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4 Techniques That Can Harm Your Fitness Routine
It is no surprise that when many of us start a fitness routine we have no idea what we are doing. We have no plan, our goals are too easy or too hard to reach and our over eagerness to jump head first into our fitness routines can have a multitude of negative effects on our fitness routines. So, how can you rest assured that the fitness routine you start today will last a lifetime? I am so glad you asked. We have a list of many of the techniques that fitness newbies often mistakenly employ that no doubt will cause you to fail in your fitness routine.
Too much, too fast. A lot of us are just a little too over enthusiastic when it comes to starting a fitness routine. We want to see results fast, and that translates into intense workouts that last forever, right? This couldn't be more wrong. You will end up physically, mentally and emotionally drained or even worse sustain an injury. These factors can put an early end to your fitness routine, so you have to start out with baby steps. Try setting a few small goals and building on them. Then you can slowly begin to increase the intensity and duration of your workouts.
No rest days. This is similar to the too much, too fast mantra. You may think that you are getting the best results possible by going to the gym everyday; however, you would only be misleading yourself. Your body needs a rest every now and then. It has to repair the damage done to it from your intense workouts, and the only way to do this is to get plenty of sleep and allow your body the days off it needs to repair itself. You do not have to workout everyday to get the results that you want. Try giving yourself at least a day or two off a week or more if you are new to your fitness routine. You will be happy for those few days of rest, and it will show in your performance the next time you workout.
You do not have a detailed plan of action. Many of us believe that we can start a new exercise routine by basically showing up at the gym whenever we can and doing whatever we can. We do not have a detailed plan to follow or any guidelines to follow. We just jump in blindly and expect to see results. We can not just achieve our goals by wandering aimlessly throughout the gym. We have to make a plan. We need to set goals and write down how we expect to achieve them. It would help to write down a workout schedule and what exercises you plan to do in each session. Then keep an exercise journal that details what you actually did, how long you worked out and how close you have come to achieving your goals. As you can see, there is a lot of planning needed to maintain an effective fitness routine and achieve your goals.
Your goals are unrealistic. A lot of us begin a fitness routine with unrealistic goals in mind. We may think that we can lose twenty pounds in the first few days, but as most of us can see, this is impossible and would be very unhealthy if we could achieve it. We can never expect to see changes overnight. If it was that easy, everyone would workout for a few days a year and look perfect. Wouldn't that be great? However, as most of us know, it will take a while to see any visible changes in our bodies. So, we have to stay focused and motivated. You need to celebrate the little successes in your workouts in order to stay motivated to reach the bigger goals. You may have worked out a little longer or a little harder, you may not be as out of breath as before or you may be able to stretch a little farther. Those are all successes that took a lot of hard work. You should never overlook these, so try to reward yourself with a new outfit, a movie night with friends or some well deserved down time where you can read or go to the spa.
It can feel great when we accomplish our goals. We will feel extra motivated and ready to take on the world, but we have to take the time to make a plan and set reasonable goals. It can be trial and error in the beginning, but if you look hard enough, you can find the help and guidance you need to make your fitness routine a perfect fit for you.


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Hi Chuck
(to be honest, tho, there is a part of me that always peeks up to ask why those who know truth...would sell it?)
A very good question, Chuck. I'd encourage you to consider that deeply. As you are considering, consider the implications, if this is correct, about the realities these folks have created. What DO they tell themselves, day after day, to justify this?
The point you make about personality vs soul is well taken, and helps me understand 'reality-creationers better. But they provide a valuable lesson along the path, don't you think? Where 'religion' conditions us to think we are separate and powerless, the Chopras, et all encourage us to take responsibility for our thoughts, words and actions.
That is true. All that's being said here is these beliefs as they have been laid out are not the complete truth - they are partially true. Proof is, in the actual lives of people who practice this philosophy, in many cases they are not creating the reality they think they want even though they are doing everything you are supposed to do. If a belief or explanation does not work IN ALL CASES it can't be complete truth. Full truth correlates with the actual reality experienced in the lives of all people in all cases.
I will use Create Your Own Reality authors as an example. For every one who "makes it", there are 99 who don't. They all passionately believe and practice Create Your Own Reality principles. Their desire to help people in most cases is genuine. They also generally want to "make a great living", become well known, doing something they feel is helping people in a positive way.
Why is it 1% achieve that and 99% don't? They all passionately practice Create Your Own Reality principles, do the work, write the book, find the agent, get the speaking gigs. They are doing everything you are supposed to do yet it doesn't happen. If it is true that we can create any reality that we want, how do you explain this?
When I restate the principle as "You can create any reality you want that is within the Soul's program", all of a sudden we have an explanation of why this does not happen in many cases. Using the tools of EA we can even see within a chart the likelihood of whether a desired reality is within the Soul's program.
Maybe I'm all wet, but we are encouraged to 'trust ourselves'. What then does this mean if not to go with what, thru observation and experience, feels right?
Nothing in what I wrote suggested you should not go for what feels right to you. All I said is sometimes, in the end, you are not going to wind up with the reality you thought you wanted to create. Nothing in that statement says you shouldn't try. How else will you learn what your Soul's program is? How will you know whether something is aligned with it unless you pursue what you feel drawn to?
Another good example is John McCain. The guy REALLY wanted to be President. He did everything he knew how to create that reality, even willing to lie through his teeth. In the end he did not create the reality he wanted. It was just not in the program. Was it wrong that he tried?
Another way to say this is we can't be attached to outcome.
The value is in the effort, not in the outcome.
Through following the impulses of what feels right we learn more about Self.
How often have we realized after completing a phase in life that turned out other than expected that it was actually good that it turned out as it did? Yet we never would have pursued the objective, at the beginning, had we known how it was going to turn out, because that was not a reality we would have wanted to create. The Soul had its outcome in mind, and what we wind up with is the
outcome instead of the
outcome. In the end we realize that how it worked out was actually in our best interest.
These are among the ways we learn about the nature of our Soul.
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Thanks for your remarks.
You all are very thoughtful.
always the best to you,
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Hi Adina,
30 years ago Swami Muktananda was my guru for a few years. I received his grace, the awakening of shaktipat, met him in person, and also witnessed his deep love and heart-wrenching grief when he spoke about his own guru, Nityananda.
He taught the Yoga of Kundalini (spiritual energy) and Gurukripa (grace of the Guru), which correlate to the Root and Crown Chakras.
Adina, I think you said that progressive spiritual enlightenment works on the level of "vibration".
