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Wednesday, 28 September 2016
September Favourites
After some strangely warm days in Britain, autumn finally arrived. My feelings keep alternating between 'YES layers and hot drinks season!' and 'why's it so dark and cold already'. I should probably just enjoy this in-between weather before we take the sharp turn into winter where the only thing I'll be interested in is my duvet.
M&S Skirt
I wore this beauty in last week's outfit post and I'm certain it'll be making another appearance on the blog soon. Hats off to M&S for putting out this gem. It's black velvet so it moves with an understated shimmer, making it an all-occasions kind of piece.
Big Bud Press Pins
I finally decided to join the pin party and picked up a few from Big Bud Press. I got two gems and a planet for good measure. Big Bud Press has a great selection of pins, clothing, and patches and they even gave me two stickers with my purchase. Annoyingly, a customs charge was slapped on the package so I won't be rushing to order anything from the US again anytime soon.
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
I picked up Nimona on a whim since I'd heard of the author and wanted to check it out. I knew it was going to be good but I wasn't prepared for how good. Nimona is a powerful shapeshifter who joins supervillain Ballister Blackheart as his new sidekick. Blackheart isn't a typical supervillain; he's more concerned with exposing the Institution, the 'good guys' in charge of protecting the kingdom. Nimona on the other hand is keen on wreaking havoc and destruction much to Blackheart's dismay. It's got action, magic, and science and a story that will have you hooked.
We Got This
I've been listening to We Got This pretty much exclusively all month. It's a show where actors Hal Lublin and Mark Gagliardi settle arguments about the most important issues in our world, such as Coffee vs. Tea or which day of the week is best. While I love podcasts that tell stories or interview cool people, sometimes you just want to listen to two friends being hilarious and discussing which shape of pasta is best. It also has the best theme song in the world.
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Sunday, 18 September 2016
That's a wrap
|Top - The Kooples / Skirt - Mango / Shoes - Topshop (all old)
So I unlocked the hand on hip pose. Hooray! You'd think after almost four years of blogging I'd know how to pose by now but nope. I'm also still hoping for the day I can pull a serious face that I can take seriously.
These photos were taken a little while ago when I hung out with Faaizah. It was nice to catch up, brunch, and hunt for ice cream. I wore my Mango wrap skirt which I scored in a recent sale. I'm suprised it was even on sale considering wrap skirts and ring details are both huge trends right now. I went for a good old all black look, pairing the skirt with an old Kooples t-shirt and my Topshop slip-ons.
Sunday, 11 September 2016
Innisfree Powerproof Brush Liner Review
In the liquid liner world K-Palette is king, but I thought I'd try out this worthy competitor.
The packaging: Very simple and nothing really special. There is a spring in the lid which I guess is to help keep you from ruining the brush tip but it does feel a little bit strange whenever you try to put it back on.
The application: I'm a big fan of brush liners and I find the thin tip easy to use.
The colour: I got mine in black.
The road test: It stays on pretty well! Some days I come home and find that it's smeared a bit at the edges but usually there's nothing too noticeable. Sadly, there is a problem I have with this liner which is that it sometimes dries up while I'm using it. Shaking it can get a little more out but sometimes you just have to wait for it to work properly again.
The verdict: It's a great liner that's long lasting and easy to apply. It's such a shame that it dries up sometimes. Aside from that, it's almost on par with K-Palette's 24 Hour Liner.
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Sunday, 4 September 2016
Pompeii Photo Diary
One of the things I got most excited about on my recent holiday to Naples was that we would get to see Pompeii. It was absolutely incredible to go and get a glimpse at how people lived 2,000 years ago.
Pompeii was buried under the ash of Mount Vesuvius' eruption in AD 79. The town was first rediscovered in the late 1500s but nothing much came out of it. 1748 marks the beginning of proper exploration and excavation, and today there are 44 excavated hectares of Pompeii (out of 66).
A lot of the statues are later works that have been placed here on display. They might not be historically accurate but I think they add to the grand atmosphere.
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As we get closer and closer to determining who will be our next president, I am becoming more and more upset that this election, which should be a romp for Hillary Clinton is still within the margin of possibility for Donald Trump. Donald Trump has shown himself to be a misogynistic, bigoted, narcissist who has shown the capacity to pathologically lie even when the truth is on every video recorder in the world.
