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Xuster necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 19 diseños de 9 diseñadores freelance.
We're two guys who are fed up with the mutual fund industry ripping people off with high fees and unjustified fund performance. We want to get people to invest wisely for their retirement and have built a website to help them do this. The site does 3 things:
1. Project for people when they can retire based on their financial info
2. Give data driven advice on how they can retire earlier
3. Give useful alerts on their investment portfolio
We're targeting the personal investor and initially young professionals that have money to put away for retirement but don't know how. We will roll this out to the large technical companies first. These are smart young professionals that care about their finances.
Not many requirements here. The logo will be placed on the upper left hand corner of the site. It will be placed on a background above the main navigation box. It is preferable that the logo not be in a box or bounded as it will be placed directly on the background. See http://www.mint.com for the similar layout style.
Please incorporate: #558ED5 as this is the main non white-or-black color on the site.
Also Background is : #ECEDED
Logo should contain a graphic with the words FutureAdvisor adjacent.
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Baleigh + Caleb - Wedding Day
I know, I know, its been FAR too long since I have blogged my weddings. I have been utilizing Facebook to show my albums, however, what Facebook can not do is tell the story of my amazing couples, so that is what I want to focus on today!
Baleigh had me at hello... well, her mom's hello actually. I met her sweet mother Tammy first, and knew instantly I would have a connection with her daughter, who lives out of town but wanted a local wedding. My only regret is that Baleigh doesn't live near me, we are kindred spirits!
Baleigh wanted a day full of her closest friends and family while she said, "I Do" to her adorable fiance Caleb Hopson. Not a small task, as Baleigh has LOTS of close friends, mostly from Texas Tech where she is a proud Red Raider and large family! Caleb's family was equally as charming... His dad wore the suit from his own wedding years earlier to the couple's rehearsal. I will say, the baby blue threads shocked me at first, but not after I got to know Hopson!
Perhaps that is what made the day so wonderful - the people, and the love they exemplified. The gorgeous decor and lakeside views didnt hurt either! Held at gorgeous Harbor Chapel at Possum Kingdom, (you might remember that locale from Beth & Ron's nuptials a while back!) the day was a perfect one to tie the knot. Gorgeous blooms from Bows&Arrows provided the pops of color Baleigh wanted to highlight natural craftsmanship of the chapel and grille. Burlap textures and vintage elements served as backdrops for her casual, elegant, wedding on the water. Baleigh and Tammy curated whimiscal items for months to ensure her day was as unique as she is. Perhaps my favorite item was the amazing cake stand handmade by her grandfather, and the cake by my amazing gal Heidi at Sugar Bee Sweets. We displayed the ruffled confection on the stand, surrounding it with tons of vintage wooden crates creating a unique cake stand. Or... was my favorite the fabulous chandelier that hung between two tree's on the deck from my friend at Period Charm Rentals? Or finally, was it the candy containers Tammy made out of vintage oil spouts and mason jars I wast most enamored with... (& she surpised me with one of my very own!) I will let you be the judge... Thanks to the wonderful Derrick Tribbey Photography for the gorgeous images.
Congratulations love birds, I wish you nothing but the very best, with lots of love, laughs and of course, Texas Tech football games!

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#4 Farmingdale State - 80, #5 The Sage Colleges - 65
Farmingdale, N.Y. - The Farmingdale State men's basketball team earned an 80-65 victory over The Sage Colleges in the quarterfinals of the Skyline Conference playoffs this evening in Farmingdale, N.Y. The Rams advanced to the semifinals and will travel to top-seeded Old Westbury.
Tied 13-13 midway through the first half, Farmingdale State (19-7) hit four consecutive 3-pointers followed by a Curtis Williams (Stony Brook, N.Y.) layup to put the Rams ahead 27-13. After a Sage jumper, a pair of Williams layups increased Farmingdale State's lead to 16, 31-15, with 5:21 left in the half. The Rams took a 36-23 advantage into the halftime break.
Farmingdale State increased their lead to 57-38 with 9:38 left to play, before an 11-1 Gators (13-13) run cut the deficit to 58-49. The Rams answered with a 10-2 run to open up a 68-51 advantage with 4:22 remaining in the game. Farmingdale State held a double-digit lead the rest of the way and picked up an 80-65 win in the quarterfinals.
Senior forward AJ Matthews (Brooklyn, N.Y.) led all scorers with 20 points and 14 rebounds, while freshman guard Wilson Molina (Woodside, N.Y.) added 17 points on 6-of-8 shooting and five assists. Williams scored 12 points and grabbed seven boards and senior guard Ryan Davis (Flushing, N.Y.) pitched in with 11 points and four assists for the Rams.
Senior guard Jeff Stopera (Scotia, N.Y.) and freshman forward Melvin Ford (Voorhees, N.J.) each scored 16 points for Sage.
The Rams will travel to #1 Old Westbury on Thursday, February 21st at a time to be determined.


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Seamus Heaney was already one of Ireland's best-known poets when the sectarian violence of "The Troubles" swept through Northern Ireland in the 1970s and '80s. An Irish Republican activist spotted him on a train and challenged Heaney to craft some words in support of the IRA fighters then waging a hunger strike in a British prison.
Heaney declined. Instead he wrote dark verses about death drifting across the Irish landscape and a 1979 poem called "The Singer's House" that defended the right of art to exist for its own sake, even in times of war.
"When I came here first you were always singing," Heaney wrote, in response to a friend's decision to cancel a music recording session after a Belfast bombing. "Raise it again, man. We still believe what we hear." In an interview two decades later, Heaney would say that "The Singer's House" was about "the poet's and the poem's right to a tune in spite of the tunelessness of the world around them."
Heaney, the winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, was widely recognized as the greatest Irish poet since William Butler Yeats. He died Friday at 74 in a Dublin hospital after a short illness, the publishing house Faber and Faber said.
In a career that spanned six decades, Heaney published 13 poetry anthologies, two stage plays, essays, criticism, translations and many other works. Born in Northern Ireland to a Catholic family, he lived most of his life in Ireland. He earned fame for his lush and lyrical descriptions of bogs and other seemingly ordinary features of the Irish landscape, often drawing heavily from his own upbringing.
The Nobel committee cited Heaney's "works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
Heaney was also unafraid to respond to his country's turbulent history and its conflicts with Britain. In 1982, when a publisher included him in an anthology of British poets — he had, after all, been born on British soil — Heaney famously objected with a poem: "Be advised, my passport's green / No glass of ours was ever raised / To toast the Queen."
Irish President Michael D. Higgins, himself a poet, said Heaney was beloved to "generations" of Irish readers and that his "contribution to the republics of letters, conscience and humanity was immense."
After his Nobel triumph, Heaney met and dined with presidents and prime ministers. But colleagues and students remembered him as a personable, charming man, who greeted his many acquaintances with a look of recognition and a cheerful call of "Oh, it's you!"
Heaney was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland, on April 13, 1939, the eldest of nine children of working-class parents. Neither his mother nor his father was an avid reader.
"My father was a creature of the archaic world, really. He would have been entirely at home in a Gaelic hill-fort," Heaney told the Paris Review in 1997. It was at his schoolteacher aunt's house that he first encountered enough books to make a "library."
"She had a complete set of Hardy's novels, for example, and an early three-volume edition of Yeats' works — plays, stories and poems," Heaney said. Later, Heaney traveled to Queen's University in Belfast, where he earned an English degree. He also taught there as a lecturer. He married Marie Devlin, a schoolteacher, in 1965 and published his first poems in Northern Ireland that same year.
Besides his wife, Heaney is survived by his children, Christopher, Michael and Catherine Ann.
