like a tornado,
There is destruction in its path.
Ah, but the wreckage
Cannot be seen
Nor is it likely to be missed.
How can this be?
The mistakes of yesterday,
And misleading voices of today
Are in its course!
The still small voice
In all its gentle strength?
It will live on
And waits for me
To turn my gaze,
To incline my ear,
And to listen not to the wind
But to the voice of love.
By Martha L Shaw © 8-26-2013
Poetry resources
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
Today seems like a good day to finish my submission of poems for the Haiku Society of America 2014 Members' Anthology. Gary Hotham is the Editor. This link goes to the page about the anthology at their website:
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I'm also reading Spilled Milk: Haiku Destinies by Gary Hotham. This beautiful book was published by Pinyon Publishing in 2010. The book includes Sumi-E Watercolors by Susan E. Elliott.
As you know, Luci Shaw is a favorite poet, and I learned of Pinyon Publishing in Colorado, when I ordered her book Harvesting Fog: Poems by Luci Shaw (2010).
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The leaves of perennials are beginning to grow through last year's fallen leaves.
Blessings, Ellen
Stormy days . . .
There have been many.
I hunger for the sun,
Yet see only clouds.
I seek rest,
Yet the whistling of the wind
And drumbeats of the rain
Form an angry orchestra against my window
And become all I hear
Until . . .
I find strength to rise
And hear the sweet sound
Of birds singing in the storm!
Loud and clear,
Sweet and triumphant!
If such tiny birds can still find
a song in their hearts to share,
then so can I!
by Martha L Shaw – © 6-30-2013
So, how's that for a title to a post? God has a purpose in the lives of each one of us and sometimes this purpose changes throughout our lives and in different stages of our walk with Him. In my case I think He and I have gone full circle and we are back to a calling I have known in my soul since pre-school. I am to write. As yet, my financial provision is still a mystery and I admit when it became clear I was to be a Christian/Spirituality themed writer and poet, my initial reaction was "But Lord I have to eat and have a roof over my head." He has a plan for that too and well . . . this human is sometimes accused of thinking too much, so I think He's holding back on details to teach me more.
Funny and sometimes scary thing about walking with the Lord is that at various points the GPS doesn't provide clear signs. So, the choice is to pull over and park or to cruise along knowing there's enough gas in the tank and snacks and water in the back seat and knowing He'll not let me get too lost. So, I'm cruising along a pretty road with lots of trees and flowers and trying to be blessed by them and not worry about His doing His part. I've been looking for new ways to share my God-given gifts and ways to expand as a writer and praying about it and along with some other things He and I are working on, I am now a contributing author/writer on the following three blogs. Please be sure to check them out if you haven't yet. The variety of writing and writers is wonderful and the talent is as well. I am blessed to be a part of these sites:
Music of the angels,
Sounds resonating
Outside my window.
Peace, joy, praise
Calms my body
And uplifts my soul.
A bark,
A tweet,
A clap of thunder.
Love of God,
Nature . . . nurture . . .
Comes in all shapes and sizes.
He made and loves them all.
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Welcome to Seas-the-Day Corolla, a perfect home-away-from-home in the Outer Banks!
Whether you come to Corolla for the wild horses, Currituck Lighthouse, Whalehead Club, or the unbeatable beaches, you'll love staying at Seas-the-Day. We've put a lot of thought into equipping the house with everything a family might need for a fantastic vacation — so that you barely need to bring a thing! Plus, our keyless entry system and included laundry service mean no time wasted picking up a key or dropping off laundry!
Some of the amenities that our guests have loved most include the bikes, kayaks, beach gear, and game room. And of course don't forget to try the hammock and hot tub!
As part of the Villages at Ocean Hill community, your stay also includes (all within minutes' walk): private access to the beach, two swimming pools, a fitness center, tennis and basketball courts, a playground, and a turtle-filled lake (they love Cheerios!).
