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|This article is about the version sung by Blaine and Rachel. You may be looking for the version sung by Tina.
Tonight from West Side Story is featured in The First Time, the fifth episode of Season Three. It is sung by Blaine and Rachel as Tony and Maria during rehearsals for West Side Story.
It was previously featured in Preggers, the fourth episode of Season One, when Rachel is upset that Tina has been granted the solo. Unlike the Season One version, this one is released. The episode's version was instrumentally different from the Season One version.
Tonight, tonight
It all began tonight
I saw you and the world went away
Tonight, tonight
There's only you tonight
What you are, what you do, what you say
Today, all day I had the feeling
A miracle would happen
I know now I was right
Blaine and Rachel:
For here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Tonight, tonight
The world is full of light
With suns and moons all over the place
Tonight, tonight
The world is wild and bright
Going mad
Shooting sparks into space
Today, the world was just an address
A place for me to live in
No better than all right
But here you are
And what was just a world is a star
Good night, good night
Sleep well and when you dream
Dream of me
- This is the second time the song was sung on the show. It was first performed by Tina in the episode Preggers, in Season One.
- This is the first of two songs previously sung by Tina that have been re-used. The second being I Kissed a Girl. Ironically, both I Kissed a Girl and Tonight have been duets featuring Rachel in them.


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SHIMA, Japan (AP) — South Korea's Inbee Park is on a roll going into the Mizuno Classic, with more than just a chance for another victory at stake.
Park opened the LPGA Tour's Asian Swing with a victory in Malaysia and finished second last week in Taiwan, bringing her within range of American Stacy Lewis for the points-based LPGA player of the year award. She trails Lewis by 28 points, and each LPGA victory is worth 30 points.
An American has not won the award since Beth Daniel in 1994.
Lewis will play in the final two LPGA events, but she's skipping the Mizuno Classic, which starts Friday at Kentetsu Kashikojima Country Club.
"I've been getting a lot of confidence over the last three months, especially with my long game," Park said. "My swing is getting really comfortable."
The South Korean leads the LPGA Tour money list with $2.16 million, finishing among the top 10 in all but one of her last 12 tournaments. That includes two wins and five runner-up finishes.
Her competition likely will come from top-ranked Yani Tseng of Taiwan and Jiyai Shin of South Korea, who won here in 2008 and 2010. Suzann Pettersen, who won her last two tournaments, is taking this week off.
Defending champion Momoko Ueda hopes she can turn around a disappointing season against the 79-player field at the Mizuno Classic.
Ueda beat China's Shanshan Feng in a three-hole playoff last year to add to her win here in 2007. The 26-year-old Japanese player has struggled this season without a top-10 finish.
"I know I didn't have such a great start to my season or the middle part," Ueda said. "I guess I prepared myself a lot for this tournament and hope to make the best out of it."


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How many cavemen were fat? Think about it.
Seriously, y'all! THINK ABOUT IT.
Today's troll wisdom:
How many cavemen were fat? Think about it.
Seriously, y'all! THINK ABOUT IT.
I'm thinking. I'm thinking!
I'm thinking about stick figure cave drawings and ancient statues of fat women. . .
Is that helping?
Isn't the answer – "None! BMI wasn't invented yet" ?
How many cavemen dieted! ?!? How many used antidepressants?!?! How many lived to middle-age?!?!
I don't know, but I bet a lot of them were fat.
They'd be lucky to be fat!
That troll is dumb. Cavemen practiced HAES. They ate good unprocessed meat, fish, plants, and then for exercise, they carried and dragged women all over the place.
are we talking Neanderthals or Cro Magnon?
(Trolls: if you're going to try to bring these kinds of historical things up, be ready to provide footnotes.)
I laughed so loud my bf wanted to know what the hell I was reading.
I want to know how this guy knew what cavemen looked like, because seriously, is he bogarting the time-travel tech? JERK! I say we go back and get some awesome clothes to make the reenactors jealous! WHO IS WITH ME?!
