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Weight Watchers Weekly Update
Well, I did it. I survived my first Tuesday afternoon workplace weigh-in although I did not come out unscathed. Before I get to that I should tell you about my weigh in on Saturday morning. I went to my normal meeting location on Saturday because I had to get my WW information card (so my new location has my weight loss history) and I decided to weigh in while I was there. I am happy to report I was down two pounds, bringing my weight to 226.8 pounds, weight loss on WW to 53.2 and my total overall weight loss to 59.2 pounds. Yes! Happy dance! Oh, and I am now only 2.8 pounds away from reaching my 20% milestone. I cannot believe I am so close to having lost 20% of my starting body weight. Actually, that happened last week when I weighed in at 228.8; which is exactly 80% of my starting weight of 286. However, what I am referring to is hitting my 20% goal from my starting Weight Watchers weight- confusing right? I know. It confuses me all the time. Now it's about to get worse because now I have a starting weight from my at work meetings that will be the point from which my target weights are calculated. For example, to receive 50% reimbursement of my WW fees from my company I have to lose 5% of my starting weight- my weight from yesterday's meeting. For the sake of my personal sanity, I am not going to think of this as another new weight. Instead I will treat it as what it is – my current WW weight- and just keep in the back of my mind what I need to lose to hit that 5%.
11.6 pounds. That's what I have to lose over the next 17 weeks in order to get 50% reimbursement. I think that is totally manageable but who knows, holiday season will quickly be upon us. My willpower has not yet been tested against the things I crave the most during the holidays; cookies. Oh my, the never-ending stream of cookies. That's how I feel about the holidays. It's like an all you can eat buffet of cookies (and other things too) and I am not sure how well I will be able to hold up. I will try my best to practice restraint though instead of depriving myself. Deprivation will lead to an all out free for all cookie bonanza so I have to make sure to allow myself to indulge while practicing moderation. Any who, sorry for my cookie rambling. Where was I? Yes, my weigh in yesterday. Ugh! It was pretty damaging. I woke up yesterday, stepped on the scale, 226 pounds. A few minutes later I was dressed in my work clothes, stepped on the scale 229.6. Yikes! I knew right then that my weight in the afternoon was going to be high. By 12p I had already eaten breakfast and a snack (no matter what that scale may say – I am not waiting 7 hours to eat, I refuse to starve myself for that scale) and had already drank almost 3L of water so I wasn't shocked when I stepped on and weighed in at 231 pounds. No I wasn't surprised but it still sucks being back in the 230's, having to spend the next few week re-losing weight I have already lost, seeing a +4.2 on my weight tracker (the most I had gained to this point was 0.8), and knowing that every Tuesday at 12p I will be weighing in 5 pounds heavier than I really am. Blerg! Oh, well. I need to get over myself and move on, right? It's only five pounds. But damn it if all I can't keep thinking is they are five pounds I busted my butt to lose. Those five 'fake' pounds will be my nemesis. I need to really push myself this week because I need to get back to the 220's especially since I am now 7 pounds away from my 20% instead of 2.8 pounds away L Sorry, I don't mean to vent and complain. I know in a few days that gain will not be a concern but today it is still resonating with me. I just needed to let it all out so I can clear my head and move on.
Did you know that tomorrow is September 1st? Can you believe it? Where did the summer go? It is Labor Day weekend already! Of course, it is still in the 100's here with no sign of summer leaving us anytime soon but still summer is ending and hockey season is right around the corner. Crazy! September 1st also means that tomorrow I will weigh in (at home as I did on August 1st) and see if I met my goal of losing ten pounds in the month of August. When I initially set up my goals I had set only planned for the monthly goal of losing ten pounds to last for the first six months. I thought that after six months my weight loss would have slowed (because I would weigh less) and so I didn't think 10 pounds would be a realistic goal past that point. Well, it has been six months and so now I need to come up with a new monthly goal. What do you think I should do? Should I leave it at 10 pounds for the next few months or maybe lower it to 8 pounds or should I not have a weight loss related monthly goal at all? I would love to hear what you think so please feel free to comment away! Also, make sure to check back in a few days to see if I reached my goal this month and look for new monthly measurements to be posted!
Before I end this post I want to share something with you, something that happened to me yesterday that really opened my eyes to how much I have progressed over the past six months both mentally and physically. Yesterday was one of those crap days where nothing seemed to be going right. I had an awful night's sleep; at one point around midnight I woke up out of dead sleep freaking the eff out that I overslept – that was no fun, I woke up three other times throughout the night- twice to pee and the other was at 4am to let the dogs out. I ended up getting an hour 'nap' in before getting up at 520a for work. Of course I woke up exhausted, was scatter brained trying to get ready for work, left the house late, work was filled with meetings and angry employees (our local paper published our salaries online, by employee name nonetheless, so everyone now knows what everyone else makes- can you say tension?) and then an awful +4.2 at my weigh in. It was just one of those days where I just felt like crap and wanted to go home, put on my PJs, sit on the couch watching TV and eating junk food. Instead I forced myself to go to Pilates. My normal Tuesday is Pilates and Nia classes back to back but I wasn't feeling like doing both. Luckily I was able to talk myself into going to at least one or I would have ended up on that couch. Do you know what happened about 20 minutes into Pilates? At that point I knew I would stay for Nia and all the crap and blahness I felt was gone. By the time I left the Synergy Studio after my Pilates and Nia classes I felt fabulous. I felt alive, awakened, refreshed and so happy I didn't jip myself out of those experiences. This made me stop and wonder what I did before I had this outlet, this way to get myself out of a funk. Then I realized that I did nothing. Old me would have gone home and vegged in front of the TV mindlessly snacking away. The old me would have still felt miserable and then continued to feel miserable every day after. I know this is true because this is how I felt for a very long time. Now I have a way to get rid of those feelings and it is great. Yes, working out does make you happy- it's true. I may not be able to work away serious feelings (no, I don't think working out will make you happy if you just found out your mom has cancer) but it definitely helps alleviate a normal bad day case of the blahs. I am happy to have finally learned this. Knowing I will feel great afterwards is the push I need some days to get my butt in gear. Heck, just thinking of this- about working out and feeling great, about how many things I am able to do now that I couldn't do 6 months ago- makes me not really care about those 4.2 pounds. Yes friends, sometimes I still have a hard time remembering that I am so much more that number on the scale. If nothing else, I hope you feel that way too.
