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I attended the Branford Marsalis and Joey Calderazzo Duo performance this weekend. It was a truly fantastic night of live music that drew a very diverse crowd. I had such a great time!
I happened to notice (because I'm nosy when I want to be!) a woman and her man/husband/bodyguard nearby. They were standing very close to one another. What I first thought to be sweet affection started to look more like overprotective man with his woman. I tried not to roll my eyes when he had to stay by her side as she walked to the bathroom. Seriously?
I know I've been single for a hundred years, but when did it become necessary to guard your woman this much? I do love the idea of being protected and taken care of by men. I just wonder at what point does it cross the line into domination territory?
What are the signs that the person you are seeing is too controlling?
Some women like to be dominated and encourage Alpha male behavior. I always find it interesting how the dynamics play out in a relationship, though. Are men happiest when they retain the power? What are your thoughts?
By Wise Diva, Misadventures in Atlanta Dating Blog
January 23rd, 2012
8:38 am
Are men happiest when they retain the power? One word, YES!! Not to the point where I would follow you to the bathroom but I do have the need to be the leader in the relationship. Something that was passed down from Grandfather to father to me. We need to continue to teach our young men how to be assertive and have a take charge type of attitude. But I think your speaking of the extreme version of the alpha male. A very insecure person that feels the need to control for fear of being cheated on or ect..
Good Morning all!!
January 23rd, 2012
8:43 am
Power is an illusion when it comes to a woman anyhow, so why worry about it, they have the power all the time anyways. They have what we want, and when it comes to arguements a woman can always find someone that will take her side, even if she is wrong, I gurantee you that even Casey Anthony is still getting laid when ever she wants. So does a guy like feeling that he is in control, yes, is it really true, no.
When did it become necessary to guard your woman this much? Not really needed in a good relationship, if a guy is that worried that the chick is going to leave all that time, he's better off without her, if a chick sees that type of behavior, it only gets worse, run.
Do I find it a turnoff when women are so needy that I can't have a conversation with other women or friends without pitching a fit, yes. If I am with a woman, then she is my world and I won't betray her, I expect the same treatment, but I am not going to follow her around and kiss her ass to make her feel that she is protected 100% of the time.
January 23rd, 2012
8:51 am
Just a thought, perhaps this woman had been a victim of an assault or other crime or at some point and has actually asked him to stay with her and escort her. Stranger things have happened.
The woman I'm currently seeing is very independent, and I doubt a relationship would work with her if I were the type to constantly watch over her, but if she ever asked me to stand beside her or escort her someone in order to feel safe you can be sure I would stick by her side.
January 23rd, 2012
9:04 am
KaiserSoze love your second paragraph!
January 23rd, 2012
9:08 am
Looks like many SO's are holding our blog citizens hostage this morning.
As far as the topic goes, I want to feel protected but not controlled. I don't want to feel as if I am unable to be trusted if I'm not within his eye-sight. I want a companion, lover, friend and not an Ike Turner.
January 23rd, 2012
9:09 am
What are the signs that the person you are seeing is too controlling? When he or she pops out of the bushes wearing camouflage asking you why you are not at work. When he or she is constantly patrolling your facebook page looking and reading your comments. Shoot there are a lot of signs, lol.
Question: Do sensitive men get run over by women? I over heard this woman clowning her guy for crying.
January 23rd, 2012
9:13 am
Men don't cry, only reason a man should cry is if he is hit in the face with tear gas, then it's alright, btw that feels like a hot pepper is sitting on your eyeball.
January 23rd, 2012
9:16 am
Mr. U – Yeah you are right, there are plenty of signs of a too controlling person. lol
January 23rd, 2012
9:21 am
I know a guy who cries alllll the time. The person that dated him, initially thought it was cute and touching but then she noticed he would cry over almost anything. He also was a coach at a middle school and even cried once during practice. Needless to say, this really threw the kids for a loop. (to make matters worse, he cried at the following practice when he was apologizing for crying at the previous practice)
January 23rd, 2012
9:28 am
The woman that was clowning the man that is currently in her life has no respect for him.
I say that he "is currently in her life" because he won't be in her life for very long if either of them are smart. Lack of respect is death to a healthy relationship.
Back to the salt mines…
January 23rd, 2012
9:30 am
good morning. mr. unknown I am most definitely that woman that would clown the heck out of a guy for crying without what I consider a good reason and for me that good reason would have to involve death, near death and maybe birth. dude can't be crying just because he missed his barbershop appointment and they couldn't squeeze him in. heck, I can't even tolerate women that cry too much.
January 23rd, 2012
9:33 am
@ Dude, yeah Never been hit with tear gas before heard its a beast. @ Slim Thats a clear man law violation. Wow!! I heard Jerry Sandusky use to cry at practices too..
January 23rd, 2012
9:41 am
Good morning.
I like to be protected, not controlled. The difference is when you at first let me handle whatever may be going on, and if I can't diffuse the problem, I can confidently come to you. To control me and my every step will only have me butting heads with you. My emotions will become stagnant and one of us will be pushed off the cliff.
January 23rd, 2012
9:44 am
Side note. Single women, Hell all parents teach your young sons what good touch, bad touch means.
January 23rd, 2012
9:52 am
Mr. U – What prompted that?
January 23rd, 2012
9:56 am
My Jerry Sandusky comment..
January 23rd, 2012
10:05 am
Oh ok
January 23rd, 2012
10:07 am
@ Slim I think we talk about what we would do if someone was to ever do something crazy like that. But we don't talk about how to prevent it. I personally never had that type of talk when I was growing up playing sports. You leave your sons in the hands of people that you have to trust But as in the Jerry Sandusky case you just never know what type of people your kids are surronded by.
January 23rd, 2012
10:17 am
mr. ? – I'm not trying to be contrary but I find myself constantly reminding folks that stranger danger isn't the bigger issue. most times the immediate danger is right up under the parents' noses be it the other parent or significant other, a sibling or the drunk uncle at thanksgiving dinner. I know people who spend way too much time and energy worrying about their local sex offender registry and not paying nearly as much attention to their friends/family.
January 23rd, 2012
10:24 am
Mr. U/disco – That convo probably happens or is geared more so to our little girls that with little boys. But the times have changed and it's not just little girls that are in danger but boys too. And like disco said, it's probably more frequent that a person the kids knows abuses them than a stranger. In my case, it was a family member that, not only, got ahold to me but to two of my other cousins as well.
January 23rd, 2012
10:28 am
"en don't cry, only reason a man should cry is if he is hit in the face with tear gas"
Dude – really?? I think it takes a strong man to show his feelings, and I respect that. Now, he doesn't need to bawl all the time or over silly stuff, but when something is serious – illness, death, loss of relationship, etc., hell yeah it's okay for a man to cry! Men need to get over that "men don't cry" b.s. We are all human.
As for when you know that it's controlling – I dated this dude one time who followed me home after a date (without my knowing), just to make sure I went straight home. Turns out, I stopped at the gas station for a Coke. He went nuts, confronted me, wanted to know who I was meeting there, etc. Now that's controlling! Also psycho. Needless to say, he was dumped.
There are more subtle forms of control – not approving of your friends, always wanting them all to yourself, etc., and women and men both do it. All I can say is this – if you're with someone like that, run like hell! That's just insecurity and it'll get worse with time, it could even turn into an abusive situation. I speak from experience.
January 23rd, 2012
10:32 am
Antenna immediately goes up when a man wants me completely to himself and attempts to distance me from my friends.
January 23rd, 2012
10:34 am
I once overheard a convo regarding being too controlling. Apparently, when either the hubby would go out, the wife required him to take a picture to prove he was where he said he was.
