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Jon Martello is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl....
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Jon Martello is a strong, handsome, good old fashioned guy. His buddies call him Don Jon due to his ability to "pull" a different woman every weekend, but even the finest fling doesn't compare to the bliss he finds alone in front of the computer watching pornography. Barbara Sugarman is a bright, beautiful, good old fashioned girl. Raised on romantic Hollywood movies, she's determined to find her Prince Charming and ride off into the sunset. Wrestling with good old fashioned expectations of the opposite sex, Jon and Barbara struggle against a media culture full of false fantasies to try and find true intimacy.
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Somewhere between your typical rom-com and a biting subversion of your typical rom-com lies Don Jon, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's clever, well-intentioned look at everything the genre has been doing wrong for the past many years. From the get-go, we have something altogether more gutteral than what you'd find in your usual Valentine's Weekend releases. Yes, JGL's hero follows tradition by packing a deal-breaker vice, but instead of being engaged to another woman (The Wedding Planner), living with his parents (Failure to Launch), or being just not that into her (He's Just Not That Into You), Gordon-Levitt's titular Don Jon Martello Jr. entertains a chronic addiction to pornography. So, right out the gate, it's already more interesting than anything with Gerard Butler.
In his directorial debut, Gordon-Levitt works to ground all of the tropes to which we're culturally accustomed. He subverts the picture perfect but colorless leading lady with Scarlett Johansson's crass, acerbic, ultimately abrasive Barbara Sugarman. He opts out of the traditional meet-cute in favor of a lustful exchange of glances between two people who share nothing more than a physical attraction. He replaces your standard pristine backdrop with a club-laden Jersey, injecting a snapshot of road rage every so often for good (albeit artistically clumsy) measure. At every step, as loudly as Gordon-Levitt seems to be screaming his deconstructions, we have a bit of fun. In large part, this is because the people playing along are doing so with gusto.
The usually affable Gordon-Levitt doesn't earn, or even ask for, our affections as the decidedly dense Don Jon, but he's a hoot when he yammers on thickly to his bros and superiorly meathead father, played with a hysterical lack of tact by Tony Danza. Johansson, likewise embedded in such a thick gravy of the Dirty Jerz, carries her domineering character well past the beneficial chuckles of familiar stereotypes into areas of authentic flavor. And midway through the show, we are treated to the usual flair of Julianne Moore, sans Mid-Atlantic accent, careening through the extremes of human emotion as the sort of character she plays best: the loon. We have a great time with all of them - the stars and their back-up players (Glenne Headly is good for a handful of laughs, as is Jeremy Luke as Don Jon's perpetually agitated pal) - and are only shortchanged when it comes to the landing of Don Jon's sincerity.
Having so much fun with its quirks, Don Jon forgets to lend any real weight to the central conflict of its hero's addiction (perhaps why the film dropped the word from its original title). It forgets to flesh out its central character in either direction, or to beef up the leading lady enough to provide a substantial opponent to the long line of Rachel McAdams roles it seems to think so lowly of. Placing such a heavy focus on the flimsiness of the rom-com genre, Don Jon doesn't exactly provide something with more substance underneath as much as it does provide something with a more inventive surface.
But its surface does offer a good enough time to make Don Jon work. It won't change your mind about romantic comedies, offer new insight into the struggles of addiction, or least of all alter the way you look at Jersey, but as a song-and-dance, the film and its performers are charming, endearing, and fun.
Oh, and there's a whole lot of porn in this movie, so keep that in mind.
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Wildcat boys open with Sierra while varsity girls start with Rosamond
It has become a tradition this time every year where a large number of schools from around the state descend on Bakersfield to take part in the Garces Holiday Classic soccer tournament. The Taft boys and girls soccer teams are no exception as they kick off their tournament run in the Silver Division of the tournament this Friday at the State Farm Sports Village in Bakersfield.
Both the varsity girls and boys kick off the tournament Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. The girls will take on Rosamond while the boys will square off against Sierra.
Win or lose, the Lady Wildcats will face the winner or loser of the match between Coast Union-McFarland. If Taft wins they play Saturday morning at 10:45 a.m. If the Lady Wildcats lose they will play again at 9 a.m.
Meanwhile, the boys will face the winner or loser of the match between Kennedy and Mira Monte junior varsity. If the Wildcats defeat Sierra, they will play Saturday morning at 10:45 a.m. If they lose, Taft returns to action at 9 a.m.
If either team is in the losers bracket and loses they will play at 12:45 p.m. If they are in the winners bracket and they win or lose, the Wildcats will wrap up their tournament run at 2:30 p.m.

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Thursday Night FootballMiami @ BuffaloReplacing an injured Fred Jackson just as he will Thursday night, C.J. Spiller entered last year's Week 15 game against Miami's top-three run defense looking like a boom-or-bust fantasy play. A roll of the dice with a bad matchup. Spiller promptly shredded the Dolphins for 167 yards and two touchdowns, averaging over eight yards per carry and establishing himself as a fantasy semifinals week hero. The Dolphins have since transitioned from a 3-4 to 4-3 alignment, but their front-seven personnel is largely unchanged. Spiller is an in-space "satellite" back, and that's precisely the kind of runner that gives Miami's heavyweight defense fits. Chris Johnson (23-126-1, 1-8) and Daryl Richardson (11-76, 2-23) are a couple of similarly utilized backs with comparable skill sets that have had success against the Dolphins' No. 5 run defense. If Chan Gailey gets Spiller in space as he did so frequently and effectively early this year, C.J. can dice up the Fins. F-Jax's (concussion) inactivity sets up Spiller for 20-plus touches. He's a top-ten running back play. ... On pace for three-year lows in receptions (73) and yards (893), Stevie Johnson has settled in as a WR3. Look for Johnson to draw Dolphins top CB Sean Smith's coverage throughout Thursday's contest. Johnson offers limited upside with just one 100-yard effort in his last 31 games, but he can beat oversized Smith (6'3/214) with quickness and crisp route running and is always a solid bet for 5-6 catches.After Spiller and Johnson, there's a fantasy cliff drop for Bills skill-position guys. Ryan Fitzpatrick ranks a respectable 13th in quarterback scoring, but he's been awful essentially every time he's faced a competitive pass defense. Because Miami happens to field one of those, and Fitzpatrick is so capable of bombing in any given game, he's difficult to trust beyond two-QB leagues. The Dolphins can rush the passer and permit the fourth lowest completion rate in the NFL (56.3). ... Scott Chandler set season highs in catches (5) and yards (65) in last week's loss to the Patriots, also scoring for the first time since September. Bills-Pats was a pass-happy shootout with a splash of comeback mode, so Chandler's sudden outburst is useless as a predictive measure. Chandler is a TE2 on a good fantasy team. He'll keep you afloat if he finds pay dirt and hurt you if he doesn't. ... Fitz's target distribution over the past three games: Donald Jones 24, F-Jax and Johnson 23, Chandler 17, Spiller 15, T.J. Graham 6. ... A team-high 19 of Jones' targets have come in the two games since Buffalo's Week 8 bye. The Bills are trying to get him the football. Miami struggles in slot coverage, where converted safety Jimmy Wilson plays, so Jones has a favorable Week 11 matchup. With 16 receptions for 186 yards and two scores in his last three games, Jones has emerged as a legit WR3 option. ... Jackson's targets are a reminder that Spiller is set up for a heavy dose of passing-game usage. Be sure to start him on Thursday night.Dolphins first-round pick Ryan Tannehill's pocket poise and ball placement have impressed for a rookie, but he's been nothing close to a fantasy option. Tannehill has a 5:9 TD-to-INT ratio and is averaging 220 yards per game. Even against Buffalo's No. 21 pass defense, he's a low-end QB2. ... Tannehill's target distribution since Miami's Week 7 bye: Brian Hartline 24, Davone Bess 15, Daniel Thomas 11, Jabar Gaffney 8, Anthony Fasano 7, Reggie Bush and Charles Clay 6. ... Time has exposed Hartline's 253-yard Week 4 game as one of the season's biggest flukes, but he's still established himself as Tannehill's top target and has a plus Thursday night matchup. The "Z" receiver in coach Joe Philbin's West Coast offense, Hartline's route-running chops should free him up regularly against burnable Bills fill-in LCB Leodis McKelvin. Coming off back-to-back eight-catch games, Hartline is a quality WR3 at Buffalo. ... Bess has never been a TD scorer and never will be -- he averages one end-zone trip for every seven games in his career -- but like Hartline, Bess has a favorable Week 11 matchup versus Bills slot CB Justin Rogers. Bess' weekly ceiling is around six catches for 75 scoreless yards. So he's much more PPR than standard-league option.Fasano has failed to break single-digit yards in three consecutive games and figures to focus on blocking with LT Jake Long struggling in pass protection. Fasano isn't even a TE2 at this point. ... Ineffective running inside the tackles since early-season knee and hip injuries, Bush was benched for a first-quarter fumble in last week's loss to Tennessee. While Bush figures to regain his job in Thursday night's game, it's fair to argue that Daniel Thomas may have surpassed him as Miami's top fantasy back. Thomas has played more snaps than Bush in each of the past three games, and received more touches in two of the past three. The Bills rank dead last in the league in run defense, surrendering NFL highs in yards-per-carry average (5.48), 20-plus-yard runs (14), and rushing touchdowns (16). Thomas is a mediocre talent, but a somewhat attractive flex play. Bush is a boom-or-bust fantasy option. Explosive rookie Lamar Miller still looks to be third in line for carries. In such a choice matchup, Miami seems destined for rushing success Thursday night.Score Prediction: Bills 21, Dolphins 17
Fantasy Fix: Miami Dolphins at Buffalo BillsAre either Ryan Fitzpatrick or Ryan Tannehill worthy of a start this week? Kay Adams (@heykayadams) and Matt Stroup (@mattstroup) break down every key fantasy player in Thursday night's Dolphins - Bills matchup.