You there, yes you my fine fellow, give me your shirt and I will give you THIS CHICKEN.
…btw this is likely the only time you'll ever see me get excited about clothing so you may want to mark it on your calendars. ;)
Wasn't Fred Flintstone fat?
And Barney too?
It is obvious that cave men were not fat because this is what they look like when we find them. DO YOU SEE AN OUNCE OF FAT ON THAT BODY?
The same number of cavemen who had the internet, duh! He should check his facts…online…
I'm sure the cavemen (none of the prehistoric people we are talking about were women – people reproduced differently back in the good old days, until Eve came and fucked that shit up) were skinny like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. Of course, it being prehistorical and them not having scales or measuring tapes, we may never know for sure.
Has this troll really lived under a fucking rock all hir life not to have heard of the Venus of Willendorf?
Anyway, cavepersons aspired to be fat, mang. You need insulation to get through the winters on those windswept steppes, and also enough flesh to sustain you in case the herds leave early and come back late.
But re: their average life expectancy being low, the thing about that is that it includes the however-many-percent that died before reaching a year of age. High infant mortality, let me show you it. If you made it to ten, you were probably making it significantly past 40.
Actually, you ought to seriously be able to tell about how much they weighed by their bones I think. Fat people are heavier and they'd be carrying more weight around, so the bones would be thicker. Might be too subtle for science, I'm not an anthro geek; but gee it seems like Bones would find out pretty quickly. (Edutainment TV style!)
And I agree that it'd be the lucky ones who were fat, though I remember reading somewhere that the average hunter-gatherer skeleton shows better nourishment than the early agricultural skeletons. So assuming the cavemen were hunter gather types probably quite a few of them.
Meanwhile, if this troll wishes to attempt to stay thin via emulating cavemen, he doesn't need my permission. Me, I like libraries, computers, cars, and health care.
This troll has plumbed the depths of dumb.
I suspect he has also been watching too many Geico commercials and has been left with pixilated braincrap where his gray matter used to be.
(I have been wrestling with a draft and a deadline today and am in no mood.)
"If you made it to ten, you were probably making it significantly past 40."
I love this though, and might have it put on a shirt.
"I made it to ten!"
Oh great – ANOTHER reason to be jealous of cavemen – not only did they get to wear fur, guilt-free, with no PETA activists on their case, but they were also enviably THIN. Well, as Thag said, "No can be too rich, or too thin… now pass me mastodon rib."
Well, as Thag said, "No can be too rich, or too thin… now pass me mastodon rib."
Cavepeople were probably not fat, though as someone mentioned, they aspired to be. It would indicate wealth and prosperity for your tribe. Cavepeople, or anyone living a hunter-gatherer existence (as seen in some peoples living today) rarely get fat but neither are they dangerously thin or under-nourished. You eat what you have available to stay alive and thin or fat be damned because it just doesn't matter!
Waitwaitwait, maybe this is some kind of "what is the sound of one hand clapping"-conundrum!
Apparently Neanderthals might have been cannibalistic. What's the fat content of your average Neanderthal? Is it South Beach Diet approved?
Who cares how many cavepeople were fat? What in God's name does that have to do with NOW?
Let's just say for argument's sake that none were fat.
How many cavepeople used the internet? Drove Cars? Built skyscrapers? paved roads? wrote poems? penned songs? took pictures with their fancy digital cameras? Exercised on a treadmill? Spoke french? Read Shakespeare?
None? Well, shit. Tear it all down folks. Burn the books! Get out the asphalt eater and get rid of the roads!
I'm guessing more than a few cavemen/women were fat…
You there, yes you my fine fellow, give me your shirt and I will give you THIS CHICKEN.
Do you think your boyfriend would mind awfully if you married me?
Here's something to think about.
Cavemen are extinct (except in obnoxious Geico ads).
Hee! Quickly logging on while traveling, and am delighted to discover that "fat cavepeople" can be rearranged to spell "flop, pee, vacate." Which tickles me no end, because now I'm imagining fat cavepeople making to-do lists reminding them to flop, pee, and vacate.
