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What is lead poisoning?
Lead poisoning is caused by swallowing or breathing in lead.
Lead is a metal that can harm children and adults when it gets into their bodies. There are many sources of lead. Lead can be found in dust, air, water, soil, and in some products used in and around our homes.
Lead can harm a young child's growth, behavior, and ability to learn. Children under six years old are more likely to get lead poisoning than any other age group. Most often, children get lead poisoning from breathing in or swallowing dust from old lead paint that gets on floors and windowsills, hands and toys. Lead can also be passed from mother to baby during pregnancy.
Although lead poisoning is preventable, lead continues to be a major cause of poisoning among children. Thousands of children are still at risk. Find out how you can protect the children in your life.
Adults can also get lead poisoning, especially through contact with lead in certain jobs or hobbies or when disturbing lead paint through renovation or remodeling activities.
How can you know if a person has lead poisoning?
The most common test for lead is a blood test. It measures how much lead is in your bloodstream. A person with lead poisoning usually does not look or feel sick.
Because children continue to be at risk, New York State requires health care providers to test all children for lead with a blood lead test at age 1 year and again at age 2 years. At every well-child visit up to age six, health care providers must ask parents about any contact their child might have had with lead. If there's been a chance of contact, providers are required to test for lead again. Parents can ask their child's doctor or nurse if their child should get a lead test, and what the lead test results mean.
What is New York State doing to end childhood lead poisoning?
Great progress has been made, but lead is still a threat to many children. The Department of Health has strong programs, plans and laws working to prevent childhood lead poisoning statewide. These programs also help those children who have lead poisoning. The Advisory Council on Lead Poisoning Prevention provides guidance to the Department of Health concerning development of these programs, plans, and laws.
In June, 2009, Governor Paterson issued Executive Order No. 21 to establish the Governor's Task Force on the Prevention of Childhood Lead Poisoning. The Task Force is composed of state agency representatives. Its purpose is to reduce childhood lead poisoning through increased inter-agency collaboration and coordination.


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My book The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History has received far more attention than I ever expected. Once the book hit number eight on the New York Times bestseller list, the Times' editorial page condemned it without actually showing where its arguments were mistaken; several weeks later, to my surprise, the Times published a favorable profile of me. The controversy surrounding the book has reached at least two other continents: Brazil's Folha de S. Paulo, with the highest circulation of any newspaper in Latin America, published a full interview with me, as did a major Catholic newspaper in Ireland. The Times of London, for its part, published a more or less positive piece about the book.
Among conservatives the reception has been mostly favorable: Pat Buchanan praised the book on the "McLaughlin Group," Gary Bauer called it one of the top five books of 2004, and positive reviews appeared in such outlets as Human Events and this magazine. But neoconservative attacks on the book have also begun to surface, the most recent of which was by Max Boot.
Boot's review appeared in the online version of the neoconservative Weekly Standard. Mind you, the print version of the Weekly Standard had already reviewed the book favorably. Reviewer James W. Haley Jr. said that my book "is ultimately about truth" and is one that "everyone interested in American history should have in his library." "It is not surprising," he observed, "that a history guide written by a professor with an undergraduate degree from Harvard and a doctorate from Columbia made it onto the New York Times bestseller list. What is surprising—refreshingly so—is that a text that challenges the liberal canon has so resonated with the American public."
Max Boot didn't find it quite so refreshing. Having seen the book (erroneously) described in the New York Times as "a neocon retelling" of American history, he grew curious and got a copy. Boot is right about one thing: the description of my book as neocon was simply idiotic; distinctions like neoconservative and paleoconservative are typically lost on the Times.
What is so revealing about Boot's critique, though, and what in fact makes his review newsworthy, is that it conclusively proves what traditional conservatives have consistently alleged: neoconservatism, at root, is merely a variety of leftism. Boot's criticism of my work, in fact, is almost identical to that of the New York Times.
Early on, Boot explains, The Politically Incorrect Guide "starts to slip from conventional history into a Bizarro world where every state has the right to disregard any piece of federal legislation it doesn't like," a position its author derives "mainly the writings of the Southern pro-slavery politician John C. Calhoun." What my book actually says is that important early Americans held the view that the states could refuse to enforce unconstitutional federal legislation and that both North and South had recourse to this mechanism at one time or another during the 19th century. As for relying "mainly" on Calhoun, in an 11-page chapter on the subject my discussion of Calhoun amounts to half a page. My main source, in fact, is Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson's concern was this: if the federal government is allowed to have the final, authoritative word on the extent of its own powers, the states will wind up completely eclipsed as the federal government hands down rulings in its own favor. The states had to have some corporate mechanism for resisting federal usurpations if they were not to be absorbed by the federal government.
I understand why Boot, a neoconservative nationalist, wants to avoid letting people know that it was Jefferson who came up with this "Bizarro" idea, since most Americans have an abiding respect for Jefferson and might be inclined to give his ideas a fair hearing. Boot prefers instead to attribute the idea solely to the "pro-slavery" Calhoun in order to taint it with the brush of slavery and get back to the neoconservative business of defending federal supremacy.
Professor Kevin Gutzman has shown that the principles behind nullification had in fact been germinating for 10 years, developing from ideas and positions that were taken for granted at the Virginia ratifying convention even by the Federalists, who most favored political centralization. Boot's treatment of the subject reveals not the slightest acquaintance with any of this; my active imagination has simply invented some "Bizarro world" in which these ideas were taken seriously.
Boot then writes that I am "particularly upset about the 14th Amendment (he claims it was never lawfully ratified) because it barred former Confederates from holding political office." Read my Reconstruction chapter for yourself and consider the effort it must have taken Boot to misrepresent it this extent. My concern about the Fourteenth Amendment has nothing to do with its disqualification of former Confederates; I raise that issue in a single paragraph in order to show that a variety of reasons existed for Southern opposition to the amendment.
The book's point about the Fourteenth Amendment is that it gave the federal government an opening through which it could trample on the states' rights of self-government. The 1990s were filled with state ballot initiatives that were imperiously overturned by federal judges on Fourteenth Amendment grounds. As for my "claim" that it was unlawfully ratified, Forrest McDonald—you know, that big extremist—in the Georgia Journal of Southern Legal History (Spring/Summer 1991) most recently laid out the scholarly argument for this position, which is about as ironclad as you could ask for. Boot appears never to have heard of it.
Later in his review, Boot defends Harry Truman against my charge that in committing American troops to South Korea in 1950, he disregarded his constitutional duty to ask Congress for a declaration of war. That happens to have been the view of Sen. Robert A. Taft, who was known in his day as "Mr. Republican." (We can only imagine Boot's opinion of Taft.) I don't seem to realize, according to Boot, that "previous presidents had sent U.S. troops into battle hundreds of times without any declaration of war."
This is a classic example of neoconservative obfuscation. The examples Boot is speaking of do not involve the president deploying troops in offensive operations against foreign governments. The first time that happened was in 1900, when William McKinley sent 5,000 American troops to China to suppress the Boxer Rebellion, a revolt of Chinese nationalists connected to the Chinese government. (Historian Walter LaFeber notes that few people at the time appreciated the precedent that McKinley was setting in that relatively minor affair.) The book's discussion of presidential war powers makes perfectly clear just how limited the Framers of the Constitution intended them to be. There is no room for debate here: I am right and Boot is spectacularly and outrageously wrong.
After finishing my book, Boot says he was curious to find out more about me. His painstaking research into my background brought up not the fairly substantial trail of scholarly publication that an impartial search might reveal, but rather simply my membership in an organization called the League of the South. Boot then launches into a caricature of the league based on a couple of cherry-picked quotations. I've addressed this issue at length in a Feb. 19 entry on the LewRockwell.com blog.