The house is a 2-minute drive from the wild horse sanctuary of Carova Beach (4WD-accessible), and a 5-minute walk from the nature trail leading to the sound. Miles of newly paved paths just outside the community are perfect for biking, running, or walking.
The house itself is a spacious and relaxing retreat. The heart of the house is the open-concept top floor, which has high ceilings, lots of light, and great views of the lighthouse. This floor includes a full kitchen with bar seating, dining table, sweetheart table (total seating for up to 14), half-bathroom, and three comfy couches for lounging — plus access to a 7-person hot tub, a screened-in porch with table and chairs, and sliding glass doors to a deck with sun loungers. The kitchen includes plenty of glasses, tumblers, dishware, cookware, and appliances (including an icemaker, blender, coffeemaker, 4-slot toaster, and toaster oven) — and even a couple coolers for days at the beach. You can also take advantage of an outdoor charcoal grill and fish cleaning table. The living area comes equipped with a flat-screen TV, DVD/Blu-Ray player, surround-sound stereo, and lots of games and puzzles. And of course, there is free WiFi.
The master bedroom is also located on the top floor, with a king-size bed, full bath, flat-screen TV, and sliding glass doors to the hot tub deck.
The second floor is home to three bedrooms. Another master bedroom here features a queen-size bed, full bath, flat-screen TV, and sliding glass doors to a wraparound deck with a rope hammock and a swing chair where you can read, nap, and daydream. The First Flight room is perfect for a young family or up to 4 kids, with a full+twin bunk bed and a separate twin bed. The Wild Horse room has 2 twin beds that can easily be pushed together if you prefer. Rounding out the second floor are a large full bathroom and laundry area with washer, dryer, and extra towels, as well as another main entrance off the hammock deck to the house.
The last bedroom on the ground floor doubles as a recreation room, sure to be the kids' favorite! An arcade-style basketball game and foosball/air hockey/ping pong table offer fun distractions, along with a TV/VCR/DVD/stereo setup and mini-library of books. This room contains a full+twin bunk as well as a pullout sleeper sofa and loveseat. The ground floor also has a half bathroom.
When you're planning your activities, be sure to check out the bikes, kayaks, and beach gear (chairs, umbrellas, cart, boogie boards, and toys) we've provided! And when you're back from the beach, the private outdoor shower (with both hot and cold water) is the perfect way to rinse off and unwind.
Enjoy your stay at Seas-the-Day!
And, if you're planning a New England vacation, be sure to check out Seas-the-Day Cape Cod: VRBO Listing #/553223
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"We are having a wonderful time at your home. The sleeping arrangements have
been perfect for our family and the kids are loving the beach."
"...We continue to have a great time here at Seas the Day. The house works so well for multiple generations."
"We did appreciate the new furnishings. I liked the little lamps with the switches on the cord and appreciated that the bulbs were bright enough for older eyes. The lounge chairs were great as were the swing and hammock."
"... You know, the living room area is so well set up and comfy that we all enjoy finding a
corner and being together or alone, and the couches are very comfortable. We slept in the king room (elder perks) and found the mattress very comfortable, and everyone else seemed satisfied. I was pleasantly surprised with how generous you were with paper and cleaning products including coffee filters."
"Also we have discovered that the lower deck is a delightful place to enjoy morning breezes or escape the afternoon sun. Anyway, all is well... and we will be checking out on Sunday morning. Thanks again for providing such a pleasant place to stay."
We had to pleasure of staying at the property over the memorial day weekend. The house is exactly how it is described. Nice clean and cozy home. Not exactly by the beach but quite walk-able. Our group of 6 kids had a fun time, esp. the teenagers, who were outdoors for hours on end on the bikes that the house had. Great time!
We really enjoyed the three nights stay in this property; house is super clean really species to accommodate 14 people. Nice board games to entertain all people. Ms. Elizabeth Barrett was really helpful and really quick answering all our queries; her support was really awesome as and when we needed. Bikes were in awesome condition and we had a great time. We would definitely going back to this property again next year :)
Thank you Elizabeth !
