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Shortly after graduation from Bucks County Community College with a degree in Graphic Design and Illustration, Melissa moved to Ketchikan, Alaska where she co-founded the Morning Raven Art Co-Op. She stayed to work and study in Alaska for three years before moving to New York City.
In NYC, she found her niche in children's textile design. In 1989, she started her own freelance design company working fulltime for manufacturers.
She returned to Doylestown in 1993, and continued her business for clients still based in NYC. Her clothing designs can be found at J.C.Penney's, Target, Walmart, Kohl's and Nordstroms.
Her freelance efforts also included working with Mike Pantuso for Sesame Street. She was awarded a Daytime Emmy Recognition for Graphic Design for the 1989-90 season.
Her work has been included in The Society Of Illustrators 26th Annual Show and publication. she has shown at the Leleu Gallery and several group shows at Mixed Media Gallery in Doylestown and Cedar Maze in Pt. Pleasant, PA.
She resides in Doylestown, married to Brett Haddaway, a commercial playground designer/builder and is inspired by her dog, Amos and kitty, Diego!!


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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Ok, it has been an extremely long time since my last post. Life has gotten way to busy. My boy's have started baseball, so that will be in full swing until mid July. Love watching baseball on a nice warm summer day. Here I used the stamp set "And Many Mower" from the occasions mini catalog April 1 - July 30,2009. The paper I used was Always Artichoke, Close to Cocoa, Baja Breeze, Whisper white, DSP Parisian Breeze & DSP Hostess 6x6 kraft. Used the markers and masking technique for the golfer guy and used two bigger brads that I found at JoAnne Fabrics. Great card for that avid golfer in your life. Thanks for looking
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Curried Tomato Shrimp
Recipe by chia2160
very simple to prepare on the stovetop. this is also nice served over pasta or rice.
Top Review by FlemishMinx
This is superb ! As I wasn't able to purchase any fresh basil today, I substituted 1 TBS dried basil, adding it in step 2. I served this over my own Cardamom and Fennel Flavored Rice Recipe #94024 (sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but the two went together very well).My ownly regret was that I didn't have more shrimp- there was easily enough sauce for 2 lbs, if not more. Thanks for posting !!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, chopped
- 1 jalapeno, seeded and chopped
- 1⁄2 tablespoon ginger, minced
- 1 1⁄2 tablespoons mild curry powder
- 1 (28 ounce) can tomatoes, drained and chopped--reserve juice
- 1 (14 ounce) can unsweetened coconut milk
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- salt, pepper to taste
- 1 1⁄2 lbs shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1⁄4 cup chopped cilantro or 1⁄4 cup basil
- lime wedge (to garnish)
Directions See How It's Made
- in a saucepan heat 2 tbsp oil.
- add onion, garlic, jalapeno and ginger and cook until softened, about 5 minutes.
- add curry powder, stirring until fragrant.
- add tomatoes and their juice, coconut milk, sugar, salt and pepper and bring to a boil.
- lower heat to simmer and cook stirring occasionally for 15 minutes until thickened.
- in a saute pan heat remaining oil, add shrimp in 1 layer and cook until pink, about 1-2 minutes per side.
- add sauce to the skillet and simmer for 3-4 minutes until thickened and shrimp is cooked.
- stir in cilantro or basil.
- garnish with lime wedges.


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It's that time again. Let's take a look at the power rankings as camps are under way throughout the Big Ten.
1. Ohio State: There isn't a glaring weakness on this team. History shows the defense will be extremely stingy, and if quarterback Terrelle Pryor continues to develop, the offense should be more than capable of putting up points. A bona fide national title contender.
2. Iowa: The core from the Orange Bowl championship team returns, led by defensive end Adrian Clayborn and quarterback Ricky Stanzi. Iowa must reload at offensive line but has a strong tradition there. A Week 3 test at Arizona could be tricky, but Iowa will be a BCS bowl contender if it defends its home turf.
