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Computation and the Human Predicament
By Brian Hayes
The Limits to Growth and the limits to computer modeling
The Limits to Growth and the limits to computer modeling
Forty years ago this spring, a little book titled The Limits to Growth landed with a big thump. The authors reported on an exercise in computer modeling, which they grandly described as "Phase One of the Project on the Predicament of Mankind." According to the model, the human predicament was bleak, with less than a century to go before civilization would crumple under the burdens of overpopulation, famine, resource depletion and pollution. As a young journalist I was fascinated by this apocalyptic vision. I was also intrigued by the remarkable idea that computation might be a useful tool for understanding the human predicament.
In 1972 I had no way to explore the workings of the Limits model for myself. Twenty years later, though, with a desktop computer and ready-to-run modeling software, I was able to twiddle the model's various knobs and observe the effects on the outcome. I wrote about that experience in 1993, in the first column published in these pages under the rubric "Computing Science."
Recently I have turned to the Limits model yet again, this time delving into details of its implementation—the 150 equations that govern the evolution of the simulated world. Closer examination of the model's structure has not increased my confidence in its predictive power. On the other hand, the hope that computation might have something to tell us about the fate of the planet remains very much alive. We don't have an abundance of better tools for seeing into the future. An interesting challenge is to clarify what distinguishes the computational methodology of The Limits to Growth from other models that policymakers take more seriously, such as the climate models that now underlie much of the discussion of global warming.
The Limits to Growth lists four authors (Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers and William W. Behrens III) as well as a project team with 17 members, but the principal architect of the modeling scheme presented in the book is not among these individuals. He is Jay W. Forrester, who arrived at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1939 as a graduate student in electrical engineering and who is there still, almost 75 years later, as professor emeritus. Forrester's early work was on automatic control and servomechanisms. Later he built the largest digital computer of its time and invented magnetic core random-access memory, which dominated the industry for 20 years.
In 1956 Forrester moved across campus to the Sloan School of Management, where he began applying ideas from control engineering—particularly the idea of feedback—to problems of business. For example, he explained cyclic waves of hiring and layoffs as an "overshoot" phenomenon, where managers responded too late or too vigorously to changes in sales or inventory.
Feedback loops and the risk of overshooting became recurrent themes in a methodology that Forrester named system dynamics. He was soon extending the scope of the technique: His book Industrial Dynamics, on the management of companies, was followed by Urban Dynamics, on the management of cities.
In 1970 Forrester attended a meeting of the Club of Rome, a loosely organized "invisible college" on the lookout for novel approaches to social and environmental problems. On the flight home he sketched a system dynamics model of the world economy and ecosystem. A few weeks later he had a working prototype, which came to be known as World2. The Club of Rome proposed to sponsor this work, but Forrester chose to continue his project independently; a year later he published his findings in World Dynamics. Meanwhile, his colleague and former student Dennis Meadows assembled a team for the Club of Rome project. Their version of the model is World3.
A diagram of a system dynamics model could well be mistaken for the schematic layout of an oil refinery. Various tanks or vats are connected by pipes; flows through the pipes are regulated by valves; the valves are controlled by signals that derive from the state of reservoirs or flows elsewhere in the model.
The World3 model has five main sectors: population, agriculture, industry, resources and pollution. In the population sector, the quantities held in the vats and flowing through the pipes are people; the valves controlling the flows represent birth rates, death rates and the process of maturation that carries people from one age category to the next. The agricultural sector has stocks of arable land, which are augmented when new land is cultivated and diminished when farmland is lost to erosion or urban development. The main stock for industry is capital, which is measured in dollars but really represents factories or other productive facilities. The level of capital is determined by the balance of inflow from investment and outflow to depreciation.
If you examine a small region of the plumbing diagram in isolation, you can often figure out how that subsystem will behave. For example, the resources sector of the model includes only nonrenewable resources such as ores and fossil fuels, and so the level of this stock can never rise. The rate of resource outflow is governed by the total population and the per capita level of resource consumption.
Looking at the entire Rube Goldberg diagram—which won't fit comfortably on a page smaller than a newspaper broadsheet—there's no hope of understanding all the interactions at a glance. This is the reason for turning the conceptual model into a computer simulation: The computer can keep track of the levels and flows as the system evolves.
The World3 simulation covers the period from 1900 to 2100. In the standard run, using default values for all parameters, nonrenewable resources are exhausted by the middle of the 21st century, causing steep declines in industry, food and population. Adjusting the initial conditions to double the available resources alters the outcome, but not for the better: Higher industrial output leads to runaway pollution, which chokes off growth—and even life—a few decades later. The persistent shape of the model's trajectory is overshoot followed by collapse.
The Limits to Growth appeared at a moment of acute environmental foreboding. The previous decade had seen the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Garrett Hardin's "Tragedy of the Commons" essay, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb and Barry Commoner's The Closing Circle. This was the era when we began to refer to our planet as Spaceship Earth, and when Walt Kelly's Pogo declared "We have met the enemy and he is us." There was a receptive audience awaiting The Limits to Growth. The book has sold 10 million copies.
But if Limits has had a broad and sympathetic readership, it has also had vociferous critics. The most carefully argued rebuttal came from a group at the University of Sussex in England; their critique, Models of Doom, is longer than the book it evaluates. The economist William D. Nordhaus wrote a blistering review; the mathematician David Berlinski was snide and mocking. Vaclav Smil later dismissed the whole enterprise as "an exercise in misinformation and obfuscation."
One complaint lodged against the World3 model is superfluous complication. If the intent is merely to show that exponential growth cannot continue forever, there's no need for elaborate computing machinery. The model also stands accused of the opposite sin—oversimplification—in its wholesale aggregation of variables. In the resource sector, for example, the model lumps together all the raw materials of industrial civilization—coal and oil, iron and aluminum, diamonds and building stone—to form one generic substance measured in abstract "resource units." Pollution is handled the same way, with a single variable encompassing everything from pesticides to nuclear reactor wastes. Quantities such as food per capita are global averages, with no way of expressing disparities of distribution. (A later Club of Rome model, written by Mihajlo Mesarovic and Eduard Pestel, did allow for regional differences.)
Still another line of criticism focuses on the inputs to the model—the initial conditions (such as the total stock of nonrenewable resources) and the numerical constants that determine the strength of interactions (for instance, the effect of pollution on agriculture). The Limits team made an effort to pin down these numbers, but huge uncertainties remain. There is no statistical analysis of these errors.
Both Forrester and the Limits group have responded to these objections, matching the vehemence—and occasionally the condescending scorn—of their critics. They stand by their models. When updated versions of the Limits book were published in 1992 and 2004, the authors reiterated their original conclusions and made only subtle changes to the model.
World3 now seems to be undergoing a revival. In 2009 Charles A. S. Hall and John W. Day, Jr., writing in American Scientist, defended the soundness of the model, particularly as it applies to energy resources. Graham Turner has compared predictions with data for 1970–2000 and reports a close match. Ugo Bardi, an Italian chemist, has recently issued a manifesto calling for the rehabilitation of The Limits to Growth.
After 40 years of intense scrutiny, further probing of the World3 model is unlikely to yield big surprises. Nevertheless, nagged by a feeling that I still didn't really understand the model, I decided to take it apart and put it together again.
When I wrote about Limits in 1993, I worked with a simulation package called Stella II, which offers a snazzy interface: You build a model by dragging icons of vats and valves across the screen. For my studies of World3 I was spared even that labor because a prebuilt version of the model came with the software. Stella II is still available, and so are competing products such as Modelica, Simgua and Vensim. These are impressive programs, recommended for serious work with system dynamics models. My aim, however, was not just to run or test the World3 model but to see how the parts fit together. I wanted to bake my cake from scratch, not from the Betty Crocker box.
DYNAMO comes from the Fortran era, when programs were fed to the machine on punch cards, and variables had names like "FIALD" (which stands for "Fraction of Inputs Allocated to Land Development"). Beyond these musty lexical conventions, however, lies an interesting programming language, little known outside the system dynamics community. It is mainly declarative rather than procedural. A program is not a sequence of commands but a list of "equations" (really assignment statements) that specify relationships of variables. The sequencing is handled behind the scenes by the DYNAMO compiler.
The World3 program consists of about 150 equations. The vats and valves of the plumbing diagram correspond to "level equations" and "rate equations," respectively. A level equation calculates a new value for the level in a vat based on the level at an earlier moment and on the rates of inflow and outflow. The calculation is an integration, which would be represented as follows in DYNAMO:
Here V is a level variable, IN and OUT are rate variables, and DT is the integration interval, the unit of time in the simulation. The suffixes .J, .K and .JK are time markers: V.J and V.K represent the level of V at successive instants, and IN.JK is a rate of flow during the interval between time J and time K.
Just as levels depend on rates of inflow and outflow, the flow rates in turn can depend on levels. (Think of a bucket with a hole in the bottom: The rate of flow depends on the height of water in the bucket.) This kind of feedback loop is what gives the system the potential for interesting behavior, but from a computational point of view it is an awkward causal circularity. DYNAMO breaks the circle by updating levels and rates in alternation. The level at time t0 determines the rate at t1, which determines the level at t2, and so on. Some conflicts are harder to resolve and require an explicit reordering of the equations, which DYNAMO handles automatically.