I always felt Nityananda's vibration to be very powerful and wondered whether he had reached the final stage of realisation: but of course I'm not sure. Do you know?
Where would these Siddha Gurus fit in line with our discussion on spiritual stages?
Thank you.
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I want to share with ya'll that Maurice Fernandez's new book "Astrology and the Evolution of Consciousness" has within it the best description of evolutionary states I have encountered so far. He gives various theoretical examples and stories of sun and moon signs in different evolutionary states. It literally came out a couple weeks ago, I highly recommend it!
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I was interested in what folks here think of Carlos Casteneda - ? I was thinking he was an example of 2nd stage spiritual gone awry...or, he may not be in that stage whatsoever.
His birth time, place, date is: 2.00PM Cajamarca, Peru December 25 1925
He's controversial - mainly the veracity of the Don Juan books. There are many contradictions (or you could call them lies) in & about his books. For instance, when he describes being somehwhere with Don Juan, in reality he's sitting in the library with all sorts of shamanistic books, history, etc. Hmmmm.......Also, one of his more well-known exploits attributed to Don Juan really happened to Ramon Silva Medina - an authentic Huichol medicine man...however, if I'm not mistaken, Carlos witnessed that & apparently got on well with R.Medina.
Later, CC eschewed Peyote saying it was destructive...which seems totally bogus to me...he apparently lied about his illness & concocted some silliness about what would happen when he died. There was a handful of women who left their lives as they knew it & changed their names etc. & devoted themselves to him....they all mysteriously disappeared after CC death - one being found near her abandoned car in a severely degraded physical form.
Just a couple of things from his chart - he has Juptier conjunct south node in 9th Cap - easy to see the shamanistic qualities...however, also the lies & need to take responsibility for those lies - and how he assumed responsibility for others actual achievements/reality. Saturn with mars in 7th of Scorpio ties into the preceding & the nature of his relationships - describes pretty well the situation with those women. His Pluto placement, & the placement of ruler could show his self-involvement, narcissism, etc. Well...I'm clearly taking a negative view - so, what do you folks think? 2nd stage? Deluded by evil? Lucifer is retro in the second of gemini....clear to see there too his lies within his writings.......
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Melissa Moore is having a little bit of trouble getting her groceries out of her car while using a walker. She's no helpless damsel, but when her neighbor Brad Knight tries to get in her pants by offering to help, she has no problem letting him. The good news is his reward for doing her chores is the chance to help her get off! Melissa pretends she needs help washing her back, but when Brad hesitates, she just pulls him in for a kiss. His reluctance is merely due to shock, but Melissa quickly makes it obvious what she wants to happen, as there could be no mistaking when she pulls his head down to her pussy for him to eat it. Melissa's perky tits and wet pussy are so inviting that Brad can't say no to her moans and gasps for more! Brad leaves, not suspecting that he's been had in more ways than one—Melissa tosses the unneeded walker on the bed, proud of her convincing acting job.
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Thursday, 16 February 2012
Agatha Nomination!!!
Yes, we're still in Jamaica....and loving every minute. Even loving it when the rains come - gives us an excuse to retreat to the deep covered verandah of our room, continue reading, and watch the rain. A few days ago we were all at dinner, out the huge outdoor terrace, under the stars....looking out over the caribbean - when the heavens opened. There was a rush for the 'lifeboats' - and the live band kept playing. It was hilarious. No sign of Kate Winslet or Leonardo, (or Celine) - but it felt a little like 'sauve qui peut'. Well, all the guests ended up in different parts of the Jamaica Inn....and the waiters found us all, and brought our orders without a pause, as though this is just to be expected.
We've met the most interesting people here....mostly British and American. A US General, a British Lord and Lady, a movie star, a composer of West End musicals, and then a whole lot of 'regular folk' like us. All mingling and enjoying quiet, and calm - and passing the time of day when we meet. It feels as though time has stood still here. It's a nice feeling.
But really what I wanted to tell you is that we've received the most wonderful news!!! A TRICK OF THE LIGHT has been nominated for the Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel in the US!!! Here's the complete list for Best Novel -
Best Novel:
The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews (Minotaur)
The Diva Haunts the House by Krista Davis (Berkley)
Wicked Autumn by G.M. Malliet (Minotaur)
Three-Day Town by Margaret Maron (Grand Central Publishing)
A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny (Minotaur)
As you might know, I'm friends with a few people on this list, especially GM Maillet (whose book I heartily and happily endorsed) and Margaret Maron - loved her book too. Donna and I go back a number of years and I always like her company, and her books. Krista I don't know, but will get her book and I'm sure it's terrific.
How wonderful it feels to be in such splendid company.
Here are the other nominees, in other categories, including my friends Chris Grabenstein, Dana Cameron , Barb Goffman, and the magnificent Rhys Bowen....
Best First Novel:
Dire Threads by Janet Bolin (Berkley)
Choke by Kaye George (Mainly Murder Press)
Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry (Crown)
Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab (Berkley)
Tempest in the Tea Leaves by Kari Lee Townsend (Berkley)
Best Non-fiction:
Books, Crooks and Counselors: How to Write Accurately About Criminal Law and Courtroom Procedure by Leslie Budewitz (Linden)
Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making: More Stories and Secrets from Her Notebooks by John Curran (Harper)
On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling by Michael Dirda (Princeton University Press)
Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A. B. Emrys (McFarland)
The Sookie Stackhouse Companion by Charlaine Harris (Ace)
Best Short Story:
"Disarming" by Dana Cameron, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine - June 2011
"Dead Eye Gravy" by Krista Davis, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
"Palace by the Lake" by Daryl Wood Gerber, Fish Tales: The Guppy Anthology (Wildside Press)
"Truth and Consequences" by Barb Goffman, Mystery Times Ten (Buddhapuss Ink)
"The Itinerary" by Roberta Isleib, MWA Presents the Rich and the Dead (Grand Central Publishing)
Best Children's/Young Adult:
Shelter by Harlan Coben (Putnam)
The Black Heart Crypt by Chris Grabenstein (Random House)
Icefall by Matthew J. Kirby (Scholastic Press)
The Wizard of Dark Street by Shawn Thomas Odyssey (EgmontUSA)
The Code Busters Club, Case #1: The Secret of the Skeleton Key by Penny Warner (EgmontUSA)
Best Historical Novel:
Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen (Berkley)
Murder Your Darlings by J.J. Murphy (Signet)
Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker (Poisoned Pen Press)
Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson (Minotaur)
A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear (Harper)
Congratulations, everyone. so exciting. The winners will be voted on and announced at the end of April at Malice Domestic in Washington. If you don't know Malice Domestic, it's a fabulous mystery reader/writers conference, featuring panels of writers discussing their work and process. It's big enough to to attract some of the finest writers of traditional mysteries internationally, and small enough that you actually get to chat with them. Very fun and wonderfully organized. Well worth going. Unfortunately, I won't be there for the first time in years - I have to be in London at that time. I can't tell you how much Michael and I will miss being there - they've become like family.
