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SUNDAY UPDATE: A third of an inch of rain fell at Palm Beach International Airport Saturday — the biggest one-day total at PBIA since June 10. That brings the Thursday-Saturday total to 0.52 of an inch, and the June total to 2.78 inches, which is 4.70 inches below normal. Palm Beach reported 0.06 of an inch.
Miami International Airport received 0.06 of an inch Saturday, Fort Lauderdale had only a trace of rain, and Pompano Beach reported 0.09 of an inch. Other locations in Miami-Dade County fared better, and a weather station near Coconut Grove checked in with 1.08 inches. A station west of Kendall-Tamiami Airport measured 2.24 inches.
There were slim precipitation pickin's in Central Florida, with most locations reporting just a few hundredths of an inch, although Orlando International Airport posted a respectable 0.87 of an inch.
Rain chances dwindle after today, according to the National Weather Service in Miami. There's a 40 percent chance of a shower or thunderstorm in the Palm Beach area, forecasters said, falling to 20 percent for most of the rest of the week.
INDEPENDENCE DAY FORECAST: Partly sunny with a high of 87 and a 10 percent chance of a shower, the National Weather Service says. There is a 100 percent chance of fireworks.
ORIGINAL POST: Here's a rare sight this June — numbers in the precipitation column reported at Palm Beach International Airport.
PBIA picked up 0.15 of an inch of rain Friday on top of 0.04 of an inch on Thursday. Twenty-four hour totals as of this morning included 0.77 of an inch in Jupiter, 0.91 of an inch in the Boca Del Mar area of Boca Raton, and 1.73 inches in Davie, Broward County.
Palm Beach reported a modest 0.04 of an inch.
South Florida Water Management District graphical estimates showed up to 2.5 inches falling in inland areas of eastern Palm Beach County and up to 3 inches in inland Miami-Dade. Most of the heaviest rain never made it to the coast.
Rain chances peak today at 60 percent and then edge down to 50 percent Sunday and 40 percent Monday, the National Weather Service in Miami said. After that, a return to the drier conditions over the East Coast is set to return by around mid-week, forecasters said.
Friday was the 10th straight day of high temperatures at 90 or above at PBIA, and June temperatures are now averaging 1.2 degrees above normal. The rainfall deficit has climbed to 4.76 inches.
Friday's high in Palm Beach was 88.
TROPICAL NO-GO: "Massive shear" has control in the tropical Atlantic, according to forecaster Eric Blake at the National Hurricane Center. Interestingly, shear is also clamping down on tropical development in the Northeastern Pacific, he said Friday on Twitter.
Phililp Klotzbach, the Colorado State University hurricane researcher posted: "Remarkably dry mid-level air has predominated across the Caribbean throughout June."
The results are obvious — no invests or areas of interest by the NHC since Tropical Storm Bill formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
The latest wind shear analysis by the University of Wisconsin shows shear of 50 knots in the Central Caribbean, from south of Hispaniola almost all the way to the coast of Central America. There is also an area of 50-knot shear east of the Lesser Antilles.
Experts say that the maximum wind shear that can accommodate tropical development is in the 20-30 knot range.
WETTEST WEATHER: Parts of the Mid-Atlantic are under a under a flood watch today as a low pressure system intensifies from Ohio to Pennsylvania, the National Weather Service said. Baltimore was bracing for 2-4 inches of rain.
This weekend's heaviest rain is expected to fall from the Great Lakes east through Pennsylvania and New Jersey north into southern New England.
Track of Hurricane Audrey in June, 1957. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
WEATHER HISTORY: Today is the 58th anniversary of Hurricane Audrey's landfall in Louisiana. The Category 4 storm developed so quickly that it was never even classified as a tropical depression as it moved up from the Bay of Campeche in the Gulf of Mexico. Damage was estimated at $150 million, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Note that 1957 was an El Niño year.


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Don Gehrmann was a member of the 1948 United States Olympic team in the 1,500 meters where he finished seventh in London in 3:54.4. He won the 1948 Olympic Trials 1,500 meters with a time of 3:52.2. Don narrowly missed making the 1952 Olympic squad, finishing fourth in the 1952 Olympic Trials 800 meters in 1:51.2. He won 39 consecutive major mile races from 1948 to 1951. At the Millrose Games he won the Wanamaker Mile four straight years from 1949 to 1952. Don held the World Records for both the indoor and outdoor 1,000 yard runs. He is a 1950 graduate of the University of Wisconsin where he won NCAA titles at 1,500 meters in 1948 and the mile in 1949 and 1950. The Wisconsin Badger was two-time runner up at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in 1948 and 1949. Don holds the record for the most Big Ten titles with twelve including four straight mile wins. He won two Big Ten individual Cross Country crowns and led the Badgers to two team titles. Three times he was named the Drake Relays Outstanding Performer. He graduated from Pulaski High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where highlights included WIAA State Cross Country Championships in 1944 and 1945 and State Mile titles in 1945 and 1946. His personal best times include: 880y – 1:50.7; 1,500m – 3:50.6; 1,000y – 2:08.2; Mile – 4:07.5 and 2-Mile – 9:08.2. Don has been inducted into the University of Wisconsin Athletics Hall of Fame, the State of Wisconsin HOF, the Drake Relays HOF and Madison HOF. He earned a Masters degree in Educational Psychology and is a retired school teacher and school administrator. He resides near Madison, Wisconsin with his wife, Lori, of 60 years and has five children, 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Don was kind enough to spend one and a half hours on the telephone in February, 2011.
You represented the United States at the 1948 Olympics in London in the 1,500 meters. Since it was the first Olympics in 12 years due to World War II, what was the feeling for you and others to run for our country in the land of one of our staunchest allies?
I had just turned 20 years old and was the second youngest member of the Olympic team so I very much appreciated making the U.S. team. It was an honor to represent the United States. At that time the Olympics were in a way an afterthought because the big goal was to make the American team. The Olympics weren't such a big event for the general population because very few people had televisions and there wasn't anything close to the publicity that there has been in recent decades. But it was a popular happening for those times.
With only four years of running under your belt as a University of Wisconsin sophomore, was it a bit daunting to be competing on such a big stage?
I hadn't been running that long since I started late in high school so it was quite a quick change from not even running competitively to being in the Olympics. But I always ran to do my best and to win so I didn't have any other mindset.
As the only non-European to make the 1,500 meter final, you ran to a seventh place finish. What are some of your memories as to how the race developed, your tactics and whether or not your inexperience in international competition prevented you from possibly finishing closer to or in the medals?
I was young and inexperienced and ran into some very good Scandinavians. Also, the track was muddy and under water in places and I kind of tripped around the last turn. I couldn't see the curb, stepped on it and fell down to one knee. I picked myself right up but didn't have enough left after that to move up toward the front runners. I appreciated being seventh in the Olympics but it was the worst race I ran over a period of several years. I think I was a little young to get one of the three medals though I could have placed a bit higher if I had raced better.
You finished third in your qualifying heat to make the final. Was this an all-out effort which tired you for the final or did you comfortably kick to a qualifying spot?
It wasn't a problem for me to make the final as I had enough of a kick to beat most of the other fellows. We had to place in the top three in our heat so I just watched third place and concentrated on passing that runner so I didn't expend too much energy.
What else of the Olympic experience stands out including the Opening Ceremonies, other track and field competition or other events you may have attended?
The Opening Ceremonies were the greatest. It's something that we were not accustomed to as the Olympics hadn't been run in 12 years due to World War II. At our ages we were all too young to remember much from the last Olympics back in 1936. It was a great thrill to be a part of those thousands of athletes, boys and girls, who were there in London. I did attend some of the other track events, but not too many as I wanted to get rest for my races. I didn't get to see other sporting competition as we were either training or resting.
After the Olympics were there any certain competitions in Europe where you raced exceedingly well?
After the Olympics they split the U.S. team up and we raced in several countries. I went to Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium and Prague, Czechoslovakia. The team that I went with included three of the guys who ran on the 440 yard relay. In Paris they needed a fourth runner for the relay so I ran a 110 yard leg with them. We ran two-tenths of a second faster than when they won the Olympic Gold medal. All three of our handoffs were perfect.