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text: VCF Mestalla Compartir Juny, 14 2017 Curro Torres: "We have to feel that we did everything possible to get the win" VCF Mestalla head coach speaks to the Club's official radio station Valencia CF Mestalla head coach, Curro Torres, has spoken to the Club's official radio station, VCF Radio (101.5 FM), to analyse the tie against Albacete Balompié, in the third and final round of the play-offs for promotion to la Liga 1|2|3. "We've got this far, we've got to enjoy it just like we enjoyed the previous rounds. It took us a lot to get where we are. We've deserved it, the lads have deserved it, and we're going to do everything in our power to play well over the two games. I think right now we have to focus on the first leg, which is what we've been doing every week. We're fully aware of what's at stake and the responsibility that we've got, but as I've said many times before, wearing the VCF shirt means stepping up as a footballer and even more so as a team. We'll prepare during the week in the same way we always do, trying to improve on what we do well and what we don't do so well, and we'll go for the win on Saturday as we always do. We're very happy about how we played at Murcia on Sunday, but we're not completely satisfied. We're better than we showed there and we've got to do things even better to go to the next level, we'll need to be better if we want to win. The players know that it's going to be a really difficult tie against a very good side who are going to make things very difficult for us. It's a tie that's played over two legs, we're going to try to get the win in the first game, and if we win both legs we will achieve our aim. But we've got to focus on the first 90 minutes in front of our fans, who I'm sure will get behind us. We must keep that hunger and desire to keep on growing, showing character, being brave and being ambitious. It must be said that the season the lads are having is already worthy of a lot of praise. We're going to enjoy ourselves, we're going to give our all to try to achieve our aim, we are going to leave everything on the pitch to achieve our aim but it's a very hard and difficult one. I have no doubts that the fans are going to get behind us on Saturday, and that many more fans are going to come down. They are going to put their heart and soul into supporting us, they really are." Copyright 2013-2018 Valencia Club De Fútbol. Quoting text from this article is permitted provided that en.valenciacf.com is credited as source, with a clickable link. Photographs by Lázaro de la Peña, re-use is not permitted. PreviousNext

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Ferrari are keeping their 'dream team' together for 2018.
While putting up a strong challenge to Mercedes this year, Ferrari ultimately finished second.
"If they don't win, there is usually panic," former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone told Sonntagsblick newspaper.
Yet ahead of Ferrari's annual Christmas lunch, media insider Leo Turrini says he knows that the Italian team are staying the course.
"I do not like revolution, and there will not be one," he wrote on his Quotidiano blog.
"[Simone] Resta will continue to draw the car, I hope with the help of retiree [Rory] Byrne.
"[Enrico] Cardile will take care of aerodynamics, and [Corrado] Iotti the power unit. Diego Ioverno, a very good track manager, is moving to 'internal' duties, and his skills will be absorbed by Jock Clear."
"This is the 2018 team. I don't know if it's a Dream Team, but for sure they will try to win."
Ferrari finished 146 points behind Mercedes in the 2017 championship.


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Dripping With Good News
Often, when the topics of water conservation and general water issues arise, people usually focus on why and how we can conserve and protect this valuable resource. However, instead of discussing the reasoning and warning signs, let's learn from some communities that are dramatically reducing their water use, and making water conservation part of everyday life.
For example, Los Angeles, Calif., is currently dealing with a variety of problems, such as a struggling economy and a downturn in the local real-estate market. Negativity has dominated the headlines in the area in recent years, but strides are quietly being made in regards to water conservation.
According to a report in the Los Angeles Times (April 13, 2010), the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power states the city had the lowest recorded water use in 31 years. Although the metropolitan area has approximately one million more people today, water use has declined to 1979 levels.
How was this accomplished? Los Angeles, which has had chronic water shortages in the past, implemented tight water restrictions dating to 2007. These usage restrictions, which have helped realize savings, include:
• Residents can only water yards on Mondays and Thursdays, and watering is prohibited from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
• There are restrictions on water use in park and recreational facilities.
• Watering sidewalks and driveways is prohibited.
• Whenever new fixtures are to be installed in residential settings, "high-efficiency" water fixtures, which use significantly less water than conventional ones, are to be used. Examples include faucets, sinks and showerheads.
• A commercial water-conservation rebate program was instituted. The city pays building owners $150-$250 and possibly more for every high-efficiency toilet and urinal installed.
Some may think these changes have been met with criticism and resistance, but Los Angeles residents, at least over time, have actually embraced many of these initiatives and, according to the report, residential, commercial and industrial users have had to sacrifice very little. In fact, people in this area are proactively taking advantage of new water-reducing technologies and rebate programs, and doing their part to protect the community's water supplies.
Hydrating Phoenix
Los Angeles is not the only major U.S. city experiencing a significant reduction in water use. Phoenix, Ariz., is using "less water today than it was a decade ago and less per capita than two decades ago," says Mayor Phil Gordon. And, the mayor adds, this occurred even though "our population has grown by more than a million people in the past decade."
According to the city's Water Resource Plan, individual and business conservation efforts in Phoenix have resulted in a 20-percent reduction in water use since 1980.
These efforts include
• Leveling agricultural fields with lasers in order to collect water runoff
• Landscaping with native plants that need minimal water to survive
• Promoting high-efficiency restroom fixtures in commercial facilities, with an emphasis on low-water or waterless urinal systems
• Developing rating systems to help consumers--both commercial and residential--select the most water-conserving appliances and fixtures.
Gordon is quite impressed with his city's accomplishments. "Other cities are just now piloting such programs," he says. "But Phoenix has been utilizing 'Green and sustainable' [water-reducing] practices for decades."
Drop By Drop--Ways To Conserve Water
With growing populations and more need for water, Los Angeles and Phoenix are successful examples for the rest of the country to follow. Water conservation is a group effort, and goals should be outlined clearly. According to Gordon, a "heads-up" approach is needed to effectively conserve water.
So what can cities and states, as well as park and recreation facilities, do to conserve water? Here are some suggestions:
1. Get water-focused. Park and recreation facilities--whether government operated or independent--must be aware of and get involved with local water issues to ensure this finite resource is protected. Some communities have developed pricing structures that reward water efficiency, and raise rates for customers who use water inefficiently. These strategies have proven to be effective in many cases.
2. Have a water czar. Water conservation needs leadership. Many facilities find that the best way to conserve water is to appoint an individual to head water-conserving efforts. Usually, this individual forms a small committee to help investigate how water is being used and where water conservation is possible.
3. Set water-saving goals. Park and recreation managers need to know how much water they are currently using. With this benchmark, managers must set goals of reducing water by a certain percentage in one year, five years, 10 years and so on.
4. Begin replacing toilets. Toilets are not only durable, but they are also relatively easy to repair. However, this can be a setback in water conservation. On an annual basis, older toilets can use as much as 12,000 gallons of water, while high-efficiency toilets use approximately one third of this number or less.
5. Begin replacing urinals. Because water-using urinals have flush handles that need repair occasionally, these fixtures are not as indestructible as toilets. However, older urinals can use as much as three gallons of water per flush, averaging 40,000 gallons of water per year, per unit. The state of Arizona encourages the use of low water-using or waterless urinal systems.
6. Reduce outdoor watering. In many facilities, the greatest volume of water is used for landscaping. A 2010 study by the Texas Water Development Board estimated that as much as half the water used to irrigate landscaping was wasted due to over-watering or run-off. In addition to making sure outdoor irrigation is used wisely, consider landscaping with vegetation that requires less water.
Talk About It
A final, but very important, way park and recreation facilities can reduce their water use is making sure staff as well as park users know water-conservation measures have been implemented. Conservation is contagious, and when establishments make it known that water usage is a top priority, users and staff will want to do their part. Further, this awareness opens the door for new ideas to save water and use it more efficiently.
Water conservation is a serious issue, but the cities and steps outlined in this article give us reasonable hope. Although there may be some challenges in the near future, we must all realize we play an important part in a larger group effort. Water is vital in all facets of society, especially where we live, work, and play. Follow the path that others are building, and let's all fill a role in preserving a precious water supply.
A frequent speaker and author on water conservation issues, Klaus Reichardt is founder and managing partner of Waterless Co. LLC, Vista, Calif. Reichardt founded the company in 1991 with the goal to establish a new market segment in the plumbing-fixture industry with water conservation in mind.


