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running vs walking and wrkot routine
so i signed up at the gym last week. while i was doing the paper work i was asking the "trainer" a series of questons. I asked him a question about weight loss and running. he told me that it is actually better to walk for an hour than to run for 40 min. he said that you actually burn more fat cals when you walk....is this true?
he also said that is is good to have a workout routine similar to this one:
monday- chest and back
tuesday-cardio and abbs
wednesday-legs and traps
thursday-cardio and abbs
friday- arms
he said that as long as you work out hard enough to tear the micro-fibers in your muscles your metabolism should be high enough to lose weight...now is this true?
thanks for the help.
I would have asked that trainer what is his definition of working out "hard". That could mean a lot of different things from super high volume stuff to the point of fatigue or super high intensity low volume to the point of failure. Just learn to ignore anything that general and subjective. It's like when people tell you to "just go and lift heavy weights". Worthless advice unless you define what you mean by heavy. I can lift something at 60% intensity and if I'm fatigued enough it will feel heavy.
For the workout it could be effective for you. But I'd recommend a full-body routine with relatively low volume and compound exercises. That will allow the highest intensity and will therefore have a big effect on post exercise metabolism.
The thing about walking versus running has to do with the PERCENTAGE of calories burned as fat. Walking, or lower intensity exercise will burn a greater percentage of fat calories than higher intensties like running. Although all energy systems will be used to different extents at any one time. BUT a higher percentage of a lower amount of calories does not always mean MORE fat burned. It's a trick of math. Running burns more calories and even though the percentage of those that are fat decreases it can still be MORE fat overall.
One thing is certain. Running will have a more long-lasting effect
AFTERWARDS. It will increase oxygen consumption for a longer time and thus overall fat buring during the day.
Walking may be a good choice for you but don't think it is automatically burning more fat. Right now as you read this you are buring a higher percentage of fat calories. So if you want to "burn more fat" according to that trainer's defintion just set in front of the TV or read a book. That should be enough to let you see what I'm talking about here...
excellent post!! most trainers are total douchebag morons... they know slightly more than the average untrained fatbody that comes into the gym thinking that walking an hour on the treadmill (ever notice the inlince is always at 0 and the pace is around 3mph???) and rolling around on that f'n workout ball is going to get them into bikini shape. :rolleyes:
with the level of knowledge and "expertise" it takes to become a certified trainer these days, it's no wonder this country is the fatest in the world
Thanks! Yeah, there is probably, what 3 decent certifications out of literally hundreds of organizations giving them out?
Here's my thing about trainers and especially ones that you are personally paying. The word "anything" shouldn't be in their vocabulary. Everything should be extremely "specific" and ONLY for you. If he or shes is not doing various strength tests, asking lots and lots of questions, even assessing posture, etc. but instead has you on a workout plan the first hour you meet with them then you are paying them for not much of anything. One would thing just the exercise instruction would be invaluable but you can't even count on that being worth a shit, and we're not even talking high skill exercises.
That's a general rant, though. I understand, Daniel that you were just talking to the trainer not paying.
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Acting in accordance with her last wishes, Benazir Bhutto's party Sunday named her 19-year-old son as its ceremonial leader and her widowed husband as the executor of its day-to-day affairs as violence that had flared in Pakistan after her assassination subsided.
The decision to bypass experienced senior politicians in the party hierarchy showed the slain opposition leader's steely determination to posthumously ensure the continuation of one of the country's most enduring political dynasties, even though her son is too young to run for office and her husband is shadowed by corruption allegations.
Bhutto was only 25 when her politician father, facing execution at the hands of a military dictator, told her he wanted her to carry on his life's work.
The party's move, three days after his mother's assassination, thrust into the spotlight Bilawal Zardari, a young man whom Bhutto had kept out of the public eye as much as possible during an upbringing that took place almost exclusively outside Pakistan.
Dark-haired, slender and composed, the Oxford history student bears a striking resemblance, both in looks and demeanor, to his mother. That has drawn comparisons by some to the public emergence of Britain's Prince William upon the death of a mother he too greatly resembled, Princess Diana.
Underscoring the weight of legacy, Bhutto's son, who has two younger sisters, was introduced at a news conference in his ancestral village of Naudero as Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the first public use of his maternal surname.
"The party's long struggle for democracy will continue with renewed vigor," he said, speaking in even-toned, lightly British-accented English. "My mother always said democracy is the best revenge."
Although there is generally warm sentiment toward Bilawal Zardari, his father is a far more polarizing figure. In the eyes of many of Bhutto's admirers, Asif Ali Zardari, whom she wed in an arranged marriage, has tarnished her legacy.
A Cabinet minister in Bhutto's two administrations as prime minister, Zardari subsequently spent eight years in prison on corruption charges. Although he has denied all allegations, so widespread was his reputation for taking kickbacks that he was known as "Mr. 10%."
In passing the political torch to Bhutto's son and husband, her Pakistan People's Party pointedly refrained from seeking any delay in the parliamentary elections scheduled to take place Jan. 8. The country's Election Commission, controlled by supporters of President Pervez Musharraf, is to announce a decision today about the timing of the vote.
Analysts said moving ahead swiftly with the polling would allow Bhutto's party to capitalize on what could be a large sympathy vote in addition to the party's already formidable voter base. That, they said, could more than make up for whatever organizational disadvantages the party would suffer due to disarray in the wake of its leader's death.
Because Bilawal cannot run for office until he is 25 and his father has said he will not seek a seat in parliament, the party's candidate for prime minister, in the event of victory, would probably be Bhutto's deputy, Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who stood in for her during her years in exile.
With Bhutto's party saying it would run in the elections, the party of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif said it would almost certainly field candidates as well. Sharif, another former prime minister, had said after Bhutto was killed Thursday that his party would boycott the poll, but he also had previously reversed threats to sit out the contest when Bhutto's party refused to join in a boycott call.
Zardari said the party was determined to participate in the elections "despite this dangerous situation" because that was his late wife's wish. Emotional supporters invoked her name again and again, chanting, "Benazir, princess of heaven!"
Senior aides to Musharraf have indicated that the Election Commission would probably accede to the wishes of Bhutto's party in regard to the election date. It would be politically difficult for the government to force a delay if the other parties are prepared to go ahead, and if a lull in violence holds.
Sunday was the last of three days of government-decreed mourning for Bhutto; schools and offices are due to reopen today. The country was rocked by riots and looting almost from the moment her death was announced, with most of the violence concentrated in her hometown, Karachi, Pakistan's largest city.
The violence eased Sunday, but the death toll stood at nearly 50 and Karachi's streets were pockmarked with burned-out buildings and littered with the charred hunks of torched vehicles. Property damage ran into the many millions of dollars.
The Bush administration refrained from taking any position on the timing of the vote or the accession of Bhutto's son and husband, saying only that it hoped the polling would be free and fair.
White House Deputy Press Secretary Scott Stanzel, in Texas with President Bush, said, "It is up to the political parties of Pakistan to choose their leaders.
"We believe it is important for Pakistan to confront extremists and continue on the path to democracy by holding free and fair elections," he said. "The timing of those elections will be up to the Pakistanis."
The United States had hoped that Bhutto, armed with a strong election mandate, might have been able to forge a power-sharing accord with Musharraf, who has just embarked on a second five-year term as president, taking office after a vote by lawmakers that was sharply contested by his political opponents.
That opposition, manifested in a series of unfavorable Supreme Court decisions, was widely believed to have been the main reason Musharraf imposed emergency rule, akin to martial law, for six weeks ending earlier this month. The Pakistani leader has given up his post as head of the army, but governing in concert with Bhutto would have helped cement a transition to civilian rule.
Husain Haqqani, the director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, said Pakistan's dynastic traditions probably drove the decision to anoint father and son.
"Politics always has a sentimental dimension all over the world," he said. "It is the reason the Kennedys and the Nehru-Gandhis get elected."
Ayaz Amir, a columnist for the Dawn newspaper, said the accession of Bilawal Zardari and his father had "feudal" overtones.
