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Saturday, August 9, 2014
Chapter 8: The Wrong Side of the Road
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Oh man! I'm loving this blog and you were in Santander to boot? I went there last summer and it was beyond beautiful. ENJOY COOL KID.ReplyDelete
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I am really enjoying your blog. You are so brave and smart ! I can empathise with your map problems , they don't make them the way they used too!Replies
Gillie I am so glad to hear you like the blog! The maps, I know right?? I should probably invest in a GPS but Tom told me he doesn´t use one because he doesn´t want to follow a computer around and everything he says just sounds really wise so I am trying to follow in his footsteps. But man, this map reading is killing me! Glad to hear I´m not the only one with map grief :)Delete
Awesome Tegan. Tu casa, mi casa!. The guy on the van?? . matrix's map, Autopsies in the morning, This chapter is so cool!!ReplyDelete
That house my god is amazing I was there I got.stuck for a few days it is impossible to leave that house once you meet these people and petsReplyDelete
Love this blog. Where are you now? Noooooooo don't tell me. I want to find out myself
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LITERATURE» Full Dark, No Stars - Stephen King's new novella questions mankind's ability to trust others.
[02.21.2011 by Bridget Doyle]
MUSIC» The Top 30 Albums of 2010 - Fashionably, fabulously late, our favorite music (and believe me, there was a LOT) of 2010, the year that some have called the best year for music ever. And only some of those fools work here. Plenty of usual suspects, lots of ties and a few surprises that I won't spoil, including our unexpected #1.
[12.24.2010 by The LAS Staff]
MUSIC» Live: Surfer Blood/The Drums at Lincoln Hall, Chicago, IL - Remember when Weezer used to put together records that you could sing along to and rock out to? That's what Surfer Blood's show was like!
[11.04.2010 by Cory Tendering]
Music Reviews
»Screaming Females
Castle Talk
Don Giovanni
»Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
The Social Network [Original Soundtrack]
The Null Corporation
Halcyon Digest
»No Age
Everything in Between
Sub Pop
Body Talk Pt. 1/ Body Talk Pt. 2
»The Walkmen
Fat Possum
August 24, 2009In 2005, Judd Apatow's first directing project, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, surprised a lot of people by being sweet. In 2007, when Knocked Up heralded the arrival of the Judd Apatow Era (this guy's written or directed or co-written or co-produced or like rigged the lights on like every comedy made in the past three years aside from Vicky Cristina Barcelona), the refreshing, ticklish formula had been established: schlubby, emotionally stunted guys are forced through changes that reveal eternal verities with more elegance than most moviegoers were used to; also, they talk about dicks.
With Funny People, the third purebred Apatow movie, the dicks are in place but the crucial elegance has vanished. The movie is funny--sometimes very much so--and contains Adam Sandler's best and most relaxed comedic role, but it's also about six days long, and Apatow's surprise sightings of pathos, as if it were Bigfoot, have been replaced with full-on James Taylor-soundtracked Hollywood bathos, much of it involving slow-motion shots of Judd Apatow's wife playing with Judd Apatow's children. This is gross.
In the film Sandler plays George Simmons, a stand-up comic who made the jump to movies years ago and is reaping the dubious rewards within his sterile Los Angeles manse. Sitting in front of a bank of TVs like a failed Bond villain, he screens four or five of his old movies simultaneously, flicking his eyes back and forth and smiling desperately, looking for something to tell him he did a good job. In quiet scenes like these--depthlessly needy, with no one to need from--Sandler is perfectly used. And the fake movies, parodies of Sandler's own, are great: a Simmons character grossly cramming hot dogs into his mouth at an eating contest is interrupted by a tearful little boy rising from the audience to yell "Dad, this won't bring Mom back!" As a joke about the sentimentalism of machine comedy (we also see a movie with Simmons' digital head grafted hideously onto a baby's body; soft piano plinks as he crouches over a telephone, rasping apologies to some wronged ex-wife) this is vicious and accurate; it's strange then that we'll soon be asked to weep at Simmons' own apologies.
Simmons, you see, is dying. Desperate for life in his empty house, he hires Ira Wright (Seth Rogen) to manage his affairs and be abused. Ira is a struggling comedian himself, as are his two roommates (Jonah Hill and Jason Schwartzmann), whose frantic showbiz hunger feeds the movie's best byplay. Rogen plays Ira as a starstruck lapdog who gradually becomes repulsed by Simmons' monstrous solipsism; in overlong but well-drawn scenes, he sits at Simmons' bedside or across his kitchen table and timidly suggests ontological revisions.
Eventually, Ira is pressed into following Simmons to the Marin County house where his ex-fiance (Leslie Mann, Apatow's wife) lives with her children (Mann and Apatow's real children) and husband (Eric Bana). (Bana, playing an excitable, crude, occasionally insensitive but fundamentally loving guy, might give the best performance in the movie: the scene where he screams about footie isn't only an Aussie joke, just as the scene where he talks in front of his wife about the extreme hotness of her one-time rival Cameron Diaz isn't only a dickhead joke. It's a generous part.) Simmons wants to get his girl back; his reasoning is basically that her husband, not being George Simmons, can only be an idiot jerk.
The scenes in Mann's domestic paradise are the film's weirdest. On the one hand, Rogen's arc during this segment is the only structurally funny thing in the movie (all the other laughs come from dialogue): trapped in his infantile boss' love triangle, Ira scampers around trying to do the right thing despite being completely irrelevant to the entire affair and increasingly unwanted by its participants. Well-meaning, he cluelessly sabotages a total reconciliation; he's interrupted in his horrified apology by the funniest line in the movie: "Who are you?" As farce, this could be great, but Ira's torture isn't Funny People's subject, so we're left with tacky montages of dogs licking peanut butter off giggling moppets' noses while others look on and Are Transformed. We also get a scene where George Simmons' otherwise carefully sketched solipsism is supposedly reinforced by his losing interest during minute three of a five-minute clip of one of the same moppets singing Cats, which, like, I would have rather lasted thirty seconds.
Thus we're treated to the weird spectacle of a film ignoring its best shot at greatness. The early scenes of Funny People are slathered with dick jokes beyond reason or stamina, but Rogen/Hill/Schwartzmann's death-triangle of narcissism is hilarious, and Sandler's terrified hollow man is unusually subtle. When the action moves north, Apatow's set up a nice little movie where Ira's desperation to do right makes him a better man than the funny-but-broken egoists he rooms with and admires, and this angle is there, bubbling occasionally to the surface of the treacle, but something--Apatow's loyalty to his own memories; his awkward desire to make a movie about Important Shit; maybe just his weakness for his pretty wife and nice-seeming kids--throttles it. Apatow's improved as a visual director, he retains a knack for painful realism (a furious, pathetic fistfight on a Marin County lawn between Rogen, Sandler, and Bana is as incompetent as these things usually are), and he writes good banter. He's also phenomenally generous with actors. But the 146 minutes of Funny People demonstrate that he's too easily distracted, and far too easily moved.
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Steen Gronlund, OOIDA Life Member
People ask me why I don't go home more often. I tell them that when I'm driving my truck, I am home. I love doing this. Most people work to live. I live to work.
I've been a truck driver for 47 years. I turned 70 years old in December, but I don't plan to stop driving anytime soon.
