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Utah's award-winning KUED makes PBS proud
By Scott D. Pierce | The Salt Lake TribuneFirst published Mar 23 2013 01:01AM
In recent months, public television viewers have traveled the Grand Canyon, seen wild horses race across the West, spent time with homeless veterans and been entertained by the Piano Guys.
These shows aired on Public Broadcasting Service stations across the nation, but they were produced by Utah's KUED-Channel 7.
"As I go around the country and deal with my colleagues at other PBS stations, they're envious of what we're able to do here," said KUED general manager Michael Dunn. In addition to carrying national shows, such as "Frontline," "Nova" and "Downton Abbey," Dunn said the station is committed to being "Utah's best storyteller."
"Yes, we love our PBS programming," he said. "But we don't want to be just a pass-through station bringing you that. And, frankly, I think our significance and our relevance to the community in the future is going to be our ability to continue to bring you these great stories."
In 2012, KUED-Channel 7 spent $1,657,355 — 22 percent of its annual budget — producing 60 hours of local programming. That's a larger percentage of resources than most PBS stations, said Dunn.
With numbers like that, Channel 7 is going against the current trend. Outside the largest PBS stations in the largest TV markets, many stations across the country have given up on local production.
"We've seen other stations fold their local production tents," said Ken Verdoia, KUED's director of production. "And that comes at a terrible price."
Verdoia consults for other PBS stations, many of which can finance only one documentary per year. KUED has between six and 12 long-format documentaries in various stages of production at any time, he said. "That puts us up in the upper tiers with the WGBHs, with the WNETs, with the WETAs."
National recognition • KUED's quality programming hasn't gone unnoticed.
"I can tell you stations that do OK and the ones that really have stepped it up," said PBS president Paula Kerger. "And KUED is one that truly has stepped it up."
In each of the past 10 years, KUED has had at least two and as many as six of its productions air nationally on PBS.
In 2012, Channel 7's "Grand Canyon Seranade," "Horses of the West," "Street Vets" and "Five Rivers, Five Voices" were placed in the national PBS rotation. Those shows joined two editions of "Christmas With the Mormon Tabernacle Choir," PBS' most-watched holiday programs.
In March, "The Piano Guys" is airing more than 700 times on PBS stations across the country. The show is co-produced with KBYU-Channel 11. The Provo station operates under a different mission than KUED and does not produce documentaries.
"Your buttons burst just a little bit when you realize that's happening," Dunn said.
While the rest of the country might think Salt Lake City is a little backwater, the state is home to many talented people — including award-winning filmmaker John Howe.
"We've really built up a pretty good national reputation because of our shows, which are designed to compete with the best and go into the national schedules," said Howe, who says he looks for great stories with great characters. "That's sort of our formula for success."
But it takes more than even that to make it to the national arena.
"We're looking for interesting subjects that are well told," Kerger said. "We look for programs we think will have wider than just regional interest."
Local first • All this national success is the gravy for KUED. Leaders say the "meat and potatoes " of the station's work is still a focus on Utah and the West. Over the past few decades, Channel 7 has produced hundreds of original programs — and not just talking-head, public-affairs shows.
"There's a lot more to great TV than just having smart people sit and talk about the issues that touch our lives," Verdoia said. "There's getting out and seeing the issues. Experiencing them."
KUED has produced documentaries unique to Utah, including "The Struggle for Statehood," a biography of Brigham Young and a look at the history of polygamy. It also looks at current issues and the state's diverse cultures. And it produces documentaries about the region — from Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon and more.
Verdoia sees Utah storytelling as less of a mandate and more of a promise to serve the community and region.
"There's an important role for public television that is different and apart from other contemporary broadcast media," he said.
Commercial stations don't have the resources to produce local, long-form documentaries.
"I just feel grateful that we have the luxury of doing this kind of thing," Dunn said, "because our local news operations are not going to be able to do it, unless you consider a minute-and-a-half an in-depth story."
Working in public television is different from working in commercial TV, added KUED producer Nancy Green. "It's liberating as a storyteller, because you're not tied to ratings and advertisers. Instead, our measure of success comes from community involvement, engagement and support."
Jennifer Dahl, KUTV's director of news and operations, agreed that public and commercial television stations occupy different niches.
"Our mission is to provide quality local news seven days a week," she said. "It's very different from what they do."
Dahl praised the work KUED does, pointing specifically to the "Utah Vietnam Stories" that featured two of her staff — Sterling Poulson and Rod Decker.
"It was beautiful," she said.
Projects currently in production at KUED include a documentary about the history of Brigham Street — Salt Lake City's 100 South — and the Utah bucket list of things to do that features The Tribune's outdoor writer, Brett Prettyman.
KUED filmmakers also are hard at work on a documentary about the air quality in Utah.
"I'm just happy that we'll be able to take the time to really dive into that story and tell it well," Dunn said. "And, hopefully, it's something that spurs action."


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Prevention goes well beyond the mammograms, prostate screenings or blood tests that we can get at the doctor's office. It's the little steps you take that can keep you healthy. Here are 10 easy ways to get started.
- Take a walk. Humans are designed to be on the move, Meller said. "Walking triggers all of our bodily systems: digestion, stress relief, thinking and preparation for sleep."
- Keep a food journal. Writing down everything you eat can double your weight loss, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
Scribble down your dietary transgressions on a note pad, use an online food journal or send yourself text messages.
- Stop drinking soda. Soda and other caloric, sugar-sweetened beverages have contributed to skyrocketing rates of obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
His most confused patients seem to be doing everything right but may have two glasses of milk, one glass of juice and one glass of wine a day.
"A well-balanced diet replete with fruits, vegetables and proteins should satisfy all of one's nutritional needs," Freedhoff said. "Liquid calories are not satiating and in studies tend only to add calories to a meal."
- Strengthen your muscles. If you want to keep your muscles from weakening as you age, start strength training. It's "the only style of exercise that maintains and increases lean muscle tissue and burns between 22 and 36 calories per day," said personal trainer Jim Karas.
- Chill out. Stressed-out people are more vulnerable to colds and other viruses, they take longer to recover from illness, and they gain more weight than their relaxed counterparts, research has shown.
Another stress expert, Debbie Mandel, likes to lift weights when her stress levels creep up. In addition to exercise, deep-breathing techniques, meditation, tai chi and yoga are proven stress relievers.
- Eat out less. We often use restaurants in the same way our parents used supermarkets, one of the main reasons for the dramatic global rise in chronic diseases such as obesity, Type 2 diabetes and heart disease, Freedhoff said.
- Be a social butterfly. Human beings are social creatures, if only because we need to reproduce. But research has shown that joining a club or sports team, belonging to a church group or keeping in contact with friends creates a sense of social identity that can help significantly reduce your risk of having a stroke, dementia and even the common cold.
- Get some sleep. Sleeping well is the single most overlooked factor critical to good health, especially during the flu season, said sleep specialist Dr. Rubin Naiman, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine. But because focusing on doing all the right things before bed can make it harder to sleep, Naiman suggests lightening things up, perhaps by watching comedy on television before bed.
- Eat whole foods. Whole foods - fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, eggs and whole grains - are unprocessed and unrefined and typically don't have added sugar, salt or fat. They often have a low glycemic index, which means they don't raise blood sugar and insulin levels as quickly as processed foods.
- Find your passion. Do things that bring meaning to your days, said Patricia Boyle, a neuropsychologist in the Alzheimer's Disease Center at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, whose research has shown that having a higher purpose can reduce the risk of death among older adults.

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First a minor observation: contrary to your stated policy about welcoming comments, I see that you let the discussion being corrupted by apparently less mentally normal persons who flood the site with hard to digest verbiose visions.
Anyway, while the EU and Holland's impatience about Romania's justice system and anti corruption actions is justified, why don't you whisper a single word about the win-win deal on the ocassion of our admission into the EU: Germany, France and Italy took over our electricity and gas distributions, Austria took the crown's jewel, the national oil company (downstream as well as exploration and extraction) and banks, Greece took the National Lottery and banks, and Great Britain pocketed Romania's biggest steel company (it's true, we had to give it away but we got from you the bonus of two scrap frigates :) ).
Moreover: if EU fears Greece as the source of a massive inflow of ex-EU people, why don't you secure Greece borders and eventually fight against corrupton in Greece? Is this a sign that you've abandoned any hopes abot Greece?
I urge Netherlands to free itself from the grasp of extremists like Wilders.
Also Romania and Bulgaria are not responsible because you decided to bring to Europe all your former colonies across the oceans. We are not responsible that you flooded indiscriminately with passports all people who wanted to move from Suriname or whatever to Amsterdam. You have been churning out citizenships for decades already, so stop using us as scapegoats.
I recently took a mini bus from Transylvania to Budapest to connect to a Us bound flight. At the border, the Hungarian officer picked up on a tiny crack in the windshield that was barely 15 cm long and hidden by the windshield wiper. He told the driver to go back to Oradea and fix it. The situation was "fixed" with a 10 Euro bill, wrinkled and quickly "palmed" by the Hungarian. So much for Schengen. Corruption is a part of life, whether by the means of "palming" a wrinkled note or by wrestling billions by the institutions of formerly large empires, of which Netherlands surely belongs.
History was unkind to Romania and Bulgaria. The Turks sucked its resources and incubated these lands with a high degree of corruption amongst 'chieftains', resulting in an endemic blood sucking vice that the general populace suffers from.
Add the Orthodox Church, a cowardly hierarchy of moochers who stamped whatever ruler-ship, regarding how corrupt...