Heaney's rural upbringing colored many of his early poems. The first poem in his first major collection, the 1966 "Death of a Naturalist," was called "Digging." It describes his father digging for potatoes, just as his grandfather cut peat.
Just like his old man.
But the poem's final lines take the digging metaphor and subvert it to describe Heaney's new vocation.
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.
By the 1970s, Heaney was reading and teaching — and being published — on both sides of the Atlantic. He taught at Harvard and Oxford. Carol Muske-Dukes, later California's poet laureate, saw him read at the New School in New York in 1979.
To Muske-Dukes, Heaney looked like Yeats reincarnated. "He had a quality about him that was of the ages," she said. Of his poetry, she added: "The music came from his ability to find the magical quality in ordinary things."
In 1979, editor Patricia Strachan brought Heaney's anthology "Field Work" to the New York publishing house Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Heaney soon became friendly with the publisher's other poets, Joseph Brodsky and Derek Walcott, Strachan said — all three men went on to win the Nobel Prize.
"There was always lots of laughter in their company," Strachan told the Los Angeles Times. Strachan left Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1988, "but the Christmas cards still came from his and Marie's home to ours every year thereafter. He never forgot his friends."
In 1995, Heaney became the fourth Irish writer to win the Nobel, after Yeats, Samuel Beckett and George Bernard Shaw. In his Stockholm acceptance speech, he took his audience back to his family home in County Derry in the 1940s.
"It was an intimate, physical, creaturely existence in which the night sounds of the horse in the stable beyond one bedroom wall mingled with the sounds of adult conversation from the kitchen beyond the other," Heaney said. "We took in everything that was going on … rain in the trees, mice on the ceiling, a steam train rumbling along the railway line one field back from the house...."
Heaney continued to write prolifically. "His Irish farmhouse beginnings have been the launch point and beacon for a poetry that has gone immeasurably beyond them," Richard Eder wrote in a 1996 review for The Times of the poetry collection "The Spirit Level."
When Muske-Dukes and several other poets were invited to the White House in 1998, she learned just how influential Heaney had become. President Clinton asked his poet guests if they had read Heaney's translation of Sophocles' "The Cure at Troy."
"Before we could answer, he quoted the lines that refer to 'hope' and said he kept those lines framed 'upstairs,'" presumably in the Oval Office, Muske-Dukes said.
the longed for tidal wave
of justice can rise up
and hope and history rhyme.
The president told the poets that his reading of the Heaney translation had prompted him to visit the poet in Ireland, to "ask his advice," before traveling to the Middle East and dealing with "the troubles" there.
Heaney's later work included a popular verse translation of "Beowulf" in 2001.
His work was restricted after he suffered a stroke in 2006. But just last March, he could be found at the Oxford Literary Festival, speaking and reading at the Sheldonian Theatre.
The poet appeared frail and faltered as he read but seemed reinvigorated when he fell into the cadence of his poems, audience members said.
The last poem he read was "Postscript," from the collection "The Spirit Level."
A hurry through which known and strange things pass
As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways
And catch the heart off guard and blow it open.
Times staff writer Henry Chu contributed to this report from London.


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Senior Dogs and what to expect
My dogs are both 8 years old and I started seeing their age. I worry about what they will be able to handle and what they won't as they age. Here is an article that I posted on FB from Drs. Smith & Foster on Senior Dogs.
Puppies have their behavior problems, and older dogs have theirs. For older dogs, in many cases it is not that they do not understand the 'rules,' but that they may, for many reasons, be unable to follow them.
Separation anxiety is one of the most common behavior problems seen in older dogs. A dog who has separation anxiety will become very anxious when he senses his owner is about to leave. When the owner does leave, the dog often becomes destructive, barks or howls, may urinate or defecate, and may salivate profusely. A dog with separation anxiety will often be overly exuberant when his owner returns. Older dogs may have a decreased ability to cope with changes in routine. Vision or hearing loss may make them more anxious, overall, but especially when they are separated from the owner. Neurologic changes may also limit an older dog's ability to adjust to change. Some of the main considerations in treating separation anxiety are:
Older dogs may become aggressive for several reasons. Aggression may be the result of a medical problem such as one causing pain (arthritis or dental disease), vision or hearing loss, which results in the dog being easily startled, lack of mobility so the dog can not remove himself from the irritating stimulus (e.g.; an obnoxious puppy), or diseases having direct effects on the nervous system, such as cognitive dysfunction (see below). Stresses such as moving, a new family member, or a new pet may make an older dog more irritable and more likely to be aggressive. In a multi-dog household, an older dog who was the 'dominant' dog in the past, may find his authority being challenged by younger dogs in the household.
By determining what factors may be contributing to the aggression, we may be able to eliminate or reduce those factors. Treating medical conditions which contribute to the aggression is paramount. Watch the dog for signs of stress (increased panting), and remove the dog from the stressful situation which could cause aggression. Using a 'halti' head-collar and leash may provide more control over an older dog, especially one who has decreased hearing or vision. In some cases, a basket muzzle may be needed to assure the safety of human and non-human family members. DO NOT LEAVE A MUZZLED DOG UNATTENDED. Medications can be helpful in reducing aggression that may be due to fear and anxiety. As with separation anxiety discussed above, medication alone will not solve the problem. Work with your veterinarian and an animal behaviorist to develop a plan that will work best for you and your dog.
Some older dogs who have been house-trained for years, may start having 'accidents.' As with other behavior problems in older dogs, there may be multiple causes for this change in behavior. Medical conditions which result in an increased frequency of urination or defecation may be the underlying cause for this behavior problem. These conditions include: colitis, inflammatory bowel disease, diabetes mellitus, bladder stones or infections, inflammation of the prostate, Cushing's disease, and kidney or liver disease. Medical conditions which cause pain or make it difficult for the dog to go outside to eliminate can also contribute to the problem. These conditions include arthritis, anal sac disease, loss of vision, and some forms of colitis. Treatment of these medical conditions may help to resolve this behavioral problem. Some medical conditions can result in a loss of control over bladder and bowel function and include hormone responsive incontinence, prostatic disease, and cognitive dysfunction. As discussed earlier, separation anxiety may result in defecating and urinating when the dog is separated from his owner(s).
Any older dog with a house soiling problem should be examined by a veterinarian and the owner should be able to give a detailed history of the color and amount of urine (or stool) passed, the frequency at which the dog needs to eliminate, changes in eating or drinking habits, the dog's posture while eliminating, and whether the 'accidents' only occur when the owner is gone.
Medical conditions contributing to the house soiling problem should be treated appropriately. If arthritis or painful movement is involved, an owner may want to build a ramp to the outside so the dog does not need to maneuver on stairs. Slick floor surfaces should be covered with non-slip area rugs or other material. Areas in the house where the dog has urinated or defecated should be cleaned with an enzyme cleaner. For dogs who need to urinate or defecate frequently, owners may need to change their schedules or find a pet sitter who can take the dog outside at appropriate intervals. A dog's food may contribute to difficulty defecating, and attempts should be made to determine if this could be a reason for the house soiling. Other medical conditions such as diabetes mellitus, bladder stones, or hormonal incontinence should be treated accordingly.
Some older dogs become overly sensitive to noise. One may think the reverse would happen since many older dogs will acquire some hearing loss. Cognitive dysfunction, immobility resulting in an inability of the dog to remove himself from the source of the noise, and the decreased ability of an older dog to manage stress may be factors contributing to noise phobia.It is important to identify which noises the dog may be afraid of. It may be noises we can hear, such as thunderstorms, but remember that a dog can hear frequencies humans cannot; the dog may be fearful of a sound we can not hear. For this reason, also try to relate the dog's behavior with other occurrences in the environment (e.g.; a train whistle, which may produce some high frequency sounds).
