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Is running good for you?
The pros and cons of running
Is running good for you? Running has often been viewed as a potentially dangerous activity. But can a sport that improves your cardiovascular fitness really be bad for you? Here's an assessment on whether running is good or bad for you.
A common point of discussion amongst runners and non-runners is weighing up the benefits (or not) of running training. Detractors will discuss valid points such as joint problems and repeated muscle injuries, whilst advocates will enthuse about cardiovascular benefits and the freedom that running can bring. So who's right and who's wrong, or is there some middle ground? In this article we aim to put the record straight with a balanced assessment of the pros and cons of running that'll help you decide on whether running is right for you.
To keep the assessment balanced, we have listed our top six discussion points with the arguments from each camp (for and against), together with our overall verdict on whether running really is good for you or not.
Running causes joint problems and impact injuries
Running is good for you: Running strengthens your joints and bones and provided you wear well-cushioned shoes, run off-road regularly for improved shock absorption, and avoid heavy training mileages, you'll not experience problems.
- Running is bad for you: Repeated pounding takes its toll (in both the short and long-term) on bones, particularly on joints such as the knee, which is particularly susceptible to injury.
Running is boring
Running is good for you: The great outdoors, off-road exploration and the freedom that running brings means that it's never boring.
- Running is bad for you: Plodding around the same routes week in, week out is dull, dull, dull. Exercising without any purpose (as opposed to running during a football game or sport) is pointless.
Running causes imbalances in the body
Running is good for you: Running mainly strengthens the legs but the upper body is also employed for posture and driving the arms, particularly on hills.
Running is bad for you: The majority of runners have muscle imbalances because they neglect upper body training and tend to opt for more running. Hence they can become susceptible to injuries and typically have limited upper body strength.
Runners are inflexible and frequently get muscle injuries
Running is good for you: Providing you warm up well and include flexibility exercises in your training schedule, runners should not experience strains and muscle pulls.
Running is bad for you: The primary topic of conversation on any running club night or the start line of any race, is who's currently injured, who's been injured and who's coming back from injury. Injuries and running go hand-in-hand.
Running is inherently dangerous to your health
- Running is good for you: Running brings a whole host of physiological benefits, including an improved cardiovascular (CV) system, stronger heart, greater blood volume and improved resistance to infection to name a few.
Running is bad for you: Running is a killer. Remember Jim Fixx, the American running guru that died whilst on a training run? More recent examples of fatalities in the other major running events show that it is a dangerous activity.
Running is unhealthily obsessive
- Running is good for you: A good run gets the blood coursing through your veins, improves your mood, is a great weight management tool and because of all these positives, makes you want to continue repeating the experience. That makes for a long term commitment to a healthy lifestyle.
- Running is bad for you: Runners are over-focused on weekly mileage, never missing a training session and manipulating their day around their training run so that it dominates above all else.
The verdict on whether running is good for you
Both camps have valid points. As a healthy active living website, advocating activities such as running, it would be very easy for us to categorically promote running and disregard the valid and real problems that running can bring. However, to remain completely balanced, that would be an invalid assessment.
Consulting our team of professional specialists, all with many years experience of training and racing, overall our assessment is that running is a life enhancing activity that can be enjoyed at every age and level by whoever puts on a pair of training shoes.
But, and it's a big but… similar to any activity, there are sensible and necessary precautions to take that will ensure you are able to train safely and can continue to train long-term. To get the most out of your running, keep it in balance with everything else in your life: your work, family, relaxation etc. Then, as a health and fitness activity, it's pretty hard to beat. In our view, it's neither a killer nor a cure-all but the positives of running outweigh the negatives by a considerable margin.
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Sue 'Who knows?!!! I certainly don't think that running is for everyone. I tried it last year and ended up hurting my hip. I'm pretty sure I overtrained. That was a school girl error I know but I just don't think it's for me. I love swimming however, and am quietly convinced that that has got to be better for you.'
adam_s 'I agree with the stuff about runners neglecting their upper body. I like running but I balance it out with weight training because I want to build up....'
HAN75 'Running is certainly not without its costs in terms of niggling injuries, but in terms of general improvement to your well being I think it's worth the odd ache and pain. As long as I mix things up with a bit of swimming I don;t suffer too much.'
haveago 'Like most sport, there's always an element of wear and tear on the body, but I'm sure the benefits far outweight the drawbacks. I'd rather run than not at all - it seems the only way I can regulate my weight.'
adam_s 'Surely running is better than not doing any exercise at all? Obviously there are less high impact on the joints sports out there such as swimming or cycling, but if you like running, then provided you can get by relatively injury free, then go for it. '
ahlh 'Was having this discussion with someone at work yesterday - she's just joined a gym and have been running on a treadmill. Since I discovered running I have cancelled my gym memebership. Her argument for treadmill running was it was gentler on her knees and she couldn't afford "proper" running shoes. Turns out my motion control Brooks "proper" running shoes were £20 cheaper that her pink and silver gym shoes! (and hey, my local authority don't charge me £50 a month to run down the road and I can go whenever I want!). But regardless of all that, I strongly believe that the best exercies I what you enjoy and feel confortable with, although there is always room for pushing yourself. But you're only going to push if you'r happy - I've always cycled and will push myself up steeper/faster hills, but I'm comfortable with that because I'm comfortable with cycling as a whole. I took up running partially for convinince and partially because I thought I couldn't do it. A decent pair of shoes and a few hot baths later, I proved myself wrong and my GNRunner friend right! Surely the benefits of exercise outweigh the injuries? Or do you just swap cardiac disease for bettered knees? '
zippysam1 'Well Hi there, I am new to this so bear with me. I am going to start running but I have a baby and do not know anyone who is in my town running with a buggy or jogger as they are now known. I have a regular buggy and a Quinny, a 3 wheeler lightweight buggy. Does anyone out there jog with a baby if so what do you do and how is it going? I use to run before having my child but this was years ago and now I am a lot heavier and would also like tips on how to start out. Thanks in advance!!'
fabrice 'Running is a great sport, it put's you to the test each time you hit the street's ok it's not easy but given time and more training you will get there. you must stay at it stick to a program good luck and happy running everyone'
thewie72 'Hiya all I was thinking of doing the exercises, not actually do the exercises for ages. I just mentioned to my brother that I would take up running. Two weeks ago he gave me a copy of the beginner programme from "Running Made Easy" - oh I enjoyed it so far!! I bought TWO proper pairs of running shoes from the January sale knowing that a pair would be worn out in six months if used regularly. I also cancelled my gym club membership after a year of not going! I try not to think of the amount of money I've wasted! Yes running's *FREE* for life! After only a day's running I have noticed a very small difference in myself...I felt a bit less tired after getting up in the morning. If the running is going to be a benefit to myself, I shall give up my anti-depressants cos I've read somewhere that exercises do replace the anti-depressants. I can't wait to go running tomorrow (today was my rest day). I will have to consider the upper body training - any ideas?'
snoozyhen 'i admit running is a good way to build up stamina and muscle but does it actually keep your weight down?'
runningfool 'I have run for years without ant serious problems apart from a niggling knee condition that keeps cropping up if i over train, until last year when i slipped a disc resulting in four months of painful Sciatica.this eventually went away until a few weeks before the Bupa London 10k when i found my legs were aching and heavy even after short runs.on the day of the race the pain in my legs and back was chronic and over the past week or so it has got worse,even jogging aggravates it and now the only stamina training i can do is rowing as even sitting on a bike hurts like hell.'