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Samsung ML-2250 Driver Download
Samsung ML-2250 Driver Download– When we get a printer in for audit, we generally read through its particulars from the producer's site and check ordinary road costs through a cost comparator, as Kelkoo or PriceRunner. We were awed to see the ML-2250, a printer with a RRP of £159 inc VAT, coming through at under £80 from several markdown locales.We were further inspired when we read on the Samsung site that the printer has duplex 'inherent', a '500-sheet' primary paper plate and 'PostScript 3 copying' in its controller. It was just later we found that these specs alluded to an alternate printer.The ML-2250 is an exceptionally alluring looking printer, dressed out in gleaming white plastic on front and top, with the sides and back an extremely pale dark. There's a somewhat odd lump running the full width of the back, encasing the force supply and info hardware, so the printer has a bigger impression than shows up at first sight.An A4 paper plate sitting under the printer can really take 250 sheets of 80gsm paper, and printed sheets take off, face down, to the top surface. A multi-reason plate unfurls from the front board to take envelopes, card or a further 50 sheets of paper.To one side of the yield plate are two markers, one to show when the toner spare capacity is locked in and the other, a double red-green drove, to demonstrate on-line and mistake conditions. A solitary catch is utilized to draw in toner recovery and this is a helpful expansion for inside reports, as opposed to rooting around in the printer driver. At the back are parallel and USB 2.0 attachments and an expansion attachment for the discretionary second nourish plate, which can again take 250 sheets. Different choices incorporate system connectors, for Ethernet or Ethernet and remote association.The joined toner and drum unit slides in effectively, once you've raised the spread at the highest point of the front board. This is the main consumable, making the ML-2250 a low-upkeep gadget.The Windows GDI driver introduces naturally from the product CD, yet there are likewise drivers for PCL. On the off chance that you have to print PostScript documents, PostScript 3 is accessible as a discretionary additional on a module DIMM.The GDI driver incorporates multi-page per sheet, watermarks and overlays, however there's no reference to duplexing, other than printing just odd or just even pages. This is a guide to manual duplexing, however is something for all intents and purposes each laser printer can do. Oddly, the client guide demonstrates a duplexing choice in the Linux driver, however when you stack it up, this remaining parts for all time turned gray out.Test times from this printer depend especially on whether the machine is dozing or not. For instance, the high determination photographic print took a genuinely torpid 46 seconds the first run through the waking ML-2250 printed it, however just 16 seconds on each of the ensuing prints, made with hardly a pause in between. The five page content print took 26 seconds, giving the printer a genuine page rate of 11.5ppm, some route shy of the cited 24ppm, however that quote is for draft print.Print quality, for an individual laser in this class, is great. Content tells the truth and sharp at the default 600dpi and is more than sufficient for individual or office records. When we moved to the content and business design page, we were pretty much as awed, as ranges of tint were for the most part smooth, with just slight banding in the darker shades.Indeed, even photographic proliferation, not the essential errand of a mono laser, was very much took care of, however some shading was somewhat more detectable than anticipated, given the printer's top determination of 1200dpi.Samsung cites a cartridge appraised at 10,000 pages on its site and one of its fundamental merchants puts a cost of around £130 on it. Be that as it may, this is more than the cost of two 5,000 page cartridges at rebate costs along these lines, strangely, we utilized the littler cartridge to ascertain running expenses. The printer accompanies this 5,000 page consumable, which Samsung alludes to as a starter cartridge.Utilizing the markdown cost as a part of estimation gives an expense for every page of 1.49p, sensible for the class of printer. On the off chance that the 10,000 page cartridge turns out to be all the more by and large accessible at rebate costs, you could well enhance the expense, as well.
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"Ordinary People" was a more subdued episode than usual for The Vampire Diaries, delivering a chunk of exposition about the history of Klaus and his family. We already knew a lot of the information, but Rebekah's story to Elena and Alaric's study of the drawings in the cave on the Lockwood property filled in some of the blanks.
As long as you don't think too hard about actual Viking history (this is The Vampire Diaries! They are not trying to be historically accurate), the story Rebekah told Elena was interesting as we got to see Klaus and his family and how they became vampires in the first place. It did a serviceable job in humanizing them, especially after we saw that Klaus, Rebekah and Elijah did not choose to become vampires, it was forced on them by their parents. I also felt more sympathy for Rebekah than I would have expected when Elena broke the news that the Klaus had lied to her and killed their mother.
The weakest link in this part of the episode was that while Claire Holt can pull off innocent pre-vampire Rebekah and also modern day mean-girl Rebekah, she was not intimidating at all when she was threatening Elena. At first Elena seemed naive to believe that she could handle one of the original vampires, but Elena turned out to be right.
An important part of the flashbacks revealed information on the parents of the family: Mikael (Sebastian Roche) and Esther (Alice Evans). That their mother Esther was the original witch who created the vampires and placed the curse on Klaus was more surprising than anything we learned about Mikael. The way the very mention of his name had terrified everyone in previous episodes meant I was well-prepared for the overbearing father who terrorized his own children and rejected Klaus when he found out he wasn't his biological child.
With Mikael having arrived in town to deal with Klaus, and the previous episode's references to a witch who was trying to cross over, it seems as though we will soon have the whole original family in Mystic Falls. I can only hope that will include Elijah too; it was great to see Daniel Gillies again, even if only briefly.
Notably, when Mikael showed up, Katherine was not with him, although I have no fear that she will turn up eventually. If they were going to kill her, I'm sure they would have made more of a fuss about it.
The Vampire Diaries large supporting cast was mainly sidelined this episode, and the focus was on the theme of family. In this, Stefan and Damon became the heart of the episode, and Paul Wesley and Ian Somerhalder took it and ran with it. They were entertaining to watch no matter what type of scene it was, whether it was sarcastic banter back and forth or an emotional scene where Damon admitted that he won't stop trying to save Stefan because Stefan was only in this mess as a result of saving Damon from Klaus.
Although it might have been dangerous to let Stefan loose, Damon seemed to be trying to force Stefan to find a way to live on the edge without going over it. It was reminiscent of how the brothers started off in Season 1 when Stefan was the responsible one and had to rein in Damon. No matter what happens, these two are brothers and will do what they need to do to protect each other. When Mikael showed up and immediately threatened Damon's life, Stefan may have appeared unconcerned, but he came through with information just in time to save Damon again, managing to find a loophole in Klaus's compulsion.
Although the focus of the episode was on family, the Damon and Elena relationship continued to evolve, as the two of them have become increasingly comfortable around each other. I loved how Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev played the last scene, with him in her room but not being obnoxious, and her being slightly irritated but not enough to make him leave. It was cute, but subtle. Elena's comment to Damon at the end that Stefan will be saved because he loves his brother, and not because he loves Elena, reinforced the fact that the important relationship here was the one between Damon and Stefan.


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Hello ladies, I've been trying to conceive for 3 years now, I just started clomid this cycle and ive been cramping for a few days now they come and go and only last about a minute. Last year i got pregnant and experienced this all the way up to 8 weeks it ended up in a miscarriage at 12 weeks, im having the same cramps now, im worried that i may not be pregnant... and its too early to test.
Im curious if anyone has experienced this in early pregnancy and what it was from. Also my temps are still very high.