January 23rd, 2012
10:34 am
I won't go so far as to say tear gas but I will say that a grown man in my sphere who is crying for a reason other than my "pre-approved" reasons needs to cry outside of my presence. in my presence opens him up to some straight clowning and I will clown.
January 23rd, 2012
10:36 am
I just want to say i'm so grateful that i've never dated an overbearing controlling or abusive guy.
sn: It is COMING down over here and I did not bring my lunch today. My little car will be floating in this rain trying to go get something. I hope is calms down by lunch time.
January 23rd, 2012
10:42 am
Morning All!
Wise, I think that might have been a special situation with that lady at the concert, like Kaiser said. At least I hope that's what it was!
Yes, it's a big difference between control and protection. It does not take a rocket scientist to know the difference.
Yes, there are women that like the controlling jealous types. They recognize that as love. I know of couples like that. Hey, whatever floats your boat!
Me personally? I'm a grown woman. I grew up and left home many years ago, able to take care of myself. My parents cut the cord a long time ago. I had a great dad, but I'm not looking to replace him. But at the same time, I expect my man to BE the man and be the protector of the household and of me & the kids. I respect my physical limitations.
January 23rd, 2012
10:43 am
"…who is crying for a reason other than my "pre-approved" reasons…." – now, that just doesn't sound right, disco. You can't determine the "constitution" of a man and how something will affect him. Something totally out of your realm of thinking can occur to bring this man to tears and because it's not one of your pre-approved reasons, you may shut him down or think of him as some weak arse punk???
January 23rd, 2012
10:44 am
leggs – I'm not claiming to be right. I'm just saying there's some crying I can accept and some crying that I can't.
January 23rd, 2012
10:52 am
Morning All,
Good topic that I see alot of blurred lines in some relationships (outside looking in). The actual notion of protection very rarely actually comes into play. However, The feeling of being protected is a major major major decider in starting/continuing most relationships. A woman has to feel protected or feel that a Man can protect her. The blurriness comes in when that protection crosses the line into being controlling. This aspect most often times shows up early in the dating phase but is either shooed away or just ignored. This in turn causes the behavior to grow and grow into quite a monster.
January 23rd, 2012
10:54 am
Ok disco so you see there may be some flaws to your list?
January 23rd, 2012
10:54 am
Disco, don't apologize, you are right…There are pre-approved reasons that a dude can cry, but he should be choking it back as best as possible…(death, birth, holy spirit, loss of a car, dog died, etc…) all that sniffling is against the rules.
As a man you are not allowed to publicly display those types of emotions, if you must have a MOMENT, go somewhere alone!!
January 23rd, 2012
10:57 am
jake – trust me I wasn't apologizing. heck, I'll clown my own father, son, brother if I catch any of them crying for nothing. heck, I'm a woman and I don't cry all willy nilly. like I said, in my opinion, one needs a reason for crying.
has anyone ever had the protection angle come into play only to discover that their mate had no backbone? as a woman I recognize that a man has more physical strength however there have been times when I was positive that I was the "tougher" of the two of us.
January 23rd, 2012
10:58 am
A woman has to feel protected or feel that a Man can protect her
No one wants to see her man get punked out by someone…just not a good look. Sort of reminds me of Kevin Hart when he talks about if a dude slapped his lady he would immediatey assume she must've deserved it lol
January 23rd, 2012
11:00 am
Jake – Loss of a car is an acceptable reason to cry???? That seems so random, so does that mean you've shed a tear over a car?
My ex cried when his house got broken into…they ransaked that place.
January 23rd, 2012
11:06 am
@Jake ~ I wasn't asking for an apology. It just sounded closed-ended to me. Was just curious if he cried from a reason she didn't think of would it sit well with her.
January 23rd, 2012
11:07 am
Slim- No I haven't, but a lot of us have semi-obsessions with our vehicles, especially when you do a rebuild and bring a ride back to life…If something was to happen to man's restoration project he has a right to drop a tear…like that Chevy commercial when the son's get dad's old chevy back, and he welps up at the sight and says, "thats my car, how did you" and starts choking up….totally acceptable…lol
January 23rd, 2012
11:08 am
leggs – one guy told me he cried watching an American idol performance. I talked about him just for sharing that with me. it would have really been something if I'd witnessed it.
January 23rd, 2012
11:15 am
I don't take issue with a dude crying, let's say, at "expected" times. These times would be understandable for a grown woman as well. A dude that is comfortable enough with his manhood to show emotion at "expected" times is alright with me. If my husband cried at an unexpected time, I would want to understand why. Maybe something innocent triggered a bad memory.
What I could not tolerate is a dude like Slim mentioned, that cried all the time or just showed himself to be a wimp. I can be a little teary at times, but I keep it to myself. I don't need some dude worse than I am around.
January 23rd, 2012
11:17 am
Hey, some of the songs and if performed properly can bring you to tears, especially if the memory behind the song is a powerful one. It could have been his mother's favorite song growing up???
January 23rd, 2012
11:18 am
Jake – Gotcha In the past, i wasn't much of a crier but nowadays, when things move me, I tear up.
January 23rd, 2012
11:19 am
Cold cut artist – Freddie Jackson = tickets to circus (our circus).
January 23rd, 2012
11:21 am
I've got a cousin. a 40 (or so) year old male who is a crybaby. it's the family inside joke. when someone says he called them whining and crying we know it's not a figure of speech but that he was literally bawling on the phone. nothing cute about a child that is a crybaby but a grown man… take him out to pasture and put him out of his misery.
leggs – he did give me some back story (I think the singer's fiancé was in an accident or something) but he should have known going in that I didn't/wouldn't care about the backstory.
January 23rd, 2012
11:24 am
Disco walks in the house and her Man is crying;
Disco – whats wrong Baby?
Mr.Disco – Just found out My big sister has Cancer and they giving her 3 mos to live.
Disco – (checking her updated 2012 pre-approved crying list and sees that only little sisters are on the list) you mean Gloria Jean your 60 yr old sister.
Mr. Disco – yeah that one
Disco – (Turns around with a scowl on her face) Nugga (smack) if you don't get yo azz up off the floor (smack) and stop all that (smack) crying. Man Up that bish 60 yrs (smack) old she knew better than to smoke them damn (smack) Newports.
Mr. Disco – (sniffling and ducking) But baby she only got 3 mos.
Disco – Well in 3 (smack) months then yo azz can cry (smack) for a few mins and it betnot (smack) be round me.
Disco – (walking away talking isht) using up all my good tissue, what he thank Kleenex grow on trees.
January 23rd, 2012
11:25 am
Ooooh, I want to go to the circus…too bad I'm on a conference call and can't participate in the contest
January 23rd, 2012
11:26 am
willie D – you gone make me lose my job. stop it!!!!
January 23rd, 2012
11:36 am
January 23rd, 2012
11:44 am
@disco ~ when was the last time you were in love??? Rather, the last time you were in a committed relationship?
January 23rd, 2012
11:48 am
@WillieD ~ think you nailed it.
January 23rd, 2012
11:48 am
leggs – just recently ended 3 year relationship because of "daddy's little girl" issues (man still supporting adult daughter).
January 23rd, 2012
11:51 am
Oh yeah, that's right. I remember you lamenting here.


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This image is a gem I missed when I processed the photos I made at Devils Tower last year. When I look at the selection of images from this location I think this one is my favourite! How did I miss it? Especially since I got up at 4:30am to be here for sunrise.
