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Friday, September 30, 2011
Thursday, September 29, 2011
Opera Cabal - seats available
Two seats have opened up on Saturday night for the debut of an avante-garde opera/performance work. See info below & let me know if you would like to attend.
We interrupt your regularly scheduled summer activities to deliver some exciting news!
THE OPERA SHOP
September 30 + October 1, 2011, 8p
seating is limited!
Opera Cabal invites you to two private, preview performances of our brand spanking new project series! The Opera Shop is a vehicle dedicated to the radical critique of opera in the 21st century. Beginning this September, and each fall thereafter, Opera Shop turns the spotlight on 2-3 exceptional artists with a history of working together in fields traditionally unrelated to opera. Under the guidance of Opera Cabal, each team will embark on an intense, month-long collaborative residency, bringing their unique strengths to bear in the creation of a compelling and intellectually charged new work for the stage.
This September, Opera Cabal invites video designer, producer, composer and all-around technical whiz Alexander Overington to collaborate with virtuoso cellist and singer, Teddy Rankin-Parker. Overington and Rankin-Parker first established a reputation when they toured as the opening act for Grammy Award-winning ensemble, eighth blackbird. Opera is premised at the meeting of complementary but different art forms: Overingtonʼs hyper-digitization collides with Rankin-Parkerʼs improvisatory daring in a work of truly operatic proportions.
Opera Cabal is thrilled to partner on this project with High Concept Laboratories, a Chicago-based interdisciplinary platform and nonprofit arts service organization. HCL will serve as Opera Shop residency partner by coordinating artist incubation and showings. highconceptlaboratories.org
See the project development in real time at operashop.blogspot.com. Learn more about the artists' music, philosophies, and our artistic process. Check it out!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Exercise and your Brain
How Exercise Can Strengthen the Brain
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS
Doug Menuez/Getty Images
Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, while the rest lounged in their cages without exercising.
Earlier studies have shown that exercise sparks neurogenesis, or the creation of entirely new brain cells. But the South Carolina scientists were not looking for new cells. They were looking inside existing ones to see if exercise was whipping those cells into shape, similar to the way that exercise strengthens muscle.
For centuries, people have known that exercise remodels muscles, rendering them more durable and fatigue-resistant. In part, that process involves an increase in the number of muscle mitochondria, the tiny organelles that float around a cell’s nucleus and act as biological powerhouses, helping to create the energy that fuels almost all cellular activity. The greater the mitochondrial density in a cell, the greater its vitality.
Past experiments have shown persuasively that exercise spurs the birth of new mitochondria in muscle cells and improves the vigor of the existing organelles. This upsurge in mitochondria, in turn, has been linked not only to improvements in exercise endurance but to increased longevity in animals and reduced risk for obesity, diabetes and heart disease in people. It is a very potent cellular reaction.
Brain cells are also fueled by mitochondria. But until now, no one has known if a similar response to exercise occurs in the brain.
Like muscles, many parts of the brain get a robust physiological workout during exercise. “The brain has to work hard to keep the muscles moving” and all of the bodily systems in sync, says J. Mark Davis, a professor of exercise science at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and senior author of the new mouse study, which was published last month in The Journal of Applied Physiology. Scans have shown that metabolic activity in many parts of the brain surges during workouts, but it was unknown whether those active brain cells were actually adapting and changing.
To see, the South Carolina scientists exercised their mice for eight weeks. The sedentary control animals were housed in the same laboratory as the runners to ensure that, except for the treadmill sessions, the two groups shared the same environment and routine.
At the end of the two months, the researchers had both groups complete a run to exhaustion on the treadmill. Not surprisingly, the running mice displayed much greater endurance than the loungers. They lasted on the treadmills for an average of 126 minutes, versus 74 minutes for the unexercised animals.
More interesting, though, was what was happening inside their brain cells. When the scientists examined tissue samples from different portions of the exercised animals’ brains, they found markers of upwelling mitochondrial development in all of the tissues. Some parts of their brains showed more activity than others, but in each of the samples, the brain cells held newborn mitochondria.
There was no comparable activity in brain cells from the sedentary mice.
This is the first report to show that, in mice at least, two months of exercise training “is sufficient stimulus to increase mitochondrial biogenesis,” Dr. Davis and his co-authors write in the study.
The finding is an important “piece in the puzzle implying that exercise can lead to mitochondrial biogenesis in tissues other than muscle,” says Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, a professor of medicine at McMaster Children’s Hospital, who was not involved with this experiment but has conducted many exercise studies.