The last two days, however, have brought my view of Donald Trump to the forefront once more. First, Mr. Trump had the audacity to pronounce that even with the confession and DNA evidence that overturned the convictions of the Central Park 5, he was still certain that the five young men were guilty and the convictions should not have been overturned. It may have been a legitimate argument prior to the final DNA match to the perpetrator, but to maintain that position today can only be viewed as an act of overt racism. Those young men were exonerated and New York State paid them 41 million dollars as a settlement for an illegal prosecution. Donald Trump, though, still seems to think that being rich means never having to say you were wrong or you are truly sorry for a position or action.
Pair that with the video and auditory tape that was released today with Trump going through as misogynistic and lewd rant as has ever been heard by a presidential candidate. Trump gave a typical Trump apology.......It was only locker room banter.....Bill Clinton has said worse to me on the golf course.....I'm sorry if I offended anyone. It was another classic non-apology. A classic Texas two step by a New York Yankee. A comment by the man who just can't help himself.
Let's face it. Donald Trump is who he is. He is a pathological, misogynist, racist, who is totally narcissistic and totally unable to admit that he could ever be wrong. He is everything that both the left and the right have railed against in every presidential campaign prior to this election. His attitude toward women has proven to be abhorrent. His racism has come to the fore. He is a lion being a lion. You cannot place that lion in a pen with a hundred sheep and expect the lion not to have a feeding frenzy. You can't place Trump in front of a camera and not have him lie, insult women, people of color, Hispanics, Muslims, etc. It is who Trump is.
What is upsetting is how this can be who a good portion of the nation could be. We have essentially been a good nation who have had people who could disagree on many issues but hold many fundamental values as common. All women and men are equal. We are a nation of immigrants and welcome those immigrating from other countries within our national arms. We are a nation where you can worship in any way you choose or not worship at all.
Prior to this year, our candidates have differed on policy. What economic model are we going to follow? How are we going to improve education? How do we approach farm policy? How do we deal with poverty? How do we conduct our foreign policy?
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Mapping Your Tiddly Thoughts
I'm a big fan of TiddlyWiki, the personal wiki that runs in one file in your browser, and I'm very impressed by all the plug-ins and tweaks that the program's users are introducing. (I wrote about TiddlyWiki last year in a WSJ.com column — subscription only, sorry — but have also included some notes for the piece here in the blog, including on this page (scroll down).
Anyway, TiddlyWiki is a free form database, not unlike an outliner, but with lots of cool elements that make it much more. (Yes, tags, too.) Think of lots of individual notes that you make in your browser, which you can find via ordinary search or by tags you give to each note; you can also view a list of notes chronologically — i.e. in the order you created them — etc etc.
But if you're a fan of mindmaps, or PersonalBrain, where your information can also be viewed graphically, you might feel a tad constrained. Not for much longer, if a Java programmer and writer called Dawn Ahukanna has her way. She's just released a "hypergraph plug-in" which creates what she calls navigation graphs (I'd call them mindmaps but that's me). As she says, "I've had quite a few revelations with it already, using it to map my existing TiddlyWikis."
It's an early prototype and not as pretty as it could be, but this kind of thing is in my mind the thin wedge of a revolution largely ignored by the "social" Web 2.0. Tools like TiddlyWiki, though presently a little rough around the edges and geeky, mark a very useful exploration of different interfaces for personal, portable data.
While I think of it, another interesting new TiddlyWiki modification is the MonkeyGTD (Getting Things Done, to the few people who haven't been sucked in by the David Allen book and self-organizing philosophy), which tweaks the TiddlyWiki interface into little blocks.
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Jeremy, Thanks for the write up.
I do use Personal Brain mindmaps a lot and had used hypergraph to visualise exported mindmaps in a browser to share with clients, as documentation for developers etc.
So it was a natural progression to apply this visualisation concept to TiddlyWiki. I got hooked on TiddlyWiki in Dec 2005 and have been playing with it ever since. I very quickly ended up with 8 different TiddlyWiki files (due to size and loading performance limitations) and got frustrated having to remember which file contained what I needed or spend time searching for information spread across these files. I've always used TiddlyWiki as a repository/map for my thoughts and ideas as opposed to just an information store.
Hence the concept of "navigation graphs" was born. It is a visual means that assists me in efficiently
1. Make abstract ideas and information tangible.
2. Find information within one or more relevant contexts in way that reflects my thought processes.
3. Quickly understanding the relationships (explicit and implied) between the pieces of information.
This is quite powerful for me as this now moving into understanding and knowledge, not just retaining and finding information. I can visually understand the meaning of the information without even having read the actual detail.