"It doesn't reflect well on our politics, but that was the compulsion the People's Party faced," he said. "It's an effort to keep the Bhutto mystique alive."
At Sunday's news conference in Naudero, in Sindh province, the elder Zardari demanded a United Nations investigation of the assassination.
Bhutto's party has sharply disputed the government's version of events surrounding the attack against her, particularly the contention that she was not killed by an assassin's bullets. The government said she died of a skull fracture after hitting her head on the lever of the vehicle's sunroof as a suicide bomber struck.
Bhutto aides who viewed and washed the body said gunshot entry and exit wounds were clearly visible, and opposition lawyer Athar Minallah, a member of the board of the hospital where she died, asserted that doctors were pressured into silence.
The Dawn television station late Saturday aired previously unseen amateur photos of the assassination scene, showing a clean-shaven young man in sunglasses aiming a gun at Bhutto's back. Just behind him is a man wrapped in a white shawl, believed to have been the suicide bomber.
Times staff writer James Gerstenzang in Crawford, Texas, contributed to this report.

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NORFOLK, VA-- Keyon Carter (Riviera Beach, Fl.) scored 12 points, Gerald Lee (Uusikaupnki, Finland) added nine points with 10 boards, followed by Darius James (Virginia Beach, Va.) with 10 points to lead the Monarchs of Old Dominion to a 69-51 exhibition game win over Chowan University Tuesday evening at the Ted Constant Convocation Center.
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An online magazine called Jezebel bills itself as the "Home of Shiny Happy Ladies." Jezebel might want to rethink that tag line if a post that Madeline Davis wrote about George Bush is anything to go by. As best as I can tell, the trigger for Davis's fevered post is the fact that George Bush went onto the Jay Leno show and showed off some of his paintings:
Bush isn't Rembrandt (despite his joking belief that there's a Rembrandt hiding inside him), but he's definitely got some painterly talent — kind of along Grandma Moses lines. I like his stuff. I don't love it, but I think something like this is rather charming, and shows a nice sense of line, color, and whimsey:
Davis, however, sees a nefarious plot behind Bush's reinvention as a painter: he's trying to convince credulous Americans that he's not evil incarnate but is, instead, "a harmless and adorable, sweet old man." In an obscenity-laced, embittered, wandering post, Davis brings up every charge, however silly, routinely leveled at Bush. It's as if Bush is still in the White House, rather than having spent five years away from the job — during which time, incidentally, even as Obama routinely scapegoated him, Bush kept a dignified silence about Obama's pin-ball karooming from one failure to another.
Having read Davis's screed several times, two things became apparent: (1) Davis lives in a fact-free zone, and compensates for this with discredited studies, innuendo, lies, conspiracy theories, and personal attacks. (2) Davis is almost certainly engaging in denial on a massive scale, since it's undoubtedly easier to repeat the rote attacks used against Bush during his presidency than to acknowledge that Obama is a dishonest man and an incompetent president.
Since I'll be quoting Davis, please be warned that there are a lot of obscenities ahead. Speaking of obscenities, have you ever noticed that there seems to be an inversely proportional relationship between the number of obscenities that a post-writer uses and that writer's level of knowledge and intelligence? The higher the first, the lower the second….
(Warning: sarcasm ahead.) Let's start with the post's elegant, eloquent title: "Fuck George Bush and His Stupid Fucking Cat Paintings." You might see inarticulate profanity when you read that. I, however, having labored through Davis's entire post, see an exquisite parallelism, as she gracefully ends the post with a sentence that perfectly echoes its opening. "Fuck George Bush and fuck his piece of shit cat paintings. My 10-month-old sister makes better art than that." When a post is book-ended by such poetic, expressive speech, you know that there's going to be some fine stuff in between.
Sadly, Davis, showing that she lacks the true artist's touch, unbalances her masterful parallelism when, about a quarter of a way into her post, she rather randomly describes Bush, again, as "an [sic] noted asshole who made a bunch of fucked up cat paintings." One wonders what Freud would make of the fact that, of all the paintings George Bush has done to date, it's the cat paintings that drive Davis into an F-bomb frenzy.
In the last couple of days, I've been rather taken by "epic" things. I loved Jean-Claude Van Damme's epic splits and laughed at Channing Tatum's epic spoof. Honestly, though, you've never seen epic until you've read Davis's ad hominem insults against Bush. Clearly, in the five years since he left office, they've been building up inside her until those cat paintings caused them to explode with volcanic force. Davis describes Bush as a "war criminal," "one of the most terrible things to ever happen to the United States," "a reminder that evil exists," "incredibly harmful," and "a terrible, nightmare person." I don't want to read too much into Davis's writing, but I get the feeling she really doesn't like the man.
And why doesn't Davis like Bush? Oh, the usual stuff, all of which she mashes up into one vitriolic, obscene sentence: "George W. Bush is the war criminal who — in addition to his war crimes — shat on abortion and gay rights, botched hurricane relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and drove the U.S. economy into the ground." (Hyperlinks omitted because I really don't feel like sending traffic to al Jazeera, among other sites.)
To begin at the beginning, Davis accuses George Bush of causing 9/11 because he didn't take seriously briefings in and around August saying that al Qaeda was planning a terrorist attack against America. Her source for that statement is Kurt Eichenwald, who claims that, in addition to an August 2001 briefing to the president that said al Qaeda was up to something, Eichenwald also saw "excerpts" of other documents in which the CIA said something hinky was going on. Even Eichenwald concedes, though, that nobody had any idea what exactly was going on. In other words, even if the Bush administration had responded with the utmost seriousness to the available data, there's still no evidence whatsoever that the administration had facts sufficient to realize that al Qaeda had decided to hijack plans on September 11 and fly them into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Congress. Nor was the available information coherent enough for the hijackers to have been apprehended. That inchoate information never made it to the White House.
Having wallowed in a fact-free world of what "might have been," Davis gets to the war crimes accusation. Summed up, she says that Bush lied and 4,489 U.S. troops died and almost 500,000 Iraqis died. Oy, where to begin! First of all, Bush acted on the data available to him, data that convinced most world leaders that Saddam Hussein did actually possess weapons of mass destruction. (As it happens, I think that Hussein had such weapons, and took advantage of the ongoing UN debate about invasion to ship them to Syria. Moreover, I wouldn't be surprised if Assad subsequently use those weapons against his own citizens, prompting Obama to place an asterisk on his previous "crossed a red line" threat to Syria regarding chemical weapons.) One can debate the wisdom of invading Iraq, but there can be no doubt that the intelligence from all credible sources, both American and British, was that Hussein was a regional threat.
And about those war dead. Yes, American troops died in Iraq and each loss is an individual tragedy. Nevertheless, when Bush left office, those losses had meaning and purpose: the Surge had succeeded in turning Iraq around and enabling it to set up a functioning, reasonably democratic government. An intelligent post-war foreign policy would have seen American troops remain in Iraq to maintain those gains, much as American troops remained in Japan and Germany for — let's see, how many years now? — 68 years after victory on the battlefield. What happened instead was that Barack Obama, without consolidating America's gains, simply siphoned troops out of Iraq. The region has since destabilized completely, undoing the work that those 4,489 troops died to achieve.
As for the almost 500,000 dead Iraqis, the Lancet study that came up with the initial high numbers was completely discredited, to the point where the numbers could reasonably be called fraudulent. Iraqis certainly died — possibly around 70,000 of them, most of whom were either actual fighters who died in combatant or civilians who died at the hands of other Muslims — and that's a tragedy, but Davis avoids a larger tragedy by focusing narrowly on a war that could have freed them had Obama not reversed American troops' gains.
