...already use something similar to that, the Elevation mask when I run and workout. That is the main thing you use for altitude training to improve your breathing. http://www.hypoxico.com/ Part 2: Altitude Tents By sleeping in a tent at a simulated high altitude, you reduce the amount of oxygen you are able to breathe in, which forces the body to increase its red blood cell count. Then, when you train back at sea level, you are able to compete more effectively because a greater amount of oxygen is now being delivered to your muscles than before. They can be pretty expensive, ranging from $450 to $500 a month or you can buy for $4,000. I sure wouldn’t pay that much for that, I’ll just continue to use the Elevation Mask. http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/reviews/performance-products-and-services/altitude-tent-everest-summit-hypoxic-generator Part 3: Erythropoietin Erythropoietin-Red blood cells are produced in the bone marrow (the spongy tissue inside the bone). In order to make red blood cells, the body maintains an adequate supply of erythropoietin (EPO), a hormone that is produced by the kidney. Mainly used in athletes they do have some side effects including high blood pressure, swelling, fever, dizziness, and nausea. I don’t think it is the same as altitude tents because of the side effects, it could destroy your body. I think the best would be the altitude training with the elevation mask....
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...everything. Ruthless, overpowering, too strong to fight. They wore red, they killed everyone that stood in their way. I was just ten years old when they came. I was just ten years old when my life ended. The sun had set on my small village of Digba in Central Africa.The air was crisp and chilly, a normal July night in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, that was until we heard the engines roaring into my little village, like a lion who had just taken its prey. My brother, Azul, was the first to wake. The gunfire startled me awake next. The screams of my people were too strong. The Men in Red were too strong. “Did you hear that, Azul?” I asked still in a haze of...
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...with a few patches of sunlight. “Sounds good, now help me out.” Erin said, throwing all of her stuff into the center of the clearing. I nodded and started flattening down the area while she set up the tent. Once a good area was flattened Erin set the tent on top and nailed it to the ground. “Alright” I nodded with determination. “Now that that’s done we should get a good scope of our surroundings and look for fresh water and maybe dry wood for a fire.” “NO!” Erin shouted suddenly. “No fire, they’ll find us.” She hissed, quieting her voice. “Yea you’re right, I hadn’t thought about that.” I said quietly, trying to calm her down. I knew she was angry about the situation she had left behind, and scared she would be found. But I had no idea that her fear ran so deep that she would be worried a small fire would give them away. “Let’s go ahead and look for water.” I said calmly. Erin looked up at the sky. “Let’s save it for tomorrow, it’s getting dark.” she grunted. I also looked up. She was right, the sun was setting and the sky had turned a wonderful shade of red. I squinted as I continued to stare at the sky. Yes, it really was a wonderful shade of red. But somehow it was almost ominous, perhaps it was the fact that by the second the sky was turning into a deeper and deeper shade of red until it...
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...beautiful and the sky was like a dome of plasma-blue. The clouds had looked like airy anvils drifting under the gleaming disc of sun. We had put our tent up just before the Reaper’s moon of autumn appeared over the trees. The moon seemed to turn the leaves into a flaming patchwork of colours: scorching-yellows, lava-reds and burnished-browns. It added an alien glamour to a perfect scene. We heard a greedy thrush, snail a-tapping on rock; he finished his supper before fluttering into the owl-light of the forest. The mournful cry of a lonely fox echoed through the vault-still silence of the trees. A huffing wind rose up then, stirring the flaps of our tent. A tinkling sound came to our ears as the first pearls of rain dropped onto the leaves. The sound was like the glassy clinking of a champagne flute, lilting and clear. A sheet of rain passed over us and the sound intensified. The noise on the tent was like the phut-phut-phut that ripened nuts make when they hit the ground. It wasn’t the soft, sodden, swollen drops of spring we were hearing; it was like ball-bearings were hitting the canvas roof with force. We could also hear an occasional ker-plunking sound. It was caused by the rainwater gathered on the tent falling to the ground in a great swash of release. The thermometer plunged as we huddled together and shivered in the tent. For a brief moment, we thought that we might be doomed adventurers, destined to get swept away in a mighty flood. We needn’t have worried. The curtain...
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...My sister and I were the first ones to arrive at El Pueblito Patio located on 1423 Richmond Avenue Saturday morning around 11 a.m. Since we were so early we were lucky enough to be seated in one of the many white linen cabanas. This restaurant is known in Houston as a cultural, Latin American-Caribbean fusion. As we glanced over the menu, several delicious items popped up, such as redfish, salmon, trout and chicken often paired with a fruit relish, yellow rice and vegetables. The waiter brought us free appetizers, two bowls, one red salsa and the other a yellowish color salsa with some green specks. My sister took a bite out of the yellow salsa, I bit into the corn chips and red salsa. We were both surprised to find out that we enjoyed the tastes of the salsas which were uniquely different. However, we could not figure out what special ingredients were in the salsa but as soon as our waiter arrived we immediately determined the secret as to what the yellow in the salsa was and that was pineapple and a jalapeño blend which was the green specks in the salsa. Both were delicious and exotic. Being on a student budget, we decided the free appetizers were more than adequate for flavor and our budget. Next up was the entrées, we came across many options including both Tex-Mex and Caribbean dishes but ended up with two great choices; the Caribbean snapper which is a fresh bay snapper which is infused with El Pueblito Patio house sauce which came with beans, rice, fried plantains...
