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VFW-Fokker 614 of Cimber making a second career as a launch pad for childrens slide at Technik Museum Speyer.
VFW 614 was a small regional jetliner. Its most distinctive feature was that its engines were mounted above the wing. The type was far from success. It was only sold to three different airlines plus German Air Force.
Cimber Air was a Danish airline founded in 1950, operating scheduled domestic and international
services in co-operation with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) and Lufthansa. Name was changed to Cimber-Sterling in 2009, after company bought parts of already bankrupt Sterling Airlines. A few years later in May 2012 Cimber-Sterling declared bankruptcy.
Within weeks a new company called Cimber A/S was formed to continue contract operations for SAS. In 2014 this single customer strategy lead to the edge of collapse again, as SAS did not intend to renew their contracts. But this time Scandinavian Airlines decided to save the company by buying it. Ownership was short term, as in January 2017 SAS sold Cimber A/S to Irish regional airline CityJet. Under new ownership Cimber still operates flights for SAS, under SAS colours. It is not likely that we would see Cimber title painted on large font on the side of an airliner anymore.
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Sergiom (114415) 2017-05-09 5:48
Bonjour Kari,
Une photo qui attire l'attention dans la galerie. On se demande bien ce que cela peut être. Une petite lecture du texte nous vient en aide. Très beau cadrage et rendu des couleurs.
Silvio1953 (189357) 2017-05-09 6:06
Ciao Karl, very strange park forse this fantastic airplane, excellent clarity, fine details and wonderful colors, very well done, my friend, ciao Silvio
Nicou (186730) 2017-05-09 6:13
fantastique vue de cet avion quelle image et captages quel rouge et bleu et ce blanc avec la passerelle qui monte ce gros tuyau en alu quelle compo grandiose vue et image.
Bravo et amitié
Fis2 (140871) 2017-05-09 6:41
Witaj Kari!
Fokker's second life, excellent idea.
Nice view, curious place.
Good presentation.
I like frame, colors and sharpness.
Well done.
Nice afternoon.
dta (95140) 2017-05-09 7:50
Hello Kari ,
Original use of the plane . A part of the history of the european aircraft : ancient plane , ancient company ...
holmertz (82240) 2017-05-09 9:04
Hello Kari,
I think those who started Cimber Air in 1950 were proud of their company and had great expectations for it. They would probably have felt humiliated to see this, but for the rest of us it's fun. The plane is nicely placed on a diagonal and there are many other fine shapes, as well as good colours.
Best regards,
pierrefonds (92383) 2017-05-09 12:42
Hi Kari,
The aircraft is well placed in the frame. The point of view is showing the details of the VFW-Fokker 614. The good luminosity is bringing out the colours. Have a nice day.
ChrisJ (150756) 2017-05-09 13:55
Hello Kari
The red stripe on the plane and the yellow support structure contrast superbly against the blue sky. Good sharpness and an informative note. Nice density levels and light contrasts. Tfs!
jemaflor (124563) 2017-05-09 23:54
Hi Kari,
Well photographed, interesting subject and perfect sharpness and light capture for your photo, tfs.
Hi Kari
A good idea to have a second life, the children (boys mainly I suppose) should be proud to come into the plane and escape by the slide!
claudeD (47742) 2017-05-18 6:27
Hello Kari,
very fine and interesting shot. At the first view we have surely some questions!Very fine and informative note.I like the shot very much. Very well done.TFS.
With regards from Luxembourg
mcmtanyel (53194) 2017-06-05 21:25
Hello Kari,
I love photos of airliners and this is a lovely photo showing one in its second life. I must confess, it is a very creative way to use it. I like Cimber's logo of a Viking hat, I suppose.
PS. The tunnel for Marmaray has been completed, transcontinental commuter service has been in place since 2013. It is the rest of the connection on the Anatolian side that hasn't been finished yet. On facebook, I have seen news that service has extended as far east as Pendik (where we used to live).
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The boy has a history of being beaten by his parents and the judge
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MONTREAL — It took Max Pacioretty one shift to show he has completely recovered from appendix surgery.
Only eight days after an emergency appendectomy, the left-winger found a puck in the slot and slid it to the net for David Desharnais to tip in for a goal that helped the Montreal Canadiens to a 2-1 victory over the Ottawa Senators on Sunday afternoon.
Pacioretty, who was expected to be out for three to four weeks, looked strong as ever as he skated a regular shift on the top line with Desharnais and Erik Cole and picked up his fifth point in four games played this season.
"I just trusted that those two battling would make the right play and it ended up right on my stick," he said of the goal that tied the game 1-1 at only 2:13 of the period after Jakob Silfverberg opening the scoring for Ottawa.
"That's what I mean about them doing the heavy lifting early on."
Pacioretty's ability to bounce back from injuries causes fans and even his teammates to shake their heads in wonder.
In the 2010-11 season, he was stretched off the Bell Centre with a concussion and a broken vertebrae in his neck after crashing head first into a stanchion. But he was back on his feet within days.
He missed the last 15 games of the regular season and the first round of the playoffs, but might have been back if the Canadiens had gone further into the post-season.
He responded with a breakout, 33-goal season in 2011-12 and was awarded the Bill Masterton Trophy for persistence and dedication.
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"I look at adversity as a good thing,"he said. "I've had to deal with a lot in my career, whether it be injuries or getting sent down.
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Cole had the winner later in the first period for the Canadiens (6-2-0), who swept home games on consecutive afternoons after a 6-1 win over the Buffao Sabres on Saturday.
The Senators (5-3-1) were coming off a 1-0 loss in Carolina on Friday night and are struggling to score with top centre Jason Spezza out with a sore back.
Goaltenders Carey Price and Craig Anderson were both at the top of their games as Ottawa outshot Montreal 33-32.
Price may have caught a break as a goalie interference call nullified a goal by defenceman Andre Benoit 1:26 into the third frame. Price was outside the crease when Silfverberg learned into him as Benoit shot.
Price made no comment. When asked if he thought it was the right call, Montreal coach Michel Therrien smiled but also said nothing.
"We thought we had tied the game and they waived it off," said Ottawa captain Daniel Alfredsson. "We didn't think it should have been waived off but that's the way it goes.
"We still had some good chances after that. It wasn't to be."
Price is on a roll, having won six starts in a row since dropping a 2-1 decision to Toronto on opening night Jan. 19.