Citizens in a tyrannically ruled country (sadly) always die. It's the nature of tyranny and it was certainly the nature of Hussein's tyrannical regime. It's difficult to count accurately the number who died during Hussein's dictatorship, since you have to count all the people who died in the war with Iran, the 100,000-200,000 Kurds killed with poison gas (the same gas that was used in Syria?), and the "enemies of the state" whom Hussein and his mad sons "disappeared," usually after some preliminary torture. Nevertheless, the usual estimate for Iraqi deaths at Hussein's hands comes in at around 600,000 – 700,000 people. Keep in mind, too, that since Obama decreed that the U.S. should abandon Iraq, at least 16,000 more Iraqis have died in the intervening years.
Oh, and speaking of war dead, I don't recall George Bush spending hours at his desk once a week personally picking those in Pakistan and Yemen (countries with which we are not at war) who will live and those who will die. Obama does, however, diligently working over his "kill list." Nor did Bush ever boast about being "really good at killing people" — Obama did, though. Actually, I think the last American before Obama who made that kind of boast might have been Charles Manson . . . or maybe it was the Hillside Strangler.
And then there's the tired old Hurricane Katrina accusation. Where to begin? How about the fact that reports about murder, rape, cannibalism — all of which were said to have occurred within three days of the Hurricane and all of which were blamed on Bush — were lies? Or the fact that it was a lie that more blacks died in Katrina than did whites? Or the fact that the corrupt New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (a black man) did nothing to help New Orleans citizens, even though he had warning (from the feds) and the means (those infamous flooded school buses)?
Davis even brings up the tiresome canard, first raised after Katrina, that Bush didn't care about black people. It's hard to prove a negative. Certainly, there is no spoken or written evidence that Bush ever spoke slightingly of African Americans or advanced policies, especially economic policies, that harmed them. It's worth pointing out in that respect that, even if one assumes solely for the sake of argument that Bush was anti-black, Obama seems to care even less about them. During his five years in the White House, blacks in America have ping-ponged back and forth between economic stagnation and collapse. The old segregationists would have been proud of the social and economic havoc wreaked on black America during the Obama administration. Obama's got the lip service down just fine, but at a practical level, his presidency has been a disaster for American blacks.
Davis runs out of steam after attacking Bush for racism, so she never gets around to developing her claims that he destroyed abortion, gay rights, and the economy. Pardon me if I'm confused, but I don't recall George Bush signing any federal laws that made abortion illegal or that discriminated against gays. It's true that he did not force all Americans to pay for every woman's abortion, nor did he announce that federal law recognizes gay marriage. What's also true, though, is that while he was personally pro-life and anti-gay marriage, his policies in both regards were merely continuations of Clinton-era policies.
When it comes to the economic collapse, Davis's inchoate attack fares no better. As you undoubtedly remember, the trigger for the collapse was the housing market, which had been turned into Swiss cheese thanks to Clinton-era Democrat-spawned policies forcing banks to give loans to people who were manifestly bad credit risks. The banks sought to offset this risk, and money-men sought to benefit from this risk, by bundling bad loans. Home prices and bad debt increased in tandem until the entire thing collapsed. While it collapsed on George Bush's watch, Davis probably is unaware that Bush and other Republicans saw the potential for collapse and tried desperately to avert it — only to be repulsed by Congressional Democrats who continued to insist that banks continue to make bad loans so as to redistribute home ownership to those who couldn't possibly pay.
Reading her fire-breathing post, it's clear that Davis has lost her way in a fever-swamp of Bush hatred. Presumably, since Bush has been gone from the scene for five years now, this hatred usually lies fallow, but is periodically resurrected by exposure to cat paintings. (Incidentally, real art critics concede that some of Bush's paintings have a naive charm. It's that Grandma Moses thing I mentioned.)
Davis is quite obviously a very angry, frustrated person. If I were playing armchair psychiatrist, I would say that she keeps stoking her rage at George Bush so that she doesn't have to deal with her disappointment about Barack Obama. After all, denial ain't just a river in Egypt, and it must be hard for a die-hard Leftist to be presented with laundry-list of Obama's sins — sins that manage to offend his base, the center, and (predictably) conservatives. Here's a short list of the things that Davis is probably able to ignore only by keeping her wrath focused on the politics of the past:
- Biggest debt in American history
- Biggest deficit in American history
- Kill lists
- Boasts about killing people
- NSA spying scandal
- IRS abuse of power scandal
- Failing on ever metric with the Arab Spring, especially in Egypt, when he threw his weight behind the now-despised Muslim Brotherhood
- Benghazi scandal, including lies and dereliction of duty before and during the attack, and lies after the attack
- Alienating America's allies
- Fast & Furious scandal
- Immoral silence when Iranian tried to stage a revolution against the Mullahs
- Passivity about Syria which led to a chemical massacre, which led Obama to lie about his previous statements in order to avoid having to square off against Assad
- Incremental inflation
- Stagflation
- Longest "recession" in history (which I think, contrary to economists' carefully drawn lines, qualifies as a Depression)
- Accusations of fraud in employment numbers before an election
- Disastrous employment and income rates for black Americans
- Obamacare — massive fraud in the inception; massive incompetence in the execution
It's late, I'm tired, and I'm sure I've forgotten something. Suffice to say that there's enough there to keep any good Progressive's eyes fixed firmly on the past so as to avoid Obama's and Progressivism's spectacular and corrupt implosion in the present.


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text: 08 Nov 2015 06:00 Etihad Guest, the loyalty programme for Etihad Airways, has signed a deal with the Porsche Centre of Abu Dhabi and Ali & Sons Co LLC, to offer new benefits to its UAE-based members. The deal will see Etihad Guest members earn miles with the purchase of a Porsche, enabling them to add a dream holiday to their purchase of a luxury sports car. As an example, a member who buys a new 2016 Porsche Cayenne will earn enough miles to fly one way from Abu Dhabi to London or New York*.The partnership with the Porsche Centre Abu Dhabi is the latest to be announced by the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, as the scheme looks to grow its membership base and provide its millions of members with access to unique offers and opportunities. Etihad Guest is committed to providing value to its members and as such is expanding the ways in which they can earn and redeem miles.Yasser Al Yousuf, Managing Director of Etihad Guest, said: "As a premium loyalty programme, we want to align ourselves with products and brands that will benefit our growing member base. The Porsche brand is a great fit for Etihad Guest, as it matches our values and together we believe we can offer real benefits to each other's customers. Etihad Guest is increasingly looking to become a lifestyle programme that matches the needs of our growing number of customers."Wissam Khalil, General Manager of Porsche Centre Abu Dhabi, said: "As always, we are committed to bringing more value to our customers and enthusiasts. This partnership with Etihad Guest will also result in members being able to redeem miles for vehicle servicing, Porsche driving experiences, Tequipment purchases and Exclusive vehicle options."Etihad Guest is the award-winning multi-airline loyalty programme from Etihad Airways, Air Serbia, Air Seychelles and Etihad Regional. It was launched in August 2006 and quickly established itself as one of the airline industry's fastest-growing and most innovative loyalty programmes. Etihad Guest now boasts more than 3.2 million members.The programme offers members the opportunity to accumulate Etihad Guest Miles on flights with more than 40 airline partners including airberlin, Virgin Australia, Alitalia and Jet Airways. Members also enjoy accruing miles with global partners, ranging from hotel accommodation and car rental to retail and financial products.Etihad Guest members can redeem miles against a selection of flights on more than 3,000 routes and thousands of products on the Etihad Guest online Reward Shop. Miles accumulated on the programme can also be used to shop at more than 30 million retail outlets worldwide with PointsPay® - representing an unrivalled loyalty proposition.* Actual miles required for GuestSeats vary per destination and travel class and are subject to availability. Carrier and airport surcharges apply. ติดต่อเรา ในฐานะสายการบินระดับนานาชาติอย่างแท้จริง เราจึงมีสำนักงานในสถานที่ต่างๆ มากมายทั่วโลก ดูรายละเอียดการติดต่อสำนักงานของเอทิฮัดใกล้ๆ คุณดูรายละเอียดการติดต่อ กดไลค์เรา เยี่ยมชมเราทาง Facebook! ติดตามชม เยี่ยมชมช่อง YouTube ของเรา! ติดตามเรา สายการบินเอทิฮัด | ข้อเสนอของเอทิฮัด | ความช่วยเหลือจากเอทิฮัด | ของรางวัลจากเอทิฮัด


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Megan Gale has revealed the name of her newborn son.