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I guess living in a freezing cold area of the country has it's benefits. Things like these ICE CANDLES stay frozen!
On Thanksgiving my aunt had these stacked along the entry to her house.
The glowing, sparkly wet candles looked so amazing. She used large gallon containers but said you could even make giant ones out of a 5 gallon buckets (wouldn't that look amazing!)


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The East Newton girls knew they'd have a tough road to claim the Class 3, District 12 title this season.
The East Newton girls knew they'd have a tough road to claim the Class 3, District 12 title this season.
Despite facing a loaded bracket, the Lady Patriots managed to escape the defending state champions in Mount Vernon on Friday, 36-33, to advance to the title game. But there it all came to an end on Saturday as they fell 46-31 to Ash Grove.
The Lady Pirates (22-6) were no easy task. They had seven players score on the night, led by Halee Cashio with 10 points. And while they led most of the way, the Lady Patriots remained within arms length until late in the fourth quarter when the Lady Pirates pulled away in the quarter, 20-13.
"I told the girls Ash Grove is probably one of the better class three teams in the state," East Newton coach Marty Rinehart said. "We did enough things tonight to win the game, and that's what we talked about at the beginning of the year was to be able to put ourselves in this situation.
"I thought we did a good job of competing and doing just that."
Senior leadership was a big key for the Lady Patriots as Whitney Thomlinson, Shelbey Thomlinson and Haley Heilig each contributed to their success all season. Heilig led the Lady Patriots on Saturday with 11 points, while Shelbey Thomlinson added six and Whitney Thomlinson five.
"I'm really proud of our three seniors," Rinehart added. "I thought they stepped up and played the best basketball of their careers here in the last part of the season. We challenged them to step up and be leaders, and they really did that down the stretch."
Ash Grove took a 7-6 lead at the end of the first quarter on a buzzer-beater by Weinreis. They stretched that lead to 16-11 at the half and 22-18 at the end of the third quarter.
The Lady Patriots closed the season at 18-10 overall.
"One through 17, it's the best group of kids I've ever got to work with," Rinehart said. "They're good students, they don't cause any problems, they work hard. They've just really, really been a pleasure to work with."


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A pregnant woman who was stunned by Springfield police with a Taser last year has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and two officers.
A pregnant woman who was stunned by Springfield police with a Taser last year in the Best Buy parking lot has filed a federal lawsuit against the city and two officers who arrested her.
Lucinda White, 30, of Springfield alleges that Officer Edward Higginson used excessive force and falsely arrested her on March 30, 2013. Also accused of false arrest is Officer Mark Cordes.
The lawsuit, filed in federal court Wednesday, does not list a dollar amount for the damages being sought.
Police said White was involved in a minor car accident in the Best Buy lot, 3193 S. Veterans Parkway. Frederick Thomas, White's boyfriend, who was not involved in the crash, started yelling and cursing at the other driver and the officer taking the report, police said.
Thomas allegedly refused to calm down, so the responding officer requested backup. Nearly a dozen squad cars responded. At the same time, police said, White became angry and interfered with officers.
When officers attempted to arrest White, she allegedly resisted, prompting an officer to apply a one-second "drive stun" to White's thigh.
A "drive stun" is when an officer holds the Taser against someone and applies a shock. It does not involve firing the projectiles and is intended to cause pain without incapacitating the person.
A few days after the initial arrest, police reviewed the incident and determined that the department's policy on Taser use was not violated.
White was arrested and is facing a charge of resisting a police officer. That case is pending in Sangamon County Circuit Court.
White's lawsuit paints a different picture of the arrest.
The lawsuit states that White, who was eight months' pregnant, was "acting in a peaceful and non-threatening manner" when Higginson "forcefully grabbed White, tasered White and forcefully caused White to fall to the pavement."
"The force used upon the person of plaintiff, White, who was visibly pregnant with child, was unnecessary and unreasonable," the lawsuit contends.
The lawsuit adds that the Springfield Police Department has a "pervasive and unconstitutional custom, practice and policy of allowing and condoning the use of excessive force by its police officers against pregnant women."
The suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages as well as attorneys' fees, costs and litigation expenses.
City spokesman Nathan Mihelich said city policy prohibits commenting on pending litigation.
White's attorney is Michael J. Goldberg of Chicago.
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Although I was not able to attend the 2nd life chat on Tuesday, I did listen to the presentation by Thomas W. Jones, PhD, CG, CGL, FASG, FUGA, FNGS. Because I wasn't at the meeting, I didn't get to hear the homework assignment. (that's my story and I'm sticking to it)
In her blog, DearMYRTLE posted some feedback from the Study Group.
I think that I have been using the Inferential Genealogy approach but certainly not organized as was explained in the presentation and the hand out. So, I thought I would give it a try.
Case Study:
Name: D. Ridgeley Howard
In Civil War at Gettysburg
1st Maryland Battalion Infantry
Brief Background:
The History Channel had a program on Gettysburg. Ridgely Howard, of Baltimore, Maryland was mentioned as part of the Maryland Battalion. His father served in the Revolutionary War and served with George Washington. The date was July 2, 1863. Location, Culps Hill.
Was part of Pickett's Charge July 3, 1863.
A Union Officer, James Wallace, Maryland 1st Regiment, whose father also served with George Washington along with Ridgely Howard's father.
Now they were fighting each other.
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Too many people are caught up in the destruction of this president rather than supporting something very good for the benefit of all.
While ObamaCare is not perfect, I like that it focuses on preventive care for all. When we learn how to become more responsible for our own personal health as individuals, we will become a more healthy nation.
I am praying people will learn the truth, know the truth and support truth about health care in the U.S. There is too much false information being spread by those who already have all the health care they need.
We are called to care for oneanother.


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Have you given any thought to how music has shaped your life? What was your first concious thought about the songs that surround you? What was your first record/CD/downloadable song? What type of music did your parents or grandparents or even great-grandparents listen to? Do you have memories of them listening to music – and what type? Are there people in your family who enjoyed dancing? What type of music did they (or do they) dance to?