- Vinayan & Friends
This was our first time vacationing in the Outer Banks area and we cannot wait to return!. This home was perfect for our families and grandchildren( ages 3 to 9) Enough room for all with several decks, porches and a big dinning table for us to enjoy meals together. Lots of board games for the kids to enjoy along with a game room! We really liked the location to the beach. Easy walk and parking if needed.
The bikes were a big asset, with my granddaughter learning to ride a two wheeler! You should have seen the look on her face!! She biked all over the island with us---so proud. What a memory! A tour to see the wild horses is a must.
Grocery shopping was easy, simple with access to several stores near by. Restaurants have amble seating and there was never a wait for a table. Great food!!! Several areas to shop if you needed a break from the sand and water. Everything was easy to get to, short ride!
We all had a wonderful time. Our choice next time would be to come a little later in the season (2nd week of June) as the water was still a little cool but still enjoyed the waves and lots of sandcastles were made. Weather temperature was perfect, lots of sun and only one cloudy day! The Willis Family
Sea's The Day was the perfect place for our family of nine to come together for a vacation.
Sea's The Day has plenty of room to enjoy both private time and family time. No one felt isolated or crowded. The kitchen was large enough for several to cook in while the open concept let us enjoy the company of the rest.
The hammock, the cool swinging chair and hot tub were relaxing and got a lot of use by our family.
We enjoyed both pools and watching the turtles. The bikes were fun and came in handy when we went to the beach.
We loved the location being so close to the beaches, the old town of Corolla, the lighthouse, restaurants and, shopping.
Best of all Sea's the Day is close to the wild horses which of course was the highlight of our vacation.
The owner seemed very genuine in his care for us. We received a nice welcome bag and the owner was very prompt at taking care of a mechanical malfunction that happened while we were there.
We had a wonderful time at Sea's The Day!
This was our first trip to the OBX, after going to Myrtle Beach for many years. Peter is one of the most absolutely, fantastic people that we have ever rented from. I have used VRBO for over 10 years and Peter was by far the most pleasant owner I have encountered and is extremely easy to communicate with. His home, although well established in Corolla, has all of the up to date amenities that you could ever want. From updated flat screen TVs to boogie boards, from a hot tub to an enormous amount of beds, this house has it all. We thoroughly enjoyed the great living room space, where we could enjoy movies as night as a family. We strongly recommend without any reservation, at all. The location of the house is within a 3 minute walk to the lakeside pool and a 2 minute drive to the oceanfront pool.
We had a great time at "Seas-the-day"! We were accompanied by our son, daughter, their spouses and 4 grandchildren. The house is large! We all had a special place, and of course mine was sitting in the wonderful swing reading! I must say, we stay a lot (mostly in Florida) and this was the first time we really didn't need to bring a thing for the beach! It was a dream come true. There were chairs, carts, coolers, and the bikes! Oh my, my husband and I rode bikes. It was just like home. The house was very clean and the pictures didn't do it justice. Our only complaint were the sides in the restaurants. Coming from the midwest we just aren't used to mashed potatoes and green beans with sea food. That of course, has nothing to do with the house and area, just an observation. I would recommend this house to anyone, especailly groups. It is ideal. We really hope to return. Make sure to take advantage of the bikes and that awesome beach! The pools are wonderful at the property. There is a beautiful hot tub at the house, but we didn't use it, just not enough hours in our days! Thanks so much to the Barrett's for sharing. Just one more thing, Kevin is wonderful! His family couldn't be nicer! He is a true gem!
