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China's official news agency says the country has successfully landed a fighter jet on its first aircraft carrier.
Xinhua News Agency says the landing exercise marked the debut of a J-15 fighter jet, a carrier-based fighter-bomber developed by China.
Citing unnamed naval sources, Xinhua said on Sunday that the carrier platform and J-15 capabilities met all requirements and achieved "good compatibility."
Xinhua says the J-15 is able to carry anti-ship, air-to-air and air-to-ground missiles and precision-guided bombs.
China's Liaoning ship formally entered into service in September, underscoring China's ambitions to be a leading Asian naval power. But it is not expected to carry a full complement of planes or be ready for combat for some time.


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Manning Park Resort seemed to have it all: an enviable location within the heart of a provincial wilderness park, proximity to the Lower Mainland, access via modern Highway 3.
But it wasn't enough for the four-season destination to avert financial disaster.
The resort, located east of Hope in the Cascade Mountains, will close on April 1 unless a buyer can be found for the operation, which went into receivership in 2009.
"We can't justify continuing to operate it," David Bowra, president of the Bowra Group, the receiver-manager, said in an interview Tuesday.
Among the commercial services that will be affected are downhill skiing and groomed cross-country ski trails, lodge and cabin accommodation, heated pool and hot tub, and restaurant and bar.
The Manning Provincial Park campgrounds will remain open along with Lightning Lake day-use areas, trails and backcountry areas.
After completion of the Hope-Princeton Highway in 1949, construction started on a café, administration building and crew quarters. A nature interpretation centre was built in 1957. Manning Park Lodge was later developed on the site, the first such facility in a B.C. provincial park.
A regular user of the park was upset by the pending closure.
"That's quite tragic, a real stunner for me," said Wong Wing-Siu of Vancouver, who first went cross-country skiing in Manning in 1972 at age 10. As a boy scout he would also go on camping field trips to Manning in winter, and as an adult continued to return to stay in the lodge or cabins.
The resort, which operates on a provincial lease, generates $5 million to $5.5 million in revenues annually and is profitable during summer and winter, but not the shoulder seasons, Bowra said.
He said he feels the revenues can support a hands-on family-run ownership, although to date no buyer has been found.
"We're still hopeful we can find someone to take it over as a going concern. I suspect someone will come along and pick it up. I always believe in the market taking care of things."
The maintenance of 10 campgrounds, both in Manning and the Similkameen area, generates about $850,000 in seasonal revenue and is important to the viability of the resort operation, he said. Operating costs are $600,000 to $650,000. The province typically chips in another $100,000 for repairs and maintenance.
"The campground makes money, no question about it," Bowra said.
But the resort's campground agreement expires in October and the province is putting the contract out to public bid "like any other campground in B.C.," he said.
The inability to package the campground maintenance with the resort is making for a difficult sell. "The resort on its own doesn't make a lot of sense economically. You need that summer business from the campground."
Environment Minister Terry Lake said in a statement: "Financial policy prohibits B.C. Parks from direct awarding the campground operations. Anyone interested in purchasing the ski hill is free to bid on the campground operation contract."
Three or four different groups have expressed interest in buying the resort, and one made an offer of more than $800,000 last fall, a bid that eventually didn't work out.
"That's getting in the ballpark," Bowra said of a potential sales figure.
About 15 year-round full-time employees are losing their jobs; another 15 to 20 part-time employees won't be hired for the summer season.
The resort's accommodation manager Charles van Bommel said the resort is year-round home for the permanent employees. "Sorry, I'm a little upset today," he said, adding he could not talk further about the matter during work hours.
The resort had been operated for several years by Gibson Pass Resort, a company owned by the Bowen family. Bowra said the family made the mistake of spending "close to $2 million" on the heated pool, an excessive expenditure based on revenues.
He added the family was also "using some of the revenue from the resort to fund other businesses they had." The Coquihalla Highway hasn't helped, either, by diverting traffic to the Okanagan away from Manning park, Bowra added.
Development of the Callaghan Valley near Whistler for cross-country skiing during the 2010 Olympics has also drained business away from Manning.
The resort is half way through a 50-year lease agreement with the province.

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I got a question from a developer whether they should use SharePoint lists or database tables to hold the data for his application. This is a fair question and as a consultant I will start with the standard answer: It depends.
I will follow up that answer with the standard consultant question: what are you trying to do? There generally isn't one answer for any technology choice. We need to take as many factors into account as possible. Who will be maintaining the data? Will the data only be used in your SharePoint application or does it need to be available across the enterprise and used by a multitude of systems? What standards are already in place for application data? Are there security concerns for this data? All of these questions and more need to be answered in order to decide where you should store your data.
SharePoint has come along way since I first started using the 2001 products. But just because you can use SharePoint lists to hold all your application data doesn't mean you should. My general rule is if there is little or no usage of the data outside of your SharePoint application, you don't need complex table joins and it doesn't need to be edited by other systems then it is acceptable to use a SharePoint list. If you go beyond these limits I heavily lean toward using a DBMS. Could you still use lists outside of these conditions? Yes, but it will probably cost you more in development time across all of your systems. Just remember, just because you have a hammer, everything isn't a nail.
Things have been busy and we didn't have a presentation last month. This month's presentation will be on the 29th due to scheduling conflicts with TechNexus. On the schedule this month Carl Franklin will be presenting on scalable internet solutions. Come out and join us for a night of discussion and meet a few of your peers in the process.
Register here.
Tim is a Solutions Architect for PSC Group, LLC. He has been an IT consultant since 1999 specializing in Microsoft technologies. Along with running the Chicago Information Technology Architects Group and speaking on Microsoft and architecture topics he was also contributing author on "The Definitive Guide to the Microsoft Enterprise Library".


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As some of you know, learning about AIR, AS3, Flex, Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder has been my side-project for a few months now. As I mentioned in a previous post, it is essential to prepare for the future and invest now in learning new skills.
For me, the best way to learn new things is to create a project that's difficult, yet cool enough to keep you interested. So my first few steps revolved around learning how to use Fireworks, then Flash Catalyst, Flash Builder and ultimately distribute an application using Adobe AIR.
One of the amazing new features of AIR 2.0 is the ability to embed and execute native code from right inside Actionscript, an API called NativeProcess. This means that you can safely run existing services over the command line, as well as install your own native service components. AIR 2.0 is in beta right now on Adobe Labs, and is mobile ready as designed so it's a great time to get started.
So what would a Platform Evangelist for mobile and devices create?
Introducing Helisso
What is it?
- A packaging utility that can produce SIS packages for Symbian devices
- It targets the Flash Lite 3.x runtime for Nokia's S60 devices
- It runs on PC and Mac OS, all versions
- The tool has embedded Python binaries inside, compiled versions of "Ensymble"
- For signing purposes the tool also includes OpenSSL for certificate signing
- It is unsupported and without warranty
How do I use it?
- A tutorial from Ms. Myers, reigning packaging queen, is here.
Where can I get it?
I have been hugely impressed with the capabilities provided by AIR, in this only my first AS3 project. Looking back on all of the technologies that I have used has really got me excited about AIR applications on Android, and even sprouted a few iPhone applications in advance of that. Seriously, imagine having all of the power of AIR and this toolchain on mobile phones?
Lastly, a big shout out to Steve Hartley of Oppian, Jussi Ylänen creator of Ensymble, without whom this wouldn't have been possible.


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Over the summer, I met with Mark Pauline, director and founder of the legendary Survival Research Laboratories, who gave me a tour of his studio workshop in Petaluma, CA. Since its inception in 1978, SRL has quite literally blazed new territory in the field of performance, robotic engineering and sculpture, producing dangerous, overpowering live shows with custom robots built by Mark and his team. The performances provoke both a fear of and fascination with the power of technology, as well as the potential loss of human control over machines. Extremely affable and intelligent, with a no bullshit air about him, Mark's technical knowledge was astounding. I've been following SRL's work for years, so actually meeting Mark and seeing the robots up close was a real treat.
Survival Research Laboratories is currently operated out of three large garages in Petaluma, an idyllic, historic town about an hour north of San Francisco. Mark moved to the new location in 2007, lugging 180 tons of equipment with him, when the landlord of his old warehouse in San Francisco decided to hike up the rent after decades of affordability. The Petaluma spot seems perfectly suited to SRL's activities, it even has a parking lot large enough to accommodate test runs of gigantic, menacing robots, and laidback neighbors who never complain about the noise.
The first garage I got a peek at is the laboratory, where the robots are made.