My ultimate goal would be the ability to visualise and easily share ideas in a simple and effective way.


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Polish Potatoes
Recipe by Audrey M
A nice side dish to serve with your favorite meat.
Top Review by TOOLBELT DIVA
So similar, Audrey, to my dear mother's recipe I remember she served when I was a child. The recipe is perfect as it is.... but, I did add fresh, chopped dill, to punctuate the ethnicity.... Delicious. I scrubbed the potatoes well, left the skins on and sliced them paper thin; sliced the onion paper thin, as well, then layered them alternately with the potatoes and dill. The sour cream mixture is the crowning glory, Audrey, and creates a wonderful custard in which to cook the potatoes. I do appreciate your willingness to share this recipe with everyone in the world. :-)
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 large potatoes, pared,cooked and sliced
- 1 chopped onion
- 1⁄4 cup margarine
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1⁄4 cup milk
- salt and pepper
- 1⁄3 cup soft breadcrumbs
- 1⁄4 cup grated parmesan cheese
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- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Grease a baking dish with nonstick cooking spray and place sliced potatoes in bottom.
- Saute chopped onions in butter.
- Pour over potatoes.
- Beat together eggs, sour cream, and milk.
- Mix in salt and pepper.
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- In small mixing bowl, mix together bread crumbs and grated Parmesan cheese.
- Sprinkle mixture over top of potatoes.
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The man who allegedly killed Josephine Echols outside her pastor-son's church this past Sunday was himself gunned down by an off-duty Denver Police officer, likely preventing further bloodshed. As such, the story that offers something to gun-rights activists and those who see these weapons as causing more heartbreak than they prevent. The following reader fits in the latter camp.
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Aurora generates too many lurid crime stories, and this one is particularly tragic.
Something is very wrong in Aurora when Good Samaritans are gunned down while trying to render aid, and it is the same problem looming over every populated place in America. The operation of the Second Amendment did not safeguard the freedom of Josephine Echols to try to help the man who killed her. We are all victims of false collective beliefs which are harmful and thwart progress, and the notion that gun ownership ensures a civil society or keeps a tyrannical government at bay is demonstrably false.
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Through comprehensive reviews of theory and research related to animal cruelty, antisocial behaviour, and aggression, Gullone clearly demonstrates that animal cruelty behaviours are another form of antisocial behaviour, that appear right alongside human aggression and violence, as well as other crimes including non-violent crimes. Almost without exception, the perpetrators of animal cruelty crimes are the same individuals who carry out a host of other antisocial crimes or misdemeanors including assault, partner and child abuse, and bullying. For those whose criminal careers begin in childhood (i.e. the early starters), without intervention, it is highly likely that their antisocial activities will continue into their adult years, in most cases increasing in severity. It is therefore time to begin treating animal cruelty crimes more seriously, to prevent further harm not only against the innocent animals who will otherwise become the victims of these individuals but also against potential human victims.
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Eleonora Gullone is Associate Professor in Psychology at Monash University, Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Psychological Society, the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, Oxford University, UK, and the Institute for Human-Animal Connection, University of Denver, USA. Her research areas include emotion development and regulation, antisocial behaviour and animal cruelty. She has published extensively with in excess of 100 publications.
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It is an early-May morning, and showtime looms. Fans are packed into a high school auditorium in Richmond for one of the largest bodybuilding contests in the region. Judges await the routines of a hundred muscle-laden competitors, who at this moment fill a maze of rooms backstage making jittery small talk or studying themselves in full-length mirrors placed against every spare wall. Each competitor has a different last-minute ritual: doing push-ups, pumping dumbbells, pulling tension bands. All wear bikini bottoms and sport spray tans that dye every pore a John Boehner orange.
Pat Leahy is waiting with his fellow competitors, but he ignores the mirrors. They won't help him. Leahy has been blind since birth. As he stands in the middle of this holding pen of skin-popping flesh, he can see almost none of it. The slight peripheral vision he once had has deteriorated so that he has difficulty seeing objects even a foot away.
A muscle-ripped Adonis, obsessed with tone and definition, Leahy has worked for months with trainer and longtime friend Kevin Smith to sculpt his body into perfection — a perfection he has created for others to judge, as he can't fully judge it himself.