The mitochondrial proliferation in the animals’ brains has implications that are wide-ranging and heartening. “There is evidence” from other studies “that mitochondrial deficits in the brain may play a role in the development of neurodegenerative diseases,” including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, Dr. Davis says. Having a larger reservoir of mitochondria in your brain cells could provide some buffer against those conditions, he says.
Dr. Tarnopolsky agrees. “Epidemiological studies show that long-term runners have a lower risk of neurological disease,” he points out.
More immediately, Dr. Davis speculates, re-energized brain cells could behave like mitochondrial-drenched muscle cells, becoming more resistant to fatigue and, since bodily fatigue is partly mediated by signals from the brain, allowing you to withstand more exercise. In effect, exercising the body may train the brain to allow you to exercise more, amplifying the benefits.
Revitalized brain cells also, at least potentially, could reduce mental fatigue and sharpen your thinking “even when you’re not exercising,” Dr. Davis says.
Of course, this experiment was conducted with animals, and “mouse brains are not human brains,” Dr. Davis says. “But,” he continues, “since mitochondrial biogenesis has been shown to occur in human muscles, just as it does in animal muscles, it is a reasonable supposition that it occurs in human brains.”
Best of all, the effort required to round your brain cells into shape is not daunting. A 30-minute jog, Dr. Davis says, is probably a good human equivalent of the workout that the mice completed.

Can exercise make the brain more fit? That absorbing question inspired a new study at the University of South Carolina during which scientists assembled mice and assigned half to run for an hour a day on little treadmills, while the rest lounged in their cages without exercising.
Earlier studies have shown that exercise sparks neurogenesis, or the creation of entirely new brain cells. But the South Carolina scientists were not looking for new cells. They were looking inside existing ones to see if exercise was whipping those cells into shape, similar to the way that exercise strengthens muscle.
For centuries, people have known that exercise remodels muscles, rendering them more durable and fatigue-resistant. In part, that process involves an increase in the number of muscle mitochondria, the tiny organelles that float around a cell’s nucleus and act as biological powerhouses, helping to create the energy that fuels almost all cellular activity. The greater the mitochondrial density in a cell, the greater its vitality.
Past experiments have shown persuasively that exercise spurs the birth of new mitochondria in muscle cells and improves the vigor of the existing organelles. This upsurge in mitochondria, in turn, has been linked not only to improvements in exercise endurance but to increased longevity in animals and reduced risk for obesity, diabetes and heart disease in people. It is a very potent cellular reaction.
Brain cells are also fueled by mitochondria. But until now, no one has known if a similar response to exercise occurs in the brain.
Like muscles, many parts of the brain get a robust physiological workout during exercise. “The brain has to work hard to keep the muscles moving” and all of the bodily systems in sync, says J. Mark Davis, a professor of exercise science at the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina and senior author of the new mouse study, which was published last month in The Journal of Applied Physiology. Scans have shown that metabolic activity in many parts of the brain surges during workouts, but it was unknown whether those active brain cells were actually adapting and changing.
To see, the South Carolina scientists exercised their mice for eight weeks. The sedentary control animals were housed in the same laboratory as the runners to ensure that, except for the treadmill sessions, the two groups shared the same environment and routine.
At the end of the two months, the researchers had both groups complete a run to exhaustion on the treadmill. Not surprisingly, the running mice displayed much greater endurance than the loungers. They lasted on the treadmills for an average of 126 minutes, versus 74 minutes for the unexercised animals.
More interesting, though, was what was happening inside their brain cells. When the scientists examined tissue samples from different portions of the exercised animals’ brains, they found markers of upwelling mitochondrial development in all of the tissues. Some parts of their brains showed more activity than others, but in each of the samples, the brain cells held newborn mitochondria.
There was no comparable activity in brain cells from the sedentary mice.
This is the first report to show that, in mice at least, two months of exercise training “is sufficient stimulus to increase mitochondrial biogenesis,” Dr. Davis and his co-authors write in the study.
The finding is an important “piece in the puzzle implying that exercise can lead to mitochondrial biogenesis in tissues other than muscle,” says Dr. Mark Tarnopolsky, a professor of medicine at McMaster Children’s Hospital, who was not involved with this experiment but has conducted many exercise studies.
The mitochondrial proliferation in the animals’ brains has implications that are wide-ranging and heartening. “There is evidence” from other studies “that mitochondrial deficits in the brain may play a role in the development of neurodegenerative diseases,” including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases, Dr. Davis says. Having a larger reservoir of mitochondria in your brain cells could provide some buffer against those conditions, he says.