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Well, the calendar says it's Spring, but up here in North-Eastern BC it is far from that!! We got a fair amount of fresh snow fall yesterday and through-out the night and it is still lightly falling. I hear that in other parts of BC tender green grass is poking through the winter barren ground and the first flowers of Spring are growing their way up to display their glorious blooms. Our school kids have started their Spring Break but as usual,unless they can fly away to warmer destinations, they'll have to entertain themselves with skiing, skating, sledding or just plan indoor things.
Monday, March 21, 2011
This is the 1st day of Spring...right??
Posted by Faye at 4:37 PM
1 comments:
- hippo chick said...
So very good to have you back again, Faye. Love all the spring colors. The nail color is lovely.
~hippo hugs~
- March 24, 2011 at 12:00 PM
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Midnight Texas SeasonS 1-2 DVD Special Features
Actors: Jason Lewis, Peter Mensah
Language: English
Boxed Set: Yes
Number of discs: 6
Condition: New
Region: Region Free
Weight: 0.6 kg
Format: Support both NTSC & PAL
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
DVD Release Date: 2017
Midnight Texas Seasons 1-2 DVD Photos
Midnight Texas Seasons 1-2 DVD Overview
Midnight, Texas is an American supernatural drama television series broadcast on NBC as a summer entry to the 2016 17 network television schedule. The series was commissioned on May 13, 2016. Midnight, Texas is based on the book series of the same name by author Charlaine Harris who also wrote The Southern Vampire Mysteries, Midnight Texas Seasons 1-2 DVD the novels which were adapted into the True Blood television series. The series premiered on July 24, 2017. Manny enlists the help of the other Midnighters to try and get rid of the ghosts and demonic entity haunting his house, and Fiji performs an exorcism to try and encourage the spirits to move. Meanwhile, Manny tries to help clear Bobo's name by allowing Aubrey to inhabit his body so that he can see what happened to her, before relaying this to the sheriff at Davey, who still seems skeptical. The sheriff's deputy makes a fatal error when she decides to investigate noises coming from the Reverend's cellar, Midnight Texas Seasons 1-2 causing chaos throughout the town, which Lemuel, Manny, Fiji and Olivia try to clear up. The demonic entity in Mannys home turns out to be a lot more powerful than it first seems, causing serious problems for Fiji. Bobo is freed after a Sons of Lucifer jacket with Aubreys hair in its zipper is found downstream of her body. The Sons of Lucifer, led by Aubrey's husband, then murder the sheriff.


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In the Plan Workspace, there is a New way to open a file. Either from an earlier version or from a FTM2014 (existing file that has been opened with FTM2014).
In the Plan Workspace, Click on the Select Tree in the upper right of the screen.
This will bring up a number of your family files on your computer. I want to open the high-lighted file and when I do, a pop-out menu is opened. You will notice the Right Pointing Arrow on the other files.
The choices are to Open the Tree, Open in a New Tree, RENAME the tree, Delete Tree or Remove the tree file from the list. In this case, I want to Open this Existing FTM2012 file.
From there, the steps are described here:
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"Just when I thought I was out… they pull me back in."
Michael Corleone, Godfather, Part III
Source: https://www.pinterest.com/Mamzeltt/famous-movie-quotes/
When Michael confronts Connie and Neri in the kitchen of his townhouse, he warns them to never give an order to kill someone again (in this case, it was Joey Zaza), and goes on to state that when he thought he had left the mob lifestyle, they pull him back.
Thus, is the case with opt-out, as I discussed in my last post on the subject.
Kristen Beckman, in today's Business Insurance, reminds us that opt-out, like the Mob, is pulling us back into the conversation.
As I reported last time, a bill in Arkansas, Senate Bill 653, pending in that state's legislature's Insurance & Commerce Committee since the beginning of March, proposes an alternative to the state system.
Ms. Beckman quotes Fred C. Bosse (not Fred C. Dobbs), the southwest region vice president of the American Insurance Association (AIA), who said that the bill is an attempt to keep the workers comp opt-out conversation going.
Mr. Bosse said that the AIA takes these bills seriously (good for them) and engages legislators to dissuade progress of such legislation the AIA believes could create an unequal benefit system for employees. (They haven't drunk the Kool-Aid either)
Arkansas' bill is the only legislation currently under consideration, but a state Rep in Florida, Cord Byrd (there's a name for you), a Republican (it figures) from Jacksonville Beach, promoted legislation last year, but never filed it.
South Carolina and Tennessee, where bills were previously introduced within the past two years has gone nowhere.
And once again ARAWC rears its ugly head. For those of you unfamiliar with ARAWC, or the Association for Responsible Alternatives to Workers' Compensation, it is a right-wing lobbying and legislation writing group based in Reston, Virginia. (see several other posts on ARAWC on this blog)
A statement ARAWC sent to BI said that these bills are beginning to pop up organically to model benefits that companies have seen from Texas' non-subscription model. (Organically? That's like saying mushroom clouds organically popped up over Hiroshima and Nagasaki)
Here's a laugh for you, straight from the ARAWC statement:
"Outcomes and benefits for injured workers have improved, employers are more competitive when costs are contained and taxpayers are well served by market-driven solutions," They further said, "We recognize that each state is different and that the discussions at the state level will involve varied opinions."
Of course, we cannot really know if injured workers are benefitting, or just being denied their rights, and it seems that opt-out is only to help employers and taxpayers get out of their responsibility to those who sustain serious injuries while employed.
In another post, the notion that Texas' system could serve as a model for other states was outlined in a report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (don't you just love the names of these reactionary groups?)
Bill Minick, president of PartnerSource, praised the report, according to Ms. Beckman, and said that competition has driven down insurance premium rates and improved benefits for Texas workers. (That's what he says, but is any of it true, I wonder? I doubt it.)
ARAWC has listed a laundry list of benefits they say responsible alternative comp laws could provide:
- Better wage replacement
- Reduced overall employer costs
- Faster return to work
- Fewer claims disputes (yeah, because they would be denied)
- Faster claim payouts
- Faster closure (well, when you deny claims, they can be closed faster, duh!)
It is good to know that the AIA is critical of the report, and that in their opinion, it is unworkable to allow employers to adopt a separate, but unequal system of employee benefits.
And as we have seen with the defeat of the AHCA, leaving a government-sponsored program up to market-driven forces is a recipe for disaster that should not be repeated in workers' comp, no matter what flavor the Kool-Aid comes in.


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variscite64: How've ya been dude! It's been a while. Guess you didn't die after all! XD Jul 17, 2020 1:06:39 GMT
Howlite: Yeah sorry about that, I had some issues I had to work out Jul 17, 2020 8:11:07 GMT
variscite64: Don't worry about it. Me too. Jul 17, 2020 18:58:54 GMT
Flurry: Wow a lot of guests watching X Jul 20, 2020 17:05:41 GMT
Flurry: Guys joiiiin usssss Jul 20, 2020 17:05:50 GMT
Melody: well 2 guests are me on two different devices when I am offline Jul 20, 2020 20:37:54 GMT
variscite64: I'll join when I get a response. I'll either get my character approved or get my account back for my old one, hopefully both. Jul 21, 2020 22:39:12 GMT
variscite64: Hehe. Yeah, all the guests are waiting for the moment they see someone to RP with. 'Fresh blood!' Jul 21, 2020 22:40:46 GMT
Howlite: I dont mind a little blood in the water myself Jul 22, 2020 10:56:31 GMT
Howlite: I have a thread being made as we speak Jul 22, 2020 10:56:59 GMT
variscite64: Epic. I think I'll be able to rejoin soon. Jul 22, 2020 23:16:24 GMT
Howlite: I hope so. Howlite needs his buddy now more than ever. Though he will be mad for her scaring him Jul 22, 2020 23:27:33 GMT
Chip the Fire Opal: Or fireball in the face? I can provide there Jul 25, 2020 20:14:38 GMT
Howlite: Chip! Boy did I miss you Jul 25, 2020 23:58:25 GMT
Chip the Fire Opal: The pleasure is all yours I can assure you =) Jul 26, 2020 19:14:28 GMT
Flurry: Chaaaap! Jul 28, 2020 1:47:00 GMT
Ruby?: it's really only been 10 months but i did finally respond:/sorry chip Jul 28, 2020 8:33:16 GMT
Melody: I posted a corrupted gem's concept art that I made some time ago Jul 29, 2020 21:43:46 GMT *
Melody: steven-universe-rp.proboards.com/thread/2690/corrupted-gem-art-me?page=1&scrollTo=33373 Jul 29, 2020 21:44:03 GMT
Melody: here is a link if anyone is interested Jul 29, 2020 21:45:23 GMT *
Plot Overview
This Roleplay is a prequel to Steven Universe to an extent with some slight retconing and its own progression to the story that will turn out differently to how stuff plays out in the show.Thanks to the message by Rose Quartz several gems are rising up to protect Earth and have labelled themselves as the Crystal Gems. Others on earth are remaining aligned to Homeworld though despite the isolation of Earth from Homeworld
All gems on earth are still stranded, the communication hub is still offline and all the space warps are shattered, it has now been revealed that this is the work of Rose Quartz and her small group known as the Crystal gems. They have rebelled against Homeworld and have chosen to protect the Earth (Trapping themselves on Homeworld to keep the warps down).
Now both sides are fighting among themselves along with fighting against the 'Corruption' a virus is infecting many gems turning most of them into mindless monsters, but those with a stronger will seem to becoming something more sinister.
The Game has changed now. The question has finally been posed, are you against Homeworld or allied with them. Or do you have your own agenda that may or may not been assisted by the 'Corruption'. Regardless the seeds have been placed down and although it is only the beginning the fight for or against Earth and the corruption has begun. The choice is yours for how it is shaped on the Original Steven Universe Roleplay Site. Orginal Opening Plot Here
Thread That Changed Everything
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Entropy Package Management in Gentoo
Entropy Package Manager is written by Fabio Erculliani from Sabayon GNU/Linux as an extension to Portage in order to professionally install binary package same as in other binary-based distros. The package manager syncronises itself automatically with Portage once you installed entropy binary packages, but instead Portage must be syncronised with Entropy in order for Entropy to know what packages you have emerged. Fully written in python, it is a stable application with many binary-oriented features and options, including a complete set of repository creation and entropy server features fully based on Portage ebuild packaging. Henceforth, developers must ( there is no other way ) emerge packages in order to create entropy packages, the procedure will be detailed in this tutorial.
Instructions of creating your own Entropy Repository
First of all, you must have package named entropy-server instaled. It contains a /etc/entropy/server.conf that itself contains the next, most important lines of the configuration:
community-mode = enable < if you wish to cope with more than 1 repository in one system community-mode = disable <if you want to have a self-sustainable dependency repository ...(descriptions) default-repository = yourreponame ...(descriptions)
#example: #=> repository = myserverrepo|My Server Repository|ftp://user:email@example.com/ ssh://username@host:~user/path:port just an example of repo mode
repository = yourreponame|My Server Repository|ftp://user:firstname.lastname@example.com/ ssh://username@host:~user/path:port
The rest of them you don't need necessarily to bother. Of course, as in the example, you of course need either a SSH server or FTP server with upload permissions, of course. The structure of the repository should look like this:
P.S.: I considered this step as being the most important one, since everybody firstly installs the package before reading the article/tutorial on how to use :)
Installation and package management instructions
Start emerging the following packages:
emerge sys-apps/entropy equo entropy-server -vp
It should produce something like this: http://pastebin.com/cy7X38ia ( public and permanent pastebin ). Notes: these packages have been built on 5 minutes funtoo tar.gz unpacking and chrooting and after, of course, a emerge --sync and a eselect profile set. You should have now a working equo, so run the command: equo --help. Should show up all the help commands:
blacknoxis / # equo --help usage: equo [-h] [--color] (...)
In this moment you should have a working repository and SSH/FTP server with /etc/entropy/server.conf pointed to it.
Working with EIT
First things first, you must 'regenerate' the Entropy database system by running the command:
equo rescue generate
EIT is the tool that actually packages already emerged packages and introduces them into your remote repository. First initialize repo ( after configurind your /etc/entropy/server.conf ) with the command:
eit init reponame
And a demonstration of adding a package to a repo by using these three commands:
emerge packagename
eit add packagename
eit push
All demo in: http://pastebin.com/k3PNpPdD ( public permanent pastebin )