Europe must learn its history with impartiality, and help The People of Romania and Bulgaria overcome its historical and current blood suckers that impaired their human development.
I lived and worked in Romania from 1990 to 1997 and have been back since on assignment.
I have a great rspect for Romania, as an emerging south-central European nation.
The article is correct; in my opinion, the average Romanian seriously wants to be part of western Europe and the EU. Compliance with EU laws and introduction of European standards and norms are both seen as highly desirable.
Why? Because the EU is an overlay that can prevail over regrettably complex and arbitrarily interpreted and applied Romanian laws, rules and norms.
In other words, Romanians might prefer to have less sovereignty and more rule of law.
What about the gray shade of France, then?! They are befriending with Russia (the one who brought the dirt-poverty with the occupation of Eastern Romania ie Moldova), selling them arms and now they even want to get out of the Schengen space. What about the drogs paradise Netherlands, that solid European collection of human garbage?
I am not quite sure who's the dirt one here ...
All the great things of the 20th century started in Western Europe and moved to East. For example communism, nazism, fascism, and socialism. The fifth one of course, is the mother of all, EU.
Leave Eastern Europe alone to develope on its own! We don't need your stinky european institutions. You need us more we need you.
Urge you may, and you may be right, but you should also urge Romanian government to become more efficient: to better absorb European cohesion funds, to better administer revenues, to better know how to create wealth (by creating a freer and friendlier business environment, by attracting new investors), to improve education, infrastructure and pulic health system, to adopt stable, coherent policies and you should also ask the justice system to be less politicised, to be less corrupt and incompetent and to fight graft prevalent in Romania. I totally agree with your assumption that Romania is now suffering delays in getting into Schengen because of Dutch extremist hijacking Dutch government, and that all that antiimmigration wave in Netherlands is a result of decades of a wrong immigration policy and a bad integration of African, Asian immigrants, which makes the Romanians now indirectly the scapegoats. Unfortunatelly for us, we can urge Netherlands lots of things, but as long as we have the dead cat in our yard, it is very difficult for us to ask for sympathy and to show the others Romania is a victim of double standards. Ro should better do her homework, which would put her in a better position to urge others anything. As long as Ro is in the spotlight, the manoeuvre margins are very limited.
I dare to partially disagree on the comment about the Netherlands. Although they may have other disadvantages they also have one of the better regulated drugs market in Europe also because partly drugs are legal. Not to mention that most drug-related problems come from the many tourists that go there exactly for these drugs. As recent measures have shown the measures were taken to improve that. As a Bulgarian that lived in the Netherlands for several years I have less often faced drug-related news there compared to Bulgaria. I love my country and exactly for this reason I think we should be objective and face our demons, not only trying to place the blame somewhere else.
Very poorly written article. For instance,
"One reason the Schengen case has proved so vexing is that the two countries are learning to follow rules just as other countries have begun to mistrust them."
To mistrust what? The two countries or the rules?
Bulgaria is not into Schengen for two reasons - it still is proving to be Russia's puppet in the EU, evidenced by lack of customs authorities at the port of Russia-owned oil refiner at Rosenets port. The prime minister Borissov, who by Wikileaks disclosures is strongly tied to Russian residents like Zlatev - the CEO of the aforesaid oil refinery and consultant to Belene NPP, just said yesterday he will be paying hard-earned cash in the crumpling economy of Bulgaria to Russia for the two NPP reactors. What's more there to say? And Bulgaria did elect this guy again. All said, Bulgaria should be excluded from the EU altogether as it does not meet any of the membership agreement standards any more in the first place. This would be welcomed by majority its people and by Russia's oligarchs like Zlatev and their puppets like Borissov. Besides, they will be able to plug a whole in the ever-rising Bulgarian emigration.
Most of you have never even visited Bulgaria or Romania. My spouse is half Romanian and half Bulgarian, and we recently returned to live in Romania for several years. There are incredible historic sights, landscape, flora, fauna, people, folk clothing, folk music, and folk dancing in both countries. But both countries remain terribly corrupt, and including them in the Schengen will not necessarily improve conditions for other EU citizens, although it will make it even easier to bring stolen cars from Central Europe into Romania and Bulgaria (I've already seen more Porsche/BMW/Mercedes/Audi SUVs in Bucharest than I have in all of Austria). In any case, the air needs to be cleared of the carbon spewed by the arm-chair propagandists.
Both Romania and Bulgaria remain thoroughly corrupt and kafkesque. Any personal or business interaction with a bureaucrat is potentially subject to a bribe or obscenely high fee, let alone racist and condescending treatment. For example, notarization in the US takes less than 5 minutes for less than $5, unless you have to get the rare Apostile from a state government office for about $25-$50. In Romania or Bulgaria, be prepared to pay $50-$500 for a notarization that may "require" 5 different bureaucrats in a process that may take anywhere between 2 hours to 2 weeks! But that is just for notarization. Police require bribes for drivers licenses paid only through driving school instructors, and this happens after one has gone through government required examinations by several medical specialists (especially if female). The guards at hospital entrances often expect bribes to get in, and nurses may require a bribe just to get the medication that you the patient have already paid for in person at the hospital pharmacy downstairs in the courtyard. To get a building plan approved, mayors and zoning officials may require thousands or millions of euros in bribes.
In the meantime, can anyone forget that the Romanian government has been selling Romanian citizenship to thousands of Moldovans despite the frank objections of the EU? I can understand that Moldovans are generally (that is, if you weed out the Russian transplants) relatives of the Romanians and that both want to be reunited. But mixed in are the motives of bureaucrat profits for the Romanian government who cares less where the Moldovans go next. And south of the Danube, Bulgarians are allowing (through bribes) thousands of illegal immigrants (from Asia, Africa, and the Middle East) to go upstream into Budapest and Vienna. From there, the illegal immigrants make their way to Paris, Berlin, London, and Scandinavia in search of free food, lodging, etc.
Look, I'm not European, and I'm not even Caucasian, so it doesn't affect me personally either way. If the EU is already teetering because of Greece, do not expect things will be any better when the governments of Bulgaria and Romania are continuously fed money while left off the hook of their responsibilities. Most Bulgarians and Romanians with any sense and means will take advantage of the Schengen to flee. Furthermore, gypsy gangs, car theft, and human trafficking (of sex victims and illegal immigrants) will only worsen throughout the EU as a result.
I agree that this TE article is "poorly written" but your comment is very poor and a mingle-mangle indeed.The decision to keep Rumania and Bulgaria out of Schengen is of course politically motivated and nothing to do with the abilities of these two contries to stop illegal emigration from from the Middle East and Africa.The buffer zone they are better suits the rest of EU.I do not see what are the advantages of RO&BG citizens to be welcomed into the so called Schengen zone if these citizens are still discriminated in the EU labour market. Besides this perhaps NATO strategists consider the job not yet finished in the so called Western Balkans and if a major waves of refugees/asylum! seekers start invading into BG&RO they are to remain to stay in BG&RO-they must suffer the consquencies, not the rest of Europe similar to the Ottoman invasion six centuries ago.UK is not a Schengen member and nobody blames UK, at least officially to be the Trojan horse of USA in the EU as you looks like to mumble "descretely" of BG being the Russian Trojan horse in EU.And the migration of Bulgarians and Romanians into the rest of EU is part of the deal and not emigration- not only free movement of goods and capital- goods into BG&RO, capital with a heavy "shade of grey" into EU but of free movement of BG&RO citizens for this Schengen is not concerned.
I am a romanian citizen . Holland make a verry good job for me , because I have big problems with romanian Justice .
Frustration or not , the trouth is the Justice in Romania is mother for the sharks .
So it was , so it is .
Sorry .
I agree that there are many problems in Ro, but your comment is indeed far fetched: many luxury cars in Bucharest? that shows the big discrepancies in revenue in a developing country, it doesn't mean they are stolen. On the contrary, since Romania joined EU there is a lot less stolen cars traffiking....Romanians who wanted to leave their country could do it since 2002, since visa free travel to Western Europe was possible. Schenge would not change a thing. Bribes at the border? are you nuts? make some researches and see how many illegal immigrants get into Romania through its outer borders: when some Pakistanis , Afghanis, etc mange to get through illegally, it s national news, it happens so seldom. check your facts. it is true there is corruption, but not as exagerrated as you say. Some years ago i was driving there and I got some fines for overspeeding, etc, and I had some dealings with traffic cops and no problem, no bribes, no bad words, it was civilised and all. Also doctors and nurses...there may be corrupt cops, mayors and nurses, but not all are corrupt, not by far. And check any statistics you can find, EU statistics, etc, Romania is one of the safest countries in EU: very limited gang violence, organised crime, extremely low firearms ownership and incidents...Romania is much more safe and quiet than France, Uk, Germany, etc...But it is suffering from the badge some countries put to it, and any crime commited by any Romanian outside Ro is highly publicised, but on account of crimes per capita, Romania stands pretty low. There are more problems with organised crime in Bulgaria, but apart from that, the Bulgarian mean criminality index is low too
When stating that Bulgaria and Romania would be better off opening their borders for Turkey, Moldavia, Ukraine, Serbia and Russia, the poster 'eugen_nl' shows himself being totally divorced from those two countries' reality.
Schengen could surely bring some inconvenience to both, but just cutting off the economic, and thus political influence of aforementioned countries is the huge advantage worth of any inconvenience. Serbia is on her way to the EU, and Moldova is too small and poor to have any relevancy, so let's leave them alone for the moment.