Sorry, I'm really low on sleep. Anyway, it amused me.
I've always thought cavepeople would have been at least solidly built. *shrug*
Actually, this troll claimed to be a lady troll who used to be fat but now is all skinny and so can you!
So either she's from Mount Rose, Minnesota or she's taking the lovely Colbert Report waaaaay too seriously.
hmmm hunting/gathering…
I can see it now…
Fat cave-person- "Would you like some berries? I just gathered them this morning!"
Skinny Caver-person "No! Only lean bones and and grub worms for me!"
6 months later in the throes of winter…
Skinny Cave-person "I'm starving todeath and I'm cold!"
Fat Cave-person "Should have eaten those berries…"
This stuff gets funnier and funnier…
Only the *successful* ones, troll.
Don't forget the third one Wilma's mother, she was fat too. So it's Fred, Barney and Wilma's mother so that is 3. Nancy.
Good thing i have this time machine right here so we can all go find out…
Yay! Chrono-vacations with tigi!!
Only the ones who switched to Progressive.
What I want to know is – where the thin cavepersons meanymeanheads to the fat cavepersons? Did they tell them that there where no fat apes?
Urg – the thing that people forget is that "cave"people are US – they do not represent a lesser version of us – they simply didn't practice totalitarian agriculture. So whether they were all trim and lean or whatever else, they were human. Thus, probably both as smart and wonderful as all of us and as idiotic as this cavetroll. ;)
Maybe Trollette had a picture of Raquel Welch in One Million Years BC taped to her fridge as thinspiration?
Venus of Willendorf – actually being fat was a DESIRED trait among the cavepeople. Why oh why can't the trolls be a little bit educated from time to time, just for a change…
"No fat cavemen" is about the mental level of "No fat people in prison camps".
For FUCK'S SAKE, someone come up with a punchline to this. It sounds like the setup for a joke.
"Weight loss is so easy, even a caveman could do it"?? Perhaps this is a new ad campaign for Jenny/WW/Nutrisys/whatever.
Who cares how many cavepeople were fat? What in God's name does that have to do with NOW?
Haha, yes.
Why should we model ourselves after cavepeople? Why should we strive to look, act, or live like cavepeople? WE AREN'T FUCKING CAVEPEOPLE (not that there's anything wrong with cavepeople).
I personally don't want a return to the good old prehistoric days.
Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone has told Valerie Bertinelli that she could be replace in the ads by a caveman?
Not to be a pill or anything but… At what time of year was he talking about? Cavemen (or anyone who lives a subsistence-only lifestyle) would have a tendency to gain weight over the spring through fall so they could survive the winter when food was scarce.
So… As one commenter said… Let's see the footnotes.
In my opinion — depending upon the time of year, a lot of them could be fat or just a few.
–Andy Jo–
Conveniently forgetting that the prehistoric people's idol of worship was typically a fat woman. (The Venus of Willendorf, indeed.)
From the article FJ linked to
"one interesting thing was that these are kind of a short, squat people. These guys had no waist at all — they were compact, dwarfy-like beings."
Well, so much for calculating their waist-to-hip ratios.
If we're going to accept this line of questioning as valid, why stop with cavepeople? Why not consider apes and other large primates? Have you ever seen an orangutan without a belly?
Um, yeah, wevs. Everyone knows that cavemen are English, and drummers, and married Barbara Bach.
I'm still not getting this. What, is this person advocating an all-mastodon diet? Does this person think we should go back to knapping flint and dying incredibly young?
Or does this person just think we should starve ourselves like cavepeople so that we aren't horrible and fat? Possibly because it's more "natural."
What the fuck ever. I don't get it.
And for the record, I read an article recently that talked about a cavewoman reconstruction they did, and they discussed body shape and size and caloric intake, and these were, like, cobby, barrel-shaped people who needed at LEAST . . . I forget . . . it was, like, 5,000 calories a day or something. They ate a LOT.