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...Red from green The short story “Red from green” is written by Maile Meloy and we follow a young girl, Sam, during a couple of days in the summer. The story takes place by a river in Montana in a hot July month, Sam is just turned fifteen and has been offered a scholarship to a boarding school back east, but she doesn’t know if she will go yet. It is her father who suggested her to apply. Sam is a bit quiet, and she doesn’t talk that much with her dad. Sam has never fired a gun, before Layton shows her how to. At first she doesn’t tell her father that she have done it, but then he finds a bullet and then she tell him that she have shot... Every summer she and her father take a float trip on the river. This time they are companied by her uncle Harry, a private attorney, and the central client Layton, in a class action law suit her uncle is litigating. The trip is meant to smooze the client who is thinking of dropping the suit and moving away; if he leaves, the case dries up. Throughout the day the girl watches as her father (who is a district judge) allows the man to take advantage of his desirability. The client catches fish that are too small but keeps them anyway, something her father usually has no tolerance for. Later the client takes the girl out to practice shooting, using illegal hollow point bullets. Late in the evening, after the uncle has already retired to his tent, the father also gets up from the fire and goes to his tent. Before entering it he looks back...
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..."Hey!" Yelled mom, "will you grab the tents for me?" "Yeah mom I'm getting them now" I replied. I took the tents to my mom, and that got our crazy camping trip started in the woods. I would always be the one to get the wood and the tents ready for my family because it was easy for me. If anyone got hurt I would get the first aid kit and fix them up the best that I could. My dad would always tell me that I was great with survival skills when we went camping. We went camping every year if it was pretty outside and it usually was. When my family and I go on a camping trip one of us always gets hurt somehow. There is always a cut or scratch on someone by the end of the trip. Cuts and scratches can be infected very easily if you aren't careful. We always bring a first aid kit with us now because one time my brother got a nasty cut and it got really infected. The kits should always have alcohol pads, bandages, and ointments. Those are some of the major items you need to have to stop or cover an infection. The...
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...employees of a corporation, including ten track and field events, a catered luncheon under a tent, refreshments, hospitality areas for persons accompanying the attendees, and a means of displaying corporate branding images. (Page 92, # 2) Figure 1Cirque du Freaks portrait. Courtesy of Coney Island Freak Show Introduction The event is a Cirque du Freaks’ themed Wacky Olympics, Luncheon and Freak Show. The purpose of this event is to provide a fun and uninhibited platform to help rekindle team workmanship and communication amongst the co-workers and departments at Team Corporation. The executives at Team Corporation have hired Me & My Artsy Friends Events to put together an unique team building event on May 21, 2011 at 8:00 am until 4:00 pm. One hundred employees from different departments will be participating in competitive wacky sport events dressed as sideshow characters. The Wacky Olympics will be 10 track and field events that will help teams to strategize and work harmoniously to reach the finish line. After the days sport events, teams will be served a three course exotic comfort food luncheon that will reflect the whimsical day. The luncheon will feature exotic Cirque du Freaks side show attractions like fire eaters and contortionists as well as a freaky circus décor. The side show characters will be walking throughout the tent expressing their talents as the attendees dine. Just before the party starts, the teams...
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...Roses are red, Violets aren’t actually blue. 7th grade was an absolute mess, what the heck did I do? This year has been quite the rollercoaster of rides I daresay. I’ve met some great teachers and others, not so great. You may know that growing up isn’t the best experience because sooner or later you’re gonna have way more responsibilities. This is why we should have cherished our younger years in elementary before jumping into middle school and then, a few years later, high school. It’s like seeing a clock saying “Time is ticking, everyone is changing, and your future will be approaching.” Mr. Dima, an absolute trickster. The guy everyone said that you were lucky to have. It was also the guy where you would love him one day and (somehow)...
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...I was brought to the chief's tent, and was told to stand by their sacramental stone. As I was standing there the chief pulled out his knife, and in that moment I knew I was going to die. My name was Hank Russell, and is now Red The Gracious. This story starts off when I was part of the american military. I was in the platoon Smokin Aces. The year was 1824 and the indians began to pick off the army and military warriors one by one. This all started when the white folk broke our peace treaty and took over indian reservations. The peace treaty purty much said that we here white folk could not take land from the indians, they could not attack our warriors, and we can not attack their warriors. We broke that peace treaty a little while back...