For now, though, we find solace in the caribbean, sipping ginger beers and eating grilled fish. Heading home Saturday. What a lovely respite.
Speak soon -
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- danielle-momo said...
Je suis si contente pour vous.
Bien mérité.
Profitez bien de la fin de vos magnifiques vacances et merci de nous tenir au courant.
- 16 February 2012 at 16:01
- Jan J. said...
I'd say you've had a pretty good year to say the least - it has been so much fun to follow along on your journey, particularly as someone who so so so so enjoys your work! Thank you for sharing all the milestones with your readers so we can vicariously enjoy your hard-earned success and for those of us who write so we can imagine what it would be like to get an Agatha award ourselves!
- 16 February 2012 at 18:31
- Barb Goffman said...
Congratulations on your nomination, Louise! You'll be missed at Malice this year. I hope we'll have time to talk at Bouchercon in the fall.
- 16 February 2012 at 19:08
- Daryl Edelstein said...
How wonderful .. well deserved
- 17 February 2012 at 06:10
- Barbara said...
Happy for you - the Agatha nomination, and your wonderful vacation in Jamaica. I can imagine everyone running and laughing in the sudden downpour.
- 17 February 2012 at 07:24
- Ann from Boston said...
Dear Louise,
Congratulations once again. Well deserved. I love that you list all the other nominees when you blog about your many nominations and winnings because I always explore the other authors. I am currently reading G. M. Malliet because of a reference you made to her and I love her books. Just finished "Death of a Cozy Writer" and am now on "Death and the Lit Chick" and her nominated book is on my request list at the library.
- 17 February 2012 at 15:49
- Marni said...
Louise, another feather in your ever-expanding cap! Many congratulations and enjoy the rest of your well-deserved respite. My only quibble: YOU are royalty, too, of the literature kind!
- 18 February 2012 at 15:36
- Guy said...
WOW! C'est gratifiant tout ça!
J'ai hâte de lire ce "A Trick of the light" en français... pas très douée pour lire tout un livre en anglais.
Bonne fin de vacances!
- 19 February 2012 at 07:46
- Colombine said...
Désolée... le précédent message ne venait pas de mon amoureux, Guy... il était de moi.
Bye, bye
- 19 February 2012 at 07:49
- thumpingcrazypainter said...
Dear Louise
I heard your interview on CBC radio on my way home from work today. I thought you were talking about me. The way you talked about feeling so afraid emotionally. That has been my life for so long. Only recently have I found my way out of the abyss, and in the past few years I have surprised myself with some of the things I have allowed my self to feel and do.
The only difference is your addiction to alcohol. My addiction is tobacco. You gave me some interesting things to consider. Thank you for sharing. Sharing is something I have always been reluctant to do. "I'm fine, everything is fine" has been, and is my mantra.
I look forward to reading the book you spoke of. I am a great murder mystery reader.
Thanks again
Joan Palmer
- 12 March 2012 at 15:41


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Magnemite used sonicboom!
Diglett takes 5 damage!
Diglett strikes back with rock throw!
But he's not so lucky with damage this turn. The 4x not very effective move only does 2 damage.
Mareep lights up its body with spark and charges at Chikorita!
But its not very effective. Chikorita only takes 3 damage.
Chikorita gets back up and runs towards Diglett.
And hits him with vine whip!
Thanks to a really lucky super effective roll, Diglett takes 15 damage!
Zubat is immobilized.
The fire on Silver's pants goes out and reveals what is left of his pants.
Still pantless, Silver makes a break for it.
Only to crash into an invisible forcefield!
As he falls to the ground Silver hears a faint voice whisper "No! There's no running from a Trainer Battle!"
Totidile: KO'd
Mareep: 30 HP
Diglett: 7 HP
Chikorita: 27 HP
Magnemite: 11 HP
Zubat: 30 HP
Chikorita probably got the luckiest roll I've seen. It got a 1 on the 1d8 but got two 6s in a row on the 1d6 bonus die. Also, Zubat will be able to attack next turn. BTW does anyone actually listen to the tracks I'm putting at the beginning or should I just stop using them?
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After a Cross season that wasn't, this makes me feel worse – boo! They're in such good shape with no injuries, they can dance around SRAMgnam Cyclocross Style!
It is good to see that serious racer crowd having fun though. While they shot these, we were relaxing and riding in HNL.


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"The Sandal is a protection for the foot, worn in ancient times. It was usually a sole of hide, leather, or wood, bound on the foot by thongs. It was undoubtedly the custom to take off the sandals on holy ground, in the act of worship, and in the presence of a superior. This is still the well-known custom of the East– an Oriental taking off his shoe in case in which a European would remove his hat."—(Charles Leonard-Stuart, 1911)
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Are you absolutely confused about relative VO2?
Absolute VO2, relative VO2, heavy people, thin people, active people, inactive people - how does it all relate? The first distinction/definition to make is between absolute and relative VO2max. A good reference is the ACE Essentials of Exercise Science for Fitness Professionals, pgs 76-77. Don't forget…VO2max is measured as milliliters of oxygen/kilogram of body weight/minute – 15 ml/kg/min for instance.
The short explanation is that absolute VO2max does not consider a person's weight. Relative VO2max does consider a person's weight.
For example:
Bob has an absolute VO2 max of 3.8 L/min. Frank has an absolute VO2max of 3.8 L/min (there are no kg mentioned in this equation because we aren't taking their weight into consideration, so we measure in L of O2/min).They are exactly the same fitness level, right?
Bob weighs 231 pounds – he's a big guy. Frank weighs 132 pounds – he's a little guy. If we put their weight into the equation – then we find out that Bob has a relative VO2max of 36.1ml/kg/min and Frank has a relative VO2max of 53.3 ml/kg/min. (we include kg in this equation because we are taking their weight into consideration). Frank is way healthier than Bob. He's a little guy with a big aerobic capacity. Bob is a big guy with a little aerobic capacity.