So were they fat? They sure as fuck would not have been modeling in Vogue, I will tell you that. And as others have pointed out, they probably developed a tendency to store fat for times of famine, which would mean that yeah, some of them probably would have had lots of fat. It's a SURVIVAL TRAIT that MOST animals have. We have evolved away from being cavemen ("cave" men, ugh, the anthropological ignorance), but we haven't evolved away from it completely. There have been famines throughout recent human (err, the last 2,000 years, let's say) history. Our genetics have not had time to change to adapt to having enough.
And I don't think they SHOULD. I think, things being as they are, we are going to need that fat-storing as a species again, probably before much longer. So, you know, I'm fine with my body doing what it was designed to do.
pshaw, Raquel Welch in 10000000000000000000 years BC was not skinny. Va Va Voom.
It's 10 degrees in Pittsburgh today. I am grateful to be well insulated! If I were a prehistoric human, people would be flocking to me for warmth, ahahahahaha.
It really gets me that pyewacketsid's friend's DOCTOR said that shit to her. Kelly Smash!
Fred Flintstone is a large gentleman, as is Barney Rubble. They are both cavemen.
This is precisely as scientifically valid as "there were no fat cavemen, think about it."
pyewacketsid – a doctor once told me the same thing…minus the concentration camp thing. His logic was, I suppose, that starving would make me thin, which would enhance my quality of life so much that I wouldn't mind starving. I've tried this exact technique several times and lost weight doing it, only to have it come back plus 10 pounds if I ever stray from it. STARVING ISN"T WORTH IT!
I've gone from 130 pounds last year to 150 this year, and I'm not freaking cold all the time like I was then. I wouldn't want to be a skinny caveman in January. You need some reserves, damn it. There's a reason I survived the illness I had – because I started at 200 pounds. If I'd started at "normal weight" of 130 pounds and lost 70, I'd be dead. Our bodies are made to store fat. Your caveman argument makes ours. Asshole.
I bet cavemen spend a lot of time in pilates class!
I am to understand cave women also had really droopy breasts, leathery and chapped skin, and ratty hair. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, but hardly a basis for beauty ideals, are they?
I'm sorry, I have an advanced degree and I am not following the caveman/concentration camp survivor logic. Can someone please explain it to me. What is the point they are trying to make by pointing this out?
littlem, it was -24F in Minnesota this morning. I need my fat!
Actually, I think the Troll is accidentally making the opposite point, as trolls are wont to do.
I do remember a theory that populations that practiced a hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the more recent past were more likely to be fat as their ancestors had more recently needed to be efficient at storing nutrients.
The 'naturally thin' genetic variation needed more time to develop in periods of long abundance, something hunter-gatherers wouldn't have experienced.
Because, obviously, the first famine would wipe out everyone who wasn't storing their nutrients efficiently, so the 'thin' people would be selected against for reproduction.
Northern Europe, for example, not as long or efficiently agrarian (and Venus of W's home region) would have fetishized fat as something to keep them HEALTHY, more than, say, the Indus valley, which early on was producing enough food for a large and complex society.
Just a theory, of course, but it seems reasonable.
Faith, from what I can tell, the conversation goes like this:
You: Look, some people are fat even though they don't really eat more than "normal." It's just human variation.
Idiot: (something about thermodynamics, which of course don't even apply to open biological systems like the human body, but they love the calories in, calories out idea.)
You: That doesn't apply to biology. Really. There are fat people who eat healthy and exercise, and just don't have the same metabolism you do.
Idiot: Oh, yeah? How come there were no fat people in concentration camps? If it was genetic, there would have been!
You: AAAAAAAACK! (this is where you come to SP for a dose of sanity.)
Well, I was 'thinking about it' and woke up with my face in my oatmeal. I think I too, must suffer from a form of "diet triggered narcolepsy"
The estimate on that article Fillyjonk linked was 5 foot 6, and 142 pounds. That's the high end of BMI "normal", right? So the doctor would probably tell him to go easy on the mammoth doughnuts or something. ;-)
How many cavemen were fat?