The Canadiens opened last season 1-5-2 and ended up last in the Eastern Conference. They have won five in a row at home, while last season playing at the Bell Centre was a chore as the team went a tepid 16-15-10.
"You never know what to expect when you have a new coach, new system and everything," said defenceman Josh Gorges. "We have a group here that wants to get it done. They want to pay the price, win the battles."
Pacioretty's return gave Montreal an almost completely healthy lineup and dropped Lars Eller from the first to the fourth line a day after he had three points against the Sabres.
The game was only 36 seconds old when Tomas Plekanec was sent off for goalie interference and Ottawa used the man advantage to take the lead at 1:38. Patrick Wiercioch found Silfverberg at the far blue-line with a stretch pass during a Montreal line change and the rookie went in alone to beat Price on the glove side.
Pacioretty slid a puck to the net that Desharnais tipped past Anderson to tie it at 2:12.
A Montreal power play had just ended when Cole lifted a feed from Francis Bouillon over Anderson at 11:29.
P.K. Subban picked up a point in a second straight game since he returned after a contract dispute. He also had to leave the ice for a second day in a row to have a skate repaired, missing the opening 10 minutes of the third period.
Notes: With Pacioretty's return, reserve centre Petteri Nokelainen (back) is Montreal's only injured player. … Ryan White was scratched for a second game, joining Tomas Kaberle and Yannick Weber. … Sergei Gonchar and Guillaume Latendresse sat for the Senators, who are also without Jason Spezza (back) and Jared Cowen (hip).


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REALITY CHECK—Commentary
In May, Stephen Wolfram of Mathematica fame plans to launch a computational knowledge engine on the Web that computes the answers to natural language questions. Recently, he has demonstrated the tool for information technology luminaries such as Doug Lenat (creator of Cyc) and Nova Spivack (chief executive officer of Radar Networks, the maker of Twine). They, in turn, have blogged about its capabilities and impact.
Of course, launching anything semantic on the Web brings up the obligatory comparisons to Google and speculation about whether it will be yet another would-be Google-killer. However, they take very different approaches to information queries, with the only real similarity being a minimalist, single text field in which to enter a query.
If you ask a question of Google, it retrieves possibly thousands of hits. Ask a question of Wolfram Alpha and it returns one answer. The reason is not that one approach is better than the other but that they attack the problem of relevance from different perspectives: Google is meant to retrieve documents with some probability that one contains what you are looking for. Wolfram Alpha knows how to answer many questions — but not all — and computes the answer to those questions via specific handcrafted algorithms.
How is that important to the government? Let me first digress a bit with a story about a recent event. Last month, I spoke at a packed seminar on e-discovery in which lawyers eagerly listened to basic concepts of metadata, information discovery and knowledge representation. Those smart, non-IT people were leaning forward and actively listening for one simple reason: Their current IT tools cannot solve their problems.
Thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of hits are not the answer because the problem is one of precision. I have blogged about this phenomenon before in relation to the Data Optimization Pyramid. That pyramid — composed of unmanaged data at the base, managed data in the middle and knowledge bases at the apex — represents the principle that not all data is equal, and therefore, different data requires different levels of optimization.
The lawyers at the seminar were experiencing pain because their current level of data optimization did not match their current required level of precision. That mismatch leads to the painful realization that more data needs to move from the managed data level to the next level of semantic applications. So, in that light, Wolfram Alpha represents another pragmatic application of semantic processing. Not perfect artificial intelligence, not perfect knowledge representation, but another good step in the right direction.
Just like financial assets, technologies rise and fall in hype bubbles. However, throughout those cycles, dedicated people continue to work on improving the technology and solving real problems. With Wolfram Alpha, we see the emergence of the next wave of semantic applications, which have learned from the retrenchment of the previous wave and have come back with new approaches.
I categorize the strategies in this new wave into three buckets: honey pots, heuristics and hard science.
Semantic honey pots are pools of context-rich data that serve as resources for semantic processing. The category includes Web 2.0 sites such as DBPedia, FreeBase, semantic wikis and possibly even Data.gov.
Heuristics marry practical insights and algorithms to make a best guess or provide an approximate solution that works in most cases. In this category are entity analytics (sophisticated scoring algorithms), business rules engines and Twine.
Finally, in the hard-science category, we have a set of problems that are generally intractable with brute-force methods such as natural language recognition, general human understanding (Cyc) and machine learning.
From the blogs about the forthcoming release, Wolfram Alpha seems to be somewhere between heuristics and hard science. It will be exciting to see what new techniques and approaches Stephen Wolfram brings to semantic applications. It could be another watershed event in semantic computing.
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Unless there is some weird technology tic-tac going on here, whoever does the speaker training at Apple needs to get pockets in their trousers.


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PORTSMOUTH — Spectators lined the sunny streets of Portsmouth on Monday to celebrate the city's Memorial Day festivities.
The parade, sponsored by the Central Veterans Council, began at 1 p.m. on the corner of Parrot and Junkins Avenues and concluded a short while later at the South Street Cemetery.
Numerous groups and organizations participated in the procession including the Portsmouth Police Honor Guard, the Citizen Police Academy, the Young Marines and Young Scouts of Portsmouth, and the Portsmouth Middle School seventh and eight grade band, as well as the Portsmouth High School Clipper Band.
Both musical groups performed the national anthem and the crowd of approximately 300 spectators observed a moment of prayer to remember the troops who served in Vietnam — honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War.
This month, President Barack Obama issued a proclamation declaring May 28, 2012, through Nov. 11, 2025 as the official Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the Vietnam War. Ceremonies will take place throughout the country for the next 13 years to mark the country's involvement in the conflict.
U.S. Navy Captain and Portsmouth Naval Shipyard comptroller George McCarthy served as a guest speaker at the event.
As Captain McCarthy stressed, the privileges we have today are not without price tags.
"The truly great things in life don't just happen, they all require sacrifices," he told the crowd, while also adding, "It's vital to our existence as a nation to gather together on this day to honor those who have made these sacrifices."
Following his address, Captain McCarthy joined Portsmouth Mayor Eric Spear in laying down a wreath to commemorate the soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War while two members of the PHS Clipper Band performed taps immediately after the laying of the wreath.
Port City commends veterans on Vietnam War's 50th year anniversary
PORTSMOUTH — Spectators lined the sunny streets of Portsmouth on Monday to celebrate the city's Memorial Day festivities.