Bodybuilding may seem an odd pursuit for someone without sight. It is perhaps the most visual of competitive sports. It is not about how you pass or shoot or swim or jump. It is about how you look. But when you can't look, how do you compete? And why do you compete?
Leahy has heard the questions before and has asked them of himself. The how question is easier to answer. He competes by driving himself, training relentlessly, and relying on coaches and friends and family to provide feedback that will challenge him and help him improve. As Leahy prepared for the Richmond contest last month, Smith described his opponents to him. "These guys are 10, 20 pounds bigger than you," Smith says. "You have to be crisp in all your poses to impress."
Leahy listens intently. He may be blind, but he has come here to be seen. He has also come here to win.
Bright lights shower the contestants as they walk onstage. Barefoot and gleaming with oil, Leahy stands alongside his peers, each responding in unison to a judge's commands and, in concert, slowly turning so all 10 judges get a glimpse from every angle.
"Front double biceps," booms a judge. "Please rotate a quarter-turn. Side chest." The contestants follow orders. "Please rotate a quarter-turn. Hands on thighs, hips most muscular."
Leahy powers through with a strained smile, remembering what he was told worked well in the gym. Shrug the shoulders, and the lats pop. Tighten glutes, and the legs come to life. From the audience come frenzied shouts of encouragement.
Within a few minutes, the competition is over and Leahy retreats to his dressing room. He has given his maximum effort and feels exhausted. Now the results are out of his hands. Other people are judging him. As they have his entire life. And, as always, he's confident he has won over the doubters.
- Pat Leahy as a child
Pat Leahy was born Dec. 17, 1973. His mother sensed something wasn't quite right with the way Pat, at 6 months old, came up on a spoon during feedings. After a few visits with doctors, Leber congenital amaurosis (LCA), a degenerative disease that affects the retinas, was diagnosed. Simply put, Pat possessed the slightest peripheral vision. He could vaguely make out images and light. Doctors were amazed that he could also make out colors. Now 39, Leahy possesses a tiny bit of sight that is slowly weakening.
His mother, Kay, remembers a 6-year-old Pat railing about his blindness. "I am so angry. I am so mad at God for making me this way."
"I don't blame you," Kay answered. "But you can't give up. You have to find out what you can do."
Bill Leahy, a chatty but sensitive boy five years older than Pat, at first reluctantly and then enthusiastically embraced being a mentor to his gung-ho and curious little brother.
"Pat would turn to me and say, 'I want to learn to hit a Wiffle ball.' It was hard and took a lot of tries, but we figured things out. With all the sports, we found a way to do them."
The Leahy brothers' Timonium neighborhood was full of kids. In backyard football, Pat earned the reputation for being a bull rusher. Players on defense learned the hard way when Pat bowled them over wearing his hard plastic helmet.
He fielded grounders in baseball by hearing the ball coming at him in the grass and could even make a decent throw to first base. But he finally realized that he never would be a major league pitcher, because he couldn't see the catcher's signals behind home plate. So he found other sports. From age 6, he excelled on the neighborhood swim team.
His parents preached responsibility and independence. Pat was expected to wash dishes and take out the garbage. He mowed the lawn, taking off his shoes to check for the high grass missed after the first go-round.
Kay, now a retired nurse, and Bill Sr., a furniture distributor, had to decide between sending Pat to a school for the blind or a regular elementary school. They chose the latter, believing that Pat should be mainstreamed.
Leahy's mother never stopped worrying about him, particularly about how he would learn to interact with people.
"A person has to announce himself to a blind person when entering a room. They don't know who has come in," Kay said. "Pat wasn't extending himself, he stayed back and didn't put himself out there. So when he was around 7 or 8, we had a conversation. 'I know this isn't fair,' I said. 'But you have to make the other person comfortable.' "
Leahy learned to be the most sociable person in the room. Now a confident adult, he has empathy for his blind peers, especially children, and what they face each day.
"Technology has made things easier for people with disabilities," he says. "The iPhone 5 is amazing. Texts come with voice activation. But being blind is still profoundly isolating. Until you gain social confidence, instead of making those texts to two or three friends to go out, you are probably going to pick a solitary pursuit, like listening to the Orioles game in your basement."
During his tween years Leahy became painfully aware of his lack of mobility and his otherness. Most kids were roaming the neighborhood independently or visiting the mall and fast-food joints while he stayed at home, spending more and more time listening to games on the radio or playing rotisserie baseball.