SuperCaz 'My life has certainly improved since I started running. The health benefits are a lot wider ranging than losing a bit of weight. I now sleep better, feel more positive, cope with stress better, have less aches and pains (except tired muscles), get less migraines and generally look forward to life more. My blood pressure has dropped from about 148/98 to 112/75. There are also lots of other ways that running improves your life. There is the social side - I know a lot more people than I used to, both through the club and by seeing the same faces at races. I am also much more aware of my surroundings. I notice the seasons and really appreciate how good the weather is in the UK (it always looks worse from the comfort of a house). As for combating injury - doing a range of exercise suits me best becuase then some muscles can recover while others are being worked. Coupled with massage and daily stretches I have managed to keep injury at bay for a year now.'


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You have to give him the answer rather than a question.
It doesn't seem like he actually *knew* the answers, or what they were talking about, but rather had some photographic image of the answer pop in his head that he didn't even comprehend.
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Google authorship is big on the agenda for a lot of SEOs at the moment, and rightly so considering how heavily Google is looking to push this into search results.
Creating a personal brand is incredibly valuable toward building and strengthening great relationships. After all, you're always going to have more trust in recommendations from your own circle of friends.
This study from Nielsen strongly backs this up, with 90 percent of people trusting recommendations from people they know. In comparison, only 41 percent trust search engine results!
That stat alone shows the importance of why Google had to become more social. If searchers are given more buying trust in their results, then advertisers are going to get a better return on investment. And Google authorship appears to be a key part of their solution toward achieving this, essentially merging personalized search with your social circle.
So what can you do to capitalize on this?
1. Build a Personal Brand Online
Google have realized just how important social media is as an indicator toward assessing the quality of a website. And because in many ways social media is more about personal branding, (as opposed to company branding) authorship starts to make a lot more sense.
Google doesn't want to just measure the influence of a brand profile on Twitter/Facebook/Google+ – it wants to know about its employees, its writers, and online fans/followers. Treat your own reputation management seriously and look to build a strong profile on key social sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, etc.
If you're not an active blogger, you really should start now. It's never too late! Blogging is a great way to build a personal brand – plus it opens doors to further opportunities such as writing on higher profile sites, conference/event speaking or media interviews, meaning that you can leverage your online profile even further.
2. Setup Google Authorship For All the Websites You Write On
By connecting your Google+ profile with all of the websites you publish content on, it means that your profile is going to be displayed whenever an article/blog post that you've written appears in Google's search results.
On its own this should naturally increase your following – because people will also click through to your Google+ profile as well. So that's already helping to build your profile and make you more influential.
Plus it's going to get you extra traffic by positively influencing rankings within your social circle. Which is also another key reason Google promotes this: it pushes large volumes of traffic through to Google+ and gives users a reason to re-visit.
3. Use Google+ Daily
Even if you have to force yourself to do it – try spending a small amount of time each day commenting and sharing your connections content, not just your own, to strengthen those connections.
By making a small effort each day, you'll gradually start to build up a stronger profile.
4. Use Tools & Interact With Influencers in Your Niche
Firstly identify the key influencers in your industry. Tools like FollowerWonk, Topsy and FindPeopleOnPlus are great for this.
Then get their attention – definitely don't overdo it by stalking them and replying to everything they say. But make the effort to interact with them occasionally and share their content and hopefully this will go both ways.
In Twitter you can build private lists of people you want to interact with more frequently. Why not do the same with a Google+ circle too?
If you can start getting retweets from people with 10,000+ followers it's likely to help build your social reach. And again, the same rules apply with shares on Google+.
Another great tool is Google Ripples (see this guide on SEOmoz to show how to use it). Basically, it means you can see who the influential people are when sharing a post and how far it has reached. See this screenshot for the recent announcement of Google Drive:
5. Hire Great Writers With Strong Social Profiles
This is one of the most important lessons to learn. Finding the right people is critical. Making mistakes in new hires can set you back massively.
Take the time to find someone who is great, as opposed to someone who "can do the job." It's much more rewarding in terms of the results you can achieve.
This fits in incredibly well with Google authorship – personally this is something I looked for in a writer beforehand anyway. But now there is even more incentive to find a writer who has a great social profile and can reach out to their own audience and network.
In many ways, authorship is almost a Panda-style algorithm update, meaning that Google will reward quality over quantity. Look for top writers within your industry to hire – forget about the $10-a-go copywriting services and find an actual individual who can help promote yourself my using sites such as the Problogger Job Board or AuthorPress and most importantly reach out to your own blog and social network.
If Google is going to measure the influence of a writer's social profile when ranking content, you should do the same when looking to hire them too!
6. Meet Bloggers and Writers in Person
Meet people in real life. Go to industry events, find blogger meet-ups – figure out where these guys hangout and get to know them. But do it offline – it's far more personal!
Recently I analyzed the people I had most frequently interacted with on Twitter using WhoReTweetsMe.com because I wanted to see how many of these people I'd actually met in person. Even I was surprised by the results, I'd met 88 out of the top 100!
Having a personal brand is a great first step – but really getting out there and meeting people is the way to take it to the next level.
What Impact Will Authorship Have to Rankings?
At the moment it's unclear how much of a direct impact authorship has, or will have, to influencing rankings. However, even if it's not a ranking factor just yet, Google authorship and Google+ already influences personalized search results – which in itself can boost the rankings for connections within your social circle. This opens up huge opportunities for individuals, because it means Google is likely to reward you personally for being an authority online.
Google are also fully aware that a website's reputation is no longer just based on links. People will much more commonly tweet a link now than they would blog about it, so to ignore social from their algorithm long-term would make no sense to them if they want to continue providing the most relevant set of search results possible. Which of course they do!
It seems pretty clear that this is the way Google intends on heading. There's no reason not to set up Google authorship. So get in there sooner rather than later.
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Also known as Hansen's disease, leprosy has been known to humankind for millenia.
The causative organism was not found until 1873, when a Dr. Gerhard A. Hansen (1841-1912) discovered that leprosy was caused by Mycobacterium leprae. Since then, leprosy has also been known as Hansen's disease (personally, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like to be remembered as the guy whose name is associated with leprosy ...).
Mycobacterium leprae is an obligate intracellular parasite that is from the same family of acid-fast bacili that causes tuberculosis. This particular bug has never been grown on any sort of artificial medium. Humans were the only known natural reservoir for Mycobacterium leprae until recently when some armadillos in Louisiana and Texas were found to be infected. Armadillos also seem to be a good culture animal for leprosy for some reason, as Mycobacterium leprae creates an even bigger infection in armadillos than in humans.
Most cases of leprosy occur in Africa and Asia. Other endemic foci exist in Central and South America. In the U.S. and Europe, leprosy is almost unknown outside of immigrants from these areas.
Transmission of leprosy is uncertain. Leprosy was even thought to be a hereditary disease (a long time ago), as there did not seem to be any pattern for the transmission of this disease. Close contact is certainly necessary for transmission of leprosy and it is thought that Mycobacterium leprae is spread via the respiratory tract. Few who actually come into close contact with a leper end up getting leprosy but many will end up developing antibodies to Mycobacterium leprae.
The incubation period for leprosy can range from one year to 40 years, with an average of 5 to 7 years. Mycobacterium leprae grows very slowly, with a doubling time of about two weeks.
hmm... more later.
One thing that piqued my interest in an article on leprosy in the November 2000 edition of Discover magazine was that leprosy was brought back to Europe in large numbers by warriors returning from the Crusades. The church had trouble answering why these fighters were coming back diseased when they had gone on a holy war (as in "whose side was God on?") - leper colonies only became prominent after the Crusades. Leprosy in Europe died out when the Black Death a.k.a. the Plague came along and wiped out most of the lepers (along with a quarter of Europe's population).