Treatment of noise phobias can include medication, desensitization and counterconditioning. For instance, if the sound is identified, play a recording of the sound at a very low volume level and reward the dog if no fear is displayed. Gradually (over days to weeks) the volume can be increased and rewards given appropriately.
Stress in an older dog may translate itself into increased barking, whining, or howling. This can occur during separation anxiety, as a means to gain attention (if the dog can not come to you because of decreased mobility, he may be asking you to come to him), or because of cognitive dysfunction.
The cause of the increased vocalization should be identified, if possible, and medication should be given if appropriate. If the dog is vocalizing in order to receive attention, he should be ignored. It may also be helpful to use 'remote correction,' such as throwing a pop can containing a few coins or pebbles toward the dog (not at the dog), which may startle him and stop him from vocalizing. He should not associate you with the correction or he may increase his vocalization just to get your attention. If the increased vocalization is an attention-seeking behavior, review the amount and type of attention you are giving the dog. Maybe you need to set aside some time for you and your dog (on your terms).
Some older dogs may become restless at night, and stay awake, pacing through the house, or vocalizing. Pain, the need to urinate or defecate more often, the loss of vision or hearing, changes in appetite, and neurologic conditions can contribute to this behavior.
Any medical condition contributing to this behavior problem should be treated. Again, remote corrections may be helpful, or it may be necessary to confine the dog in a location away from the bedrooms during the night.
According to Pfizer Pharmaceutical, 62% of dogs age 10 years and older will experience at least some of the following symptoms, which could indicate that he has canine cognitive dysfunction (CCD):
Confusion or disorientation. The dog may get lost in his own back yard, or get trapped in corners or behind furniture.
When other factors are ruled out (if decreased activity is due to an advancing arthritic condition, for instance, or his inattentiveness due to vision or hearing loss), and your veterinarian has determined that your dog has CCD, a treatment for this disorder may be recommmended. The drug called Selegiline or L-Deprenyl, (brand name Anipryl), although not a cure, has been shown to alleviate some of the symptoms of CCD. If the dog responds, he will need to be treated daily for the rest of his life. As with all medications, there are side effects, and dogs with certain conditions should not be given Anipryl. For instance, if your dog is on Mitaban for external parasites, Anipryl should not be given. If you think your dog may have CCD, talk to your veterinarian.
Since older dogs do not handle stress well, getting a new puppy when you have an older dog showing signs of aging may not be the best idea. It is best to get a new puppy when the older dog is still mobile (can get away from the puppy), relatively pain free, is not experiencing cognitive dysfunction, and has good hearing and vision.
Many of the behavioral changes we see in older dogs can be due to medical conditions. If your dog's behavior is changing, have your dog examined by a veterinarian. Your older dog is more easily stressed, so attempt to reduce stress by making any necessary changes in routine gradual, and decreasing the exposure of your dog to stressors. With patience, understanding, and treatments recommended by your veterinarian, you can help make your dog's older years a quality time for you and him.
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Senior dogs require special care than their young ones. It is a time for them when they can gradually change their behavior. Being a pet owner you always look after your dog's health by observing its eating habit as well as its behavior also. Separation anxiety is one of the most common behavior problems seen in older dogs. Consult for a good veterinarian to check up your dog's health and keep them healthy.
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The latest U.S. public opinion polls show former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich in the lead among Republican contenders for next year's presidential election.
A Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday shows Gingrich with 26 percent support among likely Republican voters. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney is not far behind with 22 percent, while 14 percent of those surveyed favor Georgia businessman Herman Cain, and the rest of the field trails in single digits.
When limiting the choice to just the two front-runners, Gingrich and Romney, the difference is even larger. Forty-nine percent of those surveyed selected Gingrich, compared to 39 percent for Romney. But when it comes to the candidate with the best chance to defeat President Barack Obama, Republican voters pick Romney over Gingrich.
Gingrich also surged into first place in two other national polls - a CNN/ORC International survey, and a joint poll by USA Today newspaper and the Gallup Organization.
The Republican presidential contenders will have a chance to collect more support Tuesday night when they gather in Washington for a two-hour televised debate, scheduled for 01:00 UTC. The discussion will focus on foreign policy and national security issues.
The latest polling marks a huge drop in support for Cain, who had been seen as a top rival to Romney until he was forced to respond to multiple allegations of sexual harassment dating back to the late 1990s.
Cain also had some awkward moments on foreign policy, including a bungled response to a question about whether he agreed with President Obama's policy on Libya during a videotaped meeting with the editorial board of the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel.
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What Cyclocross Means to Me | A School Project
OK, my sons never fail to amaze me and in this case, my eldest, really put something special together for his 7th grade school learning project. We have such amazing friends and he's really lucky to have these folks mentor him and the other Juniors in our region:
YogaGlo and Boulder Cycle Sport | Giving back to our bodies
Yup, we're all getting older. And it's critical to give back to the body...especially when you do sports like cyclocross. It's taxing on all parts of the body. I'm so honored to work with this great company, YogaGlo, and their commitment to helping with very specialized approaches of applying yoga to sports like cycling. have a look at this video the Boulder Cycle Sport Ambassadors team did to talk through why inserting the practice of yoga is critical, and how YogaGlo can help with its distinct areas of specialization like cycling.
Cross Racing 2014 | September
And just like that...BAM!...a few leaves popped here in Boulder in early September. Right during our 90 deg swelter. An indication that even the leaves just can't wait for their favorite time of year. The time they get to be their truest selves in all their yellow, orange and red glory. Yes, cross season is back...
The summer was a great one with lots of epic rides. The Butter ride, the Rapha Gentleman's Race and tons of great MTB exploration in our beautiful state. But of all the experiences, riding with our Boulder Junior Cycling kids and getting them re-convened in late August/early September to re-orient themselves with their cross machines....all 83 of them this season (below is just one subset of the team)...has been yet again the highlight of my sporting experience. We're changing the bike driving skills of legions of kids. So proud...
September also meant some awesome new changes with the Boulder Cycle Sport Ambassador team...mainly around our equipment. After 5 years on Ridley frames, we were excited to get our bodies on top of these fine machines from Focus. The Mares 0.0...complete with dual thru-axles, complete SRAM/Zipp drivetrain and cockpit and naturally back again with Clement rubber. Absolutely incredible machines...
Wheels, wheels wheels. Always the toughest part to nail down but the team was able to get everything dialed: Zipp 303 rims, Sapim spokes and DT 240 thru-axle hubs. But the most important part is the build and we trusted that to no one other than Zach Edwards of BCS who personally built more that 30 wheels for the Ambassador and BCS/Yoga Glo professional team. Crazy dedication and we are indebted...
Before the season got underway in earnest in September, I was honored to play the role of coach along with Jeremy Powers and John Verheul at Frank Overton's FasCat annual cross camp. We held it at Oskar Blue's Hops and Heifers Farm which was an awesome venue to teach folks the beautiful sport. We even conjured up our own mud to work on bike driving skills in various elements....
Finally the season got underway with the Kick It cross in Castle Rock. Super hard slap in the face but I felt I performed well with a 9th in a decent field. No training done in September at all...save for fun miles done in August. No intervals...just blissful dirt roads and miles.
The well known Boulder Cup weekend came WAY early this year with rumors that a certain Sven Nys would show up given his 'proximity' to the venue being in Vegas and all for Cross Vegas. But alas, we were not blessed with his presence but had a great time on yet another insanely hard course set up by Chris Grealish and Joe DePaemelaere. Here I am bombing the stairs with Shawn Hadley, MTB stud and what I'm finding to be as another good guy master. We're having great fun this season slaying each other.
