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Odd Blog on Strength, Conditioning, Nutrition, Et Alia
Well, I figured I cluttered up the PL & OL forum enough with my Smolov thoughts ..... so, I should actually move in over here in the logs section. I'm going to treat it as a blog that would be of interest to the Catalyst Athletics community. I used to have a "real" blog but I moved on from that institution.
I'll come back here (to this first post) and edit a few things about my athletic and training history. I might even keep the first post update with current training, goals, etc. Boy, wouldn't that be something -- keeping it updated
My athletic history is a sad, sad story. I never had any introduction to strength (per se) as a youth. In elementary school, I played tons of soccer, some basketball, some wrestling, and did lots of bicycling around town. In high school, there was some moving trauma, I tried my hand at football (my brother was a bit of a football stud playing guard at 168 soaking wet) -- that didn't go so well because I was bigger and weak as a kitten. But, I could run (slowly) and I went back to soccer -- playing goalie at first and then all over the field (fullback, stopper, mid-field, forward). Oddly, my high school was small enough that the football players (at least some of the O-line) were big soccer fans (many had played in elementary school) and they cheered us on. I also joined them for weekend tackle football. So, I had some toughness and grit ... but man, I was lucky not to die some times.
But, my real loves were hockey, volleyball, and martial arts. I played ever game of volleyball I could -- given that we didn't have a high school boys team. I started on foot with deck hockey and progressed to rollerblades for a lot of roller hockey (almost all pickup games). I even had two or three games on ice (ugly, ugly stuff). After longing for martial arts training (for years), I started some kung fu in 10th grade and carried it through for a couple of years (nothing special). Later I trained at an MMA school before MMA was a term -- we did karate, judo, BJJ, escrima, JKD, etc. It was a Dan Inonsanto type place.
I didn't _really_ touch a weight until about junior year in college. I could barely bench press 115 pounds at 190+ bodyweight. Yup: fat and weak. Fortunately, my wife still loved me (she wasn't my wife yet). Found some half decent advice (Fred Hatfield's ancient website) and started squatting. Nothing amazing, but I was on the right path. Late in college I was doing nothing but studying my tail off and hitting the gym fairly regularly.
Early in graduate school, I made far more progess in the martial arts: after a stint in aikido, I hooked up with some great judoka (fall of 1999) and eventually worked up to nidan (2nd BB) in 2007. Anyone that knows John Schneider -- when he was a brown belt, he destroyed me (a yellow belt) with a o-uchi gari, knocked the wind out of me (I was gasping on the mat), and on the way down, my fist caught his eye leaving him rolling on the mat. I was happy to be in his wedding last year. I was never a _strong_ judo player but I had good instincts from a tough older brother and wrestling early on.
Through early graduate school, I started lifting a bit (I think I had some major delusions that came from 1/16th squatting 315). But, I got sucked into the dreaded hell of jogging. I had ballooned up to 215 lbs. and I took up jogging. Can you guess what happened to my knees, shins, ankles, etc.? It wasn't pretty. And I didn't learn.
Fortunately, one of the instructors at my MA school was also a long-time strength devotee and eventually he invited some of "us" to his gym -- The Dungeon (yes, yes, it's not an original name). Six weeks later, my wife and I were the only ones still training every weekend. This was probably around 2005 but I'll have to check my log book. After a lot of work, a broken leg (from judo), and so forth ... I got into the 2-3-4 ballpark (even more with trap bar DLs and hand-on-rack safety bar SQs). At some point I knew every article on T-nation, I had a FAQ answer on Crossfit, etc. Yippee. A few years ago now, graduating (PhD), new born son, new job, moving, selling a house ... ACK! Real life!
Which brings us to the present day: I've had pretty consistent training for 2.5 years with the exception of summers. That's the curse of an academic schedule ... you fall apart after spring semester. Seriously. Any teachers out there that deny this? I'd love to have some of what you are on. [I now believe that simply taking May off is the best answer -- it beats losing the whole summer.]
<that's it for now ... I'll throw in some more about different programming things and how I got from 215+ to a judo competition at 178 ... holy crap, is that really 40 pounds? whoa!>
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Quick props to my wonderful wife.
At 140 lbs bodyweight she did:
SQ: 225 lbs
BP: 120 lbs
DL: 110 kg (242.5 lbs)
Total: 587.5
Next up: 600
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Nice intro. I look forward to seeing what you'll be writing, I liked your Smolov post, not enough to try it (at the moment) but good reading!
"And for crying out loud. Don't go into the pain cave. I can't stress this enough. Your Totem Animal won't be in there to help you. You'll be on your own. The Pain Cave is for cowards.
Pain is your companion, don't go hide from it."
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Yep I thoroughly enjoyed your Smolov post, just a little different then Allen I actually might do it. I will definitely enjoy reading your log/blog. That is an awesome job by your wife on her total.
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe, is in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do. -John Ruskin
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So, I haven't forgotten my one week old blog/log project. In fact, I'm hoping to only update it once a week or less. Seriously, I don't think people want to know about my extra set of KB C+P this morning. That said, I did actually take a bit of time this week working on something for the blog: I went back through my workout log books that started in the January 11, 2001. Wow. Seriously, I see that I didn't train on 9/11 (and I remember that morning too -- I bet you do also).
Anyway, the length of the record isn't nearly as cool as it sounds: there are lots of off periods in there. Especially in the first notebook. I have three archived notebooks now. In fact that first one (which is smaller) took me all the way through April 8, 2005. I see I weighed 195.5, I worked out from 7:54 -> 9:30 AM, and I hit a 3 @ 295 DL. I'll stop with those details now.
I made a summary spreadsheet that I'll probably attach to my first post. But, there are a couple things that struck me as I tried to summarize what I was doing at different points in time. (1) Sometimes, I was taking way too long off ... especially after hitting a high note in training (sometimes the layoff was enforced by real life, injury, etc.). But seriuosly, I see at least three points in my life that I've worked up to a 195+ BP. And almost every time, shortly there after, I've "switched things up". Seriously! I've done similar with 315 SQs (worse yet, the old ones were "high bar" and the new ones are "low bar". Not that the hi/low difference was even the main culprit, but you'll see my point in a minute.) Really, is a new training goal worth the year to get up to 315 again? DL isn't innocent either, I've hit 170-190kg repeatedly without pushing higher.
I think my point is that it takes a lot of hard work and some blood, sweat, and tears to get up to these weights (for me). Pushing beyond them is like climbing a mountain that gets steeper towards the top. Yes you have to keep walking. And each step is going to get continually harder. If this game was easy ...
So, there are a few reasons that I couldn't push beyond. (1) Life. Can't do much about moving, having children, new jobs, etc. A new situation may take 1-3 months to get sorted out. This stuff I don't begrudge. (2) Shiny new program. Oh dear. We've all dealt with this one. I made some nice strength gains, but I softened up a bit. Time for a "fat loss/work capacity" block. Which of course you aren't adapted to, you push too hard, and you get injured. Or, "I'm bored". It's time to make another run at learning the Oly lifts. And you don't SQ or BP for two months. Ooops. Hey, if _you_ haven't made these mistakes, you should probably find someone else's writing to read. I'm only talking about what I know. (3) Shiny new exercise. This is a little more insidious than (2) because you might keep the same structure and 90% of the exercises from your current program.
But, tell that to your BS that you spent 6 weeks adding 30-40 pounds too. When you hear the siren song of SnGrip DLs and _replace_ your SQs ... and six weeks later, you've lost the 40 pounds on your SQ ... you can comfort your SQ with "Well, I'm stronger. I just can't display it on you. You understand. Right?" Sort of like new job, salary, wife, diamond ring or trip to the islands.
So, that got me thinking. If you want different, make sure to keep some same (thanks DJ & Pavel). How's about this, with a new program or lift, keep your hard fought lift that you built up in your program. Keep it first and do 3 of 5 or 5 of 3 twice a week. Or maybe do a 10 rep total (5-3-2, 3 of 3, 5 2s) with a little higher intensity. Make sure they look and feel good. Who knows, you might not only be stronger with the shiny new lift, but you might even keep some strength-skill. And, after a week or two focusing back on your main lift, you might actually PR.
I'm also happy to say that I did push beyond today (Friday).
BP: 215 (PR) ... forever from mid-pt to top (triceps)
SQ: 345 (PR) ... knees fell in (adductor hammie - right, this one is opposite of "common sense")
Both felt good. Neither were psyched. That wouldn't help my BP, but it would add to my SQ.
Last Friday, I did a meet like session. But, I did some repeats on some of the lifts to get a better feel at the weights. I ended up with:
SQ: 2 @ 295, 3 of 2 @ 315
BP: 2 @ 185, 2 @ 195, 1 @ 205, 2 of 4 @ 185
DL: 2 @ 150kg (hook), 1 @ 170kg (lup), 1 @ 180kg (lup)
The DL 170kg didn't feel good, so I didn't try to match my PR of 190kg. I really wanted to. Fortunately, the 180kg felt better although it was more difficult. Doing all of these in one session (3 hours) was a real bruiser. I was hammered over the weekend, but some of that might be due to a virus that really knocked my wife around. I got it too, but maybe not as much. I ended up not training until today (with the new PRs). Frankly, I felt like crap for the week and didn't want to train today. Even warming up with my SQs, I was thinking "Just a light day to log some lifts." That never goes as planned for me. Although I did have two back to back light workouts that set a great stage for some records in Spring 2008.
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First Ride of the Year!
Good grief.
Did my first bike ride of the season. The weather was ... interesting. High to very high winds (20-40+ MPH), passing storms and t-storms, and dropping temperatures. I spent the morning checking the bike, lubing and cleaning some parts, and getting my gear out. I was debating whether to ride, decided to ride, had a depressingly cold rain pass through, decided to wait, checked the weather, waited a bit, and _finally_ decided to go.
I did the ride last year, but not as my first ride. There's an
endless climb in it and I was curious about heart rate during the
climb, so I wore my HR monitor. More on that after I describe the
The segments on my Jacob's Hill ride:
Home to approach on Rte 12 (via train station-rec fields + bike path). 5.2
Approach climb from 12 to trailhead. 2.3 (dirt road)
Off road.
Climb to height of land on Jacob's. 1.3 (dirt road)
Down to 12. 2.3 (dirt road)
Home via Nat'l Life hill. ~5
And my times & ticker readings: Overall 2:24 / 140
30 / 166 (first two segments overall HR)
40 / 111
12.30 / 146
6.28 / 107 (weeeee)
32 / 123
I also took a rest at the trailhead (5 mins), and swapped my fleece off and on a few times depending on rain and wind.
I couldn't really walk the rest of the afternoon. The climb up Gould and Jacob's just crushes. I rode it non-stop in the saddle the whole way in my lowest gear 99% of the time. On the trail, I felt like crap on any of the climbs (mud and leaves, weakened legs -> bad mojo) and walked most of the significant ones. Boo. But, I felt good in the slaloms and rollers. I was fairly certain I was going to get slammed by a storm: I had some motivation to keep moving. Fortunately, when the winds peaked, I was nicely sheltered by some friendly trees.
When I popped out of the woods, there was an awesome display of clouds over mountain tops. I like to call it a "dynamic" sky. Wow. Definitely cool stuff with a crystal blue sky in the background.
Unfortunately, I'm sure that ride will crimp my squatting style today. I'll probably delay them until Saturday (**). I'm also thinking about how to counteract the negative effects of endurance efforts on strength and power. Now, I'm not so worried about it that I'm going to stop riding. Summer == riding & hiking == fun. But, if we can cleaverly prescribe some medicine to account for the enduro, maybe we can offset some of the anti-strength & power adaptations. I'm thinking along the lines of a few (A FEW!) bouncy drills that keep the CNS up.
I'm also thinking about dealing with the repetive motion of cycling (in particular, on the road portions) on the quads and hip flexors. Pedaling around the circle (with clip ins) helps with the legs proper but I easily fall back into "push only" pedaling. I'm also thinking about the old hip flexors. I do plenty of hip flexor stretching/mobilizing -- we'll see if that is enough or if it needs to be upregulated to compensate for biking.
(**)Yeah, well, um, yeah. I can't really (read: I'm constitutionally incabable of) not work my lower body at the gym. So, with thwacked quads, glutes that were somewhat neglected on the ride, and a "friskyness" for something heavy ... there's only one logical choice. Rack pulls. They went well. I stayed a hint conservative b/c riding does actually put your back in an annoying position for several hours. None the less, I worked up to 5 @ 455 with hook grips to 315, and both alt. grips at 365.
I'm still flailing as to my programming for the next several weeks. We're moving and I know that will take a lot of energy.
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Just a few thoughts I've had recently:
Hiking with (your own) young kids. Here's a scenario: you enjoy hiking, you do it enough to be able to "just go". You have a child. It's easy enough to throw your child in a carrier pack and keep hiking. Especially if you've become used to the weight. But here's where it gets interesting. When THEY start hiking! What do you do? Chances are, one of the reasons you like hiking is because you enjoy the physical work. But, you can't bomb along with a 2.5-3 year old. And you can't go all Sgt. Major on them either (move it or I'll kick your .... yeah, not such a good idea). Yet, you want to introduce them to the wonderful world of the outdoors and encourage them to be physically active.
Hummm. Certainly, you can alternate periods where they walk and you carry them. You can also alternate levels of hikes: some days Junior will ride and some days he or she will walk along. Here's a thought for those days when you do a super light hike and you (mom or dad) are jonesing to go. Get up early or find a way to sneak out for a quick 10-20 minute HIIT type session. Short and to the point. Burn off enough of your energy so that you aren't frustrated when you do a slower walk.
Some might say: you have to be kidding. You are so hung up on training that you can't just relax with your family? Well, I'd say: sometimes, yup! Have you had to skip training this week? Have you had a particularly crummy week at work? Are you trying to keep pace on a couple goals? Would doing the quick session allow you to focus even more on your family? All good potential reasons to make your training, training and your family time, family time.
I'm going to have almost six weeks of very open time for training. I'm considering a high-frequency approach along the lines of Kelly Baggett's PTTP like frequency oriented routine here:
. Note, while I will bench, my focus will be squatting. I'm trying to talk myself into a goal of a solid 405 SQ by July 1. It's odd, it's pretty easy to "train hard and see what happens". Mentally, it's very different for me to say: "this is the goal, must make it happen".
Shoulder's been unhappy. One thing I'm adding is more time with a stick and working the back SQ rack position while just sitting with a forward lean. From there, I move the hands in and out and do behind-neck-presses (this is with about 5 pounds of weight total). I'm going to do this multiple time daily and see if I can get the (good) feeling of racking the stick to transfer to the SQ. The benefit to the stick is I can play with tiny, subtle adjustments. The bad thing, of course, is I can't tell if going from 5 pounds (or less) to 315 (or more) will have any transfer. I do think the literal stretching and muscle firing patterns might transfer, particular if I am very mindful about the position (i.e., mentally convince myself that the stick is the 315 that will conspire with gravity if I screw around).
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My family and I are moving.
Those words put an immediate "zap" on most sane lifting plans. We haven't gotten into the heavy, heavy lifting phase yet. Fortunately, my wife's new job has offered some moving assistance. Unfortunately, it's not unlimited so we have to do some picking and choosing -- we'll move some stuff our selves and have some of it done professionally. We moved ourselves locally last summer -- we had about 15000+ pounds of stuff. It took us a week. We couldn't walk for the following week. Ugh. Fortunately, we got rid of a lot of junk and we don't have to do it all ourselves this time.
However, the physical element isn't really the worst part. It's the planning, replanning, finding reliable help, finding a new place to live (rent? own?), looking for a job for myself, feeling bad your son is being uprooted, and so forth. But, we'll get through it. On to fun stuff:
Two of my last points were that (1) my shoulder was being problemsome and (2) I wanted to be hell bent on a 405 SQ. I didn't realize just how troublesome (1) was and how it would affect (2). I also realized the cause of (1). I was trying to do some ring dips (which haven't been a problem before) and ... ouchie, tweakie ... my left rotator cuff went into spasm, unhappiness. That actually persisted for quite some time (May 1 until ... now). I kept up with the PL SQ through May 15 or so, but when two weeks off of PL SQ (with only a single workout on May 23) didn't reduce the inflammation, I made an executive decision to give the shoulder a rest. So, I moved to High Bar Back Squats (OLY SQ).
There are some nice benefits to the OLY SQ for me: I dont' _have_ to spend 20-30 minutes warming up and stretching out my shoulder girdle to do them. (Of course, with my goal being a health shoulder, I do the warmup more often then not. I just don't add the stress of PL SQ). The OLY SQ have been ok: of course, that means they're about where my PL SQ was in January *sigh*. But, I'm mostly content to be getting good leg work and trying to improve the shoulder. Incidentally, the OLY SQs are as deep as possible. I'm not using oly shoes, but I've considered it (I have them).
Training wise, I had four weeks of about 1 heavy session per week. I was supplementing that with some other work: "just" doing an extended warmup up twice, hiking Camel's Hump (great hike, quick, knees were mostly ok though they complained at the very end), and a couple KB swing, snatch, clean+press workouts. I always intend to do some windmills and getups, but for some strange reason ...
The brings me to this last week. Since the next couple weeks may be back to one session a week, I've been attempting to lift whole body, squatting every day on MTuThF this week and MTu (next week). Squatting four days a week will get your attention. M was 7 of 5, Tu was a heavy single (275), Th was 3 of 5, I'm not sure about today. I've also been hitting the BP each day: M 2,3,5 ladder x 4 (40 reps), Tu heavy double (195), Th 2,3,5 ladder x 5 (50 reps).
A tiny bit of direct upper arm work has also found its way into my routines. And, it turns out that it may be useful! I literally have done about 15 sets of curls in the past five years (or so). I've done a few more tricep extensions, but not many. Well, I opted for some "stretch position" movements: incline bench DB curls and OH tricep extensions. And, my left arm is definitely weaker. So, I'm working to get that balanced out. Also, the OH tricep actually gives me a few moments to see how my shoulder sits in the OH position (i.e., do I get nice and tight to the ear, do I have to assist with my off hand to get into that tight position, etc.).
One last tool in my toolbox that I had really used a lot in the Fall: I call it "Eurocise"ing -- b/c, well, "Euro" makes everything better (or so the infomercials say). Anyway, this is simply Pavel's ETK C+P and PullUp ladders alternating between them. For me, it looks like 1 C+P, 5 breaths, 2 C+P, 7 breaths, ... N C+P, 1.5 minutes rest, 1 PU, 5 breaths, ... N PU. The C+P are done with a barbell.
A last note. My wife is training out of Celli's Gym (
) in Pittsburgh for the summer. Ryan and Dana Celli are wonderful folks: I met them a few weeks ago. Ryan is also beastly strong: he totaled 2000 @ 198 (equipped) and 1807 @ 198 (raw). Whoa! Dana is no slouch either. Anyway, if you are in Pittsburgh and need a gym, it is only 5 minutes from downtown and 5 minutes from Oakland (if you know the right roads). It's also 5 minutes from my brother's. Man, if only we were still living there!
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So, just a few thoughts:
1. I've been training a variety of places. The gym at NU, the Moores, and at Celli's. It interesting when you switch environments. Different bars (possibly with a variety of groove widths and slight diameter variations), different lighting, music, etc. Different styles of benches, squat racks, etc. Doing three places in two weeks definitely gave me an appreciation for the benefits of "home" -- one dedicated place to train. Of course, variety has benefits too.
2. I finally put up a pic for my avatar. It shows me and my son (Ethan) on top of Camel's Hump in the Fall of 2009. He's 2.5 yrs and about 35 lbs in the pic and he rode up on my back. (Talk about rucking! Try it with a wiggly load). He is wearing some great clothing: a Steelers fleece and an Elite Fitness beanie. I've actually taken him up CH three times.
3. I've been experimenting with back-to-back days of squatting. The first day I "grab some volume". The second day I "grab some intensity". As an example, Day 1: 7 of 5 waving up to 235/245. Day 2: work up to a nice single at 275. (These were with what I call for my own reference "Olympic squats". For me, this is high bar, mostly upright, medium- width, narrow hand spacing squats. I moved to them for a few weeks to take some stress off my shoulder. They've been a nice variation -- though my knees got a little achy as I upped the volume/intensity. Also, my lower back was a little disgruntled. But, none of it was more than adaptation. I'm ready to get back to mostly PL style squats. I'll probably use my heeled shoes when I return to Oly style.
4. I had some nice success with log pressing (small potatoes for most folks, but I was happy). I haven't even done heavy militaries since last fall but I was able to match an older 2RM (i.e., about a 4 year old effort) for some nice sets of .... 5 (I think ... my log book is five feet away and I just drove 12 hours .... Pgh to Montpelier).
I'm finishing my wine and going to bed. Last note, my sister ... who at the young age of 50 has gotten into training ... commented on me looking more like a lifter than even last summer. Good stuff. See, it really does pay to string together more than 8 months of continual training (that's a note to self!).
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It looks like this will be my last post from VT (the Internet is going dark at the Fenner household today).
I had some fun squatting against chains on Friday and did some asymmetrical KB C+P (5 of 5 @ 24kg, 16kg L and R -- 10 of 5 total) on Sunday. Unfortunately, I tried a sumo deadlift (which I haven't tried in about 4+ years?) on Friday and my hamstrings weren't ready for the force-stretch combination. Nothing serious, but I definitely got a little tweakie in the hammie.
More box moving is in the RX for today and I might get a last NU workout tomorrow. Officially the three things we'll miss about VT: a few close friends, Camel's Hump, and Ariels' Restaurant. (Yes, there are a couple other things like great winter sports, Fall, wood burning, etc.).
Now, I'm back to being a Pennsylvania mutt (born in eastern PA, elementary school in central PA, high school + college in northwest PA, graduate school in Pgh, moving to northeastern PA).
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The 5 Most Amazing Real Life MacGyver Moments
#3. Three Inmates Escape Alcatraz On A Raft Of Raincoats
Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin are the three men who managed to do something no one thought anyone could do: They escaped one of the most escape-proof prisons in the country and spawned a movie that somehow made their escapades seem as boring as prison life itself.
The story of the Alcatraz Three's escape is full of MacGyverisms, from the tools they made to dig through the concrete walls (a drill they made out of a vacuum cleaner motor), to the dummy heads they made from soap and toilet paper.
It's no surprise they were able to pull off such an amazing feat. According to several sources, Morris had an astronomical IQ and spent his life from childhood in and out of prisons. His numerous escape attempts were the reason he had been sent to Alcatraz in the hopes he wouldn't be able to make another attempt. Little did they realize that he was just warming up.
Frank and the Anglin Brothers made it out of their cells and down to the shore line with a makeshift raft that they constructed out of 50 raincoats stolen or borrowed from other inmates. Then they made their way through the currents with paddles made out of plywood. The Discovery Channel's Mythbusters replicated the raincoat raft myth itself by padding to shore from the Rock in a similar vessel.
The three men were never heard from again and Alcatraz's once glorious reputation was tarnished. Defeated, the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce had no choice but turn it into a tacky tourist destination that sells T-shirts like "I Got Shanked in Alcatraz and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt."
Could MacGyver Have Done it Better?
The MacGyver method is as simple as faking his own death, waiting until they're carrying him out in his coffin, and then using the freakin' built-in jet ski to go zipping off into the distance. We forgot to mention he built a jet ski at some point.
Wait, did he flip those guys off at the end there? Awesome.