But Turkish and especially Russian influence was always disastrous for the region, and now, the former being overtaken by Islamists, and the latter firmly in the grip of Putin's cleptocracy, it would bring a real catastrophe.
I found it hard to detect any logic in the statement that Mr Wilders of Netherlands is somehow responsible for anti-immigration attitudes which are defined, in the same sentence by the same poster, as a result of policies initiated before Mr Wilders was even born and by politicians of literally opposite to his own persuasion.
The article itself is not clear, or sincere enough when waxing on EU's cranky distrust, and what TE tenderly calls "euro crisis". Translated, that means plainly Greek cheating. Which, as a matter of fact, continues: three times wealthier than Bulgarians (according to the article), Greeks pretend to be impoverished, claim the EU well-fare, do receive it, and laugh all the way from their bailed out banks back to lovely homes and income which they don't declare in their tax returns.
It's true, there is almost no cooperation between Bg & Ro...it's such a shame. These 2 countries do not seem to realize that they could help themselves a lot more if they would cooperate better. From what I know, the 2 nations are rather indifferent one towards the other, and at governmental level too. As one of my Spanish friends said once, they have the same relationship as the Spanish and the Portuguese have...utter indifference. Which is bad for both countries.
All this Schengen dispute is indeed tiresome. Because of spicy declaration of politicians Romanians and Bulgarians are may be seeing this as being considered "inferior" people.
Dutch love deals but even in Dutch internal politics reaching a deal takes years. Formation of a government in Netherlands takes 6 months.
The handling of the issue by the Dutch diplomacy was equally inept. Instead of coming against the perception of Romanian and Bulgarians that they are seen as "untermensch" and to minimize the dispute as a sideline justice regulation problem and step-up the friendly gestures on other issues like trade or cultural exchanges or aid they made only bossy declarations without offering any clue want exactly want to be sure to sign the lite Schengen deal. They give the impression that they do not want to negotiate and implicitly that yes they really despite Bulgaria and Romania. The ambassador in Romania had the language of a colonial boss not a diplomat. This was really stupid diplomacy or " echt dom" in Dutch. Their prime minister refused to comment or at least to leak "off-record" his disprove of the xenophobic PVV website.
Although The Netherlands has a lot of commercial interest in Romania and Bulgaria.
Romanians and Bulgarians may find some consolation in the thought that the Dutch politicians and diplomats are as inept and "dom" as theirs. Welcome to the EU !. So nobody is inferior to nobody. All the politicians in EU seems equally inept.
''perhaps NATO strategists consider the job not yet finished in the so called Western Balkans and if a major waves of refugees/asylum! seekers start invading into BG&RO they are to remain to stay in BG&RO-they must suffer the consquencies, not the rest of Europe similar to the Ottoman invasion six centuries ago''.......Interesting perspectve. You are somehow right, these 2 countries were always seen as buffer zones by the western countries, they were the ones responsible for keeping Tartars and later Ottomans out of Western Europe, and they were left to manage on their own or perish. As for your hypothesis concerning the eventual Western Balkans asylum seekers, if that would ever happen, would it not be better for the 2 countries to be inside Schengen, which would mean stronger border defence, as anyone knows once inside Schengen stricter border patrol is in place, whereas by refusing these 2 countries schengen entry, they may be inclined towards letting refugees cross their borders for instance into Hungary, by intentionally laxing their border policy, as to act out of spite? Oh, and it is so funny to think of EU refusing RO&BG entry into Schengen just because that may help refugees from Greece cross into Europe. Shouldn't they pressure the Greek state to better guard its border or even ask Greece to exit Schengen, if it proves a weak guardian? Why shouldn't they give a chance to RO&BG to show how are they capable of defending their outer borders? let's say, give them a trial period of 1, 2 years, monitoring for the first 3, 5 years, etc?
By the way, there seem to be misconceptions and assumptions about the "ties" that Romania and Bulgaria have with surrounding countries.
Although linguistically and culturally separate, Romanians and Bulgarians are actually partially related by blood, and the Romanians helped the Bulgarians against the Turks for hundreds of years, but they seem to have forgotten much of that. During Communism, the Romanian dictatorship made essentially all non-Romanians suspect, and many families of German, Bulgarian, and Serbian descent were sent to concentration camps. To this day, there remain only a couple bridges spanning the Danube between Bulgaria and Romania. Relations between Romania and Serbia worsened further as Romania allowed NATO military bases, railroad access, and airspace clearance for bombing against Belgrade. Romania's relations with Hungary are even worse, with both nationalistic groups shouting about each other's trampling of historic or cultural boundaries. Many Romanians are staunchly anti-Russian, and occasionally some anti-Ukrainian sentiment gets mixed in because of the substantial Romanian losses of Bessarabia/Bukovina.
Bulgarians used to do whatever they could to please their big Russian brother, but Russia's cruel control of natural gas has ticked off the Bulgarians. Neither Bulgarians or Romanians like the Turks, and none of them would want to admit doing business with Turks unless they married into a Turkish family or converted to Islam. Memories of Ottoman Turk atrocities still remain fresh among Bulgarians and Romanians. The current sexual enslavement of Eastern European girls lured to Istanbul for jobs continues to leave a stench in the nostrils of Romanians and Bulgarians. I haven't met a single one who would want to visit Istanbul, let alone Anatolia… and I know, because I would like to go visit.
As in the days of Classical Greece, the northern barbarians (Romanian and Bulgarians) are frowned upon by Postmodern Greeks. Romanians and Bulgarians do enjoy vacationing in Greece (which is like a completely different world: modern and clean), but they perhaps do so mainly because of proximity.
Yeah, great.
Then form a union with Belarus and Moldova. Good luck.
You know, these guys who oppose Romania and Bulgaria's entry to Schengen bring plain stupid arguments: as somehow Schengen would cut ties to a number of eastern countries and that would limit these 2 countries' maneouvre margin. They think small and raggy: I, like you, think that by being into Schengen they would rather be able to block some negative influences coming from outside and would cut eventual informal, unoficial, raggedy economic activities. being into Schengen doesn't mean they would cut themselves from Turkey, Serbia, Ukraine, etc. The merchandises that have to keep entering and getting out of the country would still go as before, it would rather mean a better checking of illegal, informal, criminal sometimes, activities. that's it.
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20 DIY home cleaning products that are easy to make
Homemade laundry detergent
Lisa Nelsen-Woods, the frugal green DIY diva behind the blog, Condo Blues makes a powdered laundry detergent using bar soap, Borax and washing soda. Best part? This DIY detergent costs approximately 30 cents a load and will work in both regular and high efficiency washing machines.
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– Charyn Pfeuffer
Homemade drain cleaner
To make a natural drain cleaner, pour 1/2 cup baking soda down the drain and top with 1 cup white vinegar. Let sit for an hour and then run hot water down the drain.
– Louisa Graves, beauty expert and author of Age-Proof: Beauty Alternatives You Need to Know
Homemade toothpaste
Making toothpaste at home with baking soda seems like a no brainer, until you actually do it and the result is gag-worthy at best. To navigate this battle of ease versus taste, the DIY-savvy gals at Old School road-tested the top toothpaste recipes out there, and discovered a perfect potion that's head and shoulders above the rest.
– Heather Stephenson and Larkin Gayl, founders of do-it-yourself/arts & crafts company Old School and experts at creating safe, at-home supplies
DIY solution for squeaky door hinges
Want to avoid WD-40 and take care of a noisy hinge? Take a cucumber slice and rub it along the hinge, and no more squeak.
– Caroline Blazovsky, President of My Healthy Home
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For car odor, place unused charcoal on a rag in the back of the car. The charcoal soaks up the smell, leaving your car stink-less.
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To give hardwood floors a new spring shine, Calie Shackleford at the blog Broccoli Cupcake recommends using boiled tea to mop hardwood floors. She say it imparts a natural, light, fresh scent, plus leaves a brilliant shine. Her technique: Drop three black tea bags into a bowl or bucket, add boiling water, then dunk a mop head or towel into the liquid, wring out and mop as usual.
Homemade toilet bowl cleaner
To scrub toilets, pour 1/2 cup baking soda, 1/2 cup white vinegar and a drop or two of natural phosphate-free dish soap into the toilet and scrub away. Allow the mixture to stay in the toilet until your next flush.
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Homemade marble cleaner
Despite its rock-like feel, marble is a porous material that's more absorptive than it appears, making it prone to sucking in liquid that creates discoloration. Scrub at it all you want — the stains under the surface won't lift. But covering the problem area with an inert white powder (flour, starch, etc.) will act like a poultice and actively pull the stain out as it dries. Here's how to draw the stain out.
– Heather Stephenson and Larkin Gayl, founders of do-it-yourself/arts & crafts company Old School and experts at creating safe, at-home supplies
Home remedy for ink and marker stains
Milk or cucumber can be used to remove pen marks from furniture. It's also great for removing markers from walls.
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DIY cleaner for sinks and bathroom mildew
To scrub sinks and remove soapy mildew in bathrooms, spray vinegar on the surface, then sprinkle with a little baking soda, a squirt of natural phosphate-free dish soap and scrub with a non-scratch scrub sponge. Rinse afterwards.
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Hot air balloons are quite possibly some of the most amazing creations to ever fly the blue skies. The colorful balloon designs and incredible baskets carrying men and women from all over the world are a sight to behold. Imagine seeing dozens, or even hundreds, of colorful balloons in the air at the same time.
Each summer, communities around the globe sponsor a myriad of hot air balloon festivals. The biggest, brightest balloon owners from all over the world gather to show off their skills. If you're lucky, you'll even get to take a balloon ride of your own! Make sure you check out a few of these hot festivals.