Some days you feel great and put your best foot forward to race, others you just train through. The Xilinx race was just that...slipped pedal at the start, some bad tactical decisions and then the mind said: this is dumb, just train and go shred. And alas, that's what happened. In this shot I actually yelled to the great Mr. Shawn Curry to 'get ready!' and I hucked that roller every lap. Schoolboy fun. Finished the race with some fun training.
The rest of September played out super fun. Felling better with a podium appearance at the Green Mountain Sports cross in Littleton....and in each race, having fun by pulling wheelies across the line....
So, back in to the thick of it. Zero training, only racing thus far, having IMMENSE fun and enjoying this community we have. Let's hope October brings some good weather and start to make those dirt parking lot criterium heroes second guess why they are doing cross 'this late in the season.'
Bring it, October.
Veldrijden is Dood | A rant
Photo © Peloton Magazine
Seeing this picture by Peloton Magazine and all the others of the beer throwing knobs at Cross Vegas crushed me. Worse, hearing Lars Van der Haar say he would second guess coming back because of 'the assholes throwing beer' at the racers made me even more sick.
Don't get me wrong. I want cross to be punk rock in a way, but not at the expense of flagrant idiocy which does none of us any justice.
Then I read this piece by Bill Schieken from in The Crosshairs. Great tribute and one I felt compelled to write about...as a person who gave up on writing some time ago! But subjects like this...as they relate to the credibility of our sport...a sport which I've bled for, broken bones for, evangelized to anyone, coached kids to believe in, made my parents understand and pleaded with my bosses for time off for is too important to my soul. So I wrote this 'addendum' to Bill's piece. Hope he doesn't mind...
This is an exceptional piece by Bill Shieken from InThe Crosshairs . Here's my 'addition' to his great piece:
-Don't bitch, help - There's so many characters in the sport now. Old curmudgeons, fanatical newbies, timid juniors and more. If you are new to the sport, and maybe found some success, and likely felt a connection to the scene and are so wrapped up in it all, you may suffocating the sport. Step back from it all, look at it for what it is, less for what you want out of it and what you can do to make it grow. Volunteer to marshall a race. Help with registration. Attend a city council on why CX should use the grass at some park. Show up. Be present. Understand it's special.
-Evangelize like it's wiffle ball, not the Tour de France - CX is hard. But if you're reading this, you probably know that. Don't gloat in it and how strong you are, and the 10 lbs you lost to cat up. Talk about the bike driving, the friends cheering, the rad bikes, the announcers who know your name, the insane courses we get the privilege to ride on and the beer. And get the people within earshot to understand it (and not you/your pursuits) and help and volunteer and be radicle. Keep it real, not cross-fit crazy, and just a great way to spend a beautiful fall day with friends.
-Help kids. We're at a weird place now in 2014 with a lot of 35-45-something people who have found religion over the past decade in endurance sports. Recreating themselves through suffering, while starting to raise their own families. Now they have brood, many of whom are seeing their sporting lens through their parents: CX, road races, triathalons and other endurance-specific pursuits which most kids really don't understand because their lives haven't developed enough to know the beauty of intentional suffering. I say, let them play...anything. Whatever they want. If they show an organic interest to drive bikes, then pounce on the bike-nerd-youngling and have fun, without talking racing. Just drive bikes like Adam Craig. Or run hills like the Kenyans, or play soccer like they saw on TV during the World Cup. That's it. If they want to drill a soccer ball into the net, let them do that, take Saturdays off from your racing and go see the gromm channel her inner Mia Hamm. Support it madly. Like you hear you being cheered at in a cross.
Cross is not dead - Bill didn't mean that. But it is accelerating fast and will turn into something massive(ly fun) if we do not poison it. It's up to us to decide how it evolves and what we want that evolution to be like. I want progression, but not at the expense of ridiculous asshattery I'm seeing in other growing "fringe" sports. Obviously this is subjective but maybe you know what I mean. Punk Rock is a perfect analogy as the purists would want to evangelize and make a newbie appreciate the message and the tone it was delivered...while the newbie interloper to the punk rock scene would scorn the newer newbie for being a newbie and having 'no appreciation or understanding'. Never good.
OK, rant is over. Thanks Bill.
2004-2014 | A Decade of Colorado Cyclocross Racing
Purging things from our basement, I uncovered a goldmine of old pictures from 'the day'. Many were from when we'd just moved to Colorado from San Francisco in October of 2004. It made me reflect upon the amazing community we have here, great times and memories of great races....and more recently, the dream of seeing my son's do the same. We're all still learning, even after 18 years of putting numbers on my back for this sport. I can't stop. Won't stop (tm - Michael Cody).
October at the CU Research Park...a.k.a: The worlds crappiest cross course. Opperman and me slaying each other. I think he won that day. I think I passed out as this was my first race at altitude.
Racing for and managing Bobby's Rocky Mounts cross team. We were a crappy squadra but well loved. This was States, Cat 3s I think. I won some races but not this revered one at Xilinx. It still is one of my favorite courses.
States again at Xilinx, this time I move up to the fast old guys, the 35s. Great weather that year. Jon C motored all of us. Couldn't catch that guy as I remember each time on the pavement he was a blur scooting away from us, then each time in the mud/technical we'd accordion that machine back.
35's States, Lyons, CO, 17 degrees. I had frost nip for 4 months after this race.
Cross Vegas UCI race. It was like racing in an oven. When Frischy caught me at minute 50, that was that...but it was a dream come true.
Cross Vegas UCI race again...more oven.
35's, States, the first year of the BCS Ambassador squad. That's Pete throwing hup at me.
This was Aiden's first 'season' - he did a few races and fell in love.
Xilinx, men's open, hotter than Hades.
Aiden getting some at States at Castle Rock.
USGP, 35s, massive field, great day and most perfect conditions.
Aiden bos-rijden at Xilinx, Blue Sky Cup.
Seamus in his first year of racing the beautiful sport with three to go. States, Castle Rock.
Blue Sky Cup, 35's, slipped pedal at the start - literally put me DFL, and had to fight back all day. Anvil material.
Aiden pushing hard at Primal Palooza in Golden at a horse farm. We got poop on us all day.
Seamus showing fine Boulder Junior Cycling form at Primal Palooza in Golden.
On to 2014. More memories to be had as this whole story evolves. Proud to be part of this community and fabric of characters who call themselves Colorado crossers. Lots more photos collected over the years found here in my Flickr repository. You may see yourself in there! SO many great photographers out on the race course every weekend it's incredible. Dejan Smaic, Shawn Lortie, Terri Irsik-Smith, John Flora, Mountainmoon Photography, Daniel Dunn, Yann Ropers, Bo Bickerstaff, Green Curry Photography, and many many more. Thanks for being out there and making memories.
The Rapha Gentleman's Race - Boulder
A Bucket List item in the books! Honestly, my first bucket list item! Maybe I'm getting old... The Boulder edition of Rapha's 'Gentleman Race' series was incredible and I now more thoroughly get the vision Rapha had in creating these epic days and the justification for the term 'gentleman' in the title of the race series. My whole experience was through posts displaying sort of black and white images of helmet less cyborgs that looked like to me were the discards of the pro peloton. Not true. The vision and people were way more core than that.
Colorado. My home. Absolutely endless miles of dirt road....and this race proved I hadn't seen as much of it as I thought I had. My teammate and fellow New England transplant, Johs Huseby worked with Rapha to extract the sweetest nectar out of this ride...creating a route that admittedly made it one of the most brutal routes I've ever seen....nor done.
107 miles, 13000+ feet of climbing. Pavement, dirt road and scree-filled dirt trail. Absolutely not a trivial century, but rather a test of focus, equipment, will, balls, eating/drinking discipline and the ability to control type A behaviors to cohese as a team. Why? The team must finish together in order to place. Each team was composed of 6 riders.