If you only look at their absolute VO2max, then Bob and Frank appear to be just the same. But if we look closer, then we see that Frank is actually much healthier. Relative VO2max gives Frank the credit he deserves.
It's the old case of comparing apples to apples (relative VO2max) and comparing apples to oranges (Absolute V02max). In practice, the majority of people use relative VO2 because it is more specific to the actual client/individual.
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Rated: PG for some mild language and brief questionable behavior.
Release Date: 2009-06-12
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Watching Imagine That, I was beset by a feeling of intense depression. Is this what Eddie Murphy has become? Once moviedom's most high-octane comedian, a combustible mixture of raunchy, non-holds-barred verbal repartee and kinetic physical mayhem, Murphy has now become a sad parody of his former self. If the failure of the comedy isn't reason enough to avoid the movie, its dramatic missteps are even more unforgiveable.
Evan Danielson (Murphy) is a financial analyst at a Denver investment firm that is about to undergo a major restructuring. Longtime CEO Tom Stevens (Ronny Cox) is selling the company to a Donald Trump figure, Dante D'Enzo (Martin Sheen), who intends to fold the new acquisition into his empire. He initiates an Apprentice challenge to Evan and his biggest in-house competitor, Johnny Whitefeather (Thomas Haden Church). Whoever impresses him the most will get a top position in the conglomeration. Evan's situation is complicated by the presence of his seven-year old daughter, Olivia (Yara Shahidi), who is staying with him for the week while her mother (Nicole Ari Parker) is otherwise engaged. Desperate for her father's attention, Olivia dips into her make-believe world and consults a group of princesses about how certain stocks and corporations will fare. At first, Evan ignores her advice but, when the predictions start coming true, he re-evaluates the validity of her imaginary friends. Although he can't see them, he starts to play along, and soon becomes obsessed with spending time with his daughter not because of who she is but because of what she can do for his career.
While Murphy's recent resume (excepting Dreamgirls) might lead to low expectations for his cinematic endeavors, the involvement of director Kary Kirkpatrick could have been a cause for limited optimism. Kirkpatrick's resume is solid. His only previous directorial outing was Over the Hedge, an amusing animated effort, but he has written a number of noteworthy screenplays, including those for The Spiderwick Chronicles and Chicken Run. Perhaps the problem with Imagine That is that he wasn't involved in the writing. Whatever the case, this is as disappointing a live-action debut as one can envision.
Still, it's hard to consider Imagine That an unmitigated failure. It will probably entertain the most undiscriminating and uncritical portion of its target audience: young children, most of whom will sit through anything featuring live-action figures imitating cartoon characters. They'll love Eddie Murphy's trampoline encounter and his pancake meal. For parents absorbing the blow necessary to entertain their offspring, it will take more than an active imagination to make believe that Imagine That is anything more than two hours of torture.


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The global market rout puts the spotlight on weakness across multiple sectors. What should investors keep an eye on? Lazard Capital's Art Hogan discusses on MoneyBeat. Photo: Getty Images.
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The Juvenile Electronic Monitoring Project:
The Use of Electronic Monitoring Technology
on Adjudicated Juvenile Delinquents
by Thomas J. Harig, Ph.D.
This brief summarizes an evaluation of juvenile electronic monitoring demonstration projects conducted in Monroe, Niagara, and Onondaga counties. These projects sought to determine the extent to which electronic monitoring (EM) is a viable community supervision strategy for adjudicated juvenile delinquents recommended for an institutional placement. The evaluation included surveying the attitudes of local juvenile justice practitioners toward the use of EM technology with juvenile delinquents. It also surveyed the attitudes of participating juvenile delinquents toward the EM sanction, and examined their program performance.
Interviews with local juvenile justice professionals, including police, probation officers, presentment attorneys, law guardians, and family court judges, found considerable support for the juvenile EM programs. Overall, 96.1% of subjects in an initial interview thought EM would be a useful tool with juvenile delinquents, compared with 96.6% of subjects responding in a similar followup interview.
Juvenile EM clients were also quite positive about the program. In an intake survey, 98.8% of youngsters felt EM would be better than a term in a juvenile institution. The majority (88.2%) of those completing an exit survey likewise thought EM had been better than institutionalization would have been.
Client performance was examined after twenty-three months of program operation. One hundred-fifteen (115) clients were enrolled in the programs and ninety-nine (99) had completed or terminated participation. Among clients completing or terminating the program, 58% of clients successfully completed their term of EM. Successful clients averaged three to four months in the EM programs (mean = 122 days; median = 94 days). Approximately two-thirds (64%) of program failures chose to cut off their ankle bracelet, generally thought by program staff to be due to coping difficulties of the youngsters. If a client cut off the monitoring bracelet, this occurred on average after approximately two months in the EM program (mean = 56 days; median = 56 days). There is no evidence that clients cut their bracelet in concert with further criminal behavior, however one client did commit a burglary while AWOL from the EM program. The majority (69%) of program failures were subsequently institutionalized.
Among the most likely to have been successful were those with a school classification of Emotionally Disturbed or Special Education student. Clients with a father or stepfather in the home, and those who had committed a violent offense or an offense against a person were also disproportionately more successful than others. Youngsters with a history of runaway and those with a prior PINS referral were disproportionately more likely to cut their bracelet.
In order to make juvenile EM programs more effective, probation departments should give serious attention to revisiting policies and procedures relating to supervision of high-risk clients. Common sense suggests that a youngster diverted from an institutional placement should likely present a higher public safety risk to the community than a typical youngster who would be assigned to a general supervision caseload. Yet in dealing with high-risk youngsters, program staff are often bound by the practices applied to the traditional low-risk juvenile probation caseload. It is important for departments to consider the different challenges of the juvenile high-risk caseload when defining policies related to night and weekend coverage, warrant execution, arrest authority, and weapons search and seizure, as the strength of these policies and procedures directly influence the ability of the probation officer to manage the high-risk youngster effectively. In particular, prospective juvenile EM programs should consider the following design features:
Juvenile EM programs should plan on daily face-to-face contact with clients, as made possible by a small caseload.
Jurisdictions should not undertake the conduct of a juvenile EM program without a clear plan for off-hour case coverage.
Prospective programs should establish a clear and effective agreement with the Family Court regarding the expedited issuance of warrants for program absconders. Programs should also establish cooperative agreements with local police agencies for timely assistance in the execution of warrants for juvenile EM absconders. Probation departments should train and authorize EM officers in arrest procedures for those occasions when the officer might happen upon a juvenile absconder prior to the issuance of a warrant.