My parents and grandparents listened to the Big Band Sounds. I grew up watching the "Lawrence Welk Show" at my grandparents every Saturday night. My mom still has the old 78s of lots of the older music. So I developed a healthy appreciation for that music.
The first song I remember that "took me away" was "Aquarius" by the Fifth Dimension. I loved that song, memorized that song, and wanted it played on the radio as often as possible. After that it was probably "Raindrops Keep Falling" by BJ Thomas, theme song for "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid". Knew all the words and sang along.
My parents loved to dance and I think if my mom had her way, she'd still be dancing all the time. She liked the ballroom style, the 40s jitterbug, and even square dancing. All of this was brought back to me yesterday as I sat listening to a jazz band concert. Especially when they played Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". In my mind's eye, I could see my mom jitterbugging to this song – smiling, laughing and having a great time. It's how I believe she did dance for I was born way after this song was popular and rarely did I see my parents dance.
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Posted on August 12, 2013
Say, I know the fifth annual twenty-fifth Book Fair is now in the past, and I should be moving on to the marvels of our first annual thirtieth, but I did not have room in Friday's column to hand out all the wreaths that were deserved by the mass of literate people we met during that notable period. So I would like to remedy those omissions today and then, I promise, we will move on (mostly).
A wreath of twisted calendar pages to whoever dropped off six boxes of books the Monday after the Book Fair, all marked "Newberry Book Fair, July 27th". Did you try to drop them off on Saturday and get turned away, or were you just late?
A wreath of bright, burnished halos for every volunteer who found that missing volume 1 for customers who "looked everywhere and it just isn't there?"
A wreath of counterfeit Confederate money for the customer who demanded "Why should I pay anything for this? It's clearly marked 'Discarded from University of Chicago libraries'!"
A shining halo with wreaths of laurel draped from it for the volunteers (I counted four when last I looked) who all teamed up to help out the very small customer who had set down her "princess book" somewhere and couldn't find it.
A wreath of cloned flowers for the customer who said to me, "You should be charging more for this. It's a reprint of the only edition ever printed!" Um, if there's a reprint, then there's more than one…oh, never mind.
A wreath of ivy branches for every volunteer whose question "Would you like to make a donation to the library?" at checkout was answered with, "But my purchase IS my donation" and did NOT resort to violence. (See, at checkout, you get this chance to round up your total and give the excess as a donation, and somebody always comes out with…I wonder if they get receipts for all that money they donate at the grocery store.)
A wreath of wilted lettuce and rancid olives to those customers who slipped in, or tried to slip in, and get some of the free lunch provided for our volunteers. Yes, with all you're donating by coming in and buying books, you deserve a free grilled turkey sandwich, but we don't always get what we deserve in this life.
A wreath of soothing aloe leaves for our greeters, who were there to hand out maps, bags, and advice, but also found themselves discussing school closings, Wrigley Field, violence in the streets, and the sad state of modern music with any customer who had a few moments to use up. (You're supposed to wait until the Debates and take that to the park, y'know.)
Speaking of which, a wreath of badly-dyed orange toilet paper to those of you who came to the Debates and got so caught up in the excitement you didn't want to come into the Library and use the facilities, but slipped behind any handy bush. Do you NOT realize how many people carry cameras in their pockets these days? (We got enough complaints—and pictures—to start a really interesting Facebook page. But we've decided that might have been what you were hoping for.)
And our usual wreath of precious metals to whoever wound up saying the most times "The price is on the upper right corner of the first white page", "Thursday and Friday, noon to eight, Saturday and Sunday ten to six", or "Just follow the green rope and turn right under the sign that says Checkout".
Every single one of you will be back for July of 2014, I guess, and I suppose that's a good thing (mostly). On, ON to the thirtieth Book Fair!


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Friday, May 27, 2011
Alison: Day 147
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Atomic Rowing had the home field advantage going into the 2013 USRowing Southeast Junior District Championships held May 4-5 on Melton Hill Lake. Atomic Rowing entered 18 entries into the two-day rain soaked event that attracted 339 boats and 43 teams from across six states.
Atomic Rowing had the home field advantage going into the 2013 USRowing Southeast Junior District Championships held May 4-5 on Melton Hill Lake. Atomic Rowing entered 18 entries into the two-day rain soaked event that attracted 339 boats and 43 teams from across six states.
"Despite the rain, the racing was high quality throughout the weekend," said USRowing Events Manager A.J. Dominique. "The Oak Ridge organizing committee and referee corps from the Southeast stepped up to the challenge presented by the weather and delivered a championship-level racing experience."
Ten crews advanced to the semifinals or finals for Atomic Rowing including: Men's Varsity Single, Men's Lightweight Varsity Double, Women's 2nd Varsity Fours, Women's Novice Eight, Men's Novice Eight, Women's 2nd Varsity Eight, Men's 2nd Varsity Eight but each just missed the medals podium. These crews helped Atomic Rowing to place 13th out of the 43 teams competing in overall points for the event. The women's crew placed 7th and the men's crew placed 24th among the gender classifications.
The Women's Varsity Four placed second and featured: Coxswain Danielle Rosenzweig-senior Knoxville Catholic; Bow seat Nicole Barber-senior Oak Ridge; Two Seat Sarah Kate Rogers-freshman Oak Ridge; Three Seat Isla McRae-sophomore Knoxville Catholic; and the team captain Stoke Rae Oleshansky-junior Bearden. This placement qualified the crew to continue to train for five more weeks to prepare for the USRowing National Youth Championship Regatta to be held on Melton Hill Lake in Oak Ridge on June 7-9.
This is the first time Atomic Rowing has qualified for the national event since 2010. At that time, the Women's Varsity Four team included Rae Oleshansky's older sister, Bryna Oleshansky, now a junior rowing for the women's rowing program at the University of Michigan. Atomic Rowing has qualified for a bid 14 times for National Championship since it started in 1996.
"We had a awesome weekend, for the whole program and the women's four qualifying against tough competition this weekend attest the long hours and hard work these kids put in," Atomic head coach Allen Eubanks said. "Our success as we head into the summer and next fall is based on if we recruit well. We offer summer rowing lessons to get kids started as early as the seventh grade. I understand that not many know how to row, but we are really good at teaching them. Besides looking for kids interested in rowing, the crew is in search of equipment sponsors to help with the increased growth of the sport. We are growing and getting faster which is exciting for everyone involved."
Coach Eubanks expressed appreciation toward TVA as well, "I want to honestly thank TVA for working with the event to control the river flow and allow for fair and safe racing conditions. It was a steady rain for a majority of the event but the water was flat and after all we are involved in an outside sport."
Atomic Rowing rows out of the Oak Ridge Boathouse. For more information visit www.atomicrowing.com or call (865) 482-6538.


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Working Together To End the Stigma of HIV
A lot has changed since the world was first introduced to the thing that we then called "gay cancer." Once considered certain death, HIV/AIDS is now largely seen as a manageable disease. Thirty years is a long time to be at war and although many battles have been won along the way, we continue to fight for a cure. But there is one aspect of the epidemic that continues to plague not only the people afflicted by the disease, but also the family, friends and lovers of people living with HIV/AIDS: stigma.
"People living with HIV are our community members, and all these negative stereotypes are being perpetuated by brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles," said Tony Radovich, a Seattle-based HIV/AIDS activist. "Stigma is propagated by people all over."
Stigma is perceived as a major limiting factor in primary and secondary HIV/AIDS prevention and care, and has interfered with voluntary testing and counseling, and access to care and treatments.
"Look at Grindr or other sites lately," Radovich said, talking about how even on social dating sites there exists a stigma towards men who have tested positive. "They type demands like, 'Be Clean.' Well fuck you. That's all I have to say about that."
About 34 million people are infected with HIV globally; 25 million have died from it. While there's no vaccine, cocktails of powerful antiviral drugs called antiretroviral therapy (ART) can keep the virus suppressed and keep people healthy. But no matter how long they take ART, they are never cured. That is where stigma enters the picture.
