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Chapter 12: Marge Piercy and the Anti-Rusk Demo, 1967 (ii)
On the Saturday before the anti-Rusk demo, Gottlieb, Sutheim and Marge came to the apartment with Dave, after having held an afternoon meeting and eaten dinner out together. They had been smoking a lot of grass and dancing to Rolling Stones' music for awhile, when I went into the living room to join them in their little party. I smoked some grass myself and was content to sit on a couch and just listen to the music while Sutheim and Marge took turns dancing with Gottlieb and Dave—in-between continuing to talk SDS Regional Office shop.
Near the end of the party, Marge—who appeared to be in high spirits from the pot—insisted that I dance with her, in a friendly tone. We danced to a few long songs on the Rolling Stones album that contained the tune "Something Happened To Me Yesterday."
It was during the two weeks before the anti-Rusk demo that Mark and I started to gossip with each other. In early November, Mark telephoned Dave at the apartment when Dave wasn't home. Somehow Mark and I began to talk about Trude, Ted and Dave. Mark mentioned that he and Trude had once been close. We gossiped for awhile. And we each discovered that we could make each other laugh.
After gossiping about New Left politics and New Left people with him, I began to feel that Mark was getting more serious about being a New Left activist. When he said "Ciao" at the end of the phone conversation, I felt more warmth from him than I had previously felt. He seemed more fun to talk with now.
On the day of the anti-Rusk demo, about 100 hard-core Columbia SDS people met at the sundial in the late afternoon. Teddy gave a brief speech from the sundial in an easygoing tone and, halfheartedly, urged everybody to head downtown towards the Hilton Hotel. We all entered the 116th Street subway station through the kiosk and, when a Broadway downtown local arrived, we all got on the train simultaneously.
"Maybe we should take over the whole subway train like they used to do in France during the Algerian War," Teddy joked, as the train moved towards 50th Street and Broadway. Most of the hard-core SDS radicals heading downtown weren't too enthusiastic about spending the night in front of the Hilton, because our numbers from Columbia were sparse. And we didn't expect many other people to be at the demonstration. But since the demo against Rusk had been planned, we all figured we might as well follow-through on it, the best way we could. I didn't expect to get arrested outside the Hilton. I assumed that even if we were blocking traffic for awhile, we would be able to get back on the sidewalks if we saw any cops coming towards us.
Around the beginning of the midtown rush-hour, Columbia SDS people stepped out of the subway station at 50th Street and Broadway, feeling in more of a party-like than a warlike mood, as we noticed all the 9-to-5 people mechanically rushing home from the skyscrapers. The 9-to-5 people all seemed unaware that an anti-Rusk demo was about to take place.
The hundred of us, three-quarters of whom were Columbia men, walked towards the Hilton in a conspiratorial, smiling way. I noticed that the streets and sidewalks were crawling with NYC cops, and that police barricades were in front of the Hilton on 6th Ave. and W. 53rd St. When we got as close as we could to the Hilton, I noticed that Mark and Ted were each chanting through bullhorns and encouraging people to go "block the limousines" in the streets and "block the rush-hour" traffic. Some of us went into the street to confront the honking, disgruntled rush-hour drivers and any limousines we were able to pick out in traffic. Within a few minutes, however, police on horses and police on foot, with their clubs swinging, were rushing into our group of demonstrators. And within a few seconds, most of the Columbia SDS-led contingent of white demonstrators that escaped contact with the clubs—including me—was back on the sidewalk, trying to blend in with the now-curious rush-hour crowd of spectators. Prior to escaping to the sidewalk, I noticed that—about 25 yards away from me—Mark and his bullhorn were being grabbed by a group of burly cops. During the next hour or so, groups of demonstrators from both the Upper West Side and the Lower East Side periodically staged "guerrilla" traffic-blocking actions on the street. And, in an indiscriminate way, the cops "retaliated" with horse charges or foot charges on all the remaining demonstrators.
While this was going on, I was thinking that "boy, the cops really are brutal" and "boy, what a futile way to confront Rusk this proved to be." I heard later that a few limousines did actually get blocked. But most ruling-class limousines were unaffected by the demo.
I bumped into Marge again, in the middle of a crowd of some anti-war demonstrators who were standing across the street from the Hilton Hotel, near the end of the demonstration. She still seemed friendly.
"What do you do when you're not doing political work?" I asked her.
"I write poetry," she answered.
"I used to write poetry. But now my poetry seems irrelevant compared to politics," I replied.
"I have to write poetry in order to be able to be political," Marge said. She then started to talk to somebody else.
During the demo, I had heard that Ted and his bullhorn were also seized by cops around the time Mark was grabbed. So after bumping into Marge and, subsequently, Teddy and Nancy and the Schneiders—and listening to a few boring speeches by the Fifth Avenue Peace Parade pacifists and moderates until Rusk finally left the Hilton—I headed downtown to 100 Centre Street. I wanted to find out what had happened to Ted and Mark. As I rode downtown on the subway, I thought to myself: "How sick America is. Now they've trapped Ted and Mark in their jail."
When I arrived at 100 Centre Street for the first time, I took the elevator up to the floor where arrested people were being arraigned. I then went into the night arraignment courtroom. Except for the judge, some cops and court officers, and a few prosecuting or defense attorneys, it was nearly empty of people. But I then noticed Dave walking down the center aisle of the courtroom.
"Ted and Mark are being charged with `inciting to riot.' But we should be able to get them released soon," Dave said earnestly. He had spent the previous few hours calling Movement legal people from the courtroom building, and he seemed to have everything under control.
"Inciting to riot? Are they kidding?" I replied in a surprised tone.
Dave smiled. "The cops want to say that their police brutality was just a necessary response to an SDS-incited riot."
"Is there anything that I can do?"
"Not really. The lawyers are pretty much taking care of everything now."
Dave had to hang around the courthouse a while longer to make more phone calls and discuss details with lawyers. So I headed back uptown to the apartment, alone. When I got there, I turned on the radio and listened to some radio news descriptions of the events around the Hilton. As usual, I found the news reports bore little relationship to what had actually happened on the street during the demonstration.
Ted and Mark were released without much delay and were back around campus the following afternoon. Neither Ted nor Mark had been roughed up while in police custody. Everybody within Columbia SDS leadership circles treated the "incitement to riot" charges against Mark and Ted as some kind of Establishment and cop joke. The consensus around Columbia SDS was that the anti-Rusk demo had, indeed, been a fiasco. We explained its failure as being a result of the New York Regional SDS Office's isolation from a grassroots campus base, which tended to lead its staff members to plan unrealistic, left-adventuristic actions.
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Sew Perfect...
5 comments:
- Denise :) said...
I saw those pictures on her blog this morning -- very cool! :)
- August 3, 2010 at 9:52 AM
- Genie Robinson said...
Wow..what a GREAT screensaver. Too bad I do not have any jelly rolls to photograph. I especially like this selection of fabric. I went over and checked out the Sew Perfect Blog and there you were with your photo for all of us to see again. Congrats. That quilt is something else. I am trying to decide if I can do it. You sound pretty convincing so I may well give it a try.
- August 3, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Genie Robinson said...
Lisa...I sent off the above comment before I finished...what I wanted to tell you was you and I both say the same thing...."It is just another learning experience"....but then I add..."the more I rip, the more I learn!" I've been following your blog for quite a while now, but somehow I missed this entry. When I got to the Sew Perfect Blog I also saw her version of the Pinwheel Quilt tutorial I followed and made last summer up there in her banner ...here is the entry and a photo of mine...
When I set out to make it, it was the first time I had used a jelly roll and the first time I had ever undertaken such a complicated project. The whole time I kept telling myself...It's just another learning experience...be patient. And I did it, and it is my all time favorite!!!! It now hangs over my bed I love it so much. I know you are feeling the same way about your quilt....we both are wearing BIG smiles on our faces.
Hugs again, Genie
- August 3, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Sandi Butler said...
Congrats! that is very cool! Jodi recently posted one of my pics too. It is of a cushion I had made with charm squares. Exciting stuff!
- August 3, 2010 at 4:05 PM
- Beedeebabee said...
Oh how exciting! This is a great picture, Lisa... I know you're making all those yummy sherbety swirls into something spectacular! xoxo Paulette ;)
- August 6, 2010 at 11:42 AM