Prospective juvenile EM programs should craft an alcohol and drug testing policy that provides for true off-site random testing, with clearly stated consequences for client non-compliance.
Prospective programs should clearly specify programmatic expectations for the client including, for example, school attendance, timely curfews, alcohol and drug abstinence, and contraband prohibitions, and the client should be provided with a clear statement of procedures used to monitor these conditions, and consequences for non-compliance.
The use of electronic monitoring technology with juvenile delinquents is clearly a viable local alternative to an out-of-home placement. There is support for it among local professionals, and youngsters are generally cooperative with the sanction. The project demonstrated that there was virtually no increased damage to public safety while youngsters were on EM. As an added benefit, it saves placement costs for local governments for clients who can be effectively managed in the community. After paying for the project, it is projected that local jurisdictions saved between $97,000 - $110,000 in placement costs. All three demonstration sites are continuing with their local EM programs and are considering possible expansion of this juvenile community supervision strategy.
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Nokia's HERE Transit, the app that helps you get from here to there via public transportation in hundreds of cities around the world, got updated to version 4.0.2085.0 today. The update's change log simply states that it includes bug fixes and stability updates.
Back in July, HERE Transit, along with its buddy app, HERE Drive, were both pulled from the Windows Phone store when they were causing installation issues for users. The two were quickly reinstated a few days later after getting the bugs out.
The HERE suite of apps is a fine example of Nokia's innovation and dedication to helping consumers get the most out of their Windows Phones.
You can download HERE Transit for free here.
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The photos were taken in different parts of Egypt in 1882. It is just amazing to see how our country and our people , our ancestors looked like during then. This is how Egyptians lived then. There are extremely old photos from Cairo, Giza, Alexandria, Assuit , Luxor , Aswan and the newly founded Suez Canal and its cities like Ismailia.
You can a whole photo gallery with more than 100 photos from that year.
I was running through the photos and try to see how places had changed. For instance the photo of Wadi Es Sebua made me wonder about the fate of the ancient temple as I did not know before that we had an ancient temple with that name. I found that it was located in Lower Nubia in Egypt and it had to be displaced because of the Aswan High Dam.
Just imagine that those photos were taken in 1882. Just see the photos you may be looking for your grandfather without knowing.
It is worth to mention that in 1882 Egyptians and their Egyptian army as well Sudanese under the leadership of Ahmed Orbai rebelled against their ruler Khedive Tewfik. Unfortunately this rebellion , this revolution was ended with occupation when the Khedive asked the help of the British. The British wanted to protect the new Suez Canal by all measures. This was one of the oldest invasions I believe using the minorities paper.
The Orbai revolution was the first time the Egyptian army of the Egyptian modern State truly stood with the people.
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The game will cover the Golden Age arc to the end of Millenium Falcon arc.
Here's an English trailer of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSgOCkFkxRcMore screenshots that aren't on the official site. Thank you for keeping us posted on this! much appreciated!
Thank you for keeping us posted on this! much appreciated!
This game is looking like its turning into an upgraded replica of the Japanese PS2 Berserk game. The game ended right after obtaining the Berserk armor and fighting Grunbeld and Zodd. Most likely we will be forced to buy some sort of season pass for new areas months after the initial release, but that's probably not going to happen. Most Musou games I've seen are what you get.
This didn't make much sense. This game looks like it'll be pretty different from the PS2 game aside from, you know, being a Berserk game. Also, you just said that something is "most likely" and then that it's "probably not going to happen" in the same sentence.
Judging by the screenshot of Skull Knight it's safe to assume he should be in the game, the two other characters would make sense to be added in due to them having potential for a unique and varied move set. @Harry Spencer
It's cool they're adding previous arcs into the game, but to stop at the Millennium Arc again? It's disappointing to me.
Are you aware that Millennium Falcon ends with the appearance of Falconia and Fantasia?
Just imagine if the final battle was against all the Ganishka Spawn. That would be utter chaos, and epic as hell with Ganishka lumbering forward in the background.


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Photographer says perfect Near Miss was three years in the making
A brilliant black and white snap of two birds narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision has earned its photographer a prestigious prize, several years after it was taken.
The photograph Near Miss shows an osprey and spoonbill in flight above Western Australia's Mandurah Wetlands and was among almost 2000 entries submitted.
It was captured by amateur photographer David Rennie, who has now become Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year, a prize awarded by the South Australian Museum.
The judges praised the work for its "almost surreal quality" and "strong contrast between the birds and the moody sky."
Mr Rennie says he became fascinated by birds when he was a boy growing up on a farm not far from the wetlands and spent three years tracking the osprey's family with his camera.
"She was learning to fish and on that particular day she'd had five goes at hitting the water, came up empty," he said.
"After the fifth go, she actually looked back at her talons, opened and closed, opened and closed, and the spoonbill was just coming into land.
"The wings went up like parachutes.
"If you study something long enough, you start to see things they do and you start realise they're going to do something before they do it.
"They have tells just like a card player, a poker player.
"It was 'made luck'. It was absolute luck but I made it by being there.
"At that point, I stopped photographing and went home because I knew in my heart I might have cracked something really good."
Lonely life of a photographer
Mr Rennie, who has battled bipolar disorder, says the lonely life of the nature photographer helped him come to grips with the illness.
"I would love to look at books of birds and animal photos as a kid. That's where my pocket money went," he said.
"There were periods of my life where I couldn't work... and for about three years this was my little world.
"I would go out for a couple of weeks, three weeks, have three sleeps and shoot day and night. I learned to shoot during the night time. I would come back with ten thousand photographs and it was something for a while that was a little bit uncontrollable."
Mr Rennie says he has now given up photography but is delighted to be honoured with the prize.
He says he is extremely proud his three years of hard work crystallised in one perfect shot.
"I've always maintained the theory that... for every one thousand photographs I took, there's one that is a photograph you look at and go 'wow', that's the one and that shows everything you were doing in that period beforehand," he said.
"It boils down to one photograph."
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by jdzaharia » Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:55 pm
by marauders » Thu Feb 10, 2011 5:23 pm
by Ed F » Sat Feb 12, 2011 3:50 pm
Where on the ridge or in that canyon could you possibly be that a 13-foot high coaster will be ruining your view, that the rest of the Snowbird resort is not already in full view.
by jdzaharia » Mon Feb 14, 2011 8:13 pm
Ed F wrote:How about damn near everywhere east of the rollercoaster?