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6 Insane True Stories Behind The Stage Names of Celebrities
#3. The Monkees/David Bowie Connection
Rock legend David Bowie is famous for his multiple alter-egos, such as Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke and Elton John (they're the same guy, right?). What most people don't know is that Bowie himself is an alter-ego. His real name is Jareth Goblinking.
A rare photo of Bowie without make up.
No, not really, but we wanted to get the Labyrinth reference out of the way fast. Bowie's real name is actually pretty boring: David Robert Jones, which doesn't sound like the name of a man who went through a lot of spoons and needles in the 70s, but rather someone who manufactures them.
At the beginning of his career, Bowie went by the remarkably unimaginative stage name of Davie Jones.
And that's probably what he would be called to this day, if it wasn't for this dude:
At the time Bowie was starting out, another Davy Jones (depicted above contemplating your rape) had gained some prominence at the London stage and would soon go on to become a member of The Monkees, the mid-60s equivalent to winning American Idol (complete with the undignified descent into obscurity). So, in order to make it as a performer, "Davie" was forced to change his surname. He chose Bowie after the bowie knife, itself named by Alamo hero Jim Bowie. Whose mother's maiden name was Jones.Wait, it Gets Weirder:
While Bowie changed his dull real name to a far more interesting one, his son has done the exact opposite. Duncan Jones is a rising film and commercial director, whose film "Moon" earned him the prestigious BAFTA award earlier this year.
He is also one of the few people in the world to be born with a stage name: All through his childhood he was known by the name of Zowie Bowie. Which, shockingly, he hated. What sort of kid wouldn't want to named after cartoon sound effects? The kind who lives with junkie parents, apparently.
The only normal thing in this picture is that lamp.
At around age 12, Zowie began telling people to call him Joe. Given his background, he probably saw that as wacky and exotic. Later he settled on Duncan, which is actually the first name on his birth certificate (Zowie being the third, with Heywood awkwardly planted in between).There's More:
Shockingly, Duncan did not grow up to be a mass murderer. After struggling his whole life to escape from his father's shadow, Jones has finally managed to achieve success on his own, thanks to a sci-fi movie about a lonely astronaut trapped in space, who-
Wait a minute, that's the plot of the song "Space Oddity"!
#2. Baby Neglected by Harry Houdini Turns Michael Douglas Into Michael Keaton
There are rare cases where one person can be two different celebrities. The notorious Batman, for instance, is actually billionaire socialite Bruce Wayne in disguise.
Consider your mind blown.
On the off chance that you already knew that one, here's something you didn't know: Michael Keaton, known for playing Bruce Wayne, is in fact the secret identity of Michael Douglas, another rich man who witnessed his father's murder as a child (assuming he went to see the movie Spartacus when it came out and stayed til the end).
OK, Keaton and Douglas aren't really the same person, they only happen to share the same birth name. Yep, Michael Keaton was born Michael Douglas, which probably didn't help him as much as you'd think when he was a struggling actor that kept getting turned down. You can imagine why people might have felt slightly disappointed after hiring the Academy Award winning son of a Hollywood icon only to watch some unknown dumbass show up for work.
Like Michael J. Fox, Keaton ditched his real name when he tried to register at Actors' Equity and found out that both Michael and Mike Douglas were already taken. He'd later say: "One of them is doing quite well from what I understand; the other is making cheap porn movies like Basic Instinct."
While flipping through a newspaper, Michael came across a picture of actress Diane Keaton and "liked the sound of [her] name," so he adopted it as his own.Wait, it Gets Weirder:
The more famous Michael Douglas wouldn't even be called Michael Douglas if his father, Issur Danielovitch, hadn't changed his name to Isadore Demsky and later Kirk Douglas, before becoming massively famous in the 40s. And the other Mike Douglas? A talk show host whose last name was really Dowd.
Also, the woman who inspired Michael to adopt the name Keaton wasn't originally called that. Diane Hall ("Annie" to her friends and family) switched to Keaton, her mother's maiden name, for the same reason Michael did: someone else was already using her real name. However, some say the change was partly inspired by her being a fan of legendary comedy actor Buster Keaton, after whom her cat is named, and whose films she tributed in Woody Allen's Sleeper.
And by the way, Joseph "Buster" Keaton was given his nickname at 18-months old, when Harry Houdini saw him fall down a flight of stairs without harm and remarked, "That's a real buster!" No, we did not just make that up.
We'll assume Houdini was cracking jokes while a baby fell down the stairs because he was too indisposed to, you know, HELP IT.
Incidentally, Houdini too was a stage name, inspired by French magician Jean Robert-Houdin, who had actually borrowed the Houdin part from his father in law, who- ah, we should probably stop this now or we'll be here all day.There's More:
Diane Keaton went through the trouble of changing her real name... and then used it in her most famous starring role: "Annie Hall" the title character from the Oscar-award winning film of the same name, which is based on her real life relationship with Woody Allen. So, union rules forbid her from showing her real name on the credits, but it was OK to put it up on a marquee.
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#1. Mel Brooks Inspires Albert Einstein (through Johnny Carson)
Albert Brooks is arguably the funniest man alive. If you're having trouble remembering where you've seen his name, try picturing it on yellow letters opposite a black background.
Yep, besides being an accomplished actor, writer, director, stand-up comic and living person, Brooks is also the voice of some of the most popular one-time characters on The Simpsons, such as Hank Scorpio and the adulterous Jacques. Plus he's done some other obscure roles, like Cowboy Bob or the main antagonist of The Simpsons Movie.
However, the name credited at the end of those episodes was almost A. Einstein. Brooks's real last name is Einstein, and for some reason his parents thought it would be a good idea to name their son "Albert". Perhaps they simply didn't expect him to be funny at all, since his father Harry (a comedian who died while performing at a Friar's Club Roast for Lucy and Chachi) had to change his last name to Parke to go into show business. Albert's brother Bob is better known as "Super Dave Osborne," and his mother had three different names, none of which were Einstein.
To our knowledge, Brooks has never explained why he chose his new name. However, he has told the following story several times: When he was a kid, he went to Beverly Hills High School with fellow future overweight director and comedian Rob Reiner. The kids soon became good friends.
Aaron Spelling would later produce a show loosely based on their escapades.
Rob's father, Carl Reiner, was a regular guest at The Tonight Show. One time Johnny Carson asked him who the funniest people in the world were, to which he replied: "Mel Brooks and a 12-year-old kid named Albert Einstein." According to Albert, that quote "was a big deal" for him, so it's possible that he got his stage name from there.
As an adult, some 20 years later, Albert Brooks became became a regular guest of The Tonight Show himself, proving that Johnny Carson had an outstanding memory.Wait, it Gets Weirder:
Of course, Mel Brooks's name isn't Mel Brooks--it's Melvin Kaminsky.
Believe it or not THIS MAN IS JEWISH.
Who knows, maybe if Carl Reiner had answered "Melvin Kaminsky and a 12-year-old kid named Albert Einstein," those three additional syllables would have made the quote a little harder to remember for Carson and he wouldn't have invited the same kid on his show decades later.There's More:
It's interesting to note that the "other" Albert Einstein (the unfunny one) has had almost as many guest appearances in The Simpsons as Brooks: He shows up on posters in Homer's college dorm and Bart's genius kids class, and as a zombie in a "Treehouse of Horror" episode. In another Halloween special, Lisa literally turns into Albert Einstein--in a way reversing the process Albert Brooks went through.
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The Sheriff is near!
Cost me $6.45 with tax and shipping
$4.99 at amazon for the Bluray .
I believe this one has all the black derogatory words removed or bleeped out.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott.
Amazon has the blue ray for 4.99 and the 30th DVD for 5.49. They are both eligible for free shipping if you are a prime member.
@sdouek: What? Well what's the point of buying the movie then?
The funniest part of the movie is how horribly offensive it all is.
Mongo only pawn in game of life.
I agree, the reason this movie is soooo funny is because it's deragatory too EVERYONE. Mexicans, women, Jews, Chinese, and, of course, the famous standoff scene with Clevon Little...LMFAO!!!
My favorite quotes...
"Candygram for Mongo"
"Hello boys!...Did you miss me?"
"We almost lost a perfectly good railcar!!"
"It's Heddy...HEDDY"
"Badges? We don't need no stinking badges!"
"It's twue!...It's TWUE!!!"
Extra credit if you can remember where in the movie they were...
I own this on DVD and it is un-edited...anyone know if the Bluray is ???
'Scuse me while I whip this out...
An edited version of this movie would be a silent film. Mel Brooks did a masterful job of equally offending everyone in this movie, but as many times as it comes up here on Woot! I'm surprised there is anyone who doesn't already own it.