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Original UK poster
|Directed by
|Ralph Thomas
|Produced by
|William MacQuitty
Earl St John
|Screenplay by
|Robin Estridge
|Based on
|Above Us the Waves
by C. E. T. Warren
& James Benson
|John Mills
John Gregson
Donald Sinden
|Music by
|Arthur Benjamin
|Ernest Steward
|Edited by
|Gerald Thomas
London Independent Producers
|Distributed by
Republic Films (US)
Release dates
April 1957 (US)
Running time
|99 minutes
|United Kingdom
The Royal Navy is concerned about constant attacks on convoys by Germansubmarines and having to keep "half the fleet" watching for the German battleship Tirpitz. The Tirpitz is 60 miles from the sea inside a Norwegian fjord and attempts by the Royal Air Force to sink her have failed. Commander Fraser (Mills) is determined to prove that an attack by human torpedoes is practical, despite scepticism from the higher echelons that such an operation would be feasible.
Fraser assembles and trains a force of British commando frogmen officers and ratings to use the Mk I Human Torpedo manned torpedoes (Chariots) at their Scottish base. After receiving a refusal to allow the operation to go ahead from an admiral, the team use dummy mines to attack the admiral's own ship using the Chariots.
An attack is authorised on the Tirpitz with the initial operation using the Chariots. The attack fails and the crew are forced to abandon ship and land in Norway. They walk to neutral Sweden from where they are returned to Scotland.
For the next operation the crews are trained to use three small X-Craft submarines: X1, X2 and X3. They are initially towed by conventional submarines and are then left to penetrate the area where the Tirpitz is anchored.They manage to approach the ship under their own power to lay their "side-cargoes", each containing 2 tons of amatol, under the ship's hull undetected. Two crews then scuttle the submarines and are picked up by the crew of Tirpitz, to be taken away as prisoners of war. The third (X2) is too badly damaged to re-surface and the crew decide to stay on board to prevent "giving the game away".
The mines explode as planned, badly damaging the Tirpitz. Meanwhile, X2's side cargoes have flooded. The flooding causes them to spontaneously explode, destroying X2 and killing her crew.
Production notes[edit]
The screenplay was based on the book Above Us the Waves by C. E. T. Warren and James Benson, which had been published in 1953.[1] [2]
Director Ralph Thomas says the film was made because producer William MacQuitty "was very involved with the Navy and he loved submarines."[3] MacQuitty had a production company in partnership with Sydney Box called London Independent Producers, which tended to use the same core creative personnel.[4] They purchased film rights in 1952, before the book had been published. [5]
The book became a best seller, selling over 350,000 copies[6] and MacQuitty obtained finance from the Rank Organisationunder Earl St. John. The British admiralty provided full co-operation.[7] Thomas was given the job of directing after his tremendous success with Doctor in the House. Several of the cast from that film would appear in Above Us the Waves.[8]
Shooting began on 20 September 1954 in Guernsey. Commander Donald Cameron, who commanded X-6 as a lieutenant and won the Victoria Cross during the operation, was an adviser to the film. [9][10]
MacQuitty was an experienced diver, having spent over 500 hours under water. He personally supervised many of the underwater sequences.[11]
Events in the film had minor differences, for example, the boat Arthur that carried the Chariot human torpedoes was namedIngebord in the film, and the X-class submarines used in Operation Source in 1943 were numbered X-5, X-6 and X-7, and X-5 was the craft that was lost.
The score was by Arthur Benjamin and performed under the direction of Muir Mathieson.
John Gregson played an Australian.[12] "Australians are husky, types," said producer McQuitty. "Gregson has made his part of Alec Duffy, midget submarine commander, good and husky."[13]
"I am proud to be playing the part of an Australian," said Gregson. "During the war, when I was in the Royal Navy, I met many Australian fighting men. They were good fellows."[13]
Donald Sinden's character was based on the true-life exploits of Sub-Lieutenant Robert Aitken, who died a few weeks after Sinden.[14] In his first autobiography, A Touch of the Memoirs, Sinden said "I had to re-enact a deed originally performed by Commander Donald Cameron. While his X Craft was being towed across the North Sea, the cable picked up a floating mine which then moved along the cable and made straight for his midget. Cameron rushed forward and, lowering himself over the prow of his craft, managed gingerly to push the mine clear with his feet. Donald was our advisor on the film and told me modestly, "I couldn't think of anything else to do." He was awarded the VC. I wasn't because we used a dummy. But Donald could swim!"[15]
The cast also included Anthony Wager, who had played a young Pip in Great Expectations]] (1946). John Mills, who played the older Pip, appeared opposite him.
Main cast[edit]
- John Mills as Commander Fraser
- John Gregson as Lieutenant Alec Duffy
- Donald Sinden as Lieutenant Tom Corbett
- James Robertson Justice as Admiral Ryder
- Michael Medwin as Steward Smart
- James Kenney as Abercrombie
- O. E. Hasse as Captain of the Tirpitz
- Lee Patterson as Cox
- William Russell as Ramsey
- Theodore Bikel as German officer
- Harry Towb as McCleery
- Cyril Chamberlain as Chief Petty Officer Chubb
- Anthony Wager as George
- Leslie Weston as Winley
- Lyndon Brook as Diver navigator, X2
- Thomas Heathcote as Hutchins
- Anthony Newley as Engineer, X2
- John Horsley as Lieutenant Anderson
- William Franklyn as No. 1, X2
- Guido Lorraine as Officer interpreter
- Raymond Francis as Officer on towing submarine
- Walter Gotell as German officer on Tirpitz (uncredited)
Above Us the Waves is a 1955 British war film directed by Ralph Thomas, about human torpedo and midget submarine attacks on the German battleship Tirpitz. It is based on two true-life attacks on the Tirpitz by British commando frogmen, first using Chariot manned torpedoes in Operation Title in 1942, and then X-Craft midget submarines in Operation Source in 1943. Some of the original equipment was used in the film.
Ralph Philip Thomas MC (10 August 1915 – 17 March 2001) was an English film director, born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He is perhaps best known for directing the Doctor series of films.
Post War Career[edit]
Early Career[edit]
Born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Thomas studied law at Middlesex University College. He entered the film business as aclapper boy at Shepperton Studios in 1932 during his summer vacation while at college. Following graduation, instead of becoming a lawyer he decided to enter the film industry, and became an apprentice at Shepperton Studios, working as a clapper boy and then in the editing room, the sound department and art department. From 1932-34 Thomas worked predominantly on "quota quickies". He discovered he loved editing the most and worked predominantly as an editor for the next few years, including a stint working alongside David Lean. When his employer, Premiere Stafford, went broke he worked for a while as a journalist at the Bristol Evening Post for over a year. He returned to editing before joining the army in 1939.[1]
Thomas left the army in 1945 and re-entered the industry, although he could only get work as an assistant editor. He assisted editing Odd Man Out then began making film trailers for the Rank Organisation. He worked his way up to becoming head of Rank's trailer department as well as writing films. Thomas later said making trailers was "enormously useful" because he "learned a lot of the technique of how the varying directors whose pictures I had worked on operated. Also, it teachers one a great deal of discipline about brevity in story telling."[3]
- Second Bureau (1936) - editor
- Return of a Stranger (1937) - editor
- Once Upon a Dream (1949) - director
- Traveller's Joy (1949) - director
- Helter Skelter (1949) - director
- The Clouded Yellow (1951) - director
- Appointment with Venus (1951) - director
- Venetian Bird (1952) - director
- A Day to Remember (1953) - director
- The Dog and the Diamonds (1953) - director
- Mad About Men (1954) - director
- Doctor in the House (1954) - director
- Above Us the Waves (1955) - director
- Doctor at Sea (1955) - director
- Checkpoint (1956) - director
- The Iron Petticoat (1956) - director
- Doctor at Large (1957) - director
- Campbell's Kingdom (1957) - director
- A Tale of Two Cities (1958) - director
- The Wind Cannot Read (1958) - director
- The 39 Steps (1959) - director
- Upstairs and Downstairs (1959) - director
- Conspiracy of Hearts (1960) - director
- Doctor in Love (1960) - director
- No Love for Johnnie (1961) - director
- No My Darling Daughter (1961) - director
- A Pair of Briefs (1962) - director
- The Wild and the Willing (1962) - director
- Doctor in Distress (1963) - director
- Hot Enough for June (1964) - director
- The High Bright Sun (1964) (US: McGuire, Go Home) - director
- Doctor in Clover (1966) - director
- Deadlier Than the Male (1966) - director
- Nobody Runs Forever (1968) - director
- Some Girls Do (1969) - director
- Doctor in Trouble (1970) - director
- Percy (1971) - director
- Quest for Love (1971) - director
- The Love Ban (1973) - director
- Anyone for Sex? (1973) - producer, director
- Percy's Progress (1974) - director
- The Insurance Man from Ingersoll (1975) (TV movie) - producer
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square (1979) - director
- Doctor's Daughters (1981) (TV series) - writer
- Pop Pirates (1984) - producer
Sub-Lieutenant Robert Aitken: Diver and navigator who narrowly escaped death in midget submarine and helped wreck the mighty Tirpitz
Aitken made an escape within a hair's breadth of death from 120ft under water where he was almost trapped with two comrades
Robert Aitken was one of the handful of men who on 22 September 1943 with midget submarines disabled the German battleship Tirpitz, mightiest vessel of the Nazi Reich. Aitken also made an escape within a hair's breadth of death from 120ft under water where he was almost trapped with two comrades who had already suffocated after the craft sank following the attack. The tiny 40ft submarine, too small for a man to stand up in, penetrated multiple layers of defences to get at the monster in her lair, a hideaway decreed by Hitler himself, in the narrow finger of Ka Fjord in occupied Norway, 60 miles inland from the coast.
Tirpitz had lurked for two years, catastrophically disrupting supply convoys to Russia. At 40,000 tons she was one of the most powerful battleships afloat. A desperate attempt with a fishing-smack to smuggle in attackers, who would have sat astride their warhead-loaded craft, had failed, these "chariots" having tumbled adrift and vanished at sea.
But this time the raiders overcame all, crouched amid their instruments, observing through periscopes slim as fountain pens. Two of the three "X-craft" placed their explosive charges and blasted her six feet out of the water at her stern. X-5 was lost, but the four two-ton saddle-charges carried by X-6 and X-7 exploded, stopping her setting sail again: the following year the RAF caught her under tow during repairs and finished her off.
Twenty-year-old Sub-Lieutenant Aitken was X-7's diver and navigator in a crew of four commanded by Lieutenant Godfrey Place. They had been towed 1,000 miles, then under their own diesel and electric power they traversed a minefield and scrambled through layers of entangling steel mesh anti-submarine nets to place the charges under the shadow of the great ship. There was one hour to get away.
But X-7 was forced to expend air-creating buoyancy to help extricate herself from the nets. She managed to slide over the nets' top at 7.40am, with minutes to go until the expected blast. As she surfaced machine-gun bullets pinged off her casing: glimpsing what they first thought was a porpoise, the Germans were alerted and she had to dive again. But damaged by the nets she was no longer manoeuvrable and impossible to keep submerged. She got stuck in the mesh again, then at 8.12am the blast blew her free, and she resurfaced.
Place thought he would be shot when, to safeguard his crew, he emerged from X-7's hatch. But the firing ceased, and the others would have followed him had X-7 not begun to founder. Place stepped on to a gunnery practice target afloat near by. His men, having shut the hatch to avert an inrush of water, were carried yet again to the bottom of the fjord.
They donned escape apparatus and started to flood the craft to release the hatches, but vents were stuck and she filled too slowly; fumes released from fused circuits poisoned what air was left and the cramped space impeded movement. After two and a half hours, Aitken felt his comrades, Lieutenant Bill Whittam and ship's engineer Bill Whitley, slump down and die.
During his own last supreme effort to get the hatch open, he blacked out, having wrenched the tops from his only remaining two small steel oxygen canisters, and finding that at that pressure they yielded no more than one breath each: he had no air but what was in his lungs.
Yet his fumbling must have succeeded: bubbles streamed past as he regained his senses, and soon he joined his skipper and the crew of X-6 as a prisoner on board the badly damaged Tirpitz. The enemy, full of admiration despite their fury, gave them hot drinks and Schnaps.
The attack, which Winston Churchill praised as "audacious and heroic", was described in an official report as one that "will surely go down in history as one of the most courageous acts of all time." It would be immortalised on film in Above Us The Waves (1955), starring John Mills and with Donald Sinden playing Aitken.