"Leprosy" was the second album by the influential death metal band Death. This album pretty much defined how Death would sound for the times to come. It is on this album that Schuldiner started developing the characteristic, technically advanced and extremely fast soloing he would later become famous for. While the Leprosy lineup didn't last long (mainly due to Chuck Schuldiner and Rick Rozz not getting along -- they had formerly played together in the band Mantas, which didn't go well), it contains some of the tracks that Death's fans usually consider the band's very finest classics, such as Pull The Plug, Born Dead and the title track Leprosy. The sound was dirty, harsh and distorted, the way death metal should be.
Lyrically, the "gore flick" style lyrics have been toned down a tad since the first album Scream Bloody Gore (which indeed has lyrics that remind this noder more of Cannibal Corpse than of Death). The band still had a certain fixation on death and mortality, as the attentive reader has no doubt noticed from the tracklist. Ironically for a band named Death, around the time of their third studio album, Human, the morbidity of the lyrics was almost completely gone.
After the release of Leprosy, Rick Rozz left Death, and was replaced by James Murphy for the band's third release, Spiritual Healing.
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Lep"ro*sy (?), n. [See Leprous.] Med.
A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish, shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These are often followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anaesthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones and joints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.
The disease now called leprosy, also designated as Lepra or Lepra Arabum, and Elephantiasis Graecorum, is not the same as the leprosy of the ancients. The latter was, indeed, a generic name for many varieties of skin disease (including our modern leprosy, psoriasis, etc.), some of which, among the Hebrews, rendered a person ceremonially unclean. A variety of leprosy of the Hebrews (probably identical with modern leprosy) was characterized by the presence of smooth, shining, depressed white patches or scales, the hair on which participated in the whiteness while the skin and adjacent flesh became insensible. It was incurable disease.
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Skysurfer gone.. just.. gone...
Today my faithful Skysurfer decided to make a break for freedom. I was excecuting a sharp left turn at full throttle at some altitude when I experienced a momentary loss of power. Power came back within a split second and that is when I realized, to my horror, that I had no throttle or directional control at all. I hit my throttle cut switch and tried to nose down to at least save the electronics but nothing. All I could do watch watch her fly south at full throttle, at substantial altitude, completely out of sight and no sign of slowing down. I walked about 2 miles due south of my field listening for the no radio signal beep and trying to blip the throttle occasionally to hear the motor but it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
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That sucks. I've never had a total fly away, would be tough not knowing Whisky Tango Foxtrot happened.
Any number of things could have happened I guess. Maybe something like the antenna got moved to the wrong angle or the rx power wire got jostled during a hard maneuver. I was never shy about tossing it about at full tilt boogie (which was rather quicker than stock), Could be that the BEC died? I don't feel too terrible about it. Although there was alot of sweat and tears put into that setup, I only lost maybe $40 in hardware max, and the airframe had seen MUCH better days. There was probably enough epoxy and contact cement on it to build a few more planes. I taught myself how to fly on that plane, and everything I ever learned how to do as far as mods and setup was done first on that one. My return on investment, experience and fun wise is outstanding.
Plus, now I get to buy a new plane! |
Found about 3/4 mile due south in a yard. The highway going south runs south parallel to the field I fly in so I thought I would walk down a ways and I happened to see the broken tail section flapping around.
It's broken in several places, but I think I should be able to glue it back together. More jazzed about getting the electronics back though. May need a new LiPo, dunno yet. I usually do repairs with epoxy but in this case that might add a lot of weight. CA maybe? |
nice! I'd go with Epoxy, foam safe CA never seems to really make that strong a bond for me. Although maybe if you covered the inside seams with some wood or extra foam and more CA it would be okay.
Back together and airworthy!
As you can see, the nose is pretty tweaked after putting it back together (tore in about 5 places) but oh well. I seem to have lost some prop/tail boom clearance possibly due to foam compression or something but hey, it's not hitting so we're good (maybe about 1mm clearance left though, yikes). I also finally had to replace the stock rudder and elevator servos with some tower pro 9g that I had around and went to quick connects at the servo horns after cutting off the z-bends. I'm surprised at how long the stock servos actually lasted. The spoileron servos got replaced almost immediately and moved to the top after a clod of dirt took out one of the stock ones. Oh, and I ended up trying low temp hot glue since I hadn't ever used it before and I heard it was good with EPO. It'll never sit in a hot car or anything, but we'll see how it holds up. |
Thats what trim is for right?
20mph winds today so no chance to fly. I've never actually used trim other than sub-trim to center my servos for equal throw. We'll see how that goes, but I think you're right, it'll want to pull to the left. Might not be bad enough for me to bother with trim though unless it actually rolls left, which would be annoying. I'm thinking with the decrease in vertical motor angle, I might have to mix in some elevator with throttle.
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Despite living in the technology age — or perhaps precisely because we're in the technology age — the act of writing and receiving letters in the mail holds the same appeal and excitement for me as I imagine it did for Henry James or John and Abigail Adams. Though I couldn't dream of matching the beauty of such eloquent correspondence, I do enjoy getting to practice my penmanship, and I appreciate that "snail mail" is one of the few things we still have to wait for. I never I thought I'd say this, but sometimes I love waiting.
If you have a hankering to draft a good old-fashioned letter, then I think you will love this roundup of stationery projects that show you how to craft your own personalized correspondence. There's everything from hand embroidery and stamped monograms to vintage wallpapers and collage. Most require only a few tools and a small work surface, making them great projects for a cozy winter's evening. Happy crafting! — Kate
Image above: Anne Weil's hand-embroidered notecards made from recycled paper make for an inexpensive yet beautiful correspondence set.
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See the full roundup of projects after the jump!
Image above: Halligan's pen pal kit with tinted feather quill pens feels like a perfect stationery project for spring.
Image above: The BBB Craft Sisters show us how to turn recycled cardboard into elegant, organic stationery with stamps and yarn.
Image above: Brenna's linoleum-cut monogram correspondence set with vintage wallpaper-lined envelopes
Image above: For a modern twist on preppy argyle, try making these recycled magazine argyle notecards and envelopes.
Image above: Derek and Lauren created a personalized stationery suite using samples of pretty vintage wallpapers and blank notecards.
Image above: Give your loved ones their gifts or notes in Brenna's seeded paper pouches. They can be planted after use for a second gift of spring blooms!
Image above: If you like being on top of your correspondence, try making the BBB Craft Sisters' wood card organizer for easy sorting and storage.
Image above: Add a bit of old-world elegance to your correspondence with Kim's customized wood wax seal stamp.
Image above: Adorable patterned stationery using samples from Repro Depot's pattern books, Flora and Folk.
Image above: Ashley's vintage card jotters dress up and personalize a gift card or cash present for your loved ones.
Image above: For a fun, summery, graphic correspondence set, try making these nautical cards and picks by Erica Domesek of P.S. I Made This.
Image above: Business cards needn't be expensive and fancy to be cool. Try making your own variation of Amy's stamped business cards.
Image above: Brenna's travel map correspondence kit is an easy, fun way to reuse old maps and create a lovely stationery set for yourself or as a gift.
Image above: Erica Domesek's gorgeous DIY marbled paper can be used for stationery, accessories and more.
Best of all Kate I love my fountain pens – I use one every day. I think it slows me down just enough to improve my execrable handwriting. That must be good!
What a great post for a lifelong paper addict like me! Thank you for the visual lunch! I'm stuffed.
Could not agree more! Thanks for the paper love!
LOVE all these wonderful ideas! Going to get working on a special card for Valentine's Day! Thank you.
i only wish i was crafty enough to recreate some of these. they are all so fantastic. very inspiring post! thanks for sharing!
I love the sewn details, what a great idea!