Alongside a gorgeous Instagram picture, posted last night, she wrote:
"We finally chose a name for our little man - River Alan Thomas Hampson. Rivers [sic] is my Mums maiden name, Alan after my Dad, Thomas for Shaun's Dad and the last name just like his Daddy's."
River Hampson.
Gale also used social media to announce the birth yesterday.
She posted a picture to Instagram with the caption saying:
"Our precious little 3.87kg (8.5 pound) man came into the world yesterday the 13th of May 2014 at 4.47pm.
Megan Gale announced the arrival of her son on Instagram. Her unnamed baby was born yesterday afternoon. Photo: Megan Gale/Instagram
"Needless to say Shaun and I are completely smitten with him and we're beyond blessed to have such a healthy baby.
"Still deciding on a name so watch this space. Words can't even come close to describing how we're feeling right now and more so, how it felt to see, hear, hold and meet this beautiful soul for the first time. We love you little man and are SO thrilled to be your parents."
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I read somewhere recently that chicken growers are having trouble marketing chicken parts that aren't skinless, boneless breasts. And it's not because chicken breasts are more convenient to cook, or that chicken thighs and legs are more fatty than breast meat. It's that skinless, boneless chicken breasts don't have bones and therefore seem less like they came from an animal and are therefore somehow less icky.
Seriously? If you're going to eat meat, own up to it. You can pretend all you want, but that boneless, skinless bit of animal protein was just as much a part of a living chicken as a bone-in thigh or drumstick.
If you're not ready to give up eating meat (I know I'm not), but you want to feel better about doing so, there are a number of things you can do. You can shop the farmers markets, where the farmers can – and cheerfully will, often at great length – tell you about the healthy, humane, pasture-fed, free-range lives their animals lead. You can shop the new breed of butcher shops such as The Butcher & Larder, where the butchers only deal with small, local farmers, often the ones you see at the farmers markets. And increasingly, you can shop certain supermarket chains. Whole Foods is perhaps the most notable chain, but not the only one, where you can find meats labeled free-range, organic or grass-fed (or all of the above).
Of course, for chains to be able to carry sustainably, humanely raised meats, they need suppliers who can produce at chain volume. A couple of years ago, I wrote about Just BARE Chicken, all natural, minimally processed chicken raised cage-free by independent, local family farmers in the upper Midwest. And while their products are still primarily available in that region, they continue to expand – and to prove that best practices farming can be done on a large scale.
Now Just BARE Chicken is broadening its definition of sustainability and taking a close look at the environmental effects of its operation. They worked with the World Resources Institute, a global environmental think tank, on a product life cycle assessment of greenhouse gas inventory, measuring greenhouse gas emissions of everything from production of raw material inputs like feed and bedding to packaging and leftovers. They became the first US poultry brand to be Carbon Trust certified, signifying their commitment to reducing their carbon footprint. And they're working with Renewable Choice Energy to purchase renewable energy certificates; their purchases are used to support further development of clean energy facilities.
But we were talking about chicken breasts. Sustainably raised or not, they present a challenge in the kitchen. By giving up their skin and bones, they also give up a certain amount of flavor. So tricks like grilling them to give them some smokiness or adding a lively sauce can really help. For this dish, I did both. For the sauce, I started with some of the homemade strawberry jalapeño jam from last week's grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, then added some balsamic vinegar for a nice, tart tang and some fresh sage. You can use any jam that suits your fancy (apricot would be delicious, I'm sure), but if it doesn't pack some heat on its own, add a little cayenne pepper. The spicy kick is a nice touch.
(see recipe next page)
Grilled Chicken with Strawberry Balsamic Vinegar Sauce
Serves 4
4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 tablespoon chopped fresh sage, divided
1/4 cup strawberry jam (I used my homemade jam)
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
Remove the chicken from the fridge about 1/2 hour before you're ready to grill, to let it come to room temperature. I usually do this just before firing up the charcoal in the chimney starter. Meanwhile, make the strawberry balsamic vinegar sauce. Combine jam, balsamic vinegar and 1 teaspoon of the fresh sage in a medium bowl and stir with a fork until completely mixed.
Just before you're ready to grill, pat the chicken breasts dry with paper toweling and brush with olive oil. Season generously with salt and pepper on both sides and sprinkle with remaining sage, gently pressing it into the chicken to help it stick.
Lightly oil the hot grill and the cook the chicken breasts, starting with what would have been the skin side down, for about 5 minutes, with the grill closed. Turn the breasts and cook for an additional three minutes or so with the grill closed, until a quick read thermometer registers 165 degrees F. Transfer chicken to a platter, tent loosely with foil and let it rest about 5 minutes before serving. Plate individual breast halves and spoon the strawberry sauce over them. Serve.
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This is a webpage about the identity and impact of Generation X around the globe. It was first created to accompany the book Generation X Goes Global, in 2012, but since it continues to garner a lot of attention, I am continuing to maintain it and add to it slowly. If you would like to share materials or write blogs for this site, please feel free to send them to me at email@example.com. Many thanks! ~ Christine Henseler
edited by Christine Henseler
(Routledge 2012, available on Amazon in paperback)
Connecting "X" Dots Around the Globe
"Generation X" is one of the tallest of tales ever sold. Tales of Generation X never told the full story; they never painted the entire picture. Generation X, said the storytellers, came after the most impressive of social and political movements had passed; it was located between the greatest of generations had already made their mark; it was seemingly lost in a time defined by the negative, the disillusioned, and the forgotten. Generation X was a question mark, an unknown quality yet to be determined, perhaps never to be defined. Generation X was a blank, a hole, an identity squeezed between two poles, twisted into a demographic that extracted little, disregarded as dark matter lost in disillusioned space. Who cares, said critics. Whatever, replied Xers.
So why should you bother reading our book about a generation that might coincide with your birth date (between 1960 and 1980) but seems to have nothing in common with you at all? You see, Generation X is more than just a demographic. Generation X is a cohort with personal and political experiences that have marked the way we look at the world and we live in this world.1 As a demographic with a particular worldview, not all of us call ourselves "Generation X," but many of us recognize the patterns that define our identities when the label is cracked open and moved beyond the white, male, middle-class stereotypes that seem to adhere to the X like superglue.
To unglue the pieces of this label's puzzle, the contributors of this volume break with the tales most often told of Generation X. By shifting our focus from one culture—Douglas Coupland's Tales of An Accelerated Culture—to many "Tales of Accelerated Cultures," as the subtitle of my Introduction suggests, the essays in this volume emphasize the label's wider cultural birth and breadth without denying the (global) influence of Coupland & Company. Generation X literally goes global through an active process of engagement. Through the over 35 contributions that address the question of "Who Is Generation X?" in any given country around the world, the authors of this book provide new insights into the label's shortcomings and its boundless potential as it travels from Iceland to Scotland, Japan to East Africa, China to Korea, Colombia, India, and back again. This volume explores, questions, challenges, and connects the spaces between lost "X" tales all over the world. These are tales originally told in Chinese, Italian, Swahili, Russian, or Greek. Tales told through words, music, or pictures. Tales explored about the young and the matured, framed socially, culturally, and politically. These tales tell the story of not one Generation X but of many "X" identities, sometimes clearly determined, sometimes conflicted and contradictory, but always challenging in their cultural specificities and global connections. Together these tales provide dots on a globe, dots that combine to draw a larger picture, a picture of a tale never told, a picture of tales lost, a picture of not one, but many "X" tales that explode off the pages of this book. Here is a pencil. Here are the dots. Fasten your seat belts.
The central authors of this book, 20 scholars residing in 8 different nations and working on 15 different countries, will take you for a joyride along the dots that connect the Gen X globe. Thanks to the diversity of their disciplinary backgrounds, their perspectives are as wide reaching as they are culturally determined. They are doctoral candidates, assistant, associate, full professors, and professionals in fields ranging from cultural anthropology, literature and culture, art history, economics, history, media studies, communications, philosophy, cultural technology, psychology, sociology, and political science. Their diverse backgrounds allow for an approach to the study of Generation X that widens the intellectual scope of the moniker's traditional associations while identifying the areas and perspectives through which this generation has never before been examined. Together, they present a map mash-up of interdisciplinary proportions, one that at times coincides and converges, at others clashes and challenges the existence of an individual and global "X" consciousness. Whether they use, reject, or remix the label, in unison their essays allow "Generation X" to explode off the page while mashing it back onto the globe.
In this book and webpage you will sense the power of a community of diverse voices working together to create a global vision for a global project through a highly interactive and open format. From distinct corners of the globe, the contributors of this project met for several months in 2010–2011 on a Wiki and read each other's work, commenting, discussing, and engaging in a process of learning from each other and sharing material, suggestions, and ideas. This vibrant exchange reverberates in the essays of this volume and in the textboxes included throughout the book, leading to some exciting results. The book also includes a series of textboxes that provide an additional space for the over 16 scholars from around the world who contribute to this project. These specialists add their expertise on the existence of a "Generation X" in countries not represented in the longer essays. Their "sound bite" insights are meant to expand on a project that practically speaking cannot cover the entire globe (and is admittedly still missing in perspectives from many countries), but hopes to promote more interest and connections on the subject worldwide. Together, the essays and textboxes function like a network of ideas that move within and among the essays to enrich and embolden, diversify and link material that to this date has been only loosely, if at all, connected in academic scholarship.
This networked dynamic in print is augmented through this webpage (in progress) in which the contributors and I have pulled out excerpts from the book and added additional material ranging from scholarly works, quotations from real-world interviews, videos and remixes, images, music and lyrics meant to expand on the project as a whole. Although the design of this website makes it necessary to divide our work along national borders, the truth is that the project would be better served through a more linked and networked platform, one that could better point to the connections between Generation Xers around the world. Until the day when more dynamic software (I am open to suggestions) can provide for a better linking platform, we present you here with separated, but valuable connection-building blocks, excerpts from the GenX Goes Global book and additional material and space to add on to the project as a whole.
These pages are not meant to be comprehensive, defining or complete, but rather, works in constant progress, beginnings and ends, sound bites of material meant to allow further investigation and constructive connection-building. To that effect, I encourage all readers to send me any additional material related to Generation X (firstname.lastname@example.com) that I will happily post on these or additional pages. Please also send me your blog comments to post on the site for further collaboration and discussion. Any and all works, completed or in–progress, long or short, are welcome.
The goal of this book/webpage project is to re-awaken Generation X to the world, pay tribute to a generational worldview with a long history, a spirit that has gone global, has gone viral, and is here to stay. Whether we give this awakening a demographic or cultural twist, this "X," "Arab," or "Spanish" spring has found its voice and is changing the world. Individuals all over the world are protesting long-standing regimes and conditions. In the process, similar tales to those of the 1980s and '90s can be heard all over the world: unemployment, environment, corruption, death, we hear. And Xer's say: of course, we have heard it all before, we have seen it, witnessed and watched it. It has been a long time coming. Why do you act so surprised?
X'ers may have been sitting back, watching the world go by, but through it all we have been paying attention, cynically sniping about the world we were born into and slowly adopting more active roles, developing new technologies, and speaking in different tongues to protest, comment, question, and challenge the tall tales told. As such, we have been laying the groundwork and leading the way for the next generation. We are now passing onto our younger siblings a long-standing "X" quality defined by three letters: DIY. Instead of screaming into a microphone or self-publishing fanzines, as we did in the 1990s, new media technologies are allowing our do-it-yourself philosophies to connect, communicate and collaborate for purposes larger than ourselves. As Mark LeVine suggests, in the conclusion to Generation X Goes Global, it is no surprise that the "radicals" of yesterday—the metalheads and punks—have become the revolutionaries of today. Instead of retelling old stories, these individuals are well versed in telling their own stories, often remixing them to the tune of their own beats and the bristles of their brushes. Instead of swallowing political propaganda, we are Googling for truth. We are now, like then, doing-it-ourselves, the difference being that our individualist and innovative views on the world can reach a million viewers and readers with just one click. As readers of this book will realize, the "spring youth" of today is born from the observations and actions of a youth born a generation earlier and is influencing the generation of tomorrow. Generation X has moved through its own seasons of life and is now turning back the clock: from the fall of the old to the spring of a new dawn.
~ Christine Henseler
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American X:
The Ironic History of a Generation
Book Notes
Christine Henseler
Generation X Goes Global:
Tales of Accelerated Cultures
What Generation X? Moving Beyond the White Middle Class Slacker
Shakuntala Banaji
A Tale of Three Worlds or More: Young People, Media and Class in India
Jan Schenk and Jeremy Seekings
Locating Generation X:
Taste and Identity in Transitional South Africa
Mwenda Ntarangwi
Generation X Meets the Uhuru Generation in East Africa
Generation X Rocks to Scenes, Screens and Comic Strips
William García
Young, Sexy, and Transnational in Mexico and Brazil:
Commodifying the Generation X in Antonio Serrano's Sexo, pudor y lágrimas and Its Film Versions
Harry H. Kuoshu
A Century-end Rock Scene and China's Generation X on Screen
Evi Sampanikou
Generation X in Greek Comics
Riding on Airwaves, Playing for Real, and Reading without a Net
Claire Bracken
An Irish Feminist GenX Aesthetic: Televisual Memories in Anne Enright's The Wig My Father Wore
Alain-Philippe Durand
Defending Narcissus:
Frédéric Beigbeder and the French Pop Novel
Virginia Newhall Rademacher
Playing for Real: Simulated Games of Identity in Spain's Gen X Narrative
Juan Manuel Espinosa
Opio en las Nubes's Liquid World: Colombia's Generation X Reads without a Net
Tracing Generation X: Going, Going...Still Not Gone?
Giancarlo Lombardi
Tutti pazzi per amore: Gen X, Italian Style
Elena Omelchenko
Russian Youth from the 1990s until 2010: Generational Changes
Carles Feixa, Maricela Portillo, Maritza Urteaga, Yanko González, Oscar Aguilera
From Generation X to Generation @: Transitional Traces and Youth Identities in Latin America
Mark LeVine
Generation G Comes of Age:
Youth and Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Scholars who added additional comments about Generation X in textboxes throughout the book include:
Anne Brydon
Ian Condry
Stephen Epstein
Tomasc Ferenc
Yvonne Förster-Beuthan
Andrea Harris
Scott Henderson
Isidora Jaric
Yana Hashamova
Christina Lee
Brent Luvaas
Robert Morace
(Scotland and China)
Sanaz Raji
Jill Robbins
Guillermina Seri
Timothy Tangherlini
"This edited volume is the first book of its kind to engage critics' understanding of Generation X as a global phenomenon. Citing case studies from around the world, the research collected here broadens the picture of Generation X as a demographic and a worldview. The book traces the global and local flows that determine the identity of each country's youth from the 1970s to today. Bringing together twenty scholars working on fifteen different countries and residing in eight different nations, this book present a community of diverse disciplinary voices. Contributors explore the converging properties of "Generation X" through the fields of literature, media studies, youth culture, popular culture, sociology, philosophy, feminism, and political science. Their ideas also enter into conversation with fourteen other "textbox" contributors who address the question of "Who is Generation X" in other countries. Taken together, they present a highly interactive and open book format whose conversations extend to the reading public on Christine Henseler's personal website."
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THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL Moves First Preview to March 30
The upcoming Broadway revival of Horton Foote's beloved classic, The Trip to Bountiful, will begin preview performances on Saturday, March 30 at 8pm, one day earlier than the previously announced March 31st, at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St). Opening night remains Tuesday, April 23. Tickets are available at www.Telecharge.com or by calling 212-239-6200.
The production, directed by Michael Wilson, will feature Academy Award nominee and Emmy Award-winning actress Cicely Tyson, Academy Award winner CUBA GOODING, JR, (Jerry Maguire, Red Tails), Emmy Award nominee and recording star Vanessa Williams (Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives), and Tony Award nominee Condola Rashad (Lifetime's Steel Magnolias, Broadway's Stick Fly).
The inspiring American classic, The Trip to Bountiful, tells the story of Carrie Watts (Tyson), an elderly woman who dreams of returning to her small hometown of Bountiful, TX one last time, against the wishes of her overprotective son (Gooding) and domineering daughter-in-law (Williams). Her journey becomes a heartbreaking but ultimately life-affirming tale that examines the fragility of memory and celebrates the enduring power of hope and faith.
Horton Foote's The Trip to Bountiful premiered as a teleplay on NBC in 1953, starring Lillian Gish as Carrie Watts. The play had its Broadway premiere later that year with the same cast, which also included Eva Marie Saint. The play was adapted by Mr. Foote into an acclaimed 1985 film starring Geraldine Page, for which she won the Academy Award. In 2005, Signature Theatre produced the play Off-Broadway starring Lois Smith, for which she won Lortel, Obie, Outer Critics and Drama Desk Awards.
THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL's award winning creative team has interpreted a number of plays and films by Horton Foote: Jeff Cowie (scenery), Van Broughton Ramsey (costumes), Rui Rita (lighting), and John Gromada (original music and sound design).


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Malnutrition is a serious senior health issue. Know the warning signs and how to help an older loved one avoid poor nutrition.
Good nutrition is critical to overall health and well-being — yet many older adults are at risk of inadequate nutrition. Know the causes and signs of nutrition problems in older adults, as well as steps you can take to ensure a nutrient-rich diet for an older loved one.
Malnutrition in older adults can lead to various health concerns, including:
In addition, malnutrition can lead to further disinterest in eating or lack of appetite — which only makes the problem worse.
The causes of malnutrition might seem straightforward — too little food or a diet lacking in nutrients. In reality, though, malnutrition is often caused by a combination of physical, social and psychological issues. For example:
The signs of malnutrition in older adults can be tough to spot, especially in people who don't seem at risk — but uncovering problems at the earliest stage can help prevent complications. To detect malnutrition:
Even small dietary changes can make a big difference in an older adult's health and well-being. For example:
Engage doctors. If your loved one is losing weight, work with his or her doctors to identify — and address — any contributing factors. This might include changing medications that affect appetite, suspending any diet restrictions until your loved one is eating more effectively, and working with a dentist to treat oral pain or chewing problems.
Request screenings for nutrition problems during routine office visits, and ask about nutritional supplements. You might also ask for a referral to a registered dietitian.
Remember, identifying and treating nutrition issues early can promote good health, independence and increased longevity. Take steps now to ensure your loved one's nutrition.
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Darryl Starbird, Builder Of The Year
One of the most significant honors awarded during the 57th Detroit Autorama was to Darryl Starbird who was recognized as Builder of the Year with an amazing array of his custom cars on display. Recognized worldwide as The Bubble Top King, Darryl's career spans more than 60 years and his designs have been influential in the world of hot rodding for decades with many of them still being used today.
With beginnings dating back to his teens growing up in Wichita, Kansas he began honing his customizing skills with his first car, a '41 Ford drop-top, treating it to a Continental kit, rear skirts, '48 Chrysler rear bumper, and a cool rake. It was at this time when Darryl began to learn metal crafting, leading him to become more deeply involved with reshaping panels and creating signature looks that had never before been seen.
In 1954, at the age of 21 he opened the doors of the Star Kustom Shop and during that year his first feature on a '47 Cadillac appeared on the pages of Rod & Custom. As the years passed numerous cars would receive the Starbird touch, and in 1959 he received his first cover feature with a '55 Plymouth in Hot Rod.
It was also the year Darryl undertook creating his most radical design when he hauled a wrecked '56 Thunderbird into the shop and in 11 intense weeks brought the Predicta to life. The Predicta was unlike anything the automotive world had ever before seen, with its space-age restyling, first-ever Lucite bubble top, cockpit interior, and tiller steering. Debuting at the National Roadster Show in 1960, it set the automotive world on fire, won the top honors of the show, and set the pace for customizing for years to come.
A deal with Monogram Models would allow Darryl's Predicta and future Starbird designs to come to life atop kitchen tables across America. At this time Darryl opened a much larger shop known as Starbird Custom Auto Creations while he continued to create countless other bubble tops, including the Forcasta, Fantabula, Electra, and the wild three-wheeled Futurista. In total, eleven bubble-top creations would roll out of the shop in addition to numerous other award-winning customs. As the decades moved on, Darryl continued to bring many more designs to life, often using modern production vehicles and even melding cutting-edge chassis and drivetrain combinations with those of vintage bodies.
Today Darryl is still active in the custom car world while operating the Starbird National Rod & Custom Car Museum and Hall of Fame in Afton, Oklahoma alongside his lovely wife of 55 years, Donna. He still has a workshop on the museum grounds and is primarily focused now on restoration of past Starbird creations when he's not on the road doing personal appearances. An inspiration to us all, Darryl has truly left his mark on the custom car world.


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HARRISBURG - Gov. Tom Corbett pledged Friday not to seek a third straight year of cutbacks in state aid for higher education and said he has secured a commitment from state-supported universities to keep tuition growth as low as possible.
Corbett said he will ask the Legislature on Tuesday when he releases his budget plan for the 2013-14 fiscal year that begins July 1 to maintain the state's current commitment of nearly $1.6 billion to higher education.
'At the same time, the leaders of these universities have made a commitment to me ... that they will keep tuition as low as they possibly can,' Corbett said at a Capitol news conference with leaders of Temple, Pitt, Penn State, Lincoln and the 14 state-owned universities.
It remains to be seen how low tuition increases must be to satisfy Corbett and lawmakers.
The comments from Corbett, a Republican who made a campaign pledge not to raise taxes, came amid projections of a very tough budget year for the state.
Corbett's commitment on higher education support follows two straight years of seeking deep cuts in aid to the institutions amid ailing tax collections and expiring federal aid for state budgets.
Tax collections improved after the governor's initial budget proposals, allowing some of the cuts to be eased. Still, the state's funding level for higher education has dropped from nearly $1.9 billion in 2010-11.
A significant chunk of taxpayer money for higher education also aids community colleges and student tuition grants through the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency.
Corbett has taken the state-supported universities to task for rising tuition rates. He noted Friday that his pressure on them to hold tuition increases to the rate of inflation last year resulted in the lowest tuition increases 'in at least a decade.'
An early pledge on the aid for the universities will allow the schools and the students and their families to better plan their budgets, Corbett said. Still, it was unclear what students or their parents can expect in terms of a 2013-14 tuition increase.
'I'm not going to draw the line right now because I don't know what all the factors are that are out there,' Corbett said. 'But OK, let's say 10 percent? Yeah, I'd have a problem with 10 percent.'
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Jake Corman, R-Centre, whose district includes Penn State's main campus, said the agreement is for the schools to do the absolute best they can.
'I suspect it will be less than 5 percent,' Corman said at the news conference. 'To keep it down to 3 percent or less, they have a lot of work to do themselves.'


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The mayoral race in Annapolis is too close to call with just 84 votes separating the two candidates before a count of absentee and provisional ballots.
The Annapolis Board of Supervisors of Elections says Republican Mike Pantelides leads Democratic incumbent Josh Cohen with all 16 precincts reporting preliminary vote totals. Pantelides received 3,728 votes to Cohen's 3,644.
Cohen did not concede, noting that absentee ballots must still be counted.
City spokeswoman Rhonda Wardlaw says there are 327 absentee ballots.
The Board of Supervisors of Elections will meet as the Board of Canvassers on Thursday to count all absentee and provisional ballots and verify results from individual machines. The board also will count votes from a broken voting machine from Ward 7 at that time.


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The British Beat (My Music)
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This special travels on location to London and around the UK to the place where the British Beat was born. It features rare archival full-length performance films mixed with new live performances recorded throughout the UK, including introductions and performances from various legendary clubs and hot performance spots that inspired the Mersey Beat.
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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Workshop 5: Teaching Multigenre Writing
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Allen, Camille A. The Multigenre Research Paper: Voice, Passion, and Discovery in Grades 4-6. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2001. ISBN: 032500319X.
Bowen, Barbara. "A Multi-Genre Approach to the Art of the Biographer." English Journal 80.4 (April 1991): 53-55.
Dickson, Randi with Jon DeGraff and Mark Foard. "Learning About Self and Others Through Multigenre Research Papers." English Journal 92.2 (November 2002): 82-90.
Glasgow, Jaqueline N. "Fusing Social Justice With Multi-Genre Writing." English Journal 90.6 (July 2001): 62-66.
Glasgow, Jaqueline N. "Radical Change in Young Adult Literature Informs the Multi-Genre Paper." English Journal 92. 2 (November 2002): 41-51.
Grierson, Sirpa T. "Circling Through the Text: Teaching Research Through Multi-Genre Writing." English Journal 89 (September 1999): 51-55.
Grierson, Sirpa T. with Amy Anson and Jacoy Baird. "Exploring the Past Through Multi-Genre Writing." Language Arts 80.1 (September 2002): 51-59.
Mack, Nancy. "The Ins, Outs, and In-Betweens of Multi-Genre Writing." English Journal 92.2 (November 2002): 91-98.
Moulton, M. R. "The Multigenre Paper: Increasing Interest, Motivation, and Functionality in Research." Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy 42 (1999): 528-539.
Ondaatje, Michael. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. New York: Penguin, 1990. ASIN: 0140072802.
Richison, Jeannie D., Anita C. Hernandez, and Marcia Carter. "Blending Multiple Genres in Theme Baskets." English Journal 92.2 (November 2002): 76-81.
Romano, Tom. Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 2000. ISBN: 0867094788.
Romano, Tom. Writing With Passion: Life Stories, Multiple Genres. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1995. ISBN: 0867093625.
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In much the same way as BBC iPlayer, downloads on Sky Go Extra will last for a month to be watched as and when the users chooses. The only limitation is the amount of storage on the device itself.
Sky said that 11 million of its customers use Sky Go and that Sky Go Extra is the first UK service to offer Hollywood movies for download and offline watching. Sky also has a non-subscription streaming service called Sky Now TV which rivals Netflix and LoveFilm.
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BARRIE, Ont. — The brutal and seemingly never-ending winter of 2014 has already taken a substantial avian toll in parts of central and eastern Canada. With yet another polar vortex poised to strike, the situation looks dire for many species of birds.
Significant mortality in wild turkeys has already been confirmed in parts of central and eastern Canada, with another bout of bitter cold sure to make matters worse.
Cold temperatures and snow depths of more than 25 centimetres for several weeks are potentially fatal for wild turkeys, according to turkey specialist Jim Pack in West Virginia.
Two consecutive polar vortices so far this year, and snow depths exceeding 120 centimetres since early January, have already hit turkeys very hard in parts of Ontario.
According to Josef Hamr and colleagues at Laurentian University, such winters typically result in wild-turkey losses exceeding 60 per cent of the population.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has confirmed a "heavy toll" in wild turkeys there so far this winter, with more record cold to come.
Meanwhile, veterinarian Bob Denton confirms large die-offs of birds "due to cold weather and lack of food" as far south as Texas.
Migrating birds are especially vulnerable to extreme cold and deep snow. Increasing accounts of dead and starving waterfowl, mainly ducks, have widely surfaced since mid-February.
Researchers explain northbound waterfowl have arrived to wintry conditions and deep snow that has made food largely unavailable. Significant numbers of mallards have been reported in areas of south-central Ontario, where fields are covered with more than 100 centimetres of snow and temperatures of -20 C to -30 C. Dead ducks have been reported in the Georgian Bay and Lake Ontario areas. Others are clumped on lake ice, too weak to fly, their food reserves exhausted.
In some cases, ducks have been reported falling from the sky, picked up exhausted and emaciated.
Researchers suggest northbound ducks in late winter are not genetically programmed to return south if they encounter bad conditions. Instead, they hunker down to await improving conditions, sometimes with fatal consequences.
On Feb. 1, starving Canada geese were reported vainly seeking food in deep snow in Pennsylvania. Similar reports surfaced the next day in Illinois.
At St. Catharines, Ont., the local fire department was dispatched to rescue ducks that had been frozen on the ice in Lake Ontario.
This winter, the Great Lakes are more than 90 per cent frozen over. That has forced tens of thousands of wintering and migrating diving ducks into the few remaining open-water areas, such as the St. Clair River. There, local reports confirm countless dead and dying ducks, the victims of the "icy winter of 2014," according to local observers.
Many of this year's avian victims are red-breasted mergansers, fish-eating diving ducks that have been forced inland in a hopeless effort to find food. What they have encountered is frozen snow-covered landscapes. Many have been found, dead or near-death, in recent days, tens of kilometres from any open water. On Feb. 17, one was photographed near Barrie squatted atop a large snow drift, the nearest open water some 80 kilometres away. The next day, one was spotted standing in a snowy field near Orangeville, Ont.
There are fears that unless the brutal conditions ease soon, the resulting negative impact on the physiological condition of waterfowl in much of eastern North America might impact on 2014 reproductive success.
So far, there are no indications the weather patterns generating the extreme cold are about to change any time soon, according to Environment Canada.
Robert Alison is a freelance writer and zoologist based in Barrie, Ont.
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A Sandwich A Day: Jamón y Queso at Super Pan in Atlanta, GA
A different sandwich profiled every single day.
In this great country of ours, one could eat a different sandwich every day of the year—so that's what we'll do. Here's A Sandwich a Day, our daily look at sandwiches around the world. Got a sandwich we should check out? Let us know. —The Mgmt.
Super Pan Latino Sandwich Shop, a time-limited hole-in-the-wall (if a hole in the wall can have ample seating, that is) in Atlanta's Poncey Highlands stakes its reputation on pork buns—but who could turn down their Coca de Jamón y Queso ($12), a fat slab of sandwich calling jamón serrano, date paste, arugula, and sliced manchego its ingredients? Crumbly, thick-cut cheese and rippling jamón make this a simplified, peasant-y take on a sandwich that really doesn't even need bread—indeed, the "Spanish foccacia" on which it rests is a bit beguiling. Thin, flat and cornmeal-y, the überneutral bread defies any of the thoughts you may have had about foccacia being about air—but back to the contents. Piquillo chiles liven up the sweet-sultry ham and cheese combo, a wide berth of filling—and fulfilling—Latin sandwich pleasure. Pair it with an agua fresca of the day, or if you like to cut to the chase like me, a tall, cool Mexican Coke. Oh, and they're only open 12 hours a week, so plan your visit wisely.
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Lodur here again, this time with the second installment of Shamanism. This week I'd like to talk about my favorite area of Shamanism, Norse Shamanism. To give you a bit of background before we start, my love of Norse mythology was born in college in my classics class. The epic stories always seemed to resonate with me. I carried this over in the naming of my Characters
Here's a little background on the name Lodur
Lodur, (Icelandic, Scandinavian) In the Norse Edda, one of the creative divine trinity who endowed nascent humanity with their own properties, thus creating a thinking kingdom of beings out of the ashtree and the alder. Lodurr's gifts were la and laeti (skill and manner, also translated as blood and keen senses), while his brother deities Odin and Honer gave them respectively spirit and discernment.
The name Lodur is also an obscure reference to the first shaman of Odin, who carried the burden of Odin by tearing out one of his own eyes in ritualistic fashion to become closer to the god and earn his favor.
My other toon Sigrdrifa is named after one of the Valkyre's, the one which acted as mentor to Sigurd, who is one of the Norse heroes. As you can start to see that my interest in norse mythology goes a long way.
Norse spiritual leaders had two schools. Shamanism was practiced mainly by females, a group known as the Völva. You can find reference to them in many of the texts of Norse mythology. The Völva practiced a form of magic called seiðr. This magic involved the invocation of spells to invoke spirts, manipulate the environment and seek visions.
They could work on the spirits of the wild animals and were responsible for the good luck in the hunt, executed the correct rituals in order to ensure the fertility of the earth, knew how to tune the spirits of their ancestors benevolently an more. In trances they contacted the ancestors, could be possessed by them, giving their body and their voice to the spirits in order to let them act in the world of the living . They knew how to cure diseases on a spiritual, psychological and physical level. Long before modern medicine, they had a broad knowledge about the interactions between body, soul and spirit. They also had a commanding knowledge of the available herbs and how to use them to great effect in both rituals and healing.
You can see this in Northrend in Warcraft. Lets take a gander at the Howling Fjord. You travel into the spirit world in the Quest chain that starts with Into the World of Spirits. The chain has you bring a shaman his goodies and then he sends you into the spirit world to gleam information from the spirits past. The chain follows up with The Echo of Ymiron and finishes with the Anguish of Nifflevar.I think this is pretty darn cool. (and a little cookie if you didnt already know, when you're in the spirit world if you head over to Utgarde Keep where the ramp leads up and in you'll be treated to a visit from the Lich King and a discussion of Shaman magic. )
You can also see this particular item in some of the NPC's. Dragonflayer Seer's are female magic users, throwing lightning and healing their party members, Dragonflayer Spiritualist is another form of this NPC. (You can also see Valkrye type NPCs like Annhylde the Caller and Svala Sorrowgrave.) Take a look around Northrend and see what you find. You'll see a ton of Norse spiritualist influence there.
Until next time, Happy Healing.
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The Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is a remarkable outdoor laboratory, offering an opportunity to observe, study, and experience the geologic processes that shape natural landscapes. The national monument, on the Pajarito Plateau in north-central New Mexico, includes a national recreation trail (see "Activities" below) and ranges from 5,570 feet to 6,760 feet above sea level. http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/prog/recreation/rio_puerco/kasha_katuwe_tent_rocks.html
New Mexico is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. Inhabited by Native American populations for many centuries, it has also been part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest percentage of Hispanics at 45% (2008 estimate), being descendants of Spanish colonists and recent immigrants from Latin America. It also has the third-highest percentage of Native Americans after Alaska and Oklahoma, and the fifth-highest total number of Native Americans after California, Oklahoma, Arizona, and Texas. The tribes represented in the state consist of mostly Navajo and Pueblo peoples. As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultural influences. At a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_mexico]


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School canteens struggling to survive
The organisation representing school canteens across the ACT may be forced to close next month because of a lack of volunteers.
There has been a sharp fall in the number of school-run canteens in Canberra, with 19 closing in recent years.
There are about 50 canteens left operating, some only one day a week.
ACT School Canteen Association president Debbie Tobin says increased regulations, a drop in volunteers and financial pressures are taking their toll.
"Canteens are closing. There has been a lot more pressure put on canteens to run in a different model," she said.
The association has been supporting school communities for 25 years.
But Ms Tobin says they cannot find enough people to run the committee.
"What it basically means is that we now don't have anyone representing just the canteen managers themselves," Ms Tobin said.
"If they have an issue there's nowhere to go, to keep them informed of wages. This will now fall back on P&Cs and on the school themselves to find this out. If I have a problem I don't have anywhere to go."
Ms Tobin says the association will close if more canteen managers do not put their hands up to run the committee on March 20.
"This will be our final meeting to see what we can do," she said.
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Cold Feet star James Nesbitt's Ireland adventure continues on ITV. This week James Nesbitt goes in search of the flavours and scents that define the magic of Ireland
Once I caught a fish this big…
The Hobbit star James Nesbitt is on a mission to taste and smell the flavours of Ireland. From the crystal clear waters of the Dingle coast to the bustling streets of Dublin, James Nesbitt is in for a treat.
In County Kerry, local Dingle man Ryan Coote is an expert at the traditional art of spear fishing. The clear waters of the Atlantic are home to many flourishing fish species, supplying the restaurant plates of Dingle town with delicious, fresh seafood. Ryan teaches James Nesbitt a thing or two about spear fishing. Does Nesbitt manage to spear his own dinner or does he go hungry? Wait and see.
Foodie Revolution
On the streets of Ireland's capital Dublin, a 'food revolution' is underway. Jekyll star James Nesbitt hooks up with baker Kate Packwood who explains that there's a new focus on homegrown Irish produce. "We're really on the crest of a wave here", says Kate, "We're moving with a real drive towards wonderful Irish produce and it's very exciting to be part of it." James Nesbitt wastes no time in tucking into some of Kate's famous lavender shortbread and caramel brownies. We thought he was sweet enough already – but go figure!
Perfume on the air
With crumbs still on his face, Hobbit star James Nesbitt hits the Burren in County Clare. If he senses something familiar about the place it's no surprise. The Hobbit author JRR Tolkien was inspired by the ecological mysteries of the Burren when he was penning Lord of the Rings.
With up to 70% of Ireland's flower species growing in the Burren it was the perfect place for Sadie Chowen and her husband Ralph to set up their unique perfumery business. The couple are determined to capture the "scent of the Burren" by using the naturally occurring flowers of the area in their perfume. They show the Cold Feet star around the Burren and get him sniffing some of the wonderful flowers they use. Will Nesbitt come up smelling like roses? Wait and see…
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Next up Antrim actor James Nesbitt meets with father son duo Mick and Neil Watson. The Watson lads are re-discovering the healing and therapeutic properties of… seaweed. Yes, the twosome has built their business upon this traditional remedy. Neil explains to Nesbitt, "Seaweed is an amazing plant. It has every vitamin and mineral that the body needs. Once you put it into a bath, because the seaweed is alkaline and the seawater is alkaline, your body detoxes and then you absorb all the goodness from the plant as well." James Nesbitt in a seaweed bath! This we've got to see.
Sufficiently full, healed and smelling lovely, James Nesbitt is rejuvenated and ready to continue on his Irish odyssey. Tune in next week to see where his adventures take him in Ireland.
The next episode of James Nesbitt's Ireland will be transmitted on ITV on Monday 22 April at 8pm
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The line of maple trees in Mrs. Bell's yard were painted in hues of red and orange. When school left out in the afternoon, they would gently shed a few brightly colored leaves for us to gather and take home for our mothers to enjoy. Momma always took her gift of autumn leaves and placed them in a tray as a simple welcoming of a new season and sort of a farewell to summer.
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BennyV (28774) 2014-01-23 5:17
Hi Jerzy
Quite a pleasant surprise to see you posting another one here. A near-abstract picture with a rather ominous feel to it, as if you're being pessimistic on spanning the gap between east and west (or whatever it is between). Don't know if that's what you intended, though. Great picture it sure is!
rigoletto (34279) 2014-01-23 16:48
the result is there, just as it is, with a sharp bridge and sufficiently blurred trees and wires, giving a hint that you were in a moving vehicle. i wouldn't even bother taking this shot, but you imagined the result and clicked at the right moment. that is the natural result of so much experience in shooting objects, and knowing what kind of a result you can get from unexpected moments. pessimism? i don't think so. just an experiment that ended with success.
Juzo (3114) 2014-01-30 5:55
Hi Jerzy,
I know how many great photo's you have taken in Istanbul (and recent Thailand ones too), but this one is something different, and I like it as well - the abstract feel and style.
The feel of a snapshot, a fleeting small moment yet in a significant, grand place such as the meeting of continents, makes it a different perspective on such a place.
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- Date Taken: 2014-01-21
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- Date Submitted: 2014-01-22 23:01