Levels and rates of flow are the principal actors in a system dynamics model, and they usually occupy the spotlight. But there is also a large supporting cast. Among the 150 equations of the World3 model there are just 12 level equations and 21 rate equations; all the rest are "auxiliary" equations of various kinds. In the course of reimplementing the model I learned that the tangled net of auxiliary equations is where most of the complexity—and perplexity—lies.
Level and rate equations are subject to strong constraints, rooted in physical conservation laws. The level of population, for example, can change only by adding births and subtracting deaths; the books of account must balance. The auxiliary equations are not constrained in this way. They represent flows of information rather than materials, and they can take almost any mathematical form. Furthermore, the information pathways of World3 form an intricately branching tree, so that tracing connections through the long chains of nodes is like playing "six degrees of separation." One pathway between service capital and population is shown in the fourth illustration. The basic idea is simply that services include health services, which affect life expectancy and hence death rates; but it takes about a dozen steps to make the connection.
Many of the auxiliary equations have associated constants and coefficients, or even whole tables of constants. For example, the function relating service output per capita to health service allocation per capita is defined by a table of nine numeric values. More than 400 constants, coefficients, table entries and initial values appear in the model. They are not mathematically determined; they have to come from empirical knowledge of the real world. They represent a great many degrees of freedom in the construction of the model.
Interactions between auxiliary variables are a further source of complication—and mystification. As noted above, health services are assumed to have an effect on life expectancy. But life expectancy is also influenced by three other factors: nutrition, pollution and crowding. How are the four inputs to be combined? Mathematics offers an infinite spectrum of possibilities, but the most obvious choices are to add or multiply. The results can differ dramatically. Suppose the health services variable falls to zero: With an additive scheme, the variable would cease to have any effect on life expectancy, but with a multiplicative combining rule, life expectancy itself would be driven to zero. How does World3 do it? The rule is multiplicative, but with a clamping function that keeps life expectancy in the range from 20 to 80 years.
In bringing up this matter I don't mean to suggest that one combining form is correct and another wrong; I merely want to call attention to how many subtle decisions are buried in the foundations of the model. And when I read through the program, I kept seeing opportunities for still more elaboration. For example, the demographic effects of health services might well vary depending on whether the services are for young people (vaccination) or older people (nursing homes). This refinement could certainly be incorporated into the model, along with many more, but would it be an improvement? Where do you stop?
Very small models can yield surprisingly rich behavior. One example is the predator-prey model developed (independently) by Alfred J. Lotka and Vito Volterra early in the 20th century. With just two equations and four parameters this model explains cyclic fluctuations in the abundance of predators and their prey, such as wolves and moose. Feedback and overshooting lead to prolonged oscillations rather than a direct approach to equilibrium.
The simplicity of the Lotka-Volterra model is part of its appeal, yet we cannot insist that everything of interest in the world be crammed into no more than two equations. If you want to describe the whole of human society and the planetary ecosystem, you probably need a few more parameters.
In this context climate models offer a useful point of reference. General circulation models for the atmosphere and the oceans, along with related models of ice sheets and atmospheric chemistry, have several points of similarity with World3. At a conceptual level the structure is much the same: There are flows of air, water, heat and other entities, which the model must sum or integrate. The time scales are similar: In both cases we want to know what's going to happen several decades out. And feedback loops are essential mechanisms in both kinds of models. (There are even historical connections. The use of general circulation models to study global climate change began in earnest at MIT circa 1970. The instigator was Carroll Wilson of the Sloan School of Management, who was also the person who got Forrester involved with the Club of Rome.)
These similarities are outweighed by differences. Where the Limits team had a casual attitude to data gathering practices—and outright hostility to statistical methods—the climate science community is passionate about collecting data, verifying its provenance and quantifying its uncertainty. General circulation models are not based on rough estimates or guesses but on decades of meticulously curated measurements—what Paul Edwards, in A Vast Machine , calls a "climate knowledge infrastructure."
The organizational scale of the two undertakings differs by orders of magnitude. The World3 model was put together by a dozen people working in isolation for a year or two. Climate modeling is Big Science, with contributions from several hundred workers, organized in groups that both compete and collaborate, with institutional and governmental oversight, not to mention a great deal of public scrutiny. The process has been ongoing for 40 years.
Another difference is that climate models focus mainly on physical and chemical processes where the underlying science is generally well understood. We know a lot about the absorption and emission spectra of molecules in the atmosphere, and we know how a volume of air will respond to heating or to a change in pressure. The social and economic systems modeled in World3 do not have natural laws of the same predictive power. In this sense the climate problem is easier.
In another respect, however, the task of climate models is more demanding. Where World3 promises only to "illustrate the basic dynamic tendencies" of the system, climate models are expected to produce precise quantitative predictions, such as a 1 percent change in global average temperature.
After three immersions in The Limits to Growth, at intervals of 20 years, I feel entitled to state some opinions.
First, the book's message is worth listening to. There are limits, and exponential growth is unsustainable. A society that measures well-being by the first derivative of GDP is asking for trouble. But I am more optimistic than the Limits authors are about our ability to deal with these issues before the world turns into the set of a Mad Max movie.
As for the mathematical model behind the book, I believe it is more a polemical tool than a scientific instrument. Forrester and the Limits group have frequently said that the graphs drawn by their computer programs should not be taken as predictions of the future, but only as indicating "dynamic tendencies" or "behavior modes." But despite these disclaimers, Limits is full of blunt statements about the future: "If the present growth trends continue unchanged,... the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime in the next one hundred years." And whether the models are supposed to be predictive or not, they are offered as an explicit guide to public policy. For example, in testimony before a congressional committee in the 1970s Forrester recommended curtailing investment in industrialization and food production as a way of slowing population growth.
It's possible that Forrester was offering wise advice, and someday we'll regret not taking it. But when a mathematical or scientific argument is brought forward to justify taking such a painful and troubling action, standards of rigor will surely be set very high.
In an unpublished paper on the testing of system dynamics models, Forrester and a student wrote: "The ultimate objective of validation is transferred confidence in a model's usefulness as a basis for policy change." That has yet to happen for World3.
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Research into the identity of Erdnase
Martin Gardner's research, now largely discredited, proposes that the real Erdnase was Milton Franklin Andrews, and that the book was ghost-written by William John Hilliar. (S. W. Erdnase spelled backwards is E.S. Andrews, lending support to the theory that Andrews was the author's last name)
There are numerous possible candidates discovered by David Alexander, Richard Hatch, and Todd Karr (among others), any of whom might be the pseudonymous author. The candidates by Alexander and Hatch have been profiled in (respectively) Genii and MAGIC, while Karr's candidate is identified as a Midwestern-based con artist named E. S. Andrews who was active around the turn of the century and whose biography seems to fit Erdnase's.
Known facts
- The author's name in reverse is S. W. Erdnase.
- The author points out in the introduction the need for money
- Marshall Smith did the illustrations for the book
- Smith says he met the author in a hotel room and was paid for his artwork with a check.
- Smith described the author as well-spoken and gentlemanly, short of stature, with a pleasant, smooth tone.
- Smith expressed his surprise at the number of drawings (101) in the book because he didn't remember drawing so many. Only 20 or 30.
- Some of the illustrations in the book carry a copyright statement right beneath the drawing, but others don't.
- Smith stated that the author mentioned a family connection to Louis Dalrymple, a political cartoonist.
- The author appears to have been highly knowledgeable in psychology, deception and gambling, based on contents of the book and the level of subtlety in his explanations, the
- The author appears to have had some knowledge of the law or access to legal advice, based on the elaborate copyright notices throughout the book; or was just paranoid.
- Smith's illustrations appear to have been crudely altered, perhaps an indication that the author did not have sufficient funds for professional corrections.
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In 1946, Martin Gardner located the Chicago-based Marshall D. Smith, the artist who had done the drawings that illustrated the book. Smith gave his account of is single meeting with the author (44 years earlier). Based on Smith's information and another lead provided by Edgar Pratt, Gardner claimed he tracked Erdnase to a cardsharp from Hartford, Connecticut, named Milton Franklin Andrews. Andrews died during a murder-suicide in 1905 in San Francisco just as the police were closing in to question him about the killing in Colorado. Smith was also certain that Erdnase told him he was related to the political artist, Louis Dalrymple. 1
Edwin Summer Andrews
Richard Hatch proposed a longtime traveling agent for Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, whose job would have given him plenty of opportunity to ply the cardsharp's trade named Milton Franklin Andrews. The railroad man signed his name "E. S. Andrews" on his 1898 license to marry Dollie Seely in Illinois.