Canberra Balloon Fiesta
The Canberra Balloon Fiesta is held each fall in Australia. For nine days in April, balloons from all over the world launch every morning, slowly inflating into a myriad of shapes and sizes. Many of the balloons featured here are incredibly unique. One year there was a pair of dancing honeybees floating near a replica of Vincent Van Gogh's head. The balloons officially launch daily from the yard of the Old Parliament House in Canberra.
Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning
The Quick Chek New Jersey Festival of Ballooning was founded by Quick Chek food stores back in 1983. Since then it has grown into an annual event featuring over 125 hot air balloons ranging from those with special shapes to those created for sports and racing. The festival also features other types of entertainment, including concerts, food, and firework shows!
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
The Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in New Mexico is the largest balloon festival in the entire world! Held each October, the event spans nine days and features over 750 incredible balloons. There are a number of special events held throughout the festival.
One of the most incredible is the Dawn Patrol, where special lights are used to allow a series of balloonists to launch their balloons well before sunrise. The most popular is the Mass Ascension, during which time all of the participating balloons launch in two or three carefully coordinated waves.
Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic
The Alabama Jubilee Hot Air Balloon Classic is an annual event held in Decatur, Alabama every Memorial Day weekend. The official event is held in Point Mallard Park where the public is invited to roam the fair grounds free of charge. Around 60 hot air balloons from around the country will be inflated for an evening of fun and entertainment. The festival also features a car show, live entertainment, food, fireworks, and a series of different ballooning events.
Bristol International Balloon Fiesta
The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is held in Bristol in the United Kingdom each year. The four day festival draws crowds of over 100,000 each day, with people gathering to watch over 100 balloons at a time during their launches.
One of the favorite attractions during the festival is the annual night glow, where balloons are launched after dark and are choreographed to glow in time with specific music!
Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival
The Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival is held in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada towards the end of August and early September each year. The festival was founded in 1988 by Jean Boileau, who was seriously injured while trying to save his daughter during a tragic balloon accident in 2001. This led the city of Gatineau to revamp its rules regarding the festival, which now features only 75 balloons as opposed to the original 125. These changes had little impact on festival attendance. The festival also features the Canadian Strongment competition, which qualifies the winner to participate in the World's Strongest Man Competition later in the year.
Saxonia International Balloon Fiesta
The Saxonia International Balloon Fiesta is held in Leipzig, Germany during July of each year. It is considered the third largest balloon festival in all of Europe. The event is held in a public park known as Silbersee and has room to feature over 100 balloons. There are dozens of competitions for balloonists to participate in, including fox hunting and simply flying as far as possible.
Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta
The Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Festival is held every year in Clark Field in Angeles City, Pampanga. Over a hundred balloonists participate in this festival each year, usually during the months of January and February. The festival features a number of incredible air sports aside from ballooning as well. Visitors will be amazed by skydiving events, small plane fly-bys, acrobatics, airplane balloon bursting, and a number of other astounding events.
No matter where you are in the world, we can almost guarantee a hot air balloon festival will pop up nearby at some point during the year. Don't miss out on the opportunity to see some of the world's greatest balloonists in action. Hot air balloons simply don't fly by as often as we'd like!
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"The L Word" recap (2.13): "Lacuna"
- Predispositions: Something to embrace and celebrate. Sorta.
- Help: What Jenny needs.
- Scourge: Helena's middle name. That and "petulant."
- Fucking: Dreary when it's without art (i.e., when it's with Helena).
- Sisterhood: If you're the Wilsons, it's powerful. If you're the Ziffs, it's… um, yeah.
THIS WEEK'S GUEST-BIANS: Holland Taylor reminds us that this show can still be good; Gloria Steinem does a group therapy session; Heart rocks.
Finally, the finale. — Yay! The title is "Lacuna," which could be a lot of things. Webster's tells me it's "a blank space or a missing part," a "gap, hole, flaw, or defect." It can also be "one of the follicles in the mucous membrane of the urethra" or "one of the minute cavities in bone or cartilage occupied by the cells." Good then. Let's watch and learn, shall we? Or watch and wonder, probably.
Sunset Strip, present day — Jenny's stripping again. We see the crowd, but we don't hear them; instead we hear sinister noises, like the lash of a whip or the swoosh of a sword, and we get to see little bits of those carnival scenes/fantasy sequences we've been enjoying all year. Oh, all that mysterious misery of Jenny's past. When will it ever end? Oh that's right: with this episode! At least for a while.
Outside the strip club, Shane sits on a bench and smokes a cigarette and wears a cute hat. Nice work if you can get it.
Jenny comes out of the strip club — it was more fun when she was just coming out of the closet — and says hello to Shane. They stroll and chat and smoke. Jenny's hair (sort of a fauxhawk, but not quite) makes her look a bit like Sal Mineo.
Jenny: "What did you think?"
Shane: "You were good."
Jenny: "No, I wasn't, I sucked. It doesn't matter if I'm good."
Shane: "Why are you doing this?"
Jenny: "Because when I'm in there, it's my fucking choice when I take off my top, when I wanna show my breasts, and it's my fucking choice when I take off my pants and I show my pussy, and then I stop when I wanna stop and it makes me feel good because I'm in charge. And it helps me remember all this childhood shit that happens to me."
What? It helps you remember? Oh no. Ouch. Interesting that you said "happens," not "happened." Interesting and sad.
Jenny: "Do you remember what happened to you as a child that makes you not wanna —"
Shane: "Wait wait wait, whaddya mean?"
Jenny: "No, seriously, just hear me out. Do you remember the shit that happened to you as a child that makes you not want to trust people as an adult?"
Shane: "Yeah, I probably do."
Jenny: "Well, then you're fuckin' lucky."
Shane: "I don't know how that makes me so lucky."
Jenny: "Because you're lucky… because you can get on with your fuckin' life and you're not dogged down by these horrible, oppressive childhood memories, and you know, you stand a chance of being a normal, productive person."
So Shane asks the obvious — whether Jenny remembers what happened to her. Jenny says the memories are blurry and she doesn't know what's real and what she's made up. Shane says "that" (stripping) is not the only way to get to the truth.
Shane: "You have me, you have other people. You don't have to do this alone."
But Jenny wants to do it that way. And whatever Jenny wants, Jenny gets — and we get to watch it. Try to keep up, Shane.
Also, I get what Jenny's saying.
Shane tries to take Jenny home, but Jenny wants to take the bus.
Another day, another story — Bette and Tina are talking about birthing tanks as they make their way to an appointment at the hospital. Guess who's parked right in front of the door?
Helena: "Tina, I need to talk to you for a minute. [to Bette] Do you mind?"
Bette: "Yes, I do, actually."
But Helena's not taking no for an answer; she wants Tina to have lunch with her and the fabulous Peggy Peabody. Bette and Tina want to know how Helena knew where to find them. Helena says James told her where they'd be, which Bette doesn't believe:
Bette: "James knows not to give out my schedule."
Helena: "What James knows is that he wants to keep his job. He seemed to have relatively few qualms about it."
Helena scoots closer to Tina — make that swoops in for the kill — and gives her the details about lunch.
Tina: "I'm not having lunch with you. And I don't like this."
Nicely done, Tina — you can be kinda stern when you want to. But Helena follows them as they try to go in; she says it's important and insists that Tina's one of the only people who can hold her own with Peggy.
Helena: "Everyone else just fawns all over her. It's tedious."
Bette: "Not as tedious as this is becoming. We're going inside now."
Helena: "Fine. I'll make sure they take good care of you in there."
Tina: "What?"
So Helena just looks over at the hospital sign; it says "the Rupert & Doris Peabody Natal Care Unit." Ugh. Bette and Tina just give her a look like "You freakin' psychopath" and go in.
More possessiveness — Dana's training with the gorgeous Lucia Rijker. And Lucia's making Dana work hard.
Dana: "Why can't I just be a second-rate tennis player who's more famous for being a lesbian?"
Haha! Yeah, there are worse things. Like you could be a clingy, insecure girlfriend. Oh, look, there's Alice.
Alice has brought Dana her boxing gloves, as well as a guilt trip:
Alice: "You didn't say goodbye this morning. I woke up, I didn't know where you were."
Dana: "You knew I was training."
Alice: "I know, but you could have woken me up, or said… or left me a note or something… I mean, not like I'm needy, I don't need you to write me a note, I just, uh…yeah, I was just mentioning it."
Alice, you're making me cringe. Even if your hair is cute and you're actually wearing a shirt that suits you, for possibly the first time this season. Lucia is just sort of listening and smirking. She and Dana want to get back to the training:
Lucia: "You don't want Mauresmo making her look like a pussy."
Alice: "I think after you, Lucia, Mauresmo's gonna look like a pussy."
Alice tells Dana she'll see her later at The Planet. Dana says it's gonna be an hour or so, but Alice says she'll wait, and she also thinks she deserves a kiss for bringing Dana the gloves. More awkwardness follows, and also a really big grin — on my face, that is, as Lucia crosses her arms and taps her foot and waits with that smirk on her face. Do you SEE those arms?Yow.
Alice finally zips away in her Mini Cooper.
Dana: "She really loves me, you know."
Lucia: "Oh. Is that what that is?"
Nice arms and a nice brain? Hello.
From the lame to the sublime — Bette and Tina are staring at the "some assembly required" birthing tank. Bette says, "Right this minute, I am hating being a lesbian." I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. But I don't have to:
Tina: "Well, I know some lesbians that are really good at putting things together."
