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Why Vietnam is my next destination in August
When it comes to South East Asia Vietnam was one the countries that I always wanted to visit. I had heard so much about the country in terms of Food, culture, places to see and of course shopping.
Vietnam has distinctive climates in northern, Central and Southern parts of the country. In Hanoi & the north, May to October is hot and humid with high rainfall; November to April is cooler and dry. In the far north, December & January can be particularly cold.
Central Vietnam experiences hot, dry weather between January & August whilst high levels of rainfall can occur in September, October & November. Southern Vietnam is generally dry and hot from November to April, and warm and wet between May & October, with the highest rainfall in June, July & August.
Since different parts of Vietnam has different climates, hence it gives you a choice to visit the place of your choice.
The place that I would choose to go in Hanoi and Ninbinh. Being a big country it's not possible to see all the places in a weeks time.
There are some interesting places that can be explored
- Water Puppet Theatre
A unique ancient art form of water puppetry has a long association with Hanoi. The original – and widely regarded as the best – theater in town is the Thang Long Puppet Theatre. It's roots in an art form that dates back to the 11th century.
Using large rods to support the puppets it appears as if they are moving across the water with the puppeteers hidden behind a screen.
2. Imperial Citadel of Thang Long
The Imperial Citadel of Thang Long is an important artifact of Vietnam's history and, signifies its historical and cultural importance. Its s now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
3. Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son temple:-
Hoan Kiem Lake is a central feature of Hanoi and is a popular hangout spot with locals and international tourists. Ngoc Son Temple sits on a small island in the centre of the lake. It is connected by a bridge and that makes a beautiful scenic view. This area becomes especially busy with joggers in the mornings and evenings , couples enjoying the relaxing views across the lake, and the elderly practising Tai Chi and line dancing.
4. Dong Xuan Market
Dong Xuan Market is the largest of its kind in Hanoi. It is housed within a four-storey Soviet-
You can buy printed T-shirts or cheap sunglasses, it is still fascinating to see the comings and goings of the local traders, and there is a wet market on the ground floor where the sights and smells of exotic produce.
take visitors past islands named for their shapes, including Stone Dog and Teapot islets. The region is popular for scuba diving, rock climbing and hiking, particularly in mountainous Cát Bà National Park.
4. Halong Bay
Hạ Long Bay, in northeast Vietnam, is known for its emerald waters and thousands of towering limestone islands topped by rainforests. Junk Boat tours , kayaking. These attractions take visitors past islands named for their shapes, including Stone Dog and Teapot islets. The region is popular for scuba diving, rock climbing, and hiking, particularly in mountainous Cát Bà National Park.
One can choose to do an overnight cruise. This is a must experience but beware of the storms the cruise may get cancelled.
A day trip to Nin Binh – When it comes to Nin Binh I would personally recommend is Tom Coc. Tam Coc which means 3 caves, is a zone of Vietnam that elapses between rice paddies, bathed by the Ngo Dong River punctuated by karstic rock formations and limestone caves. The most impressive of Tam Coc are rice fields when at its best, with a bright green with yellow, ending in the beginning of the cliffs of the rock formations.
The Vietnamese call the paddy fields of Tam Coc as the Green Sea.
Nin Binh boasts of the most majestic and impressive natural landscapes in Southeast Asia, yet many travelers overlook it.
How to Get to Nin Binh:- From Hanoi, you can reach Ninh Binh city by train. There are at least 3 southbound trains available (SE5, SE7, SE19).Another more convenient option is the bus. There are regular buses from Hanoi's southern bus terminal (Giap Bat). The Journey takes around 2 to 2.5 hrs via train and bus.
The rainy season is also when the rice fields are at their best vivid green, so there's really a reason to visit all year round.
Boat ride in Tom Coc
These are in my places to see and that's what makes it special to visit Hanoi in August.. look forward to go here soon…..


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Going into labour can generate feelings of excitement and apprehension. To help relieve anxiety it is important to be prepared. You will be able to find information on:
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This information can be found in the Labour and Birth section of the Pregnancy Book. This section also provides information on special cases such as premature labour, overdue pregnancy, induction and the various types of delivery as well as what your birth partner can do to help.
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By Stina Sieg, Fronteras Desk
Two years ago Tuesday, 19 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots died in the Yarnell Hill Fire, the deadliest wildfire in Arizona history.
The fire devastated the tiny town of Yarnell in Yavapai County, leaving many people to wonder if the little community would ever recover.
On Sunday, dozens gathered under a big, white tent next to a plaque with photos of the 19 men. Somehow, there's more gratitude in the air than sorrow, even for those who lost the most.
"Garret Zuppiger, who by virtue of his last name is always the last on the list, was my grandson, our only grandchild, actually," said Lew Theokas.
He and his wife Marcie have lived a short ways up the road in Peeples Valley for years but never felt much a part of the community until after the fire that claimed their grandson. And it's not just about that purple ribbon a stranger left on a tree outside their home, Lew said.
Locals have banded together and made them feel included, Lew Theokas said. Now, he said, any time they go into town it takes an hour, because they always stop to chat with people they care about and who care about them.
"It's been unbelievable. It's been enriching. We are blessed," he said.
They're not alone. After the fire destroyed 127 homes, people in the community and across the country sprang into action. The Red Cross and other groups descended on the town, donations of clothing and furniture and money poured in. Marcie Theokas said she saw her neighbors come together like never before.
"The help and support and caring that they've had, the relationships that they've formed," she said, "this is not just us. This is tons of people. Their lives are different. Our lives are different."
In Glen Ilah, a neighborhood hit hard by the fire, Linda Ma stood next to the burned frame of what used to be a dining room chair.
"Have a seat," she offered. Her house and the trees that surrounded it are gone, and only now has the smallest frame of her future home appeared. But Ma looked happy, and called her barren lot filled with boulders, a "moonscape."
"I became a kinder and gentler human being because of this whole incident," she said.
That may be because Ma threw herself into helping others as a core member of the Yarnell Hill Recovery Group, created by locals right after the fire. The group has raised about $2 million to help people rebuild and ensure that life will go on.
"I'm in awe of the experience," she said. "I mean, tragic, yes, but it's really brought everyone together."
Ma said it reminds her of her old home of San Francisco, and how friendly people were in the days following the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989. She remembered that vibe disappearing after a few days.
Debbi Keehner is another Yarnell resident who said she feels the difference in her neighbors.
"I have never been this nice in my life to deserve all the wonderful things that have happened to me since the fire," Keehner said. "I know I haven't been this good."
Keehner and her husband, Steve, sat on the porch of their new home built with funds from the Yarnell Hill Recovery Group. Their old home, in which they had lived for decades, burned to the ground, along with almost everything they had, except for their vehicles and a few odds and ends.
"We have so much to be grateful for, and the biggest loss with everything had to be the firefighters," Debbi Keehner said.
Steve Keehner that loss can make it hard to enjoy their good fortune, and it keeps them forever humble.
"They gave everything they had," he said. "And I don't want anyone to ever forget them and what they did."
That's why 19 small U.S. flags flapped in the breeze on the Keehners' porch railing.


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Flying into the Capital with more than Rs.10 lakh in cash and over a kilogram gold can lead to scrutiny by the Election Commission. With the model code of conduct in full force in the city, the Chief Electoral Officer met with various airport authorities on Monday, including the Airports Authority of India (AAI), Bureau of Civil Aviation, CISF and Delhi Police, to look into suspicious transactions through the air route. "Basically, the meeting was to ensure that all directions laid down by the Election Commission of India are adhered to and there is no flow of arms and ammunitions, contraband substances, more than Rs.10 lakh in cash or over one kg of gold into the city," said Chief Electoral Officer Vijay Dev.