Ed F wrote:Have you ever been to LCC?
Ed F wrote:Seems odd to have such strong feelings about a canyon more than 1000 miles from you.
by Ed F » Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:40 am
jdzaharia wrote:Ed F wrote:How about damn near everywhere east of the rollercoaster?
From the maps I've seen, the crosshairs on this map: http://mapper.acme.com/?ll=40.58430,-111.65809&z=15&t=T are approximately the top of the proposed coaster. Looks to me that everything east of there, on the south side of the canyon, would already be on ski slopes and under chairlifts. And the north side of the canyon, east of the proposed coaster, is not within its viewshed, on top of being private property.Ed F wrote:Have you ever been to LCC?
Nope. But, according to the argument about me being a property owner there, it doesn't matter.Ed F wrote:Seems odd to have such strong feelings about a canyon more than 1000 miles from you.
What strong feelings have I expressed? I have asked honest questions because I truly want the answers to form an opinion on the subject. I also provided information based on the facts as I see them. I have not provided ad hominem attacks or red herring arguments, such as you have.
What do you know about me? How would you have any clue as to what places I have "strong feelings" for?
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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA), formerly called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) or juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA), is a disease that
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The cause of JIA is unknown. Most experts
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It's June 2001. I'm 22 years old and have been sitting at the intersection of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., for 15 minutes. It's raining, hard. I'm in the first car I've ever owned, a navy-blue Jeep Cherokee with more than 200,000 miles on it. There's less than a quarter tank of gas left and it needs to last until Friday, because my entire net worth is rattling around the sticky change holder next to the emergency brake.
Yesterday the tailgate window mysteriously dislodged itself, and through the rearview mirror I notice rain pouring inside—proof that duct tape can't solve everything.
I can also hear the front fender rocking back and forth in the back seat. I've intended to fix it ever since someone found it on Christmas morning near the 18th green at a country club in Connecticut. I have also intended to cure myself of a propensity for driving my car into stationary objects while intoxicated.
The dashboard clock clicks from 5:58 to 5:59, which means it's actually 5:46, which means it's time to leave the intersection of 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. I take a deep breath, flick my cigarette out into the rain, and turn left. Toward the east entrance of the White House.
Last month I graduated from Yale and moved to Washington, D.C., to start a band with my best friend, Jeff. Other than Jeff, the only person I know in this city is Barbara Bush, daughter of George W. and Laura Bush. As it turns out, I'm one of the few people Barbara knows here, since her family recently relocated from Austin, Texas, after her father was elected the president of the United States of America.
Barbara and I met about a year ago at a party in my apartment in New Haven. We had a similar fondness for drinking alcohol and eating Kit-Kats and quickly became friends. We also both enjoyed watching Ally McBeal, which saved me the trouble of telling her I was gay.
Ours was a strange bond, but one we both enjoyed—and one she apparently missed—because this afternoon she invited me to her house to have dinner and watch a movie.
"My parents eat on the early side, so can you come over around six?" she asked.
"Yeah, sure," I said, unsure. "I'll finish up work at five, grab my dry cleaning, and come over to your place."
Your place. What an odd way to refer to the White House.
My windshield wipers have packed it in for the night, making it difficult to determine exactly where the visitor's-entrance checkpoint is. I roll to a sudden stop as a heavily armed guard and a man in a black suit step in front of my car.
The sight of metal detectors and dogs reminds me that I am carrying one half of a marijuana cigarette in my Camel Lights pack.
I hand the Man in a Black Suit my expired Connecticut driver's license, and he returns to the security hut while the Heavily Armed Guard motions for me to unlock the trunk. He opens the liftgate to reveal the following: three weeks of dry cleaning I intended to drop off earlier that day, one rusty front fender, a half case of warm beer from a camping trip I took two months ago, and a couple dozen harmonicas, which, at first glance, look a lot like pocketknives.
"I was in an accident. And I play the harmonica—they're harmonicas."
The guard shakes the fender a couple of times, nods at me, and shuts the liftgate. As he does, the remains of the duct-tape adhesive give way and the rear windshield falls away from the car. Miraculously, the Heavily Armed Guard manages to catch the glass in mid-air and positions it back on the tailgate.
After a brief consultation with the Heavily Armed Guard, the Man in a Black Suit points in a general direction and says, "Drive slowly over to the south entrance, and we'll make sure the glass doesn't fall off."
I give him a thumbs-up and ease through the gate.
The rain has intensified. Visibility is not good. But ahead of me, through the rivers of water on my windshield, is the whitest, most beautiful house I have ever seen. I'm humbled by its presence and tap the brakes a couple of times.
The Man in a Black Suit waves me forward, and for a moment I savor the sight of a guard and a Secret Service agent trailing my impaired Jeep as it rolls past the South Lawn. I'm embarrassed, but not as embarrassed as Richard Nixon probably was when he waved good-bye to the presidency from the Marine One helicopter—which lifted off right over there.
I stop directly in front of the south entrance, and another man in a black suit greets me with an umbrella and a smile. He asks me to follow him, so I step out of my car and am immediately struck by the springy softness on the fringe of the White House driveway. As I glance down, the Friendlier Man in a Black Suit explains: "President Clinton's running track."
I follow his finger as it traces the black rubber path running the perimeter of the South Lawn. I grin. "Probably didn't get much use, eh?"
The Friendlier Man in a Black Suit mustn't be allowed to laugh at fat jokes about former presidents, because he just smiles and leads me toward a large door while the Heavily Armed Guard continues to hold my rear windshield in place.
When I was in fifth grade I was assigned to make a shoe-box diorama of the White House. In my rendition, Ronald Reagan was greeting Mikhail Gorbachev (both portrayed by G.I. Joe action figures) in the Diplomatic Reception Room, where, 12 years later, I am now attempting to whisk rain from my wrinkled khakis. To the left I notice a large marble fireplace. I realize that Franklin Roosevelt delivered his famous "fireside chats" from this very spot throughout his presidency.
The Friendlier Man in a Black Suit is waiting for me in an antique cherrywood-paneled elevator. Once I am aboard he pushes an unmarked blue button, and in silence we slowly ascend.
The elevator doors open directly onto a sitting room, where I hear a familiar laugh.
"Sounds like you had some trouble down there at the gate!"
Dressed in a blue sweat suit with the presidential seal on its breast, the president of the United States greets me. I wonder if he has somehow heard about my shitty car.