I love all of these (I really have a paper addiction =P), especially the old style wax seal, very elegant!
So pretty -and some great invitation ideas too! The summer nautical cards would be cute for a party!
Very inspiring….I just did a bit of sewing myself…
I love paper. The sewn and embroidered details are my favorite but that wood card organizer could have so many different uses.
Love the way recycled cardboard can be transformed into ruggedly chic stationery! The handmade feel is priceless.
Lovely ideas – by coincidence I made some really simple paper button design note cards at the weekend and posted a short tutorial here… here's a link in case anyone would like to see: http://decoratorsnotebook.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/weekend-crafting-easy-peasy-handmade-button-cards/
I love seeing the ingenuity with people who do handmade! These are spectacular!
sympathy is spelled incorrectly.
The marbled paper by Erica Domesek's is beautifull..The play of colours is just awesome


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Founded in 1933, the Big Ten Club of Southern California was created to celebrate getting out of the cold and enjoying the camaraderie of others at various local events and functions. Plus with our long standing association with the Tournament of Roses, Big Ten Club members enjoy access to Tournament related events.
Major events include the Rose Bowl game, Person of the Year, Queen's Luncheon, and Caucus at Wrigley Mansion.


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Mexico Arrests Mass-Murderer Named After a Hand Puppet
A Mexican drug kingpin who left behind a trail of 600 bodies, many of them dismembered and decapitated, has been arrested. Oscar Garcia, 36, was the leader of The Hand with Eyes — a brutal drug gang responsible for bringing the extreme drug-war violence typically found in northern Mexico into Mexico City and its suburbs.
Garcia is a former mafia bodyguard who split off to start his own psychopathic import-export business. As is the custom, he too had an adorable nickname completely ill-suited to his terrifying reputation: They called him "El Compayito," after a popular, Señor Wences-style puppet — hence the name "The Hand with Eyes." (And here I thought it was some high-minded reference to Pan's Labyrinth or something.)
Here's the original El Compayito on a Mexican talk show. That passes for entertainment in Mexico? He looks like a hermit crab with rheumatoid arthritis. [AP, photo via AP]


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Investors add $5.6 bln to U.S.-based taxable-bond funds -Lipper
NEW YORK, March 30 Investors poured $5.6 billion into U.S.-based taxable-bond funds during the latest week, data from Lipper showed on Thursday.
* Pharmacy owners were paid at least $16 million in 2012-court papers
* Mercedes and BMW leases put on pharmacy's tab
* Meningitis outbreak has killed 44 people so far (Recasts; adds comment from lawyer, 2012 sales figure)
By Tim McLaughlin
BOSTON, Jan 22 Creditors of the bankrupt pharmacy linked to a deadly U.S. meningitis outbreak are investigating $16 million in salary and shareholder distributions made to company owners in 2012, a lawyer for the group said on Tuesday.
Some of the transfers from the New England Compounding Center, which had 2012 sales of $32.4 million, followed the discovery last fall of the meningitis outbreak that has killed 44 people, according to documents filed late on Friday.
"The bottom line is that instead of using the money to remedy the pharmacy's problems, which now look like a ticking time bomb, they took the money out," said David Molton, a lawyer at Brown Rudnick LLP, which is representing the official committee of unsecured creditors in NECC's bankruptcy.
The unsecured creditors committee, which includes victims of the meningitis outbreak, plans to meet on Tuesday to discuss whether the payments to insiders were proper.
Bankruptcy law allows creditors to go back two years before the Chapter 11 filing and claw back transfers and payouts deemed improper, or "fraudulently conveyed," Molton said in a telephone interview.
NECC owner Carla Conigliaro, the largest shareholder in the privately held company, received nearly $9 million in 2012, according to court papers.
NECC also paid about $18,000 on her American Express card for purchases from gas stations, restaurants, the Apple Store and other places.
Barry Cadden, NECC's chief pharmacist, received about $3.2 million in 2012, filings show. His wife, Lisa Cadden, received about $2.8 million. Greg Conigliaro, a recycling entrepreneur who is Lisa Cadden's brother and Carla Conigliaro's brother-in-law, received about $1.6 million.
The filings also showed that Framingham, Massachusetts-based NECC had made lease payments for a 2012 BMW X5 and 2011 Mercedes Benz GL-550. NECC paid, for example, $1,251 a month for Carla Conigliaro's Mercedes Benz lease payment, court papers show.
Brown Rudnick LLP, in a statement, said NECC had paid a total of more than $21 million to the pharmacy's four primary owners and other insiders.
Medical Sales Management, which shares some common ownership with NECC, received more than $4 million from NECC in 2012, court papers show.
A spokesman for NECC did not return a telephone call seeking comment.
NECC filed for bankruptcy protection last month after U.S. authorities shut down its pharmacy operations amid a meningitis outbreak that has killed 44 people and sickened 678 others, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
NECC shipped thousands of vials of a fungus-tainted steroid to medical facilities throughout the United States, according to authorities. (Reporting by Tim McLaughlin; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)


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Chula Vista Garden Club Established in 1946 Club Objectives • To create, promote and expand interest in amateur gardening; with a special appreciation of the natural beauty of our city. Club Activities • Horticulture workshops • Share the bounty of our gardens • Field Trips to see other area gardens. The Chula Vista Garden Club meets the third Thursday of each month (excluding July and August) Our meetings start at 10:30 am at Norman Park Center 270 F Street (downtown) Chula Vista 91910
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2016 Melissa Padilla
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Whilst catching the bus up to North London for work this morning, I saw some advertising for the tourism board of some far eastern country—besides the point really. What bugged me was they'd set the copy in DIN, a fairly widely used font, and smack bang in the middle was possibly the uggliest @ character created for a typeface ever.
I think it's fair to stay it's a pretty catastrophic error. Look at it, it's so ugly. It doesn't even barely resemble an @ sign. In fact here's a list of things it does look like;
A headless zombie
A man from above ready for a hug
A limp lowercase d
A rat peaking out a whole
A fat pig front on
Just about anything BUT an @ sign
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Port Alberni Cabins, Chalets & Cottages
• A WorldWeb.com Travel Guide to Cabins, Chalets & Cottages in Port Alberni, British Columbia.
Looking for a cabin, chalet or cottage in Port Alberni, British Columbia? WorldWeb Travel Guide offers detailed information including availability, rates, descriptions and more on a large variety of Port Alberni cabins and chalets.
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Situated in a quiet neighbourhood near the Port Alberni bird sanctuary, this motel is also conveniently located close to the bus depot and marina. Guests are impressed with the many on-site amenities including wireless Internet access, air conditioning, coin laundry facilities and a BBQ area. Accommodation is provided in standard rooms, suites with full kitchens and a two-bedroom cottage with a full kitchen. Some rooms are pet-friendly.
Sproat Lake Cottage Rental - Dave's Cottages
This spacious yet cosy cottage accommodates up to eight guests with four bedrooms, a fully equipped kitchen and a four-piece bathroom. The cottage is located on Sproat Lake River, 12 km (8 mi) from Port Alberni, and offers convenient opportunities for many outdoor activities.


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Platform game that specializes in basic Single Digit Multiplication exercises for elementary school students.The Program was developed together with Elementary School Professionals and successfully testet in Elementary schools.Along with the obvious. ...
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X Motor Racing demo 1.15 is such an interesting game designed for racing enthusiasts all around the world.The goal is to develop innovation and advanced racing simulator with tools for understanding/tuning vehicle physics.Now X-Motor Racing is a. ...
World War II rages and nations fall. SS head Himmler has Hitler's full backing to twist science and the occult into an army capable of annihilating the Allies once and for all. Battling alone, you're on an intense mission to pierce the black heart of. ...