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1. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesalanofoz Mar 20, 2012 9:21 PM (in response to ksidfysiyd)
I didn't know I was ksidfysiyd !! That first post was from me, alanofoz!!!
2. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesthe_wine_snob Mar 20, 2012 9:21 PM (in response to ksidfysiyd)
Welcome to the forum.
Where does the Topfield PVR fit into your workflow?
This flickering sounds like Field Order Reversal.
Can you tell us the full specs. and details of the original footage, what part the Topfield PVR plays in the workflow, and what Project Preset you chose?
Good luck,
3. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesSteve Grisetti Mar 21, 2012 5:00 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)1 person found this helpful
This almost always indicates a mismatch between project settings and your source video.
Go to your project's Edit/Project Properties and most likely you'll see the Field Options set to lower field first.
Since you used an MPEG as your source file, it should have been set to upper field first.
The way around that is to start a new project and, when you select the Settings, make sure you select the settings for Hard Disk Camcorder/Standard Definition.
4. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesalanofoz Mar 21, 2012 5:10 AM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Thanks for the welcome, Bill. In reality I've been active on the Audition forum for some years. Although my profile incorrectly shows since 2009.
And you nailed it! Your Field Order Reversal comment led me via Google to Clip > Video Options > Field Options...
Problem solved, thanks muchly.
5. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesthe_wine_snob Mar 21, 2012 7:11 AM (in response to alanofoz)
Glad that you got it sorted. From the description, it sounded like the "classic" Field Reversal. Other characteristics of Field Reversal is "jaggies" with much motion, or "tearing" of the Vdeo.
I also understand the Profiles. Over the last few years, I think that I have automatically become about 3 different people, and as I started with the Adobe forums, when they were only NNTP, before HTTP even came along. My Start Date of 2002 is probably only 8 years late! Just a guess, but I'd say that I probably had 20,000 posts from the old days, that went POOF overnight. Such is life.
Steve went on to give good suggestions for how to handle things. Thanks Steve.
Good luck,
6. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesalanofoz Mar 21, 2012 11:46 AM (in response to Steve Grisetti)
Thanks Steve. Sorry I didn't see your post sooner. I think I was typing my previous post at the time you posted.
As I type this I'm following up your suggestions.
7. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesalanofoz Mar 21, 2012 2:51 PM (in response to ksidfysiyd)
Many thanks to Bill and Steve for helping me out here.
Unfortunately I have another question, unrelated I think.
During my efforts to solve the flickering problem, I found that quite often the picture was not full size. The aspect ratio looks correct and it's centred on the screen, but the picture is only about 80% of its correct height and width, i.e. there is a black border surrounding the picture. This occurs after burning a DVD and playing it on a portable player AND a "normal" player connected to the TV.Sometimes I get a DVD that's OK, more often a reduced picture.
What am I doing wrong?
8. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesSteve Grisetti Mar 21, 2012 5:41 PM (in response to alanofoz)
Once again, it's all about selecting the right project settings for your video when you first start your project.
Part 1 of my free 8 part Basic Training tutorials shows you how.
9. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesthe_wine_snob Mar 21, 2012 6:08 PM (in response to alanofoz)
I agree with Steve here. The Project Preset should match the Source Footage 100%, or one will have issues, and "black bars" can be one. This ARTICLE goes into some detail.
Good luck,
10. Re: Flickering like old-time moviesalanofoz Mar 21, 2012 9:49 PM (in response to the_wine_snob)
Thanks again to Steve & Bill.
So far so good. It seems I was simply not paying attention to the source and project parameters. Now that I'm aware of this the problem has not recurred.


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|Nelson Court
Now I know that in politics as in warfare, you cannot win every battle and as much as you believe you are correct and your opponents are wrong there are occasions when it works out the other way.
Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few - other times the state or majority are shown to be oppressing the few and the decision is reversed.
All you can hope for is that the process and consultation is just and fair, all get to speak and that the deliberations are carried out in a balanced manner.
This has not been the case for the care homes.
It is true, that in these times of austerity tough decisions will have to be made, services are going to suffer one way or the other - for good or bad we're in this together and unfortunately the innocent will suffer with the guilty - well apparently.
For the moment the Balfour centre has a temporary reprieve - the two general care homes (Robert Bean Lodge in Rochester and Platters farm Lodge) are to be outsourced but ultimately they will remain under the control of the Council and available to the public and as the staff should have their contracts taken over by the new owner. Touch wood they will remain the same and continue under the same high standards at no extra cost.
Nelson's lodge, the specialist dementia care home, is to be sold of to a Private provider. I must admit that I have been unable to get to the scrutiny meetings or indeed the council meetings due to life and work getting in the way but, Maureen Ruparel, the organiser of the Save Nelson Court group has kept up updates on the Facebook group and, as a Liberal Democrat has sent regular reports to the Executive Committee meetings so I will use those from henceforth.
According to Maureen's posts the consultation has been a "Charade" and to quote her directly (from the 15th February - sited on the Facebook group)