Is there anything outside of your racing that was particularly memorable from your first taste of international travel?
After the Olympics when I was racing in Prague, Czechoslovakia we got a telephone call from the mayor of Prague who wanted to have breakfast with me the next morning. Here I was at only 20 years old coming just a few weeks earlier from Pulaski on the south side of Milwaukee and I was having breakfast with the mayor of Prague. It was outstanding for me at that time.
At the 1948 Olympic Trials you won the 1,500 meter final to make the U.S. Olympic team. How did you feel your chances were before the race?
I had won the nationals and all of the other races I'd competed in that year so I felt pretty good. As for my top foes, I didn't know much about Clem Eischen or Roland Sink, but knew they were good. Jerry Karver from Penn State was another top entrant, so those three were the runners I had heard of and seemed to be the main competition. I went into the race to win it no matter who I was running against. That is the way I ran every race – to win. I didn't care what my time was. My philosophy was that when you were running races you aimed to come in first place.
Was it more exciting to make the team or to win the race?
Making the team would have been exciting in itself, but if you have a chance to win then you should always go for it. Eischen and Sink ended up second and third and Karver, who finished in fourth place, missed making the team by about four inches. That's the tough thing as many years of training ended up with him missing by so little. Then we who made the team took one train to Chicago so we could next head to New York while Jerry took another train back east. So, while winning was outstanding for me, making the team was the main goal and very thrilling.
Over the years times in most events have gotten faster due to improved training, nutrition or lengthening of careers due to professionalism, but great runners are always measured by their championships. You won NCAA championships in the outdoor mile twice (4:09.6 in 1949 and 4:12.4 in 1950 and the 1,500 meters (3:54.3) in 1948. Were there any competitors who challenged for the victory in any of those years?
Probably 95% of my races were won in the final sprint no matter what race or how fast we were running. As I mentioned, I didn't run for time. In the NCAA Championships it seemed that my competitors didn't have the sprint that I did, so those three races weren't that difficult for me to win. Nobody even tried to take the pace out fast as I don't think there were any collegians that were able to do that. My main American competitors in the mile were all out of college.
In the Big Ten Conference you won 12 titles which still stands as a record. How much emphasis was placed on the conference meet and were there any especially memorable races due to tight competition or a final kick to secure the victory?
The Conference meet was more important than the NCAAs as we ran with teammates and as a team. Plus running with the same teammates for a few years we got to know each other well. We did win the 1951 indoor conference team title which was a great thrill. As a freshman there was a half miler, Herb Martin from Michigan, who was difficult for me to beat as he had a good sprint. Bob Rayburn from Illinois also gave me trouble my freshman year. But the next three years I was able to win comfortably. The runner I will give the most credit to is Herb Martin of Michigan as he was the only runner who had enough speed to keep up with me. He was a Conference champ at 800 meters and was a teammate of mine on the 1948 Olympic team.
You were known as 'Mr. Mile' based on many races including your four straight Big Ten mile victories. What is the significance of your conference mile racing as, not only did you earn this title, but you were voted the greatest miler in the first 50 years of the Big Ten Conference and also selected the greatest miler at the 100-year anniversary of the Big Ten Conference?
As time goes by it is great to know that I was recognized as the top miler in the first 50 years of the Big Ten Conference as there have been many great milers. Then to be selected five decades later to the 100-year team was a grand honor.
Along with championships and race times, runners are recognized for their consistency. What does it say that you took first place in 87 of 99 collegiate races (ranging from 880 yards to two miles) and won 39 consecutive major mile races from 1948 to 1951?
You have noted the most significant thing in my running – in order to win 39 races in a row against the greatest national and international competition, it is very difficult to get yourself up physically and mentally for every one of those races. The most important thing in my career was sustaining those victories 39 times in a row. It did take some luck in not being very ill – sometimes I had a cold, but nothing serious. I also was fortunate not to have any muscle pulls or other major injuries that could have stopped me.
Other than the 1950 Wanamaker Mile which we will discuss in more detail, were there any other mile races that pushed you to your limit, tactics were needed as you were boxed in or you used a truly outstanding kick to secure the victory?
Near the end of the streak I did start to get boxed in when teammates ran against me. What I remember most isn't from one of the 39 races I won in a row, but from what would have been the 40th. Fred Wilt and Stuart Ray from the New York Athletic Club were ahead of me on the last turn with Fred Wilt in the lead. When I tried to get around Stuart Ray he wouldn't let me pass him. When I finally got around Stuart I couldn't catch Fred. So the team tactics which ended my winning streak are what stand out.
Three times you were named the Drake Relays Outstanding performer based on your many great relay legs resulting in Wisconsin victories. How tough was it to come from behind in the 1949 Distance Medley to just catch Bill Mack from Michigan State at the finish to pull out the win for your relay teammates Gene Whipple, Mel Goldin and Jim Urquhart?
Oh yes, I remember that relay as I was about 100 yards behind Bill Mack when I got the baton. Bill was a very good miler, but was more of a sustained pace runner than a fast finisher. I slowly crept up on him each lap and just did nip him. It was an exciting run for the spectators as most of my races tended to be.
The following year in the 1950 Drake Relays Sprint Medley you anchored teammates Leroy Collins, Jim Englander, Allen Butler with a 1:53.5 on a cold day with temperatures in the 40s on a muddy track. Did conditions make it comparatively easier in a way for you as you felt you had more guts than your opponents?
For me it was very tough to run in those conditions as I needed a track that I could put my feet on and they would stay there. We were running on cinders and I needed a track to be in good shape to be able to use my 48 second quarter mile speed. That track was soft and muddy and I may have been a bit lucky to pull that one out and win it for my relay team.
You were twice the Big Ten Cross Country Champion and two times led Wisconsin to team titles. Compare and contrast the joy of winning individually versus as a team.
In cross country it was all about the team as I got very close to the guys I ran with during those four years. We ran so much together and got to know each other very well. The teammates who are still alive are close friends of mine to this day and we still talk on the phone. What I liked the most about cross country were the friendships with my teammates and our team spirit.
At the 1947 NCAA Cross Country Championships you came in 42nd place. How was the transition from high school to collegiate cross country with many top competitors and a longer distance?
It was difficult stepping up from a two-mile cross country distance in high school to four miles in college. I didn't care much for the two-mile, so it was a hard transition to four miles. It was also tough running against juniors and seniors who had more seasoning and experience under their belts. Luckily, I had enough natural ability to stay with most competitors and to move strongly at the finish. I was ill at the NCAAs that year and had to stop and walk in so my place wasn't as high as if I had been healthy.
The following year in 1948 you finished in second place at the NCAAs ten seconds behind Rhode Island's Robert Black. What were the critical moves he made to win the race?
He was very strong in the middle of the race and built up a big lead. I tried to catch him at the end, but he had enough left that I couldn't make up the distance.
Your senior year at Wisconsin you closed on Black, but he still beat you by six seconds as you were again the NCAA X-C runner up. Since you both were familiar with each other, did this race develop differently?
We both tried something – I tried to keep up with him and he made sure that I couldn't! He took a big lead like he was never going to stop. Of course, he did slow down and I started to catch him but again he had enough to hold me off. I give him credit as the best cross country runner that I ever ran against. With everyone else I could stay with them and outrun them at the end, but not with Robert Black.
In your junior and senior years Bill Mack from Michigan State finished sixth and third at the NCAA X-C meet, twelve seconds and four seconds behind you respectively. How strong of a conference foe was Mack?
In other meets where we were running I would wait until close to the end to take the lead against Bill and didn't have any trouble doing so. At the NCAA meet, since Robert Black took such a big lead, I didn't stay back with the chase pack and moved into second place by myself early in the race. I couldn't stay with the pack as they were going at too slow of a pace for me to have a chance of winning. I knew that if I wanted to catch Black I had to stay as close as I could.
You first gained track notoriety your freshman year at Wisconsin with a 9:12 indoor two-mile where you were less than a second behind Forrest Efaw and John Twomey and a third place finish in the AAU 1,500 meters behind Gerry Karver and Bill Mack. Is this when you started thinking you could compete with the top U.S. middle distance runners for a chance to make the 1948 Olympic team?