Dr. Tarnopolsky agrees. “Epidemiological studies show that long-term runners have a lower risk of neurological disease,” he points out.
More immediately, Dr. Davis speculates, re-energized brain cells could behave like mitochondrial-drenched muscle cells, becoming more resistant to fatigue and, since bodily fatigue is partly mediated by signals from the brain, allowing you to withstand more exercise. In effect, exercising the body may train the brain to allow you to exercise more, amplifying the benefits.
Revitalized brain cells also, at least potentially, could reduce mental fatigue and sharpen your thinking “even when you’re not exercising,” Dr. Davis says.
Of course, this experiment was conducted with animals, and “mouse brains are not human brains,” Dr. Davis says. “But,” he continues, “since mitochondrial biogenesis has been shown to occur in human muscles, just as it does in animal muscles, it is a reasonable supposition that it occurs in human brains.”
Best of all, the effort required to round your brain cells into shape is not daunting. A 30-minute jog, Dr. Davis says, is probably a good human equivalent of the workout that the mice completed.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
More Runners in My Office
London Staffers run for ShelterRoss Bridgman – Associate (Archial London)
London, UK – Two of our staff members from the London office took part in the Great North Run in Newcastle – the world’s most popular half marathon on Sunday 18th September 2011.
Archial’s runners and their times:
Philip Richards: 1 hr 28mins | Ross Bridgman: 1 hr 39min 40secs
Both Philip and Ross ran on behalf of the charity Shelter who provided fantastic support on the day. Please see Shelter's website for information on where their fundraising goes and the many people helped: http://england.shelter.org.uk/.
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Toronto Tri-athleteAlexei Martchenko – Project Manager (Giffels Toronto)
Beijing, China – Last October we announced that Alexei Martchenko had been awarded a spot on team Canada for the 2011 International Triathlon Union’s World Championship event scheduled for early September 2011 in Beijing.
Today we are pleased to report that earlier this month Alexei completed this Olympic distance standard event in a time of 2 hours 44 minutes. He tackled the 1.5 km swim, 41.1 km bike and 10 km run legs of the competition while proudly wearing his Canadian colours uniform.
Congratulations Alexei!
뉴 유니폼
회원님들 유니폼이 완성 되었습니다. 이번 토요일에 가지고 가겠습니다.
글고 새로이 스티커도 re-design해서 만들어 놨습니다. 불빛에 반사되는 재질로
해서 밤에 헤드라이트에 반사가 돼어서 잘 보일겁니다. 제가 직접 옛날꺼는 떼어드리고 새로운걸로 붙여드릴께요 용인(?)하신다면 승리하십시요.
글고 새로이 스티커도 re-design해서 만들어 놨습니다. 불빛에 반사되는 재질로
해서 밤에 헤드라이트에 반사가 돼어서 잘 보일겁니다. 제가 직접 옛날꺼는 떼어드리고 새로운걸로 붙여드릴께요 용인(?)하신다면 승리하십시요.
Monday, September 26, 2011
Kimchee's new chapter
Yummy, yummy!! I think it is a good idea.
See the article from Chicago tribune. Hope you are a kimchee lover.
I will try this in my next home barbecue.
나의 애마 상처
회원님들에게 하소연 하고 싶은일이 생겼습니다. 으!!!!!!!윽 :(
어제밤에 이번에 새로 장만한 나의 애마에 상처가 났습니다. 턱 쪼가리 한쪽을 골병들게 해놓았더군요. 누군지 아는데 아는 사이라 말도 못하고 이렇게 글로써 하소연 해봅니다. 기냥 잠을 설쳤습니다 아까바서 으이그 ...............................................
어제밤에 이번에 새로 장만한 나의 애마에 상처가 났습니다. 턱 쪼가리 한쪽을 골병들게 해놓았더군요. 누군지 아는데 아는 사이라 말도 못하고 이렇게 글로써 하소연 해봅니다. 기냥 잠을 설쳤습니다 아까바서 으이그 ...............................................
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Berlin Marathon
Kenyan Sets World Record in Berlin Marathon

Wolfgang Kumm/European Pressphoto Agency
Patrick Makau of Kenya crossed the finish line to win the 38th Berlin Marathon on Sunday with a record-breaking time of 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds.
By JERÉ LONGMAN
Published: September 25, 2011
BERLIN — Patrick Makau of Kenya set a world record on Sunday by winning the Berlin Marathon on a flat, searing course in 2 hours 3 minutes 38 seconds.