07/11/2013 at 05:47
Hi I implanted at 5/6 dpo with this baby had cramps and spotting and high temps. goy my very faint bfp at 8dpo and bled on an off right up to 12 weeks, am almost 30 weeks now xx
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Hey there, welcome to the Phile for a Monday. How are you? The city of Philadelphia is a shit show right now. Because lighting fires in the middle of the streets, standing on top of moving cars driving through the city, and climbing up street lights is for amateurs, one Eagles fan brought out a dune buggy and drove it up the famous Rocky steps at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Eagles fans have outdone themselves once again. The NFC Championship sported two very important fans, Millie Wall and Phil Basser, both a remarkable 99-years-old, each hoping to see their team win the Super Bowl before their time was up. Though Grandma Millie will be at the Super Bowl, she won't be rooting on her beloved Vikings thanks to Philly's win over Minnesota Sunday night. Eagles fans stooped as low as to take shots at her during their post game celebration in the streets of Philadelphia.
I didn't mention this yesterday, but on Friday, the U.S. government entered a shutdown and because no one actually knows what that means, the White House sought to reassure the public of what it doesn't mean. It doesn't mean President Trump stops working. See? He's working...
The White House quickly released a photo series showing the president working, in the White House, to reiterate, definitely working. Holding phones, walking around, chatting with dudes. WORKING. The president is working. The idea began to float around that the photos of Trump working were slightly less than candid. That his staff had actually set up the pictures of Trump at a desk, doing president stuff, just so people get it in their minds that the Trump workday never stops, even when the government stops the work of all "nonessential" government employees. But if you think about it, a "photo op" is work, is it not? You have to set up the phone, frame the shot, position yourself so you're perfectly shadowed by the portrait of Andrew Jackson... you think that comes naturally? Nuh-uh. That's work. Checkmate, Democrats. A photo op is still work. Think of what's missing here. No notes, no paper, no pen, no files, no laptop or iPad. He's not even talking. I'm not sure he's even on a real call. He's not even a little serious about ending the government shutdown.
Kristen Bell was the host of last night's SAG Awards, which marked the first time the awards show had an actual host. Speaking to the audience, Bell pointed out that she was the both the first person and the first lady host. Making a joke about being "First Lady," Bell said she was going to use her platform to take on cyberbullying, since she hasn't seen "any progress made on that initiative yet." Although she didn't mention her by name, Bell was alluding to FLOTUS Melania Trump's promise to make ending cyberbullying her focus while her husband was in office. The irony, of course, is that Trump's own husband, President Donald Trump, is a notorious bully on Twitter, making up nicknames for people and attacking anyone who disagrees with him or his political positions. Bell joked that she was looking at Veep's Tony Hale, because he was "savage" on Twitter. On a more serious note, Bell told the audience, "We are living in a watershed moment and as we march forward with active momentum and open ears, let's make sure we are leading the charge with empathy and diligence. Because fear and anger never win the race."
During a speech at the Women's March in L.A. on Saturday, actress Scarlett Johansson called out James Franco for giving lip service to Time's Up despite his sexual misconduct allegations. She kicked off her fiery speech with a few pointed references that were suspected to be about Franco's hypocritical support of the #MeToo movement's legal defense fund for sexual harassment survivors. Later, a rep for Johansson confirmed to the "L.A. Times" that the comments were indeed about The Disaster Artist actor. "How could a person publicly stand by an organization that helps to provide support for victims of sexual assault while privately preying on people who have no power?" Johansson boomed at the beginning of her speech. She then poignantly added, "I want my pin back, by the way." After calling out Franco and other actors hiding behind the false guise of allyship, Johansson went on to reflect on the conditioning that manipulates women into staying submissive and silent during times of mistreatment. "I had many relationships both personal and professional where the power dynamic was so off that I had to create a narrative that I was the cool girl who could hang in and hang out, and that sometimes meant compromising what felt right for me," Johansson shared. The 33-year-old actress went on to conclude her speech by resolving to draw better boundaries for herself, and not apologize for making healthy emotional decisions for life. "No more pandering. No more feeling guilty about hurting someone's feelings when something doesn't feel right for me," she said. "I have made a promise to myself to be responsible to myself, that in order to trust my instincts I must first respect them," Johansson promised. Despite being called out across social media, and by Johansson, Colbert, and others, Franco has publicly denied the sexual misconduct allegations.
TMZ is reporting that real life Manic Pixie Dream Girl Zooey Deschanel has just filed legal documents saying she doesn't have time to go to court, because "she is a well-known actress with an extremely extensive and complicated work schedule." Deschanel was sued back in 2013 by an equestrian who claims that she leased a horse from her, only to overwork it to the point that it became "lame." The horse owner is suing for vet bills and other damages. The case has been hanging around for years, but now is time for a "mandatory settlement conference," which means that both sides need to come up with agreement in order to avoid trial. Deschanel's lawyers filed a statement that said, "Court? Ain't nobody got time for that," in what I'm assuming were those exact words. Legal trouble with humans are difficult enough, but with horses? NEIGH.
Ever see an inanimate object and you think you are seeing a face? Happens to me all the time. Check it out...
He looks so happy! So, people think Twitter is brand new... it's not... it's been around for a long time. Take a look at this old Twitter ad...
Told you. Man, on Yelp Trump's Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. is sure getting some bad reviews...
Speaking of Trump, some women at the Women's March in Washington D.c. this past weekend had some very creative signs...
Hahaha. Hey, there's a new flavor of Tide Pods that just came out...
I'm allergic to apples so I won't be trying it. Well, the Super Bowl is set, kids...
Hahaha. The Vikings now have a new logo for next season...
Awe. Poor Vikings. I really wanted them to win. So, this year is the Phile's 12 anniversary and I have been showing you how some celebrities have changed from then to now. For example in 2006 it was it's Britney, bitch...
And now in 2018...
Still Britney, bitch. Hahaha.
If you spot the Mindphuck let me know.
A temporary government shutdown started at midnight on Friday, and it took less than seven hours for Trump to blame Democrats. The shutdown took place after Senate Republicans failed to gather enough votes to put a 30-day funding bill in motion. The final vote on the procedural motion toppled at 50-49, but 60 votes were needed to advance the bill. While Republicans are the majority, five GOP Senators including Mitch McConell voted against the bill. Nonetheless, the president's blaming gaze has been firmly set up on Democrats, many of whom said they wouldn't vote for a bipartisan bill unless it fixed the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program (which Trump decided to end). Early in the morning on Saturday, Trump tweeted about how Democrats prioritize "illegal immigrants" over the military. He also claimed there need to be more seated Republicans, which is a bold assertion since the GOP currently holds the overall majority. Noting that it's the year anniversary of his presidency, Trump also claimed the government shutdown is a present from the Democrats. As with most of our present political realities, Trump has tweeted his feelings about government shutdowns in the past. Back when there was a shutdown during the Obama administration, Trump claimed it was good for the economy. Apparently, Trump is not alone in his shutdown feelings, the Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney said the shutdown was "kind of cool." Government shutdowns tend to last a few days or weeks tops. In this case, it will be whichever amount of time is needed for 60 Senators to agree on a budget plan.
Today is the second anniversary of a friend of the Phile being in the hospital and almost dying. He wanted to come on the Phile and say something about it. He's a singer, patriot and renaissance man. You know what time it is...