Devils Tower is an extraordinary sight to see. The tower itself is made up of hundreds of columns and, at over 1200 feet tall, it's a popular place for rock climbers. The climb usually takes between 4-6 hours but I read about one fellow who managed to climb up there in 18 minutes! The top of the tower is the size of a football field.
I haven't been making very many new images since I was working on my new eBook. Now that it's out I'm going back over the images I made last year to see what other gems I can find before we head south again for the winter.
It's hard to believe I only have 3 weeks left in BC before we hit the road again.
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I had dinner at the Legal C-Bar (http://legalcbar.com/site) in Dedham, Massachusetts with several work friends and came away impressed with their wine setup. They have around 30 wines by the glass and give you the option of getting a 2 ounce pour rather than simply offering full glasses. This is the type of wine flexibility that I really get into because you can taste 4 different wines in a sitting without stumbling out of the place.
I started with a glass of the 2010 Licia Albarino, hoping to get my palate going and what seemed like a dream match for seafood (this is an offshoot of the Legal Sea Foods restaurant chain after all). This wine did nothing for me. I like Albarino's because they awaken your palate and sometime shock you with acidity. This wine was kind of dull, bringing lime and a light floral essence but not enticing me to want more.
Sticking with whites, I switched to the slightly heavier 2011 Ken Forrester Chenin Blanc from South Africa. Chenin Blanc's from South Africa tend to consistently be good wines and this one was no exception. Apples all day long and a luxurious mouthfeel with a finish that hung out for a bit. This is a wine to seek out as I suspect it is widely available and pretty reasonable at the retail level. We will be diving into Chenin Blanc the grape varietal in greater detail in future posts.
Even though my dinner did not match up that well with a switch to red wines, I went there anyway with two different two ounce pours - the 2007 Markham Merlot and the 2009 La Fleur Terrien Bordeaux, which is primarily a Merlot blend. Merlot gets no respect these days and both of these wines delivered. While different in style and weight, they both were solid. Markham bringing you a full, warm luscious oak and berry palate and the La Fleur livens up the meal with its spicy blackberries and long, dry finish.
All in all this was a good wine experience as I enjoyed 3 out of the 4 wines. I would purchase the Markham Merlot and the Chenin Blanc in a heartbeat if I cross paths with the wines in a store.
This was the first time this year for Albarino, Chenin Blanc and Merlot so the wine total stands at 22 and the grape varietal total is now at 15.
Wine number 18 of the year comes from California, the 2008 T-Vine Grenache. I have had this wine several times, in restaurants and at home, but it has been almost a year since last consumed.
I pulled this up from my cellar, took a taste and was immediately transported back to the first time I had this wine at Annabelle's Bistro in San Francisco. It is just delicious.
Since I am a nice guy, I poured some for my wife and her immediate reaction was "Where have you been hiding this?".
Clearly this is one of my favorite wines for a number of reasons. Elegant, smooth, sweet and delicious. It is a fruit bomb and very different from some of the old world Grenache based wines, but it remains a winner.
Let's go back to the south of France, this time to Minervois. The wine is primarily made from the Carignan grape with some other friends mixed in.
This wine has some complexities and is well put together. There is an earthy, light manure nose. Some red berries come through on the palate and it does soften over the course of 24 - 48 hours. Problem is, it just isn't delicious.
This is a fun wine, brought to you by the good folks of Spain. The 2011 Quinta das Arcas Vinho Verde Arca Nova is made primarily from the Loureiro grape. This is a grape that merits some more attention and as white wines gain some popularity I could see this making some more inroads.
It is very reasonably priced and quite a lot of fun. A frizzante essence exists immediately upon opening and lasts longer than I have ever seen in the bottle (48 hours according to my experiment). The palate is finished with pears and a very, persistent finish.
The magical dashed region of Chateauneuf-du-Pape can become an addiction once you get started. Lots of folks swear by wines from this region and I fall into that group. I love Grenache, it is one of my favorite grapes and this Grenache based blend is a winner.
The 2009 Domaine du Vieux Lazaret Châteauneuf-du-Pape provides an easy entry point to the often expensive CDP wines. The nose is floral and filled with strawberries. A touch of minerality comes through on the finish along with a wave of those strawberries again. This is a wine that balances dryness and lusciousness.
I predict there will be more Grenache based wines in my future.
Holy Twizzlers Batman! If you love strawberry Twizzlers, you are going to love this wine. There are also some interesting clove notes on the nose that add an element of intrigue here. On the palate this wine is smooth, loaded with red berries and finishes with sweet acid on your tongue.
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Staying within the country of France I took a trip (in my mind) to Cahors to taste the 2008 Jean Luc Baldes Esprit de Flore Cahors. An often misunderstood wine region Cahors wines are made primarily of the Malbec grape. However, the wines from here are not similar to the Argentinian darlings that have spread like wildfire over the past decade.
This wine was funky, stinky, earthy and dry with an absence of fruit. I need more fruit and will shift to a Malbec I expect to have more success with as Wine #14.
The wines of Rully are made from the Chardonnay grape and are part of the vaunted Burgundy area. The main difference here is that the wines of this appellation can be had by the common folk, like me. They tend to offer a good amount of complexity and deliciousness without a $100 price tag.
This Rully is as smooth as silk, featuring cold minerality that is speckled with peaches. It finishes with a small, acidic snap that I really enjoy. Go find some Rully wine.
Let's face it, Beaujolais gets a bad rap. The Gamay grape has a lot to offer as long as you head toward some of the Grand Cru Beaujolais and steer clear of the mass produced Nouveau. The 2011 Chiroubles Cheysson Clos Farges deserves a place at your table and will be as versatile as any wine you can serve.
Red berries with a floral essence this wine has a light body, but it is quite a nice body.
2010 J. Laurens Cremant de Limoux Les Graimenous, it is quite a mouthful, both from the volume of words as well as the quality it delivers. The best way to describe this sparkling wine is that it exudes class.
Apples, minerals and a delightful mouthfeel. This bubbly can be had in for close to $20 but you would never know it, and if you thought it was such a value you are simply a liar.
One should consider this for a house bubbly.
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Jeremy Piven Abandons Broadway Due to Health Issue
Actor Jeremy Piven has abruptly abandoned his role in the Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Speed-the-Plow" due to a recent diagnosis that he has a high mercury count.
"We have been advised by Jeremy Piven's medical representatives that he is seriously ill and is unable to fulfill his contractual obligation to Speed-the-Plow," the play's producers stated. "Consequently, he has left the production 10 weeks early."
Mamet seemed unsure of the seriousness of Piven's condition, after the actor missed two matinee performances this week.
"I talked to Jeremy on the phone, and he told me that he discovered that he had a very high level of mercury," said Mamet. "So my understanding is that he is leaving show business to pursue a career as a thermometer."
Piven's representative said that the actor was inclined to continue the show but that doctors warned him to leave it immediately.
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As a college student i look back at my HPHS days and realized this is a very good school. Many teachers are very concerned with students of all levels succeeding. The principal, brad swanson, is a very hands on principal but doesn't force the issue. He will observe teachers and check to make sure if they are feeling overwhelmed, and actually involves himself in the school day. At our graduation he painted an image of my entire senior class by naming students and things he would see them do at sporting events, in the halls, public events, etc. The think that muks the system up however, and why I give the school 4/5 is a small group of parents and their children who will always exist in the community. These people often believe their child is the best and their child believes it too. This leads to some very elitist attitudes in the school and sometimes kids get marginalized and bullied by these kids because they either don't agree or are viewed lesser by the "richer" families. Bullying is a problem sometimes, these kids will often pretend to be friends with other kids and start to rag on them, especially in student feedback sheets on project these kids essentially call them stupid.