I was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1945. My family came to Canada in 1954, and then I moved to the United States in 1968. Raised on a farm in Canada, I used to ride horseback to school. There was a barn at the school for the horses.
We didn't have electricity or running water until after I left home. I used to light the fires at the country school for 75 cents a day. On the farm, we hauled hay and milked cows by hand. We did all of our chores before we went to school. I had to wake up the rooster every morning. It didn't matter if the temperature was 40 below; you went to school.
Did you ever see the television show "Little House on the Prairie?" That was us.
I remember being young and thinking truck driving was what I wanted to do when I grew up. But I didn't think about it anymore until the opportunity came that someone was looking for drivers. That's how I started driving.
In 1978, I bought my first truck in Gillette, Wyo.
Early on, I was running with a friend from California to the East Coast and back to California. We did a roundtrip every week. We were hauling produce.
I worked for D.G. Coleman, hauling chemicals and jet fuel. I also hauled rocket fuel for the Titan II missiles for six months. Then I went to work for Leprino for 20 years until they sold out of transportation.
Currently, I'm hauling Red Robin buns out of the Mile Hi Bakery in Denver. I work for Mile Hi Specialty Foods. I'm on my 14th year with them.
The trucking industry has changed bunches since I started. But so many people let stuff get to them. I say just do your job and keep a low profile.
I love driving and the scenery. I've traveled through all 48 states, but I prefer being west of Interstate 25. For the past 20 years, I've been mostly in the west. I love the Colorado mountains, and the cold of Colorado doesn't bother me. You have to remember that I grew up in Canada.
I've won the driver of the month award in Colorado four times. In 2007, I was named the Colorado Driver of the Year by the Colorado Motor Carriers Association. I've been an ambassador for the Trucker Buddy Program for 15 years.
I'm an OOIDA life member with 5 million safe miles.
A year ago last July, I cracked a femur and broke my pelvis after falling in the parking lot. I was out nine months and I got a total hip replacement. As soon as I got my new hip, all the pain went away. Now, I'm back doing what I love.
I plan to keep doing this until they close the lid. LL


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"101 Seconds" Film Screening and Town Hall - Eugene
Saturday October 14th - University of Oregon Redwood Auditorium - 5PM-8PM
State of Safety will be bringing the documentary film 101 Seconds to people across the state to increase awareness about the issue of Safe Gun Storage and to have a dialogue with the communities about their views on what we should do to reduce gun violence.
The Eugene Screening and discussion panel will be held at the University of Oregon Redwood Auditorium from 5:00pm to 8:00pm.
State of Safety, a new statewide organization dedicated to reducing gun violence across Oregon, is hosting a series of film screenings throughout the state. At each of the locations, we will show the documentary film "101 Seconds" and then conduct a town hall style meeting with community members in attendance. The goal of this film screening series is to both raise awareness about the issue of Safe Gun Storage, as well as to connect with potential supporters and volunteers to help us in our legislative and electoral efforts for 2018.
For more information about State of Safety visit www.stateofsafety.org or join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/stateofsafety/.


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David Attenborough recalls his first encounter with a dragon
The naturalist comes face to face with a deadly Komodo dragon in Natural Curiosities this week - but what happened when he tried to catch one back in 1957?
Sir David Attenborough comes face to face with a Komodo dragon in Natural Curiosities (Tuesday 18 February from 8pm on Watch). But what happened when he first encountered this exotic beast?
Here, in an extract from his book, the naturalist recalls a perilous attempt to catch one in 1957…
We went down to the harbour at Maumere [the main town on the island of Flores in Indonesia], but it was largely empty. Most of the praus [sailboats] were out fishing. Only one was moored by the jetty. I suppose I should have questioned why this was the case. The captain was a surly-looking man.
He said he'd take us to the island of Komodo and we negotiated a price. We loaded our gear on board and bought supplies of food from our Chinese trader. It was single-masted and only some 20ft long. The hold was filled with the stench of rotting fish and copra.
It should have been obvious to me that the few narrow gaps in the long chain of islands would inevitably be torn by tidal races. As it was, I was quite unprepared for what I saw ahead. The surface of the water was ripped and blistered by fearsome rapids. The wind was near gale-strength and right behind us. There was no going back.
We skimmed past a huge whirlpool. The sea was now roaring. We were driven towards the side of another giant eddy in the centre of which I could see sharp fangs of coral. The boat was spun sideways by the eddy and careered into a patch of boiling water, heading straight for another reef, white with breaking waves. Had it not been for the wind blowing hard behind us, we could not have made any headway and doubt- less would have been captured by one of the whirlpools. We were blown from one to another and all our energies were given to trying to fend ourselves off from the coral at their centre. It was already getting dark when at last the strait ahead began to widen. I could see the entrance to a bay. We turned into it, dropped anchor in blessedly calm water and lay down on the deck, totally exhausted. We had no idea whether we had reached Komodo or not.
We woke at dawn. I could just see a small village of thatched huts. The headman received us. Yes, it was Komodo and, yes, there were buaja darat, land crocodiles, roaming around in the hill. One had visited the village only a few nights before and had killed some of his chickens. Were they dangerous? Well, the headman said in a matter-of-fact way, one of them had killed an old man some years ago, but he didn't really count for he was very feeble. There would be no problem in our seeing them. All we needed was the carcass of a goat, preferably one that was beginning to smell a little, which he could provide.
The next day, with men carrying a dead goat, we walked up a small bush-filled valley. We suspended the goat carcass from a tree that hung over the dry bed of a stream so that its smell, which was now satisfactorily powerful, would spread as far as possible. Up on the bank we built a small hide of branches, behind which Charles [cameraman Charles Lagus] set up his camera.
We waited, scanning the opposite bank through binoculars, anxious for the first glimpse of the extraordinary reptile for which we had come so far. There was a rustle immediately behind us. It was the dragon. It was no more than ten yards away. The camera had a long lens on it so Charles could not even film, for the dragon was too close to focus. With great deliberation it walked in a semi-circle around us, down the low bank, out on to the dry riverbed towards the bait. We had miscalculated.
The dragon was so big that as it reared up, it could just reach the lower edge of the goat carcass. It got a hold and started to pull, jerking backwards with all its strength. If it pulled the carcass down, it might make off with it. The BBC accounts department would have difficulty in approving the purchase of two rotting goats so I jumped up from behind the hide and waved my arms. The dragon let go and charged off into the bush.
Sabran [their local helper] was keen to catch one. I explained that we had no permit to take it away. On the other hand if we did trap one, we would be able to measure it. We drove stakes into the sandy floor of the riverbed, lashed the stems of saplings around them, using rope made from twisted lianas. Inside we put a hunk of the now powerfully stinking carcass. The dragon behaved perfectly. It entered the trap and the gate fell.
We filmed it at close quarters as it hissed and peered through the bars of our trap. We measured it – just over nine feet. Not a world record for the species, but satisfactorily large. And then we released it.
Three days later in the city of Surabaya Sabran helped us gather our collection of animals [captured for return to London Zoo] and loaded them onto a goods train for Jakarta. In Jakarta we transferred the animals to a cargo plane and travelled back with them to London. Three days later I started editing our film [for the fledgeling BBC series Zoo Quest].