Good afternoon, phuckerz. Someone just reminded me it was 2 years ago today, that I was rushed to the hospital... I would then spend 8 days in a coma... wake up to find out I was seconds away from being given last rights... I spent just over a month in the hospital and would have probably died if it wasn't for my brilliant cousin Melissa steering doctors in the right direction. Feels good to be alive. The list of those who came to visit me is far too numerous to mention here. You know who you are...
Once upon a time there was a non-conforming sparrow who decided not to fly south for the winter. However, soon the weather turned so cold that he reluctantly decided to fly south. In a short time ice began to form on his wings and he fell to Earth in a barnyard, nearly frozen solid. A cow passed by where he had fallen, and crapped on the little sparrow. The sparrow thought it was the end, but the manure warmed him and defrosted his wings! Warm and happy, able to breath, he started to sing. Just then a large cat came by, and hearing the chirping he investigated the sounds. The cat cleared away the manure, found the chirping bird, and promptly ate him. The moral of the story... Everyone who craps on you is not necessarily your enemy. Everyone who gets you out of crap is not necessarily your friend. And if you're warm and happy in a pile of crap, you might just want to keep your mouth shut.
Today's guest is the author of "Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena," the 73rd book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club. Man, that's a long name for a book. Please welcome to the Phile...
Me: Hello, Linda, welcome to the Phile. How are you doing?
Linda: I'm so glad to be here, thank you.
Me: Okay, your book "Monsters Among Us..." is the 73rd book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club. You wrote a lot of books on this subject, so what's new with this book? What inspired you to write it?
Linda: Well, I've been collecting these type of stories from people, the witnesses for 24 years, and over the past couple of years I realized there seem to be a larger percentage where they just couldn't be put off where they could be misrepresented as natural animals. They were connecting to them as UFO's, strange life, just odd psychic phenomena. So, I decided to put a book together where we really looked at the different creature sightings and possible anaglmolous phenomena with them.
Me: What do you think people are gonna think when they read this book, Linda?
Linda: Well, I think people will be surprised at the contents of this book.
Me: How did you get into this line of work? It's not exactly what most authors are doing.
Linda: No, that's right, and I never really even intended it. I was working as a newspaper reporter and just gotten that job as I wanted to be an editorial cartoonist. They made me a reporter and one of the first stories that came out came from hearing people from my own hometown of Elkhorn, Wisconsin saying they were seeing this thing on this country road called Bray Road that looked like a werewolf. I laughed but then I was working with an animal control officer on an expose he was working on puppy mills, and I asked him about it and he said, "Oh, yeah, people have been calling me." To my amazement he pulled a manila folder out from his desk and the file folder was marked "werewolf." The inside it was full of notes from people and contact information from people who have been calling him saying they saw this thing, they didn't know what it was but it looked like a werewolf if there was such a thing. Now, if you have a county official with a manila folder marked "werewolf," then that's news.
Me: Your life is like a real life "X-Files" episode. So, I take it you ran with this story, am I right?
Linda: Exactly. I ran the story and dubbed it "The Beast of Bray Road" It went national much to our shock and surprise. This was back in '91 or '92 and it had never stopped.
Me: Yeah, here we are in 2018, and you are still investigating this. I take it you believe in these accounts. Why do you believe? They could be people's imaginations.
Linda: The thing is, at that time, and it still drives me, that people keep seeing these things. They have fairly consistent characteristics and the people, just like those very first witnesses, where I go talk to them, or interview them, they don't seem like they're making things up, trying to hoax, or don't have some sort of challenge mentally or anything like that. They seem like normal sober people who have been terrified or at the very least just sort of traumatized and upset about that what they saw. Most of them say, "I don't want to be known, I don't anything for this. I just want to tell this to someone who won't think I'm crazy." After so many years of that there cannot be that many people faking it.
Me: How often do you hear from people that say they saw something, Linda?
Linda: After all these years about one or two people a week. So you can do the math. That's a lot. Plus I had some of my own experiences and found tracks and evidence like that.
Me: In the book you tell a story of a human beast transformation. You struggled not knowing if you wanted to include the story, am I right? Why is that?
Linda: Well, I really tried to be sensitive, not only to the people who report their things to me. I give them a choice if they want to remain anonymous or have their names, but I'm also sensitive to my readers and to what sort of things I really should have in my books. This was such an unusual situation, very unlike anything I ever had reported to me that I just wanted to be sure that it belonged in the book.
Me: So, tell everyone what the story is, Linda.
Linda: This occurred a decade or so ago in a very small church in Illinois. A mother, father and two kids were sitting in the front row. It was a u-shaped pew directly facing the lady across from them in the front row. The sermon concluded and the minister began to step down and just as he did that lady stood up, kind of cripped her neck a little bit and let out this unearthly howl scream and almost instantaneously became this werewolf looking thing. She was covered in fur with ears and fangs but the only difference was she had hoofs instead of paws which I admit is really unusual.
Me: So, everybody in the church saw this happen and no one really talked about it?
Linda: Some of the people saw it and nobody wanted to talk about it later but several of the Elders who were up at the front of the church kind of jumped on her, flattened her down onto the pew and she very quickly returned back to her normal appearance then was taken out. With something like I like to be really sure and I have interviewed the people face to face several times, they were just salt to the earth type middle aged couple. There was absolute no reason for them to be making this up. They gave me a lot of names and places and things like that and I checked everything out and everything was exactly as they had said. So, as far as I cold tell it was a true experience. Its hard to say exactly what the creature was but since it had the church setting and seemed to be objecting the bible being there I think a lot of people would call that a demonic type manifestation.
Me: Ummm... you been had these people sign a formal statement that what they saw was factual which I think is crazy. Honestly, I think the whole story is bullshit. You actually think that wolf men, or wolf ladies exist? Let's face it, I'm probably not the only one who waves the bullshit flag on this.
Linda: Well, Jason, as I said, people keep seeing them. I want to believe that most of the sightings of the upright canines as I prefer to call them, are probably the same thing as what the couples saw in the church. Because most of the ones that are seen are completely canine. The only difference is that they are running on their hind legs. They seem to have long paws which could be some sort of normal mutation. There's nothing supernatural about mammal running on its hind legs, they could all do it if they are sufficient motivated, trained, or sometimes because they have injured fore limbs and can't run on all fours anymore. But the things people see do have this uncanny sense about them. They will be driving along and something that looks like a werewolf will jump out of a ditch, run out in front of their car. Typically it will stop, looks at them in the eye, and they get this feeling that it could get them if it wanted to or that it was superior to them in some way. Then it just dashes off into the brush.
Me: Linda, can any of these sightings be contributed to mental illness? I think people are lying or get confused.
Linda: There's an actual psychosis where people look into the mirror at themselves and actually see what they see is a werwolf, but if somebody looks at them they just see the human being, There have been instances of people that have this psychosis who run and jump naked onto the hoods of cars while they are driving but all the people see in the report is a naked person in those cases. There are also people who have a thing called generalized hypertrichosis, where their whole body, faces, everything is covered with a thick layer of fur. It's fairly rare, there's a large family in Mexico, a lot of them have the surname of Gomez, and many of them are infiltrated with a circus. These people are still completely human and if you look at them you know they are human. These explanations can't really explain why some many of these dog like creatures, which are obviously canine because they are running on their toe pads, they have very different structured bodies and limbs. They have the tall pointed ears on their heads and long fangs. They are seeing something different.