The Special Needs department struggles with identifying autistic asperger children. Teachers are not well versed in handling autistic asperger children and the child is the one that suffers. My child was placed inappropriately in classes that were beyond her reach and it took my all to get that changed mid year. The damage had been done though emotionally and now my daughter suffers from high anxiety as a result which further impacts her grades and confidence. During the IEP meetings if I voice concerns as a parent, they are not taken seriously. I would say if you do not have a special needs child, this school is great, otherwise you will need to work hard to get accommodations for your child.
As a student, I was not as impressed as parents. The money to teach and the extracurricular activities from excess funding is at HPHS. However, when I went to university, I viewed some Chicago High School Grads as having more discipline. There seems like more peer pressure in hte suburbs that can distract. Maybe this is normal. However, there are both under-reported aggression (fights) and moral discipline challenges. Maybe, the city selective enrollment has had the same. I felt that I found better role models, elsewhere.
I have had a problem with my son for a few year when it comes to him and his focus on his homework,and other work related activities.After a few meetings with some of his teachers and staff we placed him in a deferent class that now makes sure that he is doing all of his work like he is suppose to.I have not seen this much improvement out of my son in years,and am very happy to report that he is doing really well,and haven't missed any assignments since the the meeting.I would definitely recommend this school to anyone who cares about there child's education.Great work Highland Park High School!!!
Quality is strong on all fronts, including music, art, sports and other extracurriculars. Parent involvement is high, and diversity of student population is a plus for all.
Academic and extracurricular programs are top notch, including many nationally recognized clubs and activities. Amazing teaching staff and fine arts programs. Womderful school.
As a student at Highland Park, I have found that it is an amazing school for learning and and making tons of friends. From freshman to senior, everyone gets alone very well. Especiall people in the arts program get along. In 2005 Highland Park was the first high school in the nation to put on Beauty and the Beast for the musical. It went very well and it was so much fun to be apart of it. All the teachers are so helpful. Plus there is a writing lab, language lab and so much more. HPHS is an amazing school and I only wish that more and more people would go so that I could make even more friends than I have now.
Highland Park High School is an outstanding school in every way. Whether your child is a high-powered academic student or an average student, he or she can reach their potential in any number of ways. The curriculum has breadth and depth- one of the advantages of a large school. THe teachers are energetic, caring, enthusiastic and motivate the students to do their best. It is a highly competitive school in many areas and can be intimidating at first. But, my child has thrived in the positive learning environment that is fostered by the teachers and administration. 'Dream, Believe, Achieve' is the motto of this school, and you really see it in the students and their supportive parents. One of the best things about HPHS is the Fine and Performing Arts department- it is one of the best in the country- and the level of talent is astounding!
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Peter Holst Henckel graduated from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1992. He lives and works in Copenhagen.
With Peter Rössel in 1987, he opened the gallery Baghuset [the Rear Building] which became the stamping ground for young, conceptually minded artists in Denmark, including Jes Brinch, Lars Bent Petersen and Peter Neuchs. Baghuset's breakthrough came with the exhibition "Luxury Culture" at Sophienholm in 1990, followed two years later by the exhibition Baghuset at Aarhus Kunstmuseum.
Holst Henckel is the cofounder and editor of the journal Åndsindustri [industry of spirit] (1988-92), and cofounder of the artist association Globe (1992- ). In 1998 he received the Danish Arts Foundation's three years working scholarship. Furthermore, he teaches at the Jutland Academy of Fine Arts in Aarhus and is a board member of Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art.
Over the course of the 1990s Holst Henckel has contributed to national and international exhibitions, including "Luxury Culture" at Sophienholm in Lyngby (1990), "Germinations 7" at Centre National d'Art Contemporain in Grenoble and other venues (1992), "Henckel – Neuchs – Røssell" at Galleri Specta in Copenhagen (1994), "Welfare" at Galerie du Temple in Paris (1995), "Dansk skulptur i 125 år" at Horsens Kunstmuseum, "Interzones" at Kunstforening Gl. Strand in Copenhagen (1996), "Visions du Nord" på Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1998), "Science + Fiction" at Sprengel Museum in Hannover (2002) and "The (Greenhouse Effect)4" at Horsens Kunstmuseum (2003).
Furthermore Holst Henckel is represented at Statens Museum for Kunst (the Department of Prints and Drawings), ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Horsens Kunstmuseum, Kastrupgaardsamlingen and The National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen.


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Hipster Artists Light Up Ninth Square Tonight
The current Project Storefronts headquarters, on Chapel Street near State, represents indoor safety, security and stability for local artist. Last week, however, the organization—which occupies unrented downtown storefronts and subleases them as start-up business spaces for a new breed of creative retailers—hosted a meeting for artists who can't wait to get out on the streets.
The collective inspirational light bulb, as you'll see for yourself Friday, October 5 at 8 p.m., is LAMP, the second annual illuminated outdoor series of art installations. It's run by a loose collective of artists, small businessfolk, community volunteers and other bright sparks.
LAMP (it stands for Light Artists Making Places) was brightening the night in Ninth Square months before a number of other recent projects in the neighborhood began, such as the district-wide On9 events held on the first Friday of every month.
October 5 is lit with LAMP, and also makes the fourth On9 offering, this time themed "Create On9" and featuring exhibits, sales and special events at lots of Ninth Square neighborhood businesses.
LAMP also conjuncts handily with one of the largest and most firmly entrenched New Haven visual arts celebrations of the year. Tonight's the opening night of City-Wide Open Studios. That event, celebrating its 15th anniversary. CWOS' downtown headquarters, Artspace, has its own projections to promote—a special "Crystal Palace Film Festival" of 21 short films with crystal themes, in honor of Open Studios', ahem, crystal anniversary.
The LAMP people were gung-ho and bursting with ideas last week at Project Storefronts, which has been a part of all the On9 events and has been instrumental in helping motivate the "creative" businesses in the Ninth Square.
The On9 stuff technically goes from 6 to 8 p.m On some of the months, the festivities have started early, but often—especially if you're out with your kids and not heading to a club or bar afterwards—the receptions and such seem to start winding down just as they're getting started.
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When people learn the my son Matthew has two younger brothers that are"normal", they're curious. How has having a brother like Matthew has affected them? laura brothers "They'll be better people for it," say well-meaning friends and family. While their words are meant to comfort and encourage me, they imply that tough times are ahead […] [Read More]
Autism, Super Bowl Parties and the kindness of friends.
My son Matthew, who has autism, has lived in the Camphill Community near Santa Cruz for a year now, and he comes home for a weekend each month to take part in "Reachin' Out", a social gathering for teens and young adults with special needs that is held at our church. When I pick him […] [Read More]
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I'm often asked how having a brother like Matthew has affected my two other sons, Andy and John. It's a complicated question that is best answered by telling a story. This story about Andy, who is two years younger than Matthew, is an excerpt from A Tale of Two Brothers, published at Literary Mama last […] [Read More]
"Will you help me find me some nice friends?" pleaded Matthew one day last summer. Since Matthew is socially awkward (OK, socially inept) he has always had a hard time making and keeping friends. In the past, I had advertised at a local college for friends for hire for Matthew, but now that he was […] [Read More]


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Building Apps for Windows Phone 8.1: (12) Maps, Geolocation, and Geofencing
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Great information! It would be better if the convergence was closer but still a nice step forward.
Where is the sample code, please?
All sample code for these projects is located here.
Look for the file labeled "Session 12 Demos"
Still going through the excellent videos you guys have done and having the code makes it so much easier to follow along.