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"We have also requested regular information on chartered flights taken by politicians through which money and other goods may be brought through and have asked for flight plans," he added. Similarly, the CISF have been given strict instructions to scrutinise packages.
The airport authorities and security agencies have been asked to seize and confiscate any suspicious item and immediately intimate the Electoral Office. "They have been told not to release information on anything seized without intimating us," said Mr. Dev.
The CEO has also roped in the Income Tax Department and the Excise Department to keep a vigil at the airport.


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Let's hear a few cheers for Apple's lock in techniques. Lock in means Apple wants to control our files and data so we won't switch to a different platform.
Movie clips? They're stuck inside iMovie. Photos? They're stuck inside iPhoto. Music, videos, podcasts? They're stuck inside iTunes. Or, are they?
What every Mac user needs is a standalone music player that's not iTunes. That's Ecoute for Mac. This clever little app digs through your iTunes library and finds and plays music, movies, TV shows, even podcasts.
Ecoute is mostly player. Unlike iTunes, Ecoute isn't trying to sell you something new or clutter your brain by displaying everything except what you want to play.
Look familiar? It's a bit like iTunes would be if it was only a player.
Ecoute is clever enough to use Apple Remote to control your music, TV shows, movies and podcasts while you sit down over there, and smart enough to let you use keyboard shortcuts to control music, TV shows, movies, and podcasts while you're sitting in front of your Mac.
Apple finally got the hint and embedded sharing into everything, but Ecoute was sharing first. Share your songs on Twitter and Facebook and Last.fm.
Or, use the Desktop Widget to control what you hear and see. And, if you truly, deeply believe that Small is Beautiful, then you'll love Ecoute's minimalist player controller.
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You need money fast and think about using the equity of your home to get a loan. You can either apply for a second mortgage or use my credit rge heart of Vale Residential (HELOC), but which to choose? We analyze both loans here to help you in your choice.
A My Credit rge heart of Vale Residential (HELOC) works like a credit card. The main difference is that with My Credit rge Vale Residential heart, the credit limit is much higher and your loan is secured. Your credit limit is based on a percentage of the value of your home. The maximum amount is about 75%.
You can pay off my credit rge Vale Residential heart at any time and you can withdraw money from this loan during your term. Once the end of your contract, you will have to repay your balance completely. The term of a rge My Credit Vale Residential heart is usually 3, 5 or 10 years. This makes the MCVD ideal for short-term investments or for solving financial problems quickly. On the other hand, if you need a loan for a long-term investment, a second mortgage may be more appropriate for your situation. If you want to improve your home or expand it, this type of loan is ideal. With a second mortgage, you will get a lump sum that you can use the way you want. What is a second mortgage? This is a second loan in priority to your first mortgage. Generally, it is a loan whose interest is higher than that of your principal mortgage.
Remember that you can also refinance your current mortgage towards a better interest rate. If you are in the middle of your contract, there is a good chance you can refinance and trade at a better rate. This is a great way to have more money and save on your current mortgage.
All these loans come however with closing costs.
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Fresh website content is a big thing for every online site. Now, there's a new, free and perhaps unexpected source, Reuters. Yes, Reuters, the 160 year old news agency, recently announced that it would begin offering text, photos, video and other multi-media packages to online publishers through Reuters Media Express. Not every available story will work for everyone, but free and prestigious is difficult to beat.
The content will be made available through Reuters Media Express on a metered basis, allowing publishers to use an allotted portion of the newswire's content each month. Users will be allowed to search and view content without registration, and only require a log-in to download content from the Media Express site.
As the media industry navigates the unprecedented shift to digital publishing and online news consumption, Reuters said that it is committed to innovating and challenging conventional models in order to help publishers and expose more readers to its award-winning news content.
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5 Mompreneur Tips
Mom life is BUSY… Have I said that once before? It's easy to get distracted throughout your day with this or that, the laundry, the dishes, the kids toys, the beeps of technology, dad coming home from work, making breakfasts, lunches, dinners, you name it mom life is craaaazy. BUT when you are a mompreneur there's a whole new level of mania that must be managed.
When I first started my own online business I use to think I was busy all the time. As I sit here and write this blog I laugh at my pre-mommy business owning self. I had no idea what busy was. Now that I am a full time mom, a full time business owner, and a full time made/cook/errand person, I have to be strategic with how I plan my days. But when it comes to the mompreneur in me there are things I MUST constantly remind myself of in order to keep my head in the game and prioritized in my mom life and my business life.
There are 5 tips I want to share with you that help me daily as a mompreneur. These tips are what I tell and remind all the moms I work with regularly when they are feeling tired, burnt out, or just down right defeated. It's ok to feel blue sometimes but you've got to pick yourself back up and keep trucking along because after all we do it for the kiddos ;-)
1. Personal Development
I have talked about this point before but it truly is just so crucial to your business. This is the most inexpensive way to learn and grow in your business. No matter where you are in your journey there is someone out there who has already cross the bridge you are about to cross. That same person likely has written a book about their journey specifically for you so that you can learn what they did wrong and avoid making the same mistakes.
Not only can personal development help your business grow but it helps keep you motivated, in touch with whats going on, and at ease knowing you are not alone in whatever you are currently struggling with.
Each day I highly recommend taking just TEN minutes to read some personal development. Maybe you do it before your feet hit the floor, maybe you do it while the kids are eating, maybe it's a nap time treat, or even a right before you go to bed thing. Whenever you feel you're more likely to accomplish this task MAKE time and dedicate yourself to learning through personal development.
If you're looking for some personal development suggestions check out my Top 10 MUST Reads
2. Invest In Training
Full disclosure, when I first got into business I was the person who said "I've got this, I don't need to spend money listening to someone else tell when what I already know". Man was I wrong. I struggled in my first business for a good while before finally "giving in" to my mentor who kept saying "You need to invest in training". I finally gave in after months of slow or no growth and went to a seminar with my mentor. My mind was BLOWN! There was literally so much stuff that I was doing "partly" correct but in the wrong ways. Once my eyes were opened I began to become somewhat of a seminar junky feeding on all the information anyone could give me.
Over the years I have spent THOUSANDS of dollars on trainings to help grow my business and I can honestly say not a single penny has been wasted. Now i'm certainly NOT saying that you need to go out and spend thousands of dollars in order to be successful. I would never ever suggest someone over stretch their budget to train with someone. But even if it's something small, an online workshop, a free course, a webinar, a masters class, etc. Whatever it is just take the time to invest your time, or money if you are able, into learning and growing through trainings others have to offer. Just like with personal development I learned the hard way and I strive to make sure others don't make the same mistakes I did.
If you're just starting out or looking to get moving a littler faster but aren't ready to book trainings with a $1-5K coach I have a 4 week training course for the busy mompreneur available at a less sticker shock pricing
3. Stay Committed
On those days where you "just don't wanna"… Do it anyway!
On those days where everything around you seems to be falling apart… stick to it!
On those days where the kids are driving you bonkers… deep breath and don't give up!
On those days where you feel like nothing is getting accomplished… Keep plugging along!
There are always going to be times where you feel like nothing is happening, you might not be growing the way you thought you would be by now, maybe you are just stuck in a rut, I PROMISE things DO get better. You just can NOT give up on yourself.