Charlie the orangutan [purchased from the hunter who had killed its mother] proved to be the star of the programme. He also acquired considerable distinction in the history of the London Zoo. He became the father of the first orangutan to be born there and thus the founder of the zoo's flourishing breeding colony.
As for the dragon, no one seemed to mind that it was not in fact in the London Zoo, but still where we had first seen it – on its own island. I certainly did not.
David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities, tonight 8:00pm, 8:30pm Watch
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I am so excited to share with you a guest post, information on a fun blog hop and two new Facets of Joy offerings!
Active Listening
Have you ever had the experience of feeling like you had something truly meaningful and significant to share with a person but, as you spoke, you noticed that their attention was on something that wasn't you? No matter how excited you originally were to speak, your energy deflates and you feel insignificant and small.
It's likely that you feel neither loved nor appreciated. It's also likely that you will be less enthusiastic about participating in future conversations with that person, even if they invite you to share.
Because I believe that what we focus upon grows, let's flip the example around and explore a positive experience of connection. You have something really important to say and the person you wish to share it with looks you in the eye, is in a relaxed position ready to receive whatever it is you wish to say and you feel so comfortable you speak straight from your heart.
As you speak, the person encourages you to continue with gestures such as nodding in agreement and facial expressions that convey empathy. They don't interrupt, they keep on listening. You talk on, often joyfully sharing far more than you intended to.
This is the power of presence to active listening. You feel peace, love, gratitude. Your bond is strengthened. Your heart is happy. And, you look forward to speaking together again. How refreshing!
This is an excerpt from "Active Listening is a Practice of Unconditional Love" a guest post that I am sharing on Shailaja's blog "Diary of A Doting Parent". To read the rest of the article and to add your voice to the conversation in the comments, please click the article link. It would be *awesome* to have some Facets support and insight there!
Gratitude to Shailaja for her invitation and the warm welcome on her site!!
On Writing
I am so excited about this invitation from Vidya Sury! I wish I had conceived of this concept and the questions – but I didn't!!
The invitation is to participate in a blog hop on writing. Each blogger that is invited answers questions about their writing process (this fascinates me and I still cannot believe I have gone my entire career and hadn't thought to ask interview guests about their writing process!!!).
The way it works is that one blogger writes about their process then tags three of their friends /peers to answer the questions on their site the following week. My 'turn' is coming up this Tuesday (oooh – see, a 'teaser').
If you would like to read about Vidya's writing process, you may do so here: On Writing.
If you would like to be one of the three people I tag in my article on Tuesday, please email me at email@example.com.
Gratitude to Vidya for tagging me!!!
New Facets Offerings
As you know, I practice presence to unfolding within organic growth.
I shared the above information so you can see 'how' I create organically for Facets.
I chose the theme of "active listening" for my guest article for Shailaja. After I wrote the article, I felt into how important it is to have someone to simply listen.
I will share that after my Fall experience (of the man who if you Google his name with 'fraud' or 'scam' next to it, items will come up – borrowed money and didn't return it which then required a lot of centering into my practices to heal) it was *the most wonderful blessing* to have someone to simply listen to me!
There were many people who advised me to manifest something new, offered words of guidance; some who criticized or judged; lots who listened halfway but really couldn't (or didn't want to) hear what I was sharing.
I have awareness and presence and I know 'how' it happened, but shoot I just wanted someone to listen.
Well, one day, I was sitting at a cafe with tears rolling down my cheeks and I asked Universe to please send me someone to just listen. I'm not kidding when I say about one minute later I received an email from a very close friend from my past saying "It's odd but I had a nudge from Universe that you needed someone to listen so I'm emailing to offer you that." I felt so relieved and refreshed after sharing everything that was in my heart. It was so healing! Probably one of the most effective tools I used to move through that experience.
So….remembering that, and feeling into the energy of the article I wrote for Shailaja, I created Here to Listen.
(You see, I wasn't 'planning' on creating it; it simply arose as I said yes to creating in new spaces. And that is "how" Facets offerings happen – part of my process of creating and sharing in this space.)
For more information and to schedule a session, please click the photo link.
The second offering I created happened today as well. After facilitating a distance energy session with a client, I realized that all of my distance energy sessions were rolled into packages. What if you didn't want *clarity or a reading* and you simply wanted a distance energy session?
So, I created a distance energy session offering including two options of personal sessions and monthly group sessions.
The first group distance energy session is June 8th – to coincide with the opening of the June Facets Energetic Intention circle. For more information and to register, please click the photo link.
To me, this is an affirmation of 'you plant seeds and they blossom in delightful ways far beyond what you could have imagined'!
Dear Reader: I would love to know, when you are creating something, do you plan it all out first or do you allow for unfolding or a combination of both?
Thank you for your presence!
Much peace and abundant love,
The deadline for my family's GoFundMe campaign "Asking for Help in a Time of Need" is June 9th. We are blessed to have received in 68% of our goal!! It is truly a miracle that I couldn't have imagined! We appreciate all support (including prayers and money) in receiving in the last 32% by our deadline. Please share the link or click to donate – each donation amount matters and is part of this life-changing energy shift!
I had all sorts of barriers around asking and also judgment of myself for being in such a position (loaning out more money than I had to assist someone who asked) and trusting while I walked my heart path. This campaign experience has affirmed to me the power of prayer, of opening to receive in, and of community support. Thank you!


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As many of you know, my precious Callie girl had to be put down due to kidney failure on April 14, 2014. She would have been twelve on May 3rd. Although my sorrow and depression is still raw, it helps to think of the special times we have had together to ease the pain.
I remember the day I chose her. Her parents were supposedly both papered Jack Russell terriers. I'm sure you have heard stories about how hyper these dogs are. Well, there were two puppies remaining in the litter—a rambunctious, short-haired, truly Jack Russell looking male and a long-haired, calm, not-so-much-looking Jack Russell female. I chose the pup that looked me in the eye and said, "I'll be true to you."
And she was.
She spent all of her life in my lap, by my side, at my feet. She occasionally acknowledged the rest of the family with a romp, hike, or quick snack, but she was true to me.
We adopted Callie not long after we began an addition on the back of our house. She was not yet potty-trained and just a tiny bundle of fur. The construction workers were busy digging a basement at the back of the house next to the kitchen and dining room. Their heads were level with the floor of the main level.
I was baking the workers a batch of caramel-filled chocolate chip cookies when I heard this roar of laughter. I raced over to the dining room to see Callie placing a long, warm present in front of the sliding glass door for all the workers to see. I was totally embarrassed. Callie, on the other hand, walked away very proud of herself. Twenty minutes later, the workers were still grinning and chuckling when I took a plate of cookies out to them.
I've had some very loving dogs through the years, but I've never had one that was so concerned for my health. Callie truly mothered me, fussed over me, and worried over me. At times with my precarious health, she actually clung to me like the Grinch's dog Max when the Grinch had to squirm out of his clinging grasp like wiggling out of a tight pair of pants.
As a child, I always held a brown plaid and corduroy stuffed turtle my mother made for me in order to sleep. Since my teens, my arms have always been around a wonderful, special dog. Although Callie will never be forgotten and never be replaced, just as none of the other dogs in my life have been, I hope that a new special spirit joins our family to brighten our days, share our joys and pains, and cuddle with me. I'll be true to you.