Thanks for a great work!
You didn't mention (and can't find any mention of it anywhere) on how to enter in a street address and get a Geolocation back that can be used to calculate distance from another Geolocation or current location. Is this possible? If so, can you point me in the right direction?
Why not add the code samples to the MSDN Code Sample Gallery?
Rich C - You can get the coordinates for a location using the maps services: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/dn631249.aspx From there you can then either use the map services to calculate the driving directions to get the driving distance between the locations. Alternatively you can use the Haversine formula to calculate the straight line distance (as the bird flies) between the locations. If you don't want to use the Map Services you can also use the Bing Maps REST services to do all this. The benefit of this approach is that you can use the Bing Maps REST services in universal apps.
So here's something interesting.
I'm using exactly the same control as you, I have built a sample that puts icons on the map.
In your sample, the icon overrides the labels on the map. In mine, the labels override the icons, causing them to disappear seemingly randomly, but they are really getting overwritten by labels on the map.
I've tried different Zindex's as high at 11 with no success. (your Windows Phone map icon is set to 5).
My sample uses a hub control and looks up the map control at runtime via its "Loaded" event handler, but other than that, I don't see a difference.
I'll also report this in the forums, but haven't seen anyone else with this problem, so I thought I'd just remark here since you have a sample that works and is for WP 8.1
When will we be able to track location continuously in the background again? I want trigger events based on the users location, but since fencing in background only triggers every 2 minutes I cant use it... I really need to trigger more often then that!
I've got the same problem as Wp7dev007.
So i suppose this is a bug ?
i've got like 1300 mapicons to show and they are getting overwritten by labels on the map.
Is there a way to fix that ?
Thank you for your advice
How can i find my geo point Latitude and longitude ?
I try but i always show 47.6785619 as my latitude and -122.1311156 as my longitude.But in actual my latitude and longitude is 33.7167° N, 73.0667° E .
@Faisal Jamil: The details of your lat/long make it sound like you are running it inside the emulator instead of on the device. If you open up the emulator options, you should be able to change the emulated lat/long using the map control that is a part of the emulator tools.
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Venice is beautiful and spectacular like no other city on earth, and when I was there for 2.5 days I was determined to eat as much gelato as possible. I was pleasantly surprised to find gelatarias everywhere… these are almost as commonplace as coffee shops.
Let's see. I took notes of all the flavors sampled:
From a gelataria on Lista di Spagna: Hazelnut, Cherry, Chocolate-Orange.
From Mela Verde (see photo above - gelato in front of gondola): Pistachio, Melon, Cherry-Vanilla-Almonds.
From Il Doge: Raspberry, Caramel
From Venchi: Stacciatella, Chestnut, Dulce de Leche (which was unbelievable)
From gelataria on lista di Spagna: Tiramisu
Gelataria at Venice Airport: Lemon
If only we had more days in Venice. So many flavors to taste, so little time!
So you might wonder what is the difference between the gelato in Italy and the gelato in Los Angeles? According to Serious Eats, "gelato" is different from regular ice cream in that it has a more of a dense, soft yet elastic texture. It contains more milk than cream/fat, and the higher density is a result of slower churning. The gelato I experienced in Venice was even softer and denser that what I expected. Deliciously creamy with an incredibly lush buttery mouthfeel. It was SO GOOD.
Of course now I am inspired to drag out my two new books - Ice Creams, Sorbet and Gelati: The Definitive Guide & The Ciao Bella Book of Gelato and Sorbetto, get some eggs for a change, and make some gelato!
* Flavors on my brain: Zabaglione, EggNog, Pine-infused, Sticky Date with Toffee Sauce…
Another one from FrozBroz's list of creative flavors. I wrote to Ben and Erik of FrozBroz and asked them if they could send me one of their recipes to make and illustrate and was thrilled to receive their Sumac Ice Cream with Carrot Apricot Jam . So unique! I had Googled, and there are no sumac ice cream recipes anywhere else.
Erik informed me that FrozBroz's ice cream base recipe is a "trade secret" so they couldn't share this. Totally understandable, and I was happy to stick with the base recipe that I usually use.
My illustration above is an adaptation of the recipe I received from FrozBroz. I had no idea what sumac ice cream was supposed to taste like, but I did some experimenting and tweaking (as I do)…
In the first batch that I made, the sumac flavor was very subtle especially when paired with the super sweet carrot-apricot jam. In my 2nd batch, I infused the sumac for 1 hour before straining it out. Interestingly, the warm sumac-infused cream tasted to me almost like malted milk….
Third time lucky: I increased the amount of sumac from 2 tsp to 5 tsp and did a cold infusion overnight. The addition of lemon juice helped enhance more of the aromatic, sour, tamarind-like flavor of the sumac. Yay! It turned out great. A really interesting and delicious ice cream.
Thank you, FrozBroz!
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Coming soon: a few dairy-free ice creams….
I attended a very cool workshop on the weekend: Sparkling Summer Beverages with Emily Ho. It was so much fun. We were a class of about 15 people and in just over 2 hours, we each learned to make and went home with:
2. A Ginger Ale fermented with Champagne Yeast, and
3. A Shrub Syrup with our choice of fruit, herbs and spices. Mine was made with peach, plum, cinnamon, cloves, star anise and black peppercorns.
I picked up some useful tips like storing peeled ginger in the freezer to make it much easier to grate. I am now inspired to make more syrups that I can use in homemade sodas and as ice cream flavorings.
In my fridge right now, I have lemongrass, a bag of fresh lychees, strawberries, blueberries, bunch of red grapes and lots of ginger root… hmmm.
Perhaps I'll make a Lemongrass-Ginger syrup to add to an ice cream base, then swirl in some Palm Sugar syrup…
A grape ice cream with red wine syrup…
A citrus gingerbeer sorbet…
Recently I had the pleasure of doing some illustrations for Hannah Kaminsky, amazing vegan chef and cookbook author. You may remember the Chocolate Hazelnut and Tropical Plum ice cream recipes on this blog… both were inspired by Hannah.
I highly recommend Vegan A La Mode and Vegan Desserts for creative flavor ideas and inspiration even if you are not vegan. I am not vegan but I try not to consume too much dairy. Below are two illustrations of recipes from Hannah Kaminsky's new book - Easy As Vegan Pie:
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Roasted Strawberry and Tomato Galette
Meanwhile, here's a new Cooking Conversions fridge magnet starring Boogie my blue-eyed boston terrier. It is an updated version of this earlier magnet that I made for myself but if anyone is interested I would be glad to take pre-orders and get extra copies printed. Stay tuned to the facebook page! :)
Last but not least, I am registered for the next LA Food Swap - August 18th 5-7pm, Spice Station, Silverlake. Looking forward to it! :)
We All Scream is in Saveur Magazine: Sites We Love!
We are also in Smashing Magazine's ice cream-themed Summer Newsletter:
And thank you also to Cher Cabula's Mindbox for linking to this blog!
My friend Christa requested a Black and White Cookie Ice Cream for her birthday this year. My first reaction was: "What? Plain chocolate and plain vanilla? That's kinda boring…"
[I almost named this blog No Vanilla! but changed my mind when I imagined visitors NOT coming here for ice cream recipes.]
So chocolate and vanilla it is. A two-tone half chocolate, half vanilla ice cream. With cookies.
Day 1: I baked a dozen Black and White cookies following this Smitten Kitchen recipe. (Tip: make your own cake flour) I frosted the cookies and chopped them into small pieces.