As they did with sports, the Leahys took on Pat's hobby as a family, becoming full-time statisticians and reading aloud the box scores in the mornings and evenings. (That obsession with stats helps explain why Leahy serves as the commissioner of the Capitol Hill Fantasy Football League and manages two of his own fantasy MLB teams each season.)
As a kid, Pat wanted to be like the other boys. He pushed his brother to include him in the most risky of endeavors. Such as the night of the massive neighborhood game of flashlight tag in back yards full of trees, bushes and fences. Pat somehow talked Bill into letting him play unencumbered. The experiment didn't last long. Within minutes, Pat had collided with another boy, bloodying the boy's cheek and smashing his own glasses.
Bill, a former pro lacrosse player, remembers other adventures, as well: "Pat came to me and said, 'I want to learn to drive a car.' And we got him to the public school parking lot in the evening, when no one was around, and he learned." Pat sat behind the wheel of an automatic and was directed by his brother to drive slowly and complete simple turns in the empty lot.
"It was my honor to figure it out with him," Bill says. "My brother educated me. There is a way to do everything."
Desperate to blend in as a teenager, Pat tried pretending to not be blind. He refused to use a cane at school and took to wearing big, clunky glasses.
"I never let him wallow. I told him, 'You're blind, not dead. Come on, let's go, let's party.' Before you knew it, he was BBMOC, 'Big Blind Man on Campus.' Then he ran for Millersville University Student Senate president and won."
Corbett Rowcliffe, Leahy's college roommate
He learned to play the drums and joined his junior high marching band. One summer, he worked as a fry cook at the pool and became a whiz at flipping burgers and grilling hot dogs. His father had encouraged him to practice on the backyard grill, and by judging the aroma and the amount of time the meat spent on the grill, Pat became skilled at cooking to temperature. Within a couple of weeks on the snack shack job, Pat says, customers remarked that he made the best burger.
Much to his mother's consternation, Pat also took up gymnastics.
Kay Leahy sums up the experience of watching her son compete in his new pursuit: Floor routine? Fine. Rings? Good. Vault? Terrifying.
Leahy knew he had to run and pick up enough speed to vault the pommel horse. His coach taught him to put large swatches of white tape in strategic places so Pat could feel where to begin his leap. Still, he had some bad falls. Both parents were there when he ran chest-first into the horse.
"Mom took to hiding in the bathroom during the horse, flushing toilets and running the faucets to drown out the groans," Leahy remembers, laughing. "She would say to herself, 'What has Pat done now? Did he land in the stands?' " His mother rejoiced when he switched to wrestling.
At Calvert Hall College High School, Leahy played sports and joined the marching band, but he felt like a failure socially. Invitations to parties were few. Most nights and weekends, he stayed at home with his family. Leahy and his parents hoped college could be the place he would blossom. But his parents weren't quite sure if he would thrive on his own.
Leahy headed for Millersville University of Pennsylvania on an academic scholarship and planned to wrestle in the school's nationally recognized Division I program. He found himself rooming with Corbett Rowcliffe, a cocky sophomore tennis player and relentless fun-seeker.
"I never let him wallow," Rowcliffe says. "I told him, 'You're blind, not dead. Come on, let's go, let's party.' Before you knew it, he was BBMOC, 'Big Blind Man on Campus.' Then he ran for Millersville University Student Senate president and won."
The taste of politics and an interest in government prompted Leahy to move to Washington in 1997, where he would begin his professional life on Capitol Hill working as a staffer for members including Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) and Rep. J.C. Watts (R-Okla.). Watts, a former star quarterback at Oklahoma University, remembers him well.
"Pat sat right outside of my office door," Watts says. "We were attracted to his boldness. He wasn't someone that would run away from a challenge."
Looking for more challenges and a way to be directly involved with issues that affect disabled people, Leahy eventually moved to his current job as senior adviser at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, working with state and local governments to improve election conditions for all people.
- Pat Leahy competes in the Atlantic Super Show
Even as Leahy's professional career took off, his remaining vision continued to wither. Throughout his life, Leahy could always make out a vibrant blue sky, a garish green bumper sticker or bright red. But one day in his 28th year, as he reached into his clothes closet, he realized he could no longer see color.
"Gone," Leahy says. "For a person who didn't have a lot to start with, that ain't good."
Barring a miracle cure, Leahy's eyes would never improve. He asked doctors for exercises or vitamins that could strengthen his eyesight, but nothing helped. When he realized he could do nothing about his vision, he decided to focus on improving the rest of his body. He slimmed down by eating well and fell into a regular regimen of weight lifting.