Kenya swept the day with Florence Kiplagat winning the women’s race in 2:19:44. Paula Radcliffe of England, the women’s world record holder, ran her first marathon in nearly 23 months after giving birth to her second child and easily qualified for the 2012 London Games with a third-place finish in 2:23:46.
Makau, 26, won the Berlin race for the second consecutive year and became the second man to run 26.2 miles under 2:04. The previous record of 2:03:59 was set by Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia on this same Berlin course in 2008.
“A new generation is coming that is running very well,” said Makau, who shaved 70 seconds off his previous best of 2:04:48, which was the 2010 Rotterdam Marathon.
In a dramatic moment Sunday, Gebrselassie stopped running for about a minute just before 17 miles, after Makau made a break. Gebrselassie bent over and appearing ill or exhausted. He rejoined the race after about a minute but stopped running before the finish.
At 38, Gebrselassie’s chances of making the Ethiopian marathon team for the 2012 London Games appear to be over. He has now dropped out of his last two marathons, stopping in New York at 16 miles in November with a knee injury; he then retired from running for a brief time.
He is considered by many the greatest distance runner of all time, and has two Olympic gold medals at 10,000 meters (1996 and 2000), but another, more permanent retirement might follow Sunday’s disappointment.
Meanwhile, Makau is on the rise. Last year, in the rain, his socks bunching in his shoes, Makau won in Berlin in 2:05:48. But Sunday, the weather conditions were more accommodating — sunny and 53 degrees — and Makau’s victory , orchestrated by a phalanx of pacesetters, became inevitable after a breakaway at 16.7 miles (27 kilometers).
He might have run a second or two faster, but he had to jump over a small advertising placard in his final strides to align himself with the tape at the finish line.
“This has been the greatest day of my running life,” he said. “When I woke up, my body didn’t feel very good. As the race went on, I felt better. At 25 kilometers, I felt I could break the world record. It’s a great thing to beat Haile, one of my heroes.”
In winning Sunday’s race, Makau established himself as an early favorite at the London Olympics, especially after the reigning Olympic champion, Sammy Wanjiru, a fellow Kenyan, died in a mysterious fall in May.
At the Boston Marathon in April, Kenyans Geoffrey Mutai (2:03:02) and Moses Mosop (2:03:06) ran faster than Makau’s Berlin time, but the Boston course does not qualify for a world record because of its elevation drop and its failure to meet international requirements for a loop course.
There was some consolation for Mosop, his wife, Kiplagat, won the women’s race. Irina Miktenko of Germany, the Berlin winner in 2007 and 2008, finished second Sunday in 2:22:18.
Kiplagat completed her first marathon since dropping out in Boston. She was the 2009 world cross-country champion and the 2010 world half-marathon champion.
The men’s race had six pacemakers in a v-shaped formation, leading a pack of five elite runners. By 16.7 miles, the pacemakers were down to two, paving the way for the remaining contenders, Makau and Gebrselassie.
Makau then moved from one side of the road to another and made a decisive break. Gebrselassie slipped behind and then stepped off the course, put his hand over his stomach and bent over, as if he were going to throw up.
But 51 seconds later, desperately needing a fast time to preserve his shot at making the Ethiopian Olympic marathon team, Gebrselassie jumped back into the race. One pacemaker, then another, eventually drifted back to assist him, but he could not complete the course.
By 18.5 miles, Makau had dropped his final pacemaker and was on his own. In April, he had fallen at the London Marathon but recovered to finish third in 2:05:45. That did not happen on Sunday as Makau ran unimpeded, arms swinging wide, drawing away with a muscular style that made him the fastest marathoner in history.
Meanwhile Radcliffe, 37, had mixed feelings about finishing third, a placement that came after a difficult year of a thyroid illness and back problems.
“I’m some ways, I’m happy; in other ways, I’m disappointed with third place,” Radcliffe said. “It’s been a tough year. With everything I had to go through, I should accept this. At least I have an Olympic qualifying time. Now I have to build on that for London.”
Monday, September 19, 2011
Sunday, September 18, 2011
유니폼
회원님들 잘 지내시죠. 일요일 저녁 편히 쉬시고 계시겠죠?