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In the very ambitious renewal of the truck product programme that Volvo carried out in the early 1960s, no resources were left for the further development of the medium-duty N trucks introduced in the mid 50s. In mechanical terms, they were very similar to the trucks developed just before and after World War II.
Improvements under the skin
But in one way it would be incorrect to term the L46/L47 family of trucks as 'medium-duty', since these trucks were very often required to perform astonishingly heavy duties, especially in countries remote from Sweden where these trucks were being produced.
Continuous improvement and modernisation took place under the skin of these trucks. The new L46 'Starke'/L47 'Raske' trucks that succeeded the L37 truck in the early 1960s were available with power steering and improved Volvo safety cabs, something which contributed to improved active and passive safety.
Upgraded with more powerful engines
The heavy transport operations which these trucks were often asked to perform were also facilitated by the introduction of slightly more powerful engine versions, with or without turbocharging (the latter only available for the L47 truck).
This truck was even included in the very modern 'System 8' truck family as the 'N84', basically with the same specification but now with an even more powerful engine with increased capacity, one factor which meant that this old-fashioned truck could be found in the global Volvo truck product programme well into the 1970s.
The end of an era
In 1972, however, this truck family (introduced in 1954) had finally become a little too old-fashioned even for markets favouring traditional trucks. Since then, no conventional medium-duty trucks have been produced by Volvo.