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Motor City Redline Is a project that will attempt to emulate the origional MCO of which EA Games took over from us and threw us, the loyal dogs out into the cold. We are working to build this emulator before it becomes just another piece of game history. ...
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4C is a variation on the classic "Connect 4" game. Two players on a network compete against one another, and chat back and forth while they play!
Word Puzzle is a five-letter-word puzzle game. It is designed to training your elaborative faculty for words. Word-Puzzle is a five letters puzzle game. It is designed to training your elaborative faculty for words.
An amusing extension of the Game of Life: fidgety swarms of tiny critters wage a war against each other, and you takes part in this battle in real time as a commander of your own living army. Flexible settings allow to construct lots of new games!
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Game Editor is an interactive multimedia tool for game development, with a simple and intuitive interface and a rich set of features.
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Tetris style game with 18 figures of 5 blocks each, 3 game modes, adjustable field width, top 10 scores, game record and replay, demo mode.
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While waiting for the neighbors for our annual Easter Egg Hunt, I wanted to test out my new Rebel
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Concert Review: Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle & The Lynns | |
Reviewed by Jolene Downs
On February 22, 2003 Loretta Lynn, Crystal Gayle, Peggy Sue and The Lynns hit the stage at Silver Springs ready to entertain. It was the first time in over 15 years that Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle had shared a stage. Even though Loretta had been hospitalized with Pneumonia the week before and was supposed to cancel the show, she wasn't going to pass up the opportunity for an onstage family reunion. The crowd of around 12,000 that packed the lawn was sure glad that she didn't. And what a show it was!
The show started at 2:00 with Crystal Gayle. She has a beautiful voice and a very elegant appearance. She has trimmed her hair a little and it falls to just below her knees. She was dressed in a dark green, off the shoulder dress with a flowing hemline and sandals. Her segment was about 45 minutes long and she packed many fan favorites into that time. Her sister, Peggy Sue, travels with Crystal and she took center stage for a couple of songs as well. Along with an uncanny vocal resemblance to big sister Loretta, Peggy Sue has a love of telling jokes. She had the audience laughing at some of her anecdotes.
While the stage was being set up for Loretta's show, Patsy Lynn came out and chatted a little with the audience. Loretta's show was a little late starting, but at 3:30 the audience was on their feet and cheering when Loretta herself walked out onstage singing "Hey Loretta." I've seen Loretta Lynn only once before in concert, and that was years ago in Denver when she was touring with Conway Twitty and George Jones. My impression then was that she was an extremely talented person who makes you feel as though you are a part of her family. She is just that "down-home friendly." This time was exactly the same way. I was expecting her to be a little off because of her recent illness, but she sounded absolutely terrific. She looked very stylish in black pants, black western-style shirt and a long red western-style jacket. Since she was still not feeling 100 percent, she sat down frequently to rest. However, while she was resting, the entertainment didn't stop. Her daughters were on the road with her as well and they just happen to be the singing duo The Lynns. While onstage, Loretta worked her way through several of her hits and talked a little about the new CD she is working on. During one song she did from a yelled request, she missed part of the lyrics. She laughed and told us that it was ok; we could just pick up where she left off and keep going with it. Her sense of humor came out again when the band jokingly told her that all those people were trying to take their picture and she just kept getting in the way. (The line for people to file across the front of the stage to take photos was extremely long throughout the entire show. Normally this line ebbs out after the first few songs.) Loretta just kind of gave them a look and stepped back. Then she said something to the effect of the cameras seeming to follow her when she moved. This got a laugh from the crowd.
Peggy and Patsy Lynn have the stage presence of those that are very much at home there, and they know how to carry a tune. They chat with the audience while singing a wide variety of country tunes. Loretta came and joined them on a few songs and there was no question she was mama when she would say things like, "Peggy, put that tummy back under your shirt!" The audience roared with laughter and Peggy said, "Mama, you know I can't help it that I just had a baby." To which Patsy replied, "Yeah, 10 months ago!!" They were a joy to watch onstage. They sound really good together and I wish people would have more of an opportunity to hear them on the airwaves.
The moment that a lot of people had waited for came towards the end of Loretta's show. During her show, Crystal and Peggy Sue were seated on the side of the stage watching. It was awesome when the three of them stood up together and walked to the front of the stage. They did three songs together and they had a great time doing them. The three of them sound so good together that I hope their dream of doing an album together is realized. It would definitely be something to be treasured.
In any case, The Coal Miner's Daughter can still pack in the crowds and then give them what they came for - great music. I would definitely recommend seeing her show if the opportunity arises. I would also go see Crystal Gayle and The Lynns if they came to my area. It was a day of entertainment that may very well only happen once in a lifetime, and the memories will surely last a lifetime.
Set List:
- Crystal Gayle
- Everybody's Reaching Out
- Sound of Goodbye
- Gonna Pop the Question
- You've Been Talking In Your Sleep
- *I'll be Over You (start Medley)
- You Never Gave Up On Me
- Baby, What About You
- I'd Do It All Over Again*
- It's Been A Long Time
- Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad (Peggy Sue)
- Rose of San Antone (Peggy Sue)
- Take Me Back To Alabama
- Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
- America/God Bless America Medley
- Loretta Lynn
- Hey Loretta
- You Ain't Woman Enough
- When The Tingle Becomes A Chill
- I Wanna Go Home
- Somebody Somewhere
- Country In My Genes
- Blue Eyed Kentucky Girl
- God Bless America Again
- Woman to Woman (The Lynns)
- Where Did She Get It From (The Lynns)
- One Of These Nights (The Lynns)
- If You Wanna Get to Heaven - Old Kentucky (?)(Loretta and The Lynns)
- Don't Come Home A Drinkin'
- Put It Off Until Tomorrow (Loretta/Crystal/Peggy Sue)
- What's the Matter With the Baby (Loretta/Crystal/Peggy Sue)
- Put Your Hand in the Hand (Loretta/Crystal/Peggy Sue)
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Terrazas de los Andes Reserva Torrontes 2009
Torrontes from Salta, Argentina
Winemaker's Notes
The color is brilliant white gold colored with greenhighlights.
It has white flower aromas such as orangeblossom and rose combine harmoniously with itsintense fruity notes of pear, mango and passionfruit.
On the palate it's fruity and sensual, with an excellentacidity expressed in an outstanding freshness. Withgreat aromatic and taste persistence, characteristicof this variety.
Critical Acclaim
Wine Spectator - "Well-defined, featuring spicy notes of tangerine and peach, with hints of grapefruit zest and mineral filling out the tangy finish. Drink now."
Terrazas de los Andes Winery
At the end of the 1950s, the famous French Champagne house, Moët & Chandon, realized there was an enormous potential for growth in South America. They sent their wine analyst, Renaud Poirier, to study the possibility of expansion. Monsieur Poirier finally proved that Luján de Cuyo, a region within the province of Mendoza, was the best place for the birth of fine wines. In 1960, Chandon Argentina was established, the first subsidiary of Moët & Chandon outside France. To make the Terrazas de los Andes wines, Chandon Argentina took the initiative to restore this building, located in the heart of Perdriel and at the foot of the imposing Cordón del Plata (a section of the Andes Mountain Range).