So it was a typical Boulder Saturday.
While many used road bikes, the weapon of choice was a cross bike with sturdy exploration tires....
Boulder fielded a number of teams, including a team from my squadra, Boulder Cycle Sport. But my good friend and coach, Frank Overton of FasCat asked if I'd be part of his crew and it was all he needed to say. Johs had put together a solid, if not, world class crew for BCS and I did not want to hamper that team's mojo. Frank and I had a plan to stay gelled. Keep it balanced and have a crew of guys that were physiologically, mentally and fitness-balanced ed by a solid road captain...
From left to rgight you see...
Matty from Fascat, Tom from JBV Coaching, Erik from Boulder Cycle Sport, the Big Cat Frank from FasCat, John Verheul from JBV Coaching and yours truly.
You can see the full route below, and I won't take you blow by blow, but the route was epic. Frank had us tight tight tight as a team. No one went too far. Fit/spry guys stayed in the pack of 6 and everyone had 'a moment' but stayed true to the goal of staying together.
We're here climbing Flagstaff with my peeps from Boulder Cycle Sport...
Gaps naturally formed with teams. It was to be expected. We were the 2nd of the last to go off and caught countless folks. But encouraging and even pushing them hard on the way. Everyone from hardened women pros to legends like Andy Hampsten riding on the day on the roads he trained on to get fit for the Giro were seen and communed with.
I do not know what to say when it comes to the beauty of our state. We live in extremes....fire, flood...altitude and wild. This is what we have. I was honored to ride the roads we train on with so many newcomers...and with Johs's help, seeing so many new 'hooks' of routes to bring my routes (and those I'll show my boys) together in an array of bliss. I suspect Rahpa is going to have some emotive imagery to demonstrate the Front Ranges beauty on the event, so what I will say is this in sort of a summary fashion...
- My backyard is insane. It's just insane.
- The people that communed for the Rapha event are beautiful people. They're not in it for the imagrey...as much as to make the memory.
- I entered the day confident, but more interested in learning how to suffer in a new way.
- I exited the day accomplishing that with a new found appreciation for teammates who give a shit and want to crush the goal..together.
So I have Rahpa to thank for that.
When I lined up, I never thought for a millisecond I...or we...wouldn't finish. But the reality was everyone 'got it'. I mean the most instinctual sort of feeling between (what are normally type A personas) that 'we're in this TOGETHER.' We'll do this TOGETHER. Never was a FasCat teammate within 100ft of the group. Almost always together. So many times was a guy like Verheul motivating me to move on and dig dig dig. Go one gear deeper. His hand on my back when he's pushing his own watts to ensure I knew he was there. So JBV...you are a teammate for life. Me, pushing a bro when he went down in a dusty crappy corner and I viscerally felt the need to give back to the team and push hard over Sunshine...a large mountain summit...as my teammate spewed blood from the crash.
The take-a-way from it all was: T E A M. My team was composed of amazing souls. Hard dudes. Good dudes. Disciplined dudes. They 'got' the epicness. Wanted it. But could control themselves....meaning their instinct to go an win personally. They all demonstrated an empathetic capacity to survive, and take each teammate through the portal with them.
And that was the key. We all finished together...in 8 hours and change saddle time.
A day in the saddle never to be for gotten. Finishing a strong 3rd place...even with emergency medicine required (topic for another time). Epic days.
The day in GPS...
The Juniors Conquer Moab's White Rim
(Yes that is one sick climb out from the Green River)
This was year two of this trip, yet bigger this time! 21 people, parents and their Boulder Junior Cycling kids, spent their first days of summer vacation on a completely self supported tour of Moab's famous White Rim. This was our 2nd year as a group taking on this challenge, one which is focused purely on family and teammate bonding. What an incredible thing for these grommets to experience.
So what's the White Rim tour? It's a classic in the annals of US mountain-biking-dom. The ride is essentially 103 miles of non-technical 4x4 road trails which we chunked into 4 ~25mile days. You can see Day 1, Day 2, Day 3 and Day 4 here on my Strava profile.
(Photo by Sally Keefe)
There really is nothing to it....not technical, but it is long, very hot and extremely remote. No cell service and virtually zero exposure to people....especially Park Rangers which in two years we've never seen out on the trails (only near the entrances).
Logistically you are on your own. Reservations for camp spots are required about a year out for the best ones. There's a crapper, but no utilities and no fire burning which is a bummer...and mystifies us as there's nothing to burn up in the desert.
We bring in everything - fresh water, food, supplies, equipment and this year had two sag 4 x 4's. The kids and all parents but 2 travel ahead of the trucks and ride while the 4 x 4s slowly make their way behind. In some cases, the floods of 2013 were a bit problematic still yet our truck selection made these traverses no problem:
Our oldest Junior was 16, and our youngest 8 and they ate it all up. Our mission is simply to bond...give kids jobs at night (setting up camp, cleaning, etc) and pair them with kids they don't know that well. They played into the night surrounded by clear views of the Milky Way. Epic.
The riding was super fun. Lots of sun screen and hydration and we rode always together in a group. The strongest would go for it on the climbs, then go back and help pace-up the younger kids...
(Photo by Sally Keefe)
We're on to our normal summers now but the great memories will still be fresh by the time the kids don their skinsuits for cross season. It's adventure like this together which is why our Boulder Junior team is so special.
On to more experiences!
Dirt road bliss | The Butter Gold Ride
2014 Butter Gold Ride Photo by Ian Reid @bouldermoto
Grinding gravel. Gravel grinding. I dunno, to me the labeling all just sounds a bit too cliche'. I'm not normally the type to just nay-say a trend, even though I did, because riding dirt™ (Doesn't that sound better? I'm trademarking that post haste) is not a trend to us here in Colorado. It's....well it's just bike riding.
Michael Robson is my kindred soul. We're both essentially border collies without fur. Perennially wagging tails and smiling souls....put us to task and we'll go and slog after it, like a 100 mi bike ride in the rain, simply because it's like the tennis ball we need to get after. Michael has this gene about 10x more than me and frankly anyone else I know. Alas Michael, in an effort to evangelize the burgeoning brand he's developing called, Butter, developed the sort of tennis ball any dirt rider would jump through plate glass windows and forge streams to chase after: The Butter Gold Ride. 100 miles of some of Colorado's primo dirt.
Before I get into the meat of the ride, let's talk about this Butter 'thing'. Simply put, they 'churn the butter' in this industry and this lifestyle we all love and adore. Fine craftsmanship on the essentials we need to succeed at our passions and sublimely exposing us to the details of the sport and the lifestyle to remind us every day why we do this. And now, why our kids are crazy enough to follow in our footsteps. That's Butter.
2014 Butter Gold Ride by Kristin Weber - @sugardesigninc
On to the ride. First of all why? Well, naturally to be a bigger man to laugh at another man who's suffering at mile 98, but sincerely to bond as a core group of friends and support Boulder Junior Cycling as a sort of fund and awareness-raiser. Michael's 'big loop' took us from Boulder out East to Longtucky, up North to Fort Fun and then back on South home to The Bubble. It was a fully USAC-sanctioned ride and had a mix of folks from Tour de France veterans, national elite road champions, masters world and national cross champs and a sordid cast of cyclocross freaks who'd rarely set their 28c Clements on pavement. The ride generally looked like this on The Stravas...
Michael and his beautiful wife Wendy had the course dialed. Bail out points for the under-ridden of the crew and phenomenal food stops if you needed to stop and scarf down some gluten free goodness, Skratch Labs rice cake or a high octane doughnut. Way too #PRO for chumps like us as we're used to stopping off at 7-10 (not even good enough to be 7-11) stores in the high mountains and shoving a microwaved burrito, Gatorade and a Hostess pie in our mouths simultaneously. What Michael and Wendy did was to frankly destroy our reputations with quite possibly the most elegantly organized pit stops I've ever seen for this rolling mass of bandits.