Also, Louis Dalrymple's mother is Adelia Seeley (but notice different spelling) who was from upstate New York, which was the home turf of Dollie's father, Solomon Seely.2
Wilbur Edgerton Sanders
David Alexander's research (with Richard Kyle) led him to propose Wilbur Edgerton Sanders, a wealthy and well-educated mining engineer and the author of a standard text on mining. His family was a politically powerful family in Montana.3
E. S. Andrews
Todd Karr's research focused on a con man named E. S. Andrews from Chicago that swindle businessmen and doctors and appeared to have had over $900 just before the publication of The Expert at the Card Table. Karr tracked E. S. Andrews life through newspaper accounts of his arrests throughout the country.4
Robert Frederick Foster
Peter Kane and Jerry Sadowitz believed text found in The Complete Hoyle (1897) written by Foster has very similar styles to Erdnase. Foster was a member of the Society of American Magicians and could possibly have met Erdnase and assisted with the Ledgerdemain section. 5
External Resources and References
- 1 The Man Who Was Erdnase by Bart Whaley and Martin Gardner and Jeff Busby ISBN 9781563010002
- 2January 2000 Genii - New Light on Erdnase by David Alexander
- 3Searching for Erdnase by Richard Hatch, Magic Magazine December 1999
- 4Is This Erdnase? by Todd Karr from Magical Past-Times: The On-Line Journal of Magic History
- 5 Phantoms of the Card Table by David Britland & gazzo (page 54, the search for Erdnase).
- Genii Forum Topic on Erdnase
- Erdnase.com
- THE MAGICIAN AND THE CARDSHARP by Karl Johnson for American Heritage Magazine, which includes the sidebar WHO WAS ERDNASE? CARD CONJURING'S MOST ENDURING MYSTERY
- Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter Vol. 5 No. 35 – August 26, 2000 - Whatever Happened to S.W. Erdnase?
- The Expert at the Card Table: Artifice, Ruse, and Subterfuge DVD from Geno Munari (Houdini.com) contains a film characterization of S.W. Erdnase, interviews with Richard Hatch and Bart Whaley on the Mystery of Erdnase, an interview with Martin Gardner, "The Gardner-Smith Correspondence", "The Murderous Card Shark" by Martin Gardner and John Conrad, "Was Erdnase Abdul Aziz Khan" By Martin Gardner, and newspaper articles.
- The Annotated Erdnase by Darwin Ortiz (1991) contains "The Search For Erdnase" by Martin Gardner.
- "S.W. Erdnase: Another View" by Thomas A. Sawyer (1991) - Self-published, 67 pages, addresses the conclusions of The Man Who Was Erdnase and the Andrews data from The Annotated Erdnase.
- The Gardner-Smith Correspondence by Martin Gardner, limited edition reprint by H&R Magic Books (1999)
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(Reuters) - Rupert Murdoch is keeping the News Corp name for his new publishing company in a nod to the important role that newspapers have played in building his media empire.
"Many of you know that a belief in the power of the written word has been in my bones for my entire life," Murdoch, News Corp's chairman, wrote in a memo to employees obtained by Reuters.
"I witnessed the hunger people had for well-written, thoroughly observed stories ... stories that provide not just information, but insight. That hunger is alive and well today; my personal mission is to serve and satisfy the human need for insight as well as I possibly can."
News Corp announced details of the separation of the two companies on Monday, and confirmed that Robert Thomson will be chief executive of the new publishing company, effective January 1.
Thomson, a Murdoch confidant, is currently the managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and editor in chief of its publisher Dow Jones & Co.
The company that will encompass the entertainment assets will be called the Fox Group.
The details of the proposed split point to a sweep of the executive ranks — including the head of its British newspaper arm— and the demise of News Corp's digital-only newspaper, The Daily.
The publication of The Daily's application for Apple's iPad will end on December 15, but the brand will "live on in other channels," the company said in a statement.
Jesse Angelo, founding editor of The Daily, will become publisher of the New York Post, while Greg Clayman, publisher of The Daily, will oversee the company's digital strategy.
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As I didn't have the pattern I used in the sewing class, I dug through the patterns I bought a while ago from simplicitynewlook.com when they were on sale, and chose option C from Newlook pattern 6710. I had to use the largest size 😦 and I made a slight adjustment so I wouldn't have to cut a separate piece of fabric to enclose the waist elastic, but over all I was very pleased with how easy it was to use this pattern!
It was very satisfying to use a vintage sheet that I bought for £3 for the fabric. The large floral print and the cropped style give the PJ bottoms a very summery, almost Hawaiian look that I just love!
As with the foxy PJs I made last time, I found that the hardest part of the making process was cutting out the fabric, and although I did have a dedicated pair of fabric scissors, they just weren't up to the job. The X-Cut pair I'd been using had been selected purely because that was what was in stock in my local fabric shop when I decided to buy a new pair, but this time I decided to do some research online. The two most recommended brands by sewing bloggers were Gingher and Friskars, and I saw some particularly glowing reviews of these soft touch, spring loaded (!) multi-purpose Fiskars scissors.
What a difference a good pair of scissors makes!
And now for a confession…
I have a problem.
I am addicted to craft magazines.
TOTALLY addicted.
It started with just a couple of crochet magazines every month (Simply Crochet and Inside Crochet), but every time I went to the magazine rack other, less familiar titles started whispering my name. Soon I had to pick up Mollie Makes too. Then the Craftseller, then more crochet and knitting magazines, and finally upcycling magazines so pretentious they made my teeth itch, and yet I still kept buying them!
Bookcase groaning under the weight of all those issues, I had to take action.
I gave up buying copies of Inside Crochet in favour of a Kindle subscription, but I just couldn't give up on the free gifts that came with every issue of Simply Crochet and Mollie Makes. I rarely actually used the free gifts, but I wanted them! So I bought myself a postal subscription to Simply Crochet (with another free gift! woohoo!) and Mr BAM got me one to Mollie Makes for Christmas, and now, at least in theory, I can stay away from the temptation of the news stand.
But all those little gifts have been piling up. Some of them, like the giant wooden button that came with an issue of Simply Crochet, are just biding their time, waiting for the right project to come along. Others, such as note books, crochet hooks and a tape measure, get sporadic use when they are handy at the right moment, but it's the little kits to make things that have sat sad and neglected on my bookshelf… until now!
In a sudden and unexpected burst of motivation, I made four of these kits in the last week!
First up: the Dreamcatcher Crochet Kit that came free with the current issue of Simply Crochet.
I was intrigued with the idea of crocheting a dreamcatcher, and Tanya Kaylan's pattern was easy to use and had the potential to be very effective. Unfortunately the quality of the materials in the kit was pretty poor, especially the nasty cheap acrylic yarn and the flimsy plastic hoop. I have no intention of hanging this one up on display. It's a bit of a mess!
Next up: the Sardine Keyring kit from issue 29 of Mollie Makes
I love this one! The fish are just so cute and quirky! Actually my fish are particularly quirky because I chose not to print and and use the templates from the magazine. The fabric was so thin that I thought I might get away with put the fabric on top of the magazine and just tracing the patten pieces straight onto it. Well, it sort of worked! I think the shapes in the original pattern by Zoe Patching look much smarter, but I still love my odd fish! I hand sewed these, and it think it shows I haven't done much hand sewing in a while!
Next up: the Ditsy Floral Fabric Brooch from the current issue of Mollie Makes.
Look a little familiar?
Look closer…
Yup, it's a Kanzashi flower! I blogged about my Clover Kanzashi flower making gadget back in March, but this kit for Gemma Nemer's flower corsage came with instructions how to use the traditional method that involves starting with little circles of fabric. It was interesting to use this method, but the real appeal of this kit was pretty floral fabric and the genuine (replica) vintage button. I adore the turquoise button!
And finally: Kitschy Digitals Retro Felt Doll from issue 34 of Mollie Makes.
This kit was by far my favourite, although it was the fiddliest and most time consuming! The face on my doll isn't quite as cute as Danielle Thompson's original (all the features are a bit too big and the hair could be neater), but over all I was pleased with how like the picture on the packet she looked! I didn't bother making the tiny embroidery floss shoe laces, as I thought they would just look like loose threads stuck to the felt. The only problem with this kit was that mine didn't have any green felt for the dress in it! Luckily I had some of approximately the right weight and colour in my stash, so disaster averted. Now I just have to find a spot on my shelves for her to sit.
Making these kits was a nice change of pace, and the doll in particular has inspired me to try my hand at a few other little sewing projects, and I'll blog about them at a later date.
I haven't abandoned my crochet though! I just can't blog about my current WIP at the moment because it's a birthday present for someone who might see this post, and I don't want to spoil the surprise! It should be finished in plenty of time because I won't be going out much this week. One of our cats, Oliver, had to have an operation at the weekend to deal with a nasty abscess on his face, and he's now confined to the living room with the obligatory cone of shame. He's doing well, but he really doesn't like being kept in, so the least I can do is to keep him company, poor thing. Our other two cats, Missy and Meredith, are absolutely outraged that they are being kept out of the living room, but at least they can scamper about in the sunshine, and they still have access to the bedroom, the coolest room in the flat. Meanwhile the race is on to see who develops Stockholm syndrome first: me or Ollie.
Okay, time for some linkups: Handmade Monday at HandmadeHarbour and Link It or Lump it at Dreamalittlebigger.