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Sometimes I wish I didn't have a conscience because it would make life so much easier. I could shop at Wal-Mart for everything, send the kids with Luncheables to school, and not worry a bit about the amount of plastic that would enshrine everything I bought. But, alas, not only do I pack the kids a vegan lunch, I pack a garbage-free lunch. Here are a few tips:
Sunday, September 14, 2008
6 Tips for Garbage-Free Lunches
Sometimes I wish I didn't have a conscience because it would make life so much easier. I could shop at Wal-Mart for everything, send the kids with Luncheables to school, and not worry a bit about the amount of plastic that would enshrine everything I bought. But, alas, not only do I pack the kids a vegan lunch, I pack a garbage-free lunch. Here are a few tips:
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14 comments:
- Anne V said...
The great thing about these tips is that they are applicable to an office worker such as myself.
Does freezing the cookies change the texture? Do you reheat them to thaw them?
- September 14, 2008 at 3:31 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
Freezing seems to have no discernable effect on the taste or texture of these cookies (I can't speak to other cookies). I just place a frozen cookie in a container and it thaws by the time lunch hits.
- September 14, 2008 at 3:45 PM
- Lisa -- Cravin' Veggies said...
Great tips!!
I love packing lunches for work and school. My daughter said that her friends are always amazed by what she brings for lunch. And it definitely beats the processed garbage from the cafeteria. (Not that there is a veg*n thing to be found anyway-- aside from fries.)
I bought her a laptop lunchbox this year. She absolutely loves it! It was a bit expensive, but I figured that if/when she is done using it, I will!!
- September 14, 2008 at 4:10 PM
- be'ershevaboheme6 said...
The other great thing about making all the food yourself? No gross preservatives that seems to be in EVERYTHING pre-packaged these days...
(btw I made and LOVED your veggie turkey lunch meat)
if you have a second, feel free to check out my blog at www.bokchoybohemia.com)
- September 14, 2008 at 4:52 PM
- vegan addict said...
Awesome tips! You are a great inspiration to your children; it's smart to have them bring home compostable items from their lunches. Here's to hoping that your children set examples for their classmates!
- September 14, 2008 at 9:36 PM
- Mrs. Pivec said...
"Sometimes I wish I didn't have a conscience because it would make life so much easier."
I can't TELL you how many times I have thought these very same words to myself. Cooking and baking for me are more a job for me than a hobby. Don't get me wrong; I enjoy discovering and trying new recipes, but I'd rather give my free time to my true hobbies like knitting, reading, etc. This fact usually shocks both friends and family members, because I'm in the kitchen so often. I tell them, "I don't love to cook, but I do love good food and there's only one way to get it and that's by me making it!" Believe me, if I had a husband who enjoyed cooking the way you do, it would be heaven for me! (My husband is awesome in his own right though!) :) I wouldn't give up EVERY night in the kitchen, but yeah, it would be pretty great...
Back here on earth, though, I greatly appreciate your blog and others that help me keep things interesting in the kitchen. While I don't send my kids to school (we do that here at home), we've got plenty of field trips that are always needing some fun ideas. Thanks so much for yours here. :)
- September 14, 2008 at 9:38 PM
- Michelle said...
I JUST made those same cookies this weekend! All of those tips apply to my teacher husband since he is the one who leaves the house with a lunch every day. His lunch is always a leftover from a meal that week. I especially like number 5. He is prone to losing a lot of stuff;) We use a lot of recycled jars and cutlery.
- September 15, 2008 at 1:50 AM
- mom said...
Garbage-free lunches have come a long way...no more re-using frozen pea bags!
- September 15, 2008 at 6:30 AM
- Virginia said...
I have yet to try those cookies, but now I must. My 3 year old son goes to preschool two days a week and I always pack his lunch (of course) because the food at school is disgusting and not a vegan thing in sight. Thanks for the ideas!
- September 15, 2008 at 6:54 AM
- Happy Herbivore! said...
here is another tip (although its more about saving time and money than waste). On Sunday nights I cook two pots of soup and then put them in 2 cup gladware containers. I also make 10 salads in gladware and put dressing in 10 small gladware, storing them both in the fridge. Then each morning I grab one of each (soup/salad/dressing) for my husband and I plus 2 pieces of fruit and our lunches are packed in less than 5 minutes.
It not only makes my life much less stressful, its affordable! Our lunches end up costing us very little money and I am content in knowing we're eating healthy food.
Plus its always better to have a "home cooked" meal in my opinion.
- September 15, 2008 at 3:55 PM
- maria said...
I love the garbage free lunches.
Our kids school have competitions through out the year- they actually weigh all garbage and the class with the fewest ounces win a party-wastefree type of course!!
- September 15, 2008 at 4:06 PM
- Deb Schiff said...
Excellent! You're right - a little baking DOES go a very long way. When I want to do something special for my husband, John, I pack in his lunch some vegan peanut butter cookies I made the night before. Love your blog!
- September 15, 2008 at 5:07 PM
- lynn said...
Ok, so this is a bit off topic to packing lunches, but today my friend and I were scratching are heads at how depressing it is to live in the ol' U.S.A. (I know you're in Canada.) We came to that tried and true conclusion that we are only two people doing what we as individuals can do. Part of which is putting good energy out into the world, letting it land where it may. Well, you're blog does that and it lands on my computer screen everyday.
A better world starts with a packed lunch!
- September 15, 2008 at 5:49 PM
- Ashley C. said...
My mom used to bake and freeze cookies when we were young and each day of school we got a little baggie of 3 cookies...oatmeal, chocolate chip, or snickerdoodle! I loved them and my friends were always jealous!
- September 17, 2008 at 6:02 PM