Stigma and discrimination are universally experienced by persons living with and affected by HIV/AIDS. The virus lurks in the body and comes back if the drugs are stopped. Scientists want to flush out these so-called reservoirs and find a way to kill the virus for good.
"Remember," Radovich told EDGE, "don't use someone's HIV status as a reason to treat them any differently, show them any less respect, or love them any less. Instead, encourage conversation and educate each another. One by one we end the stigma."
Stigma And Sex
"HIV is just a small part of who I am as a person," said Radovich. "It doesn't define me. My actions define me."
Radovich is a living success story. He's lived with HIV for more than a decade and battled substance abuse to come out the other side, perhaps a little bruised, but undefeated.
"I would tell newly-diagnosed folks to start accepting the fact that you will live a long and fruitful life," he said. "Keep doing what you're doing, have goals and surround yourself with people who love you unconditionally."
Approximately one in five (19 percent) men who have sex with men (MSM) in a study of 21 major U.S. cities is infected with HIV, and nearly half (44 percent) of those men are unaware of their infection, according to a new analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In the study, young MSM and MSM of color were least likely to know their HIV status.
"This study's message is clear: HIV exacts a devastating toll on men who have sex with men in America's major cities, and yet far too many of those who are infected don't know it," said Kevin Fenton, M.D., director of CDC's National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. "We need to increase access to HIV testing so that more MSM know their status, and we all must bring new energy, new approaches and new champions to the fight against HIV among men who have sex with men."
Radovich works with the group SEAfukits.org, a grassroots, all-volunteer community based prevention program developed by men who have sex with men specifically for our community.
"Our mission is to stop the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in our community by teaching the facts about sexually transmitted infections and by providing free condom/lube kits to the community as tools to help reduce the spread of these infections," he said.
Because of stigma, Radovich said it is important to remind youth that without proper medication, HIV will kill you.
"I accept the thought that we can have an AIDS-free generation," he told EDGE. "It's going to be tough but I'm willing to continue the fight."
Stigma Around The World
Public attitudes about HIV/AIDS have changed dramatically since the first AIDS cases were reported 30 years ago. But in many parts of the world, the stigma is still powerful. But AIDS-related stigma is not static. It changes over time as infection levels, knowledge of the disease and treatment availability vary.
The UN Joint Programme on HIV and AIDS recently launched the 2012 Global Epidemic Report and reported significant declines in new infections among adults and children, with high numbers of people placed on antiretrovirals.
Sub-Saharan Africa, the region most severely affected, has shown progress with about 1.8 million new HIV infections in 2011 compared with 2.4 million in 2001. Between 2005 and 2011, the number of people dying from AIDS-related causes in sub-Saharan Africa declined by a third from 1.8 million to 1.2 million.
But while there have been victories in the treatment and prevention arena, fear, ignorance and discrimination, including abusive treatment and violence, remain a big problem in a number of countries. According to data collected, more than half of the people living with HIV in Zambia reported having been verbally abused as a result of their HIV status. One in five people living with HIV in Nigeria and Ethiopia reported feeling suicidal.
According to a nine-country study by the International Labor Organization and the Global Network of People Living with HIV, the percentage of people living with HIV who reported discriminatory attitudes among employers ranged from 8 percent in Estonia to 54 percent in Malaysia. As of this year, 60 countries have adopted laws that specifically criminalize HIV transmission, with about 600 convictions reported.
According to a global review this year, more than 40 percent of UN member states (78 of 193 countries) criminalize same-sex relations, with some permitting imposition of the death penalty for convictions under such laws.
Most countries have laws deeming some aspect of sex work to be illegal, and these are often used to justify harassment, extortion and violence against sex workers, placing them at increased risk of HIV. To counter this, some countries have reformed laws to decriminalize populations at higher risk: Portugal decriminalized drug possession and use in 2000, and in 2003 New Zealand adopted a law that decriminalized sex work.
The Stigma Project
Organizations like the newly founded group The Stigma Project work to lower the HIV infection rate and neutralize the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS through education and awareness via social media and advertising. This grassroots organization seeks to create an HIV neutral world, free of judgment and fear by working with both positive and negative individuals from all walks of life, regardless of their gender, sexual orientation, race or background.
Social media is one of today's largest mediums of news, culture and education, and The Stigma Project uses it to educate people on everyday examples of stigma, some of which are listed below. It is their wish that through removing the stigma of having HIV, they can help people live fuller, healthier lives.
"Whether you're HIV-positive, negative, or you don't know (and should), we need your help," they write on their website. "Ask your friends to join us in starting a revolution: an 'HIV Neutral' revolution."
Everyday Examples of Stigma
Referring to HIV as "AIDS."
Presuming because someone is HIV-positive, they're sick, contagious, or dying.
Believing HIV can be contracted by casual contact or kissing.
Using the word "clean" when referring to a negative HIV status, or combining drug use with HIV status, often referred to in online personal ads as the acronym, "DDF."
Dismissing, judging, or rejecting someone who is HIV-positive when they disclose their status.
Trusting that every sexual partner will be honest in disclosing his or her status.
Perceiving HIV-positive people to be failures, promiscuous, or that they "deserved" to become infected with HIV.
Discussing someone's HIV status, whether it is rumor or factual, without their consent or knowledge.
Refusing or withholding from getting tested for HIV for fear of a positive result.


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Barolo wine is the king of Italian wines, Moscato del Piedmont is surely the queen, together they make a royal pair.
To make the best red and white wine vinegars you have to start with the best wine. As with any dish, the end product is only as good as the ingredients used. This set contains a red wine vinegar made from Barolo wine. The white wine Italian Piedmont Balsamic vinegar is produced using the cooked must of the "Moscato del Piemont" grape, which is then aged 3 years in small casks made from three differnt types of wood (Chestnut, Durmast, and Mulberry). This set includes two 250ml bottles. One each of the Barolo red wine vinegar and Balsamic Moscato white wine vinegar. two 8.5 oz. (250ml) bottles. Imported from Italy.
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I would happily do business with him again. The old pump gun was as described, packaged great, and communications were the same......
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He bought a CCM trigger frame from me. Great buyer, fast payment, A++++
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Ten GOOD things to do during a flare … if you're meJune 10, 2010 at 5:24 pm | Posted in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) | Leave a comment
Tags: flare, R.A., RA, relaxation, Rheumatoid arthritis, sleep, stress
In the spirit of this blog being positive, here's the antithesis to the post below. Ten good things to do during a flare – but of course it only applies if you're me, 'cause everyone's flares are different!!
1. Take it easy.
2. Take time off work.
3. Really – take time OFF work.
4. Listen to your own excellent advice about taking time off work.
5. THINK – try to be slightly more aware of hands and feet BEFORE you do dumb things!
6. Keep as active as possible – but don't force yourself.
7. Do everything you can to get to sleep and stay that way at night! E.g. Take 5HTP, take paracetamol just before going to sleep even if you're not sure you need them, listen to Bill Bryson reading one of his books in his gentle, soporific voice (or Tim Piggot-Smith reading David Starkey, or anything by Stile Antico)
8. Eat sensibly and TRY not to comfort eat!
9. Learn to count.
This flare I have managed to take note of 1-4 and 6-7 this time, and I am feeling A LOT better. I'll try harder next time and see if I can manage all ten … well nine … well eight really …
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LITTLETON -- A Concord developer's proposal to build a 190-unit affordable-housing apartment complex off Great Road is moving forward as the Zoning Board of Appeals is expected to vote soon on the project.
On Thursday night, 21 months after Omni Properties proposed a housing development called 15 Great Road, the ZBA closed its hearing on the project.
The development that would expand Littleton's affordable-housing stock beyond the level required by the state has drawn opposition from abutters who were concerned about the project's potential impact on the neighborhood's character, traffic and town resources.
But all the permitting boards' eyes are now on the tentative agreement between the town and Omni that could generate as much as $1.2 million in municipal revenue in exchange for sewer easements.