In the past, Chandon Argentina made only sparkling and generic still wines, however at the beginning of the '90s fueled by a political system more orientated towards an international market, a varietal wines project was born, to which Terrazas has now become the reality. Situated in Perdriel there is an old Spanish style winery that was used by Pedro Domecq to create his brandy. Renaud Poirier asked Domecq if he could use his equipment to make the first experimental vintages, between 1957 and 1959. Thirty years later Terrazas de los Andes was born, a tributary of Chandon Argentina dedicated exclusively to the production of varietal wines. View all Terrazas de los Andes Wines
About Argentina
View a map of Argentina wineries (ahr-jen-TEE-nah) Now fifth in the world for wine production, Argentina is catching up in the quality wine sector. A long time wine producer, Argentina used to make wine in order to drink it, not export it. And so the wines produced were quaffable and rustic and made for the local's everyday dinner. Yet it's hard not to get caught up in the wine market of the world and some winemakers decided it was time for Argentina to show their stuff. Better winemaking technology was brought in, new winemaking techniques were learned and good viticulture practices flourished. The result? World-class wines with unique style and variety.
Notable Facts
Unlike its Chilean neighbor, Argentina's vineyards are spread out around the country. The best known region is Mendoza, almost parallel to Santiago to the west. Mendoza contains the sub-regions of Maipu (pronounced MY-pu) and San Rafael. Grape-wise, the most important white is Chardonnay, making wine similar to California's style on the variety. Another fun white grape to try is Torrontes. Almost only grown in Argentina, Torrontes makes wines that are crisp, aromatic and easy-drinking. Some of the best versions of this wine come from the northern region of Salta, with very high altitude vineyards. As for the reds, Cabernet Sauvignon is the main grape for many wines leaving the country, but Malbec, the grape Argentinians like to call their own, makes very distinctive wines that are structured, dense and velvety. Many more varieties happily grow in the country, but for export, and consistent quality, these are the primary grapes.About South America
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SpringHill Suites Salt Lake City Downtown
Get an overview of this hotel3-star Salt Lake City hotel in Downtown Salt Lake City, near Clark Planetarium
Located in Downtown Salt Lake City, this hotel is within 1 mi (2 km) of Pioneer Park, Clark Planetarium, and The Gateway. Tabernacle and Salt Lake Temple are also within 2 mi (3 km).
Hotel Features
An indoor pool, a 24-hour fitness center, and a spa tub are available at this smoke-free hotel. Free buffet breakfast is provided, as well as free WiFi in public areas, free self parking, and a free airport shuttle. Other amenities include a 24-hour business center, coffee/tea in a common area, and a meeting room.
Room Amenities
All 86 rooms provide free WiFi and free wired Internet, flat-screen TVs with cable channels, and conveniences like sofa beds and living rooms. Other amenities available to guests include refrigerators, microwaves, and coffee makers.
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Hotel Amenities
In addition to an indoor pool, SpringHill Suites Salt Lake City Downtown provides a spa tub and a 24-hour fitness center. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and a meeting room. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast. Event facilities measure 700 square feet (63 square meters). An area shuttle within 2 mi and a roundtrip airport shuttle (available on request) are complimentary for guests. This business-friendly hotel also offers ski storage, coffee/tea in a common area, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
SpringHill Suites Salt Lake City Downtown is a smoke-free property.
- One meeting room
- Free area shuttle
- 24-hour business center
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 86
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- 24-hour front desk
- Number of floors - 4
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Elevator/lift
- Express check-out
- Grocery/convenience store
- Free WiFi
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Free self parking
- Conference space size (meters) - 63
- Ski storage
- Smoke-free property
- Spa tub
- Indoor pool
- Free breakfast
- Conference space size (feet) - 700
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Indoor pool
- Separate living room
- Free Wi-Fi
- Area shuttle (complimentary)
- Grocery/convenience store
- Sofa bed
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Sofa bed size
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Separate living room
- Daily housekeeping
- Refrigerator
- Sofa bed
- Air conditioning
- Free newspaper
- Phone
- Free local calls
- Coffee/tea maker
- Microwave
- Hair dryer
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary hot/cold buffet breakfast.
Nearby Things to Do
An indoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a 24-hour fitness center.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Snowboarding nearby
- Ski lessons available nearby
- Ski equipment rental shops nearby
- Downhill skiing nearby
- Water skiing nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 21
Special check-in instructions:
Check-out time is noon
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
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This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.


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Progressives and the Flag
July 4 is an occasion for Americans to express their patriotism. But the ways we do so are as diverse as our nation.
To some, patriotism means "my country -- right or wrong." To others, it means loyalty to a set of principles, and thus requires dissent and criticism when those in power violate those standards. As Martin Luther King said in a speech during the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, "the great glory of American democracy is the right to protest for right."
President George W. Bush expressed the first version, questioning the patriotism of anyone who challenged his war on terrorism. In his 2001 State of the Union address, for example, Bush claimed, "You're either with us, or with the terrorists." He introduced the Patriot Act to codify this view, giving the government new powers to suppress dissent. (The anti-war movement countered with bumper stickers illustrated with an American flag that proclaimed "Peace is Patriotic.")
In contrast, President Barack Obama has said: "I have no doubt that, in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it." He observed that, "Loving your country shouldn't just mean watching fireworks on the 4th of July. Loving your country must mean accepting your responsibility to do your part to change it. If you do, your life will be richer, our country will be stronger."
The flag, as a symbol of the nation, is not owned by the administration in power, but by the people. We battle over what it means, but all Americans -- across the political spectrum -- have an equal right to claim the flag as their own.
Progressives understand that people can disagree with their government and still love their country and its ideals.
Indeed, throughout U.S. history, many American radicals and progressive reformers have proudly asserted their patriotism. To them, America stood for basic democratic values -- economic and social equality, mass participation in politics, free speech and civil liberties, elimination of the second-class citizenship of women and racial minorities, a welcome mat for the world's oppressed people. The reality of corporate power, right-wing xenophobia, and social injustice only fueled progressives' allegiance to these principles and the struggle to achieve them.
Most Americans are unaware that much of our patriotic culture -- including many of the leading symbols and songs -- was created by people with decidedly progressive sympathies.
For example, the Pledge of Allegiance was authored and promoted by Francis Bellamy, a leading Christian socialist. Bellamy penned the Pledge of Allegiance in 1892 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' discovery of America by promoting use of the flag in public schools.
It was the Gilded Age, an era of major political and social conflict. Reformers were outraged by the widening gap between rich and poor, and the behavior of corporate robber barons who were exploiting workers, gouging consumers, and corrupting politics with their money. Workers were organizing unions. Farmers joined forces in the Populist movement to leash the power of banks, railroads, and utility companies. Progressive reformers fought for child labor laws, against slum housing, and in favor of women's suffrage. Radicals were gaining new converts.
In foreign affairs, Americans were battling over the nation's role in the world. America was beginning to act like an imperial power, justifying its expansion with a combination of white supremacy, manifest destiny, and spreading democracy. At the time, nativist groups in the North and Midwest as well as the South were pushing for restrictions on immigrants -- Catholics, Jews, and Asians -- deemed to be polluting Protestant America. In the South, the outcome of the Civil War still inflamed regional passions. Many Southerners, including Civil War veterans, swore allegiance to the Confederate flag.
Bellamy (cousin of best-selling radical writer Edward Bellamy) believed that unbridled capitalism, materialism, and individualism betrayed America's promise. He hoped the Pledge of Allegiance would promote a different moral vision to counter the rampant greed he thought was undermining the nation. Bellamy initially intended to use the phrase "liberty, fraternity and equality," but concluded that the radical rhetoric of the French Revolution wouldn't sit well with many Americans. So he coined the phrase, "one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all," intending it to express a more egalitarian vision of America, a secular patriotism to help unite a divided nation.
Or consider the lines inscribed on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor/Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Emma Lazarus was a poet of considerable reputation in her day, who was a strong supporter of Henry George and his "socialistic" single-tax program, and a friend of William Morris, a leading British socialist. Her welcome to the "wretched refuse" of the earth, written in 1883, was an effort to project an inclusive and egalitarian definition of the American Dream.