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Every metabox has own ID.
We can handle onchange event of category checkboxes. Hide everything on load and then show, when user set a category.


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Home > Food > Recipes > Apple Tart
Apple Tart
Categories: Big-Batch Meals, Entertaining, Sweet, Thanksgiving
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
Type: Desserts and Baked Goods
This apple tart looks, and tastes, amazing.
Prep Time: 10M
Cooking Time: 30M
Serves: Serves 6
- 1 sheet prepared dough for an 8-9in (20-23cm) pie
- flour, for dusting
- 4 Bramley or Granny Smith apples, peeled, cored, and thinly sliced
- 2-3 tbsp granulated sugar
- 1 tbsp butter, cut into bits
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- Preheat the oven to 425°F (220°C). On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough as thinly as possible. Use the dough to line an 8in (20cm) round tart pan with a removable bottom, folding in the edges to create a double-thickness of dough around the tart, then trimming off any excess neatly. Prick the base all over with a fork. Line the tart shell with parchment paper and pie weights or dry beans, then bake for 10 minutes or until lightly colored. Remove the weights and parchment and allow the tart shell to cool. Leave the oven on.
- Arrange the apple slices in the tart shell in a neat, overlapping design. Sprinkle with the sugar and dot with the butter. Bake for 12-15 minutes or until the apples begin to caramelize and the pastry is golden. Leave to cool. Wrap the tart in plastic wrap and then in foil, and freeze.
- To serve, defrost overnight in the fridge. Remove the tart ring and serve at room temperature.
- To serve the tart warm, defrost as directed above, then heat in a preheated 375°F (190°C) oven for 15-20 minutes.
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Assume $M$ is a compact smooth manifold (without boundary). What can we say about the spectrum of the $\mathbb{R}$-algebra $A=C^{\infty}(M)$? The elements of $M$ give rise to rational points of $A$, are there other ones? Does the smooth structure of $M$ endow $A$ with additional structure such that $M$ can be completely recovered from $A$? In other words, is there some kind of smooth Gelfand-duality?
Perhaps I should post this as an answer (even if I don't really know that theory): in
Juan A. Navarro González & Juan B. Sancho de Salas, C∞-Differentiable Spaces, LNM 1824 Google Books Preview
a theory of "$C^{\infty}$ -differentiable spaces" is developped, and it would be something like the smooth analog to (possibly singular and nonreduced) complex analytic spaces.
I suspect you may be interested in the following nlab page: http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/smooth+algebra. In particular, note the section on smooth function algebras on smooth manifolds and the remark immediately preceding it:
You don't need any additional (topological or whatsoever) structure on the $\mathbb{R}$-algebra $A=C^\infty(M)$. As an algebra alone it allows you to reconstruct the manifold completely. (And not just as a set or topological space, but with it's smooth structure).
This had been answered in other questions on MO, unfortunately I don't remember where. Anyway a good reference is the book: Jet Nestruev, Smooth manifolds and observables, as well as the above mentioned book C-infinty differentiable spaces.
The functor from the category of smooth manifolds to to the category of real algebras that sends a manifold M to C^∞(M) is fully faithful, hence it is an equivalence of categories of smooth manifolds and real algebras of certain type. The inverse functor sends a real algebra A to the real spectrum of A (homomorphisms of algebras from A to R) equipped with the standard Zariski topology (every ideal corresponds to a closed set) and the obvious structure sheaf of smooth functions (every element of A gives a function on the real spectrum of A).
The construction also works for manifolds with boundaries and/or corners.
Here is a link to a related question: How much of differential geometry can be developed entirely without atlases?
If I am not mistaken the algebraic data distinguishing $C(M)$ from $C^\infty(M)$ is that $C^\infty(M)$ is equipped with a space of derivations which is a module over the algebra $C^\infty(M)$.
A derivation in this case is an $\mathbb R$-linear map $D$ of $C^\infty(M)$ to itself satisfying Leibniz's product rule: $D(fg) = D(f)g + fD(g)$ for all $f,g\in C^\infty(M)$.
I don't think the Gelfand duality itself is different from what you'd expect. In fact, the point of the Gelfand duality in this case would be to prove that $C(M)$ is the closure of $C^\infty(M)$ under the compact-open topology. The differentiable manifold structure is given by the derivations.