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Visit Cuzco (Cuzco Cathedral, Sacred Valley of the Incas), Lima, Machu Picchu (Temple of the Sun, The Intihuatana), Raqchi.
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Lane McGhee necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 23 diseños de 10 diseñadores freelance.
Lane McGhee, your Tight Fist Tax Strategist
Lane McGhee, last name spelled with an 'H' because it's scotch (not irish), and I'm tight with your money -- the tight fist tax strategist. It's YOUR money, and you shouldn't pay any more tax than legally required. You deserve EVERY possible tax break and deduction, and I find every possible way, every loophole, every applicable rule to reduce your taxes. I pull out all the stops in creative strategies to reduce your taxes -- and apply those strategies not only to professionally preparing tax returns, but also to your employment, your family, your investments, your insurance, your retirement plan, your living trust, your business. My mission is to enhance your lifestyle -- creatively, strategically, effectively -- starting with an income tax overhaul!
Target is affluent individuals, investors, small biz owners, boomers (ages 45-65) and senior citizens (ages 66+). (Also have pro-bono program for military Veterans.)
Looking for a patriotic tight fist, squeezing every dollar out of Uncle Sam's hat full of money -- it's your money, and you deserve to keep everything that's legally yours. We want to thwart Uncle Sam's ability to take too much from you. We apply a famous quote from Judge Learned Hand's ruling from the bench: "Anyone may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; ... for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands." I am the Tight Fisted Tax Strategy Guy -- the go to guy who reduces your taxes.
We need a professional-looking, "we mean business" kind of logo, with a hint of fun -- and picture some type of fist, perhaps clinching a wad of cash, keeping it out of Uncle Sam's hat that's presumably collecting taxes... Squeeze Uncle Sam before he squeezes You.
We want a relatively 'simple' logo, without taking away from the strength of the message. It should have color, but also be easily recognizable in black and white. The graphic (without words) should loudly proclaim "Tight Fisted Tax Strategist" who saves your money and lowers your taxes.
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Great gilet - good stock availability @prendas and price is under £20 http://www.prendas.co.uk/details.asp?ID=3078
Safety vests probably aren't going to win any awards at the next fashion show (although who knows, perhaps fluorescent is this years florals) but there is no denying their ability to make you seen on the road. Craft's offering is well cut and designed, with features like a meshed backing and plenty of reflective material showing their prestige as a quality clothing manufacturer.
The vest fits well with elastic along its edges ensuring you won't balloon up as you get moving. Rather than go down the Velcro route of some safety vests, this vest is zipped down the chest, again, saving any chance of flapping in the wind. The elastic means it will also fit comfortably over how ever many layers you have on. A high collar provides an added element of side-on visibility.
The main market for vests like these is commuters, riding in heavy, aggressive traffic. Its lightweight design though makes it a useful addition to those riding for pleasure or training too. You can pack it away in case of being caught out by the sun going down or even for when your ride reaches busy streets. A meshed backing section a is feature added to many riding specific gilets and enforces its compatibility with more than just commuting. The material is thin; it does provide an element of wind protection, but I'd have liked it to be a touch heavier.
On the visibility front, beyond the fluorescent material, two reflective strips encircle the torso. Craft's logo is also found down the sides and chest in reflective paint. It's hard to quantify how much more visible it makes the wearer but car drivers would certainly have a hard time pushing the 'sorry mate, I didn't see you' line.
Craft's safety vest is a good offering. Whilst it is not as cheap as a budget work vest, it does offer some performance features, verging more in the domain of the gilet. Visibility is high on the agenda and it does this well but elasticated edges, zipped chest, mesh backing and packability make it more than just a safety vest and good value at its £25 list price.
If you're thinking of buying this product using a cashback deal why not use the road.cc Top Cashback page and get some top cashback while helping to support your favourite independent cycling website
road.cc test report
Make and model: Craft Active Run Safety Vest
Size tested: Neon - M
Tell us what the product is for, and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
'An essential safety item ideal for cycle commuting, running and any sporting activity in low light when visibility is key'
Pretty much on the mark there - not just for commuting, can be packed away for when light starts to dip.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
Elastic edges, high collar, zipped chest, two reflective bands, meshed back.
Can't find any faults with it, seams are well finished.
Hard to quantify visibility but the meshed rear does a great job at allowing the wearer to cool down.
Again, build is good with well finished seams; doesn't look like it is going to fall apart any time soon.
Very lightweight and pack-able.
Not much wind protection but elastic cuffs ensure there is not chaffing and meshed rear keep wearer cool.
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
Well, I didn't get pulled out on once!
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Material a bit too lightweight on the wind protection front.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? Yes
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
About the tester
Age: 23 Height: 184cm Weight: 66kg
I usually ride: Orbea Onix (Carbon) - Summer, Orbea Asphalt (Alu) - Winter My best bike is: Orbea Alma G10
I've been riding for: Under 5 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Semi pro
I regularly do the following types of riding: road racing, time trialling, cyclo cross, club rides, mtb,


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Watch These Dogs Who Hate Wearing Shoes — Daily Distraction
Why do we make our canine pals do things like this?
Why do we make our canine pals do things like this?
For some dogs, bath time is AAHHH THE WORST THING EVER. Not these dogs.
Cats, as we know, can be a bit curious.
Have you ever seen a red panda? If so, you are fully aware of their irresistibleness. If not, please watch.
Get outta there, you otter. You're an otter, not a seaman!
Dogs may love playing in leaves, but they've got nothing on these kids.
Ah, fall. Football, pumpkin-flavored drinks and, of course, leaves.
What are you doing, dog? You're not people!
You may have seen the clip of the four pugs tilting their heads at the same time (they're featured prominently in our video above). Turns out those aren't the only pugs who've developed that habit.
Who among us hasn't gone diving head-first into the Tostitos bag in search of that last delicious chip?
We continue our series of pug-related posts with these pooches who don't mind being on camera at all. Not one bit.
Yesterday we took a look at what might be a pug's greatest natural talent: hopping up the stairs. Today, we observe how they get back down.


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Results: BJJ Belt Promotions/Gradings Part I
The main (academic) purpose of the study was related to the variable experiences of belt promotions (or gradings if you are in the UK) within the BJJ community. Belt promotions in BJJ run the gamut from elaborate events involving hundreds of people to a simple handshake and the passing of a new belt at the end of a training session.