3. Wisconsin: No Big Ten team returns more individual stars than the Badgers. A balanced offense led by one of the nation's best lines could be unstoppable if John Clay, Scott Tolzien and others can stay healthy. The defense is young in spots but talented, and safety Jay Valai promises me they'll lay the wood. Can head coach Bret Bielema take this program from very good to great?
4. Penn State: I had the Lions tied with Michigan State coming out of the spring, but Penn State's historic success on defense and its superior line play provides an ever-so-slight edge right now. Given the inexperience at quarterback, Penn State will need to rely on its run game and its defense. Joe Paterno has won that way a few times before.
5. Michigan State: The Spartans boast more depth at the offensive skill positions than any Big Ten team. Linebacker Greg Jones returns to lead the defense. My only hesitation here is the line play on both sides of the ball. I'm tempted to buy into Michigan State, but I'm going to take a wait-and-see approach for now.
6. Northwestern: Quarterback Dan Persa has done everything right in the offseason. Now he needs to prove himself when it really counts. The secondary and the rushing game concern me, but running back Arby Fields is poised for a big year. This isn't a championship-level team but one that should make a school-record third straight bowl.
7. Purdue: Like Persa, Robert Marve has established himself as a leader before starting his first game at quarterback for the Boilers. If Purdue fills a few gaps on the offensive line, its offense could be very good. The defensive front seven should be better against the run, but Purdue must replace its entire starting secondary, which is never easy.
8. Michigan: Regardless of who wins the starting quarterback job, Rich Rodriguez's offense will put up points. But if the defense doesn't make a major jump in 2010, nothing else will matter. Demar Dorsey's departure from the secondary could hurt, and while I'm interested to see what Cam Gordon and others can do on the field, it's hard to buy into this unit right now.
T-9. Minnesota: There has been too much change in personnel and on Tim Brewster's staff the last two years for me to give the Gophers a stamp of approval at this stage. Quarterback Adam Weber certainly is talented enough to turn things around, especially with some help from the run game and the offensive line. I'm not counting out Minnesota by any means, but a very challenging schedule combined with a lot of new faces creates some concern.
T-9. Indiana: I'm buying into Ben Chappell and the Hoosiers offense. If the unit stays healthy, Indiana will put up points and improve in critical situations (third down, red zone). Not surprisingly, the major concerns come on defense, where Indiana hopes a switch to the 3-4 alignment pays off. A very favorable schedule gives IU a chance to make it back to a bowl game.
11. Illinois: The Grand Experiment begins Sept. 4 against Missouri in St. Louis. Great recruiting classes haven't translated into on-field success for the Illini. Perhaps an upgrade in coaching will make the difference. Linebacker Martez Wilson's return provides a boost, but Illinois needs to help young quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase as much as possible.


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Months have passed now without clear understanding as to what is causing my cortisol and ACTH to be high. MRIs and CTs have shown normal looking glands, but my labs continue to indicate high hormones. Without a clear diagnosis, I have been void of a treatment plan from my doctor.
Feeling trapped by my circumstances and afraid of the possibility of rapid weight gain that is common with Cushing's Syndrome (my tentative diagnosis), hopelessness and fear have tried settle in.
"Have you considered addressing this with your diet?" I have heard from many friends, enough that I thought it would be worthwhile to investigate. The only problem is that I was receiving so much contradictory advice!
The prevailing food concerns of the day are the hormones and anti-biotics found in meats, the gluten in grains, the toxins in pesticides found on fruits and veggies, preservatives in anything pre-packaged. With all this icky-ness, what on earth do we eat?!?
Battling with confusion over the issue, I went to the Lord.
Lord, I know confusion is not of You. Show me what is true.
And nearly immediately the Lord responded,
You are confused because you are looking to food for your healing, instead of Me.
Bam. Idolatry in my heart exposed.
His word came as a bit of a surprise. In my natural mind, I would have believed the confusion to be more about about the different claims in the articles this research-aholic was reading. My coping mechanism to stress is to know as much as possible about the issue at hand. I was steeped in different websites about Cushing's Syndrome, Adrenal Fatigue, fertility and nutrition, and of course, all the readings about meats and grains. God sees the heart, though, and His spirit convicted me that I was searching for a solution outside of Him.