Dave & Joyce
This Home is located in the Villages at Ocean Hill in Corolla, Walk or Bike to One of the 'Top Ten Beaches in the Country' according to Road and Travel, The Travel Channel, and City Search Websites, use the NEW VOH Fitness Center, Swim at the Lake-side or Ocean-side Pool or Play Tennis in the Recreation Area. All are just steps from this home, the Historic Currituck Beach Lighthouse, the Whale Head Club, and Historic Corolla Village are within one mile, the Four-by-four Beach Access is one quarter mile down the road. See Wild Horses, spend a day Wave Riding, take an ATV Tour of the North Beach, Surf or Fish this Unique Area of the North Carolina Shore.
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Five softball regional finals rescheduled
Published: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 12:14 p.m.
Last Modified: Friday, May 3, 2013 at 12:14 p.m.
For five area softball teams, tonight's scheduled regional finals have been rescheduled because of rain.
Columbia, Gainesville, Suwannee, Bradford and P.K. Yonge have all canceled tonight's schedule games, with the Bell-Lafayette Class 1A, Region 2 regional final scheduled to play. Bell coach David Halter had a tarp over the infield since Wednesday..
Here are the rescheduled dates as of now for area regional finals:
Class 5A, Region 1: Suwannee (16-9), in its first regional final, is tentatively scheduled to play at Ponte Vedra (22-5) on Saturday at 6 p.m.
Class 6A, Region 1: Columbia (25-4) will host Lynn Haven Mosley (21-7) on Sunday at 5 p.m.
The following games will be played on Monday at 7 p.m.:
Class 6A, Region 2: Gainesville (19-8), in its first regional final, will host Melbourne Eau Gallie (19-10).
Class 4A, Region 2: Bradford (27-2), also in its first regional final, will play Titusville Astronaut (24-3) in Starke.
Class 3A, Region 1 P.K. Yonge (27-2) will host Jacksonville Bishop Snyder (25-4).
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London Historians is a club for Londoners and other enthusiasts who'd like to learn more about this great city's history. Our book store will feature books and some DVDs which primarily focus on London's past. We'd love to hear your recommendations of any titles we have missed - please contact us via our web site www.londonhistorians.org and we'll add them to the list.


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Machete Attack in Amsterdam
Amsterdam Police are investigating a stabbing that happened Tuesday night around 9:20 p.m. during a large fight near 60 Division Street. One male was deeply cut in the forearm by a machete. The other was stabbed in his elbow with a knife, police said.
Police found the machete hidden in a bush nearby. Detectives will review video surveillance of the area, if it's available. The male with the severe arm cut was taken to Albany Medical Center and the second male was treated at St. Mary's Hospital, police said.
Neither one was interviewed by police because of their injuries. Neither injury is considered life threatening.


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Recently, The Islamic Monthly Magazine had a contest for people to describe what a Mosque, 50 years in the Future (in North America) would be like. I submitted a piece called "The Silicon Valley Mosque" which was one of the winning entries, although the judges thought my description was more for a mosque 20 years in the future, rather than 50. I don't have any spaceships or flying cars in my piece, so I guess they are right!:) Anyways, here is a portion of my piece. You can read my full … [Read more...]
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As most "Star Wars" fans know, director George Lucas took spiritual elements, which are common in most major world religions to create his epic saga of good vs. evil. As a Muslim, I always thought of the "Jedi" as what a true follower of Islam should be like. Never mind the fact Jedi masters with their North African style cloaks and scruffy beards look like Sufi Sheikhs, but they way they are taught to respect a greater power, fight for the defense of the innocent and honor a code of morals and … [Read more...]


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Sport stars turn out for Awards
A Who's Who of British and international sport descended on BBC Television Centre on Sunday evening for the Sports Personality of the Year awards.
After 47 years the annual ceremony has become an institution and the prestige of the occasion was again reflected by a guest-list of the great, rather than the merely good.
On a damp evening a procession of greats - past and present - came to west London to celebrate the sporting year.
In their limos and taxis a multitude of household names steadily arrived.