Bette: "Like carpenters?"
Woo hoo! Slam dunk for Tina! Tina says, "Sorry, that was a throwback," but her sweet smile makes it all okay. How great is it that they might actually be able to tease each other about that?
Bette starts to try to put the tank together "as a matter of pride." They talk about who's coming to Melvin's memorial service; Kit's son is going to be there. But Kit doesn't want Benjamin to be there. Good, I didn't really need to hear about how to channel your grief into your work. Turn pain into profits with T.O.E.!
Bette's got all of the parts out of the box, and no clue what to do with them. Tina thinks it's cute too — and then some.
Tina: "Bette… I'm having a home birth."
Bette: "I think it's great that Dr. Wilson thinks it's safe. I mean, the baby's healthy, and you're in great shape…"
Tina: "What I meant is, I'm having a home birth. And I want to have it in my home."
Bette: "You mean you wanna give… birth in your apartment?"
Tina: "No."
Bette: [not listening] "Are you sure, because I've got everything so well-organized, and I just think that — "
Tina: "No. I want… [getting teary] to move back into our house. And I want to have our baby in our home. I want all of us to have a home together."
Bette does that look — that grateful amazed look like the one she had when she found out Tina was pregnant. She sits on the couch next to Tina. Bette smiles, Tina nods, and we all exhale for the first time all season.
Lunch — Helena arrives at the restaurant to find Peggy playing grandma. Helena's excited to see her kids, but not her ex. She turns around and tries to leave.
Peggy: "Helena. Stop. Come back. Sit down. Don't be a petulant child."
I think that for the first time in my life, I understand what the word "command" means.
Peggy explains that she wanted to see the kids and Winnie, because she's heard that things are getting ugly, and she won't have that. Helena tries to argue, but Winnie says Peggy is generous and that Helena should try to see her mother as the world does. Helena says Winnie should try to see Peggy as her children did — "or rather, never saw her." The waiter interrupts to see if Helena wants a drink.
Peggy: "Have a bellini, darling. We all are. And do please leave the 'poor damaged child' nonsense for your psychiatrist. Not the one who's suing you; the one who's still taking your phone calls."
I just clapped my hands so hard, I may never be able to type again. Winnie kind of snickers.
Peggy reveals that she's going to give Winnie the co-op on Gramercy Park. Wow, nice. It's almost enough to make me wish I were Peggy's grandkid too, but then I would feel weird about thinking she's so hot.
Home — Tina finds Bette in the bedroom. Bette is looking at photos of Melvin. Suddenly we get one of those "great moments of history" slideshows, with black-and-white pictures of Melvin in various poses and with his family. It's weird. The only good thing about it is that Tracy Chapman is singing Say Hallelujah in the background. Do you hear that, Betty? That's actual music. Take notes.
Remembering — Now we're suddenly at the memorial service, and there's a gospel choir, but they're not singing what Tracy Chapman is singing (and Tracy Chapman isn't actually there). And there's some weird montage-y sort of editing; it's like a memory of a scene instead of an actual scene. Hmm. Maybe that was intentional.
The whole gang is at the service; there are some funny expressions as the camera scans the room. Carmen looks like she's thinking "Why am I here? I don't even know these people!" and Jenny looks like she's wondering whether anyone there has seen her strip show, and also whether she remembered to turn off the coffee pot this morning. Alice looks like she's thinking "Look sad look sad look sad" and Dana seems to be reminiscing about how awesome Lucia Rijker's arms are. Shane looks like her usual expressionless self. Kit does look genuinely sad, and shares a moment with her son. Bette lets us know she's sad by pretending to wipe away a tear. Tina looks like she's thinking "He called me Tina. That's Miss Kennard to you." And to top it all off, there's Mark, videotaping the whole thing and wondering whether Jenny remembered to turn off the coffee pot.
Some other notable attendees: Franklin and Leo, from the C.A.C., and Gloria Steinem, from… um, the real world? I dunno.
Pam Grier is just about the only one who knew what to do with this weird scene.
Afterwards, Alice and Dana hug Bette — have we ever seen Dana and Bette that close before? Jenny asks Shane what Gloria Steinem is doing there, and Shane's face seems to say, "Who's Gloria Steinem?"
And then Gloria introduces herself to Bette:
Gloria: "I'm Gloria. I was a friend of your father's."
Bette: "My father talked about you a lot."
She's Gloria Steinem! Wouldn't you at least say "Of course I know who you are"? Anyway, then we're back in the Great Moments in History slideshow, but this time Melvin is with Gloria Steinem and President Clinton. Somebody on the set was having a little too much fun with Photoshop.
At the caterer's station or whatever that spot in the room is called, Dana chats with Lara. Or flirts, actually. And she keeps looking back at Alice while she does it, just to make Alice even more suspicious.
Dana finally goes back to Alice, who decides this is a good time to ask Dana to move in with her.
Dana: "Wait. Are you serious?"
Alice: "Yeah."
Dana: "Al… I don't know."
Alice: "You don't know? Are you having doubts about us?"
Dana: "No! Oh my g— no! If anything, it's the opposite. Things are going so good right now."
Alice: "Do you wanna see other people? Because—"
Dana: "What? Alice, where did you get that from what I just said?"
Alice: "Okay."
Ack. I cannot take much more of this.
But this is worse: Bette is talking to Franklin and Leo. Franklin kind of hesitates when Bette says she'll be back next week. She asks him if there's something wrong; he tries to say it's not the time to discuss it, but she insists.
So yeah, they want to buy out her contract, and Leo has already essentially replaced her. Bette collects herself and makes him regret it.
Bette: "I have a baby on the way."
Franklin: "The settlement is gonna give you a nice cushion. And time for you to figure out what you might want to do next."
Bette: "I'll tell you what I'd like to do next. I'd like to fucking murder somebody. You, maybe. Or your friend Helena Peabody. That's nice, that's a really… nice thing to do to someone while their father's dying. You're a class act, Franklin."
Twist the knife, Bette. Twist it! More!
But don't you dare go back to work there, even if Peggy rescues you or something. Franklin's an ass and you should just go back to doing your own thing.
A meeting of the mindless — One of the Betty members (Alyson, the cute one) is chatting with Mark about "The Gloria Project." It's a thing with Betty and Gloria and Heart, and Mark is getting the chance to tape it. Why? They wouldn't already have all of that arranged? Ugh.
Wouldn't it have been funny if it had been Betty and Betty Friedan instead? No, not really.
And this isn't funny either: Our grrrls, minus Bette and Tina, plus Betty, are at a big table with Gloria Steinem.
Ezgirl/Elizabeth Ziff/Lwordemort/Poltergeist proliferater: "Look, Gloria, I've been begging you for fifteen years to sleep with me. And it's because I care about you and I love you. I don't want you to miss out. And I know, I know — not every feminist is a lesbian."
Gloria looks like she's thinking "Oh, you poor thing." And Kit looks like she's thinking "You must be some kind of an ass." What Kit says out loud is "Yeah, you're right, 'cause I haven't slept with a woman and I am definitely a feminist." Alyson says "Ditto for me." Why are all the cute ones straight?
Gloria: "But, you know, we're in a country where all feminists are lesbians, right?"
Dana: "And they think that all feminists are man-haters, so naturally they're lesbians, right?"
Gloria: "It's really bananas, because in my experience, it's the women who live with men who hate men. The lesbians can kind of take it or leave it alone; they're friends with men, right?"
Jenny: "Another big misconception is that if you're a lesbian, you're automatically a feminist. Whereas a lot of gay women that I know are absolutely not feminists, right?" [looking at Shane]
Carmen: "Well, that's for sure." [looking at Shane]
Shane: "Well, I like women!"
Alice decides to point out that she likes the penis, and Gloria gets this:
Gloria: "I like sex with men too. Let's just say that I'm predisposed. I bet a lot of you are predisposed, right?"
Carmen: [raising her arms] "Predisposed! Right here!"
Shane: [nodding] "100 percent."
Dana: "As far back as I can remember, yeah, me too."
Alice: "Not me. I follow the heart, not the anatomy."
Dana kind of rubs Alice's shoulder, and looks honestly proud and supportive, and I want Alice to remember that. But she prob'ly won't.
Jenny: "It's always so complicated, isn't it? Some people have a choice and some people don't about this thing, right?"
Well, yeah. I agree. So does Gloria. But you know what's wrong with this scene? This is a TV show, not a group therapy session. You cannot plop Gloria Steinem — who is always very real and always herself — in the middle of a bunch of actors of varying skill, and expect it to work. It's going to seem stagey. Maybe if it had just been Jenny and Kit, it would have worked — because I think maybe Gloria would really like to chat with Mia and Pam — but this crowd is not comfy.
Carmen raises her glass "to choice" and they all clink. "And to Melvin," says somebody. Oh right, we forgot about him for a minute there.
The surrealism grows — Jenny is wearing a weird fur and a tiara, and walking into theWiltern, where the marquee says
Now, don't get me wrong — I love most of these people, quite a lot. With one exception, of course. Anyway, the point is this: is that not the weirdest collection of words you've ever seen? They put the "wilt" in Wiltern.
And up on the parking ramp, Shane is finding a spot for her Jeep and telling Carmen, "It's a benefit for the Ms. Foundation. Gloria Steinem is hosting it."
The funny part is that Shane pronounces "Ms." as "miss." Oh, Shane. It's okay: you like women.
Anyway, Shane makes Carmen wait; Shane goes around and opens the door for Carmen, and insists on closing it too.