That was the first time I ever ran the two-mile and it was at the Chicago Relays. I was too immature as a runner as I didn't think I had any chance to win the race. As it turned out I could have won. Even with that race and how I raced at the AAU 1,500 meters my freshman year; it was still too early for me to begin thinking about the Olympics. I didn't think at all about making the Olympic team at that stage when I was a freshman.
With your success in cross country, indoor track racing and outdoor track, which was your favorite and why?
All three were great experiences for me. My favorite as a team sport, getting to know my teammates and to have good friends was cross country. In track it was a thrill getting to know some outstanding athletes from the U.S. and other countries. I became friends with pole vaulter, Bob Richards, and 400/800 runner, Mal Whitfield. FBI runner, Fred Wilt, is another whom I got to know well. When you get to the top like that you understand how hard everyone else trains because you know how hard you train. Therefore there is a great amount of mutual respect amongst the champions in the various events. That was outstanding to me as an athlete to be friends with these fellows and to respect each other. Indoor track racing was my favorite. Almost no one could beat me indoors because I learned how to run indoors in high school in a room we called the 'bicycle room.' It was a small room where the kids parked their bikes and it was about 16 laps to the mile. I learned how to lean and make tight turns. In high school we raced indoors on a gym floor so I also learned how to run on slippery board basketball gym floors. This gave me an advantage against foreign runners who didn't have much indoor experience on the boards. I really liked the close crowds indoors that went all around the track and made it more fun than outdoor track running.
The Wanamaker Mile at the Millrose Games was the premier indoor mile before your time and up to the present day with champions including Glenn Cunningham six times in the 1930s, Eamonn Coghlan seven times in the 1970s and 1980s and Bernard Lagat eight times in recent years. How do your four Wanamaker Mile wins stack up with your other great achievements?
First, it is amazing how many times Cunningham, Coghlan and Lagat won as I can appreciate the mental and physical conditioning needed to win so many times. I'd have to say that my best indoor track accomplishment is winning that race four times as each time the meet organizers would bring together a very strong field. It was a big thrill to win because of the international field and how they would play the national anthems of the different competitors. The Wanamaker Mile was the 'magnet event' of the evening and nothing really got going until 10:00 at night when it was held.
At the 1949 Millrose Games you and your coach, Guy Sundt, planned a fast pace of 58, 2:02 and 3:04 to aim for a sub-4:05 mile. After being on pace for a half mile the pace slipped in the third quarter. How did you adjust your strategy to beat Holland's Willy Slykhuis, who earned bronze medals in both the 1,500 meters and 5,000 meters in London, and capture your first Wanamaker Mile?
Even though I was running with my Wisconsin uniform on, I was representing our country and it was a thrill to do so and to win. The pace relaxed in the third quarter as the leader slowed down. Slykhuis was known as the fastest sprinter in the world and the 'king of the finish.' I went after him off of the final turn and only won by a foot or so as we were timed in 4:09.5 and 4:09.6. Evidently he was very dejected as he was supposed to run a few more races but left the country and went back home. I was excited as I was young at the time and it was my first Wanamaker Mile.
The 1950 Wanamaker Mile had one of the closest and controversial finishes in the history of the Millrose Games. You seemed to be off of your top form as Yale's George Wade, the Illinois AC's John Twomey and co-favorite, Fred Wilt, were ahead of you in the final quarter mile. What was your thought process as Wilt took the lead with two and a half laps to go and you were way back in fourth place on the 11 laps to a mile board track with short straight-aways and tight, high banked turns?
When I was back in fourth place I wasn't concerned as there was still plenty of time left in the race. But going around the last turn with about 40 yards to go was where it all came to a head.
You closed to within two yards of Wilt with 20 yards to go before just catching him at the tape. The judges disagreed about who won and the photo finish pictures were inconclusive. Did you get that feeling that runners have when they catch someone for the victory or was it too close for you to tell?
Fred and I had raced so many times and had been in this same position with him ahead of me on the final turn so what he was doing was drifting more to the outside to nudge me up the track. Each time we raced it got harder to get by him and that time I just nipped him by a little bit. Immediately after the race it seemed that the judges were saying I had won, but then there was some disagreement until the head judge ruled I had won. I did win the race and know I won even though it was very close. Since I had run so many tight races like that, my judgment of what I needed to do to win got real good as to everything that was happening – my speed, his speed, how much distance to the finish and where the finish line was all at the same time.
You were credited with winning 'the longest mile in history' as the finish line judges could not decide who won, the head judge broke the tie and acknowledged you the winner, weeks later the AAU got involved and declared Wilt the winner, that decision was appealed and eleven months after the race you were finally declared the official winner. Did you and Fred Wilt discuss this race in subsequent years?
We didn't really discuss this race as it was behind us when we focused on the next races. We were friendly rivals and at one time in the future when Fred raced in Milwaukee he even stayed at my house. I was married at the time and had a couple of kids.
How was the reception you received from the crowds at Madison Square Garden where you raced so many times indoors?
I ran so often in Madison Square Garden in the Millrose Games, the KFC meet, the AAU meet and the NYAC meet that I must have raced 16 to 20 times there. My biggest memory of the crowds is my last year when I took my warm up lap before the mile and most of the fans who were there knew it was probably my last year to be racing. As I passed them they stood and applauded. These fans were track buffs and had been there meet after meet, year after year and showed their appreciation to me for the racing I had done in Madison Square Garden and I in turn appreciated them.
You seemed to have an affinity for the 1,000 yard distance, winning Indoor titles in 1952 and 1953 and breaking the World Record both Indoors and Outdoors. What was your favorite racing distance?
The only reason I established World Records at 1,000 yards is that the runners I was racing were so fast that the only way I could win was to run a World Record time! We actually broke the half mile Indoor World Record when running that 1,000 yards, but it didn't count because it wasn't the official finish line. My favorite distance though was the mile.
When you graduated from Wisconsin in 1950, you married your high school sweetheart, went to work and graduate school and had two young children by the time the 1952 Olympics came around. How hard was it to balance work, family and training?
Back in the early 1950s our priorities were on our job and family whereas today it is on winning money. Back then there was no incentive to race as it cost us money. I could turn in my meal receipts and ticket vouchers but everything else I spent came out of my pocket. Family came first so by the end of my career I wasn't training too much. When the Olympics came around in 1952 I wasn't focused on them even though I had set a couple of 1,000 yard World Records earlier that year. In the middle of summer I was very conscientious about my job and supporting my wife and two babies. In order to make an Olympic team you needed ability and incentive – I had ability, but not the incentive. The desire to win had left me as I was extremely busy at work. I was the Public Relations Director for the American Automobile Association and was in charge of their 50th Year Anniversary Conference. So that was more important at the time than training for the Olympics. That would not be true today because of the money involved in the sport.
Is this why you decided to step down to the 800 meters to try to make the 1952 Olympic team? How disappointing was it when you were passed in the home stretch and finished in fourth place?
I wasn't in good enough shape for the 1,500 meters so that is why I dropped down to the 800 meters. It was disappointing that I was beaten and passed, but not so that I didn't make the team as I wasn't in position to take six weeks off from work and to be away from my family for that long. It's just too bad that the Olympics came along at the wrong time.
Earlier in the 1952 Olympic year you set the Indoor 1000 yard World Record and beat Bill Nankeville in White City during the British Games weekend to set the Outdoor 1000 yard World Record. Did you possibly run your peak performances that year too early?
Bill Nankeville was a good runner, but couldn't match my finishing speed. The only reason I set the World Record is that he set a fast enough pace that I had to set a record to beat him by the slim margin of 2:11.1 to 2:11.2. It wasn't that I was in peak shape, but I wasn't as busy at work as I was in the summer.
What transpired that day that ended up with you racing at 440 yards after setting the 1,000 yard World Record?