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In this article, I propose an alternative implementation of regular expression pattern matching using Partial Derivatives.
In a similar idea, we can also use partial derivative to perform inequality/equality test among regexs. See Martin's post here.
What is the regular expression pattern matching problem?
Let's consider an example. Given a regular expression pattern, say
(x : A*, y : A*)
which matches a sequence of alphabets A and binding zero or more As to the pattern variable x and sending the rest (of As) to the other pattern variable y.
Suppose we have an input sequence
(or we will call it "a word" subsequently) which matches with the above pattern and producing
one of the following possible bindings.
{ x -> AA, y -> () }
{ x -> A, y -> A }
{ x -> (), y -> AA }
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:: Bowling::
We had SO much fun at the Cotton Bowl! {Except for K-State losing} We road with 2 other couples to Dallas and it was such a fun road trip!! I dont think I've ever laughed so hard in my life! :0)
Our Crew: Becky & Brett, Brooke & Jeremy, Me & Mike
Game day!!
Linda made me a cute koozie for the trip! Love her! Everyone was jealous ;)
ugh, stepped in gum right away. annoying.
Lunch before tailgating
Us girls all forgot sunglasses and it was beautiful and SUNNY on game day. Thankfully there was a Claire's right next to the restaurant we ate lunch at so we each bought a new pair of shades :) Mine lasted a whole 5 hrs before I dropped them in a mob of people walking into the game... they didn't have a chance and neither did I trying to stop and find them. boo.
The stadium was UH-MAZING!! Our seats were great and the atmosphere was incredible. I was a shaking, excited, nervous disaster for the whole first quarter! ha!
Unfortunately the Cats couldn't pull off a win... so after the game we headed back to the hotel, got pizza and went to bed. Pretty lame :(
We wanted to get out of town early Saturday morning to get us home at a decent time. We all have kids and we missed them!!
:: Gymnastics::
Aiden started a gymnastics class!! His sweet aunties, Amy & Sarah, got him signed up as his birthday present from them. I thought it was a fantastic idea since lord knows he doesn't need anymore toys!
Its every Thursday for the next 6 weeks or so and he absolutely LOVES going. He is still really excited and curious so he has a hard time listening to his instructors and sitting still. He is ALL over the place and they are constantly chasing him. There is so much going on with all the different classes at the same time as his, and a ton of kids, so he is easily distracted. The parents stay in another room that has windows so we can watch. I usually just play on my phone because it stresses me out when I see him not listening and playing on equipment that he shouldn't be. I joked with the instructors after the last class that they probably wouldn't be doing a 3 yr old class anymore after this experience. ha! Also, they've nicknamed him Crazy Aiden if that tells you anything...
Im sure as the "newness" wears off it will get better... hopefully :)
Its been a fun adjustment for us to have to be somewhere right after work. Its quite chaotic getting him changed and fighting traffic to get there on time. I feel like such a soccer mom :) I love that he is getting old enough to be involved in activities and we've already been receiving fliers for basketball and t-ball... can't wait!!
Sorry for the crappy phone pics... I have forgotten my camera both times! I WILL remember this week!
The boy second in line is Colten and Aiden is the last one. Colten and Aiden are also in the same class at school! They were pretty wild this first class and they seperated them for the second class. Ha! Boys will be boys! :)
::Busy Season::
We are full on into Mike's busiest season at work. 2 weeks down and 4 to go!!
Aiden misses his daddy SO much and this year has been really hard on both of them. Last year Aiden was a little too young to realize how much Mike was gone but this year he knows. I can only imagine how hard it is for Mike to listen to Aiden tell him he misses him and ask why he's never home :( I've been trying to keep Aiden as busy as possible and his mind off of daddy not being here... and we try to send Mike pics of what we're up to. We couldn't get skype to work on our phones but yesterday we both downloaded Tango and are going to try that tonight!
This single mom business is HARD...and its only for 6 weeks! I seriously tip my hat to all single moms and military families.
:: New car::
Nothing too exciting but it feels good to own my own car {for the first time in my life} and take that burden off my wonderful GENEROUS daddy :) Let's just say car shopping is NOT fun when you have expensive taste and a small budget... but in the end I got an affordable and realiable car perfect for our little family :)
:: Reunion::
I can't even contain my excitement for this coming weekend... RANDY ROGERS BAND in KC with 10 of my favorite girls!!! We're celebrating mine and Cortney's birthdays!!
Casey is coming from Chicago, Les from Atchison, my sister Amy from El dorado with NO kids {this is a first!!} Brooke, Ashley and Cortney from Manhattan, Michelle from Topeka and me, Sarah, Lindsey and our future sister in law Tara from KC! Holy reunion right??!!
I can't believe it all came together and worked out for everyone! Sarah got us a hummer limo because there are so many of us and no one wanted to drive down town, leave our cars and take taxis home. This is going to be bananas!!
2007 Randy Rogers Concert {yikes}


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The First 17% of Suburban Archaeology (after Anna Krien) by Mandy Ord.
The National Library in Wellington is hosting Cartoon Colloquium: Looking at women and cartoons today on Friday 15 Nov with a variety of speakers and topics in discussion. More details here.
Sharon Murdoch, "Are you looking at me?", 13 April 2013. Ref: DCDL-0024808.
Adrian Kinnaird and various cartoonists will be at signing events in Wellington tomorrow and Auckland next week. More details here.
Chris Anthony Diaz asks Simon Hanselmann 5 questions.
(pic by Chris Anthony Diaz)
Caitlin Major and Matt Hoddy at SPX 2013
Every once and a while you'll get treated to a new page at Tiny Kitten Teeth. The latest treat.
The Comic Spot October review episode includes a review of James Davidson's Moa comics.
There's a lot of nice things to look at on Marijka Gooding's tumblr.
Ronnie Scott reviews Dailies #3 and Victoria Drug Scene.
Hannah Valmadre profiles Five Female Street Artists to Watch in Melbourne.
Dave Mahler writes about Katie Parrish.
Aru Singh on Arkham City Comics and Chromacon Event.
Sarah Dunn interviews Damon Keen for the Nelson Mail.
Ah heck, here's a bunch of 'Famous Yank Comics', Australian reprint editions collecting various American newspaper strips from the 1950's.
Paper Trail masthead courtesy of Toby Morris.