Repentance, restoring the Lord to His rightful throne, and then...
Ok, Lord, show me in your word, how I should be eating and caring for myself.
I petitioned the Lord with this request for several days before He presented me with the first answer, as it pertains to food, but even more than food, He's granting lessons for my heart.
In what I believe to be God's sovereignty, Aviel and I just so happened to be reading the story of the ravens bringing food to Elijah during the drought (see 1 Kings 17). Several months ago, one of these sneaky Israeli ravens stole Aviel's grilled cheese sandwich in the park. He swooped down, grabbed it and flew off, while we were sitting right there! With that in recent memory, it wasn't hard to imagine these birds bringing Elijah breakfast and dinner. Aviel's little bible did not detail the food that the birds brought, so later that day, I went to my "big bible" (as Aviel calls it) to read the full story.
Lo and Behold:
The ravens brought him bread and meat in the morning and bread and meat in the evening, and he would drink from the brook. 1 Kings 17:6 (Italics mine.)
I had to laugh out loud at the Lord's sense of humor. The two food groups that are are cause for concern in our present culture were provided -- by the Lord -- for Elijah to eat.
Now, I'm sure Elijah's bread was made with good healthy, maybe even heavenly, grains, and His meat was likely grass fed goat or sheep. Farming and processing practices have greatly changed in the thousands of years since this event occurred, and this was also during an extreme food shortage due to a God ordained drought. With that in mind, I want to be responsible with how I'm using scripture here as I testify to my personal journey. This small passage is not something I would build an objective doctrine around as I value rightly dividing the Word of truth (2 Tim 2:15); however, it is something the Lord used to speak to my heart.
As I prayerfully considered this passage, the Lord granted personal revelation. Where I stand now, I trust that the Lord was showing me that firstly, I should trust Him to be my provider. Just as He provided Elijah with the nutrients necessary to survive the famine, He will provide me with the nutrients I need, spiritually and physically, to sustain me through the tribulations of this age. He is the Bread of Life.
Next, I believe the Lord used this passage to bring awareness of what to eliminate. Since this passage specifically mentioned the two food groups eliminated in trending diets of our time, I felt He was speaking to me that I should be less concerned about totally eliminating a food group, and more concerned about eliminating a Spirit of Fear. This is particularly important because cortisol is a stress hormone, and stress is related to anxiety, which is just another way of saying... fear.
In this same chapter, after the brook dries up, Elijah encounters yet another food dilemma. The Lord sends him to a widow who is gathering sticks to prepare what she believes to be the last meal she will eat with her son before hopelessly succumbing to starvation.
The rest of the story concludes that the Lord supernaturally sustained her small supply of flour and oil to last for the duration of the drought. He was her provision, and her solution. She had nothing to fear.
"Please bring me a piece of bread in your hand." Elijah says to the widow (v.11).
"As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour in the bowl and a little oil in the jar; and behold, I am gathering a few sticks that I may go in and prepare for me and my son, that we may eat it and die." She replies (v. 12).
Then Elijah said to her, "Do not fear; go, do as you have said, but make me a little bread cake from it first and bring it out to me, and afterward you may make one for yourself and for your son." (v. 13, bold emphasis mine).
Hopelessness is an emotion I have shared with the widow. In not knowing what is going on with my body, when it will be restored to order, how this will affect our family planning, I have felt real dispair. This hopelessness is a tool of the enemy to bring death, rather than victory into our lives.
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Who will separate us from the love of Messiah? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written,
"For Your sake we are being put to death all day long;
We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered."But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Messiah Yeshua our Lord. Romans 8:35-39 (Bold emphasis, and Messianic language mine).