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I finally got around to getting some propane for the BBQ. Usually I grill right through the winter, but I think the cold temps and snow up here in the north is slowly sapping my will to grill. Either that or I am getting old. In any event, I inaugurated BBQ season 2010 with grilled oyster mushrooms. I can't get enough of these because they really have a great grill flavour and texture. The perfect addition to any grilled menu are these potatoes, tossed in smoked paprika. If you have not had smoked paprika, get thee to the bulk food store post haste! Smoked paprika is great for many things (southern tofu, for example) but I particularly like it on potatoes since it makes a great brunch dish, or a side for a BBQ meal. Pictured is a pound of baby red potatoes, boiled for 15 mins, until soft but not mushy, then chopped in half and fried in a bit of olive oil. When potatoes are cooked with a crispy outside, season with kosher salt to taste and toss in about 1 tbsp of smoked paprika. I like to add it when the pan is still hot so it smokes a little before it coats the potatoes. Truly addictive!
Sunday, June 6, 2010
In Praise of Smoked Paprika
11 comments:
- danamite said...
Had a nap this afternoon and I dreamed of potatoes and these babies are going to satisfy that craving... also, anyone who knew in what weather we Canadians cook in would lose the will to grill immediately! Keep up the good fight!
- June 6, 2010 at 10:22 PM
- CrookedMoonMama said...
Oh yum! We just bought our propane tank last weekend. :)
Smoked paprika I haven't tried yet, but we love the smoked sea salt.
- June 7, 2010 at 12:42 AM
- Eimear said...
Hooray, my favourite spice:) I call it vegan bacon- I use it in place of liquid smoke (which is difficult to get in the UK) to make Isa Chandra's tempeh bacon. The potatoes look so yummy:)
- June 7, 2010 at 2:43 AM
- Mylène Ouellet said...
Isn't smoked paprika great? I got hooked on it over the holidays when I found some at small Mennonite-run country store near Reading, PA. (I love your blog, by the way!)
- June 7, 2010 at 7:45 AM
- Christine said...
Smoked paprika is wonderful! It's the key ingredient in my split-pea soup. (I have friends who say that liquid smoke would be just as good a substitute for the meat, but that's more processed than I want to rely on, as my husband has allergies to certain preservatives.)
- June 7, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Tami (Vegan Appetite) said...
Those potatoes look perfect-- and I'm a huge fan of smoked paprika, too.
Happy Grilling!
- June 7, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Rachel said...
I completely agree! Smoked paprika is my absolute favorite spice. I used to completely skip paprika because I could never taste it and it seemed like a pretty spice-less "spice." Now, I skip other spices in favor of the smoked version because I can't get enough!
- June 7, 2010 at 1:41 PM
- Carissa said...
Thanks for posting on what to use smoked paprika with. I was watching food network one day, and it seemed like everyone was using it! So, I went out and bought some and it's just been sitting in my cupboard. Now I know what to use it with! Thanks!
- June 7, 2010 at 5:33 PM
- The Charity Shop Fairy said...
Why can't I ever get this to work!? All that happens is the brown crispy bits stick to the bottom of the pan and I end up with slightly smushed spuds. Am I overboiling them? Is it because I'm using a cast iron pan? Is the answer 42?! Help!
- June 8, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- dreaminitvegan said...
Smoked paprika is wondeful isn't it? These potato's look great!
- June 11, 2010 at 4:20 PM
- Vegan Dad said...
The Charity Shop Fairy,
The key is not boiling the potatoes to death. They need to finish cooking in the pan, so you should boil them first until tender, but not done. Then, make sure you oil is hot and get a fryin'. Cast iron is fine (even preferable) as long as it is well-seasoned.
And, the answer is always "c."
- June 12, 2010 at 10:03 PM


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Heroes of Gaia Hackedd by players Dice and Khaidhun, they have shared most of the information with the following players Beherit, Goob, Miska, Leobry, GalaMa, Sexy*, Sookie, Drako1, Murphdawg, bb6, nasbear, picasso and a few others. these players are all running bots on the game server. This as totally tip the balance of the game to all the hackers and their friends. Snail was notified a million times over yet theyve done nothing. Snail and kongregate just continues to take players money they spend on points without no regard for fair play. They completely abondon the game to the cheaters and hackers yet they still continues to collect players money. I want all to know that you should not spen another dime on HOG the hacking and cheating have been going on now for almost 6 months and they have done nothing so do not expect anything to change you'll just be wasting your money. Part of the problem is the hackers have game codes to the spend a lot of money to buy AP Cards so that they can keep their Bot programs running all the time that explains why snail and kongregate wont do anything about them because they are spending lots of money on the game which is lining Snail and kongregates pockets.
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Drink with sub purchase
It's not as good as the last deal of theirs that I posted but hey, free is free, right?
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The other deal (BOGO) is still good through the end of the year:
Two great deals but the second one is even better, thanks!
Could you edit your deal title to include a "or" and then mention the BOGO? Some people may just see the drink offer and not bother opening your deal :)
Now if only I could find a Quizno's... They closed pretty well every last one of them in the 5-county area a couple years ago.
WHy yes, I'd love some soda to go with my diarrhea meal, thanks!
One of the franchises close to me didn't used to take coupons. The store locator will tell you if a location does or not: http://www.quiznos.com/storeLocator.html
@cmackin: C'mon, really? I eat food that doesn't settle well knowing it will TOTALLY jack up my night... But the chicken carbonara is worth the extra cost of a few Immodium tablets and some minor inconvenience for a few hours.
@jjeff: I would but I don't think I can edit it. I can expire it or tattle on myself, that appears to be about it.
What does a sub there cost now anyway? When I was in college 10 years ago they were around $43 or so. I can't imagine what they cost now. For that price you should get a bottle of fine scotch 'for free' with it. What a joke.
@pleepleus: Most small subs are $4.99-5.49, when it's a BOGO thats about $5 for a footlong(2 smalls) and a heck of a lot better than the other sub place that sells footlongs for ~$5.
Personally I wouldn't purchase a Quizons sub without a coupon or special, I think they are too expensive otherwise.
Sure you can go to a Quiznos not using a coupon, purchase a regular(which they tend to push) for ~$6.50 and then add a drink and chips(~$2.29) and spend close to $9 but if you did that then I doubt you'd be one of the people that browse Woot for deals ;)