Former winners like Henry Cooper, Stirling Moss and Mary Peters were there as were the stars of the modern age.
From the world of football came Alan Shearer, from rugby Denis Betts and Gavin Hastings, from athletics Sebastian Coe, Steve Backley and Kelly Holmes, from golf Lee Westwood.
Coxless four rowers Tim Foster and James Cracknell arrived together but Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent, the other half of the heroic quartet, were among the latecomers.
They had to make a dash from Soho Square in central London where they had made the draw for the FA Cup third round.
But the awards also celebrate the unsung heroes, champions in their own right but in sports out of the spotlight.
It has been a momentous sporting year in which Tiger Woods took golf to new heights, Pete Sampras confirmed his place as the greatest male tennis player ever and France came out on top in a glorious Euro 2000 tournament.
The best place to find British success was at the year's greatest show of all.
The Sydney Olympics provided Team GB with 11 gold medals - the best haul since the 1920s.
Three months later the wizards of Oz could take pride of place at the awards.
Iain Percy and Shirley Robertson could probably still walk down a street unrecognised but the sailing gold medallists had earned their invitation and a seat among the elite.
And to prove that sporting stardom is not all about coming first there was a special invitation for Equatorial Guniea swimmer Eric Moussambani who also showed the Olympics was sometimes simply about taking part.
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Ranibizumab in Preventing Failure of Ahmed Valve Glaucoma Surgery
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|Drug: Ranibizumab
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Evaluation of Safety and Efficacy of Ranibizumab in Glaucoma Patients Treated With Filtration Tubes"
- Tube Success at 6 Months [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Criteria for success at 6 months postoperatively was intraocular pressure (IOP) < 18mmHg without the necessity for adjunctive medication for pressure or IOP < 15mmHg with <=1 adjunctive medication.
- Significant Ocular Adverse Events [ Time Frame: 6 months ]Participants experiencing significant ocular adverse events, including endophthalmitis and rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
|Study Start Date:
|April 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|January 2011
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Active Comparator: Ranibizumab
Ranibizumab (0.5 mg in 0.05 mL) administered intravitreally at 3 time points: 9 days before Ahmed tube insertion for open-angle glaucoma, 1 month post-surgery, and 2 months post-surgery
Drug: Ranibizumab
intravitreal injection of 0.5 mg ranibizumab 1 week prior to tube insertion and then monthly x 2 more injections
Other Name: Lucentis
No Intervention: Usual care
Standard of care Ahmed tube insertion for open-angle glaucoma without injections of Ranibizumab
Detailed Description:
This is a randomized, open-label, Phase I/II study of intravitreally administered ranibizumab for the treatment of tube patency in glaucoma patients.
Thirty (30) patients with severe glaucoma requiring tubes will be randomized (2:1) to either ranibizumab or observation.
Consented, enrolled subjects assigned to the treatment group will receive open-label intravitreal injection of 0.5 mg ranibizumab 1 week prior to tube insertion and then monthly x 2 more injections Sham intravitreal injections for the observation group will NOT be performed.
Study periods:
Study start date: May 1st, 2007 (estimated) Enrollment period: 6-8 months (estimated) Follow-up period: 6 months Study end Date: December 1st, 2010 (estimated)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|21 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- ability to provide written informed consent and comply with study assessment for the full duration of the study.
- age ≥ 21
- diagnosis of glaucoma and determined to be candidate for therapy with tube insertion.
Exclusion Criteria:
- pregnant or lactating females
- Persons on oral contraceptives and women of child-bearing age
- prior enrollment in the study
- any conditions the investigator believes would pose a significant hazard to the subject if the investigational therapy were initiated
- participation in another simultaneous medical investigation or trial
- history of active inflammatory, infectious, or idiopathic keratitis precluding view of anterior segment structures
- previous injections of ranibizumab in either eye.