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Peer-Reviewed Publications
Found 24 results[ Title]
Filters: Keyword is Cross-Sectional Studies and Author is Dennis Durbin [Clear All Filters]
Acute healthcare utilization by children after motor vehicle crashes." Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(4):507-11."
Assessing child restraint misuse by parental survey." Inj. Prev.. 2000;6(2):145-7."
Association between weight and risk of crash-related injuries for children in child restraints." Pediatrics. 2011;128(6):1148-52."
Belt-positioning booster seats and reduction in risk of injury among children in vehicle crashes." JAMA. 2003;289(21):2835-40."
Characterization of interpersonal violence events involving young adolescent girls vs events involving young adolescent boys." Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2004;158(6):545-50."
Effects of seating position and appropriate restraint use on the risk of injury to children in motor vehicle crashes." Pediatrics. 2005;115(3):e305-9."
Emergency physicians' knowledge and provision of child passenger safety information." Acad Emerg Med. 2011;18(2):145-51."
An evaluation of the effectiveness of forward facing child restraint systems." Accid Anal Prev. 2004;36(4):585-9."
Exposure to traffic among urban children injured as pedestrians." Inj. Prev.. 2002;8(3):231-5."
Factors associated with driving in teens with autism spectrum disorders." Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. 2012;33(1):70-4."
Factors associated with front row seating of children in motor vehicle crashes." Epidemiology. 2004;15(3):345-9."
Factors influencing pediatric injury in side impact collisions." Annu Proc Assoc Adv Automot Med. 2000;44:407-28."
Grandparents driving grandchildren: an evaluation of child passenger safety and injuries." Pediatrics. 2011;128(2):289-95."
A latent class analysis of injury patterns among rear-seated, seat-belted children." J Trauma. 2006;61(5):1244-8."
Optimal restraint reduces the risk of abdominal injury in children involved in motor vehicle crashes." Ann. Surg.. 2004;239(1):127-31."
Primary access to vehicles increases risky teen driving behaviors and crashes: national perspective." Pediatrics. 2009;124(4):1069-75."
Recent trends in child restraint practices in the United States." Pediatrics. 2004;113(5):e458-64."
Risk of injury to child passengers in compact extended-cab pickup trucks." JAMA. 2002;287(9):1147-52."
Seat belt use among 13-15 year olds in primary and secondary enforcement law states." Accid Anal Prev. 2007;39(3):524-9."
Teen drivers and the risk of injury to child passengers in motor vehicle crashes." Inj. Prev.. 2005;11(1):12-7."
Trip characteristics of vehicle crashes involving child passengers." Inj. Prev.. 2005;11(4):219-24."
Validation of the ICD/AIS MAP for pediatric use." Inj. Prev.. 2001;7(2):96-9."
Variation in teen driver education by state requirements and sociodemographics." Pediatrics. 2012;129(3):453-7."