They are also an extremely polarising topic and while almost everyone who has been training in BJJ for any length of time has come across the famous quote, attributed to Royce Gracie, that "A black belt only covers two inches of your ass. You have to cover the rest", it is also true that receiving a belt, for many people, is an extremely powerful experience and it can even signify the culmination of over a decade of effort. Moreover, even those in the early stages of BJJ training often report being motivated by a belt promotion to train harder to live up to the higher expectations associated with their new belt.
Belts designate ability, status and seniority within the BJJ community, can be translated into legitimacy to teach and are thus inevitably objects of desire. And yet, there remains a palpable sense within the community that focusing on gradings/belt promotions is an unworthy goal and one that is distinctly inferior to the purer motivations in which belt promotions are a mere insignificant side effect of making progress.
Other common criticisms are the lack of clarity regarding promotion criteria, the potential for personal relationships in a school to trump ability, sandbagging- i.e. instructors artificially holding people of higher ability at a lower belt in order to win more tournaments and debates surrounding the benefits or conversely the problems of belt whipping gauntlets.
To illustrate the polarisation consider a few extracts from answers provided in the survey:
"Grading ceremonies are an extremely important part of the sport. In BJJ belts are not handed out easily and they are largely based on merit. Therefore, with all the blood sweat and tears we put in, it is important to mark the occasion with a ceremony."
"I believe that certain traditions and practices separate Brazilian Jiu-jitsu from other martial arts, particularly those watered down and or commercialized. BJJ is a truly special art that demands a special level of commitment; it is a unique and trying path...This is why the belt testing, and gauntlet tradition is so important. It is a reminder of our martial roots, and the tradition of perseverance BJJ demands. Not only does a whipping gauntlet turn away the weak of heart, it also demonstrates the difficulty of the path to come for the lower belts, and elevates those who have achieved a rank in their eyes. No one ever forgets their gauntlets, and I think for true practitioners, it is a source of pride."
"Grading ceremonies for non black belts are generally meaningless... belt whipping is ridiculous, pointless garbage that should be confined to frat houses. Belts are meant to keep your gi top shut, and indicate roughly how your developed your jiujitsu skill set is, not for obnoxious hazing."
"Belts are pretty much bullshit and I'm not going to throw away money for some piece of cloth."
"I fail to understand the need to inflict pain or humiliation as a part of these ceremonies or those involved in BJJ. It certainly appeals to a segment of the population, but I am not one of them. I suffered intense physical abuse as a child and it's quite traumatic to endure these ceremonies. That is the primary reason I do not participate in whipping other students."
Regardless of which arguments your sympathies lie with, it is clear that there is no uniform position across the community. My overall impression from the survey and from across forums is that, by and large, people tend to justify their own school's practices. This isn't always the case though and in particular people who've trained at more than one location tend to be more critical/more objective about their current school's practices.
In terms of the data there is lots of interesting findings to get to and for this topic I have a lot of fine grained data on various aspects of promotions (e.g. How long does the average belt gauntlet last/who is involved/how painful are they?) and attitudes towards them (e.g. How far do people invoke tradition vs. pragmatism? How positive/negative are people about their past experiences?). For this post however, I'm just providing some more general info about the prevalence of various practices, the frequency at which they occur and how much they cost on average.
Any comments/feedback, as always, are welcomed and I do eventually respond to all direct emails. Also for info about sample size/demographics please see the following posts: Survey Demographics & BJJ Demographics.


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Karmic Lessons in your Numerology Name Number
The numbers missing from your name hold special clues...
Karmic Lessons in Numerology point to your weaknesses that need to be dealt with in this lifetime. They are found by analyzing your full name at birth and finding which numbers are missing.
For example, I was born Johannes Albertus Decoz. When you replace the letters of my full name with their numerical values you get the following string: 16815551 13259231 45368.
For a complete rundown of all the numbers in your chart and when they'll impact you most, get your own Numerology Personality Report!
In order to find the Karmic Lessons, we don't need to add or do any other kind of math, all we need to do is find which number or numbers are missing. In my name's numbers, the number 1 appears five times, the 2 appears twice, the 3 appears three times, the number 4 shows up once, the 5 comes up five times, the 6 appears twice, the 7 appears no times at all, the number 8 is there twice and the number 9 comes up once.
Twenty-one letters in my name and the only number missing is the 7. This makes the number 7 my Karmic Lesson. You can find your own Karmic Lessons by transforming your full name at birth into numbers, and then looking for which numbers are not represented.
Here are the letters of the alphabet and their numerical values:
The average number of Karmic Lessons is two, but four or even five is not that uncommon, and neither is it unusual to have no Karmic Lessons at all -- which doesn't let you off the hook, but more about that later.
Reveal how the numbers influence who YOU are with a personalized report »
True or False
Before I talk about the effect Karmic Lessons have on your life, let me point out a few things, including some misconceptions:
Misconception #1: Life is easier without Karmic Lessons
If it were that simple, I would suggest every parent just make sure your kid has every number represented in his or her full name and he or she will be just fine.
Misconception #2: The less Karmic Lessons, the older your soul
I don't know why this would matter one way or another. (Why do we want to be younger when it comes to our physical bodies, and older when it comes to our souls? And if souls have a specified age, who gives birth to them? Does that mean your soul can die? Do some souls grow and learn faster than others? I can have a blast with this nonsense, so keep an eye out for the subject of souls and timing in some future blog.)
Misconception #3: Karmic Lessons are bad!
Not true. In fact, Karmic Lessons can be a great asset.
Here are some facts about Karmic Lessons that are true:
Fact #1: Karmic Lessons help to give direction to your life (this will become clear later).
Fact #2: While Karmic Lessons point to something "lacking," they actually "add" to your life (the concepts of things lacking or adding to your life is extremely relative).
Reveal how the numbers influence who YOU are with a personalized report »
Tools of the trade
I often use the following analogy when I try to explain the function of Karmic Lessons. Let's say that there are nine different kinds of tools: Woodworking tools, metalworking tools, tools to work on electronics, tools for sewing and knitting, tools for gardening, welding tools, and so forth.