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Jeep: I am
I've been waiting for this and it looks like I'm not the only one. This, the first spot from Global Hue after being awarded Jeeps General Market assignment which is very rare for any Multicultural agency. The Advertising Industry websites have been ablaze with hate for this spot. Some have deemed it the end of multicultural shops getting a shot at big general market accounts. Some say it's the worst spot ever and it will tank all of Detroit. The fact is; it aint that bad. I don't think it's great, but I have seen worse. It's very 1980's in its writing and feels dated by it's tag line. I really don't think a commercial should ever claim "I am" anything again for the next century, it just feels dated.
I do think it's an interesting foray into general market advertising that somehow only feels "general market like." I think I give it credit for making me want to see more of the campaign and that maybe all it set out to do. If that's so, then I give it a hardy George Bush, "Mission Accomplished!" If it supposed to pique my curiosity about buying a Jeep... hmmm, not just yet. The writing is OK, it's as good as most general market TV spots really. I do hate the usage of the word "greedily." It feels out of place sonically, it feels like an audio-speed bump. It sticks in my head well after the spot is gone, not in a good way. I don't remember the rest of the words but I remember "greedily." I'm still left wondering where is the big idea? Where is the thinking that sets this spot apart. Maybe it's coming, maybe they are just whetting our whistle. If that's so I hope it works for the General Market audience as well. It's not objective for me to root for a spot, to root for an agency, to pull for a campaign, but I'm pulling for this one. It's a wonderful opportunity to literally break with convention and stop speaking to the world the way advertising has taught the world to listen. It's a space to listen to the growing inclusive world and speak as it speaks. I hope we can do that. https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png
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text: Huddersfield Town fight back leaving West Yorkshire derby level TSS December 5, 2009 Match reviews 9 Comments I said before today's game that I'd be disappointed with anything less than a victory. Huddersfield have been conceding far too easily and whilst they have the best attacking record in the league, I felt Leeds' impressive defensive record should keep them quiet. Add to this the fact it was at Elland Road where we haven't lost since January and the fact we've won the last five without conceding and all the signs pointed to a home win. However, much like our last three meetings, things didn't quite go to plan. Things couldn't have got off to a better start. Whilst some of the 38,000+ fans were still trying to make their way in to the ground and find their seat, Robert Snodgrass capitalised on an error from the Huddersfield Town goalkeeper and slotted home to give Leeds United an early 1-0 lead. The chance came from a pathetically weak shot from Sam Vokes that their keeper somehow failed to keep hold of giving Snoddy the opportunity to open the scoring. Less than two minutes gone and Leeds already infront. I was already thinking we may mirror the 4-0 demolition job we did on them back in 2007. Leeds continued to press, but Huddersfield high line of defence was causing problems for Beckford who got caught offside a couple of times. Vokes had a chance to double the lead though but his header from a Beckford cross went wide. As the half wore on, the dominance changed in Huddersfield's favour and they started to get more and more of the ball. Leeds did have another chance though in injury time when the Huddersfield Town keeper made a good save to deny Robert Snodgrass his second and keep Town in the game. The second half started much the same as the first with a goal inside the opening two minutes. This time though, it was Huddersfield's turn as sloppy defending from Leeds kept an attacking move alive for the visitors. A shot deflected into the path of Lee Novac who headed by Casper Ankergren to level the tie. Leeds had a couple more chances but Huddersfield looked the better team for much of the game. The crowd had already been calling for Lucciano Becchio long before the substitions came on. Vokes and Kilkenny would make way for Becchio and Leeds United super-sub, Max Gradel. With our first choice frontline restored and Max Gradel on to run at the Huddersfield defence, it felt like Leeds would get another one yet. It didn't take long either. Ankergren kicked a long ball upfield which headed towards the opposition goalkeeper. Beckford went up for the ball as well though and the challenge led to another error from the Town goalie. Gradel was on hand to pick up the loose ball and subsequently rounded the keeper and fired home to put Leeds back on top. Poor marking from setplays, not for the first time in this fixture left Leeds looking fragile at the back. A short corner routine that Huddersfield had pulled off twice was unexpected by the United defence who were perhaps a bit tired from getting up early. Town got another shot away, but this time fired wide. The poor defending from the corner and play that followed should have served as a warning sign for Leeds to buck their ideas up, but Huddersfield restored parity once more with twelve minutes left on the clock. A cross was fired in from the right and Jordan Rhodes rose above everyone else to beat Casper Ankergren and earn the visitors a point. The remainder of the match was played on the back foot by Leeds and the final whistle actually came as a relief. For the first time in a while, I can honestly say that poor defending cost us today. We looked weak from crosses, corners and free-kicks and the Huddersfield Town wingers made our full-backs look like they were in the wrong game. Derby matches are never as simple as they look on paper. Whilst myself and presumably many others would have expected a win today, the occasion often means things aren't quite as straight forward as one would hope. Huddersfield were unquestionably the better team for large parts of this game. Leeds' defence was largely weak and the midfield weren't much better with the exception of Snodgrass. Still no killer instinct from Vokes and a couple of chances wasted by him, whilst Beckford's attempts to break were too often thwarted by the flag. One person I refuse to blame today who is often an easy target is Casper Ankergren. Whilst he still flapped at too many crosses and can't catch a cold, his ball created the second goal and he made a few vital saves that earnt us the point. The two we did concede were more the fault of pathetically poor defending than they were the goalkeeper. Nice to see Lucciano Becchio on the way back to the starting XI as we look a lot stronger with him than we do Vokes. The impact subs of Grayson once again paid dividends and you can only hope Max Gradel's stay will become permanent. I think I'm willing to write today off as one of those derby days where it'll never be as easy as expected. We need to forget about what was a below par performance and re-group before the next League One tie next Saturday away to Brentford. Before that though, there's the small matter of an away day at Old Trafford up for grabs against Kettering Town on Tuesday. TSS man of the match Was suprised when Robert Snodgrass was substituted late on as he looked like the only player on the park that had caused them problems all day. Always the man for the big occasions and today was no exception. The Scot worked tirelessly and the goal just adds icing to a great performance in an otherwise disappointing display. 9 Responses tim December 6, 2009 Can't fault the match report – spot on. I was happy with the point at the final whistle but very disappointed later on, probably reflecting as the other results were coming in. This performance was a wake up call to my mind and I get fed up with the 'experts' banging on about how all the other teams do not have the depth of squad to live with us – no evidence of that at the moment. At the end of the day it always comes back to the same players we had at the beginning of the season plus Gradel. Our two defensive leaders were missing and nobody came close to filling their shoes. We need to bounce back strongly against Brentford. I thought Grayson took a gamble against Oldham in mid week with selection but for me got caught cold yesterday. You have to put out your best players in a game like this. We take on loan players and feel obliged to play them? Finally, the body language from Beckford doesn't inspire me with confidence and best wishes to Tresor Kandol for a speedy return after personal family problems. Reply Paul G December 6, 2009 Disppointed with a draw today, but feel we have to keep things in persepctive. Yes, we do have a strong squad, but we probably had 6 first choice players who weren't in the starting line-up today, including 4 of the back 5 and our second top scorer. Huddersfield (as far as I could tell) were pretty much at full strength – wonder how they would have coped if you'd taken any 6 of those players out??!! And I couldn't agree more with TSS about Ankergren – who has made few mistakes while Higgs has been out, but whose confidence can't be helped by the sizeable minority of morons in the crowd who insist on ironic cheers whenever he catches the ball. Tossers, the lot of them. Reply tim December 7, 2009 Take your point about Ankergren and he has always been a great shot stopper. However, some of his kicking is shall we say mis-directed and the opposition know he is vulnerable on crosses. Surely it has to be a coaching thing. Michelik was great on Saturday but he is not a vocal leader and Bromby was flapping, none of which helps the goalie. Reply Yorkshrman December 7, 2009 I think your comment in your first post is the key – in Naylor and Kisnorbo we have two strong organisers, without them the back four becomes a bit of a shambles. If either of them had been fully fit on Saturday I think it could have been the difference between 1 point and 3. David December 6, 2009 Travelled over from N.I. and can only say we were poor. Huddersfield were the better team by a country mile. Our supporters are obsessed with singing about hating Man U & Chelsea [they are not our rivals] the teams in the division are our rivals. Please sing for our team with Leeds songs. Not for years to come will we play either of these teams in the top flight [and on Sat display thank god]so get over it. Another Note; It was a pleasure and privilege to watch the Yorkshire Regiment being presented with their medals and both sets of fans joining as one to cheer on these brave young men Questions and thoughts; 1. Why won't our keeper come for crosses?? or is this the way he is coached. He should be coming and clearing out their team his team mates and anything to get in his way 2. My man of the match was Michalik 3. Being from N.I.& watching him play for us, Capaldi is a waste of space.This is not his level it's another division down. Reply West Stand rebel December 7, 2009 David, certainly take your point about singing songs about teams like Chelsea & Man U. However on Saturday for timing and humour when the soldiers fired blanks at the directors box the singing of "shoot the Chelsea scum" was just genious. The only pity is that our "glorious fund manager" (how I love that expression) was nowhere to be seen.Presumably saving himself for Kettering on Tuesday night. Infact most of the directors seats were empty …says a lot for their commitment to Mr. Grayson et al. Just another aside if they can't be bothered to turn up why not sell these prime seats for £40 or more? Reply David December 7, 2009 Have to agree the timing was spot on and truth be told I had to laugh, but you get my point on the songs about teams that are as far away from us as Pappa Smurf is. Nice to see the ground filled it's just like old times but still a million miles away. We try to get over as often as we can but there is no flight home from Leeds on a Saturday night to Belfast so we have to use Manchester [which means we can't even wear our colours] as you just don't know who'll get on the train. If they would put a flight on Saturday morning and evening home they would fill it no bother, but they don't seem to see this. Sorry I'm starting to rave on but to be a Leeds fan from a distance is not easy, but then it never has been. I spend on every match the same money that would take you to Spain in the Summer for a week. But i'll keep coming to see the one & only Leeds United. This Is How We All Should Feel As Leeds Fans We do not choose, we are chosen. Those who don't understand don't matter. Those who do understand need no explanation. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Name* Email* Website Comment


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Each year, the globally recognized, nonsectarian Earth Day for promoting greater awareness of environmental issues falls on April 22, and this year, Earth Day Tokyo, which has been observed since 2001 with a festival, will take place the weekend of April 23-24 in Yoyogi Park. At that point it will have been more than six weeks since a magnitude-9.0 earthquake generated a tsunami that wiped out many of the country's northeastern coastal communities and set in motion the continuing crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The natural disaster combined with a manmade disaster of catastrophic environmental impact means that this year's Earth Day Tokyo has suddenly become more relevant in ways that transcend the festival's usual agenda.
Think locally: Earth Day Tokyo 2010 attracted more than 135,000 to the festival held in Yoyogi Park, Shibuya.
Think locally: Earth Day Tokyo 2010 attracted more than 135,000 to the festival held in Yoyogi Park, Shibuya.
Three days after the March 11 megaquake the Earth Day Tokyo organizers held an emergency press conference to announce their own relief efforts for the stricken areas up north. Those efforts include the formation of a disaster-relief unit that will "continuously implement activities for recovery," coordination among member organizations of the Japan Earth Day network to provide up-to-the-minute information about the situation in the affected areas, and the collection of donations from Earth Day organizations in 190 countries to fund local assistance — thus providing a "worldwide platform" to help victims.
Kazami Shojo, the director of Earth Day Sendai, was on hand and stressed the need for "accurate information," something that was in short supply at the time the press conference was held on March 14, and said that his group was specifically working on communications issues.
According to press liaison person Kyohei Ogawa, "There is an action committee made up of more than 40 persons" that is currently working on something called "Earth Day Tokyo Tower," an ad hoc project of "support activities for the disaster. Some of the money (that is collected by the Earth Day network) may be spent for those activities."
Ogawa adds that the organizers will set up a special booth at the festival dedicated to disaster relief. It will likely solicit volunteers and provide information about the situation in the stricken areas, but such matters haven't been decided yet. Disaster relief is not, strictly speaking, a stated aspect of Earth Day's mission. As a movement its brief has more to do with influencing policies and social patterns so that environmental disasters both long-term and short-term can be avoided.
Conceived in the United States as a grass roots approach to spreading awareness about the dangers of air and water pollution at the local level, Earth Day has always been an educational endeavor. The idea started in the late 1960s on university campuses with teach-ins, but the first Earth Day festival in New York City in 1970 drew an estimated one million people to a parade up 5th Avenue, an event that was covered by the world media and is credited with launching the modern environmental movement based mainly on conservation and recycling.
Over the subsequent four decades, the Earth Day network eventually became a leading advocate for measures to combat global warming and promote renewable energy resources. In terms of nuclear energy, which is the most alarming environmental concern related to the March 11 disaster, conservationists have been split. Some consider nuclear power to be a clean form of energy since it doesn't directly produce carbon dioxide, while others believe its inherent toxicity makes it too dangerous to handle.
Since the development of nuclear energy has been Japanese government policy for many years, the controversy here tends to be muffled. However, at the press conference on March 14, the Earth Day Tokyo committee announced three "demands" it was making to the government of Japan, one of which is to "reduce dependency on nuclear energy." In addition, director Akio Kouchi read a joint declaration from Japan's Earth Day network calling for a halt to Chukoku Electric Power Co.'s plan to build the Kaminoseki nuclear reactor at Iwaijima in the Seto Inland Sea, saying that the plant would not only destroy the region's biodiversity, but also the traditional fishing culture of the people who depend on that biodiversity for their livelihoods. In fact, while Kouchi was reading the declaration, the governor of Yamaguchi Prefecture, where the reactor would be located, announced that he had ordered its construction suspended.
Plans for this year's Earth Day festivities in Tokyo, which organizers predict will attract some 140,000 people, remain fluid in light of the disaster, but in addition to fund-raising activities for the victims of the earthquake/tsunami, one of the themes of this year's festival is saving electricity, an issue that has become much more immediate with the loss of the Fukushima nuclear reactors and the probability of another hot and muggy summer in the city. Electricity for the entire festival this year, including the power to drive public address systems for concerts and lectures, will be generated using recycled cooking oil, or so-called biodiesel fuel. There will even be a car on display that was designed to run on hemp oil.
More than 400 nonprofit organizations and nongovernment organizations will be on hand manning booths, distributing literature and selling wares. The 27 restaurants participating in the Earth Day Kitchen will serve dishes containing ingredients that are locally grown, organic and free of genetically modified elements. The president of Earth Day Tokyo since its beginnings, author, naturalist and Japan Times contributor C.W. Nicol, will honor 2011 as the International Year of Forests by presiding over the Earth Day Forest, where he'll help demonstrate how healthy woodlands are maintained and as a bonus serve venison from wild deer harvested in Japan, some on the property of the Afan Woodland Trust that he founded and heads in Nagano Prefecture. Patrons are encouraged to bring their own dishware to cut down on waste, and those who do will receive a discount on all prepared food. The nonprofit recycling group A Seed Japan will provide utensils to those who come empty-handed, but you pay for it.
When Nicol became involved in Earth Day Tokyo he recommended that it be held in one place and presented as a festival, which it has been ever since.
There will also be music at the Yoyogi Park Amphiteater located behind NHK Hall, though at press time the performers had yet to be announced. A social network group called Earth Day With Michael, dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson, promises to provide something in the way of entertainment. There will also be workshops in Japanese paper-making and various exhibitions, including one by Japan's only photojournalism magazine, Days Japan, featuring photographs related to issues having to do with the environment and poverty.
Besides live music on the main stage this year there will again be many stalls selling organic food (below) and a variety of local produce (right).
At least four nonprofit food resellers will be in the park selling fresh organic produce grown on farms in the Kanto region, some even within the Tokyo city limits. In many cases the farmers who actually grew the fruits and vegetables on offer will be counting the change. Other outlets for consumables include a Himalaya Bazaar featuring handmade clothing and accessories, and a Fair Trade Village occupied by various foundations dedicated to helping small producers in foreign countries get real value for their goods.
Since education remains the main purpose of Earth Day, there will be various stages set up throughout the festival grounds providing discussions and lectures on topics ranging from the effects of global warming on places like the South Pacific island country of Tuvalu, which is being inundated due to a rise in ocean levels, to suggestions for implementing the "3 Rs": reducing, reusing and recycling.
There are also bound to be a number of lectures on nuclear power in light of the Fukushima debacle, but, according to Ogawa, it depends on individual organizations, which are still being sorted out. "There are a number of groups planning to participate who carry out anti-nuclear activities," he says. "It's likely they will hand out literature at their booths."
Earth Day Tokyo 2011, Apr. 23-24, Yoyogi Park and other locations in the Shibuya-Harajuku area.