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Deborah Barrett, PhD, MSW, LCSW is a clinical associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a psychotherapist in private practice. Professor Barrett has published self-help articles on fibromyalgia and other chronic pains as well as scholarly papers on health, illness and public policy. Her book, Paintracking: Your Personal Guide to Living Well With Chronic Pain, offers a hands-on approach to improving life with chronic pain, in conjunction with the accompanying website, Paintracking.com, with its free online tracking tool.
Feeling Like You've Been Hit by a Mack Truck: Mornings with Fibromyalgia
What does it feel like to be run over by a Mack Truck? Thankfully, actual occurrences are few.
When I first developed pain, and long before I heard of fibromyalgia, I used Mack Truck metaphors for my own experience. Having grown up near the company's headquarters, I may have been quicker than average to make this association. Yet, when I was finally diagnosed and began reading about people's experiences with fibromyalgia and related pain syndromes, I found such references were rampant.
Most people with chronic pain would probably agree that a personal collision with a truck would exceed even their highest pain moments – after all, those machines weigh tons, and any survivors would unlikely be spared bones or flesh. Fibromyalgia is usually described with benign words such as achiness, stiffness, or tenderness, or as muscles that feel over-exercised – all of which can refer to what everyone experiences from time to time (if not chronically).
These words may fit people with milder symptoms, but they are wholly inadequate for those whose lives have been upended by FM's unrelenting arrival.
It's a problem of magnitude.
How in fact does one convey feeling wracked with pain, in one's skin, joints, or nerve endings throughout the body, from head, neck, shoulders, on down?
It's also a problem of visibility.
"If someone were experiencing that level of pain, it would show!" Yet it does not.
What would a reasonable response look like to awakening with searing pain? You might cry out, whimper, rush (with help) to the emergency room, or fear moving at all. But getting up and going on with your day as if nothing were wrong would feel inappropriate, even absurd. No?
Yet for many people with chronic pain, "normal" mornings deliver a shocking level of pain. Even after nearly two decades, I can be surprised by the force of the pain that routinely follows a mundane evening and solid night's sleep. And like many who live with painful disorders, I have learned that I benefit most from acknowledging the pain (maybe observing its perseverance or tenacity) and then forcing myself out of bed and into the day.
Living well with fibromyalgia can involve observing and then ignoring the feeling that you've been hit by a Mack Truck.
Going about your day despite intense pain requires the paradoxical skill of acting opposite to your intuition. When your whole body hurts, it takes a powerful narrative to convince you that getting up or moving will help. But in most cases, it does.
The more self-knowledge you have about the probable outcome of a chosen response, the less difficult it becomes to act in ways that can feel counterintuitive. By learning the consequences of your morning choices, you can benefit from heeding your data rather than listening to your body. Over time, you can develop a new intuition based on what works.
But even when you know that you will benefit from getting up and going, it can still be difficult. For members of the morning Mack Truck Club, consider the following:
1. Appreciate your strength. Remind yourself that no matter how hard a morning may be, you have experienced worse. Be awed by the pain. Admire its ferocity and persistence. Then be awed by yourself and your ability to get through this.
2. Treat each day as an experiment. By treating each morning as an opportunity to learn, you can find value in any response you choose. For example, you could see how you feel when you chose to lie low for a few hours, push past the pain, stay in bed all day, engage in particular activities, say something specific to yourself, or return to bed later in the day. Recording the effects of your response will equip you for subsequent mornings.
You can then make informed decisions based on what helped most, rather than what you may "feel like doing."
3. Encourage yourself. As you discover what helps, create a morning story that will help you pursue what works most, such as replying to morning pain on a regular basis with a rhythmic mantra of "hot shower, hot shower, hot shower" or whatever improves your experience.
4. Schedule something motivating for each morning. This might be an exercise class, breakfast plan, home task, or other routine activity. It may be a relief not to experience pressure when you feel miserable, but without a reason to get up, it can be incredibly more difficult.
Consider the differences in how you experience mornings when you have to move versus those with little or nothing on the agenda. Wide-open days can be more challenging because, without distraction, pain has a way of filling the space. By planning something compelling each day, you are more like to get going before negative self-talk (such as "why bother?") sets in.
5. Be mindful of the risk of over-scheduling. Distraction can provide a refuge from pain, but moderation and balance are key. Too much activity can activate a vicious cycle.
6. Don't "should" yourself. Your usual may be usual for you – but that does not mean it is not hard. Be gentle with yourself. And even when you know how to feel better (or at least less bad), this does not mean that it is easy. Even individuals who have come to accept their situation have moments when they wish things were otherwise or mourn the loss of refreshing, restorative sleep.
Like someone suffering from depression (and pain and depression can coexist and reinforce each other), facing the day can be difficult. Yet, not doing so most often worsens both physical and emotional symptoms. As a psychotherapist, I have yet to hear from a client, "I stayed in bed for two days and boy did I feel better!"
And as someone with Mack Truck mornings, I too have learned that regardless of how desperately I hunker down in bed, I fare better by focusing on something constructive and moving ahead step-by-step with my day.
Practical Tips for Living with Fibromyalgia and Other Chronic Pains
[Tools & Ideas Mack Truck Club Members Might Want to Try]
Fibromyalgia and other chronic pain conditions present a daily struggle. Here are some tips – in no particular order – that have made my life easier and even downright fun.
1. Voice-Activated Software [Work, School, Home]
During my first years with fibromyalgia, I was not able to type at all without terrible pain. Even a minute at the keyboard was excruciating. I carefully reorganized my work station taking into account ergonomics: good supportive chair, screen at eye level, wrist and mouse pads. Still I could not type. Then I discovered voice software. What a godsend. Thanks to voice software I finished writing my dissertation, and stayed employed.
….That was in 1994, and the products that seemed space-aged then are now primitive. Single-word speech entry has been replaced with continuous-word speech recognition. In addition, the prices have dropped substantially (about tenfold!). The products on the market are increasing exponentially, and are a far cry from the beta-version of Dragon Dictate, which I relied on back in 1994 to finish my dissertation.
Voice-activated dictation products have become mainstream, and their capabilities continue to increase. You can find products for MacIntosh or Windows, which enter text by voice (much in the way you would by typing). Other hand-held devices allow you to record data in a comfortable position and place, which you then upload as text later to your computer.
However, if you have been accustomed to typing and are quite fast, voice input will likely be quite frustrating at first. Before the software is ready to use, you must train it to recognize your voice by reading it words and paragraphs.
The training period for new products is becoming shorter and shorter. Plus, computers and other voice-activated devices "learn" to understand the user, just as the user learns to understand how to use it. These products accommodate to your pronunciation with practice (and correction), promising even the thickest of accents will eventually be recognizable. Plus, products are available in diverse languages as well.
In my case, a long break from the keyboard, aided by voice-activated software, along with exercises for my implicated muscles, has allowed me to resume typing by hand.
I now practice "mindful typing," in which I type while calm and aware of my posture, my hand positioning, my speed, and my breath. But typing gently, I am able to accomplish a significant amount. Still, when I type "too much," the pain creeps back in. A perk of voice software is that your computer recognizes it interchangeably with voice-entry. Thus you can decide to type by hand for a while and then voice it in for a while. See what works best for you.
For those of you who need to type at work, talk to your company about purchasing software for you.
• The prices have come down as low as $100 for some products.
• If you require it for home use, it may be tax deductible as a medical expense (talk with your doctor).
• College and professional students should also contact their university office for disability to see what services are available for them.
Voice software is becoming a realistic option to typing. Voice-entered data are becoming more commonplace across platforms.
2. Telephone Headset
Holding a phone the old fashioned way can be excruciating. Headsets allow you to look chic like Madonna and get comfortable at the same time. On long calls you can engage in stretching or relax on the couch with a heat sack behind your neck, or whatever helps you feel your best. Cell phones have been offering headset versions and adaptations for some time now. If you rely on the telephone, headsets are money well spent.
If you are required to use the phone at work, talk with your boss about supplying a headset to accommodate you. Remind your employer of the additional benefit from the preventative aspect of headsets (for all employees) and their ability to free hands for other work!
Phone headsets vary significantly in type, quality, and price. You can look into turning an existing phone hands-free with a plug-in headset. Most phones have jacks for this purpose, including cordless & cellphones. Some you can strap onto a belt or pocket and there are wireless products.
Shop around and make sure to check return policies so that you can check the quality and comfort of the phone at home or work before committing to it.
3. Microwavable Heat Pack
Nothing soothes like a hot rice pack on the back of your neck or wherever you ache most. The simplest way to create one is with an intact tube sock or pillow case. Just pour in several cups of dry, raw rice – any rice except Minute Rice works fine. I use Jasmine rice because I like its aroma. Tie the sock or pillow case closed with a good knot.
If you have access to a sewing machine you can make a more attractive version – what I call my Happy Sack.
Select a cotton fabric, double it if it is thin. Decide on the dimensions. Long and thin for your neck, larger rectangle for your back. Then sew together three sides, with the good sides facing inwards of course. Turn the sack right-side out and fill nearly halfway with rice. Turn in the ends and sew closed the remaining side.
Toss your sack in the microwave for about two minutes or so, until it reaches the perfect hot temperature to relax any muscle spasm. Heating time depends on the size of your sack and the strength of your microwave. I like to make mine very hot and then wrap it in a small towel to retain the heat. When it begins to cool I unwrap it and place it directly on my clothes or skin.
Rice sacks heat up more intensely than electric heating pads and are much safer. Their flexible consistency is particularly soothing.
• I have sacks of various colors and sizes that I leave in various places.
• Throughout the day I like to use one behind my neck to keep my tension headaches at bay.
• I also bring one to long meetings, or when I travel, to keep my muscles warm and relaxed.
• I have found that if I ask politely, the bartenders in airports will heat my sack for me. What a difference this makes for travel.
• I make sure to heat one when I head out for any length of drive and give them as presents to the friends and family I visit most often.
• Pop one in your bed to warm the covers or your feet.
• Use a fashionable sack at work – soon your co-workers will desire one as well…
[Note: Those who are sensitive to hot weather may enjoy sacks or gel packs that can be chilled.]
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4. Electrical Stimulation Unit
I have used two different types of electrical stimulation units. Each sends electric impulses from a machine through wires and electrodes to your body. You may have had electrical stimulation at the physical therapist's office. If you have found this helpful, it may be worthwhile to look into buying or renting a home unit.
There are several theories as to why electric stimulation alleviates pain. The stimulation may distract your pain receptors, increase serotonin, stimulate nerves, or help relax muscle spasm.
The TENS (Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) unit is 'Walkman'-sized. You can clip it to your pants or fit in a pocket and hide the electrodes and wires underneath clothes.
The other stimulation available as a home unit is interferential electrical stimulation. These machines tend to be somewhat larger. The main difference between transcutaneous and interferential is in the type of wave form and stimulation each provides. If one does not work well for you, the other may.
• Both are available with a doctor's prescription.
• A knowledgeable druggist or physical therapist should show you all the settings and ways it can be used. Since the device can be used in several ways, it is advisable to have a physical therapist advise which is the best way for you.
For some, wearing a unit for many hours provides relief, for others a short therapy session can help much longer.
Prices vary considerably, so it pays to shop around. Because this is a prescription item, you should be able to submit it to your health insurance, or at least deduct it as a medical expense for tax purposes.
5. Pain Medication
Pain relief is a quintessential part of a total wellness program for people who experience chronic pain. Of course medications work differently for each of us and it often takes various tries to find the ones that work best.
For some, narcotics are needed to reduce pain enough to function. I have found that very small doses can make a huge difference, particularly if they are taken early on, before pain increases too much.
Unfortunately physicians are often hesitant to prescribe strong medications for chronic pain. If your physician is not open to including necessary medications in your treatment program, find one who is! Medication that improves sleep can also help relieve pain. Work with your doctor to find the optimal medications to reduce pain and improve sleep and functioning.
6. Massage Therapy
Many excellent massage therapists are now familiar with fibromyalgia. For some, massage provides a real, if only temporary, relief from muscle pain. Unfortunately massage therapy tends to be quite pricey. If you can afford to have regular appointments, it may be well worth the expense.
There are several ways to try to cut down on the cost of massage:
• Some doctors' offices have massage therapists on staff – in this case their services are often covered by insurance.
• Check your phone book or the Net for a massage therapy school in your area. Students are often required to have so many massage hours to graduate and in most cases are not allowed to accept payment.
• You may have a friend who you can barter with for massage. As you get to know your body more and what feels good, you are better able to instruct another pair of hands.
• When reachable, self massage can help. Try rubbing oil on your muscles after a hot shower or bath.
• Massage devices can also be quite helpful. My favorite is a machine with two rotating balls that I use to deactivate trigger points and spasm.Before purchasing any device, check on the return policy. If you are not satisfied return the item.
7. Daily Report Sheet
This has been incredibly important for my mental as well as physical well-being. So much so that it became the basis for my Paintracking book.
The fundamental idea of paintracking is to devise a format that you can use to track your day-to-day experience and learn what helps (and hurts) so that you can continue to improve.
I realized my daily memory is not very reliable. For example, at my worst, I often think that I always feel that bad and become quite depressed. Having a record helps me keep things in perspective – so I devised an easy form that I filled out every day indicating how much I slept, the quality of sleep, the weather, my mood, amount of exercise, drugs and dosages, activities accomplished, and various other factors.
I also included a category for my reaction to pain / tiredness / depression and how well whatever I did seemed to work. Having a form forces me to take action so that I at least have something to write down later… The reports serve as a record of the many, many changes in medication and other strategies, and reveal trends that would otherwise be impossible to track. For example, it helped me realize that I have had significantly fewer bouts of depression than I used to.
Many people asked for a copy of my personal form, but I invariably told them it wouldn't make sense to anyone else. In the book, I explain a systematic method people can use to develop a personally tailored tracking form.
Those with access to the Net may choose to use the free electronic Paintracker record-keeping, graphing and trending tool, which can be customized and modified to reflect what you think are the most important factors that influence how you feel.
Concentrate on a format that will be easy to do each and every day. Do not let the form become a burden in itself.
• If you do not use the Paintracker program but have access to a computer you may want to create a sort of computer template that you can fill in by hand in a few minutes.
• Or perhaps you would prefer to use an extra calendar and simply devise short hand notations to represent the most relevant aspects of each day.
Consider the most important things you want to include, then, how to represent them most easily.
• You could use drawings such as faces for moods and weather pictures.
• Other time-saving devices are to type categories you can then simply circle when filing out your form.
• Number scales, such as 1-10 rating systems, work well for some people, while less so for others…
You may want to include an indicator of how you feel overall in your form. The one most meaningful to me is "If every day were like today, could I live with it?" I use the letters C (for can't live with it) and L (for live with it) and then pluses and minuses to represent upper and lower ranges. For example, a really rotten day may be rated as C- while a brilliant one would receive an L++.
Over time I have seen the number of C's reduced substantially. I attribute this to the things that I have learned from tracking my experience and adjusting my life accordingly. At the very least, I learned to put my ups and downs in a meaningful context. At best, I learned how to change my behavior and environment as much as possible to maximize my good periods.
The information you can learn from careful daily input is invaluable. Without this, it is quite impossible to say with any certainly anything about the trends you experience and how your various therapies and life activities are affecting you both in the short and long term.
As your needs change, change the paper or electronic form accordingly. The form should inform your behavior, which then affects the form, and so on. The more you understand about yourself over time, the simpler the form is likely to become. This kind of tracking becomes especially important any time you institute a change, such as a new medication or change in your exercise routine.
8. Doctor Visits
Whenever I have to see a new doctor, I bring a detailed summary of my history on one to two pages.
• Otherwise it takes an extended office visit just to explain my problem and inevitably I end up in tears of self pity over how much my life has changed.
• Also I have found when I present a written report, including what I hope to get out of the appointment, the physician takes me more seriously and I am more satisfied with the visit.
9. Exercise and Stretching Program
A gradual exercise-and-stretching program has been the most challenging component, in my case, not because I'm a couch potato but because I tend to overdo it. I am now doing an hour of cardiovascular exercise three times a week plus a light muscle-training program.
It took me two years to build up to this point after many months of frustration. The trick for me was to begin with something incredibly minimal, like 30 seconds of walking, but every day. When it felt O.K., I increased it to a minute, and so on.
When it was too much I cut back, but just a little. The result is phenomenal. Yes, I still hurt, but much less. And I can now manage to hold a teapot in front of me, and negotiate my own grocery shopping. I joined a nearby gym with a sauna and Jacuzzi, so after my workout and stretch program, I relax for a wonderful half hour.
Not only am I combating fibromyalgia problems, but getting in shape is an added bonus (and we get so few for our efforts).
10. Finding Bonuses
On my worse days, I rent movies that I really want to see. This helps so much to prevent me from slipping into depression; instead I usually slip into the world of a foreign film.
There are many other little tricks I now take for granted, like always sitting in a booth in a restaurant or a chair with arms, relaxing with music and diaphragmatic breathing, and sleeping with earplugs.
Sometimes I imagine living on an island with folks with fibromyalgia so we can live a slower pace of life, help each other feel better, and really understand.
Of course I'd choose to forget this fibromyalgia problem all together.
– Deborah A Barrett, PhD
Note: This material is reproduced with kind permission from Dr. Deborah Barrett's Paintracking site. ©Deborah Barrett, All Rights Reserved. It has not been reviewed by the FDA and is not meant to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure any condition, illness or disease. It is very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it with your professional healthcare team.