"Hello, Mr. President. Brian Smith. Yes, sorry about that. I was in an accident … "
He interrupts. "Well, the girls are getting ready and I'm supposed to give you a tour, Smitty. Let's get you something to drink first. How about a beer?" He turns and shouts to a butler, "One beer for Smitty, and I'll have a non-beer."
Before I know it, I have a Heineken in hand, and the president of the United States has a "non-beer" in his, and we begin an unscheduled tour of the White House residence. He continues to address me as Smitty, a name I haven't been called since Little League.
We start at the Lincoln Bedroom. I'm careful to breathe gently and I notice that the furniture is covered in white sheets. The president explains that the room is being prepared for renovation—which I find somehow sacrilegious. But the tour is moving quickly, so there's no time for questions.
As we enter the Treaty Room, I flash again to my fifth-grade diorama. This room, I know, was named by John F. Kennedy to reflect the many important pacts deliberated here, including the treaty President McKinley oversaw in 1898 that ended the Spanish-American War. Kennedy himself signed the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty here in 1963. That treaty, like many others before and since, was signed on a grand Victorian desk originally used as a meeting table by Ulysses S. Grant. All the history is coming back in heady waves, but the president, unimpressed, says, "This is my upstairs office," and we're moving on.
We walk through the stately central hallway, pausing briefly to glance into the room where the president and the First Lady sleep. He smiles as we walk out onto the rainy Truman Balcony.
"Here's my favorite part," he says. "Quite a sight, usually, when the sun sets on the Washington Memorial."
I stifle an urge to say, "Washington Monument." It's a little too early in our relationship to begin correcting the president.
Thankfully, Barbara is waiting for us in the Sitting Room. It's strange to see my college friend in this place, and I am comforted by her familiar smile. I kiss her cheek, and she introduces me to Mrs. Bush, who is impossibly delightful. As I move forward to shake her hand, I lead with my left side to keep my rain-soaked wrinkled khakis from awakening the odor of marijuana tucked inside the cigarette pack in my right-hand pocket.
Everyone agrees it's time for dinner. We head into the dining room. I am seated next to the president, and suddenly I'm painfully aware of having finished my beer in less than two minutes. The butler brings over a second, and the president, as if trying to keep up, orders another "non-beer." I resolve to sip slowly.
Before long, a handsome chef serves us each a helping of White House chicken potpie. As my plate arrives, a horrible odor arises from the table. If that's coming from the potpie, I think, there's no way I'll be able to eat. How does one turn down food from a head of state? The question is rendered moot when the president peers down under the table to scold Barney, the family's Scottish terrier, for farting.
Mrs. Bush congratulates me on my recent graduation. Then the president asks in which direction my chair was facing. At the ceremony, Yale had given him an honorary degree, and during his speech, in a remarkable act of disrespect, a large portion of my graduating class had turned their seats 180 degrees, facing their backs to the president.
"I'm really sorry about that," I say. "It was an embarrassment to our class and to the university."
For a moment, the president—a Yale man from a family of Yale men—looks down at his plate, like a child who's been scolded. "Yeah, that was a tough one."
I am surprised and impressed by my new friend's honesty and, once again, am ashamed of my self-righteous, irreverent classmates.
Barbara's sister, Jenna, severs the tension by asking her father how many words he screwed up in that speech. I nervously sip my beer and add that I am a horrible speller. Everyone laughs. We're just a normal family eating chicken potpie, poking fun, blaming farts on the dog. In the White House.
I mention to the president that we have a mutual friend, the father of one of my classmates. I've barely uttered the name before the president starts shouting, "The Juice Man!" Only later do I learn that the nickname goes back to the Juice Man's days at Andover, where he and Bush were friends, and, I'm told, he often suffered horrible diarrhea.
The president eats quickly. Apparently when he is finished, we all are. The butler steward swiftly retrieves my half-full plate. It's decided that popcorn will serve as dessert in the White House Movie Theater.
After two hours in the dark with the president and the First Family, I make plans with Barbara for tomorrow, which usually means shopping or Pilates or karaoke and sake. I jokingly invite the president to join us, but he's off to meet "Poot'n" for the first time. He gives me a playful pat on my cheek and says, "You're a good boy, Smitty."
And just like that, I'm alone in the White House—a remarkably cool feeling. I exit out the East Wing, and, after a stroll through the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, I find my car right where I left it, the Heavily Armed Guard waiting for me beside it. He hands me the keys and points to the liftgate, which is no longer held on by duct tape.
"We had some adhesive in the back—should get you home no problem."
I thank him profusely, hop into my car, and return to normalcy—to my net worth in the change compartment, to my bedroom large enough only for a futon.
Spontaneous invitations to the White House continue. I sit on the South Lawn and squint at Fourth of July fireworks as they envelop the "Washington Memorial." I learn that watching a sex scene next to the president of the United States is even more uncomfortable than doing so next to my own mother. Each month another package arrives in my mailbox, with the return address "The White House, Washington, D.C." Enclosed are photos from my most recent visit, which I frame, wrap, and offer as birthday presents to my parents. They're delighted. My tales from the Rose Garden are big hits at our family reunion—an occasion I generally loathe because I'm neither planning a wedding nor joining the country club nor sleeping with women.
But as my visits to the White House multiply, so does the contempt of most of my friends. "You are a progressively thinking gay man, Brian. How can you continue to accept invitations from George W. Bush?"
I explain that the president is a very kind and considerate man. He's also my friend's father and, politics aside, he's been very nice to me. He calls me Smitty. He says I'm a "good boy." Besides, I'm broke, and no one else in Washington is offering me free dinner, beer, and unlimited bowling.
In September, on a stunningly sunny morning, I am nursing a hangover, listening to Imus in the Morning, and driving over the 14th Street bridge on my way to work in Fairfax, Virginia. The traffic is particularly frustrating today, but the Technicolor rays of sun darting off the Potomac make the wait almost worthwhile.
My cell phone rings. It's my boyfriend, Ben, calling from the roof of his apartment in Greenwich Village, in New York City. He's out of breath. "The Twin Towers are on fire &&8230; "
Almost immediately, I lose the call. I look up and notice a large cloud of smoke rising from the Pentagon. My attempts to redial Ben fail, and there, alone on the 14th Street bridge, I realize the country is under attack.
A difficult month follows. Nothing is the same. Like everyone around me, I feel confused and angry and lost. I suffer from panic attacks and I begin drinking more than I swore I ever would."
