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Army Reserve Soldiers joined, supported and connected with more than 10,000 participants in the Tough Mudder event held in Plymouth, Wis., 6-7 Sept.
Tough Mudder events are obstacle courses designed to test competitors’ all around strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie. Tough Mudder has hosted over one million participants worldwide to date, and raised more than $6 million for the Wounded Warrior Project.
The Army Reserve chose to sponsor Tough Mudder knowing that participants posses many of the same values and motivations as Soldiers to include resiliency, teamwork, the drive to excel and being part of something larger than themselves.
Anybody who knows Bristol will probably recognise this logo. It's for the trendy Mud Dock cafe, which is combination of cafe/restaurant upstairs with fine views over Bristol harbour, and a fab bike shop downstairs.
Just a snapshot really, but i like its simplicity.
The 2008 Mudd Volleyball Tournament in Albuquerque New Mexico is a fundraising event to benefit Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation.
The organ pipe mud dauber, one of many mud daubers in the family Crabronidae, as the name implies, builds nests in the shape of a cylindrical tube resembling an organ pipe or pan flute. Organ-pipe mud daubers build their very distinctive and elegant tubes on vertical or horizontal faces of walls, cliffs, bridges, overhangs and shelter caves or other structures.
The nest of the black and yellow mud dauber, one of many mud daubers in the family Sphecidae, is composed of a series of cylindrical cells that are plastered over to form a smooth nest about the size of a lemon. Black-and-yellow mud daubers build a simple, one-cell, urn-shaped nest that is attached to crevices, cracks and corners. Each nest contains one egg. Usually, they clump several nests together and plaster more mud over them.
The metallic-blue mud dauber, another sphecid, forgoes building a nest altogether and simply uses the abandoned nests of the other two species and preys primarily on spiders, including black widow spiders.[2] Blue mud daubers frequently appropriate old nests of black-and-yellow mud daubers. They carry water to them and recondition them for their own purposes. The two species commonly occupy the same barns, porches, or other nest sites.
All three species may occupy the same sites year after year, creating large numbers of nests. Mud dauber nests can last many years in protected locations and are often used as nest sites by other kinds of wasps and bees, as well as other types of insects.
One disadvantage to making nests is that most, if not all, of the nest-maker’s offspring are concentrated in one place, making them highly vulnerable to predation. Once a predator finds a nest, it can plunder it cell by cell. A variety of parasitic wasps, ranging from extremely tiny chalcidoid wasps to larger, bright green chrysidid wasps attack mud dauber nests. They pirate provisions and offspring as food for their own offspring.
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