In this venue let me simply point out what Paul Gottfried once told me: by and large, the neocons detest Southerners and Germans. The older conservatism of Richard Weaver and Russell Kirk possessed a deep and abiding respect and sympathy for the Southern tradition, which they would never have treated with the contempt and disgust that it typically receives in neoconservative circles today. Neocons yield to no one in their hatred of the Confederate battle flag, and their condemnations of such traditional Southern symbols read like press releases from the Southern Poverty Law Center.
As for Germans, Boot is particularly enraged at my World War I chapter (our reviewer being one of the seven or so people who still consider American entry into that war a good idea). According to Boot, I am "sympathetic to German militarists" and I think it was "Woodrow Wilson's fault that Germany began sinking American ships without warning, which led the United States into the war." Boot is actually surprised that American merchant ships, outfitted on Wilson's orders with Navy guns and staffed with Navy crews and instructed to fire upon any surfacing submarine, would be sunk by the Germans.
As for the Belgian atrocities, which I describe as "largely fabricated" (since they were), Boot also dissents. The point he misses is that although the Germans were indeed brutal in Belgium in suppressing a guerrilla uprising whose size they gravely overestimated, it was the tales of children having their hands cut off and corpses being made into margarine that outraged civilized opinion. And it was these sadistic and bizarre crimes, described in the Bryce Report, that were fabrications for propaganda purposes. When Clarence Darrow offered to pay $1,000 ($17,000 in today's money) to anyone who could show him a Belgian boy whose hands had been cut off by a German soldier, no one took him up on it.
Boot continues: "The real atrocity, [Woods] thinks, was Britain's naval blockade of Germany." Well, yes, as a matter of fact that is what I think. Britain's hunger blockade of Germany, which violated accepted norms of international law in more than one respect, resulted in 750,000 civilian deaths—about 150 times the number of Belgian civilians most scholars say were killed by the Germans.
Boot then proceeds to mischaracterize the Zimmerman telegram as "the document in which Germany's foreign minister offered Mexico the return of the American Southwest if it would declare war on the United States." Some might consider it relevant that the telegram began by noting that the Germans hoped to keep the U.S. neutral but that if they were unsuccessful and the United States entered the war against them, they wished to contract an alliance with Mexico.
Shortly after the Second World War, George Kennan wondered, "Today if one were offered the chance of having back again the Germany of 1913—a Germany run by conservative but relatively moderate people, no Nazis and no Communists—a vigorous Germany, full of energy and confidence, able to play a part again in the balancing-off of Russian power in Europe, in many ways it would not sound so bad." In other words, U.S. intervention in World War I, undertaken with the best of intentions, had been an exceedingly costly mistake. My point exactly.
Boot also criticizes me for having written, shortly after Sept. 11, "the barbarism of recent American foreign policy was bound to lead to a terrorist catastrophe on American soil." See how neoconservatism so easily degenerates into moral relativism. Is American foreign policy ipso facto admirable and beyond criticism simply because it is American? For that matter, why am I permitted to criticize our country's abortion policy in no uncertain terms and be a decent citizen in good standing but not American foreign policy? Older conservatives, informed by the just-war tradition and more sensitive to the idea of absolute moral standards than to the amoralism of Machiavelli, were capable of rendering critical judgments on their own governments. Richard Weaver, for instance, condemned the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as did Felix Morley, one of the founders of Human Events.
Given that Boot appears to have no serious gripe with much of anything in the mainstream narrative of American history—indeed, perhaps he should write The Politically Correct Guide to American History—it's not surprising that he would become so hysterical at the sight of a book that really does take issue with that narrative. Since in my judgment Max Boot embodies everything that is wrong with modern conservatism, his opposition is about the best endorsement I could have asked for.
Thomas E. Woods Jr., who holds a Ph.D. in history from Columbia University, is the author, most recently, of The Church and the Market: A Catholic Defense of the Free Economy.


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Hang on to your hats, the wind warning for the Poconos has been extended through 6 p.m. Gusts as high as 50 mph are still possible.
Hang on to your hats, the wind warning for the Poconos has been extended through 6 p.m. Gusts as high as 50 mph are still possible.
The winds were strong enough to blow furniture onto Stroudsburg's Main Street overnight.
No, the damage shown in this photo isn't the result of wind damage, but instead another mishap that has now delayed the opening of the new Pocono Mountain Public Library. The building's new HVAC unit broke earlier this month and poured hundreds of gallons of water into the building.
Coolbaugh Township continues to debate its future with Pocono Mountain Regional Police. Earlier this week, residents had a chance to give their two cents on the matter.
While we're on the subject of police issues, Pennsylvania State Police have temporarily suspended the use of breathalyzers. The change stems from a judge's concerns about the accuracy of the devices.
A Bushkill woman's alleged counterfeit smuggling operation could prove costly. She is accused of trafficking fake Gucci and Burberry handbags into the United States. She now faces up to two years in prison and a $14.5 million fine if convicted.
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, it's never too soon to start thinking about St. Patrick's Day. Stroudsburg attorney Bill Cramer has been named grand marshal of this year's Pocono Irish American Club parade.
Friends of a local musician are remembering him as someone with a huge passion for music, who was gifted at math and a good listener. Schuyler "Sky" McAndrew died suddenly of an asthma attack last weekend.
With two weeks to go until "A Good Day to Die Hard," it's also a good time to catch up on the PopRox blogger Mike Sadowski's favorite action-movie franchise, with "How do they hold up?" reviews of all four movies.


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|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Aug.4, 2009
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Singstar is definitely the premier franchise when it comes to karaoke-style games. With more than 30 individual titles under its belt, and almost a thousand songs to choose from in the SingStore, there is plenty of content for both aspiring vocalists and partygoers to test their skills on. Pair this with one of the most popular classic rock bands of all time, and you've got Singstar: Queen.
Perhaps one of the most anticipated karaoke titles of the year, Singstar: Queen is definitely a title many have been on the lookout for. It is the second Singstar title to feature a single artist, and although Singstar: ABBA was popular in its own right, Singstar: Queen is expected to have a much broader appeal. I was pretty hyped for this game, as Queen definitely makes my list of top musicians, and just getting the chance to run around my living room with mic stand outstretched just like the late, great Freddie Mercury was enough to elevate Singstar: Queen to "must buy" status. However, if we look closer at the game itself, there are a few things that may dissuade the non-fanatical Queen fans from this title.
As far as modes go, this game sticks very strictly to the Singstar formula. The game has a single-player mode where you can sing solo and work on your accuracy, a duet mode where you can combine your score with a friend, a battle mode which compares your overall score with an opponent, or the party-friendly pass-the-mic mode. The pass-the-mic mode is generally the most popular of the modes, as it features marathon-style challenges where up to eight people can compete. All of these modes feel very familiar, and if you don't mind the same old Singstar grind, then you'll be happy with what is presented here.
However, one thing that is definitely different here is the vocal difficulty. Freddie Mercury's vocal styling is definitely complex, and there are frequent jumps in key as well as steep note slides. Add this with plenty of syncopation and varying rhythms and you've got yourself an amazingly challenging game. For the first time ever, I had to turn the difficulty down on a song ("Somebody to Love") in order to get a decent score, and I found myself pleasantly challenged by all of the game's songs.
And speaking of songs, the tracklist in Singstar: Queen is awesome. If you are a Queen fan, then you'll definitely be pleased with the game's 20 tracks that include standards like "Bohemian Rhapsody", "We Will Rock You", and "We Are the Champions". There are also some lesser known tracks on the disc, including "Play the Game" and "Save Me".