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We're a month off from the Ryder Cup, but the reigning champion captain just told the Euros what's what with the photo equivalent of "scoreboard."
Last night, likely European team member Ian Pouter was with countryman and likely teammate Justin Rose. He Tweeted an invitation for questions:
Right ask Justin rose a question and the best question in the next 5 minutes will get a reply.less than a minute ago via Twittelator
Ian Poulter
A few minutes later, Paul Azinger, captain of the 2008 team that brought the Cup back to the States, responded.
Hey..@Ianjamespoulter Is it to late to ask a question? I was busy polishing this. http://yfrog.com/n8poexjless than a minute ago via Twitterrific
Paul Azinger
Europe status: told.
Former Captain Azinger Gives Euros A Lil Bulletin Board Material [Waggle Room]


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There have been many changes in U.S. immigration policies and practices over the past few years.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, (USCIS) has introduced the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System (SEVIS). SEVIS is an online database that connects immigration officials and U.S. colleges and universities by providing information on international students and scholars.
On September 1, 2004, a new United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rule went into effect. This rule requires F-1 visa applicants to pay a one-time fee of $200 to supplement the administration and maintenance costs of SEVIS.
Having a U.S. visa is like having a key to enter the country. The expiration date on your visa is the last day you may enter the United States from abroad. You need a valid visa every time you enter the country. Depending upon the type of visa you use to enter the U.S., you are subject to different guidelines in order to "maintain status" or remain in this country legally. The International Students and Scholars (ISS) office can help guide students through the application for F-1 student visas.
To apply for an F-1 visa, you will need a SEVIS-issued Certificate of Eligibility for Nonimmigrant (F-1) Students from the dental school. The ISS office will issue a SEVIS eligibility form under the following conditions:
(a) you have been fully accepted into a program of study at the dental school and
(b) you have shown proof of financial support for the first year of study. You should complete and submit the Certification of Finances form, which you will receive once acceptance is verified by the dental school.
The Certification of Finances form is used to show proof of support for your first year of study. You must demonstrate sufficient funding to cover all expenses including tuition, fees, books, instruments and living expenses. Funding may come from your own personal account, a private sponsor's account and/or scholarships/loans that have been approved. In addition to filling out the form, you will need to provide adequate verification of the funds. Verification documents include:
You should obtain two original copies of the financial verification documents.
One set of originals should be sent to the dental school; the other set of originals should be retained by you, so that you may have them available when applying for a visa and for use at the port of entry.
The visa application process and required documents may differ depending upon the requirements of the specific consular office in your home country.
Once you have obtained an eligibility documents from the dental school, you will need to pay the required $200 SEVIS fee, get the fee receipt and make an appointment at the embassy/consulate. Bring the following documents to your appointment:
You must also present the first three documents to an immigration inspector at the U.S. port of entry. The immigration inspector decides whether or not to admit you into the U.S. with an F-1 nonimmigrant status.
Students who are citizens of Canada may obtain their F-1 visas at the port of entry. Canadian students will be required to present their Form I-20, passport and additional supporting financial documents to the U.S. Immigration Inspector at the U.S. port of entry.
Landed immigrants in Canada must contact the U.S. embassy/consulate and apply for a visa before entering the U.S.
After an I-20 is issued and a visa has been obtained, it is best to work within the budget you have estimated for your stay in the U.S. as a student using the funds verified and stated on your I-20.
For your convenience we have attached links to the forms that you will need to provide to our ISS Office. Please fill out these forms accordingly. Please note: if you are not transferring from a school within the U.S. then you do not need to fill out the International Student Transfer Form. To save to your computer, right-click (if using a PC) or hold the control key down (if using a Mac) and choose Save Link As. Once the file has downloaded, use Adobe Acrobat or another program that can read PDFs to open it.


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Alright, give your computer about 20 minutes to load this super picture heavy/video heavy post. Pour yourself a glass of rum or hot chocolate, and sit back and enjoy my pain. There were a lot of emotions that went through my mind during this race and most of them were agony, pain, and defeat. So the short story is that I hurt. for a long time out there on the course. BUT I finished. Now, here's the extended version.
Let me begin by stating that this is the longest race report I will ever write. Since I was lucky enough to run the entire race with Billy, he took about 6-8 pictures, EVERY MILE. So I have a billion pictures. It does help in remembering what happened throughout the race though, even though it seemingly was a death march for me in the latter miles. It was a great race in many aspects, just not my race. I know I didn't train well and I learned my lesson on being more consistent through my training. I haven't given up on marathons, but as for now, I am going to take a break from running another full until the fall and will run some halfs and fun races this summer. So onto race day!
We got there race morning and I felt pretty good. I didn't know how much it would hurt to finish the race but I would soon find out. I arrived at Billy's house and we carpooled over with some friends and though got a little stuck in traffic got there at 5:50. The race was scheduled to start at 7:20. We meandered through Dodger Stadium and took a few group pictures before hitting up the porta potties, where someone totally cut us in line and we got pretty angry at them. The lines at the porta potties were fairly long but they were efficient. Even though I did see a ton of both men and women crawling into the bushes. Sick. I would NEVER.
Weird picture, but it was still dark out and I look way too happy to be up that early. I was tweeting a little bit and we walked around as the sun came up. The crowd was pretty excited and I just felt everyone really ready to get the race started.
This is a classic Billy taking a video of me coming out of the porta pottie, and Ryan ran in after me quickly to beat the cutters in line! I heard about them talking about it in line so I try to make my exit as exaggerated as I could. I think I succeeded. Everything was running really smoothly with the mass of people that quickly accumulated at the stadium. It was already fairly warm out so I knew it would just get warmer as we started running but I wasn't too worried about it.
Some maniacs and I! I was so glad to debut my maniacs jersey and run with two of the craziest maniacs out there! Both my friend Billy and Ryan wore their Maniacs Jersey. We had to rep the maniacs! It was fun seeing other maniacs and I wanted to say hi to all of them out there on the course.
Looking happy at the starting line even though after waiting around until well after the time they were suppose to start. We were hearing crazy stories about people leaving their cars on the freeway and getting out to run to the starting line and how bad traffic was out on the freeway. I heard more people had to get off the shuttle buses and run to the start too. I would have flipped! I am glad that we got there early and had more than enough time to get all our stuff done.
After the porta potties we did a gear check and got everything situated and found our spot by the 'starting area'. It spilled out into the tented area where the expo was held the prior two days and we waited there for a solid forty five minutes as we waited for the race to start. It took a lot longer than expected to start, but listening to the national anthem and hanging out with friends calmed my nerves and made me excited for the race.
My friend Page was there and randomly we saw her right when we walked into Dodger stadium earlier in the morning and it was so fun to hang out with her and run the first two miles with her before she took off and left me in the dust! She is super fun and I'm so glad we've got to hang out the past few times I was in San Fran and she was down here.
The starting line was CHAOS. There were way too many people in WAY too small of space. Everyone was trying to get over fences and the race started about 25 minutes late. After it started it took us another 10 minutes to even get to the starting line. Once we got going I was feeling okay and we ran a decent pace for a while.
At the start of the race there were some hills around Dodger stadium that were a bit tricky to maneuver especially with the huge crowd that surrounded us. Within the first mile I saw some guy being tended to unconscious on the ground after he fell while running. Not good.
This video is at mile 2. We had just gone through a water station and I successfully drank the cup of water as you can tell by my smile. The way I always do it is pour a little out, pinch and drink. Or else it gets all over the place. The water stations were positioned every mile and they worked out perfectly for my hydration needs. I drank water at every stop and they never ran out during the race. Anyways, then we had the blow up mile markers. I loved those mile markers! They were so easy to spot, but this one was sketchy. It was kind of just hanging there and I told Billy, this looks unsafe! I did grab it though but man, I thought I was going to be whipped backwards and fall on my back when I hit it. Thankfully I didn't. :)
Along the entire course there were TONS of spectators. That was a huge plus for the course. Everyone was out and being wild and crazy. I totally agree with the idea of doing crazy stuff while cheering because you will probably never see any of the runners again and it cheers people up and let me tell you the people of LA are wild and crazy. I have never seen so many strange supporters. You can even see that guy next to us clapping along! Maritza, this picture is for you :)
This was right before the steepest hill right before mile 4. I powered up that hill and was still feeling fine at this point of the race. I had my cross country coaches voice going through my head and I could just envision him at the top yelling for me to push up the hill and take three quick steps. Once I got the to top I was fine and we continued on. Then we saw Punk Rock Runner and Nina and I got really excited and we ran with them for a bit and said our hellos.
Billy and I tried to have fun along the course and I asked these cops for a high 5. They looked less than amused, but thankfully obliged.
Running through some random neighborhoods. I was surprised by all the people out this early and so supportive of all the runners. It was great hearing Billy's name over and over again. People see my name on my bib and don't know how to say it so they usually just say, wayyyy to go with a quizzical look. I don't think it's that hard, but hey some people have problems with it. By the way it's DAN-ICK-UH, not DONICA or DANEEKA, which I do get often :)
The crowds lined the streets and just cheered for everyone. It was a nice showing of the community and it showed that they really supported the marathon running through their area.
