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My journey to the Swiss Alps 100 race started when I applied to enter UTMB through the lottery system. I didn’t get a place, but had pre-booked a hotel in Courmayeur, Italy just-in-case. When it was clear I wasn’t doing UTMB, I looked for other similiar races, and found the Swiss Alps 100 race. I managed to change my hotel’s booking date, and get a larger room so that the …

Find out more about growing perennial veg and other perennial edibles on this short day course at the homestead. I am looking forward to hosting this event on October 12th […] The post Perennial Edibles Gardening Course appeared first on Stephanie Hafferty.

In 1960 my first year in high school, there were 120 students - a few from Russian, German or Romanian parents and 114 from Polish parents. They all wanted to re-visit Poland by 1970, especially to see Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin.Town hall tower, Visit KrakowKraków’s Market Square/Ry­nek in Poland is the centre of the city’s medieval Old Town, designed in 1257 when the town first won its charter. Laid out …

For the first time in almost ten years, I effectively wrote no posts in the past month. The only post I did write was my standard monthly book-reading post: August 2024 Book Reading List I’ve been busy with a couple of side projects. So, without further ado, here are the September 2024 blog stats! Google Analytics Users → 2,600 Sessions → 3,000 Views → 3,100 Google Analytics Graph for September …

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• 5-star hike • 3 mile loop • Easy difficulty | Gain 1,350 feet • Moultonborough, NH | Lakes Region . This fire tower looks out over 5-star lake views. Of all the fire towers in New Hampshire, there's a strong argument to be made that most spectacular views can be found on the one anchored to the 2,031 foot summit of Red Hill near Moultonborough. Positioned between Winnipesaukee and …

While the ICOM MacVenture series may have begun on the Macintosh, it’s fair to say that most gamers experienced them through the NES ports. Shadowgate was the most popular of these, leading to a 2015 Remake and a 2021 VR spinoff. But 2024’s Beyond Shadowgate deepens the nostalgia, being a true sequel to the original NES game, done in the style of the original NES game. To create this game, …

UBERMORGEN are the guests of the third episode of the podcast series I did with artists who 1. are among my absolute cultural heroes and 2. have exhibited at Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art in Ljubljana. UBERMORGEN, The Silver Singularity, 2024 UBERMORGEN, [V]ote-auction, 2000-2006 (Installation view, UBERMORGEN, THE*AGENCY [for manual Election Recounts] (Graz, 2004) UBERMORGEN is an artist collective that brings together autistic actionist lizvlx a.k.a. Liz Haas & hyperactive …

By David Tuller, DrPH Earlier this month, I wrote a post about a new study asserting that “exercise does not cause post-exertional malaise in Veterans with Gulf War Illness.” As I explained, the research, led by experts from the University of Wisconsin and published by the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, made no sense. Although … Trial By Error: Norwegian Tabloid Covers Stupid Gulf War Illness/PEM Study; My Letter to …

Dear Creative Commons (@creativecommons.org @[email protected] @[email protected]), Can we have CC-NT licenses for no-training (ML/LLM, GenAI in general), just like we have CC-NC for non-commercial?My previous post¹ reminded me that I’ve been creating, writing, inventing, and then sharing things with #CreativeCommons (CC) #licenses for a long time (I have to see if I can dig up my first use of CC licenses.)I’ve used and recommended a variety of CC licenses for …

A couple of reference to a Vine Northgate Street. April 1835, “a meeting of The Auxiliary Conservative Society will be held at Mr Larratts Vine Northgate St in the coming week, meeting starts o’ clock”. September 1836, at the small debts court D. Larratt v G Coulson, Mrs Larratt claimed 15/- for rent money and accommodation of pawning some of Mrs Larratts clothing. Coulson claimed that Larratt had given her …

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‘Frequently it pays to look first for the characteristics of devices in use which may be such that an essential pragmatic approach offers the best chance to success. It often is possible to solve an accident of malfunction problem with straightforward and uncomplicated approaches, deliberately ignoring their more subtle aspects.’ “ Haigh Company Employee Handbook By the Book, The Worlds of Frank Herbert, 1971

Doctors need a medical humanities that does more than just help them see health and disease through a patient’s eyes.