Day 2: I cooked up a Chocolate ice cream and a Vanilla-Lemon ice cream. Let these chill in the fridge overnight.
Day 3: Churned the ice creams. I made "divider cards" for the containers by cutting up postcards to size, and wrapping these in parchment paper.
I filled half the containers with Choc ice cream and cookie pieces, and let these sit in the freezer for a few hours, on their sides, to prevent the soft chocolate ice cream from seeping under the cardboard onto the other side.
When the chocolate ice cream had firmed up a bit, I churned the Vanilla-Lemon ice cream (I have a NewAir compressor machine so I can make more than one batch per day) I then removed the cards, and filled the other half of the containers.
Black and White ice cream! With black and white cookies!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHRISTA! xox
I am very lucky that I live within walking distance of RAMEKIN (Los Angeles) so last night my friends and I were the first customers in line to taste Matthew Biancaniello's trio of exotic boozy savory ice creams.
Copying menu from laist.com… From L to R (clockwise):
*Tequila squid ink ice cream topped with red fish eggs, passion fruit, and coffee infused Cynar, lemon verbena cream & radish blossoms.
*Parmesan ice cream withlemon zest, dehydrated olives, chipotle infused olive oil, Manzanilla sherry with pink chive blossoms, sprinkled with flower blossoms & rum-marinated surinam cherries.
*Laphroaig with chocolate covered blanched garlic, topped with Matthew's signature Never Let Me Go (Cynar cassis and blood orange), toasted saffron, and blood orange slices… and peppers
The tequila squid ink was our favorite … also the favorite of the guy sitting at the next table, and MB himself. It was the least salty of the three and had the most amazing combination of flavors. The saffron laphroaig was nice and had a touch of spice and citrus; and the parmesan flavor was much more subtle than expected. Neither of us liked the dehydrated olives… which was the saltiest element in the ice cream trio, and the rum-marinated surinam cherries were like, wow. They taste like spicy tomatoes! The whole experience was pretty exotic and cool.
I am personally not into savory ice creams but I have friends who have enjoyed the Bacon, Soy Sauce, Salt & Pepper, and Thai Curry ice creams that I have made.
After this Ramekin tasting experience, I am now re-inspired to experiment with a few more savory-sweet flavors. Example: the less classy but no less intriguing idea of a Honey Vegemite ice cream.
And MORE BOOZE! …NOT with the vegemite, though. :)
I just found out that We All Scream is FOOD BLOG OF THE MONTH at www.goodwebguide.co.uk So very chuffed, and I can't believe it's already almost the end of the month and I had no idea. :)
Link: http://www.thegoodwebguide.co.uk/article/blog-of-the-month-may-we-all-scream/15613
Thank you, Emily Jenkinson!
I am registered for the next L.A. Food Swap which is in ONE WEEK. April 28th, Echo Park.
Flavors on ze list:
When a home appliance company Air & Water offered to send me a commercial grade ice cream machine to review, and told me that I could keep it, I couldn't say no. I mean, look at it.
Link: New Air AIC-210
Please note that I have only ever used a Cuisinart ice cream machine, so the Cuisinart is my only point of comparison as far as ice cream machines go.
My first impression of the New Air machine was - wow! It is huge. And the canister looks tiny. It's hard to imagine that 1 quart of ice cream will fit in there but it does! So far, I have made 4 ice creams in this machine: Bacon (with Pineapple), Spicy Chocolate, Celery (with Rum Raisins) & Banana (with Date Caramel).
KEY FEATURES of the NEWAIR:
1. The machine is self-cooling with a compressor so the canister bowl doesn't need to be frozen before spinning. This is super convenient and because the bowl is so small anyway, I keep it in the freezer. It doesn't take up much space.
2. Ingredients don't have to be cold before spinning. This is not an advantage for me because I like to chill my ice cream mixture overnight anyway to let the flavors intensify. But if you are in a hurry (and have at least 60 minutes), this is another convenient feature.
This is my pre-chilled Spicy Chocolate ice cream mixture…
3. The machine runs on automatic… Set the timer, walk away and let it do its magic. There is a tiny opening in the plastic lid if you want to add in extra ingredients during the last minutes of spinning. The default time is 60 mins, and it will automatically stop spinning when the ice cream is done - even if the 60 mins isn't up yet. The machine will also keep the ice cream cold, after it is done.
As my ice cream mixture is already cold before spinning, I find that the process takes roughly 40 minutes. A bit longer than the Cuisinart's 20 minutes.
Counting down….
4. No noise! I love that it's so silent, unlike the Cuisinart.
1. This New Air ice cream machine is a beast. It's large and weighs 30lbs. It takes up a lot of precious kitchen counter space.
2. There are more parts than the Cuisinart and they are quite awkward to fit together. For instance, there's a heavy "motor" thing with a stick that has to slot into the canister lid AND also into a hole on top of tiny plastic paddle which has to be positioned inside the canister at the correct angle so that the motor stick fits. It's a bit like an Ikea assembly exercise and I keep feeling like I am going to break something. TIP: A chopstick will help line up the paddle opening with the plastic lid opening.
3. The second time I used this machine, the canister was frozen stuck and I could not lift it out of the machine. Tip from fellow ice cream maker David Vo (who has had experience with compressor-based ice cream machines): "Wipe down the outside of the canister with alcohol (eg, Vodka) before lowering it into the machine. The high freezing point of alcohol will prevent the metal canister from sticking". Yes, this works.
Good ice cream! There is some inconsistency with the freezing… it tends to be solid down the bottom and on the sides, and softer on top and in the middle. (The Cuisinart result has a more consistent soft-serve texture throughout.) But this is not a big deal. I don't know if the ice cream tastes "commercial grade" because I don't buy commercial ice creams…
Here is the Bacon ice cream from the night before. Sorry, bad lighting, but you can see what I mean.
The top/middle part is soft. Underneath and around the sides - frozen solid. This was after 60 minutes and the ice cream mixture was already cold before I added it to the machine. Increasing the freezing time would not remedy this issue because the paddle will stop anyway, as soon as the ice cream at the bottom becomes hard.
To sum up, the Cuisinart, for all its noise and low-tech-ness, is more user-friendly. The Cuisinart parts fit together and can be separated with ease. The New Air parts are more fiddly…. I really dislike that paddle. It's messy to lift out of the canister. (Not that it is entirely a bad thing to get ice cream all over your fingers).
On the other hand, the New Air machine is very convenient if you don't have time to hang around the kitchen watching and waiting for the ice cream to be done, and just want to load in the ingredients and push a button.
*UPDATE: I have used the New Air machine several more times and I am liking it more and more! It is especially convenient for fruit sorbets that don't require 'cooking'. Puree the ingredients, pour into the machine and it's done in 30 minutes - perfect frozen consistency and ready to eat.
I have just signed up for the 2013 WHOLE LIFE CHALLENGE, a rigorous diet-exercise routine that forbids me to consume any DAIRY, SUGAR, or PROCESSED FOODS for 8 weeks. I see this as a creative cooking challenge and am quite excited about it. I am already making almond milk every few days.
What this means though is that for the next 8 weeks, my homemade ice cream menu will be limited to only two flavors: Cherimoya and Banana, which are basically PURE FRUIT - frozen and blended with a bit of almond milk or coconut milk.
Googling around, I also found this very exciting "Salted Raw Caramel Dip" made mostly with Medjool dates. Can't wait to make this and try it with the ice creams.
P.S. I will still be making real ice creams for my friends and will continue to share recipes. Yes, I already know that I will be losing WLC points for taste-testing.