This was right next to Echo Park and the crowds were still pretty thick at this point. I was still feeling decent but I started to run out of gas. It was pretty warm at this point of the race.
There were some hilarious cheerleaders among the course. I was not amused by the clowns since the clowns scared me, but they were out cheering people along doing some crazy things on stilts, which I think was very unsafe. Billy was pretty much the social butterfly of the race and I was like get this the f over with. He was slapping people's hands and high fiving everyone and yelling at everyone and thanking everyone for being out there. He made up for my sourpuss race.
Then I got super excited by the firehouse before the 10k mark. I asked to take a picture with them and they looked at me like a FREAK, so that was cool. It was fun though.
There were seriously all types of people out there… Including drag queens, people with bootleg water stations, passing out all kinds of foods, including donuts? Crazy, wild supporters added a lot to course! It shows how cool it is to cheer for everyone, and I really appreciated it.
Billy told me to run ahead and get another picture in front of the Pantages, just like the one we took on the tour and it was another great picture! This was one of my favorite parts of the course.
This is when the death began. Ha ha, you can kind of see the pain on my face even in the side view. I was getting really tired and Billy was so supportive and gave me salt tabs and made me eat. I am so thankful he was there. He constantly was checking on me and asking me what he could do to help me. I felt bad for running so slow but my feet were killing me for some reason, I knew my toe was bloody and my hips were so sore. It wasn't a good sign because it was so early in the race.
I LOVED the giant sponsors that covered up huge parts of the street. I took mental notes of interesting things that I liked :) It was cool to run over the giant logos and it totally drew attention to the sponsor and what mile they were sponsoring and their product.
Mile 11. I really liked the huge blow up mile markers, but they weren't every mile. After about mile 14 or 15 they kind of disappeared and made a few more appearances farther down the course. They were really easy to spot though and made me keep moving forward, since I knew how far it was until the next mile.
I still look happy though I was dying. I had already walked a few times and just wanted to get the race over with, so I knew that I just had to keep repeating that each mile was closer to the finish and I just had to KEEP GOING. One foot in front of another, over and over, I told myself.
My hips and butt were KILLING me ever since mile 11. It was a different feeling than the sore feeling, but it was like hi you are under trained and haven't run much at all lately feeling. My butt was cramping and my hips were just so sore. I tried to do some stretching and swinging of my legs. That's when Billy got this sweet pic. It makes me laugh I look like I'm trying to do the airplane or something.
Stretch, swing, please feel better legs, please get me to the finish. Stretch, swing, pull yourself together Danica!
Mile 12 and I was super stoked to eat more sharkies, which I am pretty much obsessed with. This is when the wheels on the Danica bus seemed to fall off and completely roll away, never to be seen again. This is where Billy stepped it up big time and kept me going. My hips were killing me and when your at mile 12 of 26.2, that's a little daunting to start feeling crappy.
This was also when I took out my headphones. It seemed that the whole race the noise just was getting to me and I couldn't find the zone at all. The music was just not working for me so from mile 12 onward I ran without music, which was the first time I've done that. I don't think it would have helped either, so I just clipped my earphones to my iFitness belt and kept trudging along.
He told me to run with a smile and just to finish. I told him numerous times to leave me if he wanted but he wouldn't. He was amazing and looked out for me the entire time. I was so grateful that he ran with me, even though I wanted to die! We still had fun together and he kept me from wandering off the course and curling up in a ball and crying.
Mile 13 was when I was really feeling depleted. Billy hung in there though and took this hilarious video of me. You can start to tell my delirium because I gave a shout out to Shea. We have this thing where we say, That's the way the cookie cruuuuuumblllles. Just like Let's get ready to Rummmmmmble from jock jams. I don't know why that was necessary at that moment but I cracked myself up over it.
I remember running by this mural when we did the course preview. I knew we were creeping closer to mile 14 and I loved seeing this. The support all along this area was amazing.
In West Hollywood it is a notoriously gay area (is that pc? sorry if it's not). There were some drag queen (don't know if that's pc either… sorry!) cheerleaders passing out water and there were tons of people out in this area. It was a smaller section of the race but it was pretty entertaining and sketchy at the same time.
Right before we went down Rodeo Drive, I ran into Emil! He is the definition of a maniac and we hobbled along for a bit. It was great seeing him out there. We both looked so dapper in this picture and like we are having a great day! Truth be told…
This pretty is the funniest picture ever and sums up my day. Yea. I looked like this most of the race, head down, just trying my hardest to put one foot in front of the other and keep my legs going with the least pain.
We ran in front of Nike Town and this is what we saw. WHAT THE HECK is going on?! Nike people were wearing green onsies and cheering. It was seriously very weird. they were handing out towels too. I think at this point I didn't know what was going on and this just confused me even more…
This was a REALLY cool part of the course, Cheer Alley. There were tons of cheerleaders out and screaming and cheering for everyone. It was cool to run down the loud noise and it pepped me up even just for a second.
Then I saw Drea on the side of the road right before mile 18. She was my saving grace during this section because her sign cheered me up and I knew I was getting closer and closer to the finish, slowly but surely. This picture is hilarious though, so I had to post it :)
Then we got a great picture with my sign and it was so pretty! I loved it! Thank you so much to everyone who cheered for me out there! It seriously meant so much to me. You don't realize how much you draw from the crowd on a bad day. I was so happy when someone said my name and I would wave back and smile.
I RANDOMLY saw a good friend Katie out there too. She's the girl who looks confused on the left. We went to high school together and I was so happy to see her too! I was pretty delirous at this point and everything was taking my mind off the pain. Notice how I totally cut off that guy getting back on course after giving Katie a hug. Whoops! Sorry Jay! ha ha.
I found the hottest fireman I could right before mile 20 and took a picture with him. He seemed to be so happy to take a picture with me and he was by far the nicest fireman out there on the course. He made sure I was okay and then told me to keep going and that I could finish! I love him!
Ha, ha, ha! When Billy sent me this picture I about died laughing. I look like I was dying here, and yes, I was. There was a pretty brutal hill right at mile 20 that I somehow forgot about and I was really sore going up it. I was TIRED but I knew that i had six more miles. I could do it if it took me all freaking day! So the wall at 20 miles? Yea I hit it, and I hit it HARD. That's what she said.
We ran down San Vicente Blvd and everyone was cheering for us so much. It was great to see so many supporters out there. I have never run a race this big and having the crowd around, minus the 'you're almost there' cheers, and the 'almost to the downhill' cheers, was fantastic! I really focused on just getting the race over with and finishing. I knew I could do it, and I was already over the time that I would be ending with, so I just knew that getting to the finish was the most important thing.
The whole time throughout Brentwood Billy was so amp'ed and fired up. I felt bad for holding him back and hobbling along but I knew we were just getting closer and closer. He kept yelling, 'I Love you Brentwood!' and all these funny things. He would pump his arms at the crowd. I wanted to punch him in the head, but I also know without him it would have taken me a lot longer. He is an amazing friend to stick with me for that long. I would have punched myself in the head if I were Billy! When we were running we were keeping about a 10:30 pace but I was walking a lot. My hips were killing me! He also told me that when we walked we needed to walk with purpose, hence the video above of me traveling at breakneck speed. I was powerwalking. I felt like a 90 year old!
We rounded the corner and started down Ocean. It was 1.2 miles to the finish! The final mile was PACKED with people and it was great to finish around everyone. I was in so much pain but I knew I was so close. I tried to just keep putting one foot in front of the other. Finally, after what seemed like forever, we passed under the 26 mile marker and then I knew it was .2 of a mile left! Then I could walk and sit down!
This was the the moment when I was thinking in my head, this is it! This is worth it! All this pain and hard work that I worked through and the mental battle I worked through and having Billy cheering me on was done! We had done it together! I couldn't have asked for a better friend to run with. Right at the last .2 miles I started tearing up and then I almost started having trouble breathing and I was like Holy crap you freak, pull your self together you don't need ot PASS OUT .1 miles from the finish! So I took a few deep breaths and pushed the emontion back. Finally we crossed the finish line and the medal was placed on my neck. Number 5 was DONE!
With Colin, Peter and Billy after the race. I am so thankful I ran LA. It taught me a vaulable lesson about myself and how hard it is to run a marathon. It's funny because when I put on my 26.2 necklace back on Monday it had a whole new meaning. I forgot how hard it was to run that far and what a challenge it was.
The course was MUCH hillier than I had remembered, sorry for saying it was so flat, it's NOT. The crowd support was amazing and the water stations and food on the course was great. Thank you again to everyone who cheered for me and kept me going out there.
I'm not giving up on the full. I have a few more planned, but not for a while. Right now I need to find the happy running that I found before I ran Long Beach last year and focus on getting healthy, swimming and enjoying working out. I need to remember to do it for MYSELF. It wasn't my day, but not every race can be absolutly perfect. I am not the happiest with my time, but I still finished and that's all that matters. I'll begin training again soon, and I am running a half this weekend for fun, but I am thankful for the lessons that LA taught me and for the running community that I am a part of.