Carmen: "I'm just not used to being treated like such a girl, I guess, so…"
Shane: "What are you talking about, 'treated like a girl'?"
Carmen: "Oh, okay."
Shane: "I thought I'd treat you."
Carmen: "Oh. Okay, right. I get the difference."
Rather than try to figure out what all of that meant, I'm happy to focus on the macking that's going on inside the theater. Or, not happy: that's Helena and the gorgeous Leigh Ostin. (Her real-life name is not pretty though. Cobie Smulders? Really?)
Helena: "Did you ever get a girl pregnant?"
Leigh: "No. Have you?"
Helena: "I think you'd look amazing pregnant. Maybe we should have a baby together."
Okay, it's official: Helena is a demon and she's trying to populate the earth with her spawn.
Or maybe Bette's right:
Bette: "You really are the fucking scourge of the universe, aren't you?" [to Leigh]"Hello, Leigh, it's nice to see you."
Helena: "I'm sorry, are you talking to me?"
Bette: "I don't know, did you ever even care about Tina? Because if you did, you wouldn't have done what you did to me. Because it affects her too. Did you even stop to think about that?"
Helena: "You're under a misapprehension if you think I had anything to do with that."
Bette: "That's bullshit."
Leigh: "What are you two talking about?"
Peggy arrives to settle it all:
Peggy: "Hello. Why, Bette Porter."
Bette: [grinning] "Peggy Peabody."
Peggy: "Are you here by yourself tonight? Because I'm sort of feeling a bit of a gooseberry between these two horny lovebirds."
Bette: "Actually, I'm here with my partner, Tina."
Peggy. "Ah, Tina. Tina… [looks at Helena] didn't you just have a Tina? Or is that the new popular name for lesbians?"
Helena: "Actually, Mummy, it's, um, it's the same Tina."
Peggy: [looks at Helena] [looks at Bette] "Oh dear."
Snort again!
Peggy: "Did anyone happen to see the surrealist show at the Met a few years back?"
Leigh: "Desire unbound. It was brilliant. Brilliantly curated. The Man Rays were completely brilliant."
Peggy: "Fuck brilliant. I'm talking about how those people fucked."
Bette: "Those surrealists certainly fucked a lot, and it's very well documented."
Peggy: "Eluard the poet was with the beauteous Gala, and then Gala slipped off and seduced Max Ernst, who thought he was very much in love with Louise at the time. And then Gala ended up with Dali, and that left Eluard and Louise to share another woman, the very strange Denise Levy, who was being courted — and boinked, I believe — at the time by… by…"
Bette: "Breton."
Peggy: "Breton, yes, and boinked by Peret, and blabbity-blabbity-blah."
I love the way Bette's sort of squirming, as if she can't believe how sexy Peggy's brain is.
Peggy: "Well, at least they wrote fabulous, tortured, sick love poems to one another."
Helena: "Yes, Mummy, 'cause that… that absolutely redeemed them."
Peggy: "Well, you know, all that fucking… with no art… is really rather dreary. I hope you girls write fabulous, sick, neurotic, tortured love poems to one another."
Bette: "I'm actually working on several right now."
Peggy: "Send me one, won't you, Bette?"
Hahaha. Did you hear that, Helena? Your mummy just called you "fucking with no art." How dreary.
Carmen interrupts to tell Bette that Tina's still in the bathroom and needs Bette's help. Aw, but I was enjoying that Peggy/Bette brilliance. As Bette excuses herself, Peggy watches her go with a look that says "Why couldn't she have been my daughter?" Or something else.
It's time — In the bathroom, Tina reports that her water has broken. Or that her water just broke. Why doesn't anyone ever say that water "has broken"? And why do I feel like singing a Cat Stevens song?
Bette calls Davina, who I think is the birthing coach, and Tina grunts.
In the crowd — Carmen finds Kit and David, and tells Kit what's going on. Kit starts to get up and go, but David says they should wait, because it could be hours. Carmen, I still kinda like you, and I like that you're involved in this way. And Kit, I still kinda adore you, and I like that you're all flustered and beside yourself in that way. And David, you're kinda cute.
Sorry, I got all mushy for a minute there.
And now for some more surrealism — Gloria's giving a speech. She starts it with "Remember when Emma Goldman said, 'If there's no dancing at the revolution, I'm not coming'?"
First of all, no, I don't think any (or at least not many) of us were alive when Emma Goldman said that. Second, I don't think that's quite what she said. Third, why are we trying to do this weird reality-meets-TV thing again? Gloria's still just being herself, giving a speech, but there's this weird whooping and cheering in the audience while she does. I think in the real world, most people just sit and listen when Gloria talks.
The cheering is too loud as Gloria says "There is a guy in the White House who represents all of those religious extremists that people came to this country to escape." Word. Too bad a lot of the escapers were religious extremists themselves.
But Gloria also says that we wouldn't now be having a backlash against the "great social justice movements" if we hadn't first had a frontlash. Yeah. She says some other stuff, but the crowd is too loud, and I think the real point is that we're all happy and womanly and empowered. Woo.
Kinnie Starr starts to do her spoken word thing, and I actually really dig her, so I hate that she's not getting a proper forum for this. But this is funny:
Shane: "Do you think you might want to come over after this? For a little while?"
Carmen: [ignoring her]
Carmen: [quickly] "For a little bit."
Kinnie is saying "he penetrates me with his stare," which sends Jenny off on another carnival track.
And then, oh god, Betty is singing again. Damn, but that bass player really is cute. Find another band, Alyson!
The sad thing is that the guitar work is totally fine overall; it's the singing. Stop.Singing.Thanks. Kit is standing in the audience with her "mm hmm, whatever already" face.
Dana and Alice are chatting in the audience; Alice points out that Dana shouldn't say the thing between them is too fast, because she moved in with Toxic Tonya after like two days. Dana says yeah, that was part of the problem.
Dana: "I like this. I like… I like… I like you, I like us, I like the way—"
Alice: "You like me?"
Dana: "I'm crazy about you. You know that. I'm just, you know.. the other day you freaked me out."
Dana makes that hilarious bug-eyed whoa face that she has. Erin and Leisha, you're both so freakin' woefully underused on this show. Axe Betty and give the actors some damn screen time!!
Alice says "I can't believe you just said you like me." Alice, please, for the last time: let her go and get over here. No, truth is I still want these two together. It's getting deeper and it could be good.
Alice needs clarification; Dana says it's about that dinner with Lara — "It seemed like it made you a little crazy."
Crazy — Heart is here to sing Crazy On You, which is one of the best songs ever written or recorded or sung or heard. Do yourself the favor of learning how to play the main lick on the guitar before you die.
Also, if you know nothing about the Wilson sisters, lemme tell you that when they first started out, an asshole reporter said they were really lovers, not (or maybe in addition to) sisters. It was stupid and just a way to undercut two very talented musicians, and the only good thing about it was that it gave birth to the song "Barracuda." Or maybe that's all an urban legend, but the point is that Heart Kicks Ass.
Even Jenny knows this, as she gets all caught up in the pure talent onstage and seems to be Mia rather than Jenny. Shane and Carmen are loving it too. It falls apart a bit at the end as Jenny seems to interpret the "crazy" in the song as the crazy in her head, but I'll overlook it and listen to Ann and Nancy. You should see Nancy leap and kick live, and you should hear Ann wail. Okay, I'll stop. First can I say that my unrequited college love looked a lot like Ann Wilson? Yeah, I mean the way she looks now, not back in the '70s… anyway.
I think Nancy Wilson's t-shirt says "Get Your Kids Off Prozac." Ack. Not cool in front of Jenny.
The tank — There's a rubber ducky in the birthing tank. Bette helps Tina get in the tank — and when Bette says "C'mon, I've got you," I get a little light-headed. It's probably just the wonder of the Wilsons. Bette helps Tina get naked and it's all very stark and real and… real.
Back at the Wiltern — Alice is telling Dana that she made her feel bad. Dana apologizes profusely. It gets funny and sad:
Alice: "I'm turning into someone I can't stand."
Dana: "Who, your mother?"
Alice: "Fuck you. I can't even fucking talk to you."
Dana: "Alice, come here. Look, I'm sorry. Okay? That was not even close to funny."
You're right, it wasn't: it went way past funny and right into "fucking hilarious."
Alice says she didn't know she was turning into someone smothering and needy and codependent — "I mean, gross, I can't think of anything worse." Aw. I can. A world without Alice in it would be worse.
Alice explains that it's gotten super intense super fast, and she's never felt this way. Dana smiles and says it's good. Alice says she feels like Lenny in Of Mice and Men. It's funny that Alice can't even remember Lenny's name, but Dana can. See how well they complement each other?
Alice: "And the worst thing is I can't even call my best friend and talk to her about it."
Dana: [pauses and shrugs] "I know."
Back in the tank — Davina tells Bette to "put her fingers there" and see if she can feel something. And indeed she can: the baby's head is right there. Wow.
Poltergeist land — Shane pours Carmen some wine. She's nervous; she says "this should probably breathe." The wine and the car door and the general chivalry are all too much for Carmen, so she says "I'm gonna go. Okay, bye" and turns to leave. But Lancelot Shane stops her.
Shane: "I don't want you to go."
And then the sex starts; they hug and Shane says "I miss the way you smell." Carmen seems kinda overwhelmed, and Shane, to her credit, is being honest and vulnerable. Get it on.
It would be good, if the poltergeist didn't have to interrupt. The music is all porny and dumb and the poltergeist is saying "Carmen Carmen Carmen" in Shane's voice and then "Shane Shane Shane?" in Carmen's voice. Ugh. I would like to just watch them have sex, thanks — you don't need to Cinemax it up for me.