- Persons on Plavix (clopidogrel bisulfate) and coumadin
- Persons with uncontrolled high blood pressure
- Persons with renal or liver disease
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00644280
|United States, California
|University of California, San Francisco
|San Francisco, California, United States, 94143-0730
|Study Chair:
|Robert Bhisitkul, M.D. , Ph.D.
|University of California, San Francisco
|Study Chair:
|Rajen U Desai
|Stanford University
|Study Director:
|Patricia Tam
|University of California, San Francisco
|Responsible Party:
|Shan Lin, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00644280 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NIH Grant # FVF4191S
|Study First Received:
|March 24, 2008
|Results First Received:
|May 29, 2013
|Last Updated:
|July 25, 2013
Keywords provided by Shan Lin, University of California, San Francisco:
Glaucoma,Ahmed Valve
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ocular Hypertension
Eye Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Angiogenesis Modulating Agents
Growth Substances
Growth Inhibitors
Antineoplastic Agents
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"It's a tale as old as time: Boy meets particle accelerator. Boy gets particle accelerator. Particle accelerator trash talks boy when boy's favorite football team wins last year's Super Bowl."
So says Alverno Presents' David Ravel about "Sexy Results," a rather unusual Cedar Block event – in case you couldn't tell from the above – at Turner Hall Ballroom on Saturday, Feb. 18, at 8 p.m.
The event is the latest creation by Cedar Block, a loose-knit collective that has hosted a couple adult science fairs, some Milwaukee Film events and a half-dozen performances at Milwaukee Art Museum and other events over the past seven years.
Brent Gohde, the man behind Cedar Block says that Ravel asked him to put together a show "that otherwise would not occur in Milwaukee" for Alverno Presents last February. So, naturally, a boy's thoughts turn to physics.
"My girlfriend had recently surprised me with a visit to Fermilab, the National Particle Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.," says Gohde.
"I'd had an interest in Fermilab's search for the theoretical Higgs boson particle after seeing a PBS documentary, 'The Atom Smashers,' a few years earlier. And 15 years prior, while working at the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop on Downer Avenue, I'd read a book by Leonard Shlain called 'Art and Physics,' which is about how those two disciplines aren't so different.
"Both artists and physicists are learning a language and trying to make sense of the world around them. He even suggested that artists had anticipated some scientific discoveries over the years. So I showed David 'The Atom Smashers,' and suggested we might try to use art to find the Higgs onstage. And here we are."
And where are we exactly?
"Sexy Results" features musicians, comedians and artists – including Bacon Interactive, Buffalo, Lisa Gatewood, IfIHadAHiFi, Joe Kirschling, Lunaversol9, Ashley Morgan, Picobots, Pro-Higgs Inc., Jim Schoenecker, Warchol/Rosenau, DJ Dori Zori, and others – to create a multimedia variety show that tells the story of a particle – yes, a particle – that may or may not exist.
"Since I'm not an artist or musician or anyone of any discernible talent, I had to make artists and musicians and talented individuals care about science as much as I do, in order to convince others," says Gohde.
"I was able to do that, and now we're mounting a stage show which smashes together a various genres like the Tevatron at Fermilab has smashed together particles to discover something new."
Sounds interesting and fun, but, um, huh?
"I thought long and hard about why I care about science, and why others don't," Gohde explains. "I love it because it's an attempt to solve the great mysteries of the universe. And others might not because the field has terrible marketing, and scientists don't excel at politics. So we're trying to help with that, and we're trying to make people care about science as much as I do."
In addition to organizing this whole crazy shenanigans, Gohde says that for the benefit of Mr. Kite (or, rather, Mr. Ravel), he will be in the center ring at "Sexy Results."
"I'll be the host/storyteller for the night," my first time at the center of a Cedar Blockian three-ring circus," he says. "I'll be telling a story throughout the night which will be punctuated by songs, videos, video games, art and actual scientific experiments."
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A collaboration with the Elmhurst Park District gives sculpture students a lesson in designing functional art for the real world.