The ride was kept 1000% safe. We tolerate no bullshit amongst our core crew of friends. No Cat 5 'low-T' AndroGel-lathering mopes with hair on fire to "win!!!" and cross yellow lines, half wheel and puff chests. We rode as a unit, pushing hard but we marshalled the 40 or so folks into solid pack riding. The Wizard-cum-patron Pete Webber laid down the law. Luckily, the Butter crew quite honestly knows each other intimately so there was no "who's that guy...he's gonna take me out" nonsense. They'd be marshalled if we saw those types of antics. Dirt riding to us is our means of driving bikes in an immensely more safe environment (from cars that is) and ensures the cyclist has to drive the bike well at all times....in the corners, on the washboarded straights and over rocks.
What we felt collectively was bliss. Even with 25-40mph gusts and spitting rain, the weather could not penetrate the warmth of the souls on the ride. All believers in the dirt. All old friends...and some new friends like Embrocation Journal's Brandon Elliot who made the trek down from Chicagoland to come see what all the fuss was.
The satisfaction of completing a 100mi ride over the dirt on skinny tires was rewarding, and we're blessed with endless supplies of it here in Colorado. So looking forward to the 2015 edition and maybe a "1/2 Stick of Butter" route in the high country this summer....whatchothink, Michael?
Remembering how to get it back
I look at this video often. Probably obsessively. It's one of those assets I am so happy to have...proud to have captured and had the foresight to whip out the digital cam corder (no iPhones back then). Watch it...
I keep hitting replay. That act for me, is like watching some hypnotic repetitive motion I'm sure you all have seen before. Like the girl who twirled her hair in class with her pencil. Or the dog that can't stop rolling its back on the grass. You get that zone-in feeling while watching. It's hypnotic and entrancing but brings me great joy all at the same time.
What it does for me now, is to remind me of pure pleasure. My family. What we are. What we do. How we live. It re-enforces my decisions to continuously drive towards health and happiness. I know Amy and I have done our best for the past decade to make this a reality. And we're looking into the future, into the next decade, and wherever it brings us it must be rooted in these same principals. Never being afraid of the bad moments, because the iron-clad love and steadfastness in our decisions to focus on our well being and happiness is never compromised. Never out of focus.
The life skill is remembering how to recall it. Getting it back. Re-firing the muscle memory that returns your gut to that phenomenally happy place. More than content. More than satisfied. Happy.
3rd Annual Anvil Awards | A Colorado Cyclocross Celebration
When: Wednesday, February 5th 6-8PM
Where: Boulder Cycle Sport North Map Here
What: Celebrate...us. Our community, our passion AND most importantly, our HUMOR!


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Each week, the science staff here at Ars goes through a flood of press releases and journal papers, looking for the most compelling science to cover. Each week, we also end up scratching our heads over some of the work that gets done, mystified by the motivation behind it, the choice of techniques, and the general strangeness of the natural world and human behavior. The best of that sort of material ends up in our Sunday Weird Science column. It's hard to have any objective standard of weirdness or bemusement to choose a top-10 list from, so what follows is a completely arbitrary collection of stories that simply struck me as especially enjoyable. Hope you end up feeling the same.
First you fight, then you protest, and then you just stop going: This story gets extra Weird Science credit for the Orwellian-sounding journal name: The Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions. The topic is quite good too: a large study of precisely why kids get sent to the principal's office, enabled by the fact that over 1,500 schools used an electronic system to track this stuff. The data reveals a clear trend: in the early years of school, kids mostly get sent for fighting with each other. By middle school, they're getting sent in for (verbally) fighting with their teachers. And, by the time they hit high school, apathy has set in, and most of the incidents are because they're late for or skipping class.
Train your mouse to smell the chicken: I stumbled across a paper entitled "Red junglefowl have individual body odors," which seemed too good to pass up. (For the uninitiated, the red jungle fowl is the wild ancestor of modern domesticated chickens.) It turned out that the researchers had stumbled across this purely by accident. They made this discovery as they attempted to find out whether the birds emitted odors based on their social position in the local pecking order. And we mean pecking literally—the study involved "six feather-pecked and six non-pecked birds." The answer to that question was no.
But what really sent the story into complete Weird Science Nirvana was the method used for distinguishing the eau de poule: "an automated olfactometer which assessed the ability of trained mice to discriminate between the odors." That's right: they trained the mice to pick up the scent of the birds, and then used an automated system to figure out what the mice thought about the stench.
And here I'd assumed it was all about making fun of foreigners: We tend to assume that mimicking a person's accent is a form of mockery, making it clear that a foreign-born individual isn't part of the dominant culture. Instead, it seems that imitating someone may provide a route to greater understanding. Groups of subjects were trained in accent comprehension, then given recordings of sentences spoken with an accent. Those who were then asked to repeat accented sentences while imitating the accent outperformed the rest of the groups, including those who simply repeated the phrases in their own voice and people who transcribed accented sentences.
Love yourself, think fondly of lesbians: Most people think of narcissism in terms of an overdeveloped fondness for one's self, but it's generally coupled with a hostility towards others. As it turns out, that hostility is rather specifically focused. Narcissistic college men were indifferent to their male peers (gay or straight), and actually felt somewhat positively towards lesbians. But heterosexual women come in for a great deal of hostility, which the paper's author ascribes to their role as validators of the narcissist's self-image.
If coke doesn't give you satisfaction, try meth: I'm not sure whether to praise the Journal of Experimental Biology or to complain vociferously about it. The journal appears to be a veritable fountain of weirdness, having supplied us with our earlier coverage of mice trained to detect the body odor of chickens, and offering a study in the latest issue that involved showing videos of crickets to salamanders in order to determine if they could distinguish large numbers. (The answer is yes, provided that the quantities differ by a 2:1 ratio or higher.)
But the journal apparently recognizes the weirdness of its own offerings, and sends out press releases announcing some of the stranger ones. And then it waits a while after the release before it places the content online. Thus, we didn't provide full coverage of a report on the ability of spitting cobras to track hapless PhDs simply because the paper wasn't yet online when Weird Science was being prepared.
New week, same story: JEB offers up a fantastically weird press release describing a research group that tested the impact of meth on the ability of snails to remember how to breathe. The training involved poking the hapless snails with sticks. Perfect material, but the paper is nowhere to be found on the journal's website. Fortunately, the search function pulled up the next best thing: a paper in which the same group did the exact same research, but gave the snails coke instead. Both drugs seem to impact the ability of snails to forget stuff.
Your dog isn't misbehaving, it's just a pessimist: We make jokes about other people's separation anxiety, but people are hardly the only who experience it—our pets often do as well. Some dogs and cats (and possibly other species) will often respond to an owner's absence with various misbehaviors, from treating a bed as a litterbox to chewing up the furniture. Why do only some pets respond this way to their owner's absence? Because the ones that do are inherently pessimistic. Stick them in a situation where they had to run to a bowl that may or may not contain food, and the ones that showed separation anxiety tended to run to the bowl more slowly, as if they expected to be disappointed by its contents.
Evolution driven by religion, at least in fish: The religion in this case is a pre-Columbian ritual that takes place annually in Mexico, where participants go to a cave and place a toxin in the water to harvest some of the fish that live there. The ceremony has now been going on for long enough that the fish at the site of the ritual have evolved increased resistance to the toxin compared to those living elsewhere in the same cave. Presumably, if this continues long enough, the ritual may come to an end simply because the fish no longer feel any effects of the toxin.