Still, I like the kissage. They both seem very much into it, and there's even a wall involved at one point, briefly.
A rude interruption — It's weird to go from sex to birth. Or it's not. Anyway, here we are with Bette and Tina again, but this time it's a bit tense:
Bette: "What is that?"
Davina: "That's meconium. It means that the baby is in some distress."
Time to go to the hospital.
Back to the sex — Finally Shane and Carmen are both naked, and it's sorta hot except for that damn music.
At the end of it all, Shane says "I love you," and I believe her. Does Carmen? Stay tuned… in nine months or so, we'll find out. Or we'll skip over it entirely.
Riding the bus with myself — Jenny, resplendent in fake tiara and mangy fur, gets on a bus. There's a girl on the bus; Jenny smiles at her and sits next to her and holds her and cries. Yeah, this is not a girl on a bus; it's inner child Jenny. And I'm kinda sad for both of them, and I want them to be ok and come back together at some point. In a real way.
The ambulance — Bette holds Tina and they both hold on as they go to the hospital. Bette hollers at the driver to hurry up, but sometimes even the alpha cannot command. The center cannot hold. The alpha cannot scold!
Jenny, on the bus, sees the ambulance go by. Saxifrage.
What? If this whole thing can be called "Lacuna," I can say "saxifrage."
The hospital — Tina feels like she's failing everyone. Bette tries to tell her she's amazing, but Tina's kinda crossed over into crying-land. And it is emotional indeed, as the baby arrives, but at the same time it's kinda uncomfortable. Bette wants to cut the cord, but it's not allowed for sterility reasons, but Bette and Tina's doctor says to let Bette do it anyway. Hmm.
Tina says the baby's name is Angelica, and even though I wouldn't ordinarily be fond of that, it works.
Tina starts to not do well, so they get her stitched up and take her to the ICU. Gah.
The tub — Jenny's… well, she's there. In the tub. And she's obviously hurting. She gets out and gets her compact, where she keeps (or has been hiding?) a razor blade.
Out in the hallway, Shane is talking to somebody about Bette and Tina, telling them she and Carmen will be right there and "I'm speechless." Shane and Carmen look happy.
But then they hear a cry and a sob from the bathroom — the kind of sob that stops your blood cold. Shane goes in, to find Jenny on the floor, slicing her thighs. And Shane holds her, and waits, and holds, and says "Honey. Jenny." And finds a towel to stop the bleeding. And I like Shane a helluva lot right now, and just want to hold Jenny the way that Shane is holding her, and just want us all to hang on however we can.
Shane: "We're gonna get you help. We'll get you help. Okay?"
Jenny: "I need help. Don't I. I'm really fucked up."
Shane: "We'll get you help. All right?"
Jenny: "Okay."
Jenny just shakes her head. Hold on. Just hold.
Shane gives Jenny the good news about the baby, and Jenny laughs and grins in that open broken great Jenny way.
Jenny: "That's beautiful. That's great. Oh my god."
And they hug. I think that about sums up the season, don't you?
The baby — There's Bette, holding the baby, sitting in a rocking chair, looking unutterably gorgeous and making me think about the kid thing despite my complete lack of any maternal instinct whatsoever.
Bette tells them all that Tina's in recovery but is going to be fine. Whew. And dammit for making us worry about that.
Bette introduces them all to Angelica, and passes the lovely kid to her Aunt Kit, who is beside herself again. She kisses her niece and loves her in that full-on Kit way.
Dana is next; she has a maternal streak of her own and shares the love with Alice, who smiles in her sweet way. Carmen is next as Alice and Dana cuddle; Carmen kisses Angelica in a strong steady way and hands her to ready, waiting Jenny.
The moment with Jenny is kinda important… Jenny is open and full and afraid of wonder (so says Heart) and wants this moment. She says "Hi, little one… you are so beautiful." And she looks around and smiles, and hands the little one to confused, lovable Shane.
Shane says, "You have tiny feet," and everyone laughs. And then Angelica is back in the arms of her mom and her aunt. And everyone else is smiling and amazed.
Kit: "You are gonna have a very, very interesting life, you know that? Because we are some very, very interesting people."
Bette takes Angelica and holds her close, and says "This is your family."
Sweet Honey in the Rock sings us out with a dyke classic ("Testimony") that might actually represent us L folks. Nice.
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Google's new three dimensional virtual reality
nyone putting on "the Googgles" – as the insiders call them – will be immersed in a three dimensional "stereo-vision" virtual reality called 3dLife. 3dLife is a pun referring to the three dimensional nature of the interface, but also a reference to the increasingly popular Second Life virtual reality.
The "home page" of 3dLife is called "the Library", a virtual room with virtual books categorized according to the Dewey system. Each book presents a knowledge resource within 3dLife or on the regular World Wide Web. If you pick the book for Pandia, Google will open the Pandia Web site within the frame of a virtual painting hanging on the wall in the virtual library. However, Google admits that many users may find this too complicated.
Apparently Google is preparing a new revolutionary product called Google Goggles, an interactive visor which will display Internet content in three dimensions.
A 3D mouse lets you move effortlessly in all dimensions. Move the 3D mouse controller cap to zoom, pan and rotate simultaneously. The 3D mouse is a virtual extension of your body – and the ideal way to navigate virtual worlds like Second Life.
The Space Navigator is designed for precise control over 3D objects in virtual worlds. Move, fly and build effortlessly without having to think about keyboard commands, which makes the experience more lifelike.
Controlling your avatar with this 3D mouse is fluid and effortless. Walk or fly spontaneously, with ease. In fly cam mode you just move the cap in all directions to fly over the landscape and through the virtual world
Hands on: Exit Reality:
The idea behind ExitReality is that when browsing the web in the old-n-busted 2D version you're undoubtedly using now, you can hit a button to magically transform the site into a 3D environment that you can walk around in and virtually socialize with other users visiting the same site. This shares many of the same goals as Google's Lively (which, so far, doesn't seem so lively), though ExitReality is admittedly attempting a few other tricks.
Installation is performed via an executable file which places ExitReality shortcuts in Quick Launch and on the desktop, but somehow forgets to add the necessary ExitReality button to Firefox's toolbar . After adding the button manually and repeatedly being told our current version was out of date, we were ready to 3D-ify some websites and see just how much of reality we could leave in two-dimensional dust.
Exit Reality is designed to offer different kinds of 3D environments that center around spacious rooms that users can explore and customize, but it can also turn some sites like Flickr into virtual museums, hanging photos on virtual walls and halls. Strangely, it's treating Ars Technical as an image gallery and presenting it as a malformed 3D gallery .
3D Shopping is the most effective way to shop online. 3DInternet dedicated years of research and development and has developed the worlds' first fully functional, interactive and collaborative shopping mall where online users can use our 3DInternet's Hyper-Reality technology to navigate and immerse themselves in a Virtual Shopping Environment. Unlike real life, you won't get tired running around a mall looking for that perfect gift; you won't have to worry about your kids getting lost in the crowd; and you can finally say goodbye to waiting in long lines to check out.
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Master of Manual Therapy
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Based within the Medical Faculty, the Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies at The University of Western Australia in Perth, offers a fully accredited postgraduate Master of Manual Therapy degree. This highly popular and successful program, which has run for over 10 years, offers a uniquely flexible learning model incorporating a mix of distance learning modules followed by a single semester on-campus of intensive [9-5 every day] clinical reasoning and manual skills focussed study. The distance study packages are completed while working fulltime and the clinical course semester selected that best fits with practice commitments.
The MMT degree program is IFOMPT and Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA) accredited (Re-accredited December 2013).
MMT graduates, who meet the prescribed requirements, are eligible to apply for titled memebership of MPA and the 2 year Fellowship training program to become a specialist musculoskeletal physiotherpaist offeredby the Australian College of Physiotherapists.
Designed to upskill clinicians interested in advancing their scope of practice in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, the Centre for Musculoskeletal Studies offers the Master of Manual Therapy, with one on-campus intake each year. This course, accredited by Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia (MPA), is offered to qualified physiotherapists who wish to develop their clinical skills and related biomedical sciences knowledge in the area of manual therapy. Graduates of the UWA Master of Manual Therapy are eligible for level 2 (titled) membership of the MPA. This qualification forms a strong basis for subsequent specialisation in musculoskeletal physiotherapy and ultimately for seeking Fellowship of the Australian College of Physiotherapy by examination.
Applications can be submitted throughout the year and are reviewed competitively, with places offered to physiotherapists with a demonstrated graduate track record in musculoskeletal practice, evidence of participation inrelevant professional continuing clinical education and a declared interest in developing their career in this area of clinical practice.
The 12 week on-campus clinical training component of the course is developed around the themes of clinical reasoning, diagnosis, manual therapy skills, and musculoskeletal rehabilitation. This includes clinical examination and interpretation, in addition to planning and progression of manual therapy treatment programs. Application and development of these objectives is facilitated through supervised clinical practice sessions conducted in physiotherapy outpatient clinics located in teaching and community hospitals in the Perth metropolitan region. Treatment methods include articular mobilisation and manipulation, muscle energy and muscle imbalance techniques, management of neurogenic pain disorders and rehabilitation of the neuromuscular system.