May 3, 2002 – April 14, 2014
I would like to thank all those wonderful people who love animals and work with them on a daily basis. In searching for a new family member, I have met and worked with some awesome people who love dogs as much as I do. I admire you and your dedication to these wonderful animals. Thank you for all you do.
Cindy A. Christiansen
Sweet Romance, Humor, Suspense…and Dogs!
Fly into a good book at: http://www.dragonflyromance.com


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Viva Alas Vegas —
John Coulthart has delivered more of his amazing artwork for the Alas Vegas major arcana, and I can't resist showing it off. As with the last set of cards, these aren't the finished versions, but I am still overjoyed with how they're turning out. Click through for larger versions:


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Roddick gatecrashes Murray's Wimbledon party
The build-up to Friday's second Wimbledon semi-final was all about Briton Andy Murray but the man of the hour was the fearless American Andy Roddick.
Sat on a packed and sunny Centre Court, the prospect of Murray's party being gate-crashed did not take long to dawn on a crowd who did not seem sure who they should be cheering for.
Roddick never stopped playing like a man on a mission, contesting every point while Murray's more subtle, patient approach was not coming to fruition as many had predicted.
Murray produced glimpses of magic and he stood up bravely to return many of Roddick's meteoric serves, which hit a staggering speed of 143MPH, but his own first serve let him down too often and the passing shots he regularly makes went amiss.
On paper, this was a match Murray was meant to win, but in reality the world number three was outplayed by sixth seed Roddick whose recent good form has coincided with a much fitter physique.
At 22-years-old, a grand slam semi-final still represents progress for Murray and the defeat will by no means damage his confidence or reputation — British fans will just have to wait a little longer for a homegrown Wimbledon finalist. After all it has been 71 years already.
However, tennis fans will not begrudge Roddick, a former world number one and the 2003 U.S. Open champion, another chance to renew his rivalry with defending champion and overwhelming favourite Roger Federer in Sunday's final.
If Roddick serves like he did on Friday, he has a chance, don't you reckon?
ANDY 1: Andy Roddick seems scarcely able to believe his won over Andy Murray in their semi-final at Wimbledon, July 3, 2009. REUTERS/Eddie Keogh
ANDY 2: Murray's expression says it all. REUTERS/Toby Melville
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The scientists also documented evidence of cold water-loving species shifting towards both poles to escape rising ocean temperatures. Chionodraco hamatus, an Antarctic ice fish, can withstand temperatures that freeze the blood of all other fish types.
These discoveries result in series of landmark.
Among many other findings,The scientists had found marine life that in Both Arctic And Antarctic poles apparently share in common things include marathoners such as grey whales and birds, but also worms, crustaceans, and angelic snail-like pteropods, the latter discoveries opening a host of future research questions about where they originated and how they wound up at both ends of the Earth.
Ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who were especially surprised to find at least 235 species live in both polar seas despite a distance of more than 13,000-kilometer distance in between.
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Happy Valentines
In the word, love can be explained in thousands of ways, but the only word that comes to my mind is you. I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we are in each other's dreams, we will always be together.
- Hobbes
Life's greatest happiness is, to be convinced that we are loved.
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Wow $10 laptop
Wow $10 laptop unveiled yesterday? Yeah, it's not a laptop. I've been reading conflicting information about this device for the past few months. Sometimes it's supposed to cost $10, sometimes $100. And sometimes it's called a laptop while other times it had been referred to as a portable computer, which isn't necessarily the same thing as a laptop. Now that the first image of the device has popped up online, the picture is becoming a bit more clear. As I predicted last week, there's no keyboard or CPU. The box is a portable device that's about 10 inches by 5 inches, and which can store information. You can access that info from a full fledged computer. It sounds to me like this is a glorified USB flash drive, but it's also supposed to be able to let users connect to the computer, so I'm guessing there's some sort of processor in there. The price right now is being pegged at closer to $30 than $10, but the goal is to bring the cost down so that the Sakshat doesn't cost much more than a textbook. You know, unless you also want to plug in a monitor and keyboard.
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|Our primary mode of transportation around town in our new town in Colorado. Trailer on one bike, trail-a-bike on the other.
I have been reading through some recent journals gathering tidbits of information for a book I'm working on. And I came across an entry from my birthday about a year ago. You see...at that time, neither myself nor my daughter had gone through an elimination diet. I was still questioning my instincts and yet I was gaining confidence. I wrote:
"This is a year of self discovery around food. I feel like I am on the edge of making big changes for our family regarding food."
One year later and I am 35 pounds lighter and feel more deeply connected to my body than I thought was possible. I am in no way eating perfectly by anyone's standards except my own. I am listening to my body's responses and accepting my choices with forgiveness or joy. I have a strong awareness of the unique formula my body, mind and soul need to stay balanced and thriving. This awareness didn't come overnight but throughout a gentle year of small steps that required openness, honesty, forgiveness and strength. But it also required a massive support system.
We hear about this a lot, don't we? From every exercise guru, psychotherapist and Oprah. But the thing is, I haven't been thinking about calories I've burned, who did me wrong in the past, or a specific diet plan. I've been focused on what works for me, just me, not everyone else. And you know what I discovered? When I focused on what works for ME, I became more invested in myself and my health. The feeling of knowing myself this clearly is liberating! I can feel myself slipping. I recognize the stress peaks and instead of running to food, hiding, denying or the myriad of other ways I used to cope, I step into the things I know that work.
And I'm learning to create a routine and rhythm instead of saving myself from the edge. This is hard with young kids and all the transitions we've made in the past few months. Its easier to fall for the "mom gives to everyone else first" mentality. But that so sucks and all of us suffer in the end.
So what worked for me? A simple attention to my physical self, mental self and spiritual self. My emotions are more balanced, the depression has subsided and my body is transforming.
I know I need daily exercise and fresh air in some combination. My current and long time love is yoga. It mixes my spiritual and physical selves beautifully. I love challenging my body in poses and seeing such instant results each time I practice. I love seeing my body become more toned and muscles pop out that I thought I'd lost. I love the spiritual piece that keeps me grounded, breathing and balanced. Zumba is also a love as I feel that little fluttering of silliness and sexiness in the moves while making my heart pump and lungs work. I love sweating and knowing my hips more intimately.
And I have depended greatly on our spiritual community in Seattle as a weekly rhythm. For anyone there, The Center for Spiritual Living is a beautiful new thought community. They/we look at the common spiritual principles that connect different world religions above the cultural limits. I was regularly inspired and pushed to see health and wellness as my right and that I needed to own that.
I also signed up for all those online newsletters from inspiring mamas who encourage and challenge us to live fully, find our creative selves after motherhood and model living with intention and courage for our children. I needed these voices to overpower the doubts in my head. A special thank you to Visionary Mom and Hannah's Harvest for keeping me focused and inspired!
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I can increase the amount of greens without having to adopt a raw lifestyle. I can make it to a yoga or zumba class once or twice a week without adding a workout every morning. I can spend an afternoon once a week in quiet meditation and focus on my dreams without expecting to find a quiet meditative space each day. I'd love to increase all these things but even at this level, I've lost 35 lbs and feel really great!!!