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Saturday, May 21, 2011
The Beauty Detox
Hope you all are enjoying your weekend! I wanted to share a wonderful book I've been reading. I am not finished with it but I have just been blown away by the wealth of knowledge written here so far!
I absolutely love to read and try to squeeze in as much as possible even in the midst of taking care of so many young children. I read at red lights:)
I found my copy at Target and have underlined and highlighted it to pieces. I feel that it is an answer to prayer for me personally as I have really struggled with my weight , skin and so on a lot in life.
Especially over the last ten years. Thanks to having lots of babies in a short amount of time!
Needless to say, I do not look or feel the way I wanted to look and feel at forty!
I hate to say this but I am not a gym person. I am most uncomfortable in a gym or fitness facility. I absolutely cannot stand it. The smell alone is enough to send me right out the door. One look at all of those folks dripping sweat all over those machines....no thank you.
I am ultra feminine. Ultra girly girl. I don't do gyms.
I admire all of you who are so disciplined and get up every single day and work out!
Here's hoping I can overcome my issues!
I do love a good dance class though. I LOVE to dance. And I can wear pink lip gloss and pearls to my dance class. So I am thinking about attempting a class as well as trying some of the suggestions in this wonderful new book.
I'll let you know how it's going.
I'll let you know if I survive cutting out all dairy. Have mercy.
Hope you all have a beautiful and blessed weekend!
14 comments:
- TG said...
I hate gyms too. I really love to dance, I'm 22 and I still go to dance classes.
- May 21, 2011 at 3:37 PM
- Coastal Health and Home said...
Dear Sibi,
I read this book years ago called
"Walk Yourself Thin" by David A. Rives. It talks about walking and drinking a lot of water. I thought it was very motivational.
Keep your chin up!
We just have to put one foot in front of the other (me included)!
I'm also going to try some of my
Cinch shakes from Shaklee. Right
now I have just been using them when I don't have time to eat.
But I have to get on a program.
I would love to check out a Zumba
Be patient and kind to yourself.
Coastal Blue Ocean
- May 21, 2011 at 5:01 PM
- Nancy said...
You are already so beautiful, this change will only enhance it. I did a detox last year and never felt better. It's amzaing what small changes can do. Since then I've lost and kept off 30 pounds so I know how it can be. Thinking of you often and counting the days (whenever it may be) to The Pearl Event.
Much Love
- May 21, 2011 at 6:34 PM
- Preppy Pink Crocodile said...
I feel exactly the same way about gyms, The smell. The shared sweat. The worry that everyone will judge me for being so out of shape. And scary machines. Ick.
- May 21, 2011 at 8:58 PM
- caycee said...
Sibi! Girl friend, I will have to tell you I am the girl in gym at 8 every morning in pink lip gloss, a little bronzer, and pearls in my ears ;) I so thought I could never be a gym girl, but I feel sooo much beeter than I ever have in my life!!! You are so beautiful just the way you are :) Good luck in the Detox!!!!
- May 21, 2011 at 10:13 PM
- paige said...
thanks for the book scoop. i must check on that one
i seriously think madison would love it if you were her mama!! you two are kindred spirits. seriously!!
i think you are tiny and gorgeous.
love you friend
- May 22, 2011 at 7:05 AM
- 3 Peanuts said...
I have to pick this up....My weight is fine but my skin is not good and I loathe the gym too.
You are beautiful.
- May 22, 2011 at 7:23 PM
- lizziefitz said...
You had me until no dairy;)
- May 22, 2011 at 8:17 PM
- Tiffany said...
Have Mercy! ;)
I know...me too. I am going to TRY to start on a better, thinner me tomorrow. I pray we both get healthier. That's really the goal.
I am sure you can do this Sibi...you are such an inspiration & I can't imagine that there's anything you & God can't accomplish!
- May 23, 2011 at 1:05 AM
- CRICKET said...
I think the dancing idea is great!Whenever I have read your blog I thought how pretty you are...The one way I keep slim (I don;t liek gyms either) is simple: walking and eating small portions that way I don;t feel deprived. It has worked, Now in my 40's I weigh what I did in college.
- May 23, 2011 at 8:48 AM
- Lisa said...
If you like dancing, you may enjoy Zumba. It's a Latin/international dance-based workout. I have LOVED doing Zumba classes with my parents at a local community center. All ages, all fitness levels, all body types, and we all just dance and have fun. It's a great workout and you don't have to deal with the gym issues. Blessings to you on your journey.
- May 23, 2011 at 5:25 PM
- Tiffini said...
Dancing would be fun! that way you don't "know" your burning calories;)
I have never heard of this book. I am doing lots of the same things. I didn't start working out until I turned 40!
I do my workouts at home..P90X, Insanity and I walk/jog. I'm to embarrassed to do it in a gym. I did try it though.
You ARE beautiful and so is your heart:) Praying for dairy! Keep us posted
- May 24, 2011 at 7:17 PM
- 3 Peanuts said...
Bought this book after reading this post and have read it cover to cover. Am totally inspired to follow a lot of it. I plan to start the green smoothies this week. Wanna do it together???? Thnx for motivating me:)
- May 28, 2011 at 10:38 PM
- Kate said...
Good luck!! I cut out dairy for a few years to see if it would help my allergies...it did for awhile but then I found out I had Celiac (so no more gluten) and I couldn't deal with no bread AND no ice cream;)
I think the key to keeping up with exercise is finding something you really enjoy so you want to keep doing it....dance classes sound perfect!!
- June 1, 2011 at 7:50 AM


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Thou Shalt Obey!
July 09th
Fear is sweeping the country, as the people realize that they have been manipulated, used, the Muslim Brotherhood framed, all forms of media under complete control and the revolution hijacked the eve before Ramadhan begins!
Grim ritual of death unfolds in Cairo morgue filled to capacity*
By Nancy A. Youssef and Amina Ismail
CAIRO — The grim accounting of death took on a ceremony of its own at the Cairo morgue where the victims of Monday's clash between the military and the Muslim Brotherhood were taken for the official tally.
Orange ambulances lined up in front of the squalid morgue, each holding at least one body. As soon as doctors had finished examining one body, morgue workers would call out the victim's name. His family members would come forward, their already heightened emotions peaking as they picked up the bare wooden coffin and lifted it onto their shoulders.
The family members' wails, coupled with their slow procession out of the government building, signaled the next paramedic to pull forward and unload another body through the front doors. One more body had moved out, making room for one more to come in.
The scene repeated throughout the day, 10 times in the span of two hours, until in the midst of madness it provided a sense of order.
Nobody could say by midday how many bodies had come through. The woman in charge of such information said she was too busy recording the names of the dead to make a tally. Egyptian health officials said that at least 51 had died, but the steady steam of dead and mourning at the morgue suggested that the number might be much higher.
Egypt is engulfed in political strife, between supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi and those who endorse the military's decision last week to remove the increasingly unpopular and ineffectual leader. But the dawn outbreak of violence Monday at a sit-in staged by Morsi supporters shocked this hardened population, which has endured daily clashes for eight days.
The Morsi backers said they were simply praying when the army tried to clear the area, violently. The military said the protesters outside the Republican Guard headquarters, where many think Morsi is being held, had fired first.
Either way, the protesters bore the brunt of the losses. The military said its side had lost two police officers and a soldier, while the Morsi side lost four dozen or more, their losses taxing the capacity of the morgue, where every refrigerated bay was filled with a victim of violence.
As families carried their loved ones away, they prayed for mercy and cursed Abdel-Fattah el Sissi, the minister of defense and the head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, as a "killer."
Trash, linen to wrap the bodies and mourners lined the walls. Among them was Azza Khalifa, 40, whose face, all but the eyes, was covered with a traditional niqab. She rocked as she waited for her husband's body to be released. "He was praying. Why would they do that?" she said repeatedly. Her 14-year-old son, Khalid, sat next to her and said nothing at all.
"Your time had come. You left me," his mother kept saying. "Your time had come. . . . "
Even at the morgue, politics were everywhere. One man who came in to identify his relative made the mistake of criticizing the Muslim Brotherhood, the secretive organization through which Morsi ascended to the presidency.
"Where are the Brotherhood leaders? They are only concerned about power and we are dying here," he said.
The crowd surrounded him and yelled epithets. Then they began beating him.
"What are you saying?" they screamed.
Then all was forgiven. Those who were beating him kissed him on the head. And went back to waiting for their dead.
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Harris, Lamb lead Bucks over Bobcats 100-90
Bucks outscored Bobcats 28-11 in 4th quarter
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tobias Harris had 18 points and rookie Doron Lamb scored 10 of his 12 points in the fourth quarter, leading the Milwaukee Bucks past the Charlotte Bobcats 100-90 Thursday morning in front of thousands of middle school kids.
Mike Dunleavy added 17 points off the bench and Ekpe Udoh had 11 points and seven rebounds for the Bucks (3-4), who overcame a 20-point third quarter deficit. Larry Sanders had eight points and 13 rebounds.
The Bucks outscored the Bobcats 28-11 in the fourth quarter.