We had seven runners at White City representing the U.S. and 1,000 yards was the only race I was scheduled to run that day. After I won the 1,000 yard race I was up in the stands where they had an area for the athletes with drinks, hot dogs and hamburgers. I was drinking a soda and eating hot dogs. The U.S. quarter miler had pulled a muscle a couple of days before the meet and couldn't race. The race organizers asked if I would run the quarter mile as they wanted to have an American in the race. I decided to go ahead and try it as I had nothing better to do. I won the race in about 47.9 and beat all of England's top quarter milers. At the banquet that night the talk was that no one could believe that an American miler could beat the top British quarter milers. That may have been my greatest accomplishment! The stories in the U.S. newspapers focused on my World Record for 1,000 yards set earlier in the day, but to me winning the quarter mile was a bigger feat.
In your final Indoor track season in 1953 you barely lost to Mal Whitfield at 880 yards 1:50.9 to 1:51.4, were narrowly beaten for the AAU 1,000 yard title by Germany's Olympic Bronze Medalist at 800 meters, Heinz Ulzheimer and went out with a flourish in your hometown of Milwaukee as you almost beat Len Truex who ran a 4:07.8 mile. Were you satisfied with your running career and ready to retire from competition?
I don't remember too much about that season as I wasn't in top shape. The New York Athletic Club had asked me to move to New York to run for them and they said they could get me a good job, but I didn't want any part of that as my family and job in Milwaukee were more important than moving to keep focusing on my running. I was ready to retire in 1952, but since I hadn't raced for about six months I thought I would come back in early 1953 and run a few races. In the U.S. at that time I was like other runners whose family and job came first. That was the situation much more so for us than the Europeans who had athletic clubs with good benefits so many of them didn't have to work a true job. But in the U.S. we were true amateurs. During that final race with Max Truex in my home town of Milwaukee of course I got a good hand from the crowd as I had run in Milwaukee in high school and had represented the state of Wisconsin with my college colors.
Before your collegiate days you burst onto the track scene as a sophomore at Milwaukee Pulaski High School with a second in the mile at the City Championships. Did you have much running experience or were you always one of the 'fast kids' when you played other sports?
On the Milwaukee playground I played all sports so track was just another sport which I tried. I had some natural ability which helped me a lot as I seemed right away to be faster than most of the fellows. In all sports it was very evident that I had running ability. Even in neighborhood games with my friends I was fast. There was one game where we would divide up into teams of about six on a side and would use the entire block. One team would have to catch the other team and tag them. After playing a few times they wouldn't let me play as no one could ever catch me. It was the same in tag football as I was quick and could dodge and change directions – it was just something I was born with. My God-given natural running ability served me well when I was on the track team and the newspapers seemed to like to play it up before the races to build some anticipation for track fans.
You won four Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association State Championships at the mile distance your junior and senior (4:28.8) years and in cross country both years. How tight was the competition and what was the effect of an infected tooth you had during the early part of your senior track season?
When I was a tenth grader there was a fellow named Windy Gross from South Division High School who gave me some competition, but he dropped down to the half mile the next year because he didn't have a chance to beat me in the mile. My last two years in high school in cross country and in the mile there wasn't any competition for me in the state of Wisconsin. In all four state meets where I won there wasn't anyone close to me. That infected tooth took a lot out of me – I couldn't train hard because there was so much pressure in my mouth. It didn't affect my winning, but was a factor in my conditioning and I probably could have run faster. It has been so long that I had forgotten about it as no one has mentioned it in so many years.
Milwaukee had a tradition of fast milers with Ernie Bastian and Wally Mehl from Wauwatosa and Chuck Fenske from West Allis – the latter two who later starred at the University of Wisconsin. Were you cognizant of Milwaukee's track history and aiming to join these great milers in your home city?
I have never been a person who looked back at the great athletes who came before me as ones who I wanted to emulate or exceed. For me athletics was fun and I liked to compete. I competed to win as second place didn't matter to me - it was fun to win. I ran my best in all of my races and so I had that winning instinct in high school where I raced for first place. My times or place in history weren't of consequence to me.
What were the main ingredients to your success that were contributed by your high school coach, Stan Kezele, and college coaches, Thomas Jones and Guy Sundt?
The main contribution from all of my coaches was helping me to be mentally strong. I respected all of my coaches. I didn't get to know my high school coach too well as the racing season was short. Tom Jones and Guy Sundt were two of the greatest people I met during those years. Tom was one of the coaches of the 1948 Olympic team and Guy Sundt took over as coach at Wisconsin afterward and later was promoted to athletic director. I raced for my coaches, for my friends, for my family and finally for myself because winning was a lot of fun.
What was your typical training in high school and college and did you run year around?
I wasn't one who did the type of distance running that top runners do today. If I had done so I probably would have been much faster. Also, I may have developed more quickly and been able to take the pace out faster rather than relying on my sprint at the end of races. My over distance run in high school was a two and-a-quarter mile run which was barely longer than our two-mile cross country race distance. I did that over distance run on Mondays. In college we also did an over distance run on Mondays which was four and-a-quarter miles, again just longer than our four-mile cross country races. We ran out to Picnic Point. On Tuesdays we did sprint workouts. On Wednesdays in college during indoor season we often did a three-quarter mile time trial on a twelve-laps to the mile indoor board track which I could do in three minutes flat. In high school and college we started training for cross country season in August, after the fall season went right into indoor track season, took a break at Christmastime and then went into outdoor season which went into June. So the only time I had off from running was in July. I was very busy in college with my classes and running so many big meets that took me out of town on weekends.
What were some of your favorite training seasons for cross country, indoor track and outdoor track in high school, college and beyond both in the early and mid-season and when you were rounding into top form?
The first thing I can tell you is what was my least favorite training session and that was the over distance training of four miles or more – it wasn't fun and I didn't really care much for it. Luckily we had great scenery in Madison for those distance runs. I liked all of the fast sessions where we worked on speed and pace. We did a lot of 200s. I would finish every practice with something fast. For example, if one day I was running one and-a-quarter miles, the last quarter would be fast and close to all out for the last 200 yards. Coach Tom Jones called that a 'build up' and we did it often. That really helped my finishing kick.
How satisfying is it to help others succeed compared to your own personal accomplishments? How much more difficult is it to instill in others the necessary discipline, focus and mental toughness?
When I coached for 13 years I really stressed to the kids that they needed to be focused, work hard and be tough. I liked coaching track and cross country and helping kids very much. We did well, won some championships and it was a good feeling helping the kids to improve and achieve. Unfortunately when I made the job switch to the state administration level I didn't have the opportunity to coach any longer as I was not associated with a particular school.
There were outstanding distance runners back in your day such as Olympic Champions Mal Whitfield and Horace Ashenfelter and distance stars Fred Wilt and Curt Stone, who seem to have faded from memory in recent years. Is this just the passage of time or are there other factors?
Time is a reason as all of us are now over eighty years old. People remember me around the University of Wisconsin as in the Kohl Center there is a big display about my running career. But outside of Madison or Milwaukee no one has heard of me unless they are eighty years old and a track fan. And it is like that for the runners who were my contemporaries.
You were named to several Halls of Fame including the State of Wisconsin Athletic HOF, the Drake Relays HOF, University of Wisconsin HOF and the Madison Pen and Mike Club Hall of Fame. How special is this recognition for your athletic exploits?
It is always very special and appreciated. As a Milwaukee high school athlete and a young man from Wisconsin it was great to run for the state university and then to be recognized in my state. I was born here, bred here, received my education here and have many friends here because of that. There are great athletes who went off to school in other places and aren't as fortunate as I am to have this Wisconsin community that I have been a part of during my entire life. So the Hall of Fame honors are very dear to me.
With professionalism entering track and field in the past three decades, do you ever wonder what might have been if shoe companies and other sponsors enabled you to train regularly and compete into at least your late twenties?
I wish we would have had the chance back then as it would have been great to keep competing and to support my family in that way. I was a teacher and involved in other aspects of education for my entire life and worked hard for the little money we had. If I were running today I would probably be a millionaire.
What is your current fitness regimen and what are your future health and fitness goals?