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Dear Helena,
I am dating a guy who is borderline Mr. Perfect but has no appreciation of food. He'd be happy to have a peanut butter sandwich for dinner every night. He eats my cooking but I can tell he doesn't really "get" why I bother, and he is averse to foodie expeditions to find, say, the best pho in town. Now our relationship is becoming serious, so my question is this: Can you really trust someone who doesn't care about food? Is it just one of those flaws I should strive to accept, or is it a sign of something deeper wrong with him? Would it be rude of me to try to change him—and if not, how do I do it?
—Lives to Eat
Dear Lives to Eat,
It's surprisingly common for Chowhounds to fall in love with people who'd just as soon take their meals in pill form, as this discussion thread shows. And when I shared your problem with readers of The Kitchn, many of them sympathized. BuffMama writes: "My husband of 11 years enjoys only 1. plain, dried-out chicken 2. Jiffy Peanut Butter on WHITE bread 3. Pasta with PLAIN Hunts tomato sauce (nothing added, thank you)." Similarly, leavingthecity complains of a fiancé who eats only "pasta, campbells canned soup, and some weird chicken with canned gravy over noodles."
But is a penchant for PB&J grounds for dumping? Depends on your priorities. LitNerd sputters, "Seriously? He's not a foodie so he's not trustworthy? That's ridiculous. That's akin to him being a football fanatic who considers dumping you because you don't want to go to games with him. " But to somebody whose life is football, it might not seem so ridiculous. If talking about, thinking about, dreaming about, and cooking food are major pieces of your personality and identity, sitting across the table from someone who might as well be chewing on cardboard could justifiably be a deal-killer.
Here's the good news: People who really don't enjoy eating are even more unusual than people who don't enjoy sex. So I doubt your boyfriend's PB&J habit is a symptom of deep-seated psychological issues. More likely, he was brought up on boxed mac 'n' cheese and that has crippled his appreciation of food. When people claim not to enjoy salad, for instance, it often means they were raised on iceberg and wilted romaine and have never tasted, say, a Shaved Fennel and Strawberry Salad.
Sometimes a person's pedestrian palate can mislead you into thinking he's a nonfoodie, whereas in fact he's appreciating that PB&J (or canned gravy) much more than you think. When I met my husband, I thought he was uninterested in food, because he would eat vegetables only in the form of salsa and considered vanilla the world's greatest ice cream flavor. But he appreciates a homemade ice cream made with fresh Madagascar vanilla beans and was extremely supportive of my quest for the perfect salsa.
A good way to try to awaken your boyfriend's food appreciation is to cook delicious dishes for him but work within his existing taste parameters. Or, as Kitchn reader EriktheRed suggests, "you need to encourage him to take the journey to find the BEST peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Who makes the best bread … Who has the best peanut butter (I actually prefer Whole Foods crunchy house brand), who has the best jam …" Paradoxically, once you've shown that you fully support his PB&J habit, you might find he is willing to try more new dishes in return. Just don't expect him to start cooking them.


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Vytol's infectious production sound amalgamates the best parts of jungle, jump up and steppers and is fast becoming a favourite with some of the most respected jungle/dnb labels (not to mention dancefloors).
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We've completed the overhaul of our community discussion forums – and it's got some incredible features! You can reach it from the frontpage, or you can just bookmark http://Forums.CatholicTechTalk.com.
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Concerns about oil independence and meeting future energy needs are being addressed by researching new generating methods, but another part of the energy puzzle is using our energy as efficiently as possible. When United Power constructed its new headquarters facility in 2006, energy efficiency was a top priority.
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Geothermal heating and cooling systems take advantage of the earth's relatively constant temperature and, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, are the most energy-efficient, environmentally clean, and cost-effective space conditioning systems available. The system at 500 Cooperative Way works by circulating heated water through 80 ground loops and 35 heat pumps to efficiently keep over 40,000 sq. ft. of office space at a comfortable temperature year-round.
Because digging ground loops is an intensive process, geothermal heat pump systems are recommended mainly in new construction. However, homeowners can take advantage of a similar technology, the air-source heat pump, which installs easily and uses a home's existing duct work. The heat pump is a year-round appliance that can heat and cool your home.
Combine energy savings, new federal tax credits, and substantial heat pump rebates offered by United Power, and a heat pump quickly and easily pays for itself.
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ONU becomes coordinator of Danube Partnership programmes
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ODESA, FEBRUARY 28th, 2014, CONTEXT-PRICHERNOMORIE ― Odesa National Mechnikov University has become the coordinator of educational and scientific programmes of Ukraine with the countries of the Danube region, Context-Prichernomorie correspondent reports.
The press service of ONU noted today, 28 February.
According to the press service, Odesa National Mechnikov University became the coordinator of educational and scientific programmes of Ukraine with the countries of the Danube region. This decision was taken during a rector's meeting at the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Together with ONU, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University will also coordinate the programme.
"As project coordinator, Odesa University will be able to give advices to other educational institutions, to gather and synthesize information, make suggestions to improve international cooperation," rector of ONU Igor Koval noted.
The press service added that since 2012, 11 leading universities of Odesa, Poltava, Chernivtsi, Sumy, Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk are involved in the project of cooperation with countries of the Danube Region. In the framework of the programme the scientists forge ties on innovative branches of science, as well as promote active student and faculty exchanges with universities in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to Mr Koval, the priority direction of the Odesa University is collaboration with universities of Germany.
"Long-term contacts between ONU and Regensburg University, active work with the universities of Dresden, Ulm, Heidelberg (Berlin). Priority areas of our work: optics, nanotechnology, virology, astrophysics," Mr Koval added.
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Is this what happens when a woman's bid for president and a writers strike coincide?
This spring, Fox will air a new reality show called "When Women Rule." Here's how reality guru Mike Darnell, who's overseeing the project, describes it for Variety:
"You take 12 attractive women who feel like it's still a man's world and who think they've hit a glass ceiling, and you give them their own society to run. Then you take 12 macho, chauvinistic guys who also think men rule the world and see how they survive in a world where they're literally manservants. ... They'll have to obey every command from the women."
The cliches at play here are so tired they're not even worth commenting on. Ok, one comment. Can you imagine anything more counterproductive? Master's tools, master's house and all that. Jeesh. But don't worry. These man-eaters aren't ugly feminists. They're "attractive women." Phew. And we all know that women who think that sexism still exists are really just out to punish men.
"Payback can be a bitch," Darnell said.
According to Fox Entertainment prexy Peter Liguori (what's a prexy??), the show is a sociological experiment:
"What it's doing, in a very Fox-like fashion, is testing social mores," he said. "This is a social experiment and not a sexual experiment. We decided, why not create this Petri dish of a society and see what happens."
Fox-like indeed. But here's my favorite part:
"The other part of the show becomes, what will the women do," Darnell said. "Will they be able to create a great society or will they fight with each other?"
Oh goodie! I can hardly wait for the ensuing catfight, cuz catfights are so sexy. Catherine Price over at Broadsheet does a great takedown, based on the press release. I join her in prayer: May the writers strike be resolved soon. Save us from more bad "reality" tv.
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
Bad Feminism, Bad TV
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LOL. How depressing.
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I know. Right?