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God. 1 Cor 10:31
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Do you just mean uploading the reference genome in the normal fashion, (FTP or web form) and then it's available to the NGS tools? -Greg On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Jennifer Jackson <j...@bx.psu.edu> wrote: > Hi Greg, > > At the very top of this wiki: > http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/NGS%20Local%20Setup > > is a link to a related wiki: > > http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/Data%20Integration > > that has additional required set-up info. This page also includes > information about how to rsync the indexes currently available on the public > Main server. These are planned to be updated with many new genomes and > indexes over the next few weeks, so check back in mid January if you do not > find what you want now and do not want to build it yourself. Releasing > Bowtie2 indexes (also used by Tophat2) into this area is planned to start in > later Jan, pending any issues, but to build yourself, the basic guidelines > for Bowtie can be followed with adjustments to use " bowtie2-build" and " > bowtie2_indices.loc". The Bowtie2 source tool documentation has the exact > options and should be used along with our guidelines (this is true for all > tools that require indexes). > > If you choose not to populate genomes as an admin, users can use most tools > with a 'custom reference genome'. Please be aware that running tools this > way will take more processing resources and storage disk for user's > histories. The size of the genome is the primary factor to consider - some > mix of built-in and custom genomes may be good solution. Also, FTP upload > will almost certainly need to be enabled. Complete "how-to" details from a > user's perspective are here: > http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Support#Custom_reference_genome > > Hopefully this gives you an option that will work, > > Jen > Galaxy team > > > On 12/18/12 9:40 AM, greg wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm finishing up installing Galaxy on our local cluster. > > I'm at this step regarding setting up reference genomes: > http://wiki.galaxyproject.org/Admin/NGS%20Local%20Setup#Setting_Up_the_Reference_Genomes_for_NGS_Tools > > But it looks like a whole lot of manual work that needs to be done by > a system administrator. I was kind of expecting this would be > something end users would be able to do. I'm actually not sure we > have the resources for a sys admin to install all of these reference > genomes every time someone needs one. > > I guess here are my questions: > > Am I misunderstanding the process? > > Is there a different way that normal users can add reference genomes > instead? > > Is there anything in the works that lets users easily add these? > > Is there a way to use NGS tools without installing reference genomes? > > Thanks, > > Greg > ___________________________________________________________ > Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" > in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this > and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: > > http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ > > > -- > Jennifer Jackson > http://galaxyproject.org ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/


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In my last post I discussed hairy, ravenous hordes using arctic weather to breach the defenses of civilization. So it was in 406 with pillaging Germanic barbarians on the Rhine frontier.
And so it is in 2014 on the West Hill Front.
Bunnies. Damn them.
Every winter I put up a three foot fence around some succulent shrubs. The enemy has been lurking about waiting, waiting. And the last snow fall was deep enough to let them just hop on over.
Inside the perimeter. The object with a stem is a berry fallen off the tree above. Pathetic, misinformed robins are feeding there and I do not begrudge them. The objects without stems. Well, not berries.
I am constrained by practical considerations. Direct action might not be legal, although there is a little wiggle room for pellet guns. But They come by night. So I tromped down a trench all around the fence, that should hold them for a while. Unless it snows again.
In some ways this is less The Somme than the Korean DMZ. Lots of fences (my request for barbed wire was turned down), but more psychological warfare than anything else.
It has been a decade or so since the Bunny commandos breached the wire. Last time I made a cardboard cutout of a severed rabbit head, complete with a large X in place of an eye. I mounted it on a pike as a warning. It seemed to work, although spring thaw probably helped.
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Despite the cold weather, we are in fact entering the summer months, with that comes longer days and for some people a longer time period for drinking activities. You can't beat a hot summer day, a bottle of prosecco and a group of friends in Battersea park.
All day drinking however comes with a few hiccups (pun intended). Alcohol and going to bed drunk can have a massive impact on your body and sleeping pattern. Not only does it mean some awful and borderline shameful mistakes, that you will hope the mountain of tequila shots will help you forget, but it can also impact on heart rate and how much you sweat.
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1) As soon as your head hits the pillow, you're out. The alcohol makes you fall into a sleep too quickly, what this essentially means is that it ruins your sleep cycle. By sleeping too fast it means you miss on the first stages of the sleeping cycle and therefore meaning there will be a negative impact later on in the cycle.