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Clemson: A Football School, With a Team to Match
The Tigers Make Their Bid to Rejoin College Football's Elite
Clemson, S.C.
At the heart of Clemson University's campus here lies the one landmark that captures the essence of the school's football team far better than anything one might see inside Memorial Stadium on a football Saturday. It is a pond. But this isn't just any old pond. It is a reflection pond. And the reflection pond provides a wonderful service: It lets you see yourself through your own eyes.
This is useful for college-football lunatics all over the country—every fan base is prone to wild fits of derangement, and some support groups need their own support groups—but it is exceedingly valuable here. That is because Clemson and its fans have long viewed themselves as college-football royalty, especially when they weren't, and even when no one else did.
But now that the Tigers are 6-0 and ranked No. 3 heading into Saturday's home game against No. 5 Florida State (Saturday 8 p.m. ET, ABC), they are no longer deluding themselves. Clemson seems to have caught up to its self-perception.
On sunny days in October, when it is 80 degrees for 3:30 p.m. kickoffs, the lush landscapes here make for a football paradise. Clemson's tailgating packs a Southern flavor, given the rows of RVs parked outside the stadium, but it also offers an all-you-can-eat buffet of pregame options. The rah-rah pageantry really kicks in when Clemson's players ride a bus from one stadium entrance to another and sprint down a steep hill onto the field as orange and purple balloons are sent skyward.
As a campus minister put it during a recent pregame prayer: "You don't have to be baptized in sweet tea to recognize the poetry of this place."
Frank Howard, the Tigers' coach from 1940 to 1969 and still the winningest in school history, was the one who first devised a grandiose vision for Clemson's football team. In the 36 years after he was hired, Clemson played in a grand total of six bowl games, though that didn't stop Howard from perpetuating the image of Clemson as a football school. "Other than Thomas Green Clemson, coach Howard did more for this university than anybody," said George Bennett, a 1955 Clemson graduate and former director of its booster club.
The program's pinnacle came in 1981 when the Tigers won the national title, putting Clemson in a club of 20 schools that have a championship in the last 50 years. But the disconnect between how Clemson sees itself and how others do is largely explained by the period between 1992 and 2010 when the program won just 58% of its football games and no Atlantic Coast Conference crowns. In that time, Clemson was the only school with a national title since 1962 that didn't have a single 10-win season. To compound matters, recruiting scandals led to a bowl ban, scholarship reductions and even television sanctions in the 1980s.
This self-proclaimed football school was suddenly no longer good at football. "We still thought we were," said Tom Winkopp, a Clemson real-estate developer and booster. "But we weren't."
The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina opened in 1893, founded on military roots and named after Thomas Green Clemson, who inherited the land by marrying John C. Calhoun's daughter. Clemson was convinced that an agricultural education system was the key to the South's recovery after the Civil War and spent many contentious years arguing his case to the deaf ears of the established political elite.
Even then, Clemson found itself well behind the competition. The University of South Carolina was nearly a century old and saw Clemson's birth as the diminution of their state domination, said Clemson historian Jerry Reel. Clemson isn't the state's flagship school, nor is it the biggest: Its undergraduate population of roughly 16,000 is lower than South Carolina's 23,000. It isn't the most popular, either: 52% of South Carolinians root for the Gamecocks, compared with 25% for the Tigers, according to Public Policy Polling data from 2011. And only two South Carolina governors, Strom Thurmond and incumbent Nikki Haley, have been Clemson undergraduate alumni.
Geography also conspires against Clemson. It isn't that Clemson is hard to find: The road there is stamped with tiger-paw prints, and you know you're close when there is so much orange that the traffic-light colors seem wrong. But its location, tucked into the northwest corner of South Carolina, two hours from Columbia and nearly four from Charleston, makes it easy for outsiders to forget where Clemson is. "They know it's down South somewhere—maybe Georgia?" said Todd Litrell, a food-services manager in Cullowhee, N.C.
Clemson counters its habit of being underestimated with acts of aggressive boosterism. In 1934, deep into the Great Depression, Clemson loyalists formed what they say was the first booster club of its kind. In 1977, with Georgia Tech threatening to end its annual series with Clemson, Tigers fans took it upon themselves to prove their worth by flooding Atlanta with $2 dollar bills marked with paw prints.
But what makes Clemson fans bristle, more than anything, is the notion that the football team will always find a way to unexpectedly lose a game and thereby muck up their season. This phenomenon has come to be known throughout most of the country as Clemsoning. Yet the people at Clemson aren't amused by Clemsoning. In fact, it makes them so orange they're red. For the people responsible for this insult, they save a special reserve of fury: "They don't know whether a football is blown up or stuffed," Bennett said.
The paradigm appears to have shifted in 2008, when Clemson fired its coach and replaced him with an entirely unproven one named Dabo Swinney. Swinney stood out because, like the legendary Howard, he never questioned the school's haughty football ambitions. By embracing them, he assured Clemson's fans that their lofty expectations weren't so loony.
Swinney, now 43, upped Clemson's average recruiting class ranking to No. 16 from No. 27. He hired new coordinators to revamp his offense and fix a defense that was embarrassed in a 70-33 loss to West Virginia in the 2012 Orange Bowl. Now the Tigers are legitimate contenders for the national title.
"As the Bible says, 'As the man thinketh, so he is,'" Swinney said. "Why would you think little things?"
The school has answered by delivering the equivalent of gold, frankincense and myrrh. It pays Swinney's pair of coordinators as much as any other team's. A luxury-suite area was added to Memorial Stadium in 2006, and a recent pregame spread there included Andouille sausage casserole and hushpuppies, which Clemson's top donors washed down with booze they had stashed in their own locker room. This season brought a spiffy $10 million practice facility with an ostentatious sign towering over the field: "Best is the Standard." Since practicing in the building, Clemson still hasn't lost, beating two teams from the Southeastern Conference along the way.
"At first it was a saying," said Clemson quarterback Tajh Boyd. "But it started to become a reality."
Swinney reinforces his message in private conversations, too. Haley, the South Carolina governor, texts "Coach Dabo" so much during the season that "he's probably tired of hearing from me," she said. Haley typically sends him a message on Thursday or Friday, and then again after the game. This week she was so anxious that she contacted him Tuesday. Swinney's response, according to Haley, soothed her nerves: "This is our time," he wrote.
That is what happens in the reflection pond—and why it is so convenient at Clemson. In short, it allows you to change what you see. All you have to do is jump in.
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Charlotte volleyball came out with a good game plan early, but eventually fell in three sets (25-20, 25-12, 25-16) to No. 14 Dayton Friday night at Halton Arena in Atlantic 10 Conference action. The Niners drop to 10-14 overall, 2-10 in the A-10. The Flyers improved to 21-4 on the season, a perfect 12-0 in conference play.
Charlotte jumped out early in the first set to an 8-2 lead, with five different 49ers logging a kill in a varied attack. Charlotte did not give up the lead until at 18-all, the Flyers scored the next three points of the set and kept Charlotte at bay for the opening set win. Junior co-captain Amanda Videmsek (Highland Heights, Ohio / Beaumont School) led all players with five kills in the opening set as the 49ers put together a .282 attack percentage. Freshman setter Britney Leigh Held (Brookfield, Wis. / Brookfield Central HS) paced the team with 14 assists in the opening frame.
Charlotte scored the first point in the second, but did not lead the rest of the set with team out of sorts in the frame. The Niners had 12 of the 23 match errors in the second frame, holding Dayton to a .269 attack percentage in the frame.
The Flyers played expertly in the third, putting together a 15-7 run in the middle going for the win. Charlotte scored on back-to-back points just three times in the set. Videmsek tied with a pair of Flyers with the set-high total of four kills.
Senior co-captain Bianca Rouse (Columbia, S.C. / Keenan HS) had her 11th double-double of the season with match highs of 11 kills and 11 digs. Videmsek finished with nine kills for the 49ers, while senior libero Jenna Litoborski (Lemont, Ill.) added 10 digs. She is seven away from becoming the 17th player in program history to log 1,000 career digs at Charlotte.
The 49ers will celebrate Senior Day on Sunday afternoon against Xavier before the final home match of the season. First service is scheduled for 1 p.m. with a pre-match ceremony for Charlotte's four outgoing seniors.