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When a struggling sports writer with dreams of big-time stories rescues a homeless man from an attack by a gang of street thugs, he unwittingly finds himself with a one-time boxing legend believed to be dead in Resurrecting The Champ.
The sweet science is more than a series of simple one-two hits, and, like Resurrecting the Champ (2007-Directed by Rod Lurie (Last Castle) it is a methodical, well conceived plan of execution. Yet, as in boxing, a few slip ups can cost the round; a few rounds the fight. This title bout of a film is based on a true story built on a deception that really was a lie that brought redemption to one man and peace to another… confused? Boxing is not that simple nor is this film.
Both contenders (Samuel L. Jackson as The Champ and Josh Hartnett as struggling sports reporter Erik Kernan) each carry into this ring an inner dilemma. Through a series of sometime predictable rounds they learn only facing reality will bring a conclusion to their individual turmoil at the final bell. You will not see tumultuous fight scenes as in Rocky but you will witness a conflict of emotions between each.
Laced with implants toward the sensitivities of our fellow man and the love of a child/father relationship Resurrecting the Champ doesn't deliver that knockout punch I expected but I am positive the judges will see it as a winner through unanimous decision. I wasn't knocked to the canvas, as I had hoped, yet I felt every hit of the complexities of deception and lies. The film reminded me of an old boxing adage, "It's the one you don't see coming that'll hurt 'ya."
Review by Henry P. Gravelle
Grade: B-
Buy on Amazon: Resurrecting The Champ


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Vote: Pick the 2015-16 Palm Beach County High School Team of the Year
The 2015-16 high school sports season concluded last month, and there were plenty of noteworthy performances turned in by area teams.
We want to know which team deserves recognition as the area's best.
We've compiled a list of the top 13 teams in 11 sports. Vote below for your favorite.


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For Federico, summer was approaching fast. He needed a job, but he had no idea what he would be good at. After speaking with a PSW Youth Careers counselor, he got his answer: He would be a fantastic worker for the local senior center. This is his story..
Want to Donate to YWF?
Donating to PSW and PSW Youth Careers, two parent programs of YWF, means more than helping out teens and youth, it's giving them a real shot at the future, where they can succeed at not just keeping jobs, but becoming managers and leaders.
Want to support YWF? Start by donating to YWF's two parent organizations, Partnerships for a Skilled Workforce (PSW) and PSW Youth Careers. When you donate to PSW Youth Careers and PSW, where does the money go? In this video, Kelley French, Director of PSW Youth Careers, explains what the organizations do to help employment-challenged youth in the MetroWest/South Boston region of Massachusetts.
Enjoy the video, and be sure to visit our page with more details on donating to YWF.
When Alejandro was just a teen, he found himself in an extremely rough situation. His parents had split and he was living with his grandparents, but he wasn't making enough to help cover his grandparent's expenses. Here's his story...
The Youth Working Forward (YWF) website is a service provided by Partnerships for a Skilled Workforce, Inc. At YWF, we teach young people all aspects of finding a job, keeping a job, and working toward building a career.


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After a long, boring, flat drive from the Grand Canyon we were all very much looking forward to getting out of the car, so when we saw the winding entrance queue for Hoover Dam our hearts sank. Thankfully the line moved quickly and after paying the $10 parking fee we were free to escape and explore the mammoth concrete construction.
Not having enough time to take a tour we happily wandered around taking in the incredible feat of engineering that opened in 1935 and took over 100 lives.
The sunshine bounced off both the flowing water and the bridge to create a gorgeous luminosity that the pictures can't quite do justice.
Though views of the bridge were amazing I was drawn towards the less photographed side of the Dam where Dalek like structures with clock faces rose from the water, like gargantuan time keepers of Nevada and Arizona.
Also, across this side the water was so still and perfectly clear I could see huge fish gracefully swimming around, which appealed to me.
Initially just a stop because we were passing the Dam's front door on the way to Las Vegas, this is an attraction well worth a proper visit.


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At Altus Hospice, the emphasis is on palliative care and quality of life. Every effort is made to make the patient as comfortable as possible and fulfill the distinct wishes of the individual and their family. Our interdisciplinary care team is highly trained to provide the practical, emotional and spiritual support for all involved.
We believe that every person has a right to choose how their final days are spent. We'll begin our relationship with you by listening carefully, answering your questions and working to create a care plan that is tailored to the unique needs and desires of each individual and family. With a commitment to quality of life and preservation of dignity, you can be assured that you and your family will receive the care and support you need, when you need it.
In our continued commitment to providing exceptional care to the greater Houston community, we are pleased to announce the opening of the Altus Hospice In Patient Unit (IPU) in Sugar Land, Texas. Scheduled to open in the Fall of 2014, the IPU will provide an additional care option for hospice patients and their families.
Our staff wants to help in any way we can and welcomes the opportunity to answer your questions and talk more about how we can best support your needs. To contact us, click here for our list of locations or learn more by visiting our website at altushospicecare.com
The experience of grief is unique to everyone. It is natural, necessary and highly personal. At Altus Hospice, we understand the grieving process and realize that while healing can't be rushed, it can be helped with the right tools.
Learning about grief, sharing your experience, and developing effective coping techniques can provide additional comfort and healing after the loss of a loved one. Altus Hospice offers a number of bereavement services to the loved ones of our patients to provide adequate support throughout the grief process. Anticipatory grief support is also available.
Monthly Calls and Newsletters
Monthly Calls and Newsletters
Bereaved loved ones will be contacted by a licensed counselor every month, typically in the form of either a phone call or monthly mailing, or more as needed. Mailings include our Hope for Healing Newsletter, which provides helpful information about the grief experience as well as tips for coping with the loss.
Individual, Family and Group Counseling
Individual, Family and Group Counseling
Altus Hospice offers complementary individual, family or group counseling to the friends and families of our patients for up to 13 months following the death of the patient. Counseling is available Monday through Friday, from 8:00am to 8:00pm.
Grief counseling will be unique for each person as each individual has distinct needs. In the wake of a loss, you may not know where to start. This is normal. Our experienced counselors know how to help. Here are some grief-counseling themes they may explore with you:
- Working through anger or guilt that just won't go away or resolving unfinished business
- Identifying and expressing your emotions
- Memorializing the person who passed, remembering them in special ways
- Answering the important identity question — "Who am I without my loved one?"
- Communicating with family and friends who may not understand your grief or may grieve differently
- Developing your support system and outlining your support needs
- Learning to take care of your body, mind and spirit
- Learning and applying effective coping techniques and activities to promote peace and healing
- Providing shared grief support with others who have experienced similar loss
Mending Hearts Grief Support Groups
Mending Hearts Grief Support Groups
The Mending Hearts Grief Support Group is a six-week, educationally-based support group that meets in various locations around the Greater Houston area. These support groups provide a safe place where hurting people can reconcile their losses and find new meaning in life. Support groups have been helpful in a variety of ways:
- Providing emotional and spiritual support in a safe, nonjudgmental environment
- Educating participants about the grief process and effective coping techniques
- Giving opportunities to meet people with similar experiences, thoughts and feelings
- Preventing the isolation which many experience in this culture that avoids mourning
- Creating a forum to exchange ideas, knowledge and memories and explore the meaning in life and death
Support for Children and Teens
Support for Children and Teens
Individual and group counseling with a licensed social worker is available to children and teens of all ages. Creative activities are often utilized to further engage children, allowing them to fully express their grief and providing them with a greater understanding of their thoughts and emotions. In the near future, Altus Hospice will provide annual Grief Camps for children.