시카고 마라톤이 어느새 턱 밑까지 왔내요. 다들 끝까지 쌔~~~에 빠지게 연습해서 다들 완주 합시다. 그리고 한가지 오늘 제 식구들과 샤핑 갔다가 우리 247 유니폼으로 하면 좋을것 같아서 14장을 샀습니다. 이 번에 집사람 가게 문제들을 부드럽게 해결해 주셔서 고마운 마음에 부족하지만 집사람이 조그만 선물로 준비했습니다. 우리 247 로고 붙여서 시카고 마라톤에 쓸수 있게 준비 하겠습니다. 참고로 소매 없는 스타일 입니다. 상원씨 쌩~~~~~유
247 화~~~~~~이 ~~~~ 팅.
시카고 마라톤이 어느새 턱 밑까지 왔내요. 다들 끝까지 쌔~~~에 빠지게 연습해서 다들 완주 합시다. 그리고 한가지 오늘 제 식구들과 샤핑 갔다가 우리 247 유니폼으로 하면 좋을것 같아서 14장을 샀습니다. 이 번에 집사람 가게 문제들을 부드럽게 해결해 주셔서 고마운 마음에 부족하지만 집사람이 조그만 선물로 준비했습니다. 우리 247 로고 붙여서 시카고 마라톤에 쓸수 있게 준비 하겠습니다. 참고로 소매 없는 스타일 입니다. 상원씨 쌩~~~~~유
247 화~~~~~~이 ~~~~ 팅.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
Sunday, September 11, 2011
Saturday, September 10, 2011
불우이웃 돕기 5K 달리기 대회 소식
안녕하세요. 오늘 다운타운 달리기 함께 하지 못해서 죄송합니다.
그래도 247 Runners Club을 알리는 좋은 홍보활동을 하고 왔습니다.
위 Title을 클릭하시면 링크된 기사를 읽을 수 있습니다. ^^
그래도 247 Runners Club을 알리는 좋은 홍보활동을 하고 왔습니다.
위 Title을 클릭하시면 링크된 기사를 읽을 수 있습니다. ^^
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Marathon Pace Band
http://www.runnersworld.com/cda/marathonpaceguide/0,7167,s6-239-283-317-0-0-0-0,00.html
Go to this site and print out your marathon pace band.
Have a great day!!!
AMDG
Go to this site and print out your marathon pace band.
Have a great day!!!
AMDG
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
이번 일요일 샘 생일 축하 저녁 모임 알립니다
247 회원님께,
잘 알고 계시겠지만,
이번 9월11일, 일요일, Sam Shim의 생일을 맞이하여,
아래와 같이 저녘식사를 하고자 함을 알려 드리는 바 입니다.
언제 : 2011년 9월 11일, 일요일 시간 : 오후 5시
장소 : 우리 마을 식당. (8526 golf Rd., Niles, IL 60714). (+1-847-966-8990)
참석 인원 (현재 까지 참석 하신다고 하신 회원) : 11명 -
Sam Shim -Byeong Ik Kim Hwan Suk Chin Sung Sik Kwak--Jae Ryong Ryou
-Ha Young Chin --Man Sup Choi Mi Young An -Chun Sik Jeong
--Young Kyo Chung -Myoung woo Ku
김준수 회원과 김선경 회원님은 아직 미정 입니다.
회원님 모두 협조를 부탁 드립니다.
상기의 내용에 혹 실수가 있다고 생각 되시면,
저 구 명우 에게 알려 주시면, 바로 정정 보도 해 드리겠습니다.
구 명우 배상
잘 알고 계시겠지만,
이번 9월11일, 일요일, Sam Shim의 생일을 맞이하여,
아래와 같이 저녘식사를 하고자 함을 알려 드리는 바 입니다.
언제 : 2011년 9월 11일, 일요일 시간 : 오후 5시
장소 : 우리 마을 식당. (8526 golf Rd., Niles, IL 60714). (+1-847-966-8990)
참석 인원 (현재 까지 참석 하신다고 하신 회원) : 11명 -
Sam Shim -Byeong Ik Kim Hwan Suk Chin Sung Sik Kwak--Jae Ryong Ryou
-Ha Young Chin --Man Sup Choi Mi Young An -Chun Sik Jeong
--Young Kyo Chung -Myoung woo Ku
김준수 회원과 김선경 회원님은 아직 미정 입니다.
회원님 모두 협조를 부탁 드립니다.
상기의 내용에 혹 실수가 있다고 생각 되시면,
저 구 명우 에게 알려 주시면, 바로 정정 보도 해 드리겠습니다.
구 명우 배상
Monday, September 5, 2011
23mile 달리는 모습-3 진권사님 Special ^^
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