Break out the emergency backup crow: A bird with a name like "carrion crow" might conjure morbid images, but Corvus corone corone apparently forms healthy social groups that collectively raise the offspring of the breeders among them. Collectively to a degree, at least—lazy crows in the group will frequently ignore their duties and not visit the nests. Researchers now know why the group keeps those slackers around: they're emergency backup crows. When the researchers clipped the wings of the more productive group members, the previous noncontributors swung into action and picked up the feeding slack.
Robots have now been programmed to deceive: "We have developed algorithms that allow a robot to determine whether it should deceive a human or other intelligent machine and we have designed techniques that help the robot select the best deceptive strategy to reduce its chance of being discovered," said one Robert Arkin in describing his role in helping the robots take over the world. We generally ascribe the ability to choose our actions based on who we're dealing with to having a theory of mind, but apparently it can be recapitulated with an appropriate algorithm and a bit of game theory. The algorithm was subjected to rigorous testing: the robot using it had to engage in a game of hide-and-seek with another robot.
It's pretty good stuff, but not quite as impressive as the robots that evolved the ability to deceive their peers without any special programming.
Attacks on flying squirrels as a case of mistaken identity: A group of researchers who were studying Japanese macaques noticed a rather strange behavior: adults went after flying squirrels with excessive aggression, while infants were scooped up and carried away by their mothers. At a loss for an explanation of why it might be advantageous to attack a squirrel, the authors propose an alternative: the macaques decided anything that looked like that and flew must be a bird of prey, and needed to be driven off.
I became aware of this story via The Christian Science Monitor, which had coverage with a great title—"Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts"—and helpfully suggested, "The research could pave the way for advanced methods of enraging monkeys."


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My teacher gave me a punctuation task that I've found quite challenging. I've done it already, so that I'm not asking anyone to do it for me, you do not even have to correct it, in fact I don't even want you to. But if someone could look it over and just mark out my mistakes, and perhaps give me some hints, I'll take care of the rest.
The task is about punctuating a text, which contains no punctuation from before except a single comma which I've marked in red. The amount of occurrences for each mark is given below:
Punctuation mark = Quantity
Comma -> , = 16
Full stop ->. = 15
Colon -> : = 1
Brackets -> ( ) = 2 sets
Quotation marks -> " " = 4 sets
Hyphen -> - = 4
Question mark -> ? = 2
Exclamation mark -> ! = 2
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Marian Keyes: A woman in the Know
Summer may be here, but autumn is just around the corner, and for those of us who like to cover up, it can't come soon enough.
As the poet so eloquently put it: Autumn season of new boots and jackets, at least, how the poet would have so eloquently put it if the poet had a women.
I love autumn, it might be because my birthday is in September. poor criticized Virgo, and I associate it with presents, cake, and lots of attention. but the shameful truth is that I'm not really a summer person. yes, I know this won't go down well, and that saying you don't like summer is like saying you don't like dolphins or teddy bears or Crunchies.
My issue (I'm not sure I like that word) with summer is that everything's too bright, hot, and exposed. my clothes are all wrong, and summer brings me into a head on collision with my lumpy upper arms. I'm tormented by them. should I reveal them looking like sausage skins stuffed with cauliflower florets, and endure the sniggers of others, or keep them under wraps and swelter? if I elect to swelter, I have to deal with skinny smooth armed types who've never known a day's lumpiness in their lives. goading me "why are you wearing your cardie?", "you look so hot!", "look at her everyone, she's melting!", "stupid woman." while I'll have to insist, even though my face is the color of a raw steak and sweat is running down my back, that I'm fine, a little chilly even.
I've got no idea as to where the 4 hyphens are supposed to be, nor the second bracket, or the rest of the full stops.
My teacher is aware of the fact that I'm using this site, thus, I'm not trying to get the answers and hand them in as my own.
Nadeem Qureshi
As the poet so eloquently put it: Autumn season of new boots and jackets
I love autumn, it might be because my birthday is in September
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Right on the thin line of what appears "real", as in realistically painted, and an imaginary world of unrealistic things painted against expectation (with a subversive materiality), is where Eckart Hahn resides. An object becomes the representation of the object, at the moment Hahn departs so realistically from the tactile world as we understand it, and a tension forms there in the vacuum left by Hahn's desertion of the "actual". Because of this schism of realistic unreality the paintings are activated, bringing a heightened awareness to the question of what the meaning might be, while still not unsealing the hermetic narratives with in. Very much in the surrealist tradition, as Hahn comes by his image through a kind of directed automatism, (a strategy that seeks to short circuit the rigors and restrictions of scientific reason and Newtonian conclusions), the viewer receives the image somewhere in the unconscious while simultaneously seeking to interpret the paintings with the analytical mind. And there we are caught in between, in a liminal space of possibility.
See Hahn's solo show at Pablo's Birthday in NYC through June 16th.


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ENGLAND'S victorious cricket team celebrated their win over Australia in the Ashes - allegedly by urinating all over the wicket.
As the sun went down on their triumph the players celebrated on the Kia Oval pitch with behaviour some might say was more grubby than grubber.
Star players such as Kevin Pietersen, Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson reportedly queued up to relieve themselves on the strip while team-mates cheered wildly.
They were all caught out by Australian media who reportedly saw the players' unusual innings after the 23,500 crowd had gone.
A picture tweeted by England's wicketkeeper Matt Prior showed the squad sitting on the pitch after dark surrounded by champagne and beer as they savoured their victory over the old enemy, who lost 3-0 after a five-match series this summer.
Malcolm Conn wrote in Australia's Herald Sun: "While the centre of the ground was quite dark, lights were on in the grandstands with dozens of people still cleaning up after a late finish which saw the game go beyond 7.30pm.
"A number of players, including Stuart Broad, Kevin Pietersen and Jimmy Anderson took it in turns urinating on the pitch to the cheers of their team-mates.
"This could be clearly seen from the outside overflow areas of the press box."
The England and Wales Cricket Board was unavailable for comment today.
England's cricketers provided an interesting insight into their well-earned night of celebrations.
As well as Matt Prior's pitch picture, bowler Stuart Broad tweeted a photo of captain Alastair Cook hailing a night bus.
Batsman Kevin Pietersen admitted to a hangover this morning, tweeting: "Morning #ouch #mayday".


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PARIS -- Croatian-born, Paris-based designer Damir Doma is really hitting his stride, as seen in his fall 2013 collection shown Wednesday at Paris Fashion Week.
The look: Quietly rebellious. A daytime wardrobe with a subtle punk edge. Pleated trousers with zip-back tunics or bomber jackets, all in houndstooth boucle or pinstripe jacquards, made for a sporty spin on the suit. Shift dresses with zippered details, ruched collars and raglan sleeves were immensely wearable. And a fur biker jacket was just fun. Metallic leather Chelsea boots or creeper shoes with lug soles added some quirkiness. The colors were dark--navy blue, plum and mineral green and black--which might have seemed a tad somber were it not for the fact that the models were parading past a crowd dressed almost entirely in black. In other words, Doma is a pragmatist.
The inspiration: "Neo-corporate silhouettes superimposed with hybrid fabrications, spare utility and cool independence," according to the show notes.
The scene: Lush. The show was held in a beautiful 1897 building constructed by Parisian architect Paul Ernest Sanson of the Beaux Arts School.
The verdict: Doma is carving out a real niche for himself with wearable, everyday clothes that are anything but ordinary. It's no coincidence that Giorgio Armani is one of his influences. Let's hope more U.S. retailers start buying into it.