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In my experience a panic attack happens when I am alone. There is no one around to distract me from my own brain and my own thoughts. It is also my experience that a panic attack feels just like a heart attack but without the sympathy from friends and family that usually accompanies a heart attack.
During the early stages of a heart attack there is chest tightness, shortness of breath, there is sweating and radiating pain. Then either a friend or family member gets called so they can let everyone know you are in the hospital. Once diagnosed as a heart attack you are admitted to the hospital, have a procedure and your friends and family come visit you. You get flowers and Get Well Soon cards. Friends tell you how you have to make some changes so you can be around a long long time. Friends and family say: "I will exercise with you everyday, I could stand to lose a few pounds." Or "For now on there will be nothing but healthy food in my house so come visit me."
During some panic attacks there is chest tightness, there is shortness of breath, there is sweating and radiating pain. A friend or family member gets called so they can let everyone know you are in the hospital. Once it is diagnosed as panic, you are NOT admitted to the hospital, there are NO procedures, and only a few friends and family call you to make sure it was not them that caused the panic. NO one wants to exercise with you, or invite you over for a healthy meal. Actually some people may avoid you all together because they think you are crazy. Some of your friends, some of them, will tell you to just shake it off and tell you "Thank God it was not a REAL issue."
I have had about a half dozen of full fledged panic attacks. None of them were NOT a real issue. My chest hurt. I could not breath. I was sweating and my vision narrowed. If I were to have a full blown panic attack while I was driving in my car, you would think it WAS a REAL issue if you were in the car in front of me.
The problem with a panic attack is that inside your head you know you are only having a panic attack. But also in your head, right next to the part that is acknowledging it is a panic attack, is the part of the brain that doubts it all. It is the part of the brain where anxiety hangs out. That part of the brain is telling the reasonable part of your brain it is full of shit and that you are actually going to die of a heart attack or stroke or something. Which then makes the reasonable part of the brain start to doubt whether it is reasonable or not. Then that reasonable part of your brain starts to have it's own mini panic attack. Once the reasonable part of your brain has the mini panic attack your whole body goes into a fight or flight mode. The body responds by increasing blood pressure and adrenaline which adds to the feeling of panic.
All of the panic symptoms happen and you know you may end up wasting your afternoon at the ER because you just want to make sure you are not having a heart attack, Then while you are in the ER you start to worry about what if it is not a heart attack and it is just panic. Then you worry you will have to explain to friends and family why you were in the hospital. While the nurse checks your enzymes you secretly hope that you actually did have a heart attack so you do not have to feel embarrassed about suffering a mental disorder.
And if you really had a heart attack your friends will invite you to exercise and have healthy meals.
And if you have your friends around exercising and eating food you would not be alone with your own thoughts and then you would not have a panic attack.


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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Video: The Pale Blue Dot
Want to take a humbling look at our place in the Universe? Than watch this 4 minute animated clip which features Carl Sagan's famous "Pale Blue Dot" speech set to a series of images that help put his words into stirring context. Our planet is a small one, and really just a very insignificant place in the wide Universe. And yet, we still continue to have a hard time rising above our petty differences and just finding a way to get along. Sagan's words echo that sentiment so eloquently, and they hold as much meaning now as they did when he first wrote them more than 20 years ago. This Pale Blue Dot is our home, perhaps someday we'll all find a way to share it.
Pale Blue Dot from Chin Li Zhi on Vimeo.
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Of leading men and women in acting circles
>> 31 January 2009 – unique world
The following text is originally lifted from the trivia section of The Jakarta Post dated Saturday, 15 March 2008.
~Compiled from various sources~
- Walt Disney had wooden teeth.
- In the late 1990s, newscaster Diane Sawyer's salary was $7 million a year.
- To help create her signature sexy walk, actress Marilyn Monroe sawed off part of the heel of one shoe.
- Alfred Hitchcock did not have a belly button; it was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery.
- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first Hollywood film that showed a toilet flushing - thereby generating many complaints.
- Michael Keaton's name at birth was Michael Douglas.
- When screen lover Rudolph Valentino married Jean Acker, she locked him out of their bedroom, and the marriage lasted only six hours.
- Peter Falk, the actor who played Colombo, has a glass eye.
- One of the many Tarzans, Karmuela Searlel, was mauled to death on the set by a raging elephant.
- Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents on her eighth birthday.
- Long before he gained renown as Pa Cartwright on the TV series Bonanza, Canadian-born actor Lorne Greene made a name for himself as a radio broadcaster during WW2. He was known to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation listeners as the "Voice of Doom".
- Lorne Greene had one of his nipples bitten off by an alligator while hosting Lorne Greene's Wild Kingdom.
- Actor Bela Lugosi was buried, as he had requested, in his famous Dracula cape.
- Actor Sean Connery has worked as a milkman, coffin-polisher and builder.
- Pamela Anderson Lee is Canada's Centennial Baby, being the first baby born on the centennial anniversary of Canada's independence.
- Classic horror film actor Vincent Price almost became a gourmet cook instead of an actor.
- Trying to prevent aging, Charlie Chaplin, Winston Churchill and Christian Dior all had injections of fetal lamb cells. The process failed.
- Paul Newman was the oldest driver in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour race.
- During their marriage, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton bought an electric chair for their dining room.
- The first female theatre manager was Mrs John Drew, mother of actor John Drew II, and grandmother of the famous Barrymores (think actress Drew Barrymore). She managed the Arch Street Theatre for 30 years after her husband died in 1850.
- On 4 October 1943, the U.S. Army Air Force announced that Captain Clark Gable was awarded the Air Medal for his five combat missions.
- Jack Palance, while serving in the U.S. Air Corps during WW2, was shot down. His plane went down in flames. While he survived the crash, he received severe facial burns which required major plastic surgery.
- Humphrey Bogart's ashes are in an urn that also contains a small gold whistle. Lauren Bacall had the whistle inscribed "If you need anything, just whistle" - the words she spoke to him in their first film together, To Have and Have Not.
- Entertainers who were boxers in the early days of their careers include Roy Clark, Bo Diddley, Bob Hope, John Huston, Martin Lawrence, Ryan O'Neal and Rod Serling.
- Markswoman Annie Oakley began shooting at the age of nine.
- Annie Oakley had all of her gold shooting medals melted down, then sold the gold and gave the money to charity.
- Martha Jane Burke, better known as Calamity Jane, was married 12 times.