Kemba Walker led Charlotte (1-6) with 20 points and seven assists. Gerald Henderson had 13 points and Ben Gordon and Byron Mullens added 11 apiece.
Lamb outplayed former Kentucky Wildcats teammate Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, making six of seven shots. Kidd-Gilchrist had four points in 13 minutes.


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By LESLIE BROWN
Sharon Nelson, a state lawmaker who's been battling Glacier Northwest's expansion plans on Maury Island for more than a decade, teared up shortly before a news conference Wednesday announcing King County's anticipated purchase of the 236-acre mine site.
"It's a new day," she said, brushing away tears. "It's a dream come true."
Indeed, against the backdrop of a slate-blue Puget Sound, King County Executive Dow Constantine stood before a phalanx of television cameras, public officials, environmentalists and others and issued an announcement that only a year ago would have seemed out of the question: The county and Glacier Northwest's parent company CalPortland have signed an agreement outlining the terms of the property's sale.
After months of closed-door negotiations, CalPortland has agreed to sell the site on the flanks of Maury Island for $36 million the bulk of it to come from state and county coffers earmarked for habitat protection or conservation acquisitions.
"This day has been a long time in coming," Constantine said at the news conference, held at a small overlook in West Seattle perched above the Sound.
Pointing to the bulkhead lining the cobble beach next to the overlook, he noted the impact such beach-hardening has had on fragile nearshore environments. With this purchase, he said, "The longest remaining piece of undeveloped Puget Sound shoreline in King County will be protected."
"We have reached a historic agreement," he added.
Under the terms of the deal, the $36 million purchase price would come from three sources: $14.5 million already set aside in the state budget from the Asarco settlement, money Nelson helped to secure during the last legislative session; $19.1 million from the county's Conservation Futures fund, which can only be used to purchase open space; and $2.4 million from an extension of the county's existing lease to CalPortland at the company's small gravel mine next to the Maury Island Regional Park.
Also needed is $2 million in private funds that would be used to restore some of the expenditures from the county's Conservation Futures fund.
The expansive parcel, once in public hands, would become a King County park. Protected would be about a mile of shoreline and more than 200 acres of madrone forests just south of the 320-acre Maury Island Regional Marine Park.
The two parks combined, Constantine added, "will represent the largest public holding of protected marine shoreline in all of Puget Sound."
Others at the news conference said the purchase represents the region's growing commitment to the health and restoration of Puget Sound, an imperiled body of water that many in the conservation world believe is threatened by pollution, invasive species, development, climate change and run-off.
Martha Kongsgaard, a West Seattle resident who chairs the Puget Sound Partnership's leadership council, praised those "who had the vision and tenacity to stay at the table."
"The opportunity to protect such a wide swath of intact shoreline is a rarity," she said, "and it's a significant opportunity clearly aligned with the science-based priorities for restoring this valuable ecosystem that we as a community have agreed upon."
Ted Sturdevant, the director of the state Department of Ecology, said Gov. Chris Gregoire fully supports the effort. "We are slowing down on a lot of things," he said, an apparent reference to the state's tough fiscal climate, "but she has said that Puget Sound's recovery is not one of them."
Ron Summers, a senior vice president for CalPortland, based in California, also stood before the cameras and dignitaries but sounded a slightly different note. "We reached this agreement with somewhat mixed emotions," he said.
The region, he noted, needs the gravel that the mine site would have provided. "We continue to believe the proposal we made 12 years ago was a reasonable one."
Even so, he added, the company has always been open to a potential sale, adding that economic issues made it in the company's interests.
The deal still faces some hurdles before it can come to fruition. The often-divided King County Council has to approve the $19.1 million expenditure from the county's Conservation Futures fund, the limit to how much the county is able to obligate in the course of a year.
Legislation seeking the request is expected to come before the council on Monday. The council will need to act before the end of December. Bob Ferguson, who chairs the county council, said he believes the council will agree to the request and will do so by mid-December.
"I'm committed to making this happen," he said.
Wednesday's announcement reflects a remarkable turn-around in the fate of the Maury mine site. More than a decade ago, Glacier Northwest announced plans to build a 305-foot, state-of-the-art pier key to the corporation's plans to dramatically increase its excavation of gravel and ship it off the Island by way of barges that would ply Puget Sound seven days a week.
During the course of the bitter fight that followed, Glacier Northwest won one legal skirmish after another, despite ongoing efforts to block the project by the Vashon-based Preserve Our Islands, a grassroots organization Nelson founded. By December 2008, Glacier had secured all the permits it needed and quickly began construction, stopping only when a state-mandated fish window for in-water construction closed.
But a federal judge last August ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers erred when it issued one of the final permits to Glacier and ordered the federal agency to require a full Environmental Impact Statement.
Then, according to Nelson, two significant events transpired: Constantine, a long-time foe of Glacier's expansion plans, got elected, and she was able to secure an earmark from the Asarco settlement funds.
Peter Goldmark, the state's Public Lands commissioner, said the governor's decision to focus on the health and restoration of Puget Sound also marked a turning point. Maury's fate, he said, was no longer a local issue, of importance to a sparsely populated island.
"It became a Sound issue," he said.
Puget Sound, he added, "is a national, global treasure. We need to treat it as such."
- Purchase of Glacier's Maury Island mine not a done dealwe're holding our breath | Editorial
- State lawmakers approve funds to buy out Glacier Northwest gravel mine
- Glacier foes find gold on Maury site
- Protesters attempt to slow work at Glacier's construction site
- Fighting Glacier
This article was originally published in the Vashon-Maury Island Beachcomber on November 10, 2010.


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The Top Two Percent of America's Farm Subsidy Recipients, 1985-1994
The Cash Croppers: Farm Subsidies 1985-1994
The Top Two Percent of America's Farm Subsidy Recipients, 1985-1994
Over the past 10 years, American taxpayers made payments totaling $108.9 billion through Federal farm subsidy programs. But just 2 percent of the programs' recipients - only about 60,000 corporations, partnerships and individual farmers - received an astronomical 26.8 percent of the subsidies, $29.2 billion in all.
The top 2 percent of America's farm subsidy recipients hauled in an average of $485,000 each over the past 10 years, more than 13 times as much as the average recipient. The top 60,000 recipients averaged more in Federal farm subsidies each year they participated ($52,169) than the typical American family earned in the average year from all sources over the past decade. And the top 2 percent of America's farm subsidy recipients could hardly have been more dependent on the farm programs: they participated on average in 9.3 out of 10 yearsÐÐnearly twice the frequency of the average farm subsidy participant.
EWG analysis of computer records of more than 112 million farm program payments, made through the U.S. Department of Agriculture between 1985 and 1994, found that hundreds of farm subsidy recipients pulled in more than $1 million each through USDA programs over the past decade. All of the top 50 individual farmer recipients of USDA subsidies received more than $1.5 million in farm, conservation, and disaster payments over the decade. Very large payments were especially common in the rice and cotton programs. The top 50 recipients of rice payments, most of which were corporations or general partnerships, all received more than $1.7 million over the 10 years. The top 50 recipients of upland cotton payments, mostly general partnerships, likewise received more than $1.8 million each over the decade. At the other end of the spectrum, the latest figures from the Census of Agriculture reveal that 70 percent of the nation's farms received no government subsidy payments.
Some top recipients received very large payments through the now defunct "dairy termination program," in which taxpayers bought entire herds of milk cows from dairy farmers during the late 1980s and early 1990's. The purchased cows were slaughtered for meat as a means of reducing milk supply and boosting milk prices. Other top recipients received very large payments through the Federal wool and mohair subsidy program, which is now being phased out over the next few years. But the vast majority of the large recipients received deficiency payments for major program cropsÐÐwheat, corn, cotton and rice. In many instances, top recipients received payments under many USDA programs, year after year.
Individual Recipients
Not all farmers are created equal when it comes to farm program payments. The top 2 percent of Federal farm subsidy recipients who received payments as individuals took in $20.38 billion government payments over the past decade, nearly a quarter of all payments to individuals. These big farmers averaged $413,347 apiece over the past 10 years, more than 12 times the amount paid to the average individual recipient. On an annual basis, subsidies to the top 2 percent among individual recipients came to more than $42,700 per year (versus $6,500 per year for the average recipient). The top individual recipients were also more dependent on the subsidies than the average recipient -- the top individuals received payments an average of 9.6 years out of 10, much longer than the average 5.2 years out of 10.
Corporations with Stockholders
Just 1,570 corporations with stockholders (the top 2 percent) hauled in more than $1.38 billion in Federal farm subsidies over the past decade, more than 14 percent of all corporate farm payments. Taxpayers provided these corporations with an average of $880,244 in Federal funds over that period-- 24 times as much as the average subsidy recipient. The biggest corporate subsidy recipients averaged more than $91,000 for each year of participation, about 12 times as much as the average subsidy recipient, and the top corporations participated much more often (9.6 years out of 10, compared to 4.9 years for the average recipient).