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The battle over the cultural fate of the otherwise outdoors-oriented Presidio could hit the pause button once again after a high-level letter sent to the Presidio Trust recommended the governing board put a hold on the already slow-moving selection process for a new museum to replace the Sports Basement.
The questions so far have been: Is the proper use of the land one that would allow wealthy filmmaker George Lucas the opportunity to house his art, or would the space make more sense as an interactive museum dedicated to the natural history of the Presidio? Now, this question is being raised: Should any new museums be opening on the Presidio's quasi-parkland before a larger vision for the Presidio is created?
The Dec. 12 letter from Frank Dean, general superintendent of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area (GGNRA), recommended that the Trust wait for "several years" before deciding exactly which museum should occupy the choice piece of property on the city's northwestern coast.
"We appreciate that the Trust Board has at least temporarily delayed reaching a decision on the future use of the Commissary site," Dean wrote in the letter addressed to the Presidio Trust. "However, we must again express our strong recommendation, echoed by many others, that the Trust defer any decision for several years to allow the site to develop in a more comprehensive, thoughtful, integrated, and planned manner."
Citing a lack of "programmatic and architectural fit," the letter deemed all three proposals — The Presidio Exchange (PX), the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum, and The Bridge/Sustainability Institute — unfit for imminent development.
But while both the Presidio Exchange and The Bridge plans were referenced philosophically, Dean name-checked the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum with specificity.
"From the information that has been presented to the public to date," Dean wrote, "we believe the program of the proposed Lucas Cultural Arts Museum has no genuine or substantive connection to the themes or programs of Crissy Field or the Main Post, or to other Presidio-connected themes that extend far beyond the boundaries of the outpost. While the programs of the proposed museum seem interesting, the museum's offerings could be located anywhere; therefore, the museum does not merit one of the most important sites in the entire Presidio."
The finalists for the museum site at mid-Crissy Field answer questions about their proposals (including filmmaker George Lucas).
It is a sentiment held not just by the GGNRA. Supporters of the more synergistic Presidio Exchange plans think the delay in decision will only strengthen the position of both their plans and those of The Bridge/Sustainability.
"I agree with the Trust's stance," said Becky Evans, local chair of the Sierra Club. "The Lucas plan fulfilled none of the requirements except for the one about economic feasibility. It didn't fit in with the park or the surrounding area."
"The [Presidio Exchange] has done an excellent job, in terms of in a few months preparing their proposal. But there is some value, I think, in waiting to see what the new open space will look like when the tunnels are finished and the bluff is in place," she said.
But before supporters of the PX declare victory, note that the letter sent to the Presidio Trust was just a recommendation, not a declaration. The Trust could theoretically buck the advice, hand the Sports Basement keys to George Lucas' group, and then wipe its hands clean of the project; after all, Lucas has offered to foot the bill for his entire project.
"[The recommendation] is not something that automatically makes them hold the process up," said Alexandra Picavet, spokesperson for the GGNRA. "It's up to the Trust to assign what weight they would give our recommendation. They could decide not to use it all."
But, according to GGNRA Director of Communications Howard Levitt, even if the recommendation is ignored, the delay could last indefinitely: Even after a proposed plan is accepted by the Presidio Trust, it would still have to undergo a "follow-up environmental impact statement, done by EPA, [pursuant to] the National Environmental Policy Act, and so we'll continue to be engaged in this thing going forward." So, even after a plan is approved by the Trust, the EPA could still hold up the process moving forward.
Those in favor of the proposed moratorium, however, seem to think that the Presidio Trust (who had not yet responded for comment at the time of publication)will agree with the initial recommendation.
"The Park Service's main responsibility is to protect the resources of the park," said Evans. "And they've been walking, I think, a very fine line trying to do that without coming out specifically and saying, 'Don't pick Mr. Lucas.' I mean, obviously it's not an appropriate choice."
Who and what the appropriate choice for the old Commissary ends up being, however, is still up for debate.
For now, it's a Sports Basement; the only true winner from the GGNRA's most recent recommendation. At least for now, it may get to stay.