Me: So, do you think a lot of people are just hoaxers? What if they were just people dressed up in a werewolf costume? People are assholes and would do that, Linda.
Linda: They are hoaxers out there, I'm always very mindful of those and I think they need to be reported and admitted so that people can be aware that it might be a hoaxer or someone in a mask, and then ask themselves to kind of distinguish. People will say to me something like, "I looked at it really closely and it wasn't a mask because I could see the tongue inside its mouth and the fangs were working and the eyes were glowing back light." They are always quite sure it's not a person in a suit.
Me: Okay, so, what happened to you when you were in Michigan?
Linda: In Michigan I was on sight with a History Channel cameraman and we were there with a couple of witnesses on this very remote gravel road. There were nothing around but foliage and it was three in the morning and probably 95 degrees, and fixing to rain and something kept running around. We could hear footsteps, we could see yellow eyes in the bushes, and all of a sudden something ran across the road just outside the arc of spotlight that was set up on the road. Of course the cameraman was facing the other way but I saw it, a part of it. What I saw was the spine of something, a vertical spine, covered in gray fur, and as it passed in front of a reflective road sign it was seven feet tall and blocked the road sign out. That was exactly what the witnesses had reported. So, I think I saw the hairy spine of a man wolf, or dog man, whatever you want to call it.
Me: Wow. Okay, and in Wisconsin you saw Bigfoot? What the hell, Linda?
Linda: Yes. I was in the Kettle Moraine State Forest, and for some reason that day I was out walking by myself and I thought just for fun I'm going to bang on this tree and see if anything is down in the kettles. These kettles are scooped out deep depressions left from the last glacier. Most people don't go in them as they are full of brambles and are treacherous. I banged on the tree and to my surprise I got a couple knocks back from a very close by tree, about 150 feet away. I tried it again, got more knocks, there was something huge rustling around, staying behind the foliage and I couldn't see it. It probably was about forty feet up in the tree and I gave one more knock and it was answered by a 35 foot long, 8 inch in diameter, fresh new living oak tree branch. It was twisted off, first of all it was twisted in one motion, and in the next motion it was torn free from the tree and dropped to the floor of the kettle. This was a nice summer's evening, we hadn't had any storms, I could see the wood was new. I went down later with some friends and checked it out. There was no woodpecker holes, saw marks or anything, there was no reason for that branch to twist itself. Oak is one of the strongest wood then to be thrown to the floor. It had rub marks like something that had huge hands had rubbed the bark away. I still have one of those pieces of bark. We also smelt it, my friends and I, definitely and one of my friends daughter saw it running behind some foliage in the next kettle. It had removed itself from our presence and then it growled at us. It was the kind of growl that you knew this thing was so huge we felt like this tiny mammal that was about to be eaten, and we just said okay, it was time to leave. I think it was up in that tree which was next to a huge deer path, and it was waiting for supper to pounce upon and I spoilt its dinner.
Me: It's a good thing it didn't eat you. I have pics of this to show from your blog.
Linda: You can read the whole story and see more pics on my website under "July 2012."
Me: Were you really scared, Linda?
Linda: I was terrified and couldn't sleep that night. I knew exactly what it was, I had no doubt in my mind, especially after my friends daughter saw it and I have seen some around there since and have witnesses in my neighborhood as well.
Me: Linda, your life is a lot more exciting than mine. Thanks so much for being on the Phile. I hope I wasn't as ass and I hope you'll come back again soon when your next book comes out. Mention your website and good luck out there.
Linda: Thanks, Jason, and thanks to your readers. Lindagodfrey.com. This was fun.
Me: I'm glad. Thanks, Linda.
Well, that does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to my guests Laird Jim and Linda S. Godfrey. What a crazy interview. I don't really believe any of those stories but it is a good book. The Phile will be back on Thursday with Field Music. Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye.
Not if it pleases me. No, you can't stop me, not if it pleases me. - Graham Parker


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Growing up in Northwestern Pennsylvania, I've learned to appreciate some of the things this area has to offer, as evidenced by here and here. If that's not enough for you, I will tell you that I live in a landlocked state, but there is a beach within a half hour drive that I have access to. On numerous occasions I have noted (in front of witnesses) that I feel Erie, Pennsylvania's State Street is just as fun as any other street in America that I've been to.
That being said, growing up in an area your entire life, you learn that there are places that suck. I have experienced plenty of those as well. I also take into consideration that there are plenty of places in other parts of the world that I have been to that also suck. It's just that when you live and go to college in a town where there are only four bars, one learns relatively quickly what one is seeking in a social establishment. There aren't a lot o places in Edinboro, Pennsylvania worth visiting. Which leads me to the Edinboro Hotel.
Last summer (July 1st, to be exact) my best friend and little brother helped me relocate my life back to Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania. I left a steady job, a fantastic place to live in downtown Raleigh, awesome friends, and an amazing girlfriend to move back home. This move was prompted by the fact that I would be able to go to graduate school at little-to-no personal expense.
Upon my return, I found the Edinboro Hotel exactly as I had left it; terrible service, overcrowded, full of douchebags, and about as fun as jamming an icepick in my eye. There's loud club music playing every weekend, without the cool ambiance of actually being in a club. There are bathrooms without stalls or locks, however. I have literally been going to that bar since I was 21 years of age and continue to get carded there every weekend I go. In fact, the only time I've ever actually been acknowledged as a customer by the owner of the place (who bartends on most busy weekends) was a weekend when a friend obnoxiously flipped a pitcher off of the table and broke it. The owner came over and clapped me on the shoulder and said, 'That'll be $5.00.'
That's after six years of business. Needless to say, I do not enjoy that establishment in the least.
Some people may ask, 'Why do you continue to go there?' I don't have a good answer for that question, other than the fact all of my friends frequent there. I realized tonight after witnessing someone who was on parole take his shirt off and grind his genitals on a younger female, that I can't keep going there without going Ernest Hemingway on myself. I walked into that place tonight and it was like the nexus of everything that I hate in life. If the galaxy were to collapse upon itself and existence as we know it were to end, I feel like it would occur there.
I know, I know. It's a very simple solution to a very uncomplex problem. Stop going to the Edinboro Hotel Bar if it makes you feel like that. It's easier said than done, I suppose. I've heard that insanity is continuing to do the same thing and expecting a different result. Well, maybe you should color me insane.
But just like Bruce Willis taught me: old habits Live Free or Die Hard. With a Vengeance.


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From the Portfolio Requirements handout:
Each portfolio is required a website using a responsive design approach, externally hosted, containing a resume, contact information and the portfolio projects. The web site must be branded as part of the student business cabinet which includes a business card and printed resume. The resume will be presented as selectable text on a web page, a downloadable .pdf, and a downloadable Word document. Each project presented on the website will include a project narrative, examples of ideation and iteration that support the narrative, and the final application.
Looked upon favorably
- White background
- Visual Grid structure for selecting projects
- Images that fill the frame
- Project Narrative
- multiple images that support the Narrative
- embedded selected video to enhance the experience
- lateral navigation or a footer to next project
- Review current standards of portfolio website display, these change stylistically year to year. Make your portfolio an echo of current display standards. If you want to go another direction be prepared to be deeply scrutinized by the committee…you had better have compelling logic to be outside the herd.
- Think "Mobile First" when designing your online portfolio. Latest trends indicate the decrease in desktop computing and the rapid rise of tablet and phablet sales. Design your responsive online presence accordingly.