Visual artist Carrie Ann Schumacher '08 turns romance novels into wedding dresses that are exquisite and thought-provoking works of art.
Take an online look at the College's extraordinary collection of Chicago Imagist and Abstractionist art.
Art reveals values. It clarifies and communicates the ideas, personalities and events that are significant to us individually and as a society. Making art is a natural expression of a culture through individual creative acts. At Elmhurst College, art students develop a deeper understanding of our times, our world, and our selves by studying the language of visual forms. In a comfortable, small-college environment, our students experience the joy of creativity in close collaboration with professionally active faculty.
Art students at Elmhurst have plenty of opportunities to display their work and to gain work experience. In addition to taking on a variety of internships, students design MiddleWestern Voice, our art, music and literary journal and The Leader, the College's award-winning student newspaper.
At Elmhurst College, we know that art emerges in spontaneous, creative moments juggled out of sometimes-hectic schedules. That's why our modern, well-equipped art studios are open seven days a week, day and night. We consistently update our networked electronic studio with the latest in computer technology. Our students find careers in graphic design, web site design, as art teachers or as art directors with corporations. Many go on to graduate school.
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Many bikers are familiar with the issue of trying to find visually attractive bicycle lights. They often are impractical with specific supports to install, are unwieldy, and give no attractive satisfaction. The wear and tear leads to broken parts and frustration among users. In addition, there is a higher risk of theft, since users often leave them installed on the bike when it is parked.
Stilform has designed an invisible alternative that does not look like a light at first. Great importance was placed on visual integration with the bike grips. The system is hidden in the interior of the handlebar and can be easily pulled out whenever it is needed. The LED lights then present themselves and turn on automatically as they are moved out. Magnets hold the lamps in different positions. In both active and inactive modes, the lamp will have a stable position during riding because of the magnets. MagVis is an enclosed system that is safe from theft. It contains a battery that is chargeable via USB cable. For charging, it can simply be removed from the handlebar.
This bike light communicates the urban lifestyle that is currently taking place worldwide in the form of purist bikes. Style-conscious bikers minimize looks for practicality. One wants to be mobile in the dark and integrate minimalistic objects. There is currently no available bike light that is invisible when not in use. MagVis is the solution – elegant, modern and suitable for various types of bikes.


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So, who's that swinging a lightsaber in the lobby of a Welsh cinema? Heck, it's me. Somehow I have got myself immortalised in a mural in the seaside town of Prestatyn, where I spent sun-filled years of childhood and where my parents still live.
It's not just me in artist Paul Young's hugely accomplished photo-mural, but a hundred Prestatyn and Prestatyn-related people, many in costume, as we stand in a cinema queue that moves backwards through a century of local history, to 1910 when the Scala cinema was founded by a showman named Saroni. Young's research revealed that Huw Wheldon, legendary television controller, and the late artist Barry Flanagan, who is about to have a retrospective at Tate Britain, both came from Prestatyn. Not to mention Carol Vorderman.
As for me, I got an anxious call from my mum earlier this year. She had given my number to a local artist. This turned out to be Young, who asked if I would represent the year 1999 when, he had discovered, I signed my first contract with the Guardian. Young turned out to be a terrific character, a very skilled portrait photographer who is also a painter and illustrator. His studio was set up in a community hall in the middle of Prestatyn. The eminent local choir-master was also posing.
I decided it might be a bit pompous to pose with just an attribute of my newspaper career, so I also brought my daughter's toy lightsaber. The Phantom Menace was released in 1999, you see, and when I was a child here, the original Star Wars came out.
I hope everyone else in the photo-mural feels as happy as me about their portraits. It felt good to be part of this warm and generous public art project and, as a critic as well as a participant, I love the result. Small towns don't usually celebrate their history. Here is a town putting itself in the picture, with wit and style. It's an honour to be part of that crowd – may the force be with them.


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