The best thing I do for fitness now is to take my dog for regular walks. My wife and I have had 21 dogs in our 60 years of marriage. It has been a very fine life that I have had. I was fortunate to have some athletic ability and was lucky to have met many wonderful people, develop great friendships and get excellent guidance because of athletics. We try to eat right, take care of ourselves and hope to have many more years together.
How did the character traits you learned from competitive running and racing carry over positively into your work as a school teacher and administrator and your home life as a husband and father?
I learned that if you want to become a champion and wish to remain a champion that you have to do more than the next guy who also is striving to be a champion. That philosophy followed me throughout my life. The hard work and dedication needed for running has been a very positive feature in my life and was helpful as a father and a grandfather. We enjoy attending some of our grandkids' basketball games and even some of our great-grandkids' wrestling matches. I see a little bit of my competitiveness in them and I like that.
Is there any advice you would give to children and adults who wish to succeed in running or other sports?
To be competitive it just doesn't come to you – you have to work at it. In order to do well it takes a work initiative to get ready both mentally and physically. If you have some God-given ability and good training habits you can become a champion – anybody can become a champion. Also, it is much more fun to win, but if you do, you must do so in a respectful manner and give credit and praise to those who come in second and third place. Those runners train as hard as you do and it may just be that you have more talent or a little more luck on that day.
Are there any major lessons you have learned during your life from growing up in Wisconsin during the Depression and World War II, the discipline of running and adversity you have faced that you would like to share with my readers?
I was brought up in The Great Depression since I was born in 1927. My mom and dad had to be very conscious of their money as did almost everyone we knew as very few people had much money. We lived on the south side of Milwaukee in a neighborhood that was a little less than middle class, but my dad was a hard worker. He was a machinist and worked in factories in Milwaukee. My mom had been brought up on a farm and had typical traits developed in a farming life. I had the qualities of my parents, appreciated what I had and that continued through the rest of my life. When I reflect back on the hard times that my parents encountered, I realize that as a child and teenager I learned to work hard, compete to do my best, respect others and to appreciate what I did have. In my family today we still have those traits that were instilled in me during my childhood and it has led to a good life.
Inside Stuff
When I was a teenager I made model planes from balsa wood. I did this while I was in high school and involved in running. A couple of years ago I picked up on this hobby and started making them again. Outdoors I do quite a bit of landscaping which probably goes back to my mother's background as a farmer. My wife and I have season tickets for a series of plays. We live a modest life and are happy to be healthy enough to enjoy what we do
Since my given name is Donald, then 'Don' could be called my nickname, though it is really just a shortened version of my name
Favorite movies
'Gone with the Wind' and old classic movies
Favorite TV shows
We take a break every day at 5:00 and spend an hour watching 'All in the Family' reruns with good old Archie Bunker. The Bob Hope Show was another favorite
Favorite songs
'Til the End of Time' is 'our song' from when we my wife and I were married. 'You'll Never Know how Much I Love You' is my favorite
Favorite books
I like to read 'shoot-em-up' Westerns
First car
In 1950 after graduation from the University of Wisconsin I got my first car which was a new 1950 Chevrolet. I had saved some money while working during college and my parents chipped in to help me and that is how I got that car
Current car
We drive a Honda Odyssey. Most of the time over the years we have had cars that could transport lots of kids. A long time ago we had station wagons, while recently it has been minivans
First jobs
I worked as a sophomore, junior and senior in high school as a playground director at several playgrounds in Milwaukee. While I was in college I worked sometimes in the summers at a sheet metal shop, Louie Ranke Sheet Metal Works on Milwaukee's south side. I started out at about 35 cents per hour
Post-collegiate jobs
Public Relations with the AAA, then I went into education which progressed from teaching to administration. I did coach track and cross country for 13 years at Wauwatosa East High School
Family, Children and Siblings
My wife's given name is Delores, but she goes by Lori. We have been together for 66 years and have been married for the last 60 years. She was my high school sweet heart; we were together through college and married in May of 1950 after I graduated. I was an only child and my wife had a sister. My wife has a problem with her hearing, has a heart condition and walks with a cane, but we get along alright. We like to live on lakes, have lived on seven lakes in our married life and moved back to a lakeside home just recently. We have a large family of five children, 15 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. They are all in Wisconsin except for one daughter in California and two grandkids in Ohio. Many still live close by in the Madison area or in Green Bay
Throughout our lifetime my wife and I have had 21 dogs. We sometimes had two at a time. We have always had a dog and always will as they are our loyal companions. Currently we have a La-Chon which is a mix of a Lhasa Apso and Bichon Frise – a little white dog named Misty. We have had collies, St. Bernard's, Chihuahuas and everything in between
Favorite breakfast
Cereal. When I was in high school and somewhat through college I ate Wheaties. It may have been because it was advertised as the 'Breakfast of Champions,' but I really liked the taste
Favorite meal
Ham and German-style potato salad
Favorite beverages
I drink no alcohol and never have. I like Caffeine Free Pepsi
First running memory
The first one I remember that stands out is when I won my first City of Milwaukee Championship in cross country. It was during the fall of my first year in high school, which was my sophomore year as ninth grade was at the junior high school back then. Before high school I had never heard of cross country and had never run a cross country race in my life. So it is quite a memory winning my first of three city championships on the course at Estabrook Park
Running heroes
I didn't really have heroes, but when I was running in high school I heard of Gil Dodds who was a great miler for the University of Illinois. I wasn't much of a historian in the sport of running
Greatest running moments
Winning the quarter mile at the British Games against their best quarter milers was one of the happiest moments for me as it was very unusual. Then of course making the 1948 U.S. Olympic team was a huge thrill since I was very young as a 20 year old college sophomore and we didn't know if I would make the team. Also, many of my friends and family were able to drive down to Evanston, Illinois from Madison and Milwaukee to watch me compete in the Olympic Trials
Worst running moments
There are two that stand out. The first is the Olympic final in 1948 when I could have done better, but may not have been ready as I was young and inexperienced. The second is the NCAA Cross Country Championships my sophomore year when I became ill during the race which is the only time that happened. I had a few other times where I was tripped up and fell in mile races, but was still able to get up and win
Childhood dreams
I loved all types of athletics. In Milwaukee they had a nighttime program called 'The City of the Lighted School Houses.' All of the schools and gyms were lit up for social programs and sports. I was a pitcher in baseball, played softball, basketball and all of the sports. I was an athlete all of my life as I enjoyed it, though I didn't have any particular dream to excel in one sport
Funny memories
After the 1948 Olympics when I raced in Paris, even though it was over 60 years ago, there was a noticeable difference in the morals and standards when compared to the United States. When we were about to start the mile the French miler, Marcel Hansein, had to go to the bathroom, so they held up the race, he went over to the edge of the track next to the stands and urinated right there! Nobody seemed to be bothered with that at all. Then we started the race. You would not have seen that in the U.S.
Embarrassing moment
One of my best friends, Tom Ward, forgot his racing shoes for the Big Ten Conference meet, but I never had anything like that happen to me
Favorite places to travel
I enjoyed London and my wife and I have travelled there since I went to the Olympics. It is nice that English is spoken there. After London, I really like Paris
Final Comments from Interviewer
It was truly amazing and an honor to spend over 90 minutes chatting with one of America's greatest champions in the mile. Times are faster these days due to many factors including nutrition, training methods, synthetic tracks and lengthy professional careers, but Don Gehrmann excelled where it counts - at winning major races and championships. Who knows what might have been if his running career hadn't been cut short due to family and work priorities? This genuine man is relatively unknown to track fans though he has his place as one of the United States' greatest middle distance conmpetitors.

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Following the Stylish Inspiration collage from Coy Concepts, here is the illustration I promised. It is of this look from Christopher Kane's SS 2010 collection. The collection was partially inspired by the movie Lolita (the Jeremy Irons version). I think the use of the clashing gingham check is very innovative - the looks have a modern, seductive edge. It is a beautiful, well thought of collection, as I got to expect from Kane.