Do something little every day in your business to keep your momentum moving forward and in time you will see GREAT success!
4. Become OBSESSED With Your Business
Now I don't mean work every minute of every day and ignore your mom life, your personal life, your everything else. What I am saying is that when you find your "calling" dive in head first and don't look back. When you're working with with all your heart. When you are sharing your business or opportunities share in a way that lets people know you are passionate and they could be too. If what you're doing isn't something you can commit to or feel your excitement level rise at the thought of being able to do it you might be in the wrong business.
5. Remember Why You Started
When days get tough, when time constraints of mommy life prohibit the work schedule you had planned for that day-week-month, when the kids are more needy and you just can't accomplish what you'd hoped to accomplish just take a deep breath and remember why you started your business. Whether it was to help your family financially, maybe you wanted to turn your hobby into a career, maybe you wanted to leave your 9-5, maybe you wanted to have extra money to take the family on vacations, whatever your reason always keep it in mind.
I personally love to make "Dream Boards" to help stay focused, motivated, and remembering my number one goal. A dream board, my way, is just printing out pictures of what you want to achieve when you reach certain goals in your business. At the very top of my dream board I have a picture of my kiddo, he is the reason I started #MommiesOnAMission . I wanted to be able to stay home full time with him, help others be able to start-run-grow their online businesses and stay home with your kids, all while earning a living. From his picture I have pictures of things we will do when I hit my business goals. Last year I had a picture of Disney for my kiddos first birthday, a trip to see my family, paying off half my car, being able to afford to invest more back into my business, leading calls, and so on. Each goal that I hit I would cross off a dream board achievement. If ever there was a time I just "didn't wanna do anything" i'd look at the top of my dream board and remember why I am in business today.
Honestly, Mompreneur is a hard title to rock but I KNOW you will rock it well!
Until Next Time Mommas,
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I'm continuing my series on ICO Bounty Programs… Why? Because I'm getting asked LOTS of questions, and aggregating this data into a series of blog posts is the easiest way to direct conversation. As always, please consider this post as a live document and open to edits, additions and any other updates that help the reader. As such, I look forward to your messages and interactions!
Here are the posts in the series so far:
- An ICO Primer: What Are Bounty Programs And How Do They Work, Types of Bounties For ICOs, And Who Are Those "Bounty Hunters"?
- 3.5 Steps To Making Your Official ICO Announcement On Bitcointalk
- 4.5 Steps To Announcing Your ICO Bounty Program On Bitcointalk
Now we finally get to individual bounty program campaign details. The most confusing of all bounty programs is the signature campaign made famous on Bitcointalk. Let's start there… As with my other ICO education posts, I'm pulling information from real ICOs and changing the name to brianICO. Ready to invest in my BRAIN token yet? 🙂
Bitcointalk Signature Campaigns:
What is Bitcointalk?
If you're a cryptocurrency user, you're probably familiar with the BitcoinTalk.org forum. If you're new to the cryptoverse, the Bitcointalk forum is a great place to research Bitcoin and altcoins. Bitcointalk also serves as an online marketplace for crypto influencer marketing services, a place where users can earn Bitcoin or altcoins for their efforts.
Bitcointalk is probably the biggest bitcoin and cryptocurrency related discussion board out there. They are also very liberal when it comes to signatures and advertising. Many of their users make a consistent extra income by doing nothing but talking about bitcoins – simply having an ad in their forum signature makes them money, combined with a couple of good posts a day.
How do ranks work on Bitcointalk?
The throttle on how quickly members progressed up the ranks was introduced in 2013 in the following thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0
Here are the ranks:
- You move up the ranks based on Activity which is defined as "Activity = min(time * 14, posts)" and "Maximum of 14 activity every 2 weeks."
- With time defined as "time = number of two-week periods in which you've posted since your registration".
- In other words your activity level increases by 14 every two weeks, as long as you have made 14 posts in that two week period. If you have made less than 14 posts, it will increase by the number of posts, and if you have made more than 14 posts, it will increase just by 14 in the two week period.
- It should take just over four weeks to graduate from newbie to jr member, another four weeks to make member, and another eight weeks on top of that to make Full Member. As you can see it is a slow process.
- You can speed up the process by buying an existing account, and of course there is a mini industry of people who go through the tedious process of creating and building accounts to sell on.
What is a signature campaign?
The process is that your rent your signature space. The advertiser pays you for every quality post you make into the forum. The higher your Bitcointalk rank, the more money you earn.
- Signature campaigns are the simplest of ways to earn bitcoins or altcoins on BT (Bitcointalk).
- Newbies or users with negative trust cannot participate in signature campaigns.
- The minimum rank required is junior member (usually), qualification is being active on BitcoinTalk.
- Once you have enrolled into a sig campaign, just do what you have been doing, posting and commenting, but this time you will get paid for each of your posts.
- There are some legendary and hero members who are earning anywhere between 0.05 to 0.1 BTC per day from signature campaigns.
- If you are a junior member then you will get about 7000 to 10000 satoshis per post based on the site you are promoting.
- Usually, gambling sites have higher rates.
- Keep in mind, you are getting paid to promote a site through your comments, but that does not give you the license to spam around.
- Look at it as a form of advertisement without the need to create a fancy image.
- By advertising a certain coin, service or platform in your forum signature, that message will be visible to anyone browsing the same topics as the ones you posted in.
- This is also why all forum signatures require you to post a minimum number of posts on a daily/weekly/biweekly/monthly basis.
- Depending on your user rank on the BitcoinTalk forums (Junior member, member, Senior member or Hero member) you are entitled to a different payout structure compared to other users.
- You see the space under your post, that is the "signature space."
Here's an example of a signature campaign:
Some backlash against ICO signature campaigns on Bitcointalk:
ICOs are "too prevalent", and the spam is getting crazy, causing moderators to become robotic and unfriendly. In my opinion, signature campaigns are a LOT of work for the visibility and ROI they provide. Focus your energy on Twitter and Twitter bounty programs instead. That said, if you're running any sort of bounty program, you'd better be on Bitcointalk. This is THE place for Bounty Hunters.
Here are some words from senior Bitcointalk members on signature campaigns (I've left their names out on purpose):
- "I personally would not like to see the campaigns started here as they seem to just create a whole heap of spam posts from members who are only posting for the weekly/monthly payouts."
- "There are always a lot of complaints on bitcointalk about people starting useless topics just for somewhere to post and earn a little extra BTC and we really don't want this new forum to turn into another troll factory, this forum should be about the bitcoin community and a place to go when you just need a straight up answer for a problem you may be having."
- "I do like the idea of being able to earn a little extra BTC while posting but this should come as a reward for helping the community and not just for posting anything that may or may not help anyone, in other words trolls should not be rewarded for wasting peoples time."
- "I think that signature campaign encourage a lot of spammers around and there are many people using multiple accounts just to cheat and obtain more Bitcoin. And as you can see, they has messed up our forum and it will take us a long to time to clean up all of their mess."
- "[Signature campaigns are] A way for an advertiser to create an incentive for greedy people to fill the forum with thousands of posts of completely useless nonsense. Since the average greedy unknowledgeable user doesn't have enough useful and well thought out things to say to meet the advertiser's quota, they end up just spamming threads all over the forum with useless drivel. Several of the regular forum users have taken to blocking (using the "ignore" link) all users with a signature ad campaign in their signature. Therefore, by participating in such a campaign, you significantly increase the likelihood that helpful and knowledgeable users will never see anything that you post here."