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In parts of the Spanish-speaking world, "¿Qué onda?" is used to ask something along the lines of "What's up?". What are the possible responses to this question? Should it be answered with a bien/mal, a nada/mucho, or something else?
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You can add the "¿Y tú?" to the end of the sentence.
Additional to Alfredo's answer I would like to add some context.
You can answer as you can answer to any greeting. Be aware I am not a Mexican native speaker, although I have friends that come from Mexico.
Now, as a bonus I tease my friends taking the phrase literal. Onda is wave. So to just pull their leg you can say:
You get it.
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The expression ¿Qué onda? is mostly used in Mexico and orignated from the literature current of the 1960's and 70's but has been used since 1940 more or less. "La onda" was referred to in this time to attitudes that where about rebellion against the status quo, against the burgueses and the rich class. A lot of influence coming from the USSR.
From the book "Onda y literatura de México" of Margo Glantz : Editorial Siglo XXI, 1973
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I am flying from Madrid to Montreal (or possibly Stockholm to Montreal) in early January and single tickets are much more expensive than returns, so I am thinking of utilizing the throwaway ticket ploy. Is there any website out there that can find the optimal return date (i.e. the return date that gives the lowest total price)? Or does it usually not matter?
I'm not aware of any fare search engine that targets precisely this option, but quite a few let you search date ranges, eg. Adioso and ITA Matrix. Rome2Rio is also handy for getting a feel of possible prices, and it's the only search engine I know of that will actually let you search for "Europe to Canada"! (Best offer today: Stuttgart to Montreal, $490.)
In general, 3-4 weeks is the sweet spot for cheapest ticket length. Less than 14 days, and you'll start hitting some fares' minimum stay requirements; over 30 days, and you'll start hitting some fares' maximum stay requirements. Obviously this depends on airline, destination, time of year, phase of moon etc, but since there's not much going on anywhere in late Jan, this will likely work for you.


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I was setting up my new NN5 on my old Bogen 3205 and noticed the center column moving slightly as I rotated the camera.
At first I thought something was loose.
Then I noticed the gap between the legs and the underside of the base caused by the O-ring.
I removed it and the base now sits firmly on the legs.
Not sure if other tripods have this, but if they do, see if it removing it doesn't make it more sturdy.


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They're wrapped in packages with labels like 'Spice' and 'K2'. Others are being marketed as 'Bath Salts', but synthetic drugs on sale in corner stores has law enforcement annoyed.
Just ask police officer Dave Northway.
"We can only do what the law allows us to do," he said. "If it says just these substances, they're the only ones that we can enforce. If the people who are making these come out with something new that gets around that, we have no way to stop that."
Synthetic drug companies based mainly in Europe and Asia are changing the chemical makeup of the drugs' main ingredient, called a 'base compound'. When they're done, the drug is every bit as potent but it's no longer illegal.
The loophole's become a big impediment to law enforcement efforts to crack down on synthetic drugs, but tightening it could become a big impediment to your health.
Many of the base compounds are used in everyday, legal pharmaceuticals. With lawmakers already talking about banning more base compounds, it's up to Dave Gross at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to figure out the potential impact.
He says only a sliver of all the compounds out there are actually used in common drugs, and the goal now is to come up with that list.
"What we do is, we ensure through intelligence, talking to other states, talking to other countries, that the use for the substances that we're going to ban has no other purpose than an illegal purpose," Gross said.
But that may give the synthetic drug companies just enough leeway to find a new way around the law, slowing but not stopping a troubling epidemic.
The legislature passed a ban on the mis-marketed bath salts last year. Earlier this year they passed another ban on more than 90 compounds that are mostly used in producing synthetic marijuana.


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Maurine E. Frink, age 87, died Oct. 6, 2012 in St. John. She was born Apr. 18, 1925 in Greensburg, KS., the daughter of William O. and Mabel E. (Kennedy) Dorland. On Nov. 26, 1944, she married Robert H. Frink, Jr. in Greensburg, KS., he survives. A resident of St. John since 1954, she worked in the Stafford Co. Clerk's office and twenty years as office manager for Farm Bureau Insurance of St. John. Her memberships include, First Baptist Church, Bernina Sewing Club, Town and Country Mother's Club and was a 1943 graduate of Greensburg High School. Other survivors include a son, Steven Frink (Jolene); a daughter, Bobbett Davis (Jack), all of St. John, KS.; four grandchildren, Troy Frink(Karla), Brian Davis, Kevin D. Davis (Laura) all of St. John, KS., Tonia Huslig (Larry), Pratt, KS.; six great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Robert and Gene Dorland; three sisters, Evelyn Foster, Ruth Darby, Marion Adams.
Memorial service were on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2012 at the First Baptist Church, St. John, with Pastor Terry West presiding. Inurnment followed in the Fairview Park Cemetery, St. John. Visitation was on Tuesday from 2-8pm at the funeral home, with family present from 6-8pm. Memorials may be given to First Baptist Church or Lucille Hall Museum in care of Minnis Chapel, P.O. Box 34, St. John, Ks 67576.
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Linux System Administration Study Group
About the group
The Linux Study Group (LSG) has been created in direct relation to the SF-LUG group.
- Share and study skills for Linux System Administration and hack on any and all things linux/f.o.s.s..
- Use the LPIC (2nd Ed, O'Reilly) book and RHCE Study Guide (4th Ed, Exam RH302, Osborne) by Michael Jang
for Red Hat Certification.
- Emphasis is on everyone being welcome
- Do first, before asking, so you'll learn.
- We meet in a classroom reserved at those times & days listed.
- Full connectivity via wireless/hardwire and whiteboards.
We encourage new people of all user levels to join in.
We also encourage users/hackers/developers of any, and all, operating systems who are interested in Linux.
Meeting time and location
When is this class? On Tuesdays from 15:00 to 16:30 And you may find people hacking on things before this time and after...
At Noisebridge, in the Turing classroom.
For discussion, use the SF-LUG mailing list
For announcements, use the SF-LUG mailing list or the Noisebridge-Discuss list
Add to this wiki page (or expand the Linux section of the Noisebridge Wiki) to describe activities, interests, and resources.
Our Focus
As of May, 2012 we are deploying Git in order to collaborate on coding, creating, and expanding the class. Join us to share your thoughts or contact the SF-LUG for more information.
Bash Shell Scripting
In early 2012 the study group focused on shell scripting in Bash. The class was very small, but has grown ever since. Here is a shell script that makes shell scripts. Can you explain every detail on every line?
The shell scripters are continuing to meet and work through their code on a line by line basis. This article on redirection is a great read as a followup to the 2/21 meeting


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The Skyhawks never got over the hump.
Though the Fort Lewis College women�s basketball team came awfully close to finding a lead in their Rocky Mountain Athletic Confernece opener against UC-Colorado Springs in Colorado Springs on Friday, the Skyhawks gave up too many open shots, bad turnovers and trailed the entire game to lose 70-65.
After trailing by 11 points just after the start of the second half � the Mountain Lions� largest lead of the night � the Skyhawks (1-4 overall, 0-1 RMAC) pulled within one point with about seven minutes to go only to fall back again, then inched within two at 65-63 on Ashley Kuchar�s layup with 26 seconds remaining.
Katerina Garcia missed a layup of her own, though, after UCCS�s Abby Kirchoff made one free throw, and the Mountain Lions put up the final margin from the free throw.
But FLC head coach Jason Flores said the team�s problem wasn�t as much the finish but the first half, when the Skyhawks gave hot-handed Kirchoff and Jeri Pikul too many open looks. Kirchoff scored a game-high 25, while Pikul added 19 for the Mountain Lions.
UCCS hit 45 percent of its shots, including 57 percent from beyond the 3-point arc.
�We were losing track of the shooters,� Flores said.
�We were there (on them) on a few but just not up there enough.�
Then, in the second half as FLC crept back toward the lead, turnovers kept the momentum from swinging.
Although FLC committed two less turnovers than UCCS�s total 22, �huge turnovers� came at �key moments� in the comeback attempt, including on fast-breaks that Flores said the Skyhawks normally would turn into points.
�We forced some things, and we were rattled,� Flores said. �If you convert those, it�s a whole different game: You�ve got momentum on your side, and we�re probably in the lead.�
Kuchar scored a team-high 21 points, and Erika Richards had 12. FLC shot 43 percent from the field.
Flores said Kuchar had �some big buckets� and was �overall pretty good,� but he�d like to have more Skyhawks in double digits.


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Define $L(x)=\int_{1}^x {1\over t} dt $
NOTE: I realize that $L(x)$ is the definition of $ln(x)$, but we aren't allowed to use that. Our professor is walking us through the definition of $ln(x)$ and $e^x$.
Part A: Show that $L({1\over x}) = -L(x)$
I've tried several different substitutions for this and even direct proof, but I'm completely stuck after working/thinking about this for the past several hours. Help is greatly appreciated!
Part B: Using Cauchy Criterion showing that the sequence $$s_n = 1 + {1 \over 2} + {1 \over 3} + ... + {1 \over n}$$ is divergent if $m>n$, show that $L(x)$ tendsto $\infty$ as $x \to \infty$.
Basically, I'm trying to show that if the limit of the sequence converges to some L, then the function of that sequence also converges to the same L. I suspect that I need to show that $l(x)=s_n={1 \over x}$, but I don't know how to formally state this idea.


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