General Partnerships
This form of business organization was an especially lucrative one through which to collect farm subsidies over the past 10 years. Just 1,386 general partnershipsÐÐthe top 2 percent of that categoryÐÐhauled in more than $1.9 billion, averaging $1.4 million per partnership over the decade. These top general partnerships received an average of $173,073 per year of participationÐÐand they were in the programs an average of 8 out of 10 years.
Joint Ventures
Joint ventures did nearly as well as general partnerships in terms of Federal farm subsidy earnings. The top 2 percent of joint ventures--just 264 entities--pulled in a total of $313 million over 10 years, averaging nearly $1.2 million each. Their payments per year of participation topped $166,000, and they participated in 7.1 out of 10 years, a high degree of dependency on federal hand outs.
Joint ventures were especially well-rewarded in deficiency payments under the upland cotton program. Just 38 joint ventures earned $45.6 million, an average of $1,201,268 each, between 1985 and 1994. Seventeen joint ventures did nearly as well in the rice deficiency payment program, earning a total of $18 million over the decade, an average of just over one million dollars each.
How The States Compared
The "cash croppers" phenomenon -- big subsidy payments to a small number of recipients -- was found in every state. Payments to the top 2 percent of subsidy recipients ranged from a low of 16.8 percent of all payments in North Dakota, to a high of 51.8 percent of all payments in Arizona.
Some regions of the country showed a particularly high concentration of payments to the top 2 percent of recipients. For example, the top 2 percent of recipients in most southeastern states were paid more than one-third of all subsidies: Alabama (39.7 percent of all payments to the top 2 percent of recipients), Florida (35.3 percent), Mississippi (34.8 percent), North Carolina (40.5 percent), South Carolina (37.2 percent), Tennessee (39.7 percent), and Virginia (41.2 percent).


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While Vladimir Janda was the first to recognize Upper Crossed Syndrome (UCS) and Lower Crossed Syndrome (LCS), few studies have validated the specific pattern of muscle imbalance and postural abnormalities associated with these common muscle imbalance syndromes.Janda's Upper Crossed Syndrome
Matthias Treff, a Masters student in Engineering at Virginia Polytechnic recently wrote his thesis, "An investigation of musculoskeletal imbalances in the thoracic and cervical regions, with respect to an improved diagnostic approach for Upper Crossed Syndrome." The purpose of his research was to determine if differences existed in cervical range of motion as well as cervical and shoulder muscle performance between a group of patients with UCS and subjects without symptoms. The study was a case-control design of 17 subjects with UCS (15 females and 2 males) and 17 matched healthy subjects. They were tested for range of motion and isometric strength and endurance of the neck and shoulder muscles using an isokinetic dynamometer. Compared to healthy subjects, statistically significant decreases in active neck range of motion in bending and rotation were found in the UCS patients, but there was no difference in flexion or extension range of motion. Significant weakness in isometric neck flexion and extension was found in the UCS patients compared to healthy subjects, as well as significant isometric weakness of shoulder external rotation and adduction. Strength ratios of shoulder internal/external rotation and abduction/adduction were also significantly lower in the UCS patients. There was no significant difference in muscular endurance between the UCS patients and healthy controls. The author correctly notes that the diagnosis of UCS is often made through observation of posture and movement patterns. Janda did not advocate manual muscle testing because of the limitations of pain and reliability. The subjects in this study were included based on postural observation and pain complaints, rather than an actual diagnosis of UCS from a set of diagnostic criteria:
"Inclusion criteria for this group were: presence of postural deficiencies such as forward head posture, increased cervical lordosis and thoracic kyphosis, elevated and protracted shoulders, and rotation or abduction and winging of the scapulae, and constant or frequently occurring neck- and shoulder pain for more than 6 months"
This thesis helped validate the patterns of muscle imbalance with objective measurements of strength and range of motion. Other studies on patients with upper quarter musculoskeletal pain such as chronic neck pain (Jull et al. 1999), cervicogenic headache (Page, 2011), and shoulder impingement (Cools et al. 2003) have identified muscular strength imbalances consistent with Janda's classification. While this study helped support Janda's classification of muscle imbalance patterns in patients with symptoms of UCS, further research can help strengthen evidence-led clinical management. Evaluation the strength of the scapular muscles (also included in Janda's muscle classification of UCS) would be beneficial. Unfortunately, this research did not correlate the objective findings of muscle strength and range of motion with Janda's movement patterns (cervical flexion, shoulder abduction), which are critical to an appropriate diagnosis of UCS. I'm hopeful that the author considers publication in a peer-reviewed journal to help strengthen its validity in the rehabilitation literature.
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Woodstock Public Schools
147a Route 169, Woodstock CT 06281
The mission of the Woodstock Public Schools is to educate individuals for today and tomorrow. We will provide a curriculum that develops essential skills, encourages uniqueness and creativity, offers the opportunity to cultivate diverse talents and to develop the full potential of every student. We will promote a cooperative spirit and love of learning in an atmosphere based on respect and trust.
Strong educational leadership and high expectations for success characterize Woodstock's public schools. Most of Woodstock's grade 9-12 students attend Woodstock Academy, one of the Town's designated high schools.
See the Board of Education tab under Boards and Commissions on this website or the Woodstock Public Schools Site Map for more information, including bus routes, school calendars and hours, teacher directories, Special Education information, etc. For the new "Spotlight on Woodstock Education" feature, see the News tab under the Board of Education section of this website, or the Woodstock Public Schools Home Page.
See School Closing Announcements for information about Woodstock Public Schools closings, delays, or early dismissals due to weather or other special circumstances. You may also sign up for automatic email notification from WVIT NBC 30 at: www.nbc30.com/closings. Follow the simple instructions outlined on their page and you will receive an instant email message as soon as they receive the information from our school district.
Woodstock Elementary School
- Grades Pre-K through 4
- 24 Frog Pond, Woodstock, CT 06281
- (860) 928-0471
- WES Home Page
Woodstock Middle School
- Grades 5-8
- 147b Route 169, Woodstock, CT 06281
- (860) 963-6575
- WMS Home Page
The Woodstock Superintendent
- 147a Route 169, Woodstock, CT 06281
- (860) 928-7453
- Other Public School Contact
Woodstock Designated High Schools
Woodstock Academy
Woodstock Academy is a non-selective, comprehensive, independent secondary school serving residents of Woodstock, Eastford, Pomfret, Brooklyn, Union, and Canterbury. Other communities from Connecticut and neighboring states enroll their students as well. The Academy offers over 100 different courses, a wide variety of extra-curricular activities and special interest clubs, and fields 29 athletic teams.
- Grades 9 to 12
- 57 Academy Road, Woodstock, CT 06281
- (860) 928-6575
- http://www.woodstockacademy.org/
Harvard H. Ellis Technical School
Harvard H. Ellis Technical School is a technical High School in Danielson, CT Students come from Ashford, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Eastford, Griswold, Hampton, Killingly, Lisbon, Plainfield, Pomfret, Preston, Putnam, Scotland, Stafford, Sterling, Thompson, Voluntown, Willimantic, and Woodstock.
- Grades 9 to 12
- 613 Upper Maple Street, Danielson, CT 06239
- (860) 774-8511
- http://www.cttech.org/ellis/
Killingly Regional Vocational Agriculture Center
Killingly Regional Vocational Agriculture Center is an Agricultural Department within Killingly High School, in Dayville, CT. Students come from Brooklyn, Canterbury, Eastford, Griswold, Killingly, Plainfield, Pomfret, Putnam, Sterling, Thompson, Voluntown, and Woodstock.
- Grades 9 to 12
- 226 Putnam Pike, Dayville, CT 06241
- (860) 779-6675
- http://www.killingly.k12.ct.us/index.php?show=KHS&content=38
Arts at the Capitol Theater (ACT)
Arts at the Capitol Theater (ACT) is a full-day arts magnet high school in Willimantic, CT, operated by EASTCONN. In 2007-2008, the existing part-time arts magnet school serving Grades 9 – 12, was expanded to a full-day program for Grade 9, serving 20 students from eastern Connecticut's public schools. EASTCONN intends to expand the high school to include students in Grades 9 through 12 in the future.
- Grade 9
- 896 Main Street, Willimantic, CT 06226
- (860) 465-5636
- www.eastconn.org/ACT
Quinebaug Valley Middle College High School (QVMCHS)
QVMCHS is a full-day magnet high school within the Quinebaug Valley Community College campus in Danielson, CT. It is designed to provide nontraditional learners in Grades 10-12 an innovative educational option.
- Grades 10 – 12
- 742 Upper Maple Street, Danielson, CT 06239
- (860) 455-0707
- http://www.eastconn.org/QVMCHS/index.htm
Other High Schools
Hyde School
Hyde School is an independent (private) school for both boarding and day students and offers a quality college preparatory curriculum. The school headquarters are in Bath, Maine.
- Hyde School's Woodstock Campus
- Grades 9 to 12
- 150 Route 169, , Woodstock, CT 06281
- (860) 963-9096
- http://www.hyde.edu/
Universities and Colleges Nearby
- Eastern Connecticut State University (Willimantic, CT)
- University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT)
- Quinebaug Valley Community College (Danielson and Willimantic, CT)
- Nichols College (Dudley, MA)