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This week's issue of the Bulletin, newsweekly of Europe's capital, caught my attention and especially a one line sentence in an article entitled "The blog goes bio".
This article relates how Le Soir, one of Belgium's daily papers has launched an eco-blog on its website. It brings together articles on everything from noise pollution around Brussels airport, fines for rubbish dumping, food issues on over-fishing and on poor treatment of piglets on some Belgian farms. Dudley Curtis, the author says: "Bizarrely I couldn't find anything on what is for many expats the biggest environmental issue of all: dog mess on the streets of Brussels." He goes on to suggest: "Perhaps that needs a blog of its own. Any volunteers?"
Well, here I am. I do get irate about this. A few years ago, I was a victim of dog mess on my pavement. Passing my garage three times a day, a young couple walked two Bernese Mountain Dogs. Apparently the dogs liked the pavement outside my garage, every morning I was greeted with a heap of poo, which I cleaned up so that passers-by would not tread in it. This went on for weeks. One day I could stomach (sic) it no longer and went to the local police station and asked to see "l'agent de quartier" (the officer assigned to my area). He was a very attractive man in his middle fifties wearing jeans, a white T-shirt, a leather jacket, Ray Bans, was chewing gum and had whitened teeth. How could he help, he asked with his Hollywood smile. We started talking about the neighbourhood. The traffic, the parking offences, petty crime and …dogs. He travelled everywhere by bus, he told me. I welcomed the information especially since I had not asked for it. "Could I just come back to the subject of dogs?" I suggested. He said he liked dogs but had never been a member of the "brigade canine' (dog brigade). He was not "into that sort of police work". I did not go into this. Why did I want to see him, he enquired. So I told him that my patience was running out, that I never saw the dogs and their owners and that I could never catch them in flagrante delicto and could he do something about it. "Leave it with me." were his parting words as he shook my hand. I thought I had been politely sent packing and the issue brushed under the carpet. I could not have been more mistaken. A few days later, I received a telephone call from the police station to say that the matter had been dealt with and that I should suffer no further inconvenience. I never saw the dogs again nor the couple for that matter. As far as I was concerned the problem had been solved. Three cheers for the efficiency of my local police station and the LAPD look alike policeman.
NB: my blog can be used to discuss dog mess on the streets of Brussels.
Saturday, 27 January 2007
Dog poo on the streets of Brussels
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- wife in the north said...
I have to ask - do the police in Brussels have guns?
- 26 February 2007 at 20:39
- Eurodog said...
Answer to your question is yes.
- 26 February 2007 at 23:57
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Monday, August 31, 2009
Eat It Up
Bon Appetit!
Small birds lead grueling lives: from the moment they pop out into the world as fertilized eggs, they are in risk of turning into someone else's lunch. When they're not worrying about getting eaten themselves, they are either migrating, mating (or engaged in stressful mating-related activities such as fighting for territory or fighting off potential competitors)—or eating.
A knowledgeable source told me that warblers typically eat their weight in insects every day. I haven't gotten around to independently confirming this, but if it's anywhere near true, the only people who should ever be told to "eat like a bird" are sumo wrestlers. And maybe this guy.
During migration, appetites increase as birds fuel up for consecutive all-nighters of flight to the Southern Hemisphere. Last spring, a flock of Chipping Sparrows ate their little way through a 4-cup-capacity feeder-full of seed at my place every day for about three weeks before taking off for points north. Their company was getting quite expensive.
Now the birds are heading back south and some have deigned to stop in Gainesville. Not too many of these, however, have deigned to allow themselves to be seen by me this weekend. One of the more cooperative ones was this Black-and-white Warbler, grabbing one of many juicy snacks by the Bolen Bluff Trail in Paynes Prairie State Park:
This Red-eyed Vireo wasn't eating at the moment, but most likely, he or she was thinking about it. How do I know this? Hey, this is the internet—it has to be true!
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- Sparverius said...
Nice pics. I love the spider. And those birds are beautiful. I am pretty sure you are right about thinking about eating. That is usually what's on my mind. :)
- September 3, 2009 at 8:06 AM
- Carol said...
Great pics. Like the spider. It's the unusual stuff like that ..that's hard to get. Didn't realize fungi etc was so pretty..guess I need to start looking at that also. It's amazing what you can learn on blogs.
- September 9, 2009 at 3:48 PM
- Felicia said...
Belated thanks to both of you! Wendy, being outdoors a lot definitely makes one hungry. Carol, Florida fungi are definitely crazy cool--and easier to photograph than birds!
- September 11, 2009 at 1:58 PM
- dAwN said...
oh..wow I didnt realize that they ate their weight in bugs..great info!
- September 18, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- Felicia said...
Hi Dawn,
I'm not *completely* sure about the accuracy of that claim (I've heard it many times, but never checked it out independently). But I do know that warblers eat insane amounts right before migration. Gorgeous creatures with mind-bogglingly stressful lives...
- September 19, 2009 at 1:47 PM


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I DNF'd Carey Baldwin's Hush for reasons that didn't have much to do with the story. One of my absolute hottest buttons is a rewritten work issued without disclosure. When George Lucas takes his fiftieth pass at Star Wars you generally know going in that he's swapped some stuff up. There's an implicit consent involved. While Baldwin has extensively reworked her limited release anthology tale Solomon's Wisdom, there is enough of the prior story left that I went from "This seems weirdly familiar" to "I've read this before". At that point I didn't want to continue. My consent for that experience had not been solicited.
I get that Solomon's Wisdom had a very limited audience. Most readers are not going to hit the same wall. I also understand the choice to market Hush as new material given the additional work put into it. I simply disagree. So, if you've read Solomon's Wisdom and give your consent to checking out Hush, let me know how it goes. (I stopped at the point where her brother-in-law bursts through the door.)
Hush is a romantic suspense dealing lightly with domestic violence. Anna is the girl next door, the quiet librarian with a spine of steel. Charlie is the former soldier turned medic haunted by their shared childhood. A death from the past and a death from the present intertwine, potentially placing Anna and her elder sister in danger. There was a lot I liked about Solomon's Wisdom that I still liked in Hush. While I found both Anna and Charlie to have cases of arrested development, I appreciated their honest communication. Both want to understand how their past created their present. Anna is proactive in her sexuality and her boundaries. Baldwin has a straightforward style that will work for a reader or it won't. I felt the same way about Charlie and Anna halfway through Hush as I did at the end of Solomon's Wisdom. Neither of them became more than pieces on the game board. If they won or lost was less important than turning the page and seeing where they went next.
Hush was supposed to be my second swing at Baldwin's work but I think I'm out. I like her working class settings (even with the advanced degrees) and everyday problems, but she didn't fully capture me with either version of Anna and Charlie's reunion. Baldwin is worth checking out but not an author I'm planning to follow.


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Yes, I do have Salt n Pepa going round in my head at the moment. And you do too now. Ha ha!
Anyway, I said I was going to tell you why I wanted to write a blog. Well:
a) I really love sewing and could talk about it for hours but my friends and family don't really wanna hear me rambling about perfectly bound button holes and the perils of slippery fabric. So, for now, I'll talk to myself on my little corner of the internet until some of you come and join me.
b) I've applied to join series three of The Great British Sewing Bee- the search for the best British amateur sewer, aired on BBC 2 in the UK.
I don't claim to be the best amateur sewer by far. I follow too many amazing blogs like Scruffy Badger Time and Dolly Clackett to even contemplate the thought. But I've got nothing to lose and it's fun to have something to get excited about and to stretch my sewing skills. I love a challenge and tend to throw myself at patterns regardless of the skill level indicated. This has resulted in some bloopers but also some things I'm really proud of.
I'd like to take you on this journey with me. For now I'm keeping my fingers crossed and praying for a phone call between now and some time in April (I really should check that date).
Of course I'm doing some research and homework to seat up and that brings me back to Salt n Pepa- well, zips anyway. I nearly squealed with delight and jumped up and down in my chair last night, when watching episode two of series two of The Bee, as it shall henceforth be known. The contestants had to make a box pleated skirt with a hand picked lapped zip. I CAN DO THAT! I wanted to shout to the world. And it just so happens that I'm currently working on a project (to be shared when complete) and I had already decided to replace the invisible zip it called for for a lapped zip. I'm a massive Gertie fan and have her book. The pencil skirt, of which I've made two, has a lapped zip. I had intended to machine stitch this zip but, in the spirit of The Bee, I swapped to hand picked, or pricked if you're the woman from The Bee (note to self, really must learn the presenters names, other than Patrick- yummy!).
Here's how it went. Firstly I've got to tell you I'm in love with parafin wax. I hate hand sewing usually but read on a blog, I think it was Did you make that?, about waxing your thread before sewing. Oh my God! I got one tangle during all of the hand stitching and actually found it relaxing rather than the usual hair pulling strop inducing nightmare hand sewing usually is for me. And that's good because I had to do a lot as I made a couple of rookie mistakes. If you follow me on instagram you may have spotted one of them.
I have a confession to make. Until tonight I've been putting my zips in wrong. It didn't dawn on me until I was 1/4 of the way down one side that I've not been allowing for the seam allowance where the skirt body meets the waist band. I've been butting the zip stop up against the edge of the fabric and folding down the excess zip tape. So this revelation caused unpicking number one. I dutifully measured down to the seam line (5/8″) and measured on the zip. Here comes revelation number two. The top of the zip tape is 5/8″. Queue forehead slapping moment and poor Homer Simpson impression. I'm dense at times.
I'm now halfway down the first side of the zip and super chuffed with my really neat, practically
invisible pick stitching. I glance down at the end of the zip and realise the second unpick is about to start.
I'd put it on inside out with the zip pull on the inside. Curses!
My third attempt was the final one and pretty successful. It was a bit tricky as I've used my overlocker on the side seams so it's trimmed off the seam allowance so I had to be really careful to catch the allowance at the back of the overlap. But it all worked out right in the end. What do you think?