Btw - his FW 2010 collection is equally innovative - delicate flower embroidery on black leather?! Nice! Sketches are already in place - illustrations coming soon. :)
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ROC analysis of lineups obscures information that is critical for both theoretical understanding and applied purposes
Our previous article (Wells et al., 2015a. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) showed how ROC analysis of lineups does not measure underlying discriminability or control for response bias. Wixted and Mickes (2015. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition) concede these points. Hence, in this article we focus more on how forcing the 3. ×. 2 lineup into the 2. ×. 2 structure required for ROC analysis obscures important underlying phenomena of theoretical value. Moreover, ROC analysis fails to account for the unique diagnostic properties of exonerating eyewitness behaviors (filler identifications and rejections). We describe how an examination of the full 3. ×. 2 structure helps reveal the critical underlying phenomena that ROC analysis hides. We also show how a Bayesian approach yields a family of diagnosticity functions that exposes the unique diagnosticity of all three eyewitness behaviors (suspect identifications, filler identifications, and rejections). Moreover, we show how Bayesian methods can examine diagnosticity as a function of witness confidence for all three eyewitness behaviors, which gives it a significant applied advantage over ROC analysis.
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Wells, G.L. (Gary L.), Smith, A, & Smalarz, L. (Laura). (2015). ROC analysis of lineups obscures information that is critical for both theoretical understanding and applied purposes. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 4(4), 324–328. doi:10.1016/j.jarmac.2015.08.010


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Good Children Gallery is hosting artist talks by Jessica Bizer and Brian Guidry for the closing of "The Horizon Tries."
To coincide with the closing of Lala Raščić's exhibition, "The Horizon Tries," artists Jessica Bizer and Brian Guidry will discuss abstraction and landscape on Saturday, March 8 at 4pm.
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Set yer' Kids Sails for CATCH, the land where we catch God's vision to work and grow together. Join Johnny and Beachcomber Burt as they search for the hidden treasure God has placed in each one of us. This series focuses on the beginning of the church, the importance of being plugged in and connected to the body! Join us as we dive into the depths of God's Word.
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Mason's Spooktacular Halloween Costume Contest 2012
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Have you heard the one about the borough that found its sense of humor?
Western Queens has seen an explosion of stand-up comedy over the past two years, with patrons packing clubs on a regular basis to watch top comedians with impressive credentials.
"The caliber of comedian that we're able to get now is incredible," said Steve Hofstetter, owner of the Laughing Devil Comedy Club in Long Island City.
The Creek and the Cave, the first club in the area to host regular comedy shows after a long drought, was rated by Time Out New York as one of top comedy venues in the city.
Those two clubs, and another recently established performance space, have helped turn Queens — once the butt of jokes — into a punchline powerhouse.
"It's starting to evolve," said Creek owner Rebecca Trent. "It's taken an awful long time."
That revival was punctuated last month when legendary comic Jerry Seinfeld visited The Creek and the Cave to introduce fellow funnyman Colin Quinn.
"Seinfeld being there is a really big deal," said Trent, who kept the appearance under wraps. "It really meant a lot to the artists."
Hofstetter called the brief appearance an "arrival moment."
Aside from the residents who have a hilarious attraction in their backyard, people within the industry benefit as well.
Some clubs in Manhattan will only provide stage time if the comedian can bring in a requisite number of patrons, said well-traveled comic Rich Vos.
"The comic has enough pressure to be funny," Vos said. "It's about being comfortable on stage when you're new. The club definitely serves its purpose."
The emergence of the two Queens laugh factories has given budding performers a low-pressure environment in which to sharpen their comic chops.
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Those efforts have already served to kickstart careers.
Rising star Donald Glover — recently listed by Rolling Stone among the hottest comics under 30 — honed his skills as a regular at The Creek and The Cave.
Comic Michael Somerville is fresh off an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman," because a producer caught his set at the Laughing Devil.
"One of the bookers came out to a show on a random Friday night; I was amazed," he said. "People are coming out. People are looking for comedy."


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Last week I set sail on the Carnival Paradise from Tampa on my first cruise since beginning Weight Watchers. I will admit I was nervous, anxious and a little scared of what a cruise could do to the progress I had made so far this year. I have cruised many times so I tried to spend a lot of time thinking about all the different situations I would probably encounter on the cruise with food and how I would approach each choice.
1. Movement goal: Set a goal of not using the elevators the whole cruise; taking the stairs. My 71-year-old mother was right there with me up and down the many sets of stairs. Talk about feeling a sense of accomplishment!! We were both very proud of ourselves for this accomplishment (Non-Scale Victory!)
2. Tracked every bite of food. Keeping track of everything I ate helped to eliminate mindless nibbling and kept me conscious of good/better and best choices!
3. Fresh fruit was my friend. The buffets/menus always have fresh fruit either whole or cut up on them (breakfast, lunch and dinner) so making that choice in stead of other less healthy choices was easier.
4. Water, water everywhere! I drank water with the exception of two sodas I had on the cruise and fresh lemon wedges were easy to get to add to the "Agua de Paradise" (ship water) which was great! Contrary to many beliefs, ships water is very highly filtered and probably purer than most bottled waters and to top it off, it is FREE!
5. Celebrate my birthday without guilt. I had a half a slice of chocolate cake and half a slice of carrot cake and that killed my sweet tooth big time and my tummy was wondering what was happening to it; but I didn't get sick nor feel guilty for this indulgence! I even had 8 ounces of ice cream! Yes on Weight Watchers you can have your cake and eat it too! Everything in moderation is the best approach to eating and life.
How did my strategies work?
To go on a cruise and not gain is a victory in itself! According to the scale since my last weigh-in, I am down a total of 2.4 lbs and I am thrilled!! Just .2 until I reach my 80 lbs mini-goal! 40 more pounds to go to reach goal! Yay!!! Goal for 2014: Reach my Weight Watcher's Goal and become a Lifetime member!
The ship was all decked out for the holidays. A picture of the Carnival Paradise Atrium and a picture I took of Cozumel at night from the ship. I love Cozumel, one of my favorite Western Caribbean ports of call!


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New Year, New Baby!
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It's happening. We're really doing it. Come July, we could have another ginger. We will probably love it even if it's not.
2016 is going to be a party, and I don't know what this means for career or family or anything. Who cares, really?
I just know it means I have a human inside of me the size of a lime or pineapple (or some other fruit that goes in a cocktail I can't drink right now).
I'm hungry and tired but mostly hungry.
We're excited and scared and keep telling ourselves that we are not the first people to have two kids. Matt's grandma had eight. Like 8, VIII, 5+3, 2x4....
Public Service Announcement:
#Gingerbaby has taken to lifting up everyone's shirt and patting their bellies, so apologies in advance if your stomach should meet his tiny sausage hands.


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Now the disciples had forgotten to bring any bread; and they had only one loaf with them in the boat. And he cautioned them, saying, "Watch out - beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod." They said to one another, "It is because we have no bread." And becoming aware of it, Jesus said to them, "Why are you talking about having no bread? Do you still not perceive or understand?" Are your hearts hardened? Do you have eyes, and fail to see? Do you have ears, and fail to hear? And do you not remember? When I broke the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?' They said to him, 'Twelve.' 'And the seven for the four thousand, how many baskets full of broken pieces did you collect?' And they said to him, 'Seven.' Then he said to them, 'Do you not yet understand?'
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- Jesus is angry at the disciples' inability to grasp who he really is. They cannot understand what he is capable of doing for them. He fires ten pointed questions at them, yet we can imagine them asking at the end, 'What is it that we do not yet understand?' They can't break out of their all-too-human view of Jesus. And even after 2,000 years of Christianity, can I?
- Lord, break down the walls that press in on my small heart: let me believe that you are the Son of God, and that in company with you I truly live. Help me see that you yourself are the 'bread' which I need to stay alive. Help me to hang all my hope on you.
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- The disciples seem to still have one-track minds – fantasising scenes of future political glory which seemed to be heralded by the popularity of Jesus in the wake of the miracle of the feeding the four thousand. When he tries to warn them against the expectations raised by the Pharisees and by Herod (yeast was the raising-agent used in baking) – they can only hear his words as something like a warning against themselves again running short of bread.
- What they are missing out on is this: The only real future is the future that has already arrived before their eyes (and not any good-time future offered by politicians) – The Lord Of The Future is already present among them: how else is one to explain the sheer liberality of the mass-feeding that has happened before their very eyes?