Obviously, if you would be in a situation where every one of these tool groups is present, you should be able to tackle any project. On the other hand if you would have access to only eight kinds of tools, missing for example, all the woodworking tools, you can still do a lot, but you would have big problems when asked to build something out of wood. Karmic Lessons are somewhat similar.
In my case, the number 7 is missing. The 7 is a scholarly, studious, spiritual number and I have to admit, I had a powerful dislike toward school. But it isn't that simple, because there are other aspects to be considered.
Let's say you have eight sets of tools but you lack all woodworking tools. First of all, if you don't have any talent when it comes to building things out of wood, you don't really need them, do you? Or, if you are talented but you are drawn to working with metal, lacking woodworking tools isn't any big problem.
It gets really interesting when you have a great talent and a matching desire to work with wood, but not a single woodworking tool in your workshop. This is where my name is a good example. I don't have a 7 in my name and therefore I have a 7 Karmic Lesson. However, I have a 7 Life Path (the most important number in the chart) and a 7 Personality (also very significant). Now what happens?
Imagine yourself as someone who loves to work in wood and is very talented in that field, but doesn't have the necessary tools. What you do is you go out and get yourself some tools. Whatever it takes, you are going to get the tools you need to express your talent and follow your desire.
Going above and beyond
The same is the case with Karmic Lessons. This is why I mentioned earlier that Karmic Lessons can help give your life direction. Not only does it function like a vacuum, something that needs to be filled, and thereby inspires you to try to fill it, giving direction to your life, it also multiplies your potential in the application of your talents. Because if you have a talent and a desire and the tools, you will probably do just fine. But if you have a talent and a desire, and then have to go out and put forth significant effort to get the necessary tools, I promise you, you will push your talent and your ambition to the absolute limits, and become more accomplished than you would have ever become if the tools had been within easy reach.
Yours truly is a case in point. I am not here to pat myself on the back, but I can tell you that, as someone born in an environment of cynical, educated, and highly intelligent parents, siblings, and friends -- all of whom were more or less lacking any and all connection to the spiritual side of life -- I started off the same way, but relatively quickly turned into the complete opposite.
The talent to explore the spiritual world was there and the desire to do so even more, since I was very young. I have now spent well over forty years pushing the boundaries, including an hourly regimen of meditation (no discipline required if you happen to enjoy it more than pretty much anything else) and a habit of looking at everything in my life against a backdrop of what it means or teaches me from a spiritual perspective. This is my life. I live and breathe for one purpose only and that is to get closer to the part of me I call my "life." Which has nothing to do with my allotted time span, other than that it allows for my body to be alive during that time. (I hope this is truly confusing so that you may sit back and consider this statement carefully.)
But let's go back to the subject of Karmic Lessons. If I did not have the spiritual drive (my 7 Life Path) and the spiritual aptitude (my 7 Personality) to fill the vacuum of my 7 Karmic Lesson, I can assure you that I would not have been remotely as happy and content as I am. By the same token, if I did not have this need to fill the vacuum of my 7 Karmic lesson, which caused a great spiritual hunger I have felt since I was a little kid, my 7 Life Path and 7 Personality would have expressed themselves probably more in the area of scholarly studies and other intellectual pursuits, as opposed to the kind spiritual search that has pretty much been the story of my life.
Ask me if I am grateful for my 7 Karmic Lesson and I will tell you that I can't begin to express my appreciation for having had the "misfortune" of being born without the 7 in my name. Nothing has brought me greater rewards, greater satisfaction, greater happiness. And I am not kidding here.
Go ahead, look at your own name and tell me what you think. Do your Karmic Lessons make any sense? I hope I will hear from many of you that what was missing on your list of assets actually helped make you what you are today.
Funny that in life, a missing asset can be much more valuable than all those that are present combined -- a contradiction if I ever saw one!
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The Lord bless you and keep you...
And please pray for JB, former Bishop of Reading, who in 1991 cycled round all churches in Reading with the then Mayor (me); he is seriously ill.
2000 Miles for Work with No Car? One Bishop Thinks it's Possible!
2000 Miles for Work with No Car? One Bishop Thinks it's Possible!
The Right Revd Dr Edward Condry, the Bishop of Ramsbury, mainly looks after churches in rural parts of Wiltshire, so public transport is limited and he'll often be dependent on pedal power.
Bishop Edward will continue to work full-time in a period when he expects to cover well over 2000 miles for work. Some might think it impossible, but Edward is committed to playing his part in tackling climate change and will instead cycle and use public transport.
Bishop Edward said, "I'm passionately committed to protecting the environment, as I think Christians must take their responsibilities to look after God's creation very seriously.
"The disastrous storms and floods have put climate change in the forefront of our minds again. The Church of England in the South West has a regional commitment to cutting carbon emissions during Lent 2014. So giving up the car made sense. Making it happen in a rural area involved a lot of planning.
"Buses and trains will take me many places, especially to London and Manchester for meetings. But I will need to do a lot of cycling, as public transport in this rural area doesn't go everywhere, and it often only runs a few times a day.
"I have had to borrow a specially small episcopal staff from Nicholas Holtam, the Bishop of Salisbury, to strap to my bike as I do my rounds!
"Being a bishop, I travel quite a distance every Sunday morning to take services. This is particularly challenging as public transport is virtually non-existent in rural areas early on Sunday mornings.
"Perhaps the most difficult test will be a 70 mile round trip to Ogbourne St George. Another stiff challenge will be after an evening Lent talk in Broad Chalke. Afterwards, I'll have a 22 mile ride in the dark, starting at 9 pm, right over Salisbury Plain, to get home to Warminster. There is simply no public transport option at that time of night. Both these rides will be in early March, so there will be a definite possibility of snow!
"I'm a keen cyclist and a member of the Cyclists' Touring Club, so the pedalling won't be a chore. There's nothing like a good bike ride to get your thoughts straight, and the time on buses and trains will give me plenty of time to think and pray.
"Right now I'm really looking forward to it, but I imagine there will be cold March days when I'm cycling over the hills into a vicious south-westerly when I'll wonder whether I'm sane!"
Wednesday 5 March: Ash Wednesday. Lent begins, and so does Bishop Edward's period without a car.
Monday 10 March: Bishop Edward does his 22 mile bike ride over Salisbury Plain in the dark from Broad Chalke to get home to Warminster, starting around 9 pm, because the journey is not possible by public transport.