A couple good resources to continue the conversation:
- The best thread on signature campaigns is the following updated thread, which lists all the campaigns and their criteria for joining: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0
- Most signature campaigns on BTCTalk can be found in the Services section here.
Hope this helps and thanks for reading!
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Angra, Hälsingland, Central Sweden, August 2013. Marco, Sonja and Luna Hassoldt cooking on an open fire at the campsite. Camp Angra is a wilderness camping near Karbole owned by the Dutch Hassoldt family. Marco specialises as a wilderness guide and the camping offers Fishing and Flyfishing, Wildlifewatching, birding, outdoor fun, hiking, biking and canoeing, while Sonja runs the camping. The extensive forests dotted with hundreds of lakes of a spectacular landscape for wilderness camping. hike through the forests picking berries and collecting mushrooms, see moose and track bears and wolves. Navigate the lakes in a canoe and catch trout and pike with a fly rod and see beavers. Gavleborg and Dalarna regions are bursting with adventure. Photo by Frits Meyst/Adventure4ever.com
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Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Stooges Scootabout
The Three Stooges on the 1941 American-made, Scootabout. Surprised Moe let Curly be in the driver's seat. The engine was manufactured by Lawson and had 2.3 h.p. air cooled by blower, and a flywheel magneto ignition.
Crocker Motorcycles was known for their custom built racing motorcycles, but also made and sold small scooters. With collaboration from the renowned Floyd Clymer of Clymer Motors, Albert Crocker came up with the "Scootabout" around 1939. The "Scootabout" was considered a forerunner at the time it was released. Scooters of the time were very plain, no nonsense fun machines, Crocker gave them style with a streamlined design including two-toned paint jobs and skirted fenders even before Indian made that look famous. Crocker furthered scooter design by adding a crude suspension to the front end in 1941. The machine differed in many respects from conventional type scooters in that it had knee action spring frame and large balloon tires for easy riding, co-pilot steering and a low center of engine location which gave a new easy balance.
Simplicity of operation was obtained thru the use of an automatic clutch which engaged as the foot throttle was depressed. Removing the foot from the throttle quickly, disengaged the clutch. The operation is said to be somewhat similar to fluid drive such as used on some makes of 1941 cars. A foot lever operated an internal expanding brake band on which was mounted Ferodo lining. Choke and compression release are combined in one lever on the right handlebar. Standard color was black with red panels.A Tow-Back attachment was available for use in attaching the unit to car bumpers.
The "Scootabout" sold for $139.00 in 1941. Unfortunately with the war underway the supply of the Lawson air cooled engines dried up and the project was abandoned. It is thought that less than 100 of these little scooters were ever produced. Floyd Clymer put out a "Crocker Scootabout" sales brochure, sales poster, and a "Crocker Scootabout Bulletin" in Oct.-Nov. 1940 ready to sell dealerships across the U.S.A.. Around the same time he also retagged the Crocker V-Twin brochure (From 1939) with his company name, "Clymer Motors" (1941) and appeared to be ready to take over sales of that venerable classic, too bad World War II intervened.
A telegraph cable delivery man uses the Scootabout in the 1942 film, Talk of the Town.
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Ferrari's latest supercar, the LaFerrari, "follows in the footsteps of the most exciting entries from the Prancing Horse hall of fame – 288 GTO, F40, F50 and Enzo – and mixes a V12 petrol engine with electric power to create a hybrid hypercar", says Richard Meaden in Evo magazine.
It is now Ferrari's fastest ever road car, displacing the F12 Berlinetta – LaFerrari's top speed is 217mph and it will go from rest to 124mph in less than seven seconds.
And although the hybrid engine and relatively low carbon emissions make this a thoroughly modern motor, the V12 engine remains just what you'd expect from Ferrari: it is a "force of nature" that delivers a "totally explosive driving experience". It "could well be the greatest Ferrari ever made".
It is Ferrari's magnum opus, agrees Charlie Turner on TopGear.com, "a rolling showcase of the limits of road-going possibility". And it is fast: when you plant your foot to the floor, it doesn't so much feel like you're accelerating as "warping scenery".
But for all the power, it's strangely unscary to drive, handling well and feeling safe even on hairpin-riddled B roads. In short, LaFerrari is just that: it is the Ferrari.
The only downside is that you're out of luck if you want one, says Turner. All 499 LaFerraris were sold before the car was first unveiled at the Geneva Motorshow last year. That is despite the £1m price tag and the fact that to even be considered, you needed at least five Ferraris in your collection.
Engine: V12, 6262cc, plus 160bhp electric motor
Max power: 950bhp
Max torque: 664lb ft
0-60mph: sub-3.0 seconds
Top speed: 217mph-plus
Price: about £1m
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Jenner, 22, shared a picture of herself and Hadid, 21, on Instagram on Monday, January 1, from their outing the night before. New Year's resolutions are in full swing, and ahead of the new year, celebrity wellness expert Liz Josefsberg is sharing some uncomplicated, everyday tweaks that will help you live your best life in 2018.Josefsberg is the author of the new book, Target 100: The World's Simplest Weight Loss Program […] No excuses!This morning was my first time working out in 9 weeks and although I have a long way to go to build my muscle strength and endurance back up again, (so please don't body shame .. As we all are different shapes and sizes ) luckily there's an inner strength thats […] Staying fit despite the criticism!Jennifer Garner shared a shocking throwback photo of herself disguised as a man on Tuesday, January 2, and the 45-year-old actress is nearly unrecognizable. Jennifer Lopez kicked off New Year's weekend with an intense workout — proving that hard work does pay off.The "Jenny from the Block" singer, 48, looked toned as ever while she took part in a high-intensity sweat session in Los Angeles on Saturday, December 30.


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We begin 2018 just like we ended it — with another Christmas picture. Or did we? Luke, Tito and Will discuss Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" from 1999 starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman and try to determine whether or not it's a Christmas movie. Or maybe it's a post-Christmas film. What is the legendary auteur saying about sex, desires, human nature, relationships, consumption and even Christmas? And is all of the nudity in the film actually necessary, or does it reach the level of gratuitousness? We don't have all the answers, but this moving picture, which was Tito's selection, does pose a lot of questions.
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Has AIG blown through another deadline for the sale of its asset management unit?
Earlier this month we reported that the sale of the unit, which was renamed Pinebridge last month as AIG prepared to sell it off, was rumored to be in trouble.
The sale was originally scheduled to close in December but was pushed to the end of January. AIG cited the need for customer and regulatory approvals before the sale could close. When January came and went without a hard close on the sale, AIG said the final sale was just days away but would likely officially close at the end of February for "accounting reasons."
We're told that our earlier report annoyed some inside of AIG, who still believe the transaction could close over the weekend. What they seemed to have missed was that it is surprising the deal is still being negotiated at any level, given that it was supposedly just days away from being finalized at the end of January.
Inside of AIG, some say, off the record, that the deal is "still on track." Others are surprised that AIG did not announce the closing of the $500 million sale with the earnings announcement today. Nobody is willing to comment on the record about the sale.
"If there's not a problem, why not announce the deal today? It's the last business day of the month," a person familiar with the matter said.
"I cannot figure out what they are still negotiating that would take them into the weekend," an AIG insider said.