The meeting drew some abutters, one of whom complained that not all neighboring homeowners have seen the latest version of the agreement. But ZBA Chairwoman Sherrill Gould rejected the idea to postpone the closing of the public hearing just to give people more time to obtain more information, saying that the board has discussed the matter publicly long enough and all relevant documents have been available to the public.
Gould also said the ZBA could only decide on the affordable-housing project, while the town's agreement is about Omni's plan to tie all of its projects in the neighborhood -- including a 19-lot subdivision that is currently before the Planning Board -- to a private wastewater-treatment plant to be built at 15 Great Road.
Gould said the ZBA spearheaded the negotiation for the agreement because the board couldn't be sure if it has the authority to reject such sewer tie-ins between the affordable housing unit and other housing projects. The ZBA figured an agreement would be better than opening itself up for potential litigation, Gould said.
Planning Board member Don MacIver said he sees a lot of concerns about the agreement.
Board of Health member Ann Loree said the board also many questions about the agreement, including how to ensure the repair of the sewer plant won't ever fall on the town.
David Hale of Omni said the state requires reserve funds to be set up for such a treatment facility and the funds should be adequate for maintenance and reconstruction in the future.
Gould stressed that state affordable-housing law provides a lot of power to developers and that the agreement is the best the committee could do.
William Farnsworth agreed with Gould that the ZBA's scope of work is limited.
"Our power and responsibility is this project only," Farnsworth said.
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Wildcats win 15-0, now 5-0 in SSL
Arizona Pilgrim threw a no-hitter, striking out 10, as Taft Union High School blew past the Shafter Generals 15-0 Tuesday.
Taft remains perfect in South Sequoia League League play at 5-0 while Shafter falls to 4-1.
The Wildcats ended the game early.
Caitlyn Emberson had a two-run triple an 11-run first inning.
The Lady Wildcats added four more runs in the third thanks in part to leadoff doubles from Haylee Tracy and Emberson.
Meanwhile, Pilgrim struck out 10 batters in the game.
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I was looking for the old thread that I orginally made this for but I couldn't find it. That's where the big chunk of post is missing from... feb 22 01 to may 01
Oh well....
I was looking for the old thread that I orginally made this for but I couldn't find it. That's where the big chunk of post is missing from... feb 22 01 to may 01
Oh well....
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Rob, How you gonna help color blind monkeys like me? Is there any purple in there? I cant see purple at all...
I just have a quick question. I'm not that great with fixing guns but what o-rings do I use when I put together my banjo bolt. I have the kit but I can't figure out what o-ring went on there before because the kit doesn't tell you.
and people keep telling me an autococker is too complicated!
of course complicated is all relitive, once i figure out how it works it wont be.
OK you have one for the R/T but do you have one for the Classic valve and the E-mag valve ? I would like to see all three to compare them to each other to just what the differents is between the three ....
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does anyone have any of those animated cut aways for the mag?
Hey K&P Customs the emag uses the rt valve. There is no Emag valve.
whats the difference between the rt valve and the rt pro valve??
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I like how the Autococker is shooting faster than the Mag
I mean what CAD suite was that Autococker drawn on? Just curious.
By looking at these two cutaways, you can see clearly how the Mag is the superior design, check out all the moving parts in a cocker.
thanks for those pics! i have always wondered how the cocker worked.
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I know this isn't really on topic but...I want to get the RT because I have one on my Tippmann and I love it...but is it tourney legal?
Yes, it is tourney legal. The Tippman RT is not.
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Ok. Thanks...i didn't want to get it and then not be able to enter in any tourneys.
I would love to have every single .gif animation that there is out there (for paintball guns, haha) could you guys PM me w/ them if you have them? Thank you much! just trying to learn.
Your gun sucks.
trying to help out, here's impulse
here's shocker. hope this helps
wow shocker looks like it could use cockers accuracy with imps speed
yes that's why shockers are considered to be fairly fast and accurate. i still like the mags workings the best.
i might look into a 2k3 shocker eh they look like mags


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Belvedere Castle, mid-Park at 79th Street
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AREAS OF SNOW WILL DEVELOP OVER THE MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING AND CONTINUE THIS AFTERNOON AND AN UPPER LEVEL SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS WESTERN COLORADO. THIS SYSTEM MAY EVEN BRING LIGHT SNOW TO SOUTHERN FOOTHILLS AND ALONG THE PALMER DIVIDE. SNOWFALL AMOUNTS IN THE MOUNTAINS WILL BE GENERALLY BE LESS THAN 3 INCHES. ANY SNOW ALONG THE FRONT RANGE WILL BE LIGHT...LESS THAN AN INCH. WINDS WILL INCREASE IN THE FOOTHILLS AFTER MIDNIGHT WHERE GUSTS UP TO 50 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE. THE NEXT IN A SERIES OF PACIFIC STORM SYSTEMS WILL MOVE ACROSS COLORADO SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE HIGH COUNTRY COULD SEE SEVERAL INCHES OF SNOW WITH THIS STORM SYSTEM...WITH A CHANCE OF SNOW AT LOWER ELEVATIONS. STRONG CIRCULATION ON THE BACK SIDE OF THIS STORM SYSTEM MAY ALSO PRODUCE STRONG AND GUSTY NORTHERLY WINDS ON THE PLAINS DURING THE DAY SUNDAY. LOOK FOR LIGHTER WINDS...SLIGHTLY WARMER TEMPERATURES AND DRIER CONDITIONS ON MONDAY. WE COULD SEE YET ANOTHER PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM ARRIVING ON TUESDAY WHICH PROMISES TO BRING MORE SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS TO THE HIGH COUNTRY AND A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SNOW TO THE PLAINS. DRY AND WARMER CONDITIONS SHOULD THEN RETURN TO THE OUTLOOK AREA FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK.Day-to-Day Outlook:
Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 34.
West wind 5 to 8 mph.
Friday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 10. Wind chill values as low as -2. Southwest wind around 9 mph.
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 41. Wind chill values as low as -1. Southwest wind around 7 mph.
Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 17. Wind chill values as low as zero. Blustery, with a north wind 7 to 12 mph increasing to 13 to 18 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible.
Sunday: A 40 percent chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 35. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 18 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 34 mph.
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"Good evening, hello. I have cancer. How are you?"
That's how comedian Tig Notaro began her set at Largo in Los Angeles the day she was diagnosed with Stage 2 breast cancer. As she uttered those words to the audience, there was nervous laughter, weeping and total silence in response.
Comedian Louis C.K. was there that evening, and tweeted this about her performance: "In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo."
It has been an eventful four months for Notaro. Before her cancer diagnosis, Tig had pneumonia and contracted a severe intestinal virus, for which she was treated in the hospital. Shortly after being released, her mother died in a freak accident -– and then Tig and her girlfriend broke up.
So when she got on stage that evening, Notaro tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross, she was "in a very vulnerable, raw place."
"I had no idea what was in front of me," she says. "It was really just taking blind steps."
When Notaro conceived of the idea, "It just made me laugh so hard just in the shower" — but she wavered as to whether to include the cancer diagnosis in her set that night. Describing herself as a "dry, deadpan, one-liner comic," she says she rarely performs material as personal or revealing as her set at Largo was.
"I was scared of offending people and confusing people," she says. "You know, thinking about people that maybe did have cancer in the audience, or had somebody that they loved that had cancer. And then the reality hit me that I have cancer — this is my story."
After a double mastectomy, the cancer has been contained and Notaro's prognosis is looking very good. Still, she says, "this is something that is pushing me so far out there in a way that has never been."
Notaro has appeared on This American Life and Conan. Her set at Largo, titled Tig Notaro: Live, has been released exclusively on comedian Louis C.K.'s website.
Interview Highlights
On Taking Your Own Advice
"I'm so interested to see what this has done to me. And I do know that what I feel lucky for, and what has prepared me for now, is that throughout my comedy career, I have evolved and changed, and what I think has been important — not just in comedy but in life — and it's so cliche, but really, to take your own advice. And that's what I've done in my standup, and it has helped me because I started out a dry, deadpan, one-liner comic that didn't smile on stage.