Educational Workshops
Educational Workshops
Workshops are available at various times throughout the year to provide education on specific topics, such as Coping During the Holidays, Caregiver Support, Art Therapy, Yoga for Healing and more.
Annual Butterfly Release/Celebration of Life
Annual Butterfly Release/Celebration of Life
Each fall, Altus Hospice hosts a ceremony to honor the lives of family, friends and loved ones. The ceremony typically includes live music, a brief message, the release of hundreds of butterflies, a slideshow and a reception with refreshments.
For more information or to schedule a counseling appointment, contact us at email@example.com.


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As most of our TiPb Forums regulars probably noticed, we've been moving things around on a fairly massive scale lately. Basically, we're going from a nice home in the burbs to a big party house in the hills. That's because you deserve more -- more space to play and more features to play with.
We've done some work on the blogs already and started a new Mobile Nations podcast, so it was about time we gave the forums some love.
First of all we're bringing things more in line with the other Smartphone Experts communities. Many of you use multiple platforms and several devices now and as you move through our network we want you to feel at home no matter which site you're on. That means you'll see the same types of device forums on TiPb now that you've always enjoyed on Android Central, CrackBerry.com, PreCentral.net, etc.
It also means, like any move to bigger digs, some of the rooms will be a little empty for a while. We can only stretch the furniture so far! We'd love you to help us with the decor, though, so jump in, start some threads, and get posting. There will be some great contests coming up, and it just might be a good idea to keep busy now... hint. hint.
New features are also coming, along with a fresh coat of paint. Again, we've got a lot of great new stuff in the pipeline and we can't wait to show it to you.
Huge thanks to the SPE team, Kevin, Tom, Marcus, Steph, and Cory, and to Jeremy and the TiPb Forum mods for all the help, front and back of house. Jeremy is going to introduce some of the new forums, features, and topics to you in the coming weeks, but for now, head on over to the all new, all awesome TiPb Forums and let us know what you think.


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Wednesday, January 28, 2015
Take Chance...
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Thursday, January 22, 2015
The Perception of Age in History (Or History is Full of Lies)
The article Ages of Revolution: How old were they on July 4, 1776? addresses the idea that the majority perceive the Founding Fathers to be...well, that. Fathers. Older, wise, patriarchal, philosophical, experienced men. However, the "united States of America" was actually founded by fairly young men, by today's standards. Taking into account the life expectancy of the time, most of them were middle-aged - barring Ben Franklin. Dude lived forever.
Speaking of good ol' Ben Franklin, during one of my American Revolution classes in college, my professor did her own mind blowing along the same lines of this article. Take a look a the picture above. Chances are you're familiar with it. It can be found in almost every American History textbook on the planet. This is the moment when Ben Franklin, with his son William, took a kite out in a storm and discovered electricity. So nice to see a younger Ben performing cool science experiments with his young son in tow. Right?
Before I blow your mind, take a moment to look at that picture again. Look closely.
Franklin's kite flying experiment occurred in 1752.
Ben was born in 1706.
William was born in 1731.
That would make them 46 and 21 respectively.
William was 21 at the time of that image.
I'll be honest... I thought he was about 12 years old. Nope. William was legally allowed to drink in today's world and was a mere 11 years away from being the Governor of New Jersey.
*Additional fun fact, William was a Loyalist and openly opposed his father during the American Revolution, which they did not recover from until a few years before Ben's death in 1790.
So what's the point? History lies. Men are glorified and vilified based on who owns the story. Age, maturity and courage are all projections of our own perception. The next time you read a story about one of the Founding Fathers, examine them as just men, not demi-gods, and it may reshape the way you see history.
I mean really, aside from not being old, they also were not altruistic and revolting for the "all men's rights". They were selfish, self-serving, young men, but that's a rant for another day...
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Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Just do it!
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Monday, January 12, 2015
Earning My Wings :: Training Week 3
Ugh! This week was rough. My knees have started to hurt due to excessive use. I didn't take proper care of myself with my diet, hydration or sleep. Tsk, tsk!
I took the below picture during one of my evening runs. I got home later than usual from work one night and was chasing the sunset. Worth the great show - love Arizona.
Week 3:
Tuesday, January 6 - 3.65 miles with sprint strides @ 11:09
Wednesday, January 7 - Tone It Up: Love Your Arms & Abs
Thursday, January 8 - 4.13 miles @ 11:27
Friday, January 9 - Rest Day
Saturday, January 10 - 2.78 miles @ 11:01
Sunday, January 11 - 5.11 miles @ 11:25
Monday, January 12 - Rest Day - Ice Those Knees
What am I most proud of this week? Well, because I'm usually so stubborn...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Be Rad
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Monday, January 5, 2015
Earning My Wings :: Training Week 2
Running in a different location presents a number of challenges:
1. Figuring out your route.
2. Different air quality (California = More Pollution, More Moisture).
3. Different terrain (So. Many. Hills.).
Then there are the challenges of running over the New Year Holiday:
1. So many delicious adult beverages.
2. Inevitable late nights.
3. Better things to do.
Regardless, I sucked it up, made sure I planned for each run, and trudged through them. My 5 mile run on Sunday was the hardest, by far. For the first time, I had to walk portions of my route, which was like a cannon fire to my ego. I was tired and dehydrated from 12 hours at Disneyland the day before and staying up super late to hang out with my family. I didn't properly prepare for my run, so I didn't have a proper run. It's that simple. However, I still finished and made my best attempt to finish strong.
On the bright side, I learned that I really love the interval training. Hot damn, that's fun.
Week 2:
Tuesday, December 30 - 3.88 miles with sprint strides @ 12:14
Wednesday, December 31 - 45 squats, 45 push-ups, 45 sit-ups
Thursday, January 1 - 4.21 miles @ 11:25
Friday, January 2 - Rest Day
Saturday, January 3 - 2.05 @ 10:32
Sunday, January 4 - 5.06 @ 11:53
Monday, January 5 - Jillian Michaels: Yoga Meltdown
So, what am I proud of this week?
Until next week...
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DCI Remarks to The University of Oklahoma
to The University of Oklahoma
September 12, 1997
On September 18th--in less than a week--CIA will be celebrating its 50th anniversary. So before I speak about the Future of Intelligence, I'd like to say a few words about our past.
At CIA Headquarters there are two important monuments. The first, is made of steel and concrete. It's a section of the Berlin Wall. And for most of the first 50 years of CIA's existence, tearing down that wall—and defeating communism—was our consuming passion.
There is another wall at CIA. It's made of polished marble and it's on the right side of the lobby, near our front entrance. There are 70 gold stars carved into that wall. Each star represents a CIA officer killed in the line of duty.
These 70 individuals -- along with countless others throughout the Cold War -- paid with their lives to reduce the Berlin Wall to a museum piece. Their work tells a powerful story; one of tremendous accomplishment, of skill and determination. Of covert operations and activities behind enemy lines. Of ordinary people asked to do extraordinary things. Ordinary people willing to put themselves in harm's way...to serve this nation.