And there was Katharine Lee Bates, a professor of English at Wellesley College. Bates was an accomplished and published poet, whose book America the Beautiful and Other Poems includes a sequence of poems expressing outrage at U.S. imperialism in the Philippines. A member of progressive-reform circles in the Boston area, concerned about labor rights, urban slums and women's suffrage, an ardent feminist, for decades she lived with and loved her Wellesley colleague Katharine Coman, an economist and social activist.
"America the Beautiful," written in 1893, not only speaks to the beauty of the American continent but also reflects her view that U.S. imperialism undermines the nation's core values of freedom and liberty. The poem's final words -- "and crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea" -- are an appeal for social justice rather than the pursuit of wealth.
In the Depression years and during World War 2, the fusion of populist, egalitarian and anti-racist values with patriotic expression reached full flower.
Langston Hughes' poem, "Let America Be America Again," written in 1936, contrasted the nation's promise with its mistreatment of his fellow African-Americans, the poor, Native Americans, workers, farmers and immigrants:
O, let my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe.
In 1939, composer Earl Robinson teamed with lyricist John La Touche to write "Ballad for Americans," which was performed on the CBS radio network by Paul Robeson, accompanied by chorus and orchestra. This 11-minute cantata provided a musical review of American history, depicted as a struggle between the "nobody who's everybody" and an elite that fails to understand the real, democratic essence of America.
Robeson, at the time one of the best-known performers on the world stage, became, through this work, a voice of America. Broadcasts and recordings of "Ballad for Americans" (by Bing Crosby as well as Robeson) were immensely popular. In the summer of 1940, it was performed at the national conventions of both the Republican and Communist parties. The work soon became a staple in school choral performances, but it was literally ripped out of many public school songbooks after Robinson and Robeson were identified with the radical left and blacklisted during the McCarthy period. Since then, however, "Ballad for Americans" has been periodically revived, notably during the bicentennial celebration in 1976, when a number of pop and country singers performed it in concerts and on TV.
Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "A Lincoln Portrait," both written in 1942, are now patriotic musical standards, regularly performed at major civic events. Few Americans know that Copland was a member of a radical composers' group.
Many Americans consider Woody Guthrie's song "This Land Is Your Land," penned in 1940, to be our unofficial national anthem. Guthrie, a radical, was inspired to write the song as an answer to Irving Berlin's popular "God Bless America," which he thought failed to recognize that it was the "people" to whom America belonged.
The words to "This Land Is Your Land" reflect Guthrie's assumption that patriotism and support for the underdog were interconnected. In this song, Guthrie celebrated America's natural beauty and bounty, but criticized the country for its failure to share its riches. This is reflected in the song's last and least-known verse, which Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen included when they performed the song in January 2009 at a pre-inaugural concert in front of the Lincoln Memorial, with President-elect Obama in the audience:
One bright sunny morning in the shadow of the steeple By the relief office I saw my people. As they stood hungry I stood there wondering If this land was made for you and me.
During the 1960s, American progressives continued to seek ways to fuse their love of country with their opposition to the government's policies. The March on Washington in 1963 gathered at the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King Jr. famously quoted the words to "My Country 'Tis of Thee," repeating the phrase "Let freedom ring" 11 times.
Phil Ochs, then part of a new generation of politically conscious singer-songwriters who emerged during the 1960s, wrote an anthem in the Guthrie vein, "The Power and the Glory," that coupled love of country with a strong plea for justice and equality. The words to the chorus echo the sentiments of the anti-Vietnam War movement:
Here is a land full of power and glory; Beauty that words cannot recall; Oh her power shall rest on the strength of her freedom Her glory shall rest on us all.
One of its stanzas updated Guthrie's combination of outrage and patriotism:
Yet she's only as rich as the poorest of her poor; Only as free as the padlocked prison door; Only as strong as our love for this land; Only as tall as we stand.
This song later became part of the repertoire of the U.S. Army band.
And in 1968, in a famous anti-war speech, Norman Thomas, the aging leader of the Socialist Party, proclaimed, "I come to cleanse the American flag, not burn it."
In recent decades, Bruce Springsteen has most closely followed in the Guthrie tradition. From "Born in the USA," to his songs about Tom Joad (the militant protagonist in John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath), to his anthem about the 9/11 tragedy ("Empty Sky"), to his most latest album Wrecking Ball (including its opening song, "We Take Care of Our Own"), Springsteen has championed the downtrodden while challenging America to live up to its ideals.
Steve ("Little Stevie") Van Zandt is best known as the guitarist with Springsteen's E Street Band and for his role as Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's sidekick on the TV show, "The Sopranos." But his most enduring legacy should be his love song about America, "I Am a Patriot," including these lyrics:
I am a patriot, and I love my country, Because my country is all I know. Wanna be with my family, People who understand me. I got no place else to go.And I ain't no communist,
And I ain't no socialist,
And I ain't no capitalist,
And I ain't no imperialist,
And I ain't no Democrat,
Sure ain't no Republican either,
I only know one party,
And that is freedom.
Since the American Revolution, each generation of progressives has expressed an American patriotism rooted in democratic values that challenged jingoism and "my country -- right or wrong" thinking. They rejected blind nationalism, militaristic drum beating, and sheep-like conformism.
Throughout the United States' history, they have viewed their movements -- abolition of slavery, farmers' populism, women's suffrage, workers' rights, civil rights, environmentalism, gay rights, and others -- as profoundly patriotic. They believed that America's core claims -- fairness, equality, freedom, justice -- were their own.
America now confronts a new version of the Gilded Age, brought upon by Wall Street greed and corporate malfeasance. In the midst of a recession, the gap between rich and poor is still widening. Although the economy has improved in recent years, Americans are feeling more economically insecure than at any time since the Depression. They are upset by the unbridled selfishness and political influence-peddling demonstrated by banks, oil companies, drug companies, insurance companies, and other large corporations. They are angry at the growing power of American-based global firms who show no loyalty to their country, outsource jobs to low-wage countries, avoid paying taxes, and pollute the environment.
Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, America's largest corporation, promoted the motto "Buy American." But today the retail giant, now owned by his heirs, imports most of its merchandise from Asia, much of it made under sweatshop conditions. (Ironically, most American flags are made in China.)
We are, once again, battling over immigration and who belongs in America. Some right-wing groups and talk-show pundits, calling themselves patriots, are challenging the citizenship of our president.
These trends have triggered a growing grassroots movement -- reflected by Occupy Wall Street but involving a diverse coalition of community groups, unions, consumer advocates, and human rights activists -- demanding stronger regulations to protect consumers, workers, and the environment from abusive corporations, living wages, fairer trade, and higher taxes on the very rich to pay for better schools, safer roads, and student loans.
This movement, which embodies the idea of "liberty and justice for all," reflects America's tradition of progressive patriotism. It recognizes that conservatives have never had a monopoly on Old Glory.
Happy July 4th.


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By Michael Marot, AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mike Krzyzewski already holds the NCAA record for most wins by a coach.
Thanks to Seth Curry's big scoring night, Krzyzewski could finish the weekend by tying one of John Wooden's records.
Curry scored 29 points, tied the school record for most 3-pointers in an NCAA tournament game and led the Duke Blue Devils past Michigan State 71-61, putting Krzyzewski within one win of his 12th Final Four appearance. All Duke has to do is beat top-seeded Louisville in the NCAA tournament's Midwest Regional final — something it already has done.