"And I have allowed myself, by taking my own advice, to write longer jokes. ... And going onstage to talk about my cancer and my mother's death, that's not something I would normally do. ... All I know is that I'm going to do whatever makes me feel comfortable, and I'm gonna do whatever I want to do and hope that the essence of me and what people liked about me in the beginning will come through."
On Louis CK's 'Masterful' Tweet About Her Set
"I went to bed that night. I'm not on Twitter and I don't follow blogs. ... I woke up the next day and my phone when I turned it on just kept beeping, just so many voice mails and text messages. I didn't understand how the whole world knew I had cancer. I was so confused, and then to go from the 300 people that night to the world knew. ... My first thought when I was diagnosed was, 'Oh, I have to keep this a secret. I don't want to lose work.' And then that just blew the roof off that. It was just so funny, because I was talking to my manager just days before like, 'How are we going to keep this a secret?' "
On Getting Her First Laugh
"It's so interesting, I didn't account for laughter, which seems odd. But I had been talking to myself for so long at my apartment, and I was so focused on getting all of my material down. And when I got on stage at the coffee shop and people laughed, I remember being taken aback. I was like, 'Oh — oh, that's what I was telling you this for, was for the laughter.' But I just didn't even factor it in at all, but it was so exhilarating, so much so that I — the second night I did standup, I thought — because the first night went so well — I was like, 'Oh, this is so easy,' so I went and I competed in a standup competition and I got booed off the stage."
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. You're about to hear an excerpt of a remarkable comedy set by my guest Tig Notaro, and we have an interview with her. But let me back up a little bit. I didn't know who Tig Notaro was until last May, when she was a guest on the edition of "This American Life" that was shown live in movie theaters.
I saw the show with several of our producers, and we all thought we should invite her on. We decided to wait until she had a new album or was in a new movie or TV show. The event that brought her back to our attention was really bad news. In August, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, both breasts. That's enough to put everything in your life on hold, but right after the diagnosis she decided to show up for her regular comedy night at the Club Largo in L.A.
She threw out her old material and kept things in the moment. Louis C.K., who also performed there that night, tweeted that her set was masterful. Articles were written about it. I wished I could have heard it. And now I have, because it turns out it was a recorded, and Louis C.K. has just made it available for purchase on his website.
Later, he'll tell us what this set means to him as a comic. So before we hear my interview with Tig Notaro, here's the opening of her set. Imagine her walking out right after her diagnosis, facing an audience who didn't know about the cancer.
TIG NOTARO: Good evening, hello. I have cancer. How are you? Hi, how are you? Is everyone having a good time. I have cancer. How are you? It's a good time, diagnosed with cancer. Feels good. Just diagnosed with cancer. Oh my God, it's weird because with humor, the equation is tragedy plus time equals comedy. I am just at tragedy right now. That's just where I am in the equation.
Oh, it's fine. I'll - here's what happened. I went - I'm gonna get - it's very personal. I found a lump. Guys, relax, everything's fine. I have cancer.
GROSS: Tig Notaro, welcome to FRESH AIR. And first, how are you?
NOTARO: I'm doing great, almost better than ever.
GROSS: What's your prognosis now?
NOTARO: My prognosis is great. They - I had a double mastectomy. They got all the cancer, and it did not spread like they had feared, and I spoke with my doctor, who told me the testing came back, and I have a 7 percent recurrence rate. So that's beyond amazing.
GROSS: That's wonderful, so I'm really happy for you.
NOTARO: Thank you, I am, too. I'm thrilled.
GROSS: So I'm so sorry that this has been such a rough patch of your life, but I'm so grateful that you've managed to make something so remarkable from all the horrors that you were going through. So let's start by talking about this set. If I were in the audience, when you walked out and did this whole hello, good evening, I have cancer, I don't know that I would have had any idea how to interpret that, whether I would've thought you were serious, or whether I would've thought, like, this is some really weird, like, performance art piece.
And I keep thinking, like, who are those people who were laughing?
GROSS: Because you're saying I have cancer. So how did you get the idea of starting that way?
NOTARO: Well, I originally was picturing myself going out, and I never sit on a stool when I do standup, and I was picturing myself being kind of that comedian for the night where I pull up a stool, and I say, hey, you know, it's been a rough few months, bear with me, I'm working on some material that's a bit of a detour from my regular stuff.
And then I was taking a shower about an hour and a half before the show, and I was thinking I can't do that, that's so lame. And I don't want to make excuses for my show before I get started, regardless of what I'm doing onstage. And my brain just popped out with this idea that I walk on stage and say thank you, I have cancer, thanks for coming. And it just made me laugh so hard just in the shower.
And then I was thinking oh, gosh, even though that's funny to me, I was scared of offending people and confusing people, and, you know, thinking about people that maybe did have cancer in the audience or had somebody that they loved that had cancer.
And then the reality hit me that I have cancer.
GROSS: Yeah.
NOTARO: Like this is my story. And I just kept thinking about it and picturing it, and it just kept making me laugh so hard. And so I just decided to do it. I was really nervous, though.
GROSS: So what was...
NOTARO: But it seemed to be the way to get in.
GROSS: What was it like when you walked on stage, and you did the whole good evening, I have cancer, and people laughed? I think other people were just astonished and shocked. But everybody - I think everybody was completely with you no matter what their reaction was. What were you feeling at that moment?
NOTARO: I was very nervous. I was rattled, and I felt raw, and I felt very vulnerable. Even though I had been diagnosed maybe a week prior to that, it was only maybe the day before the show that I had met with my doctor, who told me that I had stage 2 breast cancer and that the tumor on the left side was invasive and that because the cancer was not contained, their fear was that it had possibly spread to my lymph nodes.
And so they didn't know where the cancer had spread or if it had or how far. Like, they just didn't know. And I was just in a very vulnerable, raw place, and I had no idea what was in front of me.
GROSS: I don't even know how you were able to get onstage and do this. You had gotten the - you know, the real lowdown the day before. You must have been in shock and totally horrified.
NOTARO: I was devastated.
GROSS: Yeah.
NOTARO: Yeah, I was devastated, and I had been working on this - I had done "This American Life" in May, and Ira Glass, the host, had invited me back immediately. And so I had pitched an idea about when I got my wisdom teeth removed about 15 years ago, and he said great, let's do that.
And then he called me a couple days later and said where are we on that piece? And I said, oh, you mean you want me back immediately. And he said yeah. And I said, oh, to be honest, I am in no place to be talking about my wisdom teeth and some silly story. I feel so just consumed by the hell that my life had become.
And he said well great, let's talk about that then. And I told him I wanted to talk about that, and he said great, let's do it. And so I wrote about 10 pages about what was going on, and then I happened to be in New York and met with him, and he read over the pages, and he looked at me, and he said this is so depressing.
And I said yeah, I know, but it is my life. I don't know what to do. And he said, you know, your power is doing this onstage, and if there's a point that you feel that can do this onstage or find anything funny, then I think you need to do this onstage. And so I - a part of me was thinking, you know, I just want to get on "This American Life" again, and then another part of me, I didn't know if I was dying. I didn't know if I was ever going to get onstage again, and I better take this opportunity.
GROSS: Well, I want to play another excerpt of your set at Largo, and this was recorded in August, just a few days after you were diagnosed with cancer. And it's not just the cancer that you were dealing with, but also a few weeks before the cancer - actually more like maybe three months before the cancer diagnosis, you had gotten pneumonia, and then as a result of that you got an infection called C. diff, short for C. difficile, which is a kind of deadly bacterial infection that wreaks havoc with your whole digestive system.
And then your relationship with your girlfriend fell apart. So you had all these things, terrible things happening to you. At the same time, your career was actually going very well at that point. So at this point in your set, in which you're talking about all these things that have happened to you, you've been talking about the good and the bad happening at the same time and how this is changing you.