- All websites MUST contain correct spelling and standard American English rules of grammar.
- Your complete resume needs to be displayed in HTML format designed within your personal business cabinet. This identically styled cabinet includes business card, resume, website and other collateral. A .pdf must be available for download. That .pdf link should be set to open in a new window. The downloaded .pdf should have an intelligent title: "your_name_resume.pdf". In this way, the user can find it locally in a directory. It must also be downloadable as Word document.
- A Linkedin link is necessary, as well as an updated linkedin account with an updated resume posted. Developing a Dribble and Behance account is also encouraged to expand your online footprint.
- All work must be accompanied by a short description, process and solution examples on the web page. An additional case study .pdf file for project may also be made available via download.
- Use the word 'proposed' where appropriate. A project presented without this word used in the correct location can lead at worst to confusion and suspicion. At best, it can lead to disappointment.
- Printed work should be exhibited photographically. An additional case study .pdf file for project may also be made available.
- Facebook links: either link to a fan page for you, or allow users to like your site on Facebook.
But please don't link to your personal facebook account.
- Think carefully about your navigation. Typically, graduating students do not have a huge amount of work to show that is of a professional level. With your small amount of work do you need sub navigation?
- Avoid mail forms. Use your email address for contact. If you must use a form, place it alongside your email address with visual dominance. It must be selectable HTML format text, not a .jpg. In this way users who dislike contact forms can email you using their own email client and have a record of doing so.
- An 'about' page is usually not desirable. Personal lifestyle descriptions are not considered professional in most cases. Consult your instructor.
Portfolio Website Platforms
Adobe Portfolio
Pointing your Domain name at your Adobe Portfolio
How to link Creative Cloud Portfolio to a GoDaddy Domain Name
Domain names
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- I created a .onion domain
- I kept it hidden to Tor (without wiki publishing...)
- After that, I created in that .onion domain one static web page: Gray background and only one "post" box like Google search webpage.
- I Put a little tittle: "search engine" or similar
- And I "Logged" the words in the search box.
- Now we had to wait... exactly 6 months.
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i can get married....officially, to my future boyfriend. today, canada becomes only the third country in the world behind belgium and the netherlands to officially allow same sex unions. it is a historic day.
when i heard about this, at first i was neither shocked not overwhelmed. i had to think about how i felt about it. i thought that maybe i won't fully comprehend the gravity of this day until i face the decision myself to enter in such a convenant with someone. thus, for the most part, today seemed to be another day.
growing up catholic and in a very conservative culture, i am lucky to be accepted whole heartedly by my friends, colleagues, and my immediate family. it hasn't always been like this however -- it has been a long evolution. most of the trauma that i experienced stemmed with forming my own identity of self and how that related to my sexuality. throughout my coming out process i maintained that i was always randy first and then gay second. being gay was just another part of me, but didn't define me. to me, to best way to fight homophobia and ignorance, the most effective means to educate and empower those that did not understand the why and how of being gay was in my one on one relationships with the people around me. i couldn't change the world all at once, but instead one person at a time. to let people see my humanity, that i was just like them, that i wanted the some of the same things, and some different things.
so this whole same sex marriage thing is a big deal . it says that i have the right to enter into a partnership that is recognized by my peers, my society and my country (though maybe not all of it right now). but most importantly it confirms what i have maintained all along, that love does not discriminate, that we do not choose who we love, but love finds us. it is a gift that makes us human, binds us and transcends us. maybe when i find that love, i will get married or maybe i won't, but today confirms that i can truly have that gift in a full way.
today is a big day indeed.
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stag weekend.went up to kelowna friday night for mori's big stag weekend -- and lived to tell about it. everything is a bit hazy, as you can probably guess from the itinerary attached. the resort had it all, and it was right on the lake. one of the highlights of the weekend was being on a pimped out boat watching some of the guys go wake surfing.
Friday June 24th
3:30-4:00pm-Meet at Kits Beach parking lot.
Humiliation Crew starts (Floe, Quilty, Anderson)
4:00-4:30-Bus leaves to Kelowna; Munchies on Bus
6:30-7:00-Quick food Stop in Hope
9:00-9:30-Arrive at Manteo Waterfront Hotel
10:00-10:30- Leave for "Champagne Charlies"
12:00- Splashes Nightclub - "Humiliation Tasks"
2:00am- Bus Pick-up for return to Manteo
Saturday June 25th
10:00-11:00am- Continental Breakfast @ Manteo Villa
11:00am- Alcohol Run for Day
11:00-2:00pm- Beach Activities (Bocci, V-ball, etc.)
2:30-3:30pm- BBQ @ Manteo Villa
4:00-7:00pm- Water Activities (Boat, ski, wakeboard)
7:00-8:00pm- Entertainment (Location undetermined)
8:30-10:30pm- Dinner @ Earl's On-Top
10:30-12:00pm- Rose's Pub on water
2:00am- Bus Pick-up for return to Manteo
Sunday June 25th
10:00am- Breakfast either Villa or Restaurant
11:30am- Board bus for Return Trip to Vancouver
2:30-3:00pm- Lunch in Hope
5:30-6:00pm- Drop off at Kits Beach
kas wake surfing!
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dating.i've realized that i've rarely put stuff that's personal on here. i do talk about my life, but i rarely talk about how i feel inside and things that i'm struggling with. i think what you generally read (and thanks for reading) is an edited version of myself, my best foot forward so to speak.
here i go...
dating is hard. putting yourself out there is hard. people wonder why i don't go on more dates, why i don't have a boyfriend, and i want to tell them that it's not without trying. i was on a third date tonight and things have been going well. he told me that i'm attractive, that i'm a nice guy, smart, etc., and then he follows all of that up with that while he enjoys hanging out with me, he doesn't like me in that way.
i've made a conscious effort to put myself out there, and this is what i seem to get for my initiative. i mean i know that i am learning more and more about the person that will be eventually right for me through these experiences, but sometimes going through stuff like this can be tough. so tough that in a way i've become immune.
this journey, while not unique, can certainly seem so solitary.
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random thoughts.1. why do mosquitoes/flies seem to gather together in odd places...i.e. like right in front of the door to my building. i'm sure there is a scientific reason, but having to swat them as i try to walk through the door is odd.
2. i think this is the tsn turning point in tom's life. it's just seems odd to me. maybe it's because i've never been in love, but i don't think i would jump on top of oprah's couch.
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still recovering.ok, i thought i would get to day 2 and 3, but i think the bandwagon has left. plus i think everyone else has done such a great job of blogging about the show.
on saturday we had costume collection day, and we watched roland's footage of the show. it was amazing that we all fit on that small 'stage' at the dance centre -- wow. and all i have to say is that having a technical director like jun really helps. the colours and the mood that he was able to create was amazing. i could only imagine what it would be like to be in the audience. i am thinking that next time we have a show, i really don't want to perform, but instead just focus on directing. we'll have to see -- let's start recruiting those guys now!!!
i'm really happy that jota nuevo turned out. it was definitely the highlight for me, that we were all about to create something from scratch and make something beautiful.
sunday was the first sunday since november that we didn't have rehearsal. it was nice to have a day off, though i think i'm still recovering from last weekend.
what am i going to do with all this time now???