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- The Pharisees and Herod are showing ill-will by conspiring against Jesus.
- Could these insistent questions of Jesus be addressed to me?
- Following on the feeding of the five thousand Jews and four thousand gentiles (non-Jews), have I not yet understood that Jesus is the 'one loaf', the Eucharistic bread of life, broken and shared, in order to achieve Christian fellowship for all peoples?
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- Jesus channels his anger in a constructive and challenging way. He asks the poor disciples nine pointed questions. Like the disciples, I too can be dull, mediocre, half-alive, confused. The divine drama is being played out around me, but I do not seem to know my God-given part in it.
- I take these moments of prayer and ask Jesus to be honest with me. What questions does he ask me as his lack-lustre disciple? 'Is your faith bland? Do you know what is it like to live by the gospel? If you want to be alive, why not follow me closely? You are limitlessly loved – do you know that? You are my friend and I want us to be close: but do you? Can you believe that the world needs you? I am offering you a new way of living: let's go!' Do I respond: 'Jesus, do in me what needs to be done to set me afire!'
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- I think of Jesus looking at me lovingly, speaking to me gently, inviting me to understand and to receive his good news into my heart.
- The daily bread of which Jesus speaks is not for the stomach. I pray that my eyes may see, that my ears may hear and that my memory be blessed to notice God's goodness and to receive the food God offers to me each day.
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- The disciples are worried about having too little bread, and Jesus is saying: /Surely you have learned that you do not need to worry about that when you are with me?/ Jesus is asking them to learn from their experience and keep their worries in perspective.
- I need to learn that myself, Lord. The worries that seem huge in a moment of crisis seem trivial a week later. I survive sickness, temptation and failure, and bounce back. Help me to keep my heart up.
- They had no bread but what they forgot was that they had Jesus. Prayer is opening ourselves to the presence of Jesus in our time of prayer and in life. The centre of Christian life and Christian prayer is Jesus. The fruits of Christian prayer are to live like him. The basis of prayer is faith. Ask for an increase in faith, ask to live like him.
- The one loaf was all that was necessary. They had forgotten that Jesus could feed the many with the one bread. He cautions them to depend on him in life. The one loaf also looks ahead to the Eucharist. Jesus will identify himself then with a loaf of bread. Our prayer gives us time to allow the mystery of Jesus, the one thing necessary in life, to sink into the depths of our personalities.
- "Yeast" here symbolises the evil influences of both the religious and the political leaders of Israel who were at odds with Jesus. Their teaching and their politics could infest the minds and hearts of the disciples. Today's culture with its rampant consumerism and greed can easily infest the hearts and minds of contemporary Christians.
- The disciples took things at face value, missing Jesus' meaning. I take the time I need to listen deeply.
- Jesus sometimes refers to yeast as positive, asking us to be like leaven. Is there a negative image of yeast that I need to be aware of ?


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Me, the Snow and LONDON
In just the past two weeks we've had a windy Nor-Easter (when of course my husband was away and a big tree fell on a power line as my pizza was being delivered), a less windy but more snowy Nor-Easter and now an effing Blizzardy-Nor-Easter. Aside from sitting around and drinking while I listen to books, I get into a funk and it's not the kind of funk that writing a review will cure.
Tomorrow is my husband's 60th birthday, AND, he has a cold AND everything I was going to do for him that wouldn't go into a steamy novel kind of depends on being able to leave the effing house.
There are two ways to make it snow: my husband travels OR it is his birthday.
So, I turn to listening to audio books while I snowblow, exercise, and do my art.
What do you do in a big storm? Read, watch movies?
Today I began listening to a 50 hour fictionalized account of the history of LONDON
By: Edward Rutherfurd
Narrator: Andrew Wincott
Published by Penguin Random House Audio | Imprint: Random House Audio
Genre: Fiction – Historical – General
Release Date: February 27, 2018
49 Hours and 11 Minutes
Edward Rutherfurd's classic novel of London, a glorious pageant spanning two thousand years. He brings this vibrant city's long and noble history alive through the ever-shifting fortunes, fates, and intrigues of half-a-dozen families, from the age of Julius Caesar to the twentieth century. Generation after generation, these families embody the passion, struggle, wealth, and verve of the greatest city in the world.
I read Rutherfurd's book about Sarum (now Salisbury, England) many years ago. A lot of it stuck with me and I like long audio books, but I will have to listen to other books in between. I am listening at one-and-a-half speed but that still leaves about 30 hours to go….
So far it's been interesting, if a little jumpy as it careens from one century to the next and uses some writing devices I recall from SARUM: following a family, familial traits, and real history. It feels meticulously researched and the narrator's voice is very nice – one of those British accents that makes me think of Downton Abbey. This is a new audio version of the novel (original publication 1997).
This is the perfect book for a lover of historical fiction, anyone planning to go to London and a lot of other people who love audio books.
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Plenty of Linguine at Home
Albie and Amelia have been told by an unorthodox relationship counsellor to perform a two-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival despite a break-up laden with animosity. The audience is taken on a hilarious journey about how to make something creative work when there is trouble in a relationship. As Pavarotti's wife said of his numerous infidelities: 'while he may look at other pasta, there is plenty of linguine at home'. Expect to see a relationship breakdown before your very eyes.
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It was David Cameron's birthday. He said that the best present he'd received had been the news that Ed Balls was still shadow chancellor. Another gift was the report on the BBC that some public services were doing better in spite of the cuts. Or perhaps because of them. He said that this item had made him feel that he had "died and gone to heaven."
I don't know if heaven exists, but I always hoped it might be slightly more transcendentally ecstatic than listening to the Today programme, even with Mishal Husain.
Still, we all have our own idea of eternal bliss and that is David Cameron's.
It all seemed a little improbable. Wouldn't he have preferred a box of chocolates or a new breadmaker? Possibly he meant it literally. Samantha might have acquired an Ed Balls doll which squeaked: "I'm still here!" and made a rude gesture when you pulled a tab. (Ted Heath was once presented by reporters with a jokey chocolate bust of Margaret Thatcher. He opened it, grinned, then hacked it into pieces with a dinner knife, like the shower scene in Psycho.)
Tories would, I suspect, think that Cameron had won Wednesday's question time session. Certainly they cheered him wildly, and shouted "more, more!" whenever his voice rose to a yell.
On the other hand, since the whole exchange with Ed Miliband was devoted to energy prices, which Labour sees as a serious vote-winner, the opposition leader must have also been quite cheery as he left the chamber.
Cameron's response to the energy spat is to imply that he is more or less up against Lenin. Miliband said that the PM himself had said there was "a certain amount" government could do about freezing energy prices. But the chancellor had said that the notion was out of Das Kapital. Was it a good idea, or a communist plot?
"I'll leave the communist plots to him!" Cameron riposted, which is no kind of answer, but brought loud and throaty cheers from the Tories, even those still furious because they weren't given jobs in this week's reshuffle.
Later Miliband said that energy prices had risen by £300 per household per year since the Tories had come to power. The prime minister said the government could not control the international cost of gas. "I know you would like to live in a Marxist universe where you could control the prices!" he said.
I wondered if this is quite the catch-all answer he thinks. When someone opens their gas bill and finds it has gone up another £75 for the quarter, are they really going to say: "Thank heavens for that: it's proof once again that we do not live in a Marxist-Leninist hell"?
At the end Cameron seemed to suggest that the married couples tax break would apply to all married people. Ed Balls made a point of order and asked him to retract this mistake. The PM didn't – of course – but said once again how glad he was Balls was staying in place.
Balls laughed and clapped immoderately, so he did look like a birthday present all-action doll: not GI Joe, but Shadow Minister Ed, this year's must-have gift.


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— How would you describe Casa Flora in a nutshell?
Our family had been running Hotel Flora for 50 years, and we wanted to do something a bit different than just provide guests with a room. As a result Casa Flora turned into a home for the design savvy traveller, with all of the apartment's interior design custom made by local artisans and designers."
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— Please tell us about the apartment and the rooms.