NOTARO: Again, just please bear with me. It's so hard because, like, right now in my life, I don't feel - when I have a show, I don't feel like, oh, I want to go talk about how funny it is that a bee was taking the 405 freeway. Like all the jokes that I've written, I just, I'm like I can't even bring myself to talk about it because - and everyone relax - my mother just died.
Should I leave?
NOTARO: My mother died but - tragically, too. She was 65. She tripped, hit her head and died a week after I got out of the hospital. I can't believe you're taking this so hard. You didn't know her. You didn't know her. I'm doing OK. What happened was after we buried her in our hometown in Mississippi, we drove back to Texas, and I was checking the mail, and the hospital sent my mother a questionnaire to see how her stay at the hospital went.
NOTARO: Not, not great. It did not go great.
GROSS: That's Tig Notaro, and this set was recorded and is being released, and has been released exclusively on Louis C.K.'s website. So Tig, you know, when I was listening to this set for the first time, I think I really didn't know how to react, and I was, like, laughing and then thinking, like, I shouldn't - this is not really funny. This is really tragic. It's horrible. I shouldn't be laughing.
But then I was thinking no, no, but what's she's saying isn't funny, but the way she's saying it is very funny, and she's a comic. She'd probably prefer it if I laugh. It's probably better if I laugh. And I was so almost distracted having this internal debate with myself about whether it was approp - I was listening alone in my car, you know, and laughing and having this debate with myself.
And then I'm listening to the audience respond on this recording, and some people are laughing, and some people are shushing the people who are laughing. And you also hear - you can kind of like hear the silence of some people.
NOTARO: Yeah.
GROSS: Like what response made you feel best during - you know, as the set kept going, and people are kind of getting more and more attuned to where you're heading, and some people are laughing, and some people are shushing them, and some people are just astonished?
NOTARO: Yeah, it was a lot to take in. You know, I feel like the 300 people that were in that audience that night were the exact perfect people that should have been there. They were just so tremendous. And, you know, like you were saying, there's just so many different reactions. There was laughing and silence, and it was the first time in my career where I've looked in the audience and seen people crying.
It was a very intense experience, and there was a point where I wasn't sure if things had gotten too dark, and I had considered and suggested that maybe I just call it a night. And this guy, you know, he spoke up: Absolutely not. And the crowd just burst into this supportive - I don't even know. It just - it was so emotional. I almost started crying.
GROSS: Really?
NOTARO: It was - yeah, I just thought oh, please, don't cry. Just - you can't walk out here and tell them all this stuff and then start crying onstage. You know, I just would have felt so defeated. But it, it just - I just wanted to - I don't know. I wanted to feel and seem strong. And I had to pull myself together before I spoke again.
GROSS: Was it a hard decision to make about whether to include your mother's death within this set?
NOTARO: No, it was not. My mother was a very, very funny, outrageous, outspoken person, and she never edited me. Her whole thing in my life was if anybody had a problem with me, tell them to go to hell. She told me that just a little kid, through my whole life. I actually spoke about that at her funeral.
GROSS: My guest is comic Tig Notaro. We're talking about the set she performed at the Largo Comedy Club in L.A., right after she was diagnosed with cancer in each breast. Comic Louis C.K. also performed there that night. He's released a recording of her set on his website. More after a break. This is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: If you're just joining us, my guest is comic Tig Notaro, and we're talking about a set that she performed at a theater called Largo in L.A. This was in August, and it was right after she was diagnosed with breast cancer in each of her breasts. And the set that she did is all about that, but it's also about these other horrible things that happened to her within four months.
There was first pneumonia, and then as a consequence of that C. difficile, C, diff, which is a really horrible bacterial infection, that is very difficult to get rid of, in your digestive tract. I mean, so bad some people die from it. And then she and her girlfriend broke up. Then her mother died. And then it was on top of all that that she was diagnosed with the cancer.
So at this part in your set, you're talking about how you were trying to - like, one night you were just so depressed you were trying to drown your troubles with food, but the problem was because of still recovering from the C. diff, there was very little that you could eat. So, like, you were binging on Triscuits because they're basically like wheat flour and water.
And so this is...
NOTARO: That's rock bottom.
GROSS: Yes, rock bottom, absolutely. So this is that part of the set.
NOTARO: I just, I was trying to drown my emotions in something. That's all I could do. It's like that's it, I'm going to the store and I'm buying Triscuits. It's like through all of this, like getting diagnosed, like, oh, I'll call my girlfriend. Oh, we broke up. I'll call my mother. Oh, my mother died. Oh, I'll go buy some food. Oh, I can't eat anything.
Guys, who here is just wishing I would tell bees going down the 405?
NOTARO: I just can't. I'm sorry. But you know what's nice about all of this is you can always rest assured that God never gives you more than you can handle. Never. Never. When you've had it, God goes: All right, that's it. I just keep picturing God going: You know what? I think she can take a little more.
NOTARO: And then the angels are standing back going: God, what are you doing?
NOTARO: You are out of your mind. And God was like: No, no, no, I really think she can handle this. But why? God, like, why, why? Oh, I just, you know, just trust me on this. She can handle this. God is insane, if there at all.
GROSS: And that's Tig Notaro from her set recorded at Largo in L.A. in August, and that set is now available exclusively on Louis C.K.'s website. Did finding comedy within the tragedy help you get through it, or did it at least make you feel, like, well, I'm good professionally. I can, I know, I know how to make this work onstage, and I'm good at that? What did you get from the performance?
NOTARO: I got so many different things on so many different levels at so many different times. It was just the bursting-at-the-seams, cathartic moment onstage of just being held up by these - this sold-out theater. And then I went to bed that night, and I'm not on Twitter, and I don't follow blogs, and so I emailed Ira saying, oh, I think I might have gotten something that maybe you could use.
And I went to bed, and I woke up the next day, and my phone when I turned it on just kept beeping, just so many voicemails and text messages, and I didn't understand how the whole world knew I had cancer. I was so confused, you know. And then to go from the 300 people that night to the world knew, and I've just been lifted and carried and supported. And I have amazing friends and family, and my first thought when I was diagnosed was, oh, I have to keep this a secret, I don't want to lose work. And then that just blew the roof off that.
GROSS: Good point.
NOTARO: Yeah, there was no - it was just so funny, 'cause I was talking to my manager just days before, like, how are we going to keep this a secret, you know? I'm going to be going through chemo, I'll be bald, four pounds, you know, this is - clearly something's going to be suspicious. So next thing I know, everybody's, like, oh, everybody knew I had cancer.
GROSS: Tig Notaro will be back in the second half of the show. A recording of her comedy set that we've been talking about was released by comic Louis C.K. on his website. We'll hear from him later. I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross, back with comic Tig Notaro. We're talking about the now famous set she performed last August at the Largo comedy club in LA, just after she was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer. She had tumors in both breasts. She's healing now from her double mastectomy and the doctors say she has only a seven percent chance of recurrence.
Let's talk about your earlier life and how you got into all of this in the first place. You didn't set out to be a comic - I don't think you did, anyway,s because professionally first you were I think trying to be a musician and then ended up promoting bands.
NOTARO: Mm-hmm.
GROSS: So just tell us a little bit about your music - your early music life.
NOTARO: Well, I got my first guitar when I was nine because I wanted to be the fifth Beatle, even though they had already broken up and John Lennon died that year. I was obsessed with music and I started playing drums when in, like, maybe when I was 20 or so. And yeah, I kind of had this fantasy where I would've loved to have been in a band. But whenever I performed and played guitar in front of anybody, whether it was one-on-one or on stage, the couple of times that I tried to, my hand would shake so tremendously that I could not pull it off. So I thought maybe being in music business - just being around music would be my thing. And when I was doing it, I thought, this is perfect. I found my thing, I'm so happy doing this. But I had always, my whole life, followed stand up and comedy and that was my if I could do anything, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I thought it was just something you were born. Like I really couldn't understand how Richard Pryor or Paula Poundstone became standup comedians. But that was truly what I wanted.