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while i was boring and avoid myself from tempting food, I decided to watched these movies (again). watch dvd is really kill time, in fact I basically hate waste time for only seat and watch dvd. haha no offense guys, it's only my opinion. who cares with my opinion anyway? I can't wait to go to school tomorrow. ciao friends!


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text: November 30, 2016 sunil Indira Gandhi Quotes "A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others." "All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake." "Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and to make it strong and dynamic." "I am not interested in a long life. I am not afraid of these things. I don't mind if my life goes in the service of this nation. If I die today, every drop of my blood will invigorate the nation." "I am proud that I spent the whole of my life in the service of my people….I shall continue to serve until my last breath and when I die, I can say, that every drop of my blood will invigorate India and strengthen it." "I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people." "If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying." "India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist." "Martyrdom does not end something, it is only a beginning." "My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not." "My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." "My theory is that men are no more liberated than women." "One must beware of ministers who can do nothing without money, and those who want to do everything with money." "Peace between countries must rest on the solid foundation of love between individuals." "People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights." "The power to question is the basis of all human progress." "There are moments in history when brooding tragedy and its dark shadows can be lightened by recalling great moments of the past." "There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." "To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality." "To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg." "True Liberation Of Women, speech, inauguration of the All-India Women's Conference Building Complex in New Delhi, India (March 26, 1980)" "We would rather starve than sell our national honor." "You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose."


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But then there are other days, like yesterday, when everything about it is perfect. And when I say perfect I mean perfectly autumn, which is what heaven will be like in my opinion. I noticed it as I rushed to class, having dressed for the weather that had encompassed the previous two, i.e. flipping cold, and when I got to class and stripped off my scarf, glovies, coat and sweater I was still steaming up my glasses. After a good hour of Gaelic, however, my internal temperature had balanced itself, and as I stepped out of 19 George Square I couldn't help but to wander into the fenced garden that is in the centre of the square. An escape of nature amid the studious stone Georgian buildings of the square. On a crisp and sun-laden day such as it was yesterday an escape like that is a necessary part of the day. I found a bench in the center of the garden which has a surrounding wall of tree and bush that shields someone within from the constant reminder of the city, and I sat and wrote and reveled. The wind blew through the boughs, sending a flurry of autumnal color raining down on the solitary benches and winding paths. It was one of those days when you can smell the intoxicating scent of autumn on the breath of the wind, and undeniably feel it in the crisp air. The white wisps of cloud moved swiftly overhead and the sun revealed its face through the veil of autumn cloud. Every once in a while, a fellow reveler would walk by, and the telltale crunch of the fallen leaves beneath their steps was ever-so satisfying to the ear. You know, there's something about the richness of color in the autumn leaves, the golden-brown, tawny-yellow and the occasional flourish of crimson or sugary-orange, it all makes my senses palpitate with joy and fervor for the season. Yet still, even among the richness of the autumn color there was the evergreen of the holly bush--that stalwart plant--which is one of all seasons, yet it invokes the promise of winter and Boreas' arrival, fast and fair, into this ancient stone city. As I sat, the other benches were acquiring occupants, those who, like me, cannot resist a day like yesterday and must revel in its loveliness. I did not linger there too long though, moments such as those are fleeting and someone else surely desired my place there, my reveling bench, before the colors fade and that beauty dies away.
|The path I followed to my reveling bench.
My other class, The Supernatural World, is quite interesting. It explores the traditional superstitions and magical thinking that is so latent within Scottish culture, from divination to changelings and the fairies, witchcraft to the second sight among Scottish families. It's really neat to look at the folklore that comes from this area and the Highlands. I'm also doing a Approaches and Methods in Gaidhealtacht Studies which is basically seminars each week on different topics within Highland Studies that I'm interested in given by the expert in that field to give me an idea of what I might be more interested in with relation to my dissertation. I have to write essays for both of those classes then an exam for Gaelic at the end of the semester.