The sale of Pinebridge took on increased importance today when AIG announced that it was scrapping its old plans to repay government loans with securitized revenues from its insurance business. Now AIG says it will repay with asset sales. The difficulties with the Pinebridge sale and the delays in the much more significant sale of its foreign life insurance business to MetLife for $15 billion cast at least some doubt on the new plan.


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Lawn Sprinkler Winterization Essentials
Sprinkler winterization is an usual topic amongst a great deal of property owners whenever summer season will end due to the fact that winter months is a very long time as well as everybody has to obtain their homes and also tools all set for the season of enormous cool and also ice.
Devices that boost performance are the sort of tools required in winter and this makes it important to winterize tools, and also a sprinkler is a device you need to winterize to increase its productivity during winter months, there are a great deal of means to winterize your sprinkler but it is much better to understand your lawn sprinkler rather well before you think of lawn sprinkler winterization.
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There are a great deal of points you need to know before you winterize your lawn sprinkler, it is extremely important to understand these things as they help increase your sprinklers performance in winter, right here are a few must-know things about sprinklers.
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There are a lot of elements that raise the opportunity of winterizing your lawn sprinkler to irrigate your grass as well as to produce attractive yards in winter season, and also your sprinkler established is a major factor.
You can either make use of an in-ground or above ground sprinkler set up, the in-ground established is one which provides you the ability to irrigate your grass as well as garden instantly, this system doesn't require you to spray water by hand, while the above-ground set-up is the other as you need to link a pipe and also sprinkle water on your yard or garden for hours.
2. Sprinkler Head
Every sprinkler head is developed for the primary objective of watering, however they also work in different ways, sprinkler heads have two major components as well as these are the nozzle and the body, the sprinkler head additionally controls the spray pattern, in-ground sprinkler heads are typically a lot more complicated compared to the above-ground sprinkler heads.
The best ways to Winterize Your Lawn sprinklers
The steps involved in winterizing your sprinkler are extremely much from complex, these actions are extremely basic and you'll winterize your lawn sprinkler before you know it, right here are the actions required.
1. Switch off The Water
It is incredibly easy to turn off the water supply when you have an above ground set up mounted, but it is a little hard to close or switch off the water system when an in-ground set-up is set up, yet all you need to do is to situate the shut or shut off point, this point can be found in your crawl space, cellar or underground as it is frequently buried 5 feet listed below the ground, all you have to do is shut off the shutoff when you discover it.
2. Backflow Gadget
Pressure Vacuum Cleaner Breaker as well as the Atmospheric Vacuum Breaker are backflow gadgets which run if your watering system is supplied with neighborhood water, you can additionally inspect the installment strategy if your water supply is exclusive.
3. Drain The System
It is far better to drain pipes the system completely with pressed air, 50 as well as 80 psi are optimal for PVC tubes as well as Polythene pipeline, respectively, discovering the best air quantity needed to drain the system is very easy and all you need to do is use the easy formula, here it is;
Split the Gallons Each Minute (GPM) of the system by 7.5
The easy formula above helps determine the amount of pressed air per cubic feet needed to drain pipes the system as well as allow sprinkler winterization, it may take a great deal of time, yet use the best compressor and do this gradually in order not to melt pipes.
Animals are extra conscious audios than human so you will know the draining pipes has begun when the pets begin to groan, cool huh?
Seems trendy, however this process may hurt for pets so take them away or to the groomers.
4. Virtually Done
You are nearly done, yet keep in mind these final steps after draining the system effectively;
– All shutoffs on the backflow avoidance tool should be turned on to the half-opened placement.
– The controller ought to be plugged.
– Constantly remember to set the controller effectively, a minimal cycle once a week is best.
Currently you know all about sprinkler winterization, are you all set to try the actions to winterize your lawn sprinkler?
Constantly remember to put safety first in all the steps!


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There's been a lot of speculation leading up to the royal wedding as to whether or not Meghan Markle's father, Thomas Markle, would be attending. Her half-siblings, Samantha and Thomas Jr., were telling anyone and everyone who would pay them that their dad was snubbed and Meghan is a monster and blah blah blah. For the most part, Meghan, Prince Harry and her soon-to-be new family have done a good job of ignoring all the stories but just last week, Kensington Palace must've had enough because they released a statement with all kinds of details about the wedding — including confirmation that Thomas would indeed be walking his daughter down the aisle.
Ahh, there's something oh-so-satisfying about Sam and Junior basically getting the royal flip-off. Clearly Thomas always knew he'd have a role in Meghan's wedding but decided not to tell the rest of his family anything because, well, we can only guess, but they seem to be a bunch of spiteful, greedy a-holes. Or maybe he had to sign some sort of Royal NDA. Whatever the case, all the crap Megs' half-sibs had been trying to feed us has been all wrong. So very, very wrong.
"Meghan loves her dad," a source told People. "Like any father-daughter relationship, there have been ups and downs over the years. But they are in a good place now."
One of Meghan's former classmates told People that "her dad was such a sweetheart." Thomas, who worked as a lighting director on various TV shows, would do the sets on school plays and "would volunteer his time even after Meghan graduated."
The insider added: "She was close with her parents. They were affectionate."
As for Markle Jr.'s claims that Meghan left their dad in financial ruin after he supported her education and acting career, the source denied it, saying, "She's been supportive of him in every way, including financially. She has paid many of her father's bills over the years."
Of course Meghan and her dad have had ups and downs. What family hasn't? But he's her dad, she's his daughter, and if they can put whatever issues they may have had behind them, then good for them. As for her siblings, Megs shouldn't waste a single thought on them. Hell, she's gearing up for the wedding of the year. That's enough to deal with.


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What is Collaborative Law?
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- A pledge by the Team to reach an out-of-court settlement and not to litigate. If the Team is unsuccessful in resolving the issues, all members of the Team are discharged.
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Deletes the queue specified by the
QueueUrl, regardless of the queue's contents.
Be careful with the
DeleteQueue action: When you delete a queue, any messages in the queue are no longer available.
When you delete a queue, the deletion process takes up to 60 seconds. Requests you
send involving that queue during the 60 seconds might succeed. For example, a
request might succeed, but after 60 seconds the queue and the message you sent no
longer exist.
When you delete a queue, you must wait at least 60 seconds before creating a queue with the same name.
Cross-account permissions don't apply to this action. For more information, see Grant Cross-Account Permissions to a Role and a User Name in the Amazon Simple Queue Service Developer Guide.
Request Parameters
For information about the parameters that are common to all actions, see Common Parameters.
- QueueUrl
The URL of the Amazon SQS queue to delete.
Queue URLs and names are case-sensitive.
Type: String
Required: Yes
For information about the errors that are common to all actions, see Common Errors.
The following example query request deletes the specified queue. The structure of
AUTHPARAMS depends on the signature of the API request.
For more information, see
Examples of Signed Signature Version 4 Requests in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.
Sample Request
https://sqs.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/123456789012/MyQueue/ ?Action=DeleteQueue &Expires=2020-04-18T22%3A52%3A43PST &Version=2012-11-05 &AUTHPARAMS
Sample Response
<DeleteQueueResponse> <ResponseMetadata> <RequestId>6fde8d1e-52cd-4581-8cd9-c512f4c64223</RequestId> </ResponseMetadata> </DeleteQueueResponse>
See Also
For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:


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Temporary cessation of breathing and, therefore, of the body's intake of oxygen and release of carbon dioxide. It is a serious symptom, esp. in patients with other potentially life-threatening conditions.