"We were fortunate to win that game. They've been playing the best basketball in the country," Krzyzewski said, referring to Duke's 76-71 victory Nov. 24. "I love their two guards. I think they're great kids and they're dynamic. But they're deep. They're a deep team. We can't turn the ball over against them."
Duke (30-5) can create its own set of problems as the Spartans found out Friday night.
Curry knocked down six of his first seven 3s before missing his final two to tie a school record that had been attained six other times, most recently by Jason Williams on March 22, 2001, against UCLA. He had plenty of help, too. Rasheed Sulaimon scored 16 points, making 12 of 14 from the free-throw line, also tying a school record for free throws made in a tourney game. Mason Plumlee added 14 points and seven rebounds in the return to his home state.
And if Krzyzewski earns career win No. 958 on Sunday against top-seeded Louisville, he will break a second-place tie with North Carolina's Dean Smith and move into a tie with Wooden for most Final Four appearances by a head coach in NCAA history.
Krzyzewski isn't the only one chasing a milestone.
A win would also move Louisville coach Rick Pitino into a tie for fourth all-time with Roy Williams and he is trying to get the Cardinals back to the Final Four for the second straight year.
Clearly, Louisville (32-5) has a few advantages. The game in Indianapolis will be played about 100 miles from campus and another heavily-partisan Cardinals crowd is expected at Lucas Oil Stadium.
But Louisville will face a team that was ranked No. 1 earlier this season and in the same venue it lost as the top seeded team in the Midwest Region just four years ago to Michigan State. Plus, they'll be facing a Duke team that is clicking on all cylinders.
"If a team's game plan is to just to be tough or physical with us, that's not going to win," Plumlee said.
The Spartans (27-9) learned that lesson the hard way.
They focused, as usual, on dominating the middle.
Instead, Curry's 3-point barrage loosened things up, and forced Michigan State to play catch-up most of the second half.
His sixth 3 of the night broke a 38-38 tie early in the second half, sending Duke on a 9-0 run. The Blue Devils never trailed again.
"Honestly, I was just trying to help my shot. I got a few to go early," Curry said. "I feel like every time I take a shot, it's going to go down and nothing felt different tonight."
The Spartans were led by Keith Appling, who scored 16 points despite playing with a brace over his injured right shoulder. Adreian Payne added 14 points and 10 rebounds, but it wasn't nearly enough against Curry & Co.
Coach Tom Izzo was hoping that his only son's prediction, that Duke would beat Michigan State in the regional semis, would be wrong. Instead, the younger Izzo got it right.
"They're a good team, they played well, Curry hurt us, no question about it," Izzo said. "We didn't quit, we hung in there. I thought we played poorly for us, but the better team won tonight."
The game was billed as an entertaining contest between two of college basketball's most successful coaches — and it lived up to the hype.
The first half was played to a near draw with four ties and eight lead changes.
Michigan State grabbed an 18-17 lead on Derrick Nix's tip-in with 9:52 left in the first half, but Curry then scored nine points in an 11-2 run for the Blue Devils. He was fouled by Travis Trice while attempting a 3-pointer and made all three free throws to make it 28-20 with 4:59 remaining.
Back came the Spartans, who clamped down on defense and closed to 32-31 at halftime.
But Curry's early second-half scoring spree was all the Blue Devils needed. Michigan State pulled within seven with 1:32 to go, but couldn't get any closer after trailing by as much as 13 in the second half.
"We knew we would have to play at that level. They're a little more athletic than we are," Krzyzewski said. "We had to try to match that and tonight we were able to do that. I'm glad it's not a seven-game series because I'm not sure we'd be able to continue to do it. But tonight we were able to do it."
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David Gerlernter's comparison of Woody Allen to Natan Sharansky manages to elevate Allen and denigrate Sharansky. Whether you agree with his politics or not, Sharansky is a towering figure. Read Fear No Evil, his memoir of life in the gulag, if you don't believe me. Woody Allen, on the other hand, not so much. Gerlernter is reacting to Allen's statement ... Read More »
Jumping the shark in fiction
Does series fiction inevitably run out of steam? Sarah Weinman points to this article about the marketing machine that is Janet Evanovich and adds, [It] doesn't really get to what's likely the bottom line: that as the marketing hoohah has increased (and so too have her sales) the quality of the books have dropped off rather sharply. But then, does ... Read More »
Morgan Spurlock and minimum wage
Steve Antler at Econopundit blogs about the first episode of Morgan Spurlock's new show (also here), 30 Days. In that episode, Spurlock and his fiancee try to eke out a living in Columbus, Ohio on minimum-wage jobs. As Econopundit points out, all those minimum wage jobs are scarcer than the producers apparently thought. All the easily-found jobs pay more than ... Read More »
Unfinished books: When can you put a book down?
DevraDoWrite can't put a book down, even if she doesn't like it very much. I have trouble giving up on a book, especially if I spent money to buy it. Sometimes, if I "can't get into it," I put it aside for awhile and try again later. Sometimes it's just my mood, or level of concentration that makes reading difficult. ... Read More »
Sex and the Single Therapist: The Halo Effect by M.J. Rose
Start with a series of ritualistic murders of prostitutes; throw in a beautiful, wildly successful prostitute who's written a tell-all book about her rich and famous clients; add a sex therapist whose explorations into her clients' dark sides has led to her own sexual frigidity; and an exotic NYC detective who cooks, composes and plays jazz and you've got The ... Read More »
Disease of the week: Women's magazines
While flipping through Women's Day magazine today in the Jiffy Lube waiting room, I wondered: Where do they get these stories? Each issue features a first-person account by a woman suffering from a disease. The disease is usually rare and the account is a heroic one, outlining the struggle and suffering of the woman who, inevitably, goes from doctor to ... Read More »
Remakes that shouldn't have been
Sabrina–The original was a vehicle in which viewers got to see Audrey Hepburn wear clothes, beautifully. How can you hope to substitute Audrey with Julia Ormond? Or Harrison Ford with Humphrey Bogart. Bad idea. The Women–The 1939 original starred Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Crawford, Paulette Goddard and a host of others. The big schtick is that although the movie ... Read More »
Use a dictionary people
After a recent presentation someone approached me to tell me how glad she was that I used the word "orient" instead of the word "orientate." The two are interchangeable but the latter really is unnecessarily clunky. Akaky of Passing Parade went on a rampage about writers who use "discrete" when they really mean "discreet." Not the same thing at all. ... Read More »
Why do they all look the same?
WTF did they do to Penelope Cruz? Take a look at this magazine cover. I picked it up in the beauty salon yesterday and if I hadn't read the headline next to her photo, I never would have recognized her. The first time I remember seeing Cruz was in All About My Mother. She played a nun, wore a minimum ... Read More »
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"It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one's acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many times—in Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis."


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UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office CATHALAC published a subsequent analysis on the flooding of Lake Azuei in Haiti. On 19 September 2012, CATHALAC had already provided an analysis of floodings caused by lakes Azuei in Haiti and Enriquillo in the Dominican Republic. The most recent analysis of Lake Azuei, based on Landsat-7 imagery captured on September 16, 2012, shows how the Lake has expanded by some 12.2% over its area in January 2007 (and 15.6% over its area in September 2000). While Lake Azuei's expansion has not claimed as much land as the expansion of nearby Lake Enriquillo, its expansion has flooded almost 1,500 hectares of land on its banks since 2007. Furthermore, flooding has reached the west of the Lake, where the surface has expanded by almost 3km, and in the central eastern part of the Lake land roughly 1km east of the Lake have also been flooded.
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With Memorial Day and the 4th of July coming up I have began some Patriotic Projects.
So here is the first, some Patriotic Wall Art.
A free Printable of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Dark & Light, both are 8x10's, but saved at high resolution so they can be printed larger.
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