However, if there is one thing that does disappoint me about this collection, it is the lack of variation. The band-centric versions of series like Guitar Hero have done a great job of implementing artists that inspired the game's focal act. Unfortunately, since Singstar: Queen is 100% Queen, it's hard to play for long stretches at a time, and it really feels like a disc-based track pack more than a complete game. What would have been really interesting would be if some of the notable Queen covers of the past decade were included, particularly the Paul Rodgers covers or those contained on the Queen Greatest Hits album.


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This is due to the local electricity market facing new rules for concessions and again being haunted by the spectre of power rationing because of errors in the planning of transmission lines.
Installed wind-power capacity has surged from 600MW in 2009 to 2.5GW in 2012, representing 2% of total energy capacity. It is expected to reach 4GW by the end of 2013, according to Brazilian wind energy association Abeeolica. Contracts already signed mean that by 2016, a further 4.4GW should come online.
Brazil's total installed electricity capacity has grown by 75% since 2001 while the grid grew 68%, according to government figures. Connection to the grid is one of the biggest problems facing the Brazilian industry this year, says Abeeolica's executive secretary elbia Melo.
In 2012 alone, the country faced over 30 localised power cuts because of a badly maintained and out-of-date transmission system. Some 600MW of wind farms completed last year could not deliver power for lack of connections in the north-eastern region, which has the best wind resource in the country but also an under-developed grid.
This year, at least another 600MW of the 1.6GW that will be built will likely have no connection to the grid and may not be switched on.
Going it alone
Although wind developers are not penalised by the lack of delivery if it is not their fault, absent connections reduce the possibility to sell power in the unregulated market and cause operational problems. This has led some wind-power companies to consider building their own connections to the grid.
One of these is Bioenergy, a renewables company that won contracts for 202MW at the latest auction in December 2012. In January, the firm announced a BRL 110 million ($54 million) investment in 240 kilometres of transmission lines to connect the new wind farms in the north-eastern state of Maranhao to the grid and sell power in the unregulated market before the start of contracts in 2017.
Despite the growing interest by companies to buy partially subsidised clean power such as wind directly from generators, the government auctions are still the anchor for new projects because of the 20-year contracts they offer. These guarantee enough revenue to finance the construction of new parks. But uncertainties still abound even at the auctions, the latest of which has been scheduled for the first quarter of 2013.
Renewables developer Desa is looking closely at the non-regulated market, where prices are higher since the availability of transmission links will be a key factor in the decision to participate in the auctions, says Desa CEO Carlos Augusto Brandao.
Desa has a wind portfolio of 1.3GW. It has another 145MW awaiting grid connection. This year, it will complete construction of 60MW and has another 29MW in the pipeline for 2016. However, Desa withdrew from the December auction as prices plunged.
Rising demand
The general consensus is that the low prices in December's auction were predatory because of low demand for electricity. The cost of production of wind power rose from 2011 levels due to a devaluation of the local currency of over 20% since January 2012 and an inflation rate of 5% a year. Yet the price wind power is sold at has dropped from an average of BRL 105/MWh to BRL 87.5/MWh.
Prices are expected to rebound this year as demand will be higher. Power regulator Aneel is expected to cancel contracts for several thermal generation plants that local firm Bertin failed to build, leaving a power generation gap of 2GW. The economy is forecast to rebound and grow at least 3% in 2013, compared with around 1% last year.
But financing remains in the hands of national development bank BNDES, which has financed 62% of wind projects since 2009. Brazil still lacks regulation to allow wind companies to loosen the girdle created by the coupling of long-term power purchase agreements (PPAs) and government auctions. Long-term PPAs are needed as guarantees for financing from BNDES and for project financing.
In 2012, BNDES approved BRL 3.4 billion ($1.7 billion) in financing for the wind sector, and is expected to increase this by 15% this year, say bank officials.
Developers are talking about new ways to finance projects beside BNDES and this could include the shorter non-regulated contracts. However, capital markets will remain shut to wind because of regulatory uncertainties in the whole electricity sector.
Meanwhile, several major manufacturers are still trying to gain re-listing in the BNDES financing programme, Finame, which gives them access to cheap loans if they meet strict local-content rules. Last year, firms including Vestas and Suzlon were deemed to have not met the BNDES' criteria. The bank published clarification of the rules at the end of 2012 and said it might increase the requirements in future.


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Intense home-workout programs that promise transformation, such as P90X and Insanity, can be too much for many people and might even lead to serious injuries, some doctors and trainers warn.
Intense home-workout programs that promise transformation, such as P90X and Insanity, can be too much for many people and might even lead to serious injuries, some doctors and trainers warn.
Dr. Jason Dapore of OhioHealth's Spine, Sport & Joint Center said he has seen several patients with injuries related to these workouts, including damage to rotator cuffs, tendinitis in the knee and neck injuries.
"It's not something they talk about in the commercials," said Dapore, who has done the original P90X and is working his way through the second incarnation. "There are some dynamic, complex moves."
The programs, which are on DVDs, run for a set number of days and include difficult aerobic and strength-training workouts.
Dapore said the newest version includes information about injury risks, but he thinks many people likely jump past the warnings in their eagerness to get going.
"I think people kind of just dive into their workouts," he said.
Dapore said he also has noticed that many people who follow the P90X exercise program don't adhere to the diet that goes with it. Without the proper diet, working out at that intensity can be dangerous, he said. "You're basically tearing up your muscles and not getting the nutrition you need."
People - especially those who aren't in their 20s anymore - should take the time to learn about what the programs entail and talk to their doctor or a physical therapist about whether they are a safe option, Dapore said.
Greg Jasnikowski, a personal trainer who owns Body by Greg in Dublin, said the workouts are far too intense for most people.
"They ask people to do pull-ups in these videos. Show me somebody who can do pull-ups right off the street," he said. "These are being sent to people who are sitting in front of the TV and looking at these pictures of before and after. It's trying to psychologically set the fire under their butts."
He said such workouts really are for athletes with some sort of preparation.
"To look pretty at the pool you don't need specialized training programs like those," Jasnikowski said.
He said the workouts aren't just strenuous, they're long. People starting a strength-training program shouldn't be pushing themselves longer than 15 minutes or a half-hour, he said.
Another concern is that people trying an intense workout at home for the first time won't know if they're performing an exercise correctly. Without proper alignment, form and flexibility, injury is a major risk, Jasnikowski said.
"Most of the people I come across, they are undermuscled, overfat and completely stiff," he said.
Nate Traucht, a personal trainer who owns Fitness Edge in Dublin, said there's another downside to home-based workouts.
"People spend a lot of money and then never use it. That's why personal trainers continue in this day and age," Traucht said.
He said the programs are effective if used properly.
"It's sound advice, it's just whether or not everybody can do it."
Injuries are bound to happen when relatively sedentary people jump into a strenuous routine, Traucht said. "You have to learn to walk before you can run, and with most of these DVDs, you have to go in running."


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Zach Zimmerman freely admits what he does is a little crazy.
In May, he ran two marathons in 15 days. This summer, he ran four half marathons in four days.
"I felt good enough to run another one on the fifth day too," he said. "But I had to spend the day sitting on a plane (taking a work trip) instead."
Zimmerman is a member of two clubs whose members tick off marathons and half marathons as casually as the rest of us check off items on a grocery list. The minimum requirement to join: Finish two marathons or half marathons in 16 days.
The Marathon Maniacs and Half Fanatics started as local running clubs that now include a combined international membership of more than 12,000 people.
"It's a 'pinch me' kind of thing," said Tony Phillippi, one of the three marathoners who founded the club. "To see that many people excited about and celebrating running is pretty special. Sometimes it gives me goose bumps."
The stories that resonate most with Phillippi are ones such as Zimmerman's.
A 33-year-old state mortgage auditor, Zimmerman wasn't much of a runner until he met his wife, Anne. She persuaded him to start taking short runs with her and then sign up for a half marathon.
Zimmerman was a cyclist who logged many miles, but he also lugged around a significant amount of extra weight. He credits Anne for getting him started and his young daughters for motivating him to get serious about the sport, because running workouts take much less time than long cycling workouts.
He qualified for Half Fanatics in 2010, and in 2012 he decided he was going to run faster, farther and more often. Zimmerman set a goal of running 12 half marathons in 2012. "My wife thought I was crazy," he said. He ran 15.
He also started regularly running the 13.1-mile races in less than two hours, a time many runners set as a goal. And with a proper diet in place, he dropped from 230 pounds to 175. In May, he also qualified for the Marathon Maniacs.
"I feel much healthier now," Zimmerman said.
Marathon Maniacs has more than 7,400 members, and Half Fanatics has more than 4,600. The membership ranges from elite runners capable of winning races to walkers.
"Really, it's about the camaraderie and having fun running," Phillippi said.
High standards
Marathon Maniacs started 10 years ago after Phillippi and two friends ran a marathon in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Phillippi, Steven Yee and Chris Warren were comparing their racing accomplishments and goals.
All three ran marathons with the ease most runners finish 5-kilometer races with, and all were well on their way to recording more than 100 marathons.
They hatched the idea for a club for lovers of marathons. You didn't have to be fast to qualify. You didn't even have to run. But you did have to complete multiple marathons.
"There are different levels of maniacal," Phillippi said. So the club identified nine of those as membership levels.
The easiest requires running two marathons in 16 days or three in 90 days. The most challenging gives runners 365 days to finish 52 marathons; or 30 marathons in 30 different states, countries or Canadian provinces; or marathons in 20 different countries. All must be official races. Long training runs don't count.
Members' accomplishments are logged on the club websites in a listing called "The Asylum."
The founders — or Main Maniacs, as they refer to themselves — all rank at the club's highest levels.
Yee, the club president, has run more than 300 marathons and once recorded 57 in a year. Warren has finished more than 200 marathons, and his record is 53 in a year. Phillippi is approaching 200 marathons, but a stress fracture kept him from reaching the club's highest level. He's at the second highest-level, having completed 42 marathons in a year.
The club debuted with a website in 2003 and got its first member, Terry Watanabe, the next day.
"But, really, it was slim pickings at first," Yee said.
At the end of the first year, the club had 64 members. Even after three years, membership was only 294.
Phillippi said running publications were hesitant to write about the Maniacs because it was so widely believed running so much could be dangerous. "People were supposed to run maybe four marathons in a year," Phillippi said. "We've totally disproved that."
In 2007, membership began to soar, with an average of more than 1,000 new members each year. Phillippi credits social media and the bright yellow club singlets members sometimes wear at races.
Phillippi, Warren and Yee launched the Half Fanatics in 2009. Requirements, levels and dues ($10 per year after $35 for the first year) were the same.
The club now averages more than 1,000 new members per year.
"Eventually, it will pass the Maniacs," Phillippi said, "because so many more people run halves."
Yee believes both clubs are intriguing to people and will continue to grow.
"We are in a second or third running boom," Yee said. "Americans want to get fitter, and more people are doing more challenging things like climbing mountains. And some of those people are choosing to run a lot of marathons. And there are so many more (races) to choose from now. You can find a run almost every weekend."
Working up to it
As an overachiever, Sabrina Seher, 34, was intrigued by the Maniacs.
"I've always been go, go, go," said the mother of 5- and 9-year-old girls.
She ran marathons in Portland, Ore., and San Francisco in 2010 to earn her membership in the Maniacs. Seher reached Level Six by running four marathons in four days.
"As a mom, it's something I can do and still have my family," said Seher, who sometimes takes her family running with her. "And it's something for me so I don't lose my identity.
"You hit walls, but you slowly get your body to accept more miles. You build up until a half marathon feels easy, then you keep working until running a marathon feels pretty easy."
But, while both she and Zimmerman are motivated by seeing their times drop and their fitness level rise, they agree that this isn't even the best benefit of membership.
"It's the camaraderie," Seher said. "You don't have to be fast. While there are a lot of people who run fast, most aren't out there for speed as much as they are to have fun and get some exercise. You'll see people taking pictures, walking and talking. It's a running party."


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- Style: Nut Brown Ale
- Bitterness: 30 IBU
- Malts: Two row pale, Munich, Caramel, Chocolate, Black, and a touch of Roasted Barley
- Hops: Willamette and Northern Brewer
- Sampled: 12 oz. bottle
- Price: $6.99 six-pack (at supermarket)
Description: "Mudslinger is a Nut Brown Ale with a Medium body and a fresh aroma. Its malty flavor is layered with light chocolate, caramel, brown sugar and a hint of vanilla. Six barley malts and two hop varieties result in a surprisingly smooth, well balanced dark beer" — Redhook Ale Brewery
The tasting: Brownish / copper in color (clear) with a white head that dissipated quickly, leaving no lacing on the glass. When held up to the light , the color was dark-reddish orange. Aroma of toasted malts, bready malts, and citrus hops. Toasted malt and caramel malts were the strongest flavors, followed by coffee, and a touch of smokiness. Mudslinger is on the malty side, and while I tasted some earthy hops, they were light. Body is light to medium. It had medium carbonation, a smooth mouth feel, and finished with sweet malt. Very drinkable.
Rating: 3 star. Good. I would drink this again if someone gave it to me. This is an ideal beer for spring. I think it bridges the gap between the heaver winter beers and the lighter summer beers. While it's a malty beer, I found it to be light and refreshing. I didn't taste any nutty flavors (it's a Nut Brown Ale), but it still worked for me.
Have you tried Mudslinger?


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Latest News
Massive new convention center and hotel in the works for downtown Miami
A big player in downtown Miami development has solidified plans to build a major, privately financed convention center topped by a massive, 1,800-room hotel — the largest in South Florida — on the site of the demolished Miami Arena.
MDM Group confirmed Thursday it has a contract to purchase the old arena site from the developers of the larger Miami World Center, a long-planned mixed-use project that would take up several blocks in the Park West district west of Biscayne Boulevard downtown. Terms were not disclosed.
MDM and its architects also released a rendering and a video, posted on You Tube, of a swooping, cascading, three-legged Marriott hotel tower rising over a huge podium containing the 500,000-square-foot convention center, a 1,500-seat theater, and a 2,300-car garage partly buried under ground.
As news of the project, which had been rumored for months, trickled out this week, MDM and Miami World Center principals have declined to elaborate in detail on the massive plan's cost, financing plans or timetable. No plans have been submitted to the city of Miami, where officials — who have long urged development of a new downtown convention center — say they have not been approached by the developers.
But MDM's architect, John Nichols, who was authorized to speak on the developers' behalf, said his client intends to push forward quickly, believes it's financially feasible because of high demand for hotels and meeting space in Miami, and could have the project done within four years. Nichols said the project would easily cost more than $1 billion.
"Miami is such a red-hot community, and this will be a true iconic landmark on the horizon,'' said Nichols, of Nichols Brosch Wurst Wolfe, who said the firm has completed a conceptual design. "This is a huge undertaking. We've blocked it out and we know it will work.''
At the same time, Miami World Center, whose ambitious plans were stalled by the real-estate crash, appears ready to move ahead with a large retail center and several residential buildings next to the contemplated convention center. The company has issued marketing materials outlining 1 million square feet of retail, restaurant and entertainment space.
Nichols said MDM and Miami World Center are closely coordinating planning and design to ensure the project meets the goals of the broader development, which was approved as a special zoning district by the city during the previous real-estate boom. That plan outlined a dense, pedestrian-friendly district that mixes retail, commercial and residential buildings of different scales with open spaces to ensure an urban neighborhood feel.
Nichols said MDM — which separately is completing the four-block Met Miami mega-project downtown — intends to raise all financing for the project privately, with no publicmoney. Marriott has agreed to manage the hotel, Nichols said, though the company would not comment Thursday.
Because the site sits within the city's Overtown/Park West Community Redevelopment Agency area, however, both the convention center and the Miami World Center projects could qualify for public money from the special taxing district — possibly in the form of tax rebates — to improve public infrastructure, from sewer lines to streets and sidewalks.
The convention center plan was given additional impetus by Florida East Coast's plans to build a massive train station across the street for its planned All Aboard Florida rail service, which will connect downtown Miami to Orlando. The convention center and hotel would be linked directly to the train station and the Overtown Metrorail station through sky bridges, Nichols said.
"We're tying all of it together. You will be able to flow through and around this (convention center) facility and right into the station,'' he said.
The confirmation of MDM's plans comes as Miami Beach is in the final phases of selecting a team to modernize and expand its aging convention center, add an 800-room hotel and redevelop the site with residential buildings, cultural facilities and park space.
It's unclear how the Miami convention center would affect the Beach redevelopment plans. The proposed convention center in Miami, with just 100,000 square feet of convention floor space — much of its square footage will be for ballrooms and meeting rooms — is significantly smaller than its Beach counterpart, though the Miami hotel would be more than twice as large.
Nichols said the Miami convention hotel would have substantial, resort-like amenities, including an expansive pool deck with views of the bay, the American Airlines Arena and the downtown skyline. The facility would also boast an 80,000-square-foot outdoor event deck. The structure would rise 58 stories, he said.
During final presentations this week, the leader of one of two development-and-design teams vying for the $1 billion-plus Beach project, New York builder and hotel developer Dan Tishman, said the main competition for the Beach convention center hotel would be similar facilities across the bay in downtown Miami. A spokesman for the team said Thursday that Tishman also warned Beach officials that their convention center could lose significant business if it's not improved, especially in the face of growing competition.
A spokesman for the competing team, Portman-CMC, said the group did not want to comment on the Miami convention project.
Neither Miami Beach City Manager Jimmy Morales nor Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau chief Bill Talbert could be reached for comment. Bureau vice president Rolando Aedo said he and Talbert were not familiar with MDM's plan.
Miami City Commission Chairman Marc Sarnoff, also chairman of the Downtown Development Authority, said the contemplated center would not affect the Beach's project nor the city-owned Knight Center on the Miami River, which is substantially smaller. Sarnoff said he was unfamiliar with the particulars of the plan, though he knew of the effort and applauds it.
"We've always wanted a convention center, but people don't want to spend money on a private convention center,'' Sarnoff said. "Kudos to them.''
Nichols said MDM's principals believe their convention center would supplement the larger Beach facility, not compete with it. Because of its smaller size, the Miami center could not accommodate the major conventions and shows the Beach aims to attract.
"It's going after a different market,'' Nichols said. "They have been working diligently on this for some time, and it doesn't have a thing to do with what's going on in Miami Beach. This is about downtown Miami.''
Miami Herald staff writers Hannah Sampson and Charles Rabin contributed to this report.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
In this session:
Observing Student Communication
Exploring Communication
Defining Communication
Applying Communication
Evaluating Communication
In this session, we examine the Communication Standard. Effective communication about mathematics is a vital skill in many settings, but here we focus on the classroom and how communication is used to enhance students' learning.
Learning Objectives
This session shows you how to help students do the following:
NCTM Communication Standard
Instructional programs . . . should enable all students to --
Principles and Standards of School Mathematics (NCTM, 2000). For more information on this Process Standard, see the NCTM Web site.
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Backtrack 5: Information Gathering: Network Analysis: OS Fingerprinting: xprobe2
The xprobe2 application was built specifically for OS Fingerprinting or being able to accurately guess a servers Operating System. The unfortunate part about xprobe2 is that is extremely outdated and doesn't even include Windows 7 in its list of OS's that it can identify. Even though nmap is pretty much the staple for people to use it is still worth discussing xprobe2 because the items it can guess it does a great job at doing so. It may also be possible that you are assessing a network with some really old servers and updated apps don't include those operating systems anymore so you may get lucky and find the old operating system using xprobe2.


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We talked to Pierre Payen and Isabelle Reyjal from France who won this year Senior Ballroom event in Blackpool. They were sixth in 2012 so winning this year was a great success and satisfaction for them. See their results.
[Isabelle] I'll start first because I started dancing first. It was 1985. I started dancing for fun as I was not sure what I wanted to do. I had several partners. Not long after I started dancing I came to Blackpool and was very impressed. I remember seeing top couples.
[Isabelle] I was very old dancing-wise. I was 23 years old.
[Isabelle] Both Ballroom and Latin. I did not expect to get to the high level, just wanted to have fun with my partner. I had several partners and after the last split Pierre and I met in 1995. We started to dance together. Pierre was a complete beginner but I did not mind.
[Isabelle] In Paris. I had to leave my home in the country when I started to work and I was looking for some fun in Paris. So I thought, why not dancing. It could be nice. So I started in Paris in a very small school and I did not expect there was more to come (laughing).
[Pierre] I started 10 years after Isabelle. In fact, after I saw a show of the Eftedals in 1994, I started dancing socially. Six month later I found a partner, she was Japanese, and we danced for a year. After that I met Isabelle and we started to dance together. At that time I was a complete beginner and she was a finalist of the French Championships. So it was a big difference in our levels of dancing. We dance together since then. First, we danced Latin and Ballroom because we like both styles. But the judges preferred our Ballroom (laughing) so we decided to concentrate on that style. When I started I was 22 years old and we turned Senior six years ago.
[Isabelle] Yes
[Pierre] So we dance Senior Ballroom.
[Pierre] Yes, after I saw a show of Nadia and Johan Eftedal. At the same time there was a team match between Italy and France in Ballroom, and Eftedals did Latin for France. And I've been struck, like frozen, when I saw them dancing. I did not know then about dancing. I lived in the west of France before, then came to Paris, and I did not know anything about dancing. I went to see the show by chance and after that I said: I want to do that! I remember I came to the school and said to the teacher: I want to dance Ballroom and Latin. And he said, fine, you need a partner. So he found a Japanese girl for me. So that's how it started for me.
[Pierre] Because we were together in private life. That's why we decided to dance together.
[Isabelle] It happened that we split from our partners at the same time.
[Pierre] It was a risk. I only had a year of dancing behind me and Isabelle had ten years. So there was a big difference of levels ...
[Isabelle] It worked.
[Isabelle] No, we just met in the dance school.
[Pierre] We were going to the same competitions. I was on a level 5 and she was on a level 1.
[Isabelle] He just arrived to the club, and I was already there for several years. I remember clearly the first time I saw him. It was at the group class. I saw that boy, from behind, and thought who he is. He was not even dancing or moving but I was impressed by the silhouette. Then we came to know each other. But first time I saw him was his silhouette from the back.
[Pierre] Yes
[Pierre] For me it was music. I played a lot of music when I was young. I was a musician. I played flute. So music is definitely very important for me. When I played the instrument my professor was always telling me to stand still and not move. But I couldn't stop moving. It is funny, now I can move with the music. Music is a key for me.
[Isabelle] As far back as I can remember I always liked to dance. I did different sort of dance styles like classical. Jazz, modern. But the day I started to dance with a boy it was something like a revelation because suddenly I did not have to think of what to do, I could just follow. So I could have my own pleasure of dancing just by following, doing my own stuff, without thinking what to do. So it is a pity I did not know Ballroom dancing when I was younger because I would have loved it.
[Pierre] Yes (laughing). By far.
[Isabelle] It depends on the atmosphere I think. We like going abroad for competitions, outside of France. We like to feel the different vibe, get to know different stories of the places and people.
[Pierre] And the public. For example, we like the competition in Schladming in July when it is very, very hot, and it is not the most important competition, but for us it is a preparation for the German Open in August. We like to go there because the audience is great there. So, because of that, it is a nice competition for us. But there are all the other big competitions during the year like Stuttgart or Vienna where we go. Blackpool is very big for us of course.
[Isabelle] Sometimes you have a very good feeling in a small competition because it is well organised and has a nice atmosphere. So there is no rule. We go away for the weekends actually.
[Isabelle] We are very different in this. For me, the competitive part is not that important. Of course, everybody likes to win and have a good result but I would do competitions even if it did not work out for us because for me it is such a release of pleasure to dance with a partner. It is a pleasure you give to the public and pleasure in performing.
[Pierre] For me it is competing (laughing). I like to compete. When I was a musician I wanted to be first in the Conservatoire and now, in dancing competitions, I want to be first. Whatever I do, it can be sailing, windsurfing I want to be first.
[Isabelle] I work in French Customs Office. That's my job.
[Isabelle] No, I work in the office. For the French government. I have another hobby which is very important for me. It is gemmology. It is all about precious stones, knowledge and teaching.
[Isabelle] No, I am not a collector myself but I try to improve my knowledge and teach others.
[Isabelle] This is why I started working for Customs. They hired me for my knowledge of precious stones. I was a special officer in Paris dedicated to gem traffic. The people I worked with were not smugglers, they imported or exported stones. So they had to pay VAT, taxes and other duties and I was an administrator. My work was not to try to catch a bad man but to assess the value of stones.
[Isabelle] It is a full time job which does not leave much time for our dance practice
[Pierre] I work for an American bank in IT. I also teach dancing.
[Pierre] I manage the help desk team, for internal and external customers. It is a very interesting job.
[Pierre] Oh yes, we have heard. You lost your data from the last September.
[Isabelle] Do you have any enemies in France then? It is strange that they attacked the dancing site.
[Isabelle] And you are not associated with one federation only
[Pierre] You are the only site where we can see results from both organisations. For us it is good because we dance in WDSF but we can see the other organisation results and know what is going on there.
[Isabelle] Well, we train three or four times a week.
[Pierre] We don't do anything special. Sometimes I do a bit of cardio training like running or cycling. Isabelle doesn't like it (laughing). We try to vary our practice. For example, one day we work on improving the mechanics of the movement and work on what our teacher says only. Another day we work though the choreography to get our stamina. Because we don't have access to our studio all the time we go to the other places. Some places are good for running around because there is a big floor and other place has a small floor so we work on our lines, our balance and other small things. You can only do six steps and then stop and you have to turn around.
[Isabelle] We don't have many places to train. Unfortunately the sport is not developed enough in France and there is hard to find big rooms.
[Pierre] We have a beautiful studio but it is not available all the time. So when it is not available we go elsewhere.
[Pierre] Yes, they are from our club.
[Isabelle] Yes, they dance for Italy though, Angelique and Stefano. They are from the same dance studio
[Isabelle] The basics are not very strong in France.
[Pierre] We have to work on the basics. One good thing is that we have the Dancing with the Stars in France, the TV show. That brings people to the school and they take lessons. Eventually it will grow and benefit the competitive dancing. At the moment we have problem with competitive dancing as there are few very good top couples but there rest is a little bit weak.
[Isabelle] Especially in the young ones. We have Senior couples who are not bad, but the young people don't come into the competitive dancing. So there is no growth at the moment.
[Pierre] Michele Bonsignori and Monica Baldaseroni, Angelo Madonia and Alessia Betti, Valerio Colantoni and Yulia.
[Isabelle] And we used to work with Manfred and Anastasia Stiglitz.
[Isabelle] We used to have Doreen Freeman as a teacher ten years ago.
[Pierre] We don't, that's why we were surprised to win yesterday (laughing)!
[Isabelle] We were in the finals last year, but winning Blackpool is something else. We could have never expected such a thing. We are not a political couple, we don't take lessons here, our teachers don't judge Blackpool.
[Pierre] Yes, and also last year there was an Italian couple dancing who was not taking lessons in England either and they won as well.
[Isabelle] At least there is no such problem in the Senior field. We couldn't have dreamt of that results, really.
[Isabelle] There is no a thing I really dislike about Pierre but I am afraid of his reactions when the results are not what he expects. His reactions are extreme both ways. He can be very, very happy and over the moon or very, very unhappy and wants to jump out of the window!
[Isabelle] Both! He cannot speak to him, no point of trying to reason with him then. For me this is something I really dislike about him because I become frightened not about our results but about his reaction to it.
[Isabelle] He is not a bad dancer (laughing). Also, we have the same vision of what we must do, still improve. We generally agree what is the way forward and what steps we must take to go further, like the type of training or the teachers.
[Pierre] I like that we are in synch in what we want to do in dancing. I think it is important. I don't think we ever disagree in what we need to work on and what we need to improve, even if Isabelle's more dancing point of view and mine is competitive point of view. At the end it is the same goal. What I dislike, now I am used to it, is that Isabelle never does warm-up (laughing). She sits, has some tea...
[Pierre] Yes, she does. She drinks a lot of tea. And then it is our turn to dance, I mean the next heat is us, and she stands up, puts her cup of tea down and stands up. That's it! For many years it was a cause of stress for me. Now I am used to it, so I warm-up alone and focus alone.
[Pierre] Yes, it works (laughing).
[Isabelle] It is my way of working.
[Pierre] For some people we are like an example they want to follow. And I think we are very bad example (laughing). She never warms up, she doesn't stretch at the end of the competition. After dancing Isabelle just sits down and remains sitting through the whole round (laughing). So it is a bit strange
[Isabelle] Well, if it works for you, it is OK. Everybody should find the best way which works for them. I believe that if you are relaxed enough your body is ready to do the effort.
[Pierre] It was very stressful for me in the beginning, but now, years later, I am used to it.
[Pierre] Yes. We do between 20 and 25 competitions per year.
[Isabelle] Around Europe.
[Pierre] We have sponsors but we pay for our trips. Federation pays for the World Championships but for the rest we do. We go to Germany, Spain, Austria, Belgium, Italy, England...
[Pierre] Just Blackpool (laughing). We don't go to Crystal Palace for instance, because it is not a right timing for us.
[Isabelle] When we were Amateurs we used to go to UK Open.
[Pierre] Yes, now as Seniors we don't go anymore. But next year we decided to come just to watch because we really miss that competition.
[Isabelle] It is in the middle of the week and you have to take days off work. And it is not easy, you cannot take so many holidays
[Pierre] It is job issue.
[Isabelle] We have full time jobs...
[Isabelle] Fried potatoes and chocolate!
[Isabelle] No, first fried potatoes and then chocolate (laughing). It is a perfect meal for me.
[Pierre] And I think I will break another one...
[Isabelle] Sorry! It is a strict diet. You must be very serious about fried potatoes and chocolate (laughing). If I give pleasure to my body, my body repays me with being able to do what I ask!
[Pierre] For me it is a pizza "4 Cheeses" and one beer. This is menu for a day before the competition. It is completely against the rules, I know.
[Pierre] No, no
[Isabelle] And we don't have time to cook.
[Pierre] We don't have time to cook but normally we are careful what we each for lunch and dinner. We eat light because we want to keep our weight down. But it is true that before the competition we eat strange things. We have been doing that for 15 years and for us this is a part of our preparation for the competition.
[Isabelle] We have to have pleasure during competition.
[Pierre] We don't eat pizza every day!
[Isabelle] But chocolate we eat every day
[Pierre] Nobody
[Isabelle] We don't cook, really. Sometimes, we have some time, but I don't enjoy house work. I am not a good house wife. I don't like to wash, clean, cook.
[Pierre] We both do. I take care of plane tickets and she takes care of train tickets and hotels. Or I book plane tickets and car rental and she books the hotel.
[Isabelle] We are in a position that we can travel easily nowadays. Plane tickets are affordable, you can book everything via Internet. People who danced before us were not that lucky. It was harder to organise the trip, to look for the hotel, to get a map of the town. Now you can do everything over the Internet, no excuse not to go!
[Pierre] As long as you travel in Europe the costs are reasonable.
[Pierre] Half from our jobs, half from other sources. We have sponsors, we have special deals with RS Atelier and RayRose. So of course we don't pay for many thing other people have to pay. Also, we give lessons, we teach dancing.
[Pierre] I don't know...
[Isabelle] Three years ago we went to World Championships in Kingston in Canada. It was a big trip for us.
[Pierre] Isabelle is frightened of flying but we had to board a very small plane.
[Isabelle] And the trip to Guadeloupe
[Pierre] It was an invitational competition, it was 10 couples. Guadeloupe is a French island but it is completely different from Europe, the climate is hot
[Isabelle] It was hard to dance. I think that why there are not many dancers in the hot countries! And I could not eat chocolate because it melts too quickly (laughing)
[Isabelle] With my dresses I trust RS Atelier. I have no imagination, so we go to them and we choose the dress together with them. They adjust thrm for me.
[Pierre] The lady there has a very good vision, better than us, so we trust her.
[Pierre] Couple of years ago RS Atelier were not making suits. I had them from others. Now I like to test suits for them helping to improve the feeling and the look of the suit. I hope we will do the same with shoes. I like to give my feedback of the product. In case of suits, we made many changes, small changes but important. We changed the look, the fabric, to have a different look, slightly lighter in colour. I like to participate in that.
[Isabelle] It is not a silly question because I know that I won't be able to dance 10 years more although Pierre can, he is younger. So that'll stop. Gemmology, as I told you about, is something important to me too so I can develop more in that area. I don't know, I am not sure if I'll do teaching. I would like to become a judge in dancing. I will probably try to pass my diploma and become a judge. I am not sure I would like to teach full time. It would be nice to look at dancing from another perspective, as a judge.
[Pierre] I would like to do judging, for sure. And I would like to continue coaching. I like to coach couples, to teach but also to coach them, plan with them how to improve their dancing.
[Isabelle] Coming here to Blackpool and winning was a great experience. For me Blackpool is culture and tradition in dancing, and we need that. We need that and we need the other side of dancing which is trying to find new things. We need both sides, tradition and modern approach. It is sad people from both organisations don't get together but I think they are heading the same direction...
[Pierre] Yes. I think it will be really good
[Isabelle] It should be because both sides work on developing dance, in different ways, but we need both ways.
[Isabelle] Yes, because it is both. That's why we like to go to both organisations' competitions to see and feel what happens, what is developing, because we feel both are necessary.
[Pierre] I like Blackpool music a lot, but it fits with one place: Blackpool. It doesn't really fit when you do it in a studio in France. Unless we practice for Blackpool, I prefer the new kind of music, pop music or music which has been adapted to dance. That's what I prefer.
[Isabelle] I like old music but re-done in a new way. Modernised.
[Isabelle] No rule.
[Pierre] Exactly. I agree. Here it is full package, when you dance here you need that music. You cannot separate them.
[Pierre] We are preparing for German Open in Stuttgart in August. We will go to Schladming in July. Then we have the World Championships in Dresden in Germany. We have already some lessons and training camp booked in Italy.
[Isabelle] We live day to day. We have some general plans, competitions we know we want to do, but we don't plan for the next two, three years. I don't.
[Pierre] We plan for the next four months or six months. Then it is too far. We have to organise few months ahead because our teachers are very good and because they are very good they are very busy. So we need to plan with them which competitions we go so we can book the other weekends with them. So we have to now between four and six months in advance. Otherwise, to try to get a lesson with Alessia Betti a month ahead is just not possible.
[Isabelle] Not that much
[Pierre] Not so often, we used to do more.
[Isabelle] There is not a big demand in France.
[Pierre] Well, they took couples who only dance and haven't got a second job. So they get shows as dancers from Dancing with the Stars. It impacts a number of people who start to dance but it doesn't impact the demand for shows.
[Pierre] Well, hmmm.... (laughing)
[Isabelle] It depends how the competition turns out to be. Good result or bad result
[Pierre] Definitely competition for me.
[Isabelle] The show is usually too short as well
[Pierre] There are some things you can do during the show which you are not allowed at the competitions. So that's interesting.
[Isabelle] But we like to break the rules even during competitions.
[Pierre] During competitions we like to do some things which are borderline. What is fun for me is competition not show. With the show, you can control everything which is nice, you control the music, the mood, the lights but competition is, for me personally, more fun.
[Isabelle] At the competition you meet your friends. We like the atmosphere very much, especially in Senior. When we moved to Senior we noticed how different it is with the other competitors. We really appreciate it.
[Pierre] Oh, yes. We did not mention it, but it is a pleasure to meet people we know as we meet regularly maybe once a month. It is a big circuit of people where everybody knows each other and there is no fighting against each other. Everybody is trying their best and the best will win. There is no fight.
[Isabelle] There is more respect than in Amateur field.
[Pierre] Definitely. People take care of your things in the changing rooms, there is friendliness and respect between couples.
[Isabelle] It is nice to have friends from different countries: Italy, Spain, Germany or Portugal. We are very happy to see them often.
[Pierre] You can stay in touch thanks to the technology as well. We chat via Facebook. At the end of the day, we do dancing for fun as well, for pleasure. If something happens, it won't be the end of the world. I will not be happy, that's for sure, it is important, but it will not be the end of the world.
[Isabelle] We treat it seriously but lightly.
[Pierre] I would break things if I could. I get very angry with myself (laughing) that I was not able to produce what I wanted.
[Isabelle] It can happen but it is rare and not a big problem for me. If he tries that with me I stop him immediately. I don't want to hear about it. When he is calm we can talk again but not when he is in that state.
[Pierre] I don't think so. Not in dancing (laughing)
[Isabelle] It is not worth to get angry. You can be dissatisfied or disappointed but what is the use of being angry.
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Cass Sunstein, administrator of the powerful Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the White House Office of Management and Budget, will return later this month to his previous post at Harvard Law School, the White House will announce Friday.
Sunstein, a celebrity academic who met Barack Obama when they were both teaching at University of Chicago Law School was among the world's most-quoted law professors when he came to Washington in 2009. He was named the new president's chief regulatory enforcer (often called the "regulatory czar") as head of OIRA, "oh-eye-ruh," an office that gets little attention but is among an administration's most potent levers.
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Like Obama, Sunstein embraces "behavioral economics" – an emphasis on human behavior, rather than abstract theory, for identifying incentives to promote desired financial and environmental activity by individuals and corporations. The field of study supplied early underpinnings for Obama's plans for health care and financial regulation.
Sunstein became a lightning rod for liberal activists who had hoped the administration would be more aggressive with regulatory policy. He had met his future wife – Samantha Power, who also works for the White House as the National Security Council's Senior Director for Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights — while the two were campaigning for Obama in Iowa.
At Harvard, Sunstein will be Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law and Director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy.
The president said in a statement: "For the last three and a half years, Cass Sunstein has helped drive a series of historic accomplishments on behalf of the American people. From putting in place lifesaving protections for America's families, to eliminating tens of millions of hours of paperwork burdens for our nation's citizens and businesses, Cass has shown that it is possible to support economic growth without sacrificing health, safety, and the environment.
"Cass has shepherded our review of existing rules to get rid of those that cost too much or no longer make sense, an effort that is already on track to save billions of dollars. With these reforms and his tenacious promotion of cost-benefit analysis, his efforts will benefit Americans for years to come. I can't thank him enough for his friendship and for his years of exceptional service."
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Some people call it bracketology. It is the art of filling out an NCAA basketball tournament bracket, and mathematically speaking, it is nearly impossible to do so without making a mistake.
"There are only two possible outcomes for each game," explained Bobby Winters, assistant dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and university professor of mathematics. "Since you have 68 games there are two to the 68th power possibilities. But there is only one way to get them right. Roughly speaking, that puts your odds at one in 1 followed by 20 or so zeroes."
What does that look like? A person's chances of filling out a perfect bracket are about 1 in 100,000,000,000,000,000,000.
While it may be fun to fill out a bracket, the mathematics involved is actually pretty intense.
"It's called combinatorial (or counting) mathematics, and it actually dates back to the second century," Winters said. "The basketball bracket, because it's so well defined, is pretty straight forward. But combinatorial mathematics is meant to allow for multiple outcomes, so these types of problems tend to be some of the most difficult in mathematics."
So difficult in fact, that Winters normally uses stories to demonstrate combinatorics to students in his introductory mathematics course.
"It's usually filled with freshmen," he said with a smile. "And we don't want to scare them."
Although Winters can determine the odds of a perfect bracket, he doesn't fill one out for himself.
"I do a lot of things," he said. "And the only way I can get them all done is by not following sports."
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Vincent is a traveling sales-man; he goes door to door selling his herbal remedies out of his over-stuffed book bag. Before Kopo Kopo, customers often rejected him due to the fact that many people in his target market would not carry enough cash to buy his products. Now, he can offer customers a trusted way to pay in any location.
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David is a vendor at a weekly street market in Nairobi. He sells crafts and beads with sometimes 30 or 40 other vendors selling similar products in close proximity. It is hard to differentiate one's products in such an environment but Kopo Kopo has enabled him to do just that. He is perhaps the only vendor in Masai Market (the street market) that can accept payments through mobile money in a way that is completely free to the customer.
While Kopo Kopo has had a huge impact on the businesses of our more sophisticated borrowers, many have a long way to go before they qualify for use of the service. Most of the time, Kiva Zip borrowers are highly marginalized, low-income and lack technological literacy. Business is a means of survival and many are not yet interested in the branding and formalization that Kopo Kopo offers.
After nearly four months as a fellow in Kenya, however, I have seen remarkable changes in the businesses of many of our borrowers. They are taking out second and sometimes third loans through Kiva Zip; the impact is undeniable. With each loan, our borrowers formalize a bit more; their income increases by a small but significant amount. With the help of Kiva Zip, borrowers come a bit closer with each loan to gain the ability to use tools like Kopo Kopo.
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Rachel Davis
Having served as a Kiva Fellow with Kiva Zip in Denver, Rachel will be continuing her work with the Zip team in Kenya. She is a recent graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Marketing as well as an International Business Certification. Rachel has traveled to Afghanistan on short term trips focusing on education and sustainable development in rural and urban communities in and around Kabul. She also spent a summer as a student consultant in South Africa where she worked to improve the operations of entrepreneurial businesses in the townships of Cape Town. Rachel has completed internships with other non-profit organizations as well as start-up companies in Boulder and she feels that her education is much credited to her involvement outside of school. Rachel is hoping to pursue a career in international development after the completion of the fellowship and hopes to return to Afghanistan to continue her work there. Rachel is a true Coloradoan, spending many of her days off hiking, running, and snowboarding.


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Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley had an 'oops' moment when he gave his State of the State address.
In a seemingly unintended nod to "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy," O'Malley read the "conclusion" subhead on the teleprompter out loud.
It took a few seconds, but O'Malley kept his composure and continued. Only a very sheepish grin (video: 2:14) indicated something had gone wrong.
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Just curious, no hidden agenda or any sneaky comments; how did it go for you? I missed the speech and most of the media reports about it as was working. What reports I have heard seem to be fairly mixed.ReplyDelete
didn't watch. watched US women's soccer v Scotland. Good game. Then there was the Carolina v Duke basketball game. 'Cat, glad you are no longer contipated though you may have a rectal prolapse at this point. Keep it moist and get to your nearest ER where a mid-level-provider-in-training will see you and consult you to a dermatologist.ReplyDelete
I just don't get the disconnect between Obama and his actions. How do people not connect the dots? How can you ignore it? Yet I know fairly intelligent people who believe everything the MSM tells them to. When did we stop thinking?ReplyDelete
Have any of you considered writing for the Washington Times communities? I only ask because I know one of their editor types who is looking for writers :-)
CPOTUS ha created a cult of personality. I too am flummoxed.ReplyDelete
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"Almost Human" may convince you it's almost a hit when it finally premieres on Sunday night.
The sci-fi police procedural was originally planned for a Nov. 4 bow, but that date was pushed back to give "Bones" a few more Monday slots. No matter: The pilot, which airs Sunday before the show assumes its regular Monday slot the next day, reminds us that good things are worth waiting for.
Karl Urban ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy) plays Detective John Kennex, the only survivor when his squad is ambushed by the out-of-control crime syndicate sometime in the future. Having spent two years in a coma as doctors replace various parts of his body lost in the ambush, he wakes up ready to avenge the deaths of his squad members and find out why his girlfriend has disappeared.
But the world has changed in two years, and because the crime rate has risen by 400 percent, every human cop is now required to have an android partner. Kennex gets a nagging, by-the-book companion who cramps his style badly enough to warrant a replacement. Kennex has a novel way of creating a vacancy in the post, which is one of the pilot's many delightful moments.
There are no versions of the current standard android available, but the department's android master, Rudy Lom (Mackenzie Crook, the British version of "The Office"), can re-activate a discontinued variety called a DRN. These mechanical men were created to be as human as androidly possible, and that made them subject to emotional reactions.
In other words, they were known as "crazy" and promptly retired.
Kennex's new pal is named Dorian (Michael Ealy, "Barbershop"), who, after being dusted off and fired up again, is ready to prove to the cops that he should be a full-fledged member of the force.
Dorian and Kennex don't hit it off all that well at first. For one thing, Kennex keeps calling his partner "a synthetic." "There's that word again," Dorian growls. But when the pair are sent by their captain, Maldonado (Lili Taylor, "Six Feet Under"), to investigate the apparent return of the masked gang who ambushed Kennex two years earlier, the teammates find they're made for each other.
The show was created by J.H. Wyman ("Fringe"), who also wrote the script for the pilot, which efficiently telegraphs the two big reasons "Almost Human" has a good chance of succeeding: It captures the teeming bleakness of the future world and establishes winning chemistry between Kennex and Dorian.
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