The staff at Washington Sports Club on Capitol Hill soon came to know Leahy as the die-hard who sweated out two-hour-plus workouts five days a week while his guide dog, Galahad, chilled in a back room. Dressed in a gray sweatshirt emblazoned with "Blind Lifter," Leahy appeared so often it almost seemed as if he were on staff.
"I have been a trainer going on 30 years now, " says WSC personal trainer Owen Brown. "I have never met someone so dedicated to working out, so interested in the finest details of how to do an exercise or how to handle a piece of equipment than Pat."
As with his previous forays into sports, Leahy used working out to deal with his disability. "I can't control my blindness," he says. "One way I can improve myself, though, is through physical fitness. If I had perfect sight, I don't think I would be so into fitness or working out like I am. I'd probably be a guy playing softball once every three weeks. I am not so sure I would be so motivated."
Leahy is also extremely competitive, and bodybuilding, unlike many other physical activities, allows him to compete on relatively equal terms against opponents who are not blind. Not being able to see his own muscles doesn't stop him.
"I have a feeling of what a bodybuilder looks like," he says.
Another reason Leahy began to focus on bodybuilding is that he wanted all the physical effort to have a more meaningful payoff. Working with filmmaker Janar Stewart, he began creating a documentary called "Blind Lifter" to inspire children with disabilities to compete in sports. (According to a recent study by the Government Accountability Office, disabled children are 56 percent less likely to engage in school-based athletics.)
"One day while doing my one-millionth squat, it hit me. There has to be some sort of goal connected to weight lifting. As a goal-oriented person, I needed an end result. Bodybuilding, fitness, proper diet lead to competition. Then I had to tie it all together by using bodybuilding to do the documentary to help disabled kids. With bodybuilding, I have a hunch I can inspire folks. It's kind of a cool byproduct."
Stephen Replogle, a friend and former co-worker, says it took a while for this softer, more reflective side of Leahy to emerge. "It used to be sports and weight lifting all-time," he says. "But then he started talking about his disability for the first time. You realized just how sensitive a man he is."
Since the beginning of the year, Leahy has been preparing for this Richmond contest, the Organization of Competitive Bodybuilding's Atlantic Super Show. He obsessed about his diet, consuming zero fat, carbs or sugar, and eating only egg whites, fish and lean meat. His workouts grew longer and more centered on his routine. He lost 20 pounds and became edgy, impatient and a bit self-consumed. His parents were concerned about his diet, his health and his future in the sport. Leahy worried that they were so displeased they wouldn't even attend the event, his second competition.
But as the day at the OCB progresses, Leahy exudes calm. His parents are in the audience. There is only one event left, the solo posing segment. It is one of the highlights of the day's competition and is open to all contestants. Each individual has the stage to himself to let the judges view the results of all of those hours of work and sacrifice.
Leahy can only imagine what they see.
Holding a thin, white cane, he strides to the stage accompanied by Kevin Smith. The audience goes silent. After four months of hard-core weight and dance training, Leahy has one minute and five seconds to prove himself.
He lets go of Smith's arm and walks to the center mat. The song "Stars" by Miggs begins to play, and Leahy launches into his routine. Unlike his opponents, Leahy is incorporating gymnastics into his performance. He begins with a deftly executed roundoff, and the audience erupts when Leahy playfully nods his head. In between a cartwheel and a handstand pirouette, Leahy strikes a side chest pose and a "front most muscular" — akin to a python about to pounce. He walks on his hands, then finishes by nailing "the crab most muscular," a classic bodybuilding pose that accentuates the muscles from leg to chest.
The judges rise to applaud, and the entire audience follows in a standing ovation.
Leahy hears it all.
When the awards are announced, Leahy will also hear his name called as the winner in the best poser category. The trophy joins the two he wins in other categories that day.
Afterward in the lobby, new fans salute Leahy. He proudly hugs his mother, dad and dog. The "Blind Lifter" film crew is close by.
Stewart, the filmmaker, believes "Blind Lifter" won't have any trouble capturing people's imaginations.
"His life really has you asking, 'What would happen if we lost our own sight? How would we function?' I used to think turning blind would put me at my wit's end. But after meeting Pat, I know now I could handle it," Stewart says. "His life isn't a miracle. We all can come up with different ways to work around problems."