Jeremy is enjoying his Arthurian Scotland class that meets in Edinburgh Castle, and he's job-hunting as well. Were still enjoying being slightly touristy with sight-seeing and exploring this gorgeous city. Tonight we're going to Sandy Bells, a pub that has live traditional music every night and was the hub of the folk music revival here in the 60s, which is pretty brilliant.
Sorry I've written a novel here, I hope to update sooner next time--we'll see how that goes. I hope this post finds all who read it quite well. Until next time.
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Paperworld China is located at Hall E6 and E7 of Shanghai New International Expo Centre. The closest gate is 3# Entrance Hall where adjacent to the Kerry Parkside/ Kerry Hotel Pudong Shanghai and metro station (Huamu Road Station, Metro Line#7).
2345 Longyang Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai 201204, China
Business centre
Located in the Entrance Halls 1#, 2# and 3#, facilities include secretarial service, post office, hotel reservation, travel agency, ticket reservation to telecommunication solutions.(IDD, DDD, LDD, Internet, etc.)
KFC restaurant located in 2# Entrance Hall and McDonald's restaurant located in Hall N4. Both Chinese and Western meals are available in Kerry Parkside linking 2# Entrance Hall.
Convenience stores
There are convenience stores selling food, drinks and other small commodities on Hall W1-B2 (East outside), Hall W3-B2 (East outside) & Hall E3 B1 a/b (West outside).
Pudong police administration office/SNIEC police station – Hall W4 (East outside)
Customs office – Hall W2 (West)
Fire controlling office – Hall W2-B3 (East outside)
Commercial facilities
SNIEC is surrounded by many large-scale commercial complexes like the Zendai Himalayas Center, Pudong Kerry Parkside, YongDa Mansion, Zizhu Mansion, EXPO Plaza, Business Street 2006, Laya Plaza, Zendai Big Thumb Plaza etc., which include five-star hotels, grade five-A office buildings, serviced apartments, restaurants, shopping centres, supermarkets, banks, recreation areas and cinema, etc.It can be said that these kinds of commercial facilities have greatly upgraded the comprehensive service capability of the MICE industry in this area, and created an ideal business environment for guests to visit SNIEC.
There are several public and international hospitals around SNIEC.
Parkway Health
No. 51, Hongfeng Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai
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Salty water, Ocean
Ocean swim is different than lake or even pool swimming. The salty water has an advantage for every swimmer; the buoyancy. Salt water is approximately 3% denser than fresh water. If you are not familiar with surf swimming ask local people, the lifeguard would be the best, about the sea and its odds.Surf swimming is a sport in which the fastest pool swimmer not always wins. There are many reasons for this and we want to discuss some of them. A relatively good pool swim technique is a necessity for surf swimming. But what is considered a perfect stroke in a pool is not necessarily a good stroke in ocean water. The surf interrupts the stroke technique due to the currents and turbulences, which is a natural product of the water. There are too many variables compared to a well-heated indoor pool.
Cold water, waves, sandbanks, little beach reefs, surface currents, other competitors, climatic changes, etc.
Little things what pool swimmers do not do during their swim event is running, wading and swimming in the surf.
Course familiarization
Check out the tide. Incoming or outgoing tides have different waveforms. Select effective landmarks for the navigation purpose when you swim out, buoys, and when you come back, buildings, flagpoles, etc. If you swim parallel to the shoreline understand how the shoreline changes its form.
Phases of the start
Many races are lost and won by wading. It is very hard to swim from behind and swim through the maze of swimmers. The difference between wading and running is: The leg action is high and to the side and the use of the stomach muscles.
Once you have negotiated to a about waist depth, wading becomes harder, because you have to lift the water with your legs. Now we do porpoising either we plunge under or over the wave is basically up to the individual skills and preferences and needs practice. It is done for a short distance only and depends on the beach. Two to six porpoises are usually enough before you reach enough depth to start to swim.
The swim
During the swim you should constantly checking your swim position without breaking the stroke. The head should be raised and continue swimming otherwise other swimmers behind you, will swim right into you.