Special emphasis with be given to clinical anatomy, musculoskeletal pathology, radiology and pain management as they relate to clinical reasoning and clinical practice. Broader issues of musculoskeletal rehabilitation, exercise prescription and progression, goal-setting, outcome measurement and evidence-based practice are included in the clinical component. The remainder of the course is completed by off-campus distance study modules which are typically commenced prior to the clinical course in Perth. These units cover a range of issues in musculoskeletal biomechanics, pathology and neurophysiology which have direct relevance to the practice of musculoskeletal physiotherapy.
During the weekly clinical anatomy review sessions in the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, a disection project is undertaken.
Clinical Units - on-campus in Perth
PTMT5701 Diagnosis in Manual Therapy
PTMT5702 Manual Therapy Practice
PTMT5703 Rehabilitation Science
PTMT5704 Research and Evidence-based Practice in Manual Therapy
Distance Units - may be commenced prior to the on-campus clinical units
PTMT5705 Joint Structure, Physiology & Response to Injury
PTMT5706 Skeletal Muscle and Tendon
PTMT5707 Pathoanatomy & Mechanics of the Vertebral Column
PTMT5708 Chronic disease management in Manual Therapy
The course consists of a 12 week intensive clinical component (4 units) and 4 units which can be completed by distance study mode.
The academic teaching faculty include: Kevin Singer, PT, PhD, the program clinical coordinator is manual therapist, Peter Fazey, PT MT, PhD, FACP, who is supported by Christoper Barrett, PT, MT, FACP. Several visiting clinicians, including Senior Teaching Fellows: Toby Hall, FACP & Kim Robinson, FACP, with specific manual therapy expertise and interest, teach specialist sessions. Pain review lectures are provided by Professor Stephan Schug, MD PhD, director of the pain medicine clinic at Royal Perth Hospital. Other clinicians cover such topics as: neuroradiology of the spine, rheumatology, pain management, orthopaedics, neurology, neurosurgery, clinical pyschology, pharmacology, medicolegal and professional issues in MT clinical practice, and musculoskeletal radiology.
The units of the clinical program are:
PTMT5701 Diagnosis in Manual Therapy
The objectives of this unit are to develop proficiency in musculoskeletal clinical assessment; review and refine clinical reasoning processes; demonstrate critical study of manual skills in musculoskeletal case assessment; demonstrate development of triage and classification of disorders; and apply skills during supervised clinical placement. Students develop an advanced level of knowledge and clinical skill in methods of patient interview and physical examination. Physical examination of the articular, muscular and neurological systems within the context of manual therapy practice are comprehensively reviewed, along with interpretation of information to facilitate appropriate clinical reasoning strategies. Classification of disorders in relation to indications for manual therapy treatment are central objectives of this unit.
PTMT5702 Manual Therapy Practice
Students are able to demonstrate an advanced competence in sequencing and the safe application of appropriate manual therapy techniques; develop clinical communication skills with clients and colleagues; and apply outcomes evaluation in clinical management. This unit provides students with an advanced level of competence in planning and implementing appropriate manual therapy treatment programs and develops a high level of competency in the application of passive treatment techniques for articular systems and associated soft-tissues. The unit includes a review of current trends and issues in relation to evidence-based practice and how they influence management.
PTMT5703 Rehabilitation Science
Modules include an overview of the principles and application of specific rehabilitation programs for patients with musculoskeletal injury and disease, methods of evaluation of physical impairment and disability, developing specific rehabilitation goals and how to measure the achievement of these, the principles of motor control theory as they relate to exercise prescription and the principles and practice of sub-maximal cardiovascular exercise testing. Clinical anatomy is reviewed in relation to the manual therapy and the rehabilitation curriculum.
PTMT5704 Research and Evidence-based Practice in Manual Therapy
There is an emerging clinical evidence base for manual therapy practice. This unit provides an overview of the research process and critique of current evidence in manual therapy. Students are required to examine the domains and levels of evidence in evidence-based practice; undertake the assessment of literature quality using PEDro, GRADE and Consort statements; assess quality issues associated with treatment and diagnosis in the manual therapy literature; and review related research methods and statistical analyses. The unit introduces fundamentals of research design, ethics and informed consent, clinical audit, and the development of a focused case research proposal and presentation in an area of applied clinical practice.
The weekly timetable involves all sessions and comprises an anatomy review program, rehabilitation lectures and lab sessions, supervised clinical practice in hospitals and manual therapy skills instruction. Clinical reasoning is fundamental to this program and is incorporated into every module. Class exercises involve case histories and clinical problem solving to complement the clinical placement experience in the hospitals. The training facility is available for independent skills practice out of hours.
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The off-campus distance study modules integrate aspects of anatomy, biomechanics, pathology and neurophysiology around core themes. This structure is designed to assist integration of concepts from these disciplines and facilitate transfer of information into the clinical context. The units reinforce concepts and information introduced in the on-campus clinical units. Three units must be completed for the Master of Manual Therapy degree. For each unit, students will receive resource material and a unit guide which includes the assignment questions. Each unit seeks an understanding of the reading material through clinical case studies and develops skills in searching for related literature, and providing a concise synthesis and critique of this work.
The available units are:
PTMT5705 Joint Structure, Physiology and Response to Injury
Students are able to conduct a review of contemporary literature and discuss through interpretation its relevance to manual therapy clinical theory and practice of articular systems. A case study approach is adopted throughout to encourage the development of clinical reasoning which integrates content with evidence-based management. This unit review the anatomy and biomechanics of synovial joints including articular cartilage and connective tissue structure and mechanics, response of these tissues to injury, classification of joint surface and ligament injuries, diagnostic methods (clinical and radiological), sensory and articular responses to joint injury, joint stability issues and neurogenic inflammation.
PTMT5706 Skeletal Muscle and Tendon—Structure, Physiology and Pathology
Students are able to conduct a review of contemporary literature and discuss through interpretation its relevance to manual therapy clinical theory and practice related to tendon and muscle dysfunction. A case study approach is adopted throughout to encourage the development of clinical reasoning which integrates content with evidence based management. This unit includes an overview of skeletal muscle structure and function, mechanisms of injury and repair, exercise-induced muscle injury, muscle pain mechanisms, muscle neurophysiology and motor control issues with particular reference to neuromuscular control of spinal movement.
PTMT5707 Pathoanatomy and Mechanics of the Vertebral Column
Students are able to conduct a review of contemporary literature and discuss through interpretation its relevance to manual therapy clinical theory and practice related to spinal disease. This unit provides a detailed review of spinal anatomy from a clinical perspective and includes structure and mechanics of the vertebrae, intervertebral disc and zygapophysial joints, with particular reference to the effects of degeneration, ageing and injury. Regional differences in mechanisms of disc injury and degeneration, their biomechanical consequences and clinical manifestations are reviewed. The pathology, imaging and mechanics of spinal disorders, including whiplash, are included in the unit. Spinal innervation is reviewed as a basis for studying pain presentation patterns.
PTMT5708 Chronic Disease Management in Manual Therapy
This unit examines contemporary clinical research concerning chronic disease management and relating this to rehabilitation practice in Manual Therapy. Students are able to gain awareness of the nexus between common co-morbidities and their implications for effective management and outcomes in musculoskeletal clinical practice. Evaluation of sources including osteoporosis, cardiovascular health, diabetes and obesity, and chronic pain, and relating these complications to the management of complex musculoskeletal clinical cases. A unifying appreciation of the significance of aerobic conditioning and resistance training across these conditions is intended from studying this unit.
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New styles and fabrics herald a classy look as the glamourous end of the changing bag market defies the credit crunch…
Once upon a time (well, about five years ago), Storksak were the new kids on the changing bag block. Now they are seriously established, with the confidence that comes when your bags are seen out and about with Hollywood A-listers and their babies…
Now, any wannabe Brad or Angelina opts for the top end of the changing bag market and what they get in return is a genuinely great quality changing bag that has a life long after your kid is out of nappies.
If you're the kind of person who rarely snags a new bag for less than £100, then your new-parent bag is not going to be any different, and Storksak understand that. Designs are funky and contemporary rather than purely functional or babyish, and details like the space to carry a laptop – as well as waterproof pockets and a place to keep the feeding bottle warm – show that Storksak understand their busy-parent customer only too well.
For spring/summer 2009, once again there are some great designs for dads as well as mums.
We love the bold red Jess satchel style (£75) which looks retro and girlishly fun. There is also the lean, simple yet classy shape of the Suzi (£80).
Check out the vibrant Claire rucksak (£88), pictured above middle right, in Tomato. This is a great modern answer to the changing bag and perfect for any age of parent, mum or dad!
However, the serious Storksak fan wil be looking at the more flashy end of the range, to the solidly stylish Elizabeth and Emily styles. The Emily - already popular in plain colours – gets a floral makeover with the Bloom design (pictured top left hand, in charcoal Bloom, but also available in sand Bloom). The Elizabeth (pictured above middle left, in Rococo) is great option when you need a larger bag for all your new-family gumph.
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Who says lingerie is meant to be worn on the inside only?! It may have started with Madonna and her infamous coned bra, now other celebrities are bringing out their best lingerie and bustiers and they are strutting it on the red carpet! It's becoming a hit! Check out who else is following this trend!


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Breaking news in Detroit Saturday night. Police rounded up at least 20 teenagers and took them in for questioning after a report of shots fired at the Rosa Parks Transit Center in Detroit. It does not appear anyone was hurt. It's not clear how many people will be arrested in connection with this incident.
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Sources tell Fox 2 the trouble may be gang related and may stem from a fight that started near the Book Cadillac Hotel. One witnesses asked where the parents were while those teens were out running around. Motown Winter Blast was taking place nearby at the time but we're told there was no trouble there.
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