Thursday 13 March: Bishop Edward cycles from his home in Warminster to Ogbourne St George to meet a group of clergy – a 70 mile round trip.
Thursday 20 March: Bishop Edward will lead a prayer walk through the Chalke Valley from Berwick St John to Odstock, travelling to and from those points by bus and train.
Thursday 27 March: Bishop Edward will join his two fellow bishops in the Diocese of Salisbury, on a prayer walk from Wilsford near Amesbury, to Stratford-sub-Castle, just outside Salisbury.
Tuesday 8 April: Bishop Edward will be leading a pilgrimage from Tidcombe to Warminster, departing Warminster that morning on the 0723 Bristol train, and cycling from Pewsey to Tidcombe, from a train arriving in Pewsey at 0808.
Tuesday 15 April: Bishop Edward will go on foot from his home in Warminster to pray and spend the night in a 19th Century shepherd's hut in near Kingston Deverill.
Saturday 19 April: The last day of Lent. Bishop Edward will be able to resume using his car after Easter Vigil services that evening.
Sunday 8 June: Lent will be over, but not Bishop Edward's passion for pedal power, so he will be raising money for Help For Heroes by doing their 100 mile 'Dawn Raid' bike ride from Tidworth in Wiltshire to London, starting at 2 a.m.
The Lord bless you and keep
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"6th June 2007 • Our Amazing Team"
Shinsei (pronounced shin-say) means "rebirth" or "new beginning" which is actually what owners Lynae Fearing and Tracy Rathbun had in mind when they joined forces to become the most dynamic Culinary Duo in Dallas. Shinsei is celebrating ten years of success. According to the media, people from all over the world love the concept, food, wine, and hip neighborhood vibe where one can relax and enjoy delicious Pan-Asian cuisine.
Hear Lynae and Tracy reflect back over the past decade to the beginnings of the beloved and iconic Dallas restaurant. They share short anecdotes about how it all began.


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But running 26 miles of hills must be a sign that I am almost completely recovered from the IT band injury.
Just 2 days prior to the IAT 50 miler, I decided I'd give it a whirl. Basically, Alicia Hudelson had been bullying me via Facebook messages to run it. Yes, the last time you all heard from me, I managed a measly 9 miles at the Chippewa 50k. So why, two weeks later, would I attempt a 50 miler? Well, the coolest thing happened: a little over a week ago, I went to a massage therapist who kneeded out the knot in my left quad over a half an hour. An hour later, my entire upper left leg was in burning pain and turned dark blue (the front and back). The next day I was sore, but could actually run normally again. We spent this past week in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. at an ophthalmology conference (ARVO) and I ran about 13 miles a day every day without a hint of pain (on pancake flat routes, of course)! I had no idea what the upper limit was, so, since my mom had agreed to babysit Mattias and SR was taking The Lorax back to La Crosse, the conditions for running were nothing short of ideal.
The start, north of La Grange, is about a 45 minute drive south of my parents' house. I had not tapered, did not eat much the day before and was not mentally or physically prepared to run 50 miles. But my drop bags were prepared, as was my running belt. The morning of the race, I was energetic and, in my humble opinion, looking good. I slept well the night before, but had to pull over our minivan "Busboos" twice on the drive there as I scampered into some bushes with stomach issues.
The start: wow 350 racers for a 50 miler!! And on one website I had been listed among the female contenders to win. Who knew. Maybe this would be my day.
Female Parts
The first 9 miles are on hilly cross-country ski trails. My stomach was working against me. Not many places to hide; I had to give intstructions to the people passing me: "Don't look!". I came out of this section having run between 8 and 8:30 minute per mile pace and on pace to run around 7h30min. I knew the race would get more technical, but I made the decision at that point that if my ITB forced me to a pace that would take me over 8 hours, I would drop. Sounds ambitious, but either this was going to be a big 50 mile PR or I was saving my lags for another race.
When you are injured, drugs are tempting. A guy I ran with had been struggling this year with ITB problems and said he had hyrdrocortisone injections waiting for him in both drop bags and someone willing to inject him at these aid stations. Is this just common practice nowadays for a physician to prescribe hydrocortisone to get an athlete through a race? As Triumph the dog from Conan might say "that is a great idea... for me to poop on." Yeah, like if that physician's goal is to have his patient prolong his recovery and risk more injury, then, yeah, that is great practice.
Rock & Roll
I came through the half marathon in 1:51. I was making good time and really enjoying myself. The course is so beautiful. Even as a Wisconsinite, who should be used to this stuff, I found myself saying out loud many times how gorgeous the course was - and it is!! Esker lookouts, pine needle trails, wildflowers. The "rock & roll" part was a woman who very insistantly passed me and my running buddy and then tripped over a rock and took a fall right in front of us. But later it would be my turn, as the ITB started to tighten... I did a root and roll. Oh and, by the way, headphones were not allowed, so sorry in advance about the lack of running song!
By mile 15, my left quad was feeling a little tight. I had a gu and the tightness went away. I found it interesting the number of people who recommmended sugar or calories as the best pain killer. There might be something to this. But 20 miles, the tightness was back and the downhills were uncomfortable. I made the decision to drop- at some point- reminding myself there was a long season still ahead and goal races should be saved for the uninjured me. I was passed by a woman from Ohio who was very nice and who I had run with in the beginning (wish I knew her name). And then the leaders started coming through on their way back from the 22 mile turn around. Zach Bitter, who had won the Mad City 50k was in the lead. The two leading women were not women I recognized. Turns out it was Denise Bourassa and Melanie Peters (who would go on to take first and second, respectively. I could not believe that there were 8 women ahead of me despite me being on pace to beat last year's winning time! What competition! At mile 24, I started walking the downhill and this is when I decided to drop at the next aid station. I ran/hobbled to mile 26 with a guy from Juneau, AK and a guy from Madison.
Only at a race like IAT can you have such an awesome day and only finish half of the race.
Here, at about mile 18 is Sandi Nypaver, last year's winner, being closely chased by this year's winner, Denise Bourassa.
As long as I almost have the entire Red Hot Chili Peppers album here, I had better keep going. Yes, sex is what got me these two.
I was a proud mom on mother's day biking around La Crosse with my babies. On days like yesterday, I sit and look at them completely dumbfounded .. how did this miracle end up happening? I went through most of high school, all of colllege and all of med school without menstruating - had written off the idea of ever getting pregnant- and then...