These walls also tell us that our intelligence was decisive in helping to end the Cold War. Our work made a difference -- from officers abroad to analysts at home, from scientists to engineers, from linguists to photo interpreters.
Though communism is nearly extinct, these two walls provide an enduring message:
There can be no achievement without sacrifice.
The best way to honor the achievements -- and the sacrifices -- of the past is to prepare to meet the challenges of the future. The President, the Congress, the American people expect no less. They know, we know, that there is an enduring need for intelligence as we prepare for the next millennium.
No one with the responsibility to tend to the nation's security, no one with the responsibility to protect the American people, would ever suggest we do so without our intelligence capabilities.
We are at a turning point in history – one that is full of both opportunity for increased global stability and the challenge of containing ethnic, religious, and regional disputes. If we in the intelligence business approach this turning point with "the right stuff" – with energy, with decisiveness, with conviction, with unity of purpose, and with an unrelenting focus on our mission – we will accomplish great things for the future.
I haven't the slightest doubt about what the President and American people expect of us:
First and foremost, they expect the Intelligence Community to help protect the lives of Americans everywhere.
They expect us to work to protect the lives of our men and women in uniform and to ensure they dominate the battlefield when they deploy to remote parts of the world.
They expect us to protect Americans from other threats, such as those that come from terrorists and hostile nations with weapons of mass destruction.
They expect us to provide our diplomats with the critical insights and foreknowledge they need to advance American interests and avert conflicts.
They expect us to anticipate and warn of major geopolitical changes in the world.
They expect us to focus not just on threats but also on opportunities—opportunities to act before danger becomes disaster and opportunities to level the playing field so American interests can prevail.
They expect our reporting and analysis to add real value to what they already know about the toughest problems facing the United States.
We know we exist because we offer unique analytic and clandestine collection capabilities that reside no place else in government. And, ultimately, we succeed or fail by virtue of our ability to deliver on the expectations of the President and the American people -- on a continuing basis -- that intelligence makes a difference.
Just as the Intelligence Community helped to bring about the end of an old era, today we are helping to usher-in--and define for our leaders--a new age.
Some take a look at this new age and see no threats on the horizon. It's easy to become complacent—after all, our economy is booming, unemployment is low, there is no super-power confrontation.
But the world we analyze -- the world all of us live in -- is in tremendous flux. It's almost as if the world's geologic plates have shifted.
And the shock waves are still being felt.
Consider this: The world is different, but it is not safe.
Today, more wars are being fought within states than between them. The results of such ethnic strife this past year alone have been all too apparent: from A to Z, from Albania to Zaire, humanitarian crises, large scale suffering, and regional instability have been commonplace.
Consider that: States have become more interdependent economically and politically. Interdependence and more openness have helped increase global wealth. But, at the same time, we confront lethal weapons, illicit drugs, and dirty money flowing more easily across porous borders.
Consider that: By the year 2010, population will increase by 1.2 billion, with 95% of that increase occurring in the developing world, straining governments and societies.
Consider that: By the end of the next decade the world will need as much more oil as the equivalent of one additional OPEC to satisfy growing energy demand.
- Consider that: The communications revolution is adding 15 new web sites every minute. We live in an age where 10-year olds are creating web pages. Yet, just as the Internet has helped us to reach out to anyone with a telephone and a modem, new technology has also provided greater opportunities for terrorists, international criminals—and even hostile governments. Small wonder that these tools have been called "Weapons of Mass Disruption."
But I didn't come here today just to tell you how busy we are or how demanding the global environment is for those of us in the intelligence business. I've come to tell you how we are going to prevail against these challenges.
First -- We will produce outstanding all-source analysis that is timely, prescient, and persuasive. To do that we must be, and be seen to be, the nation's leading experts in a wide variety of fields. And through every means available to us, we will reach out to the rich body of expertise that exists outside the US government, in academia and in the private sector.
Second -- We will mount imaginative and sophisticated clandestine human and technical operations in order to get vital information our nation cannot get any other way. I know this will involve risks, and not every operation will succeed. But next to integrity and objectivity this risk-taking ethic is the most important part of our professional identify. Concentrating our attention on these hard targets will demand the highest standards of professionalism, tradecraft, and innovation. To do what our country needs, we can be nothing less than the world's best espionage organization.
Third -- We will be vigilant on the counterintelligence front. Our enemies and even our competitors are trying very hard to steal our secrets. They want to gain a competitive edge any way they can. We would do a great disservice to ourselves and all that we hope to achieve if we neglected this arena. In the world we live in today, it is not enough to play strong offense, we also must play strong defense.
Fourth -- We will sharpen CIA's capacity to effectively employ covert action on those unique occaisons when our nation's leaders conclude that an important aim can be achieved through no other means.
And fifth -- In all of our endeavors we will use technology to advance our mission, not only to ensure we have the support infrastructure we need to perform, but also to ensure that we grow the scientific and technological expertise that allows CIA to be a national "center for excellence" in technological innovation. The Agency that once brought our country the U-2 and imagery from space has no less an obligation today to push the technology envelope.
To succeed in these efforts in the future requires that we set a clear direction and keep an unrelenting focus on the most important threats to our country.
Intelligence success demands the highest standards of personal integrity and professional performance.
Intelligence success requires that we be independent and forthright.
Intelligence success compels us to take risks to get the information our nation's leaders need to protect US interests.
Intelligence success means not allowing the cloak of secrecy to stand in the way of an open and honest dialogue with the American people or with experts outside the Intelligence Community who can help us interpret this complex new world.
And, finally, intelligence success in the future means that we have closed the door on the Cold War and are embracing the challenges and opportunities of a new era.
So our mission is clear. Our responsibilities are many. Our determination strong. Understanding this new world and interpreting it for our leaders remains a consuming passion for the Intelligence Community. After 50 years--and on the eve of the new millennium--we will continue to help our leaders shape this new world and make it less threatening. We will continue to serve as the first line of defense and will work to preserve our country and its freedoms.
This is our calling—and there can be no more important mission for the men and women of the Intelligence Community.
You should know that the people of the intelligence profession reflect the ideals of our country—and those ideals are embodied in the two monuments at our headquarters building. Hard work, achievement and, yes, sacrifice have been our hallmark for the past 50 years. And so it will be for decades to come.
It has been my great pleasure to have the opportunity to speak to you today. Thank you very much for your attention and your interest.


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Pine Cabin
Pine cabin, at 640 sq ft, and has Spruce cabin on the east side of it and Tamarack on the west side. It has a 30′ by 6′ deck over looking the Lake. You enter this two bedroom cabin into the screened in porch which is 8'X10″. Then you enter the livingroom and kitchen combination, the floors in the kitchen and livingroom are laminate wood, and bedrooms are carpeted. The kitchen has a 30″ stove with oven, Fridge with freezer, microwave, coffee maker, toaster, and all eating and cooking utensils.The dining room table accomodates four chairs.
The living room has two couches, and a 32″ LCD HD color TV with over 400 channels. The first bedroom has one Queen bed and second bedroom has one double and a set of single extra long bunk beds. The bathroom has a 36″ fiberglass shower, toilet, and sink. The propane BBQ is set outside just off the walkway into the cabin.