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In my dieting days, I used to measure progress by how many calories I ate, measurements, weight, and various other numbers. I measured all food down to the last tenth of a gram, and obsessed over whether to add onion slices to my evening salad. Those details would end up being the focus of my life, dominating my thoughts at all hours of the day and night.
Despite all the time and effort I put into dieting, I never really lost weight or got any healthier. The opposite, in fact, since none of that was helping my depression or anxiety at all.
Now I'm trying to forget all about the numbers. I'm still measuring portions, but now I'm doing it to make sure I get all the nutrients I need each day. To make sure I'm getting enough, instead of making sure I'm not having too much. I'm not weighing anything, either. Instead of taking half an onion and weighing it out, I'm happy just to add half an onion to the tracker. I'm OK with dividing a pound of ground chicken into equal portions without weighing each one. I might be off by a few grams, but it feels a whole lot more natural.
Not having that need to obsess over every tiny thing is a big deal. It's a totally different kind of progress from what I used to aspire to, but it's much better for me.
In my first post, I talked a bit about HAES, which stands for Health at Every Size. This is basically my philosophy when it comes to my physical health, and by extension my mental health as it relates to my body.
HAES means that no matter what weight you are, there are things you can do to improve your health. It also means that if you do improve your health, but don't lose any weight, it's OK. Improving your blood sugar, or cholesterol, or blood pressure, is still meaningful even if you don't lose the pounds. Increasing your cardiovascular fitness is still going to improve your health -- including your heart health -- even if you remain fat.
The other thing about HAES is that it recognizes that the weight your body "wants" to be, the weight that is most healthy for you, isn't necessarily a weight that society considers acceptable or healthy. Everyone's body has a "set point", a weight which you body would naturally gravitate to if you let it. It's the weight at which your body performs the best, but it's not necessarily a weight that puts you in the "thin" category. Your set point might be a weight where you're carrying 20 pounds, or 30, or 50 more than that. What happens then? You can spend the rest of your life off and on diets, fighting with your body, or you can accept what you body wants and work on being healthy at your set point.
So that's a set point. And let me say, I have absolutely no idea what my set point is. I was put on my first diet when I was eight years old. My mother was riddled with food issues and insecurities, and she passed them along to me with great skill and enthusiasm, so I was always self-conscious about my body.
The thing is though, I wasn't fat, and I didn't actually start getting fat until five years later. By then I was so messed up about food that my relationship with it became extremely unhealthy. I went from binge eating to compulsive overeating, to ridiculous crash diets, starting at 13, and didn't stop for well over 20 years.
What this means is, I have no freaking clue what weight my body "wants" to be, because I've spent the last quarter-century trying to force it to do what I wanted it to do.
Another interesting thing about the set point is that very often, constant rounds of yo-yo dieting increases it. This happens because by dieting, you're fighting for control over the set point. Your body wants a particular set point, but by dieting you're trying to force your body to reconsider and choose a lower one. Thing is, one way or another your body will always win that argument. And by trying to force your body to accept a lower weight than what it considers optimal, you're messing with the metabolic mechanism that decides what's optimal in the first place. That can cause your set point to increase, and that's why, when you stop dieting and gain the weight back, you end up gaining more than you lost.
So, just imagine how badly 25 years of that has confused my body. I fully accept and expect that my set point is going to be higher, perhaps much higher, than what is considered socially acceptable for a 5-foot-nothing woman. Even when I achieve my goals of improved physical and mental health, it's more than likely that I'm still going to be fat.
And that's fine by me.
Thanks to a severe leg injury that took a very long time to fully heal (and still gives me a lot of pain), my physical fitness is not only in the toilet, it's down the drain, past the treatment plant, and out to sea. It's been nearly three years since I was last exercising consistently. I have no muscle tone, especially in my core and lower half, because the nature of my injury meant that I was stuck lying down most of the time.
I have a great deal of work to do to regain the fitness that I lost. I also want to build on that and be even stronger, because I think becoming physically healthy will be an important boost for my mental health (I live with major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder).
Over the past few months I've been struggling with exercise. I realize now that that's mainly because I've been trying to do too much, and pushing myself too hard. Walking, especially down hills, is physically painful for me at the moment, and I live in a very hilly area. I was forcing myself to go out on long walks and returning in so much pain that I was taking myself back to bed for a couple of days every time. I became extremely demoralized all over again and eventually stopped trying at all.
I'd totally forgotten that there were other ways of exercising, and I'm thrilled at all the alternatives the SparkPeople site is showing me. Seriously, I had no idea I could get a decent cardio workout by sitting down, but the 11-minute seated cardio video is really perfect for my fitness level right now, and my leg doesn't ache afterwards.
I'm actually beginning to understand why people enjoy exercising. After I finish, I feel really good. My physical energy is lower, of course, but my mental energy increases. I've been living with mental illness for almost 20 years and have almost always known that exercise helps depression, but this is the first time I'm really seeing those results for myself.
I'm still in the process of figuring out how this is going to work for me. Here's what I've decided so far.
* The nutrition tracker is counting calories, but I am not. It doesn't matter if I'm over or under my calories for the day, as long as I feel good and satisfied, and provide my body with the core nutrients it needs. Also, if I don't meet all my nutritional goals every day, it's OK. As long as I'm eating a good variety of foods, I'll make any deficits up on other days.
* Further to that, if I'm hungry, I will eat, and I'll eat something that appeals to me. If I'm hungry, I'm not going to drink a glass of water instead of eating. I'm not going to eat "a small square of dark chocolate" (damn, I'm sick of that phrase) if what I really want is a brownie. Deliberately depriving myself is no way to live, and it's not sustainable in the long term.
* No diet foods. I'm not going to choke down fat-free flavor-free cream cheese just because it has fewer calories. Apple slices sprinkled with cinnamon does not taste like pie no matter how much you want it to. If you really love apple pie, eat a piece of pie!
(The only exception is in cases where I genuinely prefer the taste of a lower-calorie version, like milk or Coke).
I discovered SparkPeople several years ago, when I was in a dieting phase. I spent several months exercising and calorie-counting ferociously, and lost some weight. I'm not one of the very few (less than 5%) for whom dieting is a permanent solution, so I ended up gaining back the weight, and a bit more besides.
That's how dieting works (or doesn't). Each time you lapse, you gain more than you lost. There's a reason the diet industry is worth damn near 50 billion dollars annually. If dieting worked, there wouldn't be any fat people, and there wouldn't be a diet industry.
Shortly after that last dieting episode, I discovered the fat acceptance movement, I discovered HAES, and I realized there was a way out of the diet-and-binge cycle. The way out isn't a different diet, and it's not "lifestyle changes", which are really just dieting in disguise.
The way out is to accept your fat and trust your body. And no, I don't mean "accept YOU'RE fat". You already know you're fat. I mean accept YOUR fat. Accept that your fat is there, it's yours, and it doesn't make you a bad person. Being fat doesn't make you ugly, lazy, smelly, stupid, or any other bad thing. I love my fat body. I've treated it pretty badly over the years, but it's still here doing its best for me.
The trust part is important too. After many years of dieting, binging, starving, and compulsive overeating, I had no freaking clue what my body wanted. So I just started taking trips to the supermarket, buying random items that looked tasty or interesting, and trying them out. I worked on figuring out what foods I actually enjoyed eating, as opposed to forcing them down my gullet because there was only 93 calories in a cup or whatever. I ate a bunch of different foods and my body told me what it liked and didn't like. I found out that I love red peppers and purple onions, and that I seriously hate broccoli and will never (ever) eat it again.