GROSS: So how did you take the first step?
NOTARO: Well, I grew up with a couple of friends, my friends Beth and Leslie. Leslie and I just went wherever Beth went because Beth was going to school - and graduate school - and I had the clear direction in life. So Leslie and I just would move wherever Beth got into colleges, and we just didn't to know where to go or what to do, so we followed Beth and so Beth wanted to go...
GROSS: And you're flexible since he dropped out of high school.
NOTARO: Yeah. I failed three grades and dropped out of high school. And I just didn't have anything going on, really so I was like oh, Beth wants to move to LA to be a producer. That's fine. There's music out there. So yeah, we all packed up and went to LA to follow Beth's dreams.
NOTARO: And then when we got there I opened the LA Weekly and I saw all the opportunity to do standup. You could do open mics and coffee shops, laundry mats, comedy clubs. I just couldn't believe. We had just been living in Denver and there were only at the time a couple of outside rooms, aside from the actual comedy club there. So when people are surprised that I started standup in Los Angeles, they think it's so intimidating whereas, I thought it was intimidating to start in Denver where there was such fewer opportunities. In LA, you could fly under the radar in all these just horrible places to work out material.
GROSS: So what did it feel like the first time you got a laugh?
NOTARO: I wasn't expecting it. It's so interesting, I didn't account for laughter, which seems odd, but I had been talking to myself for so long at my apartment. I was so focused on getting all of my material down and when I got on stage at the coffee shop and people laughed, I remember being taken aback. I was like, oh, oh that's what I was telling you this for, was for the laughter, but I just didn't even, didn't even factor it in at all but it was so exhilarating.
GROSS: So a lot...
NOTARO: So much so that I the second night I did stand up I thought because the first night went so well I was like oh, this is so easy. So I went and I...
NOTARO: I competed in a standup competition and I got booed off the stage and walked offstage, really. I was like what am I doing?
GROSS: And how come you weren't so discouraged that you never went back on stage again?
NOTARO: It's that thing of comedy. It's that roller coaster that just sucks you in. It's kind of like gambling, I guess. You hit big one time and then you bottom out, and you're like oh, I can hit big again, and so that just kind of keeps you going. Luckily, I'm not a gambler, or a drinker or, you know, I get my fix of comedy.
GROSS: So one of the things you talked about in your set in August in which you talked about, you know, having cancer, the first time you talked about it in public, was that you and your girlfriend had recently split up, and like, what are you going to do now?
GROSS: Like, how do you, you know, like who is going to be interested now that like you're really, you know, you're going to be sick...
NOTARO: Yeah.
GROSS: ...which actually it looks like you won't really be sick. It looks like you're going to be in great shape. But anyways, I'm thinking like you are probably getting so many inquiries.
NOTARO: You know, it is...
GROSS: But you're probably just like swamped with people who want to get to know you.
NOTARO: You know, my life has been so - since March when I first got a tickle in my throat and wasn't feeling well, to lying in the hospital...
GROSS: The thing before the pneumonia - right. Yeah.
NOTARO: Yeah. To just getting my bandages off, that was just days ago. Through that whole time, I've been in this crazy capsule. Like just going out to eat I feel like I just got released into the world. I feel so free and excited. And everything negative has birthed amazing and positive things, and enlightening things for me. And people tend to think oh, poor Tig and she's alone and I just - there's just no - nobody should be concerned for me. All is well. And my mother's death brought my stepfather so far out of his normal comfort zone and he has become so emotional and he's reached out to me. And the C. diff is what caused me to realize that I had cancer from checkups from that and my breakup made me realize so much about myself and who I had been dating and who I actually wanted for myself. And the cancer has just been this, just explosive. I'm typically more private and this is something that is pushing me so far out there in a way that has never been. I have no complaints. My life is tremendously wonderful.
GROSS: Well, Tig Notaro, thank you so much for talking with us. And congratulations on your great prognosis. It's just wonderful news.
NOTARO: Thank you. I'm so excited. And thanks so much for having me on.
GROSS: My pleasure.
Tig Notaro's comedy set at the club Largo in LA last August is available for purchase on comic Louis C.K.'s website. He was there the night of the show and thought the set was masterful. He'll tell us why after break.
This is FRESH AIR.
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ROCKFORD — YMCA leader Mike Brown sacrificed his own blood-sugar level Thursday to prove that the YMCA is dedicated to improving the health of the community.
Brown illustrated the reality of drinking a soda by pouring a cup of sugar into a glass of water and drinking it in between his opening remarks to the 750-member audience.
He joked that he could do the experiment because there were doctors in the house.
"Let's be real. Every time we hand a Coke, we are handing people a cup of sugar. We are welcoming them to disease. And maybe it's going to take that we all start walking around with a clear glass of water with sugar to help us understand what we're feeding today's kids.
"Disease is treated. But disease is prevented by the spirit of our mouths. It is treated by a community that comes together and takes action."
Healthy living was the focus of the second annual YMCA of Rock River Valley Community Fundraising Dinner, which included awards for two people and a health system.
The guest speaker was Dr. Patch Adams, a physician, social activist, clown and author who was portrayed by actor Robin Williams in an eponymous 1998 film.
It kicked off with kids who are part of the Y's after-school programs and Y supporters gathered on stage while "We Are the World" blared over the speakers. Various videos were shown, including one highlighting the Y's 10-week boot camp called the Community Health Challenge that included about 100 participants.
Alex Orput, the 2013 YMCA Intern Challenge winner, introduced Adams, who jokingly stole her speech. She encouraged audience members to wear the red clown noses that were placed on each of the tables.
Adams spoke about the roles of joy and happiness as part of overall health. He is the founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a holistic medical community that has provided free medical care to thousands of patients since 1971, according to its website.
"What is happiness to me? It's that state of being where one's celebration of life is obvious by their actions," Adams said.
"I'm not talking about inner peace. I'm saying you're so damn happy that it shows. What I'm not talking about is a moment in time like a wedding or a graduation. I'm saying it's a platform from which you launch your life: 'I am happy. How do I spend it?'"
A highlight of the dinner was the community awards presentation. The Teen Leadership Award went to Peter Kostantacos, a junior at Boylan Catholic High School.
Becky Cook Kendall, executive director of the Rockford Health Council, received the Distinguished Community Leader Award. And the Community Partner of the Year Award went to SwedishAmerican Health System, which recently opened its BetterLife Wellness Center at the I.D. Pennock Family YMCA.
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TORONTO — Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney has announced the creation of a new award for Canadian Holocaust educators.
Kenney took part in a Jan. 27 memorial candlelighting and wreath-laying event hosted by the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem in Toronto as part of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
His ministry has established a one-time, $5,000 award in 2013 for the middle school or high school teacher who best exemplifies instruction on the historic genocide.
The Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education comes as Canada gets set to chair the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), starting in March and running until it cedes the chair to a new holder in 2014.
Former Liberal MP Mario Silva will be the chairperson during Canada's term.
The award money will be given with the understanding that it "be reinvested in Holocaust education" at the winner's school.
"The top three finalist teachers will have their best practices and learning materials published on Citizenship and Immigration Canada's website as a resource for Canada's education community," the ministry said in a statement.
The award winner will be announced at the IHRA Conference – formerly the Task Force for International Co-operation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research – in Toronto in October.
"The Holocaust stands alone in the annals of human evil. It has important lessons to teach all of us, universal lessons that must not be forgotten," Kenney said at the Jan. 27 event.
"I encourage teachers to support this award and nominate themselves or a teacher they know who is committed to Holocaust education and whose teaching philosophy and approach has a measurable impact on students."
For details on the nomination process and requirements, visit cic.gc.ca/holocaust-award.
"Education is a key pillar of Canadian society's outreach to the community. It is very gratifying to see the government of Canada recognize excellence in Holocaust education since educating our youth in this crucial period of history has incalculable benefits," Fran Sonshine, national chair of the Canadian Society for Yad Vashem, said at the ceremony.


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