Throughout the house there are lush plants, which makes for such a fresh and rejuvenating atmosphere. Even our bedside tables can be turned into pots for plants. Everything here is multifunctional and playful, including the bathrooms."
— Bedroom 2
— Please tell us about the facilities and services offered at Casa Flora.
There are many more special options and we enjoy creating the best itineraries for our guests. A chef is available for private dinners and we can organize food workshops. The experience begins with a special surprise dinner prepared at Casa Flora, the following morning we set out to discover Rialto Market, the best shops and delicatessen in the city to finish with a firsthand experience in the kitchen using top quality produce from Venice and the Veneto region. Wine tastings with a Venetian sommelier are also a great experience.
We also highly recommend a private shoemaking session. A local shoemaker creates incredible customized shoes on demand and will even come to the apartment to take your foot measurements for that perfect fit."
— Please tell us about the interior design.
Each piece is special, but I love the kitchen and the large table the most. I also really like the spa areas in the rooms, which were custom made as well. A young ironworker near Venice made the beautiful bedside tables, which include a small space for plants as well. All of the pieces in the apartment can be bought, should you wish to take something home with you."
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text: If you like well-written fantasy and humour, this is the book for you. Recommended to me by a children's librarian, I laughed out loud several times, and yet it was also very sad too. A familiar set-up – an elf, a dragon, an orphan, and a prophecy to save the world, but an original execution of this plot – which I thought was wonderful. As an adult science fiction/ fantasy fan, it was great to be surprised by children's fantasy fiction. Delightful!


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Will rain dampen Independence Day fireworks? Here's the latest forecast.
Could rain dampen July 4 fireworks in the Charlotte region on Tuesday night?
As of Monday night, the possibility stood at a less than even chance.
Government forecasters, however, do not expect the type of slow-moving thunderstorms and showers that stuck around in the Charlotte area Monday night and produced flash flooding along Briar Creek.
A flash flooding warning remained until 10:15 p.m. for central Mecklenburg County and until midnight for northeastern Cabarrus County and southeastern Rowan County.
At 10:04 p.m., Doppler radar indicated thunderstorms producing heavy rain across the warned area. Up to two inches of rain had fallen over the last 2 hours with an additional inch possible over the next hour, according to the National Weather Service. High Rock Lake and Gold Hill were likely to see flash flooding, the Weather Service said
Earlier, areas in Mecklenburg County expecting flooding included The Plaza, Hidden Valley, east Charlotte, central Charlotte and northeast Charlotte, according to the National Weather Service.
Spotted and isolated thunderstorms are more likely on Tuesday night, Lauren Carroll, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Greer, S.C., said at 8:15 p.m. Monday.
She said the latest weather models are not calling for the continually redeveloping lines of showers and thunderstorms that hit the region Monday night. Thunderstorms were moving at only 5 mph, she said.
"We can't rule it out entirely," she said, but weather models were not signaling that would happen again Tuesday night.
On Monday night, the chance of showers and thunderstorms for Tuesday morning and afternoon at Charlotte's airport stood at 40 percent. Partly sunny skies and a high near 91 are expected, according to the latest NWS forecast.
Less than a tenth of an inch of rain could fall, with possibly higher amounts in thunderstorms.
Tuesday night also has a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. The night is expected to be mostly cloudy, with a low around 72. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch are forecast, with possibly higher amounts in thunderstorms.
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Shin angles matter.
Shin angle affects muscle engagement and position. When we, coaches at Victory Kid, watch our lifters, we are looking at positions and why the lifters' bodies are doing what they do.
In the snatch, clean, and jerk, the shins matter because they dictate where the knees and hips can go as well as what position is quad dominant or hamstring/hip dominant. Surprise, surprise; our body is interconnected.
As far as muscle engagement goes, a high shin angle (forward shin, knee over the toe) will yield more quadriceps engagement.
A low shin angle, or "vertical shin" will engage the opposite muscle group, the hamstrings. (Real quick, a major cue for "vertical shins" is usually said during the split jerk. A vertical shin in the front leg during the split jerk will ensure an even weight distribution in each leg.)
The start of the lift will have a high shin angle and the hang position will have a more vertical shin. The knees are forward, quads engaged and torso upright in the start. This lets the athlete drive up with the legs. At the hang, the knees are back (vertical shin) which engages the hamstring and allows the hips to be loaded to make contact with the bar. Having proper positions at the start and the hang will set athletes up for a good lift.
Athletes should also be aiming for adequate strength and mobility in the quads, hamstrings, and ankles. This seems obvious right? Balance.
Adequate ankle mobility allows the athlete to have a forward shin position and to have proper quad engagement. If the ankles are tight, the athlete just can't get to where they need to be in the start position and the receiving position, the squat. Ankle mobility matters to ensure proper engagement in the legs.
One of the exercises we do to work on proper muscle engagement is a box step up. For hamstring engagement, the athlete should stand behind the box with the off leg behind them. Push off the front leg on the box with a vertical shin with the weight in the front leg, which will recruit the hamstring. To recruit the quad more, have the athlete stand off the side of the box so that they can position the shin more forward over the toe. This is almost like a pistol squat, weight should still be in the leg on the box.
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SPARTA, Wis.—Monroe County deputies say they've arrested a Sparta man in connection with a crash that killed his older brother almost three years ago.
The sheriff's office says the 2009 crash was investigated at the time but authorities couldn't determine who the driver was.
They say they've since been able to pinpoint a suspect through a combination of DNA evidence and statements from witnesses.
The 26-year-old suspect was in jail over the weekend pending a bond hearing Monday. He's being held on a tentative charge of homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle.
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|S. Brian Spain
Her Benedictine presence was felt in such varied ways on the college campus during her 28 years. She wholeheartedly gave of herself as: Counselor, Student Development Coordinator, Residence Hall Director and Benedictine values consultant.
Her sociology major and her admiration for Dorothy Day alerted her to the needs of the poor. Her sense of justice called her to help persons of color in Mississippi to prepare them to vote. And her listening ear and unflagging ability to "challenge and support" students continually spoke of her ability to walk lovingly with humanity.
She journeyed with her own humanity in a uniquely humble way. A maple tree was planted outside one of the residence halls to acknowledge her long-time effectiveness with students. A newly constructed residence was named after her. She received an award from the city of St. Joseph for developing policies that strengthened ties between the college and the city. And on all these occasions she acted as though nothing extraordinary was happening.
Maybe it was her humility that monastery leaders noticed when she was appointed to work with women who joined the monastery as Formation Director. Or was it her humor that leaders recognized would help her simultaneously look at the growing edges and innate goodness in the women seeking a monastic life style? It certainly was her humor that won the hearts of many who worked and lived with her over the years.
A cup of tea is raised in your honor, S. Brian. Others that come later may not know your twinkling eyes. But all of us who felt your presence attest to your giving spirit and raise our cups in solidarity.


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Have you always dreamed of finding your wedding dress while sipping on a sparkling glass of champagne, surrounded by your closest family and friends? Well, here at Bridal Gallery, you can do just that!
This year, we have loved offering exclusive Champagne Appointments to our brides! Booking this package ensures a private, two hour appointment outside of our normal business hours. Brides who book an Champagne Appointment enjoy an exclusive wedding dress shopping experience with our entire Grand Rapids store to yourselves! We also provide an experienced consultant, hostess, seating for up to ten guests, sweet treats, and of course, bubbly!
We offer these appointments by request on any weekday morning from 9am to 11am, and on Tuesday or Friday evenings from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
What bride wouldn't love to have an entire bridal shop to herself? It's the perfect way to making finding her wedding dress an incredibly memorable experience, and to receive a little extra pampering as well. We can personalize the appointment to your taste, whether that's exciting and upbeat, or laid-back and relaxed!
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This three-story home is a perfect location for those attending WPI, Becker College, or MCPHS! The first floor has two apartments, each with one bedroom and one bath. The second floor is a single three bedroom, two bath apartment with a large dining room and porch. There is a two-room studio apartment and a three bedroom, one bath, unit on the third floor. Heat, hot water, and electricity are included in all apartments.