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Music in the Life of Benjamin Franklin - BOOK & CD SETRecording by David & Ginger Hildebrand and Julianne Baird Period reproduction instruments including Franklin's glass armonica are featured on this recording.
The songs and instrumental pieces in this CD and book are those Benjamin Franklin knew and enjoyed during his long and eventful life. Franklin's musical experiences were extremely varied and comprehensive for his day. Always an advocate for the common folk, Franklin delighted in sentimental Scots songs and broadside ballads. He authored comical texts to be sung as drinking songs. Yet as a diplomat and gentleman he was frequently at the Opera and at concerts in Philadelphia, Paris and London. He was familiar with works by George Frideric Handel, William Hayes, Francis Hopkinson, Anne-Louise Brillon, André Grétry, and Christoph Willibald Gluck. Ben Franklin's life was full of music—from the penny whistle which consumed all his Christmas money at age seven to the musical instrument he invented during his diplomatic stay in London. No other instrument brought him so much personal satisfaction as his glass "armonica." Franklin found a way to turn wine glasses into a more sophiticated instrument which became popular throughout Europe for its sweet sounds, especially at weddings and funerals. The ethereal sounds of this instrument can be heard on the recording that accompanies the book. The project also includes opera music from Gluck's Orphée and Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, the latter with Franklin's amusing criticism. There are several song-texts often attributed to Franklin, among them The Downfal of Pyracy about Blackbeard's capture and I Sing My Plain Country Joan, to honor his wife Deborah. Franklin himself was the subject of ballads even during his lifetime. His good friend the Abbé Morellet roasted Franklin in song, suggesting that he had forsaken English tea for the superior pleasures of French wine. Joining David and Ginger Hildebrand on the recording is Julianne Baird, a musician and scholar who is recognized internationally for her work in 18th-century music. She earned her B.A. and M.A. in music history from the Eastman School of Music and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Stanford University. Her book Introduction to the Art of Singing (Cambridge University Press), now in its third printing, is used by singers and professional schools throughout America and Europe. As a soloist and recording artist she has earned praise for a "virtuosic vocal style firmly rooted in scholarship." With over 125 recordings to her credit on Decca and Deutsche Gramophone, Dr. Baird regularly conducts master classes and workshops at universities and conservatories throughout North America. She is a distinguished professor at Rutgers University.
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Created and published September 18, 2001 Updated Aug 17, 2007© 2001-2017. Colonial Music Institute(tm)


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With Christmas only days away, holiday cheer was in no short supply at the Chicago Theatre as it welcomed country superstar Martina McBride for a special concert
Perched right on the corner of Clark and Huron, adjacent to the Felix Hotel, sits Elate, a chic and comfortable restaurant
2,4,6, 8, who do we appreciate?! Bring it On: The Musical, playing at the Cadillac Palace until March 25th
Glencoe's Writers' Theatre is proud to present Randall Colburn's Hesperia, directed by Stuart Carden.
If you're ready to dance, jive and have the time of your life, look no further than "Mamma Mia", now playing at Chicago's beautiful and historic Ford Oriental Theatre
If you're in search of holiday fun for the whole family, look no further than A Christmas Story, The Musical
It was a magical evening at the opening weekend of Disney and Cameron Macintosh's hit Broadway musical Mary Poppins
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If you've had the opportunity to experience the sheer magic of Cirque du Soleil, already you know the magnitude of its brilliance
I arrived at Water Tower Place on a glorious summer day. We walked up to the second floor to see a very exciting preview of "Love, Loss and What I Wore", the smash hit Broadway production by Nora and Delia Ephron
WOW! What a show! I had never been more excited to see a musical than I was to see CHICAGO!
There's no better way to kick off the season than to be transported to a magical, mystical village as the Chicago Light Opera Works presents Brigadoon!
If you long for a trip back to a time of peace, love and of course, long flowing hair, you're going to love Broadway in Chicago's "Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical"
Are you a fan of Dancing With the Stars? Looking for a night of fun for the whole family? You will LOVE Broadway in Chicago's "Burn the Floor"
What band is more iconic than The Beatles? Many years after their heyday, their songs remain some of the most popular of all time and "Rain" brings them to you
What better way to end your 8 hour work day than heading down to "9-5 The Musical"
What better way to spread some old fashioned Christmas cheer than with Irving Berlin's holiday classical musical "White Christmas"
What better way to spread holiday cheer than with the all time Charles Dicken's "A Christmas Carol". All ages will enjoy this forever-inspiring story of the true meaning of Christmas
What exactly is Traces? Think the thrill of a circus meets the intensity of Olympic gymnastics meets the beauty of dance
Last week the Chicago Sinfonietta performed a Symphony for the Common Man, featuring music by such greats as Aaron Copeland, Leonard Bernstein, Antonin Dvorak and Michael Daugherty
Nothing can quite compare to an experience like that of The Lion King
Are you ready to ROCK?! I mean REALLY ROCK?! If you answered 'yes', then you better head on down to Rock of Ages at the Bank of America Theatre!
I was thrilled when I was invited to the Billy Elliot Blogger Bash! Since it's debut, I've heard only that this smash hit musical is exceptional
What a show! It seemed like just about everyone, young and old came out to see everybody's favorite big, green ogre at the opening night premiere of Shrek The Musical
The Black Ensemble Theater (BE)performs it's premiere production of Nothin' But The Blues, written by Joe Plummer and produced and directed by BE founder and executive director Jackie Taylor with co-director Daryl Brooks
Nestled in Evanston on Prairie and Central you will find Chalk, a new upscale boutique catering to women who fancy basics with refined details
This recently opened venue, The Mayne Stage Theatre is the perfect place to go on a night out with friends to see some of the best acts Chicago has to offer
What a spectacular show! If you're looking for a truly unique and out of this world performance, FUERZE BRUTA: LOOK UP fits the bill
If you grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock's iconic series of thrilling films, then you will be delighted by the suspense and utter hilarity of the Tony Award winner, The 39 Steps
If you're in search of an evening of hilariously raunchy fun, head on down to Avenue Q
If you're in search of an extraordinary ballet experience, look no further than the American Ballet Theatre.
Acclaimed pianist and international sensation Lang Lang teamed with world-renowned conductor Christoph Eschenbach and the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Orchestra (SHFO) at Millennium Park's Harris Theater for a mind blowing musical experience
Broadway in Chicago presents Beauty and the Beast at the Cadillac Palace Theatre.
Troika Ranch brings the influence of technology into their eccentric dance movements at the Dance Center at Columbia College Chicago in their Spring 2010 series "Science, Technology and Dance"
Cirque du Soleil presents one of their most acclaimed shows,Alegria
What a lovely way to spend an evening! Saturday, The Music Institute of Chicago presented The Chicago Duo Piano Mini Festival, a yearly event designed to expose viewers to a unique kind of musical gamut
Tracy Letts' remarkable Tony Award Winning play August:Osage County, comes to Chicago's Cadillac Palace Theatre as part of the Broadway In Chicago Series
DREAMGIRLS comes to the Cadillac Palace Theatre for a limited two week engagement. Don't miss this spectacular performance
What an exciting way to start off a new year! A brand new Broadway in Chicago presentation of the classic musical, Annie, has come to Chicago's Auditorium Theatre for one week only
Making its musical debut in Chicago, The Addams Family, the once comic strip turned 1960's sitcom is now a brand new Broadway show
Find the perfect holiday gift at the NOI Firenze and L.Vittori trunk show, featuring Italy's finest fur, leather and jewelry
Deeply Rooted Dance Theater presents "Touch", a rich depiction of African American culture though interpretive dance
Mel Brooks' zany 1974 classic is brought to life, literally, in the first national tour of Young Frankenstein, starring Tony award winners Roger Bart and Schuler Hensley


text: Scientists have concluded the checkout period for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and now are revealing images showcasing the power of the much-improved observatory. This zoom into the galaxy cluster Abell 370 brings us to a Hubble image that features a prominent arc near the right-hand side of the picture. This is the gravitational lens effect from a background galaxy. Astronomers believe this distortion is caused by dark matter that holds together as many as 1000 galaxies and intergalactic hot gas.


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9 Reasons to Indulge in as Much Sex as Possible (with a supportive and loving person!)
- It gets your heart pumpin' blood flowin' and nitric oxide movin'
When you are doing anything that feels good, like healthy exercise or having an orgasm, your Nitric Oxide levels rise and blood circulation is increased. More than that, Nitric Oxide is the main neurotransmitter – the one that regulates all the other neurotransmitters. And because it's a gas, it goes through the body instantly. So high Nitric Oxide levels, let's say from clitoral stimulation, will instantly change the neurotransmitter levels of the brain and balance them out. As your biochemistry changes, inflammation decreases, and chances of heart disease lessens, and the adrenals improve. Continue reading