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Why a t-shirt quilt? I started "collecting" t-shirts starting when I was in grade school. Every event I attended, every trip I took, and every school I attended resulted in a t-shirt. Soon there was no room in my dresser or closet, and the t-shirts I could stuff into the dresser never got worn. The t-shirts contained a lot of memories, so I didn't want to throw them out and I didn't want to give them away. I read a couple of articles online about creating a t-shirt quilt, and I thought it was the perfect idea. What started as a small project turned into a love for crafting and quilting.
How I made my quilt:
From my stack of about 20 t-shirts, I chose 12.
Requirements for the twelve shirts were:
1) ability to fit the image onto a 12X12" block
2) not too worn
3) didn't clash completely with my color scheme.
For my background colors, I chose the colors of my family room, burgundy and dark blue. I found the backing at Crate and Barrel Outlet store for $10.
The first half of my t-shirt quilt was sewn by hand….I had never used, nonetheless owned, a sewing machine. Finally, I gave in, read some reviews online, and bought a Brother sewing machine at Wal-Mart for under $90. Using some online video tutorials, I taught myself to use the sewing machine, and finished the quilt. After cutting, piecing, sewing, binding, and quilting here's the end result:
What does quilting have to do with genealogy?
I never intended for my t-shirt quilt to be a genealogy project. The end result changed my mind. (Hoping my quilt will be passed down to my future children) Each of the twelve "t-shirts"/blocks tells a pretty good story about my background, interests, and hobbies.
The 12 blocks include:
1) Niagara Falls
2) Central High School Softball Jersey3) Disney World's Splash Mountain
4) Disney's Mickey Mouse playing baseball
5) Butler University Marching Band
6) Central Middle School
7) Butler University
8) South Dakota Badlands
9) Central Middle School Volleyball
10) Bowl for Kids' Sake
11) Chicago Bulls Championship Shirt (I'm still wearing my Chicago White Sox and Chicago Blackhawks championship tees….couldn't cut those)
12) Grade School Softball Jersey
1) Traveler: visiting Niagara Falls, Disney World, and the Badlands in South Dakota
2) Sports Enthusiast: softball, baseball, volleyball, basketball
3) Musical: Played the Saxophone, member of the Butler University Marching Band
4) Student: Central Middle School, Central High School, and Butler University
5) Athletic: Played softball from grade school through high school
6) Volunteer: Bowl for Kids' Sake
7) Chicagoan: Chicago Bulls
8) Creative
9) Quilter
10) Dog lover (all the remnants of dog hair on the quilt from when Millie tried to help me by sitting on the quilt…)
While these adjectives don't describe me completely, these words describe me a lot better than my census, birth, or marriage record.
Have some old t-shirts? Give this project a try! If nothing else, it'll give you a warm blanket to put over your legs while doing genealogy research on those cold nights.


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My history with San Diego 100 goes back to 2005, when, having not completed Grand Slam due to Leadville's pulmonary edema and picking this race as a consolation prize I won and even set a CR when Paul Schmidt was the original RD of the race. In 2007 I returned there, on a new course, to pace a friend to a crazy finish - and to witness huge fires sweeping the area. In 2010, when they new course was designed (the more difficult of the three), and my long time friend Scotty Mills, an AMAZING ultrarunner (at 62 years young, he's got 20 finishers at WS100 in sub-24! and he is originally from VHCTR) took reins as a new RD as Pauly was consumed with taking care of his beautiful wife Kathleen fighting cancer (while they both still helped with course design and management), I returned to run it again, as part of my long summer and 4 weeks after MMT100, but the day wasn't stellar (they don't often are), and I wanted to make a come back. I wanted to give this course what it deserved. I wanted a great run out there.
My history with the sport...That would be a book, not a post:) In that very 2005, while training for Grand Slam under guidance of Scott Jurek, I was in best shape of my life. I ran a total of 22 ultra races that year, most of those very well, and some just as part of solid training. Years passed, I had stellar races, good finishes, I had dips as well, but I always enjoyed being out there and testing - testing myself, figuring out what am I made of, seeing new places, visiting "old" ones, and sharing it with friends. Years went by, we got older, life got more overwhelming, things changed, some for the better, some not so much. But we kept plugging along.
Some time last summer I made a decision to give up 100 milers. It's a long story I won't go into, but I was pretty set on it. And then there was this weird sudden urge, a moment, really, a simple email: "Is there any chance?", and a simple respond, almost immediate...and my life for the first 5 months of the year was changed.
I had butterflies. I can't explain why, couldn't then, still can't, but it gave me a purpose, a focus I was lacking, an excitement, a destination, a goal. I was going to get int a best possible shape of my life and I was going to rock that race in sub-24 hrs. And I was going to have a great time in a process.
I know it's already a long intro, but it deserves it. In Larry's words: " I had the pleasure to watch her train her ass off for this race and reach her goal. Considering her full-time job, 2 part-time jobs, coaching clients, running a boot camp, dealing with other "stuff", and still finding time to be an awesome Wife and partner, it's even more sweet. I get exhausted just watching it all." I got on a wagon and did Whole30 and then stuck with Paleo - it worked for me, I dropped a few pounds, most importantly, I lost 5% body fat. It made my running easier. I hate running in Texas, it's hot and the trails are just not the same, but I designed the plan, the "schedule" - and I stuck to it to a "t". No matter what I never deviated. I also went on a running streak, what wasn't necessary, but added on a benefit of a couple more miles even on days off. I did my speed intervals religiously, my hill repeats first on the road and trail hills I could find, then, as they "grew" in length, on a dreaded Treadmill - and I never even blinked my eyes on it. Yes, I stayed on a TM for 2-3 repeats of 30-40 minutes of 5-8% hills, and no, I was not bored. I had a goal. I was giving it my best shot.
I have to say, this past spring in Austin has been blissful by all means. I was blessed with weather mild enough to get me through the training outside all the way into beginning of May. I had smartly put races into my plan as well, and those went great, every one of them, from a 5k to a 100k, with fantastic times and finishes. Things were rolling, giving me hope, and giving me apprehension at the same time. It was getting real. It was getting scary. I was "running myself in shape" and I had big goals and hopes. Now, I just had to not slip into what Lisa Smith-Batchen used to call me "sabotaging myself through a fear of success".