Is it appropriate to thank a troll for the laughs?
Baby mammoth flavored doughnuts at that!
Emmy. Thanks, I think. I don't know where these trolls learn to logic. It's pretty outstanding.
Well at least this very famous stone age woman was fat: the Venus of Willendorf.
But you know, that's only one of the earliest stone age human representations there is. Such evidence should not get in the way of your learned correspondent. Think about it.
it's that gaining weight and being efficient with your metabolism that enabled "cavemen" to survive in times of severe famine –> diabeetus-ready genotype. being able to survive on extremely little amounts of low calorie food mean probably LIVING until the next time quality food turned up.
also, i hatehatehate the term cavemen. i'm an anthro geek. omg, most people didn't live in caves. those that did lived there because it was ready-made shelter. tons of people lived all over the damn place in tents and other types of shelter… their belongings/remains/etc haven't survived because they weren't protected by a cave environment. and don't even get me started on the geico cavemen… they look more like an australopithecine than Homo anything. rawr!
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"The Caveman Power Diet increases energy, the ability to burn fat, and gets you in touch with your natural instincts. It's not just a way to lose weight, it's a healthy approach to making your body indestructable."
Wow. I must say I find the prospect of indestructibility kind of appealing.
Wouldn't a nice, titanium coating be easier?
I demand adamantium for my indestructability needs.
It's not just a way to lose weight, it's a healthy approach to making your body indestructable.
You know, so in case you get eaten by a giant ground sloth, it won't be able to digest you. (Which, by the way, is why you NEVER see fat giant ground sloths.)
Wouldn't a nice, titanium coating be easier?
With diamond studding for that little extra protection.
But emeralds bring out the red highlights in my hair!
Hee! This really cracks me up.
The right answer to "there are no fat people in prison camps/famine zones/concentration camps" is always "AND THERE ARE NO HEALTHY PEOPLE THERE, EITHER."
Especially to a doctor. I mean, I would be all over that with my awesome lawyer in a second. "MY DOCTOR TOLD ME TO EMULATE PEOPLE IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP. FOR MY HEALTH."
The right answer to "there are no fat people in prison camps/famine zones/concentration camps" is always "AND THERE ARE NO HEALTHY PEOPLE THERE, EITHER."
That response might get you Godwinned, but for a good cause.
[i]ALSO OH HEY THE DOCTORS KIND OF SUCKED JUST LIKE YOU[/i]
[i]Lois Waller, on January 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm Said:
(not that there's anything wrong with cavepeople).[/i]
Haha, I love this! Like there might be any cavepeople out there reading this that might take offense :D
Oh FUCK, I messed up the tags AGAIN.
Oh God, brilliant and hilarious.
Whenever someone trots out the concentration camp argument, I'm increasingly driven to scream, "You know all those really skeletal folks you see in concentration camp pictures? Those are the fat people. The thin people died first."
What I usually do is ask them if they've ever seen film footage of Cold War era Russians queueing up for food and ask them if they noticed many thin ones standing in line. No troll has ever taken me up on that question. Funny that.
Those are the fat people. The thin people died first.
You know, even though I know this is true, I have not seen it spelled out like that and it kinda blows my mind. The obviousness once you think about it is why this is such a brilliant response.
Those are the fat people. The thin people died first.
Even more likely, I think, most of the significantly fat people were probably deemed 'genetically unfit' and killed almost immediately. (Has anyone done research on the Nazis' criteria for work camp versus death camp?)
"How many cavemen were fat? Think about it."
Think About it? You want ME to think about it, what, FOR you? Because you, obviously, haven't. Tell you what, why don't go do that now and, if you manage not to sustain serious brain injury trying to force too much voltage through your underused brain, then come back and we'll talk.
Actually, Vidya, I don't know if that was necessarily the case back in those days. I know the Nazis were fixated with the body beautiful as part of the Aryan ideal but I don't think fat = unhealthy was ingrained in public consciousness to the degree it is now. That's purely speculation on my part. I'm lucky enough that the Austrian branch of my family relocated in the UK before they got into a position to find out.