Once I started to work on body acceptance and trust, things changed a bit. And I don't mean I lost weight, because I didn't. But I did get healthier, because I wasn't trying to change my body for reasons that hinged on self-hate. In fact, I wasn't trying to change my body at all. I forgot about trying to lose weight and just worked on improving my health.
Then some stuff happened (see previous post), and I lost most of the ground I'd gained. I ended up in a two-year depressive episode during which I didn't care about anything at all, least of all myself.
Now I'm doing my best to start the long climb out of that hole, and a big part of that is improving my physical health as well as my mental health.
Which brings me to the point. I don't believe in dieting. I don't believe it's helpful in the long term, and I know for sure that for me, dieting is very harmful. For me, dieting triggers binge eating and depression. So how, as someone who does not and can not diet, do I reconcile myself to using a tool that focuses so heavily on counting calories?
The main point of SparkPeople for me is that it provides me with a way of tracking nutrition and fitness, but I'm not focusing on calories, and I don't have a weight loss goal.
I am using the food tracker to provide myself with nutritional goals -- like getting enough protein, calcium, and iron, which are things I've had trouble with in the past. So I'm entering all the food I eat, and the calories are being tracked by the site as well as all the nutrients that I'm interested in, but it's not the calories I'm focusing on.
I'm eating food that has the nutrients I want to give my body, but within that I'm eating the foods that I want to eat. So if, for example, I want to eat a whole bag of Doritos, I'm going to eat them, enjoy them, add it to the tracker, and congratulate myself on all the protein. But at the same time, since my body isn't going to be happy eating Doritos all the time, I won't be doing that a whole lot.


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It is the NFL offseason, which means players are out doing their own thing before gearing up for minicamps and OTA's and really ramping up their preparation for the next season. One NFL player's hobby has really caught our attention, and that is New Orleans Saints star tight end Jimmy Graham who has apparently added "Pilot" to his resume.
Graham posted a photo online that shows him flying a plane about the Mercedes-Benz Superdome and it is an incredible view of the city and a one of a kind photograph.
Here is the incredible photo from the New Orleans Saints Instagram account, that was initially posted on Jimmy Graham's official Twitter account @TheJimmyGraham:
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How cool is this? Jimmy Graham flying a plane over the Mercedes-Benz Superdome
Pretty cool, indeed.
It's not every day that you get a photo fro this vantage point and especially not one with a star NFL player flying the plane. There is one thing that sticks out, though, Jimmy Graham looks incredibly uncomfortable being jammed in that cockpit.
You would think he could afford some customization with that NFL salary. After all, he did have enough money to buy his own plane.


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Our columnist Keil Hubert takes a close look at the ingredients on his weekly loaf of bread and discovers something startling in the ingredients…
Terrifying: NOBODY KNOWS what's in bread. Even though they tell you, technically.
I was reading the prospectus for the next Business Reporter print supplement to the Sunday Telegraph over breakfast this morning, and one little paragraph brought my meal to a screeching halt.
Under the 'editorial themes' section on page three, it says that new food labelling regulations are coming to the UK. If I interpreted the theme correctly, the main benefit of the new rules is supposed to be that consumers will be better able to make informed decisions about what we buy, cook and consume. Sounds … helpful, really. Will it be?
I'll bet you twenty quid that it doesn't help. Just because you have an accurate description of the components, that doesn't mean that you necessarily understand what a given component is or how harmful it might be. To make my point, I reached across my table for the first two food products I could reach.
First up, a tin of Scottish shortbread. Ingredients: "Wheat, butter, flour sugar, salt." I know what all of those things are. Right! That's approved for continued consumption, then.
Next up, a simple loaf of bread. Among the ingredients (84 words long) came this string: "… Datem, Ethoxylated Mono- and Diglycerides, Azodicarbonamide …" Now, I took organic chemistry in university and I have absolutely no idea what those ingredients are or how they affect my health. Yes, I've been "informed," but the information doesn't help me at all.
Crunchy: Who knew flour contains plastic-making chemicals?
Labelling, in and of itself, isn't a solution. In order to turn data into useful information, one must also have relevant education. Confused, I consulted the Internet and "learned" that "Azodicarbonamide" (or C2H4O2N4for my boffin friends) is a flour-bleaching agent. A few clicks later and I learned that it's legal for baking in the USA, while illegal in the EU and Australia. More clicks: it's used to make foamy plastics. More: the UK Health and Safety Executive has identified Azodicarbonamide as a possible cause of asthma. Good grief!
Twenty more minutes wasted on Google introduced me to a bunch of pro- and anti-Azodicarbonamide posts. Ten minutes later, I felt a headache coming on. As funny as the "your bread tastes like a gym mat" jokes were, the zealots' arguments didn't educate me so much as irritate me. I wanted facts and practical advice, not hyperbole.
Right … so, no toast for breakfast. Shortbread and coffee it is.
The thing is, this information has been written on my bread bag for years and I've never worked out that a chemical stabilizer used to make foamy plastics is in my toast. I've never camped out in my grocer's with a smartphone for a long afternoon of researching scary ingredient names. I've certainly never formed a considered opinion about where I stand on the use of "flour-bleaching agents."
If there are any bakers reading, I concede. You've won. For most of my life, I've simply gone into my grocer's looking for bread, saw some bread, bought some bread, took the bread home, made a sarnie, ate the darned thing, and got on with work.
Unverständlich: You may as well write labels in German, nobody understands them anyway
Information is only useful when it's accessible, credible and intelligible. The new UK food labelling rules accomplish the first and second requirements, but only individual initiative, a strong desire to learn and a fast internet connection can accomplish the third. Or perhaps … and this is only one very frustrated consumer's suggestion … I submit that the rollout of the new EU labeling rules means this is an excellent opportunity for food producers to teach us consumers how, why and with what they make our consumables. Co-opt us into your advocates.
This is an opportunity to earn and maintain our trust through preemptive transparency, disclosure and rational dialogue. Listen: enough with all the cartoon mascots and Facebook promotions. Talk to us like rational adults and make a coherent argument. Earn our buy-in along with our grocery money. Convert us consumers into loyal and informed brand advocates, and we'll help you (in turn) to succeed in the marketplace.
If you're a successful modern company then you already have the omnipresent cloud provider booked and the wiki-everything knowhow. You likely also have the necessary IT boffins working for you already. Just put a few of the techies together with some dedicated writers and start engaging honestly with your public. You can even produce tiered versions to best suit your audiences; one highly-complex one for the engineers, another optimised for upper management, and so on. What's critical is to get out there and start with the frank dialogue.
I admit it: I'm not nearly as informed about what's in my breakfast as I probably should be. Still, a little knowledge is a potentially counter-productive thing. Shortbread for breakfast never sounded appealing … until now. It certainly seems to be healthier for me than a foamy plastics additive. That said … water can be far deadlier than any of the other listed ingredients in my bread (in sufficient quantities).
RIP: They all ate bread and drank dihydrous oxide.
Maybe my baker has the right of it and this bleaching agent is safe and effective when you factor in how they use it. The plain fact is that I don't know … and I don't like not knowing.
It puts me right off my breakfast.
Keil Hubert is a business, security and technology operations consultant in Texas. He's built dot-com start-ups for KPMG Consulting, created an in-house consulting practice for Yahoo! Broadcast, and helped launch four small businesses (including his own).
His experience creating and leading IT teams in the defence, healthcare, media, government and non-profit sectors has afforded him an eclectic perspective on the integration of business needs, technical services and creative employees. He currently commands a small IT support organization for a military agency, where his current focus is mentoring technical specialists into becoming credible, corporate team leaders.


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