Naturally I figure my evenings at the White House are over; the president is too busy for such lighthearted fare. Then, amazingly, in early October, I'm invited for dinner. I accept, figuring an evening with the First Family might alleviate my post-9/11 anxiety. Before leaving home, I finally remove the front fender from the trunk, pack away the harmonicas, and check for loose joints. It's the least I can do.
And it's a good thing, because the Heavily Armed Guard is now just one of dozens of heavily armed guards stationed at the checkpoint.
When we finish eating, I begin to excuse myself. I figure overstaying at such a sensitive time would be insensitive, but before long I'm once again seated next to the president in the White House Movie Theater.
From 1953 to 1986, a man named Paul Fischer was the official White House projectionist. Mr. Fischer kept a log of every film screened in that theater. Richard Nixon's most requested film was Patton. Jimmy Carter's first film in the theater was All the President's Men.
One month after the worst attack in U.S. history, George W. Bush watched a 100-minute-long Anthony Hopkins film called Hearts in Atlantis.
It is an awful movie, and as it drags on I feel increasingly uneasy. Surely the president should be doing something else. Occasionally he gets a phone call from Andy Card, his chief of staff, who, as I understand it, is in the West Wing meeting with the head of the F.A.A. to determine when Washington's Reagan National Airport will be safe to completely re-open (some flights began operating earlier in the week). Each time the phone rings, I hope the president will excuse himself to join them. But he doesn't. Over the phone, the president tells the men to "get that airport opened up!" and then heads to bed.
That night I leave the White House feeling more anxious about our national security than when I arrived.
In March 2002, my collegiate a cappella singing group, the Baker's Dozen, is invited to sing in the Blue Room for a gathering of the president's friends from Yale. When the concert ends, I clink my wine glass, stand up, and thank the president and Mrs. Bush for their hospitality, even though it feels very odd to be participating in a White House celebration of a cappella singing and Yale's class of 1968—two seemingly antiquated and irrelevant institutions—in the week following the deaths of seven American soldiers in Afghanistan.
I carry this skepticism with me to the White House Christmas party several months later. By then, like Vegas on a Sunday afternoon, the novelty of the place has worn off.
Inside, Texas Republicans are eating ham and singing Christmas carols, and I immediately feel out of place. I walk alone into the East Room, where I stand and stare at George Washington's portrait.
Dog farts and diarrhea nicknames used to make me laugh, too. But with the cavity in lower Manhattan still smoldering in my mind—and pre-emptive war in Iraq looking increasingly likely, I find myself longing for a real president, or at least one who occasionally uses his "upstairs office."
I find Barbara and tell her I am not feeling well. I wish her and her family a merry Christmas. That night I leave the White House for the last time.
Six months later, the president, wearing a flight suit, lands on an aircraft carrier and declares the mission in Iraq "accomplished," even though kids much younger than I are dying every day. Soon after, I ask my parents to remove my White House photos from their walls.
Nearly another year later, on February 24, 2004, I'm in my boyfriend's apartment, passively watching TV, when a rare presidential press conference catches my attention. I lean forward, hoping for good news from the Middle East. Instead, the president of the United States announces that the Constitution must be amended to ensure that I will never marry the man I love. I shut off the TV and sit in silence. I feel sorry for my friend Barbara, who has always surrounded herself with gay friends. I wonder if she is as ashamed of her father as I am. I am saddened and confused by him—by how he considers me to be both "a good boy" and half of a man.
I decide that my graduation chair was facing the wrong direction after all.
AUTHOR'S DISCLAIMER: All dialogue is as I remember it, some from journal entries made after my visits and some entirely from memory. In my capacity as a guest at the White House, I was not taking notes at the time.
C. Brian Smith is currently working on a Family Guy spin-off, and has been writing for the political comedy blog 236.com and the Huffington Post.


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First off, yeah, I don't actually have a 1st gen, but a bunch of my internet searches lately kept leading back to this site. So I asked some of my forum friends and somehow got an email address which led me to someone that allowed me to register here
While I might not be very active here, I really do appreciate the work others have done in thinking outside the box and figuring out performance solutions for these older Celicas. I'm sure a lot of the info will cross over and can be used on my car (I recently picked up a few pair of RX7 calipers for a killer deal, so that's my latest research).
My own ride is an '85 Celica GT. I swapped a van axle in for the F code diff and designed/laser cut brackets for a disc conversion, ditched the flip-up headlights, deleted the sunroof, made my own Bilstein inverted monotube coilovers using inserts from a RAV4, and recently completely gutted it and started on a custom harness in preparation for a 3SGE BEAMS swap (even using an is200 cluster that I got from the UK). This was mainly bought for RallyX, but until recently when I yanked the engine, was also my DD.
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Here's a question for you, generated in coversations with some drivers and stories passed on from others. As everyone knows, the American Trucking Association and assorted fleets are pushing to set the maximum speed for truck engines at 68 mph -- using engine governors pre-programmed at the factory to make sure trucks go no faster than 68 mph.
Now, what I am hearing is that some engine makers say equipping an over-the-road truck engine with a speed governor can damage it -- and that if you, the truck's owner, use a governor to restrict engine speed this way, it will void your engine warranty.
It's perplexing, to say the least, to hear this rumor -- for aren't slower speeds safer for the industry? And wouldn't restricting top-end speed actually improve the life cycle of an engine, since it there would create a 'ceiling' on how hard it would have to work? Let me know what you think.


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Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Wind Turbine Installed at Fox Chapel/Waterworks Eat'n Park!
Since July, we've been anxiously awaiting the arrival of a part so that we could adorn our new Fox Chapel Eat'n Park with its crowning touch: a wind turbine. Our wait ended yesterday when the turbine was successfully installed!
The turbine is designed to generate power in winds up to 60 miles per hour, and it was immediately apparent yesterday that it spins in even the slightest breeze. Stretching 40 feet above ground, the turbine is mounted just past our pickup window – so take a look next time you're picking up dinner!
We expect the turbine to generate about 2,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity for our restaurant annually (about 1/3 of what the average household uses in a year). When its power is not being used at the Waterworks Eat'n Park, it will be fed back into the power grid.
Below are a few photos from the installation. KDKA covered the event, and you can check out a video of the installation and the turbine in action here: http://kdka.com/green/Eatn.Park.turbine.2.1969522.html
To see more photos from the event, check out our Facebook page. And for more information about the other green features of the Waterworks Eat'n Park, click here.
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