Yes, I don't think that's accurate, Vidya.
No, dude's got the argument all wrong. The correct wording is, "Have you ever seen an obese wild animal?"
To which we respond how, friends?
And before someone accuses me of trolling (because I probably worded my post weird), I've actually heard people use this argument before. My response to them is usually as follows:
"I don't see too many animals driving cars or working for pay, or too many humans still fighting for survival amidst predators and harsh elements, do you? Modern homonids have long since moved beyond the constraints of the natural world that other animals must endure. If you want to live outside of civilization, be my guest. I give you a week before you come crawling back to your high speed internet."
Plus, BeautifulHead, I have definitely seen fat squirrels and the like. I imagine they're just doing a good job of surviving in the urban environment and will probably make out pretty well in the squirrelpocalypse.
There are lots of animals with quite a bit of fat. Once I told my 3-year-old daughter to put some clothes on because it was cold, and she said, "It's okay I have a thick layer of fat to keep me warm." She had just watched a documentary about penguins. She doesn't actually have a thick layer of fat, though, so she still had to wear clothes.
Squirrels are fat as HELL.
LOL! Your fat squirrel!
My local squirrels are fat and they'll pelt you with pecans if you try to pick up the nuts off the ground under the tree.
mean buggers ;-)
If, according to fat-haters, wild animals are never obese, then why do they taunt fatties by calling us things like "hippo" and "elephant"?
I've seen loads of fat blue jays (they're mean bullies who take all the food!) and robins, too.
Oh my god, I love you all so much right now! I'm almost glad about the trolling when it produced a thread as funny as this one.
Wonder if cave men sat around the fire staring at that last piece of juicy fattened mammoth meat and kept bemoaning, "YOU eats! if Thog eats, go straight to hips." "No, YOU eats. Me almost no fit fur wrap!"
AprilD – I just snorted Diet Coke out through my nose.
I saw a lionness in Tanzania who had COMPLETELY porked out on a baby zebra and had a belly practically touching the ground – I bet the other lionnesses were lying on the rocks judging her. They were probably hanging round the carcass, rolling their eyes and going "No wonder she's so fat – she just ate like half that baby zebra – she just has NO SELF-CONTROL."
Giraffes are definitely the top of the animal kingdom hierarchy. Legs that go on forever, big eyes with long lashes, slender necks – they're the supermodels of the animal kingdom! I bet the hippos just cry themselves to sleep at night, wishing they could be giraffes. :rolleyes:
A friend pointed out the similarity resemblance between my portly little black and white cat and a small killer whale this week – and she was right on the button. I've been addressing him as My Little Orca ever since. Bless.
Back when I was on the diet-go-round, I read about one called "NeanderThin" – you only ate what the average hunter-gatherer would – i.e., meat ('cause you could kill it with a club or spear, and apparently, FIRE was a given under this plan), berries & fruit, some veggies. No dairy, since livestock weren't domesticated, and no grains, as agriculture wasn't invented yet.
I decided pretty quickly that, if I had been a hunter-gatherer, I would have been pretty cranky most of the time, no matter what I weighed.
That ain't how foraging people's diets actually work, for the record. Popular culture seems to be about 20 years, give or take, behind most scientific disciplines, and anthropology is no exception.
Of [i]course[/i] there were grains. Why, the Ojibwa people of my own region traditionally spent several weeks every year at their rice camps, canoeing up and down waterways shaking wild rice into the boat, and then doing all kinds of interesting things to it to process it into food. It was a [i]staple[/i].
Grains, seafood, fruits, vegetables, nuts, berries. It was [i]meat[/i] that they hardly ever got.
Ah, poop. Please pretend that was tagged properly.
and no grains, as agriculture wasn't invented yet.