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Although I am no ghost whisperer, I did verify the fact that the International Genealogical Index does disappear from the filtered responses in the FamilySearch.org Historical Record Collections. First some history and an explanation of the concerns.
Quoting from the FamilySearch Research Wiki:
The International Genealogical Index (IGI) is a computer file created by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was first published in 1973 and continued to grow through December 2008. It contains several hundred million entries, each recording one event, such as a birth, baptism (christening), marriage, or death.
Information in the IGI came from two sources:
1. Some of the entries in the IGI were indexed by the genealogical community from collections of vital and church records (approx. 460 million names). Indexed records are valuable sources of primary information. Unfortunately, attempts to prevent duplication resulted in the exclusion of some indexed records.
2. Some of the information in the IGI was contributed by members of the Church about their ancestors (approx. 430 million names). The quality of this information varies. Duplicate entries and inconsistent information are common. Always verify contributed entries against sources of primary information.That said, it is also important to understand the limitations of the IGI. Here is a summary, again from the FamilySearch Research Wiki:
The International Genealogical Index is a finding aid. Always check original sources. Entries often do not contain all the information in the original records, such as death dates or names of additional relatives. Sometimes only portions of parish records or other sources were indexed.
Today's implementation of the International Genealogical Index addresses key deficiencies in the previous implementation. However, it is not able to correct all of them.
1. Previously, the IGI could not be searched by city or parish name, but only by country and one subdivision (such as U.S. state or U.K. county). Users compensated by searching by batch number. While batch number searching is still supported, most users will prefer searching by name instead of number.
2. Previously, indexed entries and community contributed entries were mixed into a single collection. The reliability of the two is different, so users needed to know the source of each result. Users compensated by examining the first digit of the batch number of each result. Batch number charts assisted users in recognizing indexed ("extracted") entries and user contributed entries. Today, the two types are searched separately, assisting users to distinguish between them.
3. While it grew to contain a tremendous amount of duplication, the IGI was originally envisioned as a file containing just one entry for each birth and each marriage that has ever occurred. When new records were indexed, entries were discarded that duplicated existing IGI entries. To compensate for this limitation, when an entry is not found among indexed entries, search the community contributed entries as well.
4. The original sources for entries in the IGI are not shown. For an indexed entry, look up the film number in the FamilySearch or Family History Library catalog. For a community contributed entry, the contributor may or may not have specified a source. See "Finding the Source of IGI Batch Numbers" for more information.Notwithstanding all that, some people still view the records as valuable. The issues surrounding the IGI accompany the transition of the FamilySearch.org website from the old version to the new version in December 2010. Initially, the IGI was not included in the new website. Finally, with some of the data removed and included in Family Tree, the IGI was returned in its present format with the separation of the Community Contributed IGI and the Community Indexed IGI in two separate files. However, users can select whether to search both files simultaneously or each individually.
The IGI is fairly easy to find. A Google search for "IGI" produces the IGI page on FamilySearch.org and a search in the "Browse All Published Collections" portion of the FamilySearch.org search page will also produce the IGI when you begin typing "international" into the filter. As some commentators to previous posts have indicated if you filter the entire list to a specific country such as England, the reference to the International Genealogical Index disappears. So, this is a problem. But the database itself is available and fully functional.
Just in case you are unable to find the IGI here is the link.


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Read and reread the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved.
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As US-led coalition troops prepare for a long-awaited offensive against the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, few civilians have managed to escape the town at the center of the operation, raising the risk of civilian casualties that could undermine the Obama administration's military strategy for the country.
The US-led force said Tuesday that fewer than 200 families — around 1,200 people — had left the town of Marjah and the surrounding area, which have a population of about 80,000. By Wednesday, the Associated Press reported another 100 families had left.
"Commanders in the area are reporting no significant increase in persons moving out of Nad-e Ali district in the last month," the US-led International Security Assistance Force said in a statement. "Despite reports of large numbers of civilians fleeing the area, the facts on the ground do not support these assertions."
Thousands of US, British and Afghan soldiers are poised to push into the area, with preliminary operations reported to have begun late Tuesday. Afghan police will accompany the soldiers in an effort to establish law and order quickly.
The presence of a large number of civilians could make the operation much trickier and provide a test of the new coalition military doctrine of protecting the population. A large media contingent from around the world will accompany the troops, recording their progress.
An estimated 2,000 Taliban fighters are dug in and are believed to have planted roadside bombs and booby-trapped buildings. Residents said the insurgents had dug trenches in a traffic circle and mined the roads out of town. It may be too late for those who haven't escaped by now.
"If (NATO forces) don't avoid large scale civilian casualties, given the rhetoric about protecting the population, then no matter how many Taliban are routed, the Marjah mission should be considered a failure," said Candace Rondeaux, an Afghanistan-based analyst at the International Crisis Group, an independent research and campaigning organization.
Although international forces counted relatively few evacuees, local people told McClatchy that more civilians had evacuated, though still only a fraction of the population. Leaflets dropped over the town had warned townspeople for days of the impending offensive.
"The message to the people of the area is, of course, keep your heads down, stay inside when the operation is going ahead," Mark Sedwill, the civilian head of NATO in Afghanistan, told reporters in Kabul.
Mohammad Anwar, the head of the provincial council for Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital near Marjah, told McClatchy by phone that the council had registered 244 families from Marjah, 60 of them in a newly established camp. He estimated that another 100 families had gone to the nearby district of Nawa, and more had trekked to the towns of Garmsir and Gereshk.
"They're still coming; every day they're coming," Anwar said. "They come by tractor, Toyota station wagon, some with blankets and other possessions, some with just their children."
Marjah is the last town in the central Helmand river valley under insurgent control, and it houses a large number of heroin production labs, which the Taliban tolerate — and tax.
"I don't know what NATO is talking about, 50 families came out (of Marjah) just today," tribal leader Juma Gul said by phone from Lashkar Gah. "There are just poor people left there, those who don't have money to come to Lashkar Gah."
In a separate development, more evidence emerged in neighboring Pakistan of the death of the leader of that country's Taliban movement, Hakimullah Mehsud. Unnamed Taliban commanders told reporters that Mehsud, who apparently had been injured in a U.S. missile strike in Pakistan's tribal belt in mid-January, had died on his way for medical treatment. According to some accounts, he'd been taken close to the central Pakistani city of Multan, on his way for treatment in the southern port of Karachi, when he died.
The Pakistani Taliban continued to deny Mehsud's death, but there are signs that a power struggle has developed to succeed Mehsud, with a new contender, Noor Jamal, alias Toofan, emerging to challenge several more established Pakistani Taliban chiefs.
(Saeed Shah is a McClatchy special correspondent. McClatchy special correspondent Nooruddin Bakhshi contributed to this article.)
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Chris Matthews: Rick Perry A 'Clown' Full Of 'Texas B.S.'
Chris Matthews didn't mince words on his Friday show when it came to the newest entrant into the GOP presidential race.
Rick Perry formally entered the 2012 campaign on Saturday, but everyone knew that he was running days before. On Friday's "Hardball," Matthews made it clear that he doesn't think much of the Texas governor. As he watched the footage MSNBC was playing of Perry, Matthews openly mocked him–and his Texas ways.
"He looks like a clown," Matthews said. "He dresses very fancy. There's something about the way that he puts himself together that doesn't look authentic. He looks like, I don't know, a wax figure pretending to be governor. There's something about him that doesn't add up to me. Maybe it's this Texas B.S., this boots and tuxedo thing they do down there. Why does it work? Outside of Texas it doesn't travel very well."
Matthews also criticized Perry for mangling the history of Texas' relationship with the rest of the U.S. Matthews said that, unlike what Perry has claimed, Texas never had any clause in its founding documents that allowed it to secede from America. He wondered whether Perry was being "deliberately ignorant" in his telling of the state's history.


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The adolescent vampire film "Let the Right One In" was an instant classic pretty much everywhere it was shown. So when word broke that it was being remade here in America, there was a disturbance in The Force that put many film fans on edge.
Now we've got our first look at "Let Me In," which opens Oct. 1, and we're feeling very conflicted. As a fan of the original, its hard to watch this trailer and not think, "It's not as good."
But let's give the trailer its due: if we lived in a world where "Let the Right One In" didn't exist, this would be unequivocally intriguing.
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The cast is as good as you could assemble for such a project. Chloe Moretz has given two very good performances in two very different films, first as Joseph Gordon-Levitt's little sister in "(500) Days of Summer" and then as Hit Girl in "Kick-Ass." Kodi Smit-McPhee's work in "The Road" inspired co-star Viggo Mortenson to call him "an alien" -- it was meant as a compliment.
Add to that Elias Koteas, who is often the best actor on any screen he graces, and Richard Jenkins, who has the perfect demeanor to play Abby's companion, and you've got the acting under control.
"Cloverfield" director Matt Reeves helming and writing this version has caused some concern, but there's nothing in the trailer to suggest he's lost totally lost the plot or feel, so we're gonna keep trying to give him the benefit of the doubt.
All that said, if you haven't seen "Let the Right One In," do so -- ideally before you see "Let Me In."


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CLAIRE boosts the productivity of business users and enhances their data self-service abilities by intelligently recommending data sets that might be of interest, suggesting next-best-actions or automatically associating business terms and definitions with the underlying technical data, bridging the understanding gap between business and IT.
CLAIRE enables administrators and operations professionals to do more by making the Intelligent Data Platform itself more intelligent. Increasingly, the platform will become more intelligent for lights-out operations with capabilities such as predicting system loads and bursting or self-tuning, making it simple to operate complex enterprise data management tasks.