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day 1.ok, at the risk of being called a slacker by gary, i better get this post up. probably better to do it sooner than later because i have a terrible memory, so i'll try and get all of my thoughts down.
so woke up pretty early and wasn't feeling too hot because the day before, it was our company's big five year anniversary party, so it was a fun but late night of partying. i cleaned up my place since lauren and rudi were going to stay with me, and then michelle and kathy picked me up, where we proceeded to go to the airport to pick up the rental vans to take all of the likhettes around town. of course since there was so much going on that week, we went to the wrong rental car place, and went into the bowels of richmond to pick up the two matching red caravans. better though because soon enough, all of likha was waiting for us to take them to richmond sushi, where we all got reacquainted. it was pretty loud at our tables, so i knew from that point on that it was going to be a fun, fun weekend. i love when we all get together.
from there, we all went back to kathy's place, where we dropped off all of likha's stuff, and then since lauren was tired, i took him home and like our normal ritual, rudi and i went to the fabric store to get some last minute things. it always great to see rudi's creative mind work, in how he can take a piece of fabric and invision it to be something great!
at around 7 o'clock, we all met back at the 501 for some food and drink, courtesy of josephine's. it is a sign of a great party when there is a buzz in the air due to conversation and laughter, and this was certainly the case of this night. the ice-breaker was fun, especially for the new peeps to get to know the old peeps and vice-versa. but certainly the highlight for me was hearing kp and likha rondalla rehearse in the TV room. seriously i get chills just thinking about it. it was amazing.
there was some drama that ensued (i'll block it out of my mind), but thank goodness we capped off the night with us tearing up the dance floor at celebrities. i'm becoming an old fart too, but i was able to boogie down a little bit. seriously, the 'dance-offs' or i think they call them 'battles' between kp and likha were priceless.
the clock striked 12:45 and rudi and i went home. i did a bit of last minute work for friday/saturday and proceeded to gossip as usual, and when i couldn't even open my eyes anymore, i fell fast asleep.
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holla!ok, i promise my post is coming soon guys...i promise. too much to talk about, not sure what to write down.
it's funny, but i always seem to have all the non-filipino people guests...here's a picture after the show with my crew.
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head too full.what a weekend, so much to post about, my head is full -- will have to update later.
thanks to you all who came out to watch the show and support me in general as i pursue this crazy passion of mine called folk dance. it made the night mean even so much more to me.
to all of the kpeeps -- thanks for your dedication, hardwork, patience, and commitment. thanks for making all the sundays worth it!
to all of you likhettes -- you're the best. thanks for being generous with your friendship.
check out some great photos, courtesy of gary.
day 1
day 2
day 3
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podcast.check out the podcast for KP's Pagsilang, courtesy of www.urbanvancouver.com.
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pagsilang dress rehearsal.pictures from our final dress rehearsal for pagsilang, courtesy of roland tanglao
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whoa.i've been light on posting because it has been a crazy week -- workwise, kpwise and lifewise. things are going a million miles a minute, and will not slow down probably until after the show! if you still need tickets, let me know...:)
there is lots in my head and it'll make it's way here sometime soon.
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Virginal blog
Only it isn't a virginal blog. I've tried blogging before, never really got the feel for it. But because I require that my students blog, it's only fair that I do too. So here it is. My first blog.
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Right. So those reading this probably have a vague idea of what China's like. Even if it's just from the Disney movie "Mulan". Calligraphy. The Great Wall. Tea. Pandas. Kung Fu. Kung Fu Pandas. But there are certain things that take special insider know-how to figure out. And by "know-how" I just mean being able to see stuff and notice that it's different.
1) People walk on the street, bikes ride on the sidewalk. No joke: I saw a kid look both ways before crossing the sidewalk.
2) Umbrellas are not just for the rain. Lots of women (usually women, anyway) use umbrellas as a parasol to protect themselves from the sun. More effective than you'd think!
3) Traffic is organized chaos. Maybe you've seen pictures of Chinese traffic, maybe not. It looks like a giant cluster of people not minding the gap, but rather shooting it until there's nothing left but a gasp of air. Believe it or not, there is method to the madness. The trick is moving in a predictable path. All drivers/pedestrians are expecting everyone else to break the rules, and so it's very calculated. On the road, chances are that other drivers have already guessed where you will probably continue to go. So go there.
(NOTE: This is mainly true for Mainland. I went to Hong Kong and walked in this assertive way, and almost bumped into people every other step. One country, two systems…guess they also meant walking patterns, too!)
4) Some numbers are written differently. I learned that American 6's (with the tiny loop at the very end) look like 4's here, and that 7's that have the dash in the middle look like a capital E. This is just the way people are taught to write numbers. I've adjusted my writing style to avoid confusion in the classroom. YOU'RE WELCOME, STUDENTS.
That being said, the way Chinese people write their 9's almost look like 4's to me, so it goes both ways.
5) The number one is not always said the way the textbook teaches you. The number one (一, pronounced "ee") is one of the most basic things to learn in Chinese. But a lot of people don't pronounce it like "ee." Instead, they might say "yow" which also means the exact same thing, but you know…more confusing for foreigners.
6) People drink hot water. Nothing in it. Like, a cup of hot water at restaurants instead of ice. You would be amazed at how refreshing this can be, and how easy it is to adapt to.
7) Driers aren't really a thing. Instead, clothes are hung outside (or on a clothing rack inside of an apartment). It's great on sunny days, but can be a pain in the rainy season, if your apartment is too small for an indoor clothing rack. In which case, you hang your clothes from the AC unit and hope that your socks don't fall on your computer.
8) Neither are ovens. So when people ask me to cook American food, I just sort of cackle and try and find a place to bury my head in the sand.
9) People don't sit directly on the ground. The justification is that the ground is dirty, so people will go to all lengths to avoid directly sitting on it. Newspapers, magazines, plastic bags…this might not sound so strange, but if I go to a park with friends and want to sit on the grass, there's always that awkward moment as they search for something to keep off of the "dirty" grass. To be fair, it probably protects their clothing. But many also do this with backpacks: they always comment on how strange foreigners are for just putting their backpacks on the "dirty" ground. Hey, culture differences.
10) The National Bird is probably the crane. Ha ha, this one is a joke. Because…construction. Everywhere. All of the time. I met some backpackers who, instead of playing "I Spy" on the road, made it a game to try and guess how many cranes there would be in a Chinese city. In one given street corner, I saw a shop change three times in less than two years. Always building, tearing down, building again.
11) Holy shit, there are a lot of people. This one might sound obvious, given that China has the world's biggest population. But until you actually experience it in person, you have no idea. Articles and academic research projects have taught me less than what one ride on a subway during rush hour did. Overpopulation: the sensation that you are always walking in the wrong direction in a crowd.
12) Chinese dialects. Between two villages, the locals might speak completely differently and not even understand each other. Yes, there is Mandarin. But once you hear someone speaking their local language, you'll quickly realize that there are hundreds of versions of Chinese. Because…
13) CHINA IS HUGE AND YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO DESCRIBE IT CONCISELY. You'll think you get it, and then experience something totally different that contradicts everything. You could live there for 5 years and understand a lot, but never everything. This is part of living in China, which I think is different from living in other countries: You eventually learn to accept that it is a complex beast and that the best you can do is offer snapshots.
Whatever you think of China, just know that in a country of almost 1.4 billion people, it has just about everything. All kinds of people, all kinds of details you'd never know from the outside.