Because there are no wild grains. None, I tell you! *eyeroll* Where do they come up with stuff like that? They need to watch a little Les Stroud and find out just how much vegetables/grain a hunter-gatherer kind find.
P.S. Please forgive my interesting spelling of "lioness" upthread – I am very tired after two nights of attending dinners for work and not getting enough sleep (networking is not easy, dammit!).
What, they think the entire grain category just *poofed* into existence the instant people realized that they could plant seeds on purpose and harvest the results later?
Also, any self-respecting hunter-gatherer knows where to find lots of tubers. Not to mention nuts, mushrooms, the occasional clutch of eggs, and even honey, if you can figure out how to get it without being stung. This NeanderThin thing sounds more like a chimpanzee diet
I totally love everyone's examples of fattie animals but a person could shut that down by saying they shouldn't be fat and are only fat because they live in an environment where they get food from humans, which is "unnatural." I don't buy that, I'm just saying.
On the other hand, I wonder what we do with the criteria "fat" when it comes to animals. We assess animals by what is average or some otherwise normal/typical range for that species. So is a panda bear fat? Well….um….aren't all panda bears kind of fat? Wouldn't a skinny panda bear be abnormal/undernourished?
slythwolf – somewhere among my many books on the Pacific Northwest is one that describes the Coast Salish natives' eating habits in some detail. They're popularly regarded as almost entirely living on seafood, but various types of tuber and, yes, wild rice formed a substantial part of their diet, as well as berries and the rest.
Their word for the rather meagre time of year we're in right now roughly translates as 'time when your belly sticks to your spine (from hunger)'. Whatever size hunter-gatherers may be, they don't idealize thinness.
Sorry to go just a wee way off topic – but the comments on the sites cited above about the possible origin of the Venus of Willendorf play into that crap about 'thin cavemen'. From reading them it seems academics think the figure is 'exaggerated' and probably pregnant. I beg to differ – she looks a hell of a lot like my 130-odd kilo, 1.63 metre self. The way the breasts and belly hang, the way the thighs sit, even the extra fatty 'covering' between her legs. She looks like me. Which means there may well have been at least 1 fat woman… the model.
While she might have been exagerrated and possibly "pregnant", this does not change two facts: first, she was fat to begin with, no woman would get that shape only from pregnancy, come on – these are REAL curves of a true Shapeling ;) And secondly, the cavepeople carved and painted things connected with worship, cult – Venus of Willendorf is a sculpture symbolizing fertility, health, and even if they didn't look like that a lot, they sure considered this kind of appearance beautiful and desired – a symbol of feminine power to create life, provide warmth and safety to her man and children.
The cavemen were wiser than the majority of modern people, I'd say *lol*
Late to the game with this, but:
I saw a lionness in Tanzania who had COMPLETELY porked out on a baby zebra and had a belly practically touching the ground – I bet the other lionnesses were lying on the rocks judging her.
Baby zebras: The baby doughnuts of the wild kingdom? Discuss.
Yes, persistent near starvation does make people thin. Just explain to me why, during a time of plenty, all of us have to force ourselves into near starvation just to satisfy dimwits like this guy.
I have (sadly) heard this kind of logic before, but it's often been in the form of "How many people at Auschwitz were fat, huh???" I mean, are we seriously supposed to emulate people near death? I mean, I guess idiots often think that women should, but how on earth that has become an acceptable implication is really beyond me.
I, for one, am kind of happy about the technological and medical progress humans have made since those caveman days. Regardless of their size, obviously. Yeeeeessssh
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During the week-long trial, the judges had heard how Gabriele stole copies of confidential documents from the Papal Apartments. These included personal correspondence between Pope Benedict and various cardinals, along with encrypted communications from papal ambassadors across the world.