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Transcript of chat with the incredulous Denver Nuggets fan sitting next to me on the plane last night on my way home from covering the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships (where, incidentally, Summit County local Eric Willett took first place in the men's slopestyle competition):
"So, what brought you out to Vermont?"
"I write about snowboarding and other sports, and this week I was covering the Burton U.S. Open Snowboarding Championships for ESPN.com."
"Oh, awesome. I look at that website all day. Do you write about other sports, too?"
"Yeah, all the time. I mostly write about action sports, outdoor sports, you know, stuff like snowboarding."
"You don't write about basketball?"
"Nope. I don't really follow basketball."
"How can you live in Denver and call yourself a sportswriter and not write about the Nuggets?"
"I might write about it if the Nuggets went snowboarding."
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The United Kingdom's Environmental Audit commitee has called for a total legal ban on the use of microplastics in cosmetics, such as shower scrubs and toothpaste.
The group of MPs has called for an international ban - but if this is not possible after voting to leave the EU, then it asks that a national ban be implemented immediately.
So what?
Each year, 86 tons of microbeads are released into the ocean from facial exfoliants in the UK alone. The use of microplastics in cosmetics is avoidable, and awareness of their environmental impact is on the rise - presenting a reputational risk to brands.
Which cosmetics companies will wait for such a ban to be implemented, and which are already moving to cut their use?
A related signal was spotted by Anne-Louise Vernes:
"Tesco bans microbeads from all products"
Tesco just banned microbeads from all its products
The Government must bring in a full ban on plastic "microbeads" in all household and beauty products that are washed down the drain, campaigners have urged. Environmental groups made the call for a comprehensive ban on the tiny particles which add to plastic pollution in oceans, as Tesco announced microbeads would be removed from all own brand cosmetic and household products by the end of 2016.
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Man, big fandoms spoil you for the small ones. I mean, there's some truly excellent QAF UK fic out there, but then you run out and your standards start lowering and all of a sudden you're reading a series where everyone giggles and cries a lot and the pairing marries each other in a big do and there's a match-maker Mary Sue who calls Stuart 'Stuey' and then a crossover with QAF US happens.
Yeah, that one was slightly addictive. *cough*
And I should be reading papers, especially since I'm moving into my summer house on Sunday.
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After a very successful first year in 2018, Colby & Cate's Charities is thrilled that we are returning to Aspen Colorado for the Aspen Winter Games.
Colby & Cate's Charities is ecstatic to be doubling our group to 8 oncology patients from Indiana to participate in the Aspen Winter Games for a full week in March 2019!
The Aspen Winter Games is an adaptive ski camp for children with cancer held in March in Aspen, Colorado.
Organized by our friends at Shining Stars Foundation Colby & Cate's Charities is pleased to have this opportunity, thanks to our many supporters, to send 4 brave patients from both Peyton Manning Children's Hospital at St. Vincent AND Riley Hospital for Children to Aspen to learn to ski or enhance their ski abilities.
A registered nurse from both Peyton Manning and Riley will travel with the patients both to and from Aspen and accompany them during their stay for this patient-only experience as parents and siblings do not attend (They get to join them this summer!)
Upon arriving, they will connect with approximately 70 other oncology patients from across the US as well as meet the army of medical staff, volunteers and ski instructors who have dedicated a week of their lives to participating in this event.
When the kids are not on the mountain, they will be interacting together in the lodge. Playing games, singing, hanging by the fire. Being kids! Or heading in to town for Disco Night. Or heading into the mountains to go snowmobiling. Or shopping in Aspen at the many shops who open their doors with discounts and even free items for the kids.
Everything from travel, accommodations, meals, ski gear, lift tickets and more are being provided by Colby & Cate's Charities and our friends/partners at Shining Stars Foundation.
If you would like to help Colby & Cate's Charities fund this incredible experience, we thank you in advance for your contribution and support!


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My sister asked me to help her out with some of her economics homework.
The question she had to discuss went something like: "Karl Marx said that workers are exploited when they generate more wealth than they earn".
My sister said that while she worked at Lush (they sell natural cosmetics) during the Summer she generated €100s a day more than she earned, that it was exploitation, that you had to be resigned to.
(I wish they taught kids about production functions in schools).
My answer was: exploitation is a moral issue, and therefore economics can't answer that question but can only explain how various circumstances arise.
On reflection, it is strange that economics and morality should be dichotomous, as economics is as /social/ science concerned with well being.
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J.R. Smith and Kenyon Martin have reportedly kissed and made up after an April Fools' Day gag fell flat.
As we noted yesterday, Smith's driver, Laquan Johnson, filled Martin's Range Rover with buttered popcorn, prompting a profanity-laced outburst from K-Mart and a tweet from Smith featuring the letters "LMAO."
Nonetheless, Martin's receiving sympathy, sort of, by way of a tongue-in-cheek ESPN blog headlined "Kenyon Martin, I Agree With You About Your Car." Some highlights:
Writer Bomani Jones writes that anyone who felt Martin behaved childishly when he lost his shit over his car's stained interior must have a bus pass, "because everyone that's owned a car knows that it's sacred territory."
Jones adds, "K-Mart is to be commended for simply threatening to go on strike. In slightly less civilized places, someone might have gotten struck."
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Goal Type:
Boston Qualifier
Running Accomplishments:
A bunch of Marathons -- PR - 2:48:53 (Fall 2014)
A bunch of Half Marathons -- PR - 1:19:20 (Aug. 2015 - Converted)
10k - 36:30 Unaided // 35:25 (July 2014 - Aided)
5k - 17:28 (Aug. 2015)
1mi. - 4:58 (July 2014 - Track)
Short-Term Running Goals:
5/16: G. Canyon - R2R2R - Got It!! (about 13 hours)
6/22: Series 5k - 17:xx 17:47
9/28: Mill Race Marathon - 2:49:xx
11/9: Tunnel Hill 100 - Let's Finish the distance !
Long-Term Running Goals:
R2R2R in Grand Canyon 5/18/19
Wonderland Trail, JMT,
Marathon < 2:45
Half Marathon < 1:18
Top 10 in Bluegrass 10k
5k < 17
400m/800m competitively in track in high school. Took 15 years off. Started running again in 2010. Married to my beautiful wife, Tiffany, with 2 little boys, now 4 and 6. I'm a civil engineer working for the Indiana DOT in Seymour, IN. I live in a slightly larger town about 20 miles north - Columbus, IN. Originally from Lexington, KY.
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OFF - still reverse tapering / recovering
PM: shake out run - 4x400m at about HMP and 4x100m bursts. 5.25mi. - 40:36.
Half marathon in Seymour, IN - great weather and flat course. This is a smaller race, and coincides with the big one in Indy, so I'm usually running near the front. Its a nice course with lots of turns through the town of Seymour and a brief out and back past the local vineyard.
Similar story this year - from the start of the race, I could tell I'd be solo in third all race. I ran close to what my PR was from last fall, but started to struggle after 10 miles. The course was short by about 0.1 by my GPS:
6:02, 17, 06, 08, 11, 08, 12, 18, 20, 12, 15, 24, 05
Had a solid finishing mile but really lost time from mile 8 through 12. Cummulative fatigue probably the culprit - 2 marathons and 2 half marathons in last 30 days.
12.97 miles - 1:20:31
PM: Brown County State Park trail run of some of the scary parts of the upcoming 50 miler. Trails are riddled with bushwacking, briars, and treacherously steep climbs for probably 40-50% of the course. Tentative goal for next Saturday - 8 hours... if today was any indication, my first objective will be to not get lost, second is to got out at a very relxed effort for the first part of the epic journey. today was 7.2 miles in 1:20 :)
easy 6 mi - 51min.