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How to kill Windows process automatically with a .BAT file
One of the easiest ways to speed up Windows is closing unnecessary taks and processes. That's why sometimes we want to kill many Windows programs / processes, but we do not want to disable neither manually nor forever. It could be a group of programs that we rarely use, but which require some system process running permanently. So when we turn on the computer with other task in mind, we don't want these unneeded processes consuming Windows resources continuously.
That's why we are going to create a batch file (.BAT) which with a double click on it will kill as many Windows processes as we want.
So let's open Windows Notepad (Shortcuts: "Start Menu / Run / Notepad" or "Windows Key + R / Notepad") and then typing:
"IM" lets us input the name of the Windows process to kill, and "/F" enforces such process closing action and kills them forcefully preventing confirmation prompts or hanged.
If we want to specify a group of programs to close, we should only repeat the previous line of code with each process name, inside the same file.
Example file:
Once this file is ready, we should keep it using File / Save as...
And after the name chosen for this file we should appen the .bat file extension. That's how we create a Batman file... well, no, a .BAT file (batch process).
To save a .bat file using notepad we have to change the file type, which is by default Text Files (*.txt), choosing All Files. This is very important. Otherwise, we would just creating a text document called "whatever.bat".txt, and that won't work.
Let's also pick the ANSI encoding type for this process kill bat file.
And finally, we click on the save button to store the file.
By default, this creates a file with an icon like this icon, depending on your own system icon configuration set.
Now, whenever we want to close every Windows process specified in the file, we only need to double click that file, and it will perform the automatic process killing for us.
Running a .BAT file is like running the Windows command prompt code to close all the processes, but these batch files perform all the necessary actions automatically, in no time.
We can also check a complete and detailed list of the values and parameters that we could add after "TASKKILL" just clicking in Start / Run (Windows + R), typing cmd (to run the Windows command prompt), and typing at this window: TASKKILL/?.
Running processes with .BAT
If we want to reopen every Windows process previously killed with our .BAT file, with no need to reboot Windows, we can automatically perform the reverse operation, creating another .BAT (same process as before) this way:
To specify the full path of the target program we can only use ASCII text, with no accents or other special characters.
NOTE: This trick to run or kill Windows process also works to create a .BAT file to automatically open our most used apps (using the "START" Windows command), and another .BAT to kill these programs (the TASKKILL command file).


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Knowing what you want from contractors is more than half the battle.
As Census Bureau officials continue to salvage what they can from the bureau's failed decennial automation project, it has increasingly become a real-time case study in core problems plaguing the federal government's contracting practices.
The original $600 million contract, awarded to Melbourne, Fla.-based Harris Corp. in April 2006, would have allowed census workers to collect decennial data for the 2010 count by handheld device, rather than the old pen-and-paper way. The devices also would be used to update Census' massive address list. Third, Harris would provide a variety of technology support services.
Two years went by, and then the entire contract went kaput. In 2008, Census and Harris officials ran to Congress with fingers pointed at each other as $200 million already sunk into the project basically went to waste: The handheld data collection project was a failure.
Now the Census Bureau has dropped the data collection and the major support services from the contract with Harris, leaving only the handheld-driven update of addresses. The new contract has a drastically reduced scope, but a significantly higher price tag. It will cost nearly $800 million.
The Commerce Department inspector general and other watchdogs have identified two big problems with the contract.
First, Census didn't know what it wanted. As the IG noted in a March 2009 report, a significant problem was "the failure of senior Census Bureau managers in place at the time to anticipate the complex IT requirements involved in automating the census." Its initial list of "requirements" in the contract grew and changed exponentially, adding layer upon layer of complexity. "Census changed requirements several times, which caused delays and increased costs," the IG reported.
Second, Census set up a contract with Harris that allowed costs to spiral out of control. If the bureau had known what it wanted from the beginning, it could have written a fixed-price contract, which basically says: "Here's what we want, here's what we'll pay you." Instead, Census wrote a cost-plus contract, which basically says: "We're not sure what we want, so we'll pay you whatever it takes."
In April, Vivek Kundra, the new federal chief information officer, told Congress these two problems are common across federal contracts. "The federal government doesn't do a good job of defining what the requirements are," he told Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., at an April 28 Senate hearing. According to Kundra, if agencies do a better job figuring out what they want, they can set up more fixed-price contracts, which control spending more than cost-plus contracts. "Fixed-price should be most common," he said.
Kundra identified a common problem that leads to "runaway contracts." Every contract involving technology has two main sets of requirements. First, a set of business needs that an agency's operational office defines. Second, a set of technical needs that an agency's IT department defines. If the two groups aren't working together to jointly define all the requirements -- if one leaves the other out -- then an agency won't really know what it wants. "The way that happens is ensuring there's a high degree of engagement from both the business side of the house and the technology side of the house," he said.
In the Census Bureau's case, officials realized they had that problem only after they already had sunk $200 million into their automation contract, and at a point when starting over was impossible. "By the time you find out the requirements have increased or the budget is out of control, it's too late to make an adjustment," Kundra said. "For far too long we've put good money after bad money."
If you don't know what you want but you pay for it anyway, chances are you'll repeat that long-running mistake.
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Toxicological Profile for n-Nitrosodimethylamine
Toxicological Profile Information
The ATSDR toxicological profile succinctly characterizes the toxicologic and adverse health effects information for the hazardous substance described here. Each peer-reviewed profile identifies and reviews the key literature that describes a hazardous substance's toxicologic properties. Other pertinent literature is also presented, but is described in less detail than the key studies. The complete list of topics covered (chapter titles) is shown at the left and in more detail further down this page.
The focus of the profile is on health and toxicologic information. Therefore, each profile begins with a Public Health Statement that summarizes in nontechnical language, a substance's relevant properties.
A useful two page information sheet, the ToxFAQsTM, is also available.
In order to access the ATSDR toxicological profiles' PDF files below, you must have Adobe Acrobat Reader.
You may download that program for free from this link to Adobe and then use it to access (open) the files below that are labeled as PDF files.
The table of contents and list of individual PDF files are given below.
- Foreword
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1. Public Health Statement, 163 KB
- 1.1 What is this substance?
1.2 How might I be exposed to it?
1.3 How can it enter and leave my body?
1.4 How can it affect my health?
1.5 Is there a medical test to determine whether I have been exposed to it?
1.6 What levels of exposure have resulted in harmful health effects
1.7 What recommendations has the federal government made to protect human health?
1.8 Where can I get more information?
- 2.1 Introduction
2.2 Discussion of health effects by route of exposure
2.3 Relevance to public health
2.4 Levels in human tissues and fluids associated with health effects
2.5 Levels in the environment associated with levels in human tissue and / or health effects
2.6 Toxicokinetics
2.7 Interactions with other chemicals
2.8 Populations that are unusually susceptible
2.9 Adequacy of the database
3. Chemical and Physical Information, 116 KB
- 3.1 Chemical Identity
3.2 Physical and Chemical Properties
4. Production, Import, Use, and Disposal, 19 KB
- 4.1 Production
4.2 Import
4.3 Use
4.4 Disposal
5. Potential for Human Exposure, 94 KB
- 5.1 Overview
5.2 Releases to the environment
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5.5 General population and occupational exposure
5.6 Populations with potentially high exposure
5.7 Adequacy of the database
- 6.1 Biological materials
6.2 Environmental samples
6.3 Adequacy of the database
7. Regulations and Advisories, 76 KB
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). 1989. Toxicological profile for n-Nitrosodimethylamine. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service.
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"Miss Bala" is a (mostly) hard-charging condemnation of the narco-violence that plagues Mexico, and the way in which that culture renders women as little more than objects to be used by men for sexual gratification, profit or both. Unfortunately, the film suffers from serious art-house pretentions that too often slow things down.
"Miss Bala" stars Stephanie Sigman as Laura Guerrero, a young woman in Baja who helps support her father and brother by taking in laundry. Against her father's wishes, she and her best friend Suzu head into town to register for the Miss Baja contest and a chance to compete in the Miss Mexico pageant.
Laura and Suzu later head to a disco frequented by DEA agents, where a gang of drug dealers storm in and kill everyone in sight—except Laura, whom they take hostage and put to work. The terrified woman takes on more and more responsibility with higher and higher stakes, until they discard her like the spent shell she is, dumping her essentially where they found her. The film is loosely based on the true story of Laura Zúñiga, a beauty pageant contestant whose was caught by Mexican police in 2008 in a car loaded with cash, guns and cellphones.
Sigman makes an amazing transformation over the course of the film, from downtrodden working-class girl into a stunning beauty--think of the range of physicailty that Jessica Chastain has displayed from "Take Shelter" to "The Help." The change is perfectly gradual and deliberate—you don't even see it happening. And Sigman's emotional arc is just as deftly executed. One minute she's carefree, the next she's fearful and then she's defiant.
The story at the heart of "Miss Bala," which director Gerardo Naranjo co-wrote with Mauricio Katz, is an angry condemnation of Mexico's drug war, but it strangely lays very little of the blame at the feet of the U.S. government, who play a large part in it. More frustrating still is that fact that Gerardo is consumed with making something more than a smart action film with a point. He points his camera away from the action, lingers on static moments and unspools in real time the most mundane of tasks. The influence of film gods like Godard, Woo, Antonio and more are all over this film, often grinding the otherwise riveting story to a painful standstill.
Sigman's performance and Naranjo's story make "Miss Bala" worth the viewing. Almost as much fun will be when news of the remake breaks and your snobby friends decry Hollywood's cultural imperialism, and you can tell them to get over themselves.
"Miss Bala" opens in limited release Friday, January 20th