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The emerging Republican game plan for 2006 is, at bottom, a tautology: If the Democrats retake Congress it will mean, well, that the Democrats retake Congress. (Cue lightning bolt and ominous clap of thunder.) Karl Rove and his minions have plumb run out of issues to campaign on. They can't run on the war. They can't run on the economy, where the positive numbers on growth are offset by the largely stagnant numbers on median incomes and the public's growing dread of outsourcing. Immigration may play in various congressional districts, but it's too dicey an issue to nationalize. Even social conservatives may be growing weary of outlawing gay marriage every other November. Nobody's buying the ownership society. Competence? Ethics? You kidding?That's right they simply don't have anything else to run on, they certainly can't run on their record. Bush's poll numbers keep falling, already much lower than I thought they would go, and they can't seem to do anything about it.
There's no concealing the Republican collapse. In a USA Today-Gallup poll released this week, the president's approval rating had deflated to a dismal 31 percent -- and to just 52 percent among conservatives. Other recent polls have shown that the public prefers shifting congressional control to the Democrats by margins as high as 17 percent.That's right, Bush's approval ratings are just slightly over 50% among conservatives. So what are the Republicans telling folks to try to hang on to the House and Senate.
And so, to stave off the specter of Democratic rule, Rove has decided that the only way to rally the Republican base is to invoke the specter of Democratic rule. Democrat John Conyers, who would become chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has spoken of investigating the president for high crimes and misdemeanors. Henry Waxman and Ted Kennedy will get subpoena power if the Democrats win both houses. Unspecified horrors lurk behind every corner if the Democrats take control and hold hearings about the administration's relations with the oil and pharmaceutical industries. A sea of partisan vendetta, Republicans prophesy, stretches to the horizon if the Democrats are allowed to win.In other words if the Democrats take control the legislature may actually do it's job. Unfortunately for the Republicans even a lot of the conservative base think that might be a really good idea.


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Arcade Fire is playing on my camera
So last night I was given the lucky option to attend a free LCD Soundsystem/Arcade Fire show. This being my first time to Randall's Island and I wasn't too impressed. As I got in line to the Stairway to port-a-potty heaven I looked out along the field and saw just how cruddy it was. No matter, S.Wan aka Swan got me free tickets to my first LCD SS and AF show, so I couldn't complain. Little did I know this would be Arcade Fire's last concert in NYC for two years!
The video I got during the show doesn't really compare to this video below that I captured right after the show, when Arcade Fire decided to have a surprise encore right next to the stage. They covered the Violent Femmes' "Kiss Off." Lucky for me the BrooklynVegan posted the vid and gave me credit. Later on I found out the video is posted on Stereogum. As of right now, it's the 7th most commented article on Stereogum. Yup. All I can say is I'm pumped. The days of me moonlighting as a video reporter have begun. ha.
Amen for my camera. I love that thing.
Thanks BV and Stereogum. ;)


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This is very much a "local" church, catering
to its parishioners in the 12th arrondissement.
However, it does have two beautiful organs; the main
one, built by Cavaillé-Coll, is considered one of the
best examples of symphonic organs in Paris—and some
powerful music has been recorded in this church.
[Linking back to inSPIREd Sunday and Shadow Shot Sunday.]
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Friday, May 18, 2012
Product Review: The Gluten Free Bar
We all know how hard it is to find a protein or meal bar that meets all expectations - I myself usually end up eating a protein bar with dairy because there aren't other options. The folks at the Gluten Free Bar were kind enough to send me some samples to try - and I'm always happy to try samples!
They sent me three flavors: peanut butter, peanut butter chocolate, and cranberry almond. That stats for these bars are quite impressive: vegan, dairy-free, gluten-free, with 12 grams of protein. They're also a decent size, which is important. Usually bars like this are "raw-" in other words, made mostly of nuts and dried fruit, which makes them very high in calories (sometime upwards of 400 cals/bar).
If I compare them to the bar I normally eat in the morning at work (some form of this) they stack up pretty well, though clearly they don't have as high amounts of protein and fiber. They do however have less saturated fat, sodium, and carbohydrates.
However, the big difference here is the ingredients: the gf bar is dairy-free. This is huge - it is extremely different to find a protein bar that doesn't use dairy. I can tolerate small levels of dairy, but there are days when I just can't add any extra irritants into my system (don't we all have those days). They're also quite tasty, with a texture that falls somewhere between a lara bar and a power bar. The bars are chewy and slightly-sweet - the peanut butter chocolate and the peanut butter are the best flavors. What I also liked was that they were rolled out into a large, thin squares which took longer to eat than the typical bar-size. They kept me full till lunch, and no stomach ache!
The only con: they aren't available in any stores in the bay area yet, so you have to buy them online, and they are a little expensive - about $28 for a box of 12. I imagine if you find them in stores they will cost you more. But if you have the means, definitely check them out.
In all, a strong A.
Buy them here
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- AnonymousOctober 5, 2012 at 6:47 AM
Gluten AND dairy free, for less than 250 calories? Very impressive. I'm wondering if these are available anywhere in Australia. I suppose they would be quite expensive over here but probably worth it!ReplyDelete
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Okay so today I am going for the obvious metaphor - the Saints overtime win against America's quarterback, Brett Favre, and his team du jour, the Vikings. As a New Orleans native, seeing the Saints not just win consecutive games but actually make it to the Super Bowl, a feat that I am still trying to process, is a very vivid reminder of the power of BELIEF.
As a kid growing up in the New Orleans area, the Saints were always part of the culture. We weren't die-hard fans with season tickets, but they were the home team and we cheered them on. Yes, even when doing so felt like a lesson in futility. I mean, the Saints were baaaaad. They were real bad. People used to call them the "A'ints." Fans wore paper bags over the heads at games so no one would know they were a fan. But to be honest, having a really bad football team was kind of fun in a way. They weren't good, but they were our team. Misery loves company, right?
And then, in the early nineties, magic started to happen. The Saints won. And then they won again. And then somehow, they were in the playoffs. On the school bus each morning, the airwaves were clogged with renditions on, "When the Saints Go Marching In," and people chanted the mantra, "I Believe." Everyone had "WHO DAT Fever". A friend of mine even broke out his mom's craft supplies and paint-penned a t-shirt, carefully painting a gold checkmark each time the Saints won a game. It was an incredible time.
Well, as you can guess, eventually they stopped winning, and things went back to normal. We stopped expecting them to win and started expecting them to lose. The Saints were the home team, nothing more.
That was twenty years ago. Now, over the past few seasons, the Saints have developed into a strong football team, and last night earned the privilege of playing in the Super Bowl. After screaming at the television for two hours and alternating between hiding my face with a pillow and sitting about three inches from the television screen, a field goal cemented what I never thought I would see happen. I mean, I said I believed, but honestly, the concept of the Saints going to the Super Bowl was, well, unbelievable. But it happened. My sister called me, hysterical, and it took about three minutes of us just screaming into the phone before actual words were uttered.
The parallels to personal wellness are pretty clear. I hear every day, and sometimes think myself, about things we can't do. They can't give up sugar. They can't workout in the morning. They can't get their husband to support them. They can't pass up wedding cake/birthday cake/German chocolate cake/whatever cake. They can't eat just one chip, and they can't even imagine just not even eating any chips at all. "Oh I just can't do that," they say. "That is just not going to happen."
Well, okay.
I once thought I couldn't give up sugar; I thought it was completely unrealistic to imagine myself never again eating processed sugar. But I have. It wasn't easy, but I did it.
I once thought I couldn't fit in a second workout at lunch. Too busy. But I do now, at least four days a week, and it has catapulted me to my next level of fitness.
It was never that I couldn't; I just had not yet.
Seeing the Saints make it to the Super Bowl has reminded me that just about anything can happen. So if you plan to tell me this week that you "can't" not have pizza with everyone else or you "can't" make time for some cardio or you "can't" pass up your co-worker's special whatever, think again. Because dude, if the SAINTS can go to the SUPER BOWL, you can put down the chips.


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