Joe Englert is a full-time restaurateur and part-time writer who lives in Washington. To comment on this story, e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com or visit washingtonpost.com/magazine.


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LG.Philips LCD , manufacturer of TFT-LCDs, launched a new Application Business Div. late last month to further penetrate this attractive and growing market. The company will focus on invigorating its small- to mid-size TFT LCD product lines. In separate news, another company division, citing a worsening cathode ray tube (CRT)
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Lorenzo Bianchini's Across the River follows Marco (Marchese), an Ethologist performing a wildlife census in remote woodland close to the Italy/Slovenia border. Investigating the whereabouts of an animal which he has electronically tagged, Marco finds himself wandering into the dilapidated, abandoned village of Fruili, where he encounters a savagely mutilated wild pig. Later, the appearance of two ghostly-looking figures on footage from one of his static night-vision cameras stationed in the forest sees him delve deeper into the crumbling village on a mission to solve the mystery of just what is creeping around in these deep, dark woods.
As per usual for our beloved genre, this is of course a very bad idea and Marco soon finds himself stranded – trapped in the decrepit township by a perpetual rainfall which sees him hopelessly separated from his RV by rising waters and forced to hunker down in his unsettling new surrounds. The problem there is that it quickly becomes apparent that he isn't alone – there are most definitely remaining denizens in the village of Fruili, and through some simultaneously unfolding back story, we come to learn that they most certainly aren't friendly. As the authorities close in with a search and rescue attempt for our animal-loving protagonist, his persistent curiosity brings him ever closer to the promise of a brutal death.
Reviewing Across the River is an exercise in extreme frustration for the devoted horror critic: Bianchini's film oozes atmosphere; very early on, an overbearing creepiness and palpable sense of gripping tension starts up, and simply doesn't stop. Almost every single scene throbs with unseen threat, the outstanding sound design and atmospheric, skin-crawling score by Stefano Sciascia working their tandem magic to keep your nerves constantly on edge. That's no mean feat considering Marco himself has almost no dialogue for the entire film, with Marchese left to sell himself to the audience through mere physicality and facial expression. You just don't know when, and if, something is suddenly going to make its presence overtly obvious; make no mistake, Across the River can be one damned scary piece of work.
The big problem here is that conjuring up a consistently frightening atmosphere is about all that Bianchini has to offer with his film. Almost the entire narrative consists of little more than Marco trudging around forests or poking around old buildings while being startled by strange noises. The pacing is glacial, and while the slow, controlled nature of Bianchini's structure is admirably oppressive and unnerving, it doesn't take too long before you're wishing for something – anything – to actually happen that will make a concrete story out of this. A subplot involving a local old couple feels clumsy – shoe-horned in only to provide some explanation towards the antagonistic entities residing in Fruili – and ultimately offers very few of the answers it appears to think it does. As the film approaches the final stretch and seems set to deliver the final wave of heart-pounding frights it's been building to, Bianchini instead makes the decision to feature Marco's murderous adversaries in moments that are poorly integrated, confusingly edited and wholly ineffective. The entire experience feels much like being in the thrall of someone slowly and methodically winding up a jack-in-the-box that's playing the creepiest tune you've ever heard… but instead of anything actually happening after an inordinate amount of time, they simply squeeze out a little fart and then ask you to leave.
Across the River is an exemplary exercise in atmosphere, but there simply isn't enough going on here to make it a truly worthwhile experience. It's a rare (and sad) thing indeed that a film so genuinely scary is also one that just can't really be particularly recommended.
Included in the special features on Monster Pictures' release is a 25-minute "making of"/extended interview with the director, highlighting some very clever use of location during the shoot, and "A Night with Friends": a short film directed by Across the River DP Daniele Trani, sporting a brief introduction by Bianchini (who acted as Key Grip). It isn't one of the more impressive shorts you're likely to see, focusing on little more than some rather tedious, ire-baiting dialogue between two highly misogynistic pals on a night out enjoying a little murder and rape; in that order, and with the same young woman.
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Richard Earl Davis, 26, Bayou Body Count No. 56
A distraught man who was threatening his girlfriend started to pull out a pistol as two cops approached him, and ended up dead, police say.
Richard Earl Davis, 26, who was "distraught after losing his job several weeks ago," was arguing with his girlfriend at a bus stop at 17300 Tomball Parkway about 2:15 p.m. Monday, HPD says.