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FRANKFORT, KY. – Governor Steve Beshear today directed Kentucky's Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, to order the unprecedented activation of all Kentucky Army National Guard units, along with selected portions of the Kentucky Air National Guard. The activation is in response to the devastating winter storms that rendered more than a half million Kentuckians without electric power and has paralyzed most of Western Kentucky.Â
"This is the largest state callup of Kentucky National Guard forces in the history of the Commonwealth," said Gov. Beshear, "It represents the strongest possible effort to relieve human suffering and ensure the safety and well-being of our citizens."Â
The activation will place an additional 3,000 Soldiers and Airmen into the effort to address the needs of the people of the Commonwealth during this winter storm. Prior to today the Kentucky National Guard had 1,600 Citizen-Soldiers supporting the relief effort. The total number of troops on duty will be 4,600 by the end of today. This activation exceeds troop levels for the 1997 flood (1,600 troops) and Kentucky's support of recovery efforts following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 (approximately 2,000).Â
"We are now in the process of notifying these newly activated Guard soldiers and Airmen," said Maj. Gen. Tonini. "They have been instructed to report to their home armories and bases as soon as possible."Â
This activation does not include Guard members who are college students or who have not completed basic training.Â
"To effectively coordinate this massive Army and Air National Guard effort, we have established Joint Task Force Kentucky to command and control five subordinate task forces arrayed across the Commonwealth," said Maj. Gen. Tonini. "Joint Task Force Kentucky will be commanded by Brig. Gen. Lonnie Culver who previously served as deputy commander of a similar task force on the Mississippi gulf coast during Hurricane Katrina recovery operations. Gen. Culver is now responsible for ensuring the unity of effort between Guard unit commanders and state and local emergency management officials as we work together across the state to assess needs and prioritize use of manpower and equipment resources. "Â
"This mission is nothing new to the Kentucky National Guard," Tonini added. "We have come to the aid of our fellow Kentuckians on a regular basis for more than two hundred years. What is different today is the scope of this disaster. We are committed to the safety and well-being of our neighbors and we will be on duty until the job is done."Â
An immediate priority has been placed on assisting in the restoration of electric power to water plants, communications facilities and homes. Troops are currently clearing routes for emergency response vehicles as well as helping utility crews gain access to damaged power transmission lines.Â
Establishment of shelters and points of distribution for essential supplies are also prime missions for Guard Soldiers and Airmen.Â
Weather permitting, National Guard helicopters will continue to conduct overflights for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet over roads that are impassable. Additionally, two helicopters have been assigned to provide support to utility companies to identify damaged power transmission lines.Â
In an expanded mission for the Kentucky National Guard, troops are now teaming up with local emergency management agencies, fire departments, rescue squads, law enforcement agencies and volunteers to conduct "wellness checks" for all households in Kentucky's 120 counties.Â
Troops have been instructed to attach green tape on the mail boxes or other locations visible from the road indicating that residents have sufficient food, power, water or communications. Red tape will be used to indicate homes where shortfalls exist.Â
Houses marked with red tape will be reported to local emergency operations centers and will be placed on a list to be resurveyed for on-going support based on county capabilities.Â
"We are fortunate to have the Air Guard's 123rd Special Tactics Squadron in this effort" said Maj. Gen. Tonini. "Their expertise in search and rescue, coupled with their access to snowmobiles and all-terrain vehicles, makes them valuable members of this task force."Â
Members of the Kentucky Air National Guard have already been on site in Western Kentucky for several days working alongside Army Guard Soldiers in distributing supplies and equipment to local citizens.Â
- Assist Kentucky Department of Transportation (DOT) in clearing roadwaysÂ
- Transporting medical and dialysis patients to hospitalsÂ
- Deliver cots to affected areas from partner agencies to affected areasÂ
- Transport food and bottled water to affected areas on requestÂ
- Provide power generation to critical facilities throughout the stateÂ
- Joint Incident Site Communications Capability (JISCC) with crew deployed to the Benton, Ky. area providing satellite and radio-based communications support to local authoritiesÂ
- Provided satellite phones to areas in Western KentuckyÂ
- Provide National Guard Mobile Command Post to Greenville, Ky.Â
- Additionally, six (6) Regional Emergency Response Network (RERN) vehicles from the Florida National Guard are now supporting Kentucky relief efