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FRIDAY, April 24, 2009 (HealthDay News) -- Preventable or treatable health conditions account for nearly 70 percent of the difference in death rates between blacks and whites in the United States, a new study shows.
Overall, half of all deaths among Americans younger than 65 are caused by preventable or treatable conditions such as stroke, diabetes, high blood pressure, colon cancer, appendicitis and the flu, the researchers said.
Their analysis of data from 1980 to 2005 found that black women had a 42 percent higher risk of death than white women, whereas black men had a 30 percent higher risk than white men. Most of that increased risk was due to preventable and treatable conditions.
The findings appear in the current issue of the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
"Our study shows that while much progress has been made, our health-care system is still failing to meet the very basic needs of some Americans," study author James Macinko said in a news release. "Many disparities can be conquered by focusing more on public policies that promote prevention and by ensuring that all Americans have access to good quality health care."
"As the nation turns its attention to health-care reform, we now know that much can be done to reduce racial and ethnic health-care disparities and to improve the health care for all Americans," he said. "We also have a lot to learn from other health-care systems that measure performance based on preventable deaths." Macinko conducted the study as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.
He and his research colleagues used "avoidable mortality" to measure the death disparity between blacks and whites in the United States. Avoidable mortality is defined as premature death in people younger than 65 from conditions responsive to medical care, public policy changes or behavior modifications. In the last decade, avoidable mortality in the United States has declined less rapidly than in other industrialized nations, according to background information in the news release.
"Avoidable mortality gives us one way to assess the shortcomings of our health-care system, particularly in the area of prevention," study co-author Irma T. Elo, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, said in the news release. "It can help to identify where preventable disparities are greatest and aid in directing resources to where they can improve the health of vulnerable populations."
More information
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has more about minority health.


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by Crystal Alofoje
In the center of a world where illnesses like diabetes, hypertension, and cancer plague society and often claim the lives of loved ones, one local woman is doing all she can to help others make better choices and live healthier lifestyles. Ava Adames' Well Loft Studio in Germantown is a peace of serenity, offering classes that not only target the body, but the mind and soul as well.
"I wanted women to feel like they can have their own personal time to work on their wellness," said Adames, owner and operator of the studio. "That is the environment that I have created and am still creating."
Due to much success, loyalty from community members and an increase in customers, The Well Loft staff and friends celebrated the grand opening of its new building the first week in April. The new building, at 6143 Germantown Avenue, is 1400 square feet, 500 square feet larger than the old space a few blocks away.
The current building is able to accommodate more people and equipment and is handicapped-accessible. The studio offers courses like fit boxing, indoor cycling, yoga and personal training opportunities. "Americans deal with a humongous amount of stress, especially when the economy is suffering," said Adames. "I have created a small oasis in Germantown for you to get professional advice and training."
While growing up in South Jersey, Adames, 37, admired her mother's philosophy on staying fit and healthy. Adames became athletically driven, delving into gymnastics and later Pilates. However, it was not until she acquired her Bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix that Adames realized her calling was to help people conquer battles that come with unhealthy habits.
"Americans work so much that little time is made for recreational exercise," said Adames, who trained at The New York Pilates Studio and has over 10 years of personal practice using the classical Joseph Pilates method. She also has nine years of experience in personal training, which she gained while earning a degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix. After graduating in 2004, Adames completed her certification in personal training and Pilates and for three years worked as a corporate underwriter during the day and as a personal trainer in the evenings.
Working two jobs was strenuous enough, but Adames continued to further her education, and in 2008 she received a Master's degree in exercise science from California University of Pennsylvania, thus acquiring the skills to become a wellness coach. Adames' husband, Ismael, then helped her to start her own business as a full-time personal trainer.
"I realized the desire (for a personal trainer) was strong in the suburbs, but the need was stronger in Germantown," said Adames, referring to the need for more African American women to take better care of their health. For example, according to the Center for Disease Control, diabetes affected 25.8 million people in the U.S. last year, nearly half of whom were women. The CDC reports that African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are at particularly high risk for type 2 diabetes, a major cause of heart disease and stroke and the seventh leading cause of death in the U.S. "We don't have to live with diabetes or heart disease. We can do something about it," said Adames.
People are more obese today, she said, because there are fewer jobs that encourage physical activity. More people are sitting in front of a computer all day, stressing out because of work or other personal issues. Most do not take the time to exercise, and too many of us are choosing fast foods and microwavable meals that are high in sodium.
One client, Jennifer Santangelo, said she enlisted in Ava's "Fitness Boot Camp" last spring. For six weeks the group worked out three times a week. "Ava kept the workouts interesting," she said, "and she gave me a meal plan to follow … At the close of Fitness Camp, I had lost almost 16 pounds and at least one to two inches off my waist and hips."
The new and improved Well Loft Studio offers a larger staff that helps educate members on better meal plans and proper exercising techniques tailored for each person. When Adames is not training clients, she is spending time with her husband, Ismael, and three boys ages 14, 9 and 4 months. She also teaches a course in "Fit Boxing for Women" on Wednesday evenings, starting May 4, for Mt. Airy Learning Tree.
For more information, call 215-268-6109 or visit www.avaadamesfitness.com and/or www.thewellloft.com.

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Today's Millennials take the "selfie" snapshot and the immediate sharing of it on Instagram for granted. For them to imagine the lengthy, intricate processes of portraiture required at the birth of photography in the mid-nineteenth century—is, well, impossible.
One of the first photographers to move out of the studio confines and take his camera out into the world was Roger Fenton, who along with his assistant Marcus Sparling was commissioned by Queen Victoria to document the Crimean War of 1853-1856. Fenton's mobile darkroom was a converted wine delivery wagon. The demanding wet collodion process he employed was, however, a major advance over the metal plate, direct positive monotype of Daguerre and the paper negative/positive print technique of Fox Talbot, the Calotype. Fenton worked in the Crimea only a few months-- but returned to Queen Victoria in June 1854 with over 350 14"x18" glass plates.
More than a decade later Carleton Watkins employed a camera that exposed even larger 18"x22" mammoth, dry glass plate negatives for his work in the Yosemite and other Western wilderness areas. And beginning in the 1890s, Edward Curtis launched the most ambitious photographic venture ever seen. He spent 35 years creating a 30-volume set of portfolios and books preserving the history, language, culture and photographic portraits of the vanishing Native American people.
It is in the Curtis tradition that Chicago based photographer Dennis Manarchy has set himself the goal of a multi-year odyssey, traveling back and forth across America to photograph not just Native Americans but other ethnic people and enclaves that are quickly being lost to an ever more monocultural America.
Early in his career Manarchy apprenticed to Irving Penn, an artist widely known for his fashion photography but who earlier had himself traveled the world with a portable studio to record indigenous peoples in his ambitious series "Worlds in a Small Room."
Amazon.com—Worlds in a Small Room
This far-ranging project was an outgrowth of Penn's even earlier body of work in London and Paris titled "Small Trades." A Getty Museum exhibition of Penn's full figure "trade" portraits was one of my earliest blogs in October 2009:
John's Bailiwick: "Small Trades"
Dennis Manarchy and colleagues built a prototype of a super large format camera, and began work to prove its viability, also raising money on a Kickstarter campaign. The camera, which he calls "The Eye of America," rests on a custom-built flatbed hauler built by Mike and Kelly Bartels.
The camera was designed by Matt Binns, who is also project co-coordinator. The camera and hauler is 35 ft. long, 8 ft. wide, and 12 ft. tall; it weighs 7000 lbs. The camera opens at the front to reveal an easel that supports a film negative measuring 6 ft. x 4.5 ft. For close-up portraits, a chair rests on the hauler a few feet in front of the lens, built by Tony Beyer and Tek Pak.
The lens alone weighs 250 lbs; the focal length marking on the inside front reads f=1070mm. The normal focal length lens for 35mm. stills portraiture is between 85-135mm. (Given the size and expense of such a large format film negative, Manarchy insists he makes only a single exposure per sitter.)
The ambitious scale of Manarchy's venture is presented in a promotional quote:
"Butterflies & Buffalo" [the project title] is a groundbreaking photographic, educational and historical tribute to the American cultures that have helped to shape our nation – those which are thriving and those which are vanishing before our eyes. The power and scale of these images will bring a voice to individuals who ordinarily would not be heard, and it will raise awareness on a vast array of social, economic and environmental issues.
Manarchy's eight-minute YouTube video outlines the project's goals with a poetic introduction: "We are all flashes in time." It is photography that preserves us.
In the video Manarchy exhibits prints that are two stories tall (24x16ft.) hanging from public buildings. He claims that if the film negative resolution were expressed in digital terms it would be 97,000 megapixels. The best available digital camera, he claims, is about 60 mega pixels.
Manarchy reveals that when still a student, visiting MoMA in New York City, he saw a Photo-Realist painting of composer Philip Glass made by Chuck Close. Its huge scale inspired him to explore doing the same in photography.
Although not on as large a scale as Manarchy, there are also the side by side portraits of Mark Laita who already has created a far-ranging body of photographic portraits—a project he calls "Created Equal," a sardonic title for these contrasting images of multi cultural, multiracial Americans
Fahey Klein Gallery: Mark Laita
Dennis Manarchy is his own best project pitchman. His ambitions are as large as the images, even embracing plans for a mammoth exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. In an 18-minute Chicago TEDx talk he offers a thumbnail sketch of his life: from early struggles, to much-lauded commercial photographer, and on to his present project of "American Portraits." Manarchy's informal, fringed-jacketed, plain talking presentation is a fascinating ramble through the edges of the history of portrait photography, as well as a compelling defense of the continuing viability of FILM.
He argues for the primacy of photography as an instrument of social and political change, nailing his thesis with Eddie Adams' photograph of the chief of police of Saigon executing a Vietcong prisoner during the 1968 Tet Offensive, a photograph Manarchy asserts "ended a war." It would be easy to make a case that an even more disturbing photo from the same time by Nick Ut, was at least as influential.
Manarchy also cites the "dark lady of photography," Susan Sontag, an intellectual critic of photography, and her citation of photography as mere momento mori. Rangy and discursive in his talk, Malachy skips over many ideas worthy of separate TedTalks. Finally, he offers his proposal for a visionary, interactive exhibition.
Some of what Manarchy dreams of creating is only conjectural, maybe even quixotic. I've not been able to find out the current status of his grand project: traveling tens of thousands of miles with his camera and trailer to document fifty endangered cultures; one thing for certain, like his oversize camera, Manarchy has Whitmanesque ambitions. It is interesting to speculate whether Edward Curtis—were he working today, and who unlike Manarchy, was a very private man—might have used Kickstarter or YouTube to promote funding for "The North American Indian" project, rather than going hat in hand to a Wall Street mogul like JP Morgan
Anyone who has current information about the status of Manarchy's venture please leave a comment.
Dennis Manarchy says that as humans "it is the flaws that distinguish us." What more detailed and enduring record of those physical traits can there be than his extraordinary "light catcher" camera, preserving for successive generations the last rays of fading cultures: that is, if he succeeds?


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"I'm working on not trying to be vulnerable to off-speed pitches," Danks said. "That's something I've worked on very hard here in Arizona. I'm concentrating on taking that first-pitch change-up, the pitch that used to look like a fastball to me, and now with that philosophy I'm getting ahead on the count and getting my pitch more often." "He's close, he's very close to being ready," White Sox hitting instructor Gary Ward said Tuesday night. "He's definitely going to be playing in the major leagues soon." Ward is the Sox Triple-A hitting instructor and also batting instructor for the Peoria Javelinas, the Sox team in the AFL. Drafted in the seventh round, Danks' numbers were just so-so after getting promoted to Double-A Birmingham from Single-A in 2009. Cutting down on a bit of a long swing has been Danks' goal in the AFL. …
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I am into a project to minimize all Internet Explorer Windows being used into 1 single application. To better understand what I want to acheive, let me give you a brief information of what we have.
In our company, We use Internet Explorer 6 which we all know does not support tabs. (IE8 is still in pilot phase for distribution to all clients) we use more than 20 tools which are mostly web-based. Some are opened via Local Internet Explorer and some needs to be opened via Citrix's Internet Explorer. Now, imagine these 20+ windows all in your taskbar and not able to recognize properly which one needs to be restored (when minimized) because the task bar space is not enough.
Have only 1 application which will open both local and Citrix's Internet Explorer to prevent multiple windows in the taskbar.
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Checking in on… the Big EastPosted by Brian Goodman on February 15th, 2011
Rob Dauster of Ballin' Is A Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East.
A Look Back
- Player of the Week: Dwight Hardy, St. John's: Hardy has caught fire the past two weeks. He's averaging 24.8 points per game over the past five games, including the 33 points he put on Connecticut on Thursday night. Then on Sunday afternoon, Hardy scored 18 big points as the Johnnies picked up a huge bubble victory at Cincinnati. We already know how good St. John's is at home. The 17-point win over the Huskies wasn't even one of their best two wins on their home court. What was impressive was going into Cincinnati and picking up a close win, albeit with the help of a Rashad Bishop lane violation. The Red Storm is not a lock to make the tournament just yet, but as long as they avoid a Georgetonian collapse down the stretch,Steve Lavin's crew will be dancing.
- Team of the Week: Pittsburgh Panthers: The Panthers had one of the more impressive weeks that any team has put together this season. Playing without their leading scorer Ashton Gibbs, Pitt went into West Virginia and won in the Backyard Brawl rivalry game. Then on Saturday night on ESPN's Gameday, Pitt held on against Villanova in an in-state battle. If it hasn't been proven to you yet, the Panthers are a team that is greater than their individual parts. They are good enough that they deserve to be in the conversation not just for a No. 1 seed, but as the No. 1 team in the country.
Power Rankings (overall and conference records, and last week's ranking in parentheses)
1. Pittsburgh (23-2, 11-1) (1)
Last Week: 2/12 @ Villanova 57-54
This Week: 2/16 vs. South Florida, 2/19 @ St. John's
See the above "Team of the Week" portion.
2. Notre Dame (21-4, 10-3) (3)
Last Week: 2/9 vs. Louisville 89-79 OT, 2/12 @ South Florida 78-55
This Week: 2/19 @ West Virginia
With Kemba Walker's continuing struggles, there is a legitimate argument to be made for Ben Hansbrough as the Big East's player of the year. Notre Dame's offense is based around their ball movement, but Hansbrough is the guy who has the ball in his hands at the end of a clock. He's the best creator that Mike Brey has, their leader in scoring and assists, and the best on-ball defender on the team. He also has all the intangibles you look for in a point guard. I love kids like Austin Freeman and Marshon Brooks and Rick Jackson, but I'm not sure there is a player in the conference that I would take over Hansbrough.
3. Georgetown (20-5, 9-4) (5)
Last Week: 2/9 @ Syracuse 64-56, 2/13 vs. Marquette 69-60
This Week: 2/16 @ UConn, 2/19 @ USF
The Hoyas won two games this week, but what was impressive was how they did it. On the road against Syracuse, the Orange took over down the stretch, keeping Syracuse from getting scoring opportunities while going on a game-ending, 15-3 run. Against Marquette, Georgetown dominated the second half on the defensive end of the floor and on the glass. They allowed the Golden Eagles to score just 25 points, held them to a 36.3% eFG, gave up just 11.1% OR, and forced Marquette into nine turnovers and 0.69 PPP. Not exactly the Georgetown team we have become accustomed to under John Thompson III.
4. Villanova (19-6, 7-5) (2)
Last Week: 2/9 @ Rutgers 76-77, 2/12 vs. Pitt 54-57
This Week: 2/15 @ Seton Hall, 2/19 vs. DePaul
The loss against Pitt is acceptable. Losing by three at home without a starter (Corey Stokes missed this game and the second half against Rutgers with turf toe) to the best team in the league and possibly the best team in the country is far from a bad loss. The Rutgers loss, on the other hand, is another story. The Wildcats blew a 13-point lead with five minutes left and an eight point lead with two minutes left. They turned the ball over, they allowed open threes, and, at the end of the game, Corey Fisher fouled Jonathan Mitchell shooting a three. He made it and made the free throw, and Rutgers picked up a huge win.
5. Louisville (19-6, 8-4) (6)
Last Week: 2/9 @ Notre Dame 79-89 OT, 2/12 vs. Syracuse 73-69
This Week: 2/16 @ Cincinnati, 2/18 vs. UConn
What got into Kyle Kuric this week? The sophomore shooting guard had 28 points against Notre Dame in an overtime loss and followed that up with 23 points in the Cardinals' win over Syracuse on Saturday. For the week, Kuric was 9-14 from three. He's shooting 46.9% from deep on the season while averaging 10.0 points per contest. He needs to be a consistent scoring option for the Cardinals, as does Terrence Jennings. Jennings is only averaging 9.6 points and 5.5 rebounds per game, but over his last five, he's averaging 14.2 and 7.8.
6. Syracuse (21-6, 8-6) (4)
Last Week: 2/9 vs. Georgetown 56-64, 2/12 @ Louisville 69-73, 2/14 vs. West Virginia 63-52
This Week: 2/19 vs. Rutgers
The Orange picked up a much needed win on Monday night, knocking off West Virginia at home to snap a three-game Carrier Dome losing streak. The biggest problem Syracuse has right now is a complete inability to defend the three point line. Their other issues — poor decision-making from the backcourt, Kris Joseph's inconsistency, Fab Melo missing practice — are second in importance to figuring out how to keep teams from hitting 10, 11, and 12 threes against them.
7. Connecticut (19-5, 7-5) (7)
Last Week: 2/10 @ St. John's 72-89 , 2/13 vs. Providence 75-57
This Week: 2/16 vs. Georgetown, 2/18 @ Louisville
When Kemba Walker is playing like Kemba Walker, as opposed to Super Kemba, UConn is a good team, but they aren't much more than an upper-half Big East team. Prior to Sunday's win against Providence, UConn had lost three out of four in league play to fall back into the middle of the pack. This is a big week for he Huskies coming up, with Georgetown and Louisville.
8. St. John's (15-9, 7-5) (10)
Last Week: 2/10 vs. UConn 89-72, 2/13 @ Cincinnati 59-57
This Week: 2/15 @ St. John's, 2/19 vs. Marquette
See the above "Player of the Week" portion.
9. Marquette (15-10, 6-6) (8)
Last Week: 2/9 @ South Florida 59-58, 2/13 @ Georgetown 60-69
This Week: 2/15 vs. St. John's, 2/19 vs. Seton Hall
Sunday's loss to Georgetown was Marquette's worst loss of the season. By nine points. Think about that. The Golden Eagles need to start winning some of these close games down the stretch, but is there any team in the country that is more competitive than the Golden Eagles?
10. West Virginia (16-9, 7-6) (9)
Last Week: 2/12 vs. DePaul 72-61, 2/14 @ Syracuse 52-63
This Week: 2/19 vs. Notre Dame
There is something missing from this West Virginia team, but I can't quite put my finger on what it is. Kevin Jones is inconsistent, John Flowers is foul-prone, Casey Mitchell is a head case, and no one seems willing to box out.
11. Cincinnati (19-6, 6-6) (11)
Last Week: 2/8 @ DePaul 71-68, 2/13 vs. St. John's 57-59
This Week: 2/16 vs. Louisville, 2/19 @ Providence
Mick Cronin seems to have finally gotten fed up with Yancy Gates' actions and apathy towards playing. The five-star recruit who is no better as a junior than he was as a freshman played just 16 minutes against DePaul and 13 minutes against St. John's after sitting out against Pitt.
12. Seton Hall (11-14, 5-8) (12)
Last Week: 2/12 vs. Rutgers 69-64
This Week: 2/15 vs. Villanova, 2/19 @ Marquette
Keon Lawrence and Jamel Jackson were kicked off the team on Friday after missing curfew to go to a party. Both were disappointments in their time in Jersey.
13. Rutgers (13-12, 4-9) (13)
Last Week: 2/9 vs. Villanova 77-76, 2/12 vs. Seton Hall 64-69
This Week: 2/19 @ Rutgers
The Scarlet Knights deserved that upset against Villanova. Mike Rice has his team playing so hard every night, they just have come up on the short end of the talent stick. I hope they enjoyed it.
14. Providence (14-11, 3-9) (14)
Last Week: 2/13 @ UConn 57-75
This Week: 2/17 vs. DePaul, 2/19 vs. Cincinnati
You have six more games to get the chance to see Marshon Brooks play as a collegian. It's worth it.
15. South Florida (8-18, 2-11) (15)
Last Week: 2/9 vs. Marquette 58-59, 2/12 vs. Notre Dame 55-78
This Week: 2/16 @ Pitt, 2/19 vs. Georgetown
Why does USF struggle? Gus Gilchrist uses as many possessions as Marshon Brooks and Kemba Walker, but he has an offensive rating of 89.0.
16. DePaul (6-18, 0-12) (16)
Last Week: 2/8 vs. Cincinnati 68-71, 2/12 @ West Virginia 61-72
This Week: 2/17 @ Providence, 2/19 vs. Villanova
DePaul gets more competitive with every game they play. I think Oliver Purnell can make something out of that program.
A Look Ahead
This is a huge week for the UConn Huskies. Not only are they playing Georgetown on Wednesday, they get a rematch with Louisville on Friday night. Are the Huskies truly a contender in the Big East, or was the start of their season more of a fluke than anything?


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Authorities in Coos County, Oregon, are investigating just how a 69-year-old farmer ended up being eaten by his own monster hogs.
The remains of Vietnam vet Terry Vance Garner were discovered at his farm outside Bandon "several hours after he went to feed his animals". A family member first spotted the farmer's dentures on the ground, then "noticed pieces of Garner's body scattered throughout the enclosure".
The cause of his death is a mystery. Investigators are certain the hogs ate "most" of their owner, but further tests are required to determine whether he died of natural causes or was killed by his own beasts.
Coos County District Attorney Paul Frasier said: "For all we know, it was a horrific accident, but it's so doggone weird that we have to look at all possibilities."
Some of Garner's hogs weigh in at 700lb - which is "abnormally large" according to John Killefer, head honcho at the Animal and Rangeland Sciences Department at Oregon State University.
Killefer noted that while domestic pigs aren't generally as obstreperous as their feral cousins, "there is some degree of danger associated with any animal".
A sow bit Garner last year when he accidentally stepped on one of her piglets. His brother, Michael Garner, said: "He said he was going to kill it, but when I asked him about it later, he said he had changed his mind."
A forensic anthropologist at the University of Oregon, who was called in following Garner's death last Wednesday, will try to work out why this tragedy happened. There's more from the Register-Guard here. ®


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Hello strangers! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, the day after International Yarn Bombing Day I had the worst case of stomach flu/food poisoning that I've ever had and even had a little trip to the ER, so I never really posted about it. Then I spent the next month or more getting ready for my wedding. And then I relaxed for a while.
But I'm back! Thought I'd knit something nice in remembrance of 9/11 to add to the Alki Statue of Liberty in West Seattle (my main 'hood). I don't want to say a lot about the 10 year anniversary of 9/11, but it was a very memorable time in my life for many reasons, and not only was it a catastrophic event that affected just about everyone in some way even if small, it just seems to be a benchmark in my life.
One of my best friends wrote on facebook of humbleness and pride today, and I think she sums up a lot of the feelings I have had over the last 10 years about the event:
"As pride often does, we looked outside of ourselves to find the enemy, the one to blame, so that we wouldn't have to look inside at what we may have done to contribute. We had an opportunity to question our relentless consumption, our foreign policy, our financial health, our priorities, and our faith. Instead, we forged ahead into expensive, deadly wars."
So well put.
I'm not a super patriotic person, but I do think there are a lot of really great things about living in this country that we take for granted. So today, I'll be proud to be an American, even if that is a hokey notion.


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Thailand coach Kiattipong Radchatagriengkai: "I want to congratulate my team; they did a good job today. They have good unity and are working together well and also have good communication. The players followed our game plan today. It's always good when the coaches and players work together like this. We concentrated very hard on every point, and it wasn't easy to get points because Croatia are a very good team. They beat Cuba, so we were nervous. They are tall and good at blocking, so it's not easy to get points, but we tried to play in our usual style and take things point by point."
Thailand captain Wilavan Apinyapong:"Today, we are very happy to have won. We tried to play at our best and follow the game plan of the staff and coaches, and play better than yesterday."
Thailand player Nootsara Tomkom: "Today, we played better than yesterday and we were very successful in many techniques. And we cut down on our mistakes. We all served well today and we controlled the game easier than yesterday. We're very happy and want to do better."This is the World Championship and it's very hard. Every team has been preparing for this tournament for a long time and all the teams are very strong, so I find it hard. If we don't prepare very well, we can't get good results, so we've been working hard from the beginning of the year."
Croatia coach Miroslav Aksentijevic:"I want to congratulate Thailand. We definitely didn't play our volleyball; the main problem was the very good performance of our opponents. We had a chance to play in some parts, but when we served well the main problem was our transition after reception. We will try to recover tomorrow and focus on our next two matches against Germany and Kazakhstan. It's difficult for us now, but we will do our best to stay here for the next round."
Croatia captain Maja Poljak:"I just want to congratulate Thailand. It's the first time we've played against an Asian team with their characteristics of quick play and a lot of combinations. Unfortunately, we are tall and slow and we had a lot of problems, and they had better tactics. They deserved to win and I have to congratulate them."


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Pronunciation 1[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʃoʊ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃəʊ/
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- Rhymes: -əʊ
shew (third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past shewed, past participle shewed or shewn)
- Archaic spelling of show.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:, Genesis 12:1
- Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will shew thee:
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981:, Ruth 2:19
- And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man's name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.
- 1774, "The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men.", in The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products[1], London: T. Becket, translation of original by Le Page Du Pratz, page 42:
- I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.
- 1786: Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page xiv.
- The section shewing its concavity and handle.
- 1843: Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 5, Twelfth Century
- We have Processions, Preachings, Festivals, Christmas Plays, Mysteries shewn in the Churchyard, at which latter the Townsfolk sometimes quarrel.
- 1884: Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland, Sec. 4, Concerning the Women
- But, as I shall soon shew, this custom, though it has the advantage of safety, is not without its disadvantages.
- 1908: T. J. I'a Bromwich, An Introduction to the Theory of Infinite Series, Power Series, Derangement of expansions.
- Expand the series powers of x, shewing that the coefficient of is .
- 1913, John Bagnell Bury, "The Expansion of the Saracens—The East; Historical aspect of Islam", in Henry Melvill Gwatkin and James Pounder Whitney, editor, The Cambridge Medieval History, volume 2, New York: The Macmillan Company, translation of original by Carl Heinrich Becker, published 1967, The Rise of the Saracens and the foundation of the Western Empire, page 330:
- Within the Christian sphere this current shews itself more especially in the territories of the Greek and Aramaic languages, and the difference between the Greek and Latin Churches is mainly that between Asia and Europe.
- 1921: Marcel Proust translated by C. K. Moncrieff, Swann's Way, page 1.
- I would ask myself what o'clock it could be; I could hear the whistling of trains, which, now nearer and now farther off, punctuating the distance like the note of a bird in a forest, shewed me in perspective the deserted countryside through which a traveller would be hurrying towards the nearest station: the path that he followed being fixed forever in his memory but the general excitement due to being in a strange place, to farewells exchanged beneath an unfamiliar lamp which echoed still in his ears amid the silence of the night; and to the delightful prospect of being once again at home.
shew (plural shews)
- Archaic spelling of show.
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- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʃuː/
- Rhymes: -uː
- Homophones: shoe, shoo
- (East Anglia) simple past tense of show
- As I travelled, the signposts shew me the way.
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High standards and high hopes.
By Lesley | May 3, 2011
There is a terrible man out there in the world who has recently made some terrible observations about whether the parents of fat children can possibly love them: he argues no, that no parent who allows their child to become fat could love that child, as their love should somehow serve as a barrier to all the imperfections of the parents' own lives, their own food issues, their own family backgrounds, their socioeconomic status, their level of education, their access to quality healthcare. Love, he argues, should conquer all in the face of obesity, and if obesity wins, then the culprit is a lack of sufficient love.
I'm not naming the terrible man nor his terrible organization nor the space in which he has made his terrible assertions. I call him terrible because here he is behaving terribly, although I admit he is probably a complex individual, as we all are, prone to cruelty and ignorance and to kindness and intelligence in equal measures, often unpredictably. It may just be that the subject of fat brings out his darker impulses, as it does in many people. I persistently believe that those who are most vicious in attacks against fat people only wreak their havoc out of a misplaced sense of doing good, and being too wrapped up in their own perspectives to hear the experiences of the people whom they're trying to save, cannot understand why anyone would ever disagree with what seems, to them, to make perfect sense. Of course parents who allow or enable their children to become fat must not love them, thinks the terrible man, because why would you blight someone who love with such an unbearable existence? You'd only do so much for someone you hated.
I have to believe that these people make their fat-people-hatin' assertions out of misplaced good intentions, because I have to believe that these people are complicated individuals, each with their own motivations and histories, each with a story that brought them to the life they have today. I acknowledge them as people, imperfect though they are, because we all need a little forgiveness sometimes.
I acknowledge them as people even when they fail to do as much for me.
One of my most obvious imperfections is that I'm fat. This particular imperfection is one with which we are culturally obsessed, and so it gets more attention than my other imperfections, like my dreadful handwriting, or my impatience, or my inability to make comfortable small talk at parties. These are petty annoyances, but my fattery is more than imperfection: it is a primary failure of my humanity. Being fat means I am presumed not to have the same human characteristics as everyone else; lacking these characteristics makes me less likely to be recognized as a full-fledged person with all the basic rights thereof. Dehumanization has long been a handy tool for justifying the oppression and marginalization of unpopular groups. I still have it pretty okay, all things considered. No one has forced me into slavery; no one has forced me into an asylum; no one has forced me to undergo medical experiments against my will. And while I am grateful for these small mercies, I am not grateful enough to quietly accept the othering forces that do push my way.
It is well known that stigma does not work as a deterrent against fatness. If it did, with our wildly increasing environment of obesity stigma over the past several years, there should have come a marked decrease in the incidence of fat people. It hasn't happened, which suggests that not only does stigma not work, but that there are probably a number of contributing factors beyond individual behavior. Culturally, we have well and truly succeeded at making life in a fat body incredibly unpleasant on a day to day basis, from humiliating fat people for requiring certain physical accommodations, to tacitly encouraging the policing of fat bodies by harassment and even assault. These things are morally acceptable, because we are fighting a War On Obesity, and how can we have a war without both physical and emotional violence? What kind of war doesn't rely on these things to create a desired result?
I'd argue that the result sought is not improved health across populations; it's not a better quality of life. Fatness does not uniformly affect health nor quality of life; just because it does for some does not mean it does for all, and those people who do have problems relating to their size are not compelled to change themselves simply because a majority voice tells them to. No, this war on obesity is a movement to erase the bodies of as many fat people as possible, and to threaten and terrify those that remain into living invisibly in their shame.
A social shift to improve the health and quality of life of the human population would look very different. For one, we would have universal and free healthcare. We would have equal access to a wide variety of food choices across all social and economic spheres, and we would respect the rights of folks to make their own intuitive decisions about what and how much they eat. We'd value the opportunity to engage in enjoyable activities according to our unique physical abilities, and would have sufficient time and space to do so. Essentially, such a social movement would create a culture unrecognizable to us today.
Sadly, the movement against obesity isn't a movement for anything. It is a movement rooted in a desire to inflict shame and to make those who escape derision feel superior. It is, in its purest sense, a movement of bullying. The fact is, none of us is without flaws. We all have moments of weakness. We all give in to temptation. Some of us, the unlucky outsiders, are assigned the responsibility for these transgressions; some of us get tagged as wearing the proof of our excess, and not just our own, but as representative of all of the over-consumption that embarrasses us as a social group. Fat people are three-dimensional reminders of our greatest cultural and social fears. Our bodies represent everyone's lack of self-restraint. Our bodies are living cautionary tales. Beware.
All of this cultural weight, assigned to one basic physical difference, one deviance from the accepted norm, one bodily imperfection! Fat people are people in the same way thin people are people, and in the same way average-weight people are people, and in the same way people of color are people and disabled people are people and transgender people are people and poor people are people. We are all imperfect humans, and even those who fly closer to the sun than the rest of us down here in the imperfect mire, they have their imperfections too. Imperfection is the natural order of things; to fight it is like trying to keep that sun from rising. I am not one to demand that everyone accept their imperfections—some of us need our aspirational motivations too much— but I think it's reasonable to suggest we refrain from actively stigmatizing them.
Every once in awhile, I try something different: I try forgiving the imperfections of the people around me. From the woman witlessly clogging up the self-checkout line at the supermarket, to the colleague who loses an important document, to the kid who accidentally dumps his soda on my shoes—I try practicing forgiveness of their foibles and imperfections. I don't do it with the expectation that I'll get something in return. I do it to see what it feels like, to live in a world where we are occasionally easy on each other; to imagine how it would be to not live on my guard, to expect forgiveness for my own imperfections from others.
We can't always control culture, we radicals and outsiders, even as we subvert it, but we can experiment, and we can model the behavior we'd like to see. I can be a harpy and a gadfly tomorrow: today, I'll be kind, and I'll remind folks that even marginalized people can be more human than those closest to perfection.
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"Every once in awhile, I try something different: I try forgiving the imperfections of the people around me. From the woman witlessly clogging up the self-checkout line at the supermarket, to the colleague who loses an important document, to the kid who accidentally dumps his soda on my shoes—I try practicing forgiveness of their foibles and imperfections. I don't do it with the expectation that I'll get something in return. I do it to see what it feels like, to live in a world where we are occasionally easy on each other; to imagine how it would be to not live on my guard, to expect forgiveness for my own imperfections from others."
THIS. So beautiful and true. I've noticed that forgiving and accepting others enables me to be more forgiving and accepting of myself.
Yup. Perfect.
What Ruth said. And what Lesley said in the the article. I spent so much of my life being so mad at so many people, situations etc. At some point (maybe around 25 or so) i started to realize that if i just tell myself "they're not good or bad they're mostly just people", I feel so much better. It doesn't change what they think necessarily but I feel so much better. So i've said it before and i'll say it again, thanks Lesley (and commenters).
Brilliant post! Forgiveness is rare and valuable – but free to give. Thanks for the reminder.
I hope someone is telling this man what ideas like that can do to the relationship between parents and children. Without getting all me-me-me about it, my parents were told a number of times that they were bad parents for "letting" me be fat as a child, and their fear of that led them to take measures that set me up for a lifetime of disordered eating and made it a long, difficult road back to a smooth and loving family life. It's terrible to think of that happening to other children and other families. I wish we were all reading Ellyn Satter's lovely, sensible work about how parents can work with their children around food instead.
Fantastic. "Bodies are living cautionary tales" – Love this.
Reading YA novels about cheerleaders (it's part of my job), I'm struck by how the girls are represented as eating: chili cheese fries, pizza, M&Ms, chocolate, doritos, potato chips, cheeseburgers….All "junk" foods, in the parlance of our times, but without recriminations. In a book with a Fat protagonist, these foods would be marked as bad, we'd react to them differently, we'd see them as signs of weakness, unhappiness, gross-ness. I see a skinny girl buying a huge whipped-cream drink at starbucks and I see a Fat girl buying the same, and I have two different reactions, to the same drink, the same decision about what/how/when to consume.
It's terrible, and so insidious, the way this fat/food policing embeds itself in our minds. I have been trying, consciously, mindfully, to notice my own policing thoughts and cut them off.
It really is all about simple human kindness and acceptance.
I love how, upon reading this, I was guided gently through Grumpypants Cockpunch mode to an almost zen-like plateau of acceptance and agape. Kudos.
Lesley, I'm sorry such a terrible person believes such terrible things, but thank you as always for your lovely words and the reminder of forgiveness. Forgiveness for myself and of others. (That and for the pictures of belugas on your tumblr the other day, not only did I need the reminder – now, especially now- to forgive and to hope for forgiveness, but holy cow I needed to be reminded of the awesomeness of the beluga whales. love love love.)
the most difficult part of FA for me wasn't internalizing the acceptance. It was and continues to be accepting that the awful things that people believe about me because I am fat only have the power over me that I allow. I have spent my entire life being emotionally suffocated by my reactions to the stgma and hatred directed at me. Coming to peace with the fact that I am always going to be loathed by a society that supports hatred of people with bodies like mine, makes my thought life a little easier. It is a process. But I m getting better at it.
I'm working hard on that myself, Ivan. It's not easy, is it?
Really awesome and thought provoking post Lesley. Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves and I must confess, I feel genuine pity for the anti-fat preachers. Thank you.
I started getting fat age 7 and my Grandmother told me. She loved me dearly yet she told me my stomach was too big. I moved and ate like a child yet for some reason I was much bigger than my peers. For the first time I felt ashamed of myself. I didn't like going to my Grandmother's house anymore and I used to throw away photos of myself. I have recently been going through my old childhood photos (the ones that survived) and I see a fat child glowing with health. I now love this gap-toothed grinning fat child. I wish I could have loved myself then.
Btw: Hope your kitty get well soon.
You are a considerably nicer and way more charitable person than I could ever hope to be. A true text book Christian, regardless of spiritual beliefs or lack of them, and which this non-practising secular Jew and lifelong loather of organised religion means as a compliment.
Alas I lack the compassion and emotional wherewithal to forgive those who make the lives of fat people so damned unpleasant, and have immense difficulty believing obesity crusaders have anything other than their own interests at heart. (And, from where I'm standing, it looks as though those interests mainly consist of defending their god given right to moralise, blame and generally put the boot in). I get that they're only human, imperfect, complex and all the rest of it – not least since they feel the need to dehumanise, exert control over and ignore the personal boundaries of total strangers. But I hurt too much to do anything other than mirror the disdain and disrespect they so obviously feel for me.
Buffpuff, I have to agree with you. Forgiving others does not make me feel better; often I am ashamed of having done so or frustrated because my forgiveness did not come from a position of strength. Whereas, I am more likely to feel good about forgiving some hateful people if I think of them as ants not worth the stepping on.
By the way, I am talking about times when I've been the recipient of major hatefulness. If I am treated with respect or even neutrality, I will respond with respect.
I disagree with (or perhaps misunderstand) the tenet that people only have the power over me that I allow. That always seemed like a "Get Out of Jail Free" card for abusive, manipulative people.
By the way, the "terrible man" sounds like a spiritual descendant of Bruno Bettelheim, who had this idea that autism was caused by "refrigerator mothers".
P.S. Gosh, yes – I hope Oberon is doing okay. He's a beautiful boy and I wish him better.
Oh it made me wince to read that line about fat as imperfection and also resulted in this moment of lovely confusion where I was like, "Wait what? Fat is cool and subversive and thoughtful and prone to wearing bright colors, what's more appealing than that?" I would wager this comes entirely from being extremely selective in the media I consume and taking in well written fat acceptance blogs regularly, my norm has shifted enormously (for which I am enormously grateful). I'm not trying to minimize what it is to be fat in this culture, by any means.
Excellent piece as always.
While I'm amazed at and chagrined by your ability to forgive and see the very awful man as a flawed human being who makes his heinous points out of a misguided sense of trying to do good, rather than a desire to continue to shame and ostracize, I'm troubled by one thing you've written here: that your fat body is imperfect.
You've written in this very blog that fat IS; it's neither good, nor bad; it simply is. Which I took to mean that having a fat body simply means having a fat body. It's neither good or bad; it just is. So I'm confused about why you'd describe your body as imperfect, since imperfection seems to imply 'badness.' Your tone doesn't seem to be tongue-in-cheek in that portion of your post, and doesn't seem to indicate that you're writing from the perspective of society at large, which does tend to view all fat people as 'imperfect.' …Then again, it's often nigh on impossible to ascertain someone's 'tone' or intentions from something they've written online. So I'm confused about your intent in describing your body as 'imperfect.' It seems like you're not being forgiving enough of yourself.
Yep, I meant imperfect according to cultural standards, but I also think that imperfection is not itself good or bad, as I note later on—it's natural. Just like not all bodies will be physically "perfect" insofar as meeting expectations of appearance, nor are all bodies, fat or otherwise, perfectly healthy or perfectly mobile or perfectly predictable. And that, also, is natural, as variety is natural, and therefore worthy of forgiveness.
Also, on a personal level, as a perfectionist, it is both positive and healthy for me to practice embracing my lack of perfectness—I associate the ideas in this post with my writing on beauty, and not being beautiful, an idea which itself embodies a type of perfection. For me, an important part of loving, valuing, and caring for my body is understanding that it will never be perfect, and yet demanding that it deserves respect and dignity regardless.
Once again, another intelligent and beautiful post. I try to practice forgiveness. However, I must admit it is hard for me to forgive the parents and the town that allow this fat-shaming campaign — "Childhood Obesity Ads Rely On Fat-Shaming" http://bit.ly/mgyEn5
Have you seen them yet? I would love see a post about them.
Doesn't it make just as much sense to say that there is no such thing as a perfect body? That since we're all imperfect we are all perfect? Hardly an original thought, I know, but it does the work of norm-busting. In some ways I think this is why it's important to see those magazine specials of STARS WITHOUT THEIR MAKEUP!!!! Because we, culturally, are being sold the idea that there ARE perfect bodies, and if we just do XYZ, *we* can have that body too! When, in fact, many of those images of "perfection" that we're sold are carefully constructed, packaged, airbrushed, made-up, photoshopped, etc.
On the *positive* billboard front, I am pleased to see the billboard on a major road in my city for larger-sized MRI machines. Slogan is something about only being squeezed by the people you love, and shows a hugging parent and kid, I think. I keep being reminded, by this billboard, of the critiques of medical anti-fat, including inadequately-sized MRI machines – and I'm happy that 1) the medical system advertising has taken steps to provide larger machines and 2) the ad for it has no fat-shaming language at all.
Has stigma ever worked as a deterrent for anything?


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Cook the Book: 'Try This at Home' by Richard Blais
I'd venture to guess that almost anyone with a television knows the name or at least the spiky blonde coif of Richard Blais. He's one of the most successful Top Chef alums. After competing twice (and winning once), Blais has opened a few restaurants in the Atlanta area including the mini-chain, FLIP Burger. Over the last several years, his style of cooking has morphed from a strict allegiance to all things molecular to a less technical, yet still whimsical, take on Americana.
Given Blais's omnipresence, it's a bit surprising that he's waited so long to release a cookbook. Sure, he's shared recipes through various Top Chef-related ventures, but Try This at Home is his first solo book venture. Think of it as a Richard Blais greatest hits album. It's a substantial cookbook with a balanced array of recipes from easy and simple roasts to complex, multifaceted and molecular plates.
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This week, we'll try out a number of boisterous Blais creations. First, we'll fry up Pimento Jack Cheese Sandwiches, and toss a Smoked Caesar Salad. Next, we'll slow cook Brisket with Coriander, Black Pepper, and Brown Sugar and then tackle Barely Smoked Salmon with many accouterments. Finally we will round out the week with a Top Chef classic, Potato "Linguine" with Conch and White Wine.
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Tuesday, 5 June 2012
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A truly unforgettable experience, as I'm sure it was for thousands who climbed their nearest high point to ignite Diamond Jubilee beacons. We had gathered in the gardens of a house in the village to eat, drink and be merry whilst Youngest Boy spent four hours somersaulting down a bouncy castle. And then, at ten o'clock we convened in the dark road outside (our village has no street lighting thank goodness) and followed an enormous English flag up to the top of whale-backed Slawston Hill. As we ascended we pointed out flaring lights on the surrounding high points to each other, and then our own blaze sent fire, smoke and flying embers up into the sky as if competing with the big full moon that came out of a wisp of cloud at exactly the right moment. I stared out into the black distances, thinking of those in neighbouring villages gathered around their beacons, looking over to ours. Youngest Boy was simply awestruck, running about with his mate trying to catch flying spots of fire in the air until we gradually drifted off down the hill and back into the village street, saying 'goodnight' to our fellows in the darkness like Thomas Hardy characters coming home.
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Sounds as though you enjoyed the hospitality in the gardens of the house in the village, whose owners you have allowed complete strangers to vilify on these boards in the past.
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- Peter Ashley said...
Of course.
- 5 June 2012 at 15:10
- Wartime Housewife said...
It was brilliant and our hosts went to so much trouble to make everyone welcome.
- 5 June 2012 at 23:07
- Wartime Housewife said...
It was brilliant and our hosts went to so much trouble to make everyone welcome.
- 5 June 2012 at 23:07
- Wartime Housewife said...
I always say to the boys "Never do anything anonymously. If you're not brave enough to put your name to something, say nothing at all."
- 6 June 2012 at 00:40
'wartime housewife' is anonymous too ...
- 6 June 2012 at 09:33
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Wartime Housewife is a persona and also my company/brand name. Anyone can email me through my site and I will almost certainly reveal my real name in that context. When I do media work, my real name is announced alongside my nom de travaille.
There is also the element of fun; having a persona both allows me to speak with a slightly different voice but also allows my readers an opportunity to play with voices of their own. There is no attempt at subterfuge and I have never voiced an opinion or written a letter annonymously in my life.
In the event that your comment was justified, surely YOU would have felt justified in lodging your criticism openly. The fact that you resort to anonymity suggests that your are either a trifle cowardly or simply wanting to have a dig for personal reasons of your own.
- 6 June 2012 at 13:48
Thoroughly enjoyed the Jubilee weekend. No beacons in East London, alas. Although there was a van on fire the other night.
- 6 June 2012 at 18:13
- Peter Ashley said...
Blimey. Thankyou WH. Well said.
Anyway, as Ten Inch so rightly says, let's move on and set fire to a van.
- 6 June 2012 at 23:36
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- 6 June 2012 at 23:36
- Sue Imgrund said...
There's definitely something awe-inspiring about beacons and fires. There is some tradition here of bonfires on the summer solstice, so I guess I'd better wait for that, having missed all the jubilee jollifications.
- 8 June 2012 at 08:49
- Hels said...
everyone loves a fun evening, with fireworks, bonfires, good food and wine, and lots of company. But how much of the pleasure was specifically tied in with the celebrations being for the royal jubilee? Did everyone join in the fun, royalists republicans and everyone in between?
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Coca-Cola Vending Robots Spotted In Japan
So apparently Coca-Cola has these oversized robotic bastards lumbering around Tokyo and pinching the heads off anyone that doesn't buy an ice-cold Coke from its cooling chamber. Has anybody seen one? Do they actually walk around? Is there really just a person about to pass out from heatstroke in there? Has anyone tried knocking one over and prying its change receptacle open with a flathead? I need answers. But what I don't need is a giant robotic vending machine in my neighborhood. I do like Coke though. Who I don't like is Dr. Pepper -- I think that creep tried to touch me when I was under the gas.
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Hey all,
I'd like to put together a listing of all major LEGO events for the next couple of years. Please list any that you know of, their dates, and the city and country. As you add events, I'll edit them into this post. I'd especially appreciate help populating this calendar with events outside the US, since I'm more familiar with the US venues, and things from 2014, as those dates are sometimes not readily apparent on the official con websites, even if the organizers have already settled on dates. Also add things like ComicCons, ToyFairs, Star Wars events, train events or other similar events that will have either an official LEGO or significant AFOL presence. It can be anything from something like Comic Con that brings in over 100,000, down to a planned event of your local LUG as long as it is open to other AFOLs and/or the public.
Upcoming LEGO gatherings
5-7 - KidsFest, Louisville, KY, USA
13-14 - Festibriques, France (where?)
26-28 - Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
11-12 - BrickFair NE, Manchester, NH, USA
17-19- KidsFest, Houston, TX, USA
1-10, Arte em Pecas, Paredes de Coura, Portugal
15-16, Brickworld, Chicago, IL, USA
15-16, Legoland Star Wars Days, Carlsbad, CA, USA
28-30, Fanabriques, Rosheim, France
4-7, Brick Fiesta, Mesquite, TX, USA
12-14 - KidsFest, Phoenix, AZ, USA
13-14 - Brickfete, Toronto, ON, Canada
13-14 - Catbrick, Catalonia, Spain
18-21 - Comic Con International, San Diego, CA, USA
27-28 - Brickspo, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
1-4 - BrickFair, Chantilly, VA, USA
8-11 - Bricks by the Bay, Santa Clara, CA, USA
30-Sept 1 - KidsFest, San Jose, CA, USA
13-15, Cincinnati Comic Expo, Cincinnati, OH, USA
27-29 - LEGO Fan Weekend, Skaerbaek, Denmark
28-29, Brickworld, Fort Wayne, IN, USA
3-7 - BrickCon, Seattle, WA, USA
5-7 - Great Western LEGO Show/STEAM, Swindon, England, UK
10-13 - New York Comic Con - New York City, NY, USA
11-13 - KidsFest, Portland, OR, USA
17-23 - LEGO World, Utrecht, The Netherlands
6-8 - KidsFest, Hartford, CT, USA
7-8 - ItLUG Porto San Giorgio, Porto San Giorgio, IT
9-12 - BrickFair Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
18-19 - Brickvention, Melbourne, AU
21-23 - London Toy Fair, London, England, UK
13-16 - LEGO World, Copenhagen, DK
6-9 - Bricks Cascade, Portland, OR, USA
8-9 - Brickworld, Indianapolis, IN, USA
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28-30 - Emerald City Comiccon, Seattle, WA, USA
2-3, Brickslopes, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
10-11, BrickFair New England, Manchester, NH, USA
14-15, Brickworld, Chicago, IL, USA
16-18 - Klodsfest, Roskilde, DK
20-22, World War Brick, Minneapolis, MN, USA
27-29 - Fana'Briques, Rosheim, FR
26-27 - Brickspo, Moose Jaw, SK, Canada
2-3 - BrickFair Virginia, Chantilly, VA, USA
7-10 - Bricks by the Bay, Santa Clara, CA, USA
19-21, Cincinnati Comic Expo, Cincinnati, OH, USA
26-28 - LEGO Fan Weekend, Skærbæk, DK (tentative)
4-5, Great Western Lego Show, Swindon, England, UK
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Many bowhunters amid their off-season are filling out their NCAA basketball brackets, but the month of March brings me a whole new "March Madness."
The March Madness I'm referring to is bowhunting predators. The coyote breeding season is the probably the most difficult time of year to call, fortunately, it is nearing completion for the majority of the continental United States and in some places has most likely been over for a couple of weeks. No different than a whitetail buck post-rut, coyotes main objective has switched from mating to eating and it's an excellent time for bowhunters to test their skills at fooling a Wiley into thinking they're an easy meal.
A mating pair of Coyotes in Southeastern Wyoming
I've always said that if I couldn't bow hunt big game animals, I wouldn't be "settling" to call predators because I love it. Calling predators whom have better sight, hearing and sense of smell than a whitetail is a challenge with any weapon, let alone archery tackle. The deck is stacked against any bowhunter when it comes to calling predators, but that very fact can provide one of the most rewarding hunts imaginable.
It's possible that predator hunting is one of my favorite activities due to the general ease of finding places to hunt. In my personal experiences, there are more ranchers and farmers that grant permission to call predators than any other type of hunting. Most of us are deer hunters at heart, so let's be honest, what better way is there to get your foot in the door with a landowner? In the past few months I've met several ranchers that have offered me the privilege to hunt coyotes on their property and I feel fairly certain that there may be opportunities to hunt deer and antelope on their property this coming Fall, that is, if I do my job and show them that I am a responsible and respectful guest on their property.
The Keys to Success:
Be patient, be still, and call into the wind. Calling into the wind (in my opinion) is by far the most important when we're talking about bowhunting. The ultimate goal is to get the animal into 40 yards, not 400. A coyote that is 300 yards from you, down wind, is killable with a rifle and probably won't smell you before the bullet gets there, but inside of a 100 yards you most likely won't see them or if you do it will be for a split second. Next on the importance list, being still. We have to keep in mind that the predators we're calling are looking for the source of the sound, and by finding that source is how they survive. This is where a hands free or remote controlled caller like the FoxPro series can come in extremely handy by diverting the animal's attention away from the shooter/caller. Things that eliminate movement like having an arrow nocked and your bow already sitting vertical can be the difference between bow kills and busts. Finally, be patient. Just like deer, coyotes and (especially) bobcats can be extremely cautious when their coming to find a free meal. I'm not sure who it was, but someone has familiarized them with the phrase, "if it's too good to be true, it probably is." Be patient, on average I'll spend 20 minutes at each stand location, and generally I'll call for 30-45 seconds and then wait for a minute or two before calling again. Hunters that call in late January and February spend more time because they're howling instead of using an "animal in distress" call.
A beautiful Texas Tom killed in 2007
The Calls:
When we think of "predator calls" most of us automatically think of a high-pitched screaming rabbit and whi le this is definitely the most popular sound, it's far from the only one that will produce results. The way I figure out which call I'm going to start with is to figure out what would be the primary food source in the area. In areas with lots of hardwoods, a Woodpecker or Blue Jay in distress call can produce great results. Where I hunt, there are no Blue Jays and a Jack Rabbit or a Cottontail are what I reach for first. The one call that I feel every predator hunter should have on them at all times is a mouse squeaker, like that out of a dogs chew toy (or simply be able to lip squeak at any given time).
There are literally hundreds of predator calls on the market and fortunately most of them will probably work. There are three basic styles of calls: open reed mouth call, closed reed mouth call and electronic calls. The open reed calls are my personal favorite because they produce (to my ears) a very pure sound, they're also very versatile in the pitches that you can create with the exposed and moveable reed. Closed reed calls are extremely simple to use… just blow. They don't have the versatility of an open reed call. Electronic calls have come a long way since Johnny Stewart came out with their electronic caller some 25 years ago, you don't have to carry a cassette tape, a speaker, a tape player and a battery pack any longer. There are several electronic calls on the market, but in my opinion the FoxPro Series is light years ahead of the others. They can be operated manually or by long range remote control and they also have decoys that can be controlled by the same remote to give your quarry something to look at other than you. It's important to have multiple calls in your arsenal for different weather types, wind conditions, etc.
Crit R Calls are my favorite open reed predator calls
A Circe closed reed predator call is adjustable to create Cottontail, Jack Rabbit and mouse squeak sounds
The FoxPro Series of electronic calls give you the versatility to have hundreds of sounds at your finger tips
The Setup:
Calling coyotes is different in every terrain type but they're all coyotes looking for the same thing and if you follow the three "rules" previously discussed, you're well on your way to being more successful. My recent move from Oklahoma to Wyoming has changed the way I hunt, 180 degrees. In places like central Oklahoma with thick cover, my favorite method is to back off of the thicket as far as possible while still keeping the "edge" within shooting distance. Coyotes and bobcats alike, prefer the security of the thick cover and are often times more likely to come investigate my distress sound. In Wyoming, that strategy is useless… the sage brush flats provide no such cover. Now I look for hard edges, a rocky out-cropping, a sharp ditch bank or an edge of sage brush that opens into a grass flat. These coyotes are used to being in the open and seeing, well… everything, so hiding myself is the main goal. It is no different than hunting deer, you have to learn your individual properties.
Whether you're a seasoned predator caller or looking for a new "March Madness," calling predators is something every bowhunter should try.


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Meriden falls within state Senator Len Suzio's bailiwick.
It was there on June 27 that Frankie Resto, recently released from prison under the state's new and controversial Risk Reduction Earned Credits program, wandered into an EZ Mart store and shot to death Ibraham Ghazal, according to police who later apprehended and arrested Mr. Resto for the murder.
Mr. Resto earned 199 days' worth of credits toward early release while serving a prison sentence for two prior robberies.
The murder of Ghazal almost immediately called into question both the purpose and the construction of the early release program, which enables violent felons to shorten their prison sentences if they abide by certain administrative rules.
Prison officials and the Malloy administration, as well as legislators who crafted the program, evidentially wished to place in the hands of prison officials additional tools they felt would contribute to reducing risky behavior within the prison, hence the title of the program.
Following the murder of Mr. Ghazal, Mr. Suzio released a letter he sent to Governor Dannel Malloy in the course of which he urges Mr. Malloy to suspend the program:
"I urge you to suspend the state's new Risk Reduction Earned Credits program and to order Department of Correction Commissioner Leo Arnone to withhold all early release credits given to inmates with a history of violent crime pending a review of how the program has been implemented and the public safety protected."
Mr. Suzio quite reasonably points out that The Risk Reduction Earned Credit program, according to Department of Correction Commissioner Leo Arnone, "is being administered without the requirement for an updated psychiatric examination," a deficiency that "raises serious questions of public safety as more and more violent Connecticut inmates are getting time taken off their sentences. How can criminals with a history of violent crimes such as rape, arson, and child molestation be allowed early release into the public without the requirement for a current psychiatric examination?"
Almost immediately after the EZ Mart murder, reporters and others noted, as did Mr. Suzio, that Mr. Resto had been released under the auspices of the new program. Had Mr. Resto served his full term, he would not have been present at the EZ Mart on June 27 when the victim, having obliged Mr. Resto by surrendering the money from his register on demand, was never-the-less shot to death, police say, by Mr. Resto.
Had Mr. Resto shot a dozen people, he could not have been sentenced to death in Connecticut, because the General Assembly, dominated by Democrats, had abolished the death penalty during its short session, which in the past had been convened to settle budgetary issues. One of the arguments put forward by anti-death penalty proponents was that the penalty did not deter capital felony crimes. The judicial sausage grinder, it was said, ground so slowly in the case of capital felony crimes that it did not deter people like Mr. Resto from murdering people like Mr. Ghazal.
One wonders whether the provisions of the Risk Reduction Earned Credit program, as well as readjusted sentences that depend on good behavior behind bars, will reduce such crimes as occurred in Meriden. If a criminal knows that his sentence for having committed murder, rape, arson or child molestation could be reduced depending upon his behavior while in prison, would he be more or less likely to commit suchcrimes?
Does the prospect of shorted sentences increase the likelihood of crime by reducing penalties? While the earned credit program may reduce the risk of errant behavior while in prison, and therefore may or may not reduce risk of injury to prisoners and prison staff, cons are very good at conning prison officials and legislators. The risk reduction program, we know of a certainty, did not reduce the risk of death for Mr. Ghazal.
Mr. Suzio's request is a very modest one: He is simply asking that updated psychiatric examinations should be required before prison officials release another Resto into towns across the state whose citizens have a right to full protection under the laws. Some of those citizens may well vote in the upcoming elections against legislators who spurn their constitutional obligations to protect them from the risks of a poorly drafted and conceived Risk Reduction Earned Credit program.
Mr. Suzio's letter follows:
Governor Malloy,
On June 27 an innocent Meriden store owner was murdered in cold blood. An inmate let out of prison under the "Early Release" law has been charged with the crime. All too often violent criminals are out of jail before their victims leave the hospital. In this case, the victim is dead and his family left with a lifetime of suffering. I urge you to suspend the state's new Risk Reduction Earned Credit program and to order Commissioner Arnone to withhold all early release credits given to inmates with a history of violent crime pending a review of how the program has been implemented and the public safety protected
The Risk Reduction Earned Credit program enables violent felons to be released early from prison. According to Commissioner Arnone, the program is being administered without the requirement for an updated psychiatric examination. This raises serious questions of public safety as more and more violent Connecticut inmates are getting time taken off their sentences. How can criminals with a history of violent crimes such as rape, arson, and child molestation be allowed early release into the public without the requirement for a current psychiatric examination?
Inmate Frankie Resto, of Meriden, faces murder charges in connection with the June 27 killing of Ibrahim Ghazal in Ghazal's Meriden EZ Mart store. If Resto had been required to serve the full 75-month sentence for two previous armed robbery convictions, he would have been in prison until October of this year. He was released in April after receiving 199 days of Risk Reduction Earned Credits.I am seeking to prevent future tragedies like the one we have seen in my hometown of Meriden. Thousands of violent criminals held in Connecticut prisons may be released without psychiatric examination. I am calling on you to suspend this flawed program so that the issue of psychiatric evaluations can be addressed and public safety protected. We must learn a lesson from the murder in Meriden before thousands of other violent criminals are prematurely released into the population.
Thank you for your attention to this matter. I know you share my feeling that public safety must be our number one priority.
Len Suzio
State Senator