Back to shoreline
Body surfing
It takes practice to get the feeling for the waves to ride on them to the shoreline. Before catching the wave for the ride, take a deep breath; you might need the air.Getting out of the water
The technique is the same as used to get into the water, just reversed. That is the moment when you need a lot of inner core strength after an exhausting swim-part to do porpoising and wading.
Racing time in a freshwater lake!!!!
You learned it all, the swim start, running into the water, dive into the first stroke and off you swim.
But wait. There are other competitors as well and they are all over you. If you do the first triathlon race ever, chose a local race with only a few competitors. The swim start is for many people the scariest part. I want to explain to you what you have to expect.If you do your first race ever, please do not stand in the middle of the other competitors. Stay outside or behind in the third or fourth line. Let the experienced swimmer go through the massacre of the first 50 to 100m, then you go in and you will have an enjoyable swim.If for instance you do your first race and you stand in the first or second row, expect the following actions:
You run into the water, shoulder on shoulder with others, left and right side no way out and to escape, behind other competitors, the first dive for the first stroke, swimmers in front of you kicking hard, they want that you stay away from them, left side is the shoulder and the arm of another competitor, you want some air, you turn the head open your mouth, bad luck there is water, you feel the weeds and sea grass around your legs, you hold your breath for another stroke, you run out of air, head goes up for breathing, there is the kicking again, in the meanwhile you swim over other people's legs rolling to the other side, finally you get some air, and there is relief in sigh, the open water, the bunch of swimmers lengthen out and you should find your swim rhythm. These special experiences need to be practiced so you get a good feeling of your position during the swim start. Sometimes we just have to swim a little bit to the left or right side and there is quiet water.
We have different swim starts.
Exercise them and train these to get a good idea how it works.
Run in from the shoreline into shallow water or into the deep water.
Expect weeds and sea grass in the shallow end as well as mud holes where you cannot push off from the ground.
Deep water start, all competitors are in the water, there will be an imaginary start line between two buoys, and two people in kayaks are the controllers of the start line, the whistle goes and off you swim.
Dive-in start Start form a platform, head first start and competitors are lined up so no one jumps on someone else.
Are you still swimming?
Very soon you will see a buoy for a 90-degree turn or 180-degree turnaround. It just depends on how you end up at these buoy either very close or far away, we need some sort of a technique to get around.
Very close
Maybe one or two breast strokes helps you to go around because for a short time during the breast stroke you are tucked in which gives you a better turn. In freestyle you are stretched out. Watch out for the anchor line, you might get entangled.
Very far
The freestyle could be the better choice to get around. During the turn one arm pulls stronger then the other one and your body is slightly bend for the turn.
Finally you see the Arc de Triumph at the shoreline and you aim for it. Next challenge;
How to get out of the water?
Keep swimming and when your hand touches the bottom of the lake during the stroke, it is now flat enough to start porpoising and / or wading for the first couple meters before you run. Some people might feel a little bit dizzy when they go from the horizontal swim position to the vertical run position.
How to get out of the wetsuit?
Lots of secrets are applied and as many competitors are swimming as many different secrets are used to get out of the wetsuit. I would strongly recommend that you train this prior to any races. Some competitors putting some sort of a crème or oil on their skin so the wetsuit gets off easier. Some open the wetsuit right when they come out of the water because your skin does not produce any sweat yet.
Otherwise, the wetsuit might stick to your skin and you tear on the wetsuit just to get out and some damage can be done to the suit. Now you run up to the transition zone and get ready for the bike course. Just a few sentences about triathlon: The swim start can vary from a few competitors 30 or so goes up to 120 swimmers in one bunch and a few 300 swimmers in an Ironman start.When you are new in this sport take the advantage of our try-a-tri event. They are usually very short approx. (400m swim – 15km bike – 3km run).
The next step could be the sprint version of a triathlon (750m swim – 25km bike – 5km run).
Big step forward is Olympic distance (1.5km swim – 40km bike – 10km run) or you skip all of that and you do an Ironman instead (3.8km swim – 180km bike – 41 run).In Ontario we offer a series for woman only triathlon, another excellent way to experience the fantastic sport of triathlon. The next article will be about the transition and how to set it up.