PM1: 2 easy
PM2: Tuesday track workout with Quaff guys and lots of other folks. These things have become fun with a lot of people showing up every week. We did the short workout today - 4x200, 2x400, 800, 2x400, 4x200 at target 5k pace - so we were 80sec / 400m range for all. The big DWD Gnaw Bone races are this weekend. I'm running the 50 miler, and the other guys are doing the 100k relay. The course looks fun... :)
Off - taper and cummulative soreness from spring races is still lingering a bit.
easy 2.44 miles - 20:15. Tapering and getting scared for this Saturday. Carb loading
Carb loading. preparing for pain
6:15a start in Brown County at Mike's Dance Barn (really an open field next to Brown County State Park). Fueling plan: Carried a fuel belt with 10 gels and dropped my 3 prepared SAG station care packages for myself - a bottle of light gatorade mixed with water with 2 gels taped to them. Lessons learned on this to come when I update this with full entry with GPS data.
50.03 mi. GPSed - 9:33:43 for a 5th (or 6th) place finish. I was delirious from about mile 42 through 50, so I think I got passed in the last 0.25 mi. by the first place female... more to come.
DWD 50 Miler
The course goes out about 5miles from the start line to a loop that's about 20 miles around Brown County State Park. A lot of mud, water and up and down, though its mostly covered beautiful forest, so not much exposure. There was a steady downpour during the first half of the race that felt amazing!! I wouldn't say it got hot, but it was enough to need to stay on top of hydration.
I had to switch watches with one of the Quaff guys since my 410 does not have enough battery life. See link above - there's a lot of data! :) I did not dip under 11 minute pace after mile 28. After mile 38, I was walking about 0.5 of every mile.
6666 feet of climbing. Looks like I dipped into the 14 minute range after 38 miles. I remember this point of the day - I was in desperate need of fluids with the next aid station 2 more miles away. Once I had downed a bunch of fluids and calories there, I felt like I could continue. So, with the amount of calories that you HAVE TO take in throughout the day, it also becomes a struggle to not get the side stitches. This became the story of the rest of the day - make it to the next aid station and work through the side/gut stitches that come with eating solid food while trying to run. It was like a car running on fumes in to the next gas station. Refuel, run okay for a couple of miles and then back down to low point or deep breathing trying to get rid of side stitches.
At this point, I am def. going to say this is my first and last "effort" of this distance! Very hard. My hat is off to the people that do these things (and longer) on a regular basis - it is a different level of toughness!!
I'm not really sure how long this will take to completely recover from...
Off - barely making it around today. Stairs are very difficult and painful.
easy bike - feels good to get my legs moving and blood flowing. 11.5 miles in 50:30. Still tough to walk up and down stairs. Did some light core stuff - abs only.
easy 8 miles on the bike - 30 minutes. Sloooooowly recovering.
Wow - painful shuffle - 10 minute pace feels pretty excrutiating.
a little easier today - not quite as excrutiating. 1 mi. in about 10 minutes.
moderate PM run - went out and legs actually felt wonderful (compared to how they have felt recently). Decided to push it a little bit. 4mi. mod. - 28:40. Weight is a bit high, but that's to be expected with little running and eating (alot). Good to be back out running, though!
AM easy run: beautiful morning and my legs are finally back (enough) from saturday to be able to run.
5mi. - 43:40.
PM1: intervals on the bike trainer - 10x0.5mi. hard efforts. Started at around 27mph, and finished at about 32 mph. 9 mi. total - 23:00
PM2: The wife and had the parents come up and watch the kid, so my wife could get a long and well deserved night out. We used the free night's stay at a local fancy hotel from a race prize from last year. Since we were literally staying in a hotel about 5 minutes away from our house, the wife went home briefly to put the kid to bed. Don't think he would've cooperated with her parents for this task... anyway, I got in an easy 4 loops around MillRace Park while she did that. No watch, nice weather, legs feeling a little tired from actually doing stuff this morning and cummulative from previous month. Slow jog, about 4.5 miles.
Fun evening out turned in to sour stomach and general tiredness near the end of the run today. PM - easy longish run. 65 degrees and sunny. Very nice day. 12mi. - 1:31:55. Back to work this week.
PM: wow - really tired today. 3.2 miles - pretty slow. Nice day out - 75 and sunny.
Tues Track w/ group: 8 x [400 @ 5k / 200 @ 1 mi. w/ 200m jog recoveries]
My garmin's autopause makes these workouts impossible - forgot to turn it off. We kept the 400s at about 80 (most were under), and the 200s @ less than 37. I went hard on the last one and came up with a 28. Hot days are here - it was about 80 deg., humid and sunny. Great to do some non-marathon training for fisrt time in a while. Jogged a couple more while waiting on pizza after leaving.
7.51 mi. total - 54:42
early PM: off half a day for Tiff's minor surgery. easy 6 mi. - 51:15. Its hot!! Almost 90
Went out for a light bit of mile pace work today during what I have deemed to be another recovery week. 6x200m at mile pace and I am feeling why this should've been a recovery week all along. They hurt... every one except the last two reps. Average at about 4:55/mile pace, and my legs did not feel well.
5.27 miles total - 40:48
PM easy miles chatting with Jeff and trying to find the trails surrounding Grandview Lake (unsucessfully).
5.31 miles - 52:08
Triple header today in CR Series. 3 races, 3 cities, one day. AM weather was about 55 degrees and nice and cool in the woods. by noon, it got a little warm and definitely sunny.
First race at 8am in Brown County - 4 mile trail race. Pretty technical and lots of steep up and down. some of the climbs were walking hills, and then some of downs were a controlled falling. 2 water crossings and lots of roots and loose stuff. Fun and a solid effort for an 8th place finish. 3.98 mi. GPSed in 30:51
Race number 2 at noon in Seymour, IN on flat concrete course. sun is out, with no cover anywhere- it got hot for this one. An out and back course with a few turns. I struggled with my normal pace after 1 mile. Pretty indicative of some still fatigued legs requiring more recovery. The trail race earlier in the day didn't help either. 5:41 first mile, and then fell apart. Really hurt at 6:05 and then 6:15 pace for nect 2 miles. Think I was about 8th place again in 18:45. A fellow Quaff runner did however run a huge PR - 16:43 for Mr. Tim Proctor. This guy is in his mid 40's and I used to be competitive with this guy! :) Stuck around to wait for the $100 door prizes they were giving away and got a massive sunburn.
Race number 3 was a 1 miler around a city park in Columbus at 5pm - shaded with several hairpin turns, some slowing gravel and twists in the path and, well, only a mile. I did the only real smart thing I had done all day after the 5k, and put some ice on my legs for about 20 minutes. Stuck it out through the pain that is mile pace and finished strong (at least). about 8th place in 5:18.
Solid day, and very fun, on some still recovering legs.
Spent the day doing some long overdue work around the house - pathcing holes, digging the weeds, etc... nursing this sunburn from yesterday too.
Today, my legs felt like I had run 3 faster races yesterday, 2 weeks after a 50 miler preceded by a hard racing month. 6.16 miles shuffling at 8:30 pace. Core and leg strength stuff for anbout 10 minutes. Been eating alot. I have 10 pounds to lose over the summer.
Happy Memorial Day. Special thanks to all who have sacrificed and continue to do so.
Off work today - AM long run. One of my favorites - the Grandview course. House to Grandview Lake, 7 mile loop around the lake, and back home. kept it nice and controlled on a sore left groin/hip/quad. Felt decent and even the whole way except for a little bit of pain on the downhills. Made sure to not make the same mistake as last couple runs of this route - took a gel and a water bottle with me. Started off at about 60 degrees and was probably 70 and sunny when I got done. 20 miles - 2:37:17.
Feeling a little under the weather since yesterday's long run when I thought I might have had some allergy problems. The usually itchy eyes and runny nose, but maybe acold to boot? I don't know - either way, I could barely keep up with today's workout. Called it quits after 2 reps of 400m @ 5k, 800m at MP. Pretty hot, and a lot of people out there today. I even sounded a lilttle congested when talking.
Jogged around the track the rest of the workout.
5.22 miles - 39:25 total
run home from work - Seymour to Columbus. Took half a day off to burn some accrued personal time that will turn into dreaded sick time PTO. pretty warm - about 80 degrees. I was feeling pretty good at the begininng of the run and throughout the day after feeling pretty crappy yesterday. Kept it around 8min./mile most of the way. struggled at the end when I ran out of water (carrying a water bottle) and my watch died on me. Nice enjoyable run until that point.
Now, I think I started over on recovering from this stupid cold/allergy stuff...
19.3 mi. - 2:38
AM - long run back in to work from the house - left the house shortly before 5 am hoping to get to work at 7:30a. Enjoyable run, since it was about 20 degrees cooler than yesterdays run home. First 1.5 hours in the dark and it was little foggy. Had the headlamp (uncomfortably) on over my manky old hat. It was a relief totake that off. Carried a water bottle and a couple of gels, which I was extremely thankful for near the end of the run. I was rewarded this morning with a beautiful morning, weather wise and very little traffic for most of the run. I did have to make a #2 pit stop (under a local steel grated bridge) :). No attacking dogs or mean vehicles today, surprisingly.
Again, kept it around 8 min / mile. Feeling pretty decent compared to yesterday and considering that my volume is getting up there in a hurry with these runs.
AM: easy 3 miles before work - about 8:45/mile.
pm easy 30 mi utes- hot and sunny at 4pm
Quaff is doing a 24 hour relay to try and raise money for cancer. Each group of 5-6 people is to run 3 x 2 hour sessions spread out over 24 hours. Our goal for the 24 hours is to run 240 miles total. At 6min./mile average, we all keep a close watch on the capabilities of each of our groups and run intervals accordingly.
Our first session: 6AM-8AM: wonderful weather - the sunrising to start our session was awesome. About 55 degrees and nice and low humidity.
This first one essentially a track session with full recoveries. Our group of 5 people wound up doing 3x1mi. and 2x800m each within our first 2 hour window. We have 2 more 2 hour sessions of somehting like this today - one at 2pm and one at 10pm. We turned in to pretty solid efforts. Its hard to resist going a little faster with alot of people around watching, too :)
3x1mi. - 5:30, 5:21, 5:17 with full recoveries (we're talking like 20 minute recoveries, while 4 other people run 1 mile), and then we decided to finish up the 2 hours with 800s:
2x800m - 2:25, 2:26
A little harder effort to maintain pace on the 800s than I would've liked, but, hey there were alot of people out there watching...
8.91 mi. total (between mini WUs and cooldowns) - 57:55
more to come at 2pm
Second Set: 2pm-4pm. 85 degrees and sunny - much more difficult in the heat and on somewhat tired legs. Group decided on 800s this time. Started off hitting the first couple hard - somebody offered some racing flats that were super light and my size for free, so had to try to run fast wearing them. First 2 x 800s were 2:26, 2:28... paid the price - the rest hurt - 6x800s: 2:54, 47, 45, 45, 47, 47. And then somebody got the bright idea of finishing up with a 400m. Little kids walking around the track (a bunch of people there for other Relay for Life events- walking and kids' stuff) liked to try and race us (for about 100m) They actually helped along - 64 for last 400m. That hurt.
7.59 miles total - about 53 min.
1 more 2 hour session tonight from 10pm to midnight to finish out the 24 hours. Wow - I pulled out all the tricks to try and convince my legs that they could move fast enough for some 1mi./800 intervals again. Could barely hobble around the track once during a WU jog. We called in some alternates and I enjoyed the conclusion of the 24 hours of running with pizza, coffee, and snacks. Hats off to my group and about 10 other guys who filled in randomly on top of their group assignments. 268.5 miles total for the 24 hours!!
The real story was that of all the cancer survivors and families of cancer victims. One of the girls in my group recently lost her mom to cancer - the relay happened to fall on the day of her mother's birthday also. On her last lap of her last rep, the DJ (guy running the loud speaker) sent out the dedication song to her mother... and, as she was coming down the home stretch and passed off the baton to the next runner, she broke down in tears. As her husband consoled her and they held each other by the fence outside of lane 8, the emotion of the moment and the event really hit home with me.


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Can Bats Help Locate Clean Water?
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As the population of the world steadily grows, so too does the strain we put upon the Earth's resources – and so does the detrimental impact we have upon them. Potable water, the most precious resource in existence, is in increasingly short supply in some parts of the world due to the demand that a greater population brings and the pollutant effect it has.
Humans aren't the only species dependent on water either, of course. Even among desert-adapted animals, water still proves to a vital component of almost all animal diets, so it may be possible to pinpoint sources of clean water by following the movements of other animals who seek it out. According to scientist Theresa Laverty, bats could be a prime example of this.
Using nature to measure pollution
Leveraging the power of the natural world to monitor levels of pollution is hardly a novel idea. For example, fish and other water-dwelling animals can be analysed to determine levels of water pollution; bees and invertebrates can give accurate data about the threat posed by systemic pesticides in crops and other plants. In perhaps the most famous example of all, miners traditionally used canaries to gauge whether air was becoming too contaminated to support life.
According to Laverty, bats could play a similar role in assessing pollution levels in water supplies. Due to their sizable, uninsulated wingspan, bats are susceptible to dehydration and must constantly consume clean water. What's more, their ability to fly means they can travel significantly further and more quickly in search of water than fish, insects or other water-dwelling animals. As such, monitoring bat activity and health in rural regions could be a viable method of detecting clean water sources.
A more affordable alternative
This knowledge is generally most valuable in the developing world; an estimated 780 million people do not have access to clean drinking water globally. Over 2.5 billion – well over a third of the world's population – do not have access to adequate sanitation facilities. Unsurprisingly, the vast majority of these people reside in impoverished and undeveloped nations in Asia and Africa.
While effective water treatment plants are slowly but surely migrating to the third world, such as with the case of the Ahmadu Bello University community drinking water supply in Nigeria, the technology and the equipment is often not in place in these remote parts and costs too much to implement at the present time. As a result, monitoring the movement of bats could prove to be a highly successful and cost-effective alternative to the problem.
Save the bats to save ourselves
Laverty believes that we must work to safeguard the conservation of these animals, not only for the benefit of their species, but of our own as well. "Bats' potential as environmental indicators is just the latest reason for studying and conserving these important creatures," she explains.
"Worldwide, about one-third of bat species are endangered, vulnerable to extinction or "data deficient," meaning that scientists know too little to make judgments about their status. But with effective protection, monitoring sensitive bat species soon could be a viable way to find clean water in the far reaches of remote deserts – or even the rural United States."
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