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...My dad and I started the long car ride to my uncle's cabin. It takes about two hours to get there. We did stop to get hunting licenses. We also stopped to get food too. When we got there we put up a tent. Our tent is big it has a tarp you can put in the middle of the tent and have two rooms. The outside is red with a blue tarp on top of it so we don’t get sopping wet from rain. Then before I went to play in my uncle's woods with my cousins I realized can I shoot a gun with accuracy. When I went to play with my cousins I asked them what do you want to do? Joey said, “Do you want to shoot beebee guns”? We all said, “Yes”. In about two minutes, everybody got their beebee guns. Some had pistols, some had rifles, and some had automatic pistols or rifles. We play a game where you get eliminated when you miss a pop can 5 times. If you hit it you stay in. I got in 3rd place with twelve hits and five misses. My cousin Joey won with fifthteen hits and three misses....
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...market. The "ocean" in the title refers to the market or industry: • Blue Oceans are untapped and uncontested market, which provides little or no competition for anyone who would dive in, since the market is not crowded. • Red Oceans, on the other hand, refers to a saturated market where there are fierce competitions, already crowded with companies providing the same type of services, producing the same kind of goods. The idea is to do something different from everyone else, produce something that no one has yet seen, thereby creating a blue ocean. Blue Ocean Strategy: Article Summary BOS explains that rather than competing within the confines of existing industry or trying to steal customers from rivals (Red Ocean Strategy), uncontested market space should be developed that makes competition irrelevant. Red oceans are all the industries in existence today—the known market space. In the red oceans, industry boundaries are defined and accepted, and the competitive rules of the game are known. Here companies try to outperform their rivals to grab a greater share of existing demand. As the market space gets crowded, prospects for profits and growth are reduced. Products become commodities, and cutthroat competition turns the red ocean bloody. Blue oceans, in contrast, denote...
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...We are on a road trip to Colorado and we have en in the car for 14 hours. Dad said that we would be there in a few more hours. I was ecstatic. I had be waiting to go here for what felt like a decade. And finally we are here. Finally we got to the crest of a hill and i could see the most amazing sight i had ever saw. There was this cliff. It looked like it was made of copper it was so red. There was a big mountain with small pillars of rock beside it.There was not many people there. It was like it had been abandoned for a thousand years. It was starting to get dark so we set up our tents. I laid in my tent that night just dreaming of all of the stuff that i could do tomorrow. Finally it was daylight. I got hardly any sleep because i...
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...construction of the Citadel to take place. After searching he found a boy who was born without a father. He brought him back to the kingdom. The boy questioned the king and the king explained what the wise told him. Then demanded that he question the wise men. He asked the wise men what was under the pavement, but they not knowing what to reply, said I don’t know. The boy told them it was a pool. He told the wise men to dig and that’s what they found. In the pool was 2 vases, and in the vases was a tent. In the tents were 2 serpents. One was red and the other one was white. The snakes were fighting each other and the weaker one was red, and finally was able to drive the white one out and it slithered away. Then the boy, asked the wise men what was signified by this wonderful omen they stood in silence, so the boy says to the king, now I will unfold to you the meaning of this mystery. The pool is the emblem of this world, and the tent is your kingdom: the 2 serpents are two dragons; the red serpent is your dragon, and the white serpent is the dragon of the people, however, our people will rise up and drive away the Saxons from beyond the sea, and send them back from where they originally came. The king asked the boy, “what is your name?” The boy replied, “I am called Ambrose.” The king asked, “what is your origin?” The boy said, “a Roman consul was my father.” The king gave him the city with all the western provinces of Britain Vortimer, the son of Vortigern, fought against Hengist...
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...hydrogens at both ring junctions are “cis”, and the other where they are “trans”. decalinThese molecules look so simple when we draw them on paper! What could be simpler than two hexagons joined together? Well, just like with cyclohexane itself, the complexity comes when we examine their most stable three-dimensional structures. Each six membered ring will adopt a chair conformation. Believe it or not, the cis and trans stereoisomers of decalin have remarkably different shapes. There’s no better way to see this than by making a model. I love Vine for making movies of what it’s like to “fly-over” these molecules. Here’s cis-decalin. The hydrogens on the “bridgeheads” are highlighted in red and white. Notice how both cyclohexanes are in chair conformations, but the molecule adopts almost a tent-like shape. And here’s trans-decalin. As we look at the molecule from an angle, it’s obvious that both cyclohexane rings are also in the chair conformation, but the molecule is much flatter overall. As these movies show, changing the stereochemistry of the bridgehead carbon from a “wedged” H to a “dashed” H can make a huge difference in the overall shape of the molecule! Let’s look at these two molecules in a bit more detail. First of all, which one should be more stable, cis-decalin or trans-decalin? First of all, let’s look at line drawings of each of these molecules. When we do so, we notice that in trans-decalin, all carbons are equatorial, whereas in cis-decal in, one carbon...
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