Paris Fashion Week: Fall 2013 primerOlivia Palermo in white at Fashion Week
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Marine Harvest ASA: MHG - UPDATE AFTER THE END OF Q1 2014
Harvest volumes Q1 2014 (1)
|Farming Norway 55 thousand tonnes |
|Farming Scotland 10 thousand tonnes |
|Farming Canada 6 thousand tonnes |
|Farming Chile 18 thousand tonnes |
|Other 3 thousand tonnes |
|Total 92 thousand tonnes |
In connection with the presentation of the Q4 2013 results, Marine Harvest
guided a total harvest volume of 80 thousand tonnes (HOG) for Q1 2014. The
increase in volume is partly a function of good growth conditions in Norway
and is also likely to lead to an increase in the guided annual volume.
(1) The harvest volumes are provided in head on gutted (HOG) equivalents. The
figures include salmonid species only.
Additional information
Operational EBIT for the Group was approximately NOK 1,075 million in Q1 2014
(NOK 482 million in Q1 2013). Although this is the best quarter so far for
Marine Harvest, the result was impacted by high costs in Norway. Costs in
Norway are expected to be lower for the remainder of the year.
Total operational EBIT per kg through the value chain were approximately as
follows for the main sources of origin:
* Norway 12.8 NOK
* Scotland 12.6 NOK
* Canada 19.1 NOK
* Chile 6.7 NOK
Net interest bearing debt (NIBD) was approximately NOK 7.5 billion by the end
of the quarter.
The Q1 reference price in Norway reached the unprecedented level of NOK 46.6,
which was 40% above the first quarter observations made over the last five
years and 17% above the previous first quarter all-time high in 2011. The
solid demand is expected to absorb the measurable supply coming to the market
over the next quarters, as Fish Pool futures are currently being traded at
NOK 41.6 for the second quarter and NOK 38.5 for the last three quarters.
However seasonal price fluctuations should be expected.
Supported by the strong operating results, the recent successful divestment of
UK farming assets, a strong forward market and a solid balance sheet, the
Board has resolved to propose a Q1 dividend of NOK 5 per share to the AGM.
The AGM will be held 22 May.
The full Q1 2014 report will be released on 30 April at 0700 CET.
This press release may be deemed to include forward-looking statements, such
as statements that relate to salmonid production volume, expected costs in
Norway in the rest of the year, future demand and supply of salmon, expected
price fluctuations of salmon and expectations for the forward market. Actual
events could differ materially from those indicated by these statements
because the realization of those events is subject to many risks and
uncertainties. Factors that could affect actual events include: risks
associated with fluctuations in salmon prices, risks associated with the
supply and demand of salmon, including global economy, salmon prices and
consumer preferences and operational risks, in particular those relating to
our cost in Norway. All forward-looking statements included in this news
release are based on information available at the time of the release, and
Marine Harvest assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statement.
This information is subject of the disclosure requirements pursuant to section
5-12 of the Norwegian Securities Trading Act.
This announcement is distributed by NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions on behalf of NASDAQ OMX Corporate Solutions clients.
The issuer of this announcement warrants that they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information contained therein.
Source: Marine Harvest ASA via Globenewswire


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Carnival is a musical based on the motion picture Lili, focusing on an embittered puppeteer and the girl fascinated by his puppets. It was first produced on Broadway in 1961, and the original cast included Jerry Orbach (as puppeteer Paul and the puppets), Kaye Ballard (as the Incomporable Rosalie), and Will Lee (as concessionaire Grobert).
In 2002, Encores! launched a concert-style version, in which the performers read from the scripts and featuring more minimal set design, which ran off-Broadway from February 7 to February 10. Directed by Kathleen Marshall, the production featured puppet characters supplied by the Muppet Workshop, after Ed Christie made a pitch for the assignment. Christie explained his desire that the Workshop should become more involved in theater productions. Although an early suggestion by Christie involved Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy appearing as two of puppetmaster Paul's menagerie, the Workshop ultimately built versions of the four puppets as detailed in the original script: red-headed urchin Carrot Top, diva Marguerite, Renardo the Fox, and Horrible Henry the walrus.
The production starred Brian Stokes Mitchell as puppeteer Paul and Anne Hathaway as Lili. Mitchell also supplied the voices of Carrot Top, Renardo, and Henry, while David Costabile doubled as Paul's assistant Jacqot and the voice of Marguerite. For scenes where all four puppets appeared, John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo performed, lip-synching to the actors' vocals. Ed Christe designed all four characters (and also built Carrot Top), while Larry Jameson, Tim Miller, and Tom Newby constructed the other characters. Polly Smith and Jason Weber oversaw puppet costuming, and Fred Buchholz was in charge of puppet maintenance.
Carrot Top
Described by director Kathleen Marshall as "a cross between a young Mickey Rooney and Dondi," Carrot Top is an earnest urchin performed by crippled puppeteer Paul. Paul can only communicate his feelings to Lili through Carrot Top and the other puppets. Brian Stokes Mitchell, who played Paul, performed Carrot Top's voice and also puppetry for certain scenes. For ensemble shots involving all four puppets, John Tartaglia and Stephanie D'Abruzzo stepped in.


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Bannack State Park in fall.
Barn in Laurin.
The Anaconda-Pintlers from Highway 569.
"Prelude to Battle"
Cowboys awaiting the start of the bull-riding competition.
Sunrise over the Helena Valley.
Main Street Bannack
Montana's first jail -- Bannack.
Steward headframe in Butte.
The approach to the rail shops in Nevada City.
A rail relic in Nevada City.
A vintage snowthrower along Jackson Creek Road. The Bridger Mountains in the background.
Gillian and Fraternity Halls in Elkhorn.
"Flat Tire"
This wagon has seen better days.
At the Flathead Lake Lodge.
Looking down Bannack's main street.
A weathered door to the past in Virginia City.
Abandoned silver mine in Elkhorn.
An antique car 'planter' sits near Harrison with a Tabacco Root mountains backdrop.
A storm brews behind the Belmont headframe in Butte.
Railroad workhorses past their prime in Nevada City.
Water wheel in Nevada City.
"19th Century Power"
Steam engine in Nevada City.
Abandoned fuel truck (tanks missing) north of Gildford.
The kitchen in the old Wells Hotel in the ghost town of Garnet.
Gibson Dam and reservoir west of Augusta.
Twenty Stamp Mill at Pony. Hollowtop Mountain and the Tobacco Root range in the background.


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BALTIMORE, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A 60-year tradition of someone placing roses and cognac at the Baltimore grave site of Edgar Allen Poe on his birthday may be nevermore, a Poe expert says.
The "Poe Toaster," as the mysterious figure, who has never been identified, has been known, did not show up Thursday morning -- the third straight year no one delivered the tradition tribute -- leading Jeff Jerome, curator of the Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum, to pronounce officially the end of the tradition, The Baltimore Sun reported.
"What I'll miss most is the excitement of waiting to see if he's going to show up," said Jerome, who joined friends keeping an eye out for the Toaster from inside Westminster Hall, the former church yards from Poe's grave. Fans outside included visitors from Rhode Island, Chicago, California, even Russia.
Until 2009, his last appearance, the Toaster had shown up every year since at least 1949 on Poe's birthday, wearing black clothing and leaving behind three roses and a half-emptied bottle of cognac.
Jerome, Poe House curator since 1979, said he and the Toaster had agreed to a way to make sure no impostor could pass for the real thing. Jerome won't say how but allowed it has to do with what the Toaster does at the grave site of Poe, who died in Baltimore in 1849.
Three impostors tried to pass for the Toaster this year, Jerome said.
"People will always be talking about it," Jerome said of the longstanding tradition. "It brought so much international attention to Baltimore, to the Poe House, to the Poe grave. It will live on in people's memories. People will always be asking, 'You know that guy who used to leave cognac and roses? Whatever happened to him?'"