He had gotten a gun about two weeks ago and threatened his girlfriend with it, police say. Monday he left his mother's apartment with the gun despite the pleas of her and his brother.
They followed him to the bus stop, where he began arguing with his girlfriend, police say. The mother caught the attention of officers S.H. Nguyen and C.M. Oates.
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They "attempted to detain Davis, who turned toward the officers while pulling the pistol from his waistband," HPD says. "Officers Nguyen and Oates, fearing for their safety, discharged their duty weapons, striking Davis."
Davis was taken to a hospital where he died.
Both officers joined the force in 2008. The case is being investigated by the HPD Homicide and Internal Affairs divisions and the Harris County District Attorney's Office.
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Michael Lewis and Tyrone Hughes were always meant to go into the Saints Hall of Fame together.
Both men played in exactly 63 games for the Saints, making their marks as electrifying return specialists who turned in one All-Pro season apiece and posted nearly identical statistics in their time in New Orleans. Both players are New Orleans natives, the first two to be tabbed for induction into the Saints Hall of Fame.
And they've known each other for years.
When Lewis and Hughes got together this week to be present for the Saints Hall of Fame announcement, they revived an old, playful argument. Hughes tells Lewis he's better, citing his 40-yard dash time at the NFL Combine and the era he played; in response, Lewis jokingly challenged Hughes to a race right now.
In truth, the two best return men in Saints history have plenty of respect for each other.
"I used to watch this guy," Lewis said. "Somebody I could look after and see the things that he did. You know, when I started playing, he had a lot of records that were up there that his name was on that I wanted. Couldn't get them all."
The pair will be formally inducted into the Saints Hall of Fame in conjunction with a Saints game this fall, along with SMG executive vice president Doug Thornton, who will be given the Joe Gemelli Fleur de Lis award for his contribution to the Saints and the region. Thornton played an instrumental role in the reconstruction of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
The funny thing is that if Lewis had taken a more traditional path to the NFL, he and Hughes might have been competing for the title of the NFL's best returner.
"We're about the same age," Lewis said. "He's about a year or so older than I am. He was playing back then; I was working, so it was a little different."
Hughes is 45, almost two full years older than Lewis, 43. Hughes played at St. Augustine High School in New Orleans; Lewis played at Grace King in Metairie. Despite the relatively small gap in age and an equally small gap in geographical proximity, though, Hughes and Lewis don't remember knowing about each other in high school.
Lewis first remembers learning about Hughes after the Saints drafted the older player out of Nebraska in 1993.
At the time, Lewis was still in the early stages of the well-documented journey that would take him from driving a Budweiser truck — out of an office based only a building away from the Saints facility on Airline Drive — through the ranks of the arena leagues and finally to the NFL in 2000.
The two didn't meet until after Hughes had finished his four-year Saints career.
"You know what, I was playing in the RFL, the Regional Football League they'd started, and I met Tyrone at City Park," Lewis said. "I think he was playing with Chicago at the time. From that day forward, we kept running into each other and became friends."
Hughes knew a great return man when he saw one.
A few years later, after his career ended and he'd moved back to New Orleans, Hughes took a special interest in Lewis' first training camp with the Saints.
"When he first got here, he was having issues catching the ball," Hughes said. "I actually called and contacted (coach) Jim Haslett, because I knew of his potential. I'd contacted Haslett to come work with him. Of course, (Haslett) said no. Finally, he got it down, got it together, and he did a hell of a job."
Lewis ended up breaking many of the records Hughes set and turning in a very similar time in New Orleans.
In his time with the Saints, Hughes returned 229 kicks, averaged 25 yards per return, scored three touchdowns and added 116 punt returns, 9.1 yards per return and two scores; Lewis returned 243 kicks with the Saints, averaged 24.3 yards and scored three touchdowns, and he outdid Hughes a little by averaging 10.4 yards per return on his 142 punt-return chances.
In tandem, the two set the standard all other Saints return men have to match.
"Before me, there was a gap, then they had Melvin Gray," Hughes said. "After me, Morton came in for a while, went to the Jets — Chad Morton — and there were a couple of other guys, but nobody who you could actually see had the speed and the vision. ... When I saw Michael had that, I said, it's just a matter of him learning to set things up and be patient."
Maybe it's better that the two are too old to race anymore. If they set up in a foot race, one of the two might end up finishing ahead of the other.
Lewis and Hughes were meant to enter the Saints Hall of Fame together.