The time drew near. There were a lot of personal challenges I choose not to discuss on my blog anymore, and a lot of times/days/weeks when the race was pretty much what made me not to loose my mind, not to go into depression, not to fall apart. That race combined so much beyond a simple 100M finish. Beyond a (hopeful) finish #20 for a 100M race, being "old school", having history and friends and run on an absolutely beautiful terrain with breathtaking views. The previous RD Paul Schmidt graciously opened doors for me, I studied last year's splits and made my chart - I was shooting for 23:45. The course is extremely rugged despite not being expected as such, and totally open to the sun 90% of the time, and I knew what I was getting myself into. Squeezing sub-24 was a high goal on a good day under great conditions. I had no pacer, no crew, and no fear. I was excited and ready to go. And then the weather forecast began dropping bombs of the heat index...and indeed, it was a hottest day of the year, hottest day in history of the race, hottest I ever ran in (taking that away from WS100 circa 2006 with 106F) - yet I made myself calm and steady-nerved. There was nothing I could do - I can not control the elements, only how I manage myself in those...
|Pre-race hang out
|Trying to contain excitement, photo by Liza Howard
|Photo courtesy of Joel Livesey (FB)
|Photo by Lynne Cao
|"I went off course" - photo by Liza Howard
The heat was coming in, and by Todd's cabin I was already finding stragglers on the trail and passing them. I think it was hitting 90F by then, and I told some guy "5 more minutes, and we take a turn to the left and dive to Todd's" - as the turn came, we dropped, and I almost threw my water bottles to a volunteer (thank you!) as I stopped prior the table and dozed into the ice water bucket with sponges. Heaven on Earth! I would do it on and on at each and every station from there until sunset, and that was another decision that had saved my race. Those 15 seconds of cooling myself off were priceless. I picked up more time, and now was 2 minutes ahead of my pace chart.
Now, it may sound funny, but those who had followed my blog and read my race reports, know I am pretty good on my time predictions. How I do it is beyond my own understanding, but that said, I always have an estimate, and if all goes well, I hit those arrivals to aid stations like a clock. Thus, my mood often depends on where I fall between the numbers, and that is important point before I go on to the next sections write ups.
|Photo by Lynne Cao
At some point I got emotional and talked to my body. You know, one of those: "You and I are a team, a great team. Sorry for coming down on you often, for calling you fat and being unhappy with how you look - it doesn't matter how you look, because how you work is absolutely incredible!".
And funny thing is, not only was I never bored, the miles clicked very quickly, and I never thought to myself "Why the heck am I doing it?"
There was nothing exciting to describe, until, after Penny Pine AS at mile 91.5, which I left at 4:20 (and left behind the 2nd bottle, to empty hands a bit), I run some and begin a stupefying climb, turn off my headlamp as the dawn approaches...look to the left into the bushes on the side of the trail - and see 2 green eyes and a black line right above them. "Egyptian eyes" Larry called them.Yep, that's exactly what they were - 2 green eyes with lateral sides slightly higher, starring right at me. I blink - what kind of animal is as tall as 5 feet bushes, not a rabbit...I don't know why I thought rabbit first. I slowly take a look to the right - a wall of a mountain - back left - the eyes moved 2 feet up, all of it happening less than 10 feet ahead of me. It dawns on me - it is not a joke or hallucination. It is a mountain lion. Great. Rattle snakes, skunks - and now a cougar??? Jesus, really? I am trying to remember what I read in Joe Grant's and Candice's reports about their "meets" while going around Mt. Rainier. For the weirdest reason (I guess those bikers were right after all about our brain damage) the fear doesn't penetrate me. I mean, I am kind of scared, but mostly I am pissed off. I got a 3M freaking climb on rocky trail to make, I am at mile 92-93 of a 100M run, I got sub-24 on a line when nothing is for sure, and I have a mountain lion blocking my way! No fucking way! I spread my arms wide and growl. Don't laugh. In the 5 years I lived in Oregon and ran Columbia River Gorge more often alone than not, I thought about meeting one of those, and I always thought I'd probably either drop dead from a heart attack or scream like a girl. But here I am, growling what I think resembling a bear (what do I know, I never met a bear either!)! I make s step forward looking intently and trying to remember - should I look or not? Why did I not memorize what to do with various animals? Some of them don't like starring and attack, some don't like and run away. Which one is this?? The eyes moved one more time up. I step forward again, looking - and then not looking, because it's kind of IS scary, you know, and also trying to predict next moves: if it comes, I'll smack the shit out of it with my water bottles! I'll punch it in the face and poke its freaking eyes out! I got no time here, I am late!
|Photo by Lynne Cao, Scotty Mills holds me from falling while I am crying.
|Photo by Lynne Cao. Paul Schmidt shares my moment.
|3 years at SD100
Lisa Bliss - Yeah, that's Sweet Olga (Varlamova) King, for ya'! We miss her here in the PNW. She now hails from TX where she says there is no better heat training. :)
She's run more than a few and won more than a few ultras. She's had her ups and downs in training over the years, but she always comes back strong. She's tough as nails but is the kind of person that exudes enthusiasm for life. She is a wife, mother, great friend to me and many others, a fantastic athlete and an inspiration.
Just a shout out to Olga!


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kafi necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 169 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
We are bookstore e-commerce. We love to have catchy, recognizeable logo that will connect with what we sell (books).
1 star = not what we are after
2 stars = nice but doesnt meet our style
3 stars = potential candidate, hear our feedback
4 stars = very nice and close to what we like, hear our feedback
5 stars = yep you hit it
This is my second contest here. I enjoyed the first one and got very nice logo. I am sure this time it will be even better :)
We are bookstore e-commerce. We love to have catchy, recognizeable logo that will connect with what we sell (books).
Domain name is http://www.polica.sk and translation into english would be http://www.shelf.sk. We like the association of the domain with books (books on shelf).
We need logo and we want to see how it fits within header, so you can expand logo design into the header. Its up to you how far you go with your creativity from logo to header.
We want to have shelf and/or book "translated" into the logo or header somehow. Indications are up to you, it doesnt have to be book or shelf cartoon. Be creative :), we like it. We will give you as much feedback as we can.
Colors: we are open to your suggestions
- we want logo that will be easy fit for website, header and baner advertising
- logo text is "polica.sk"
- tagline is "internetové kníhkupectvo"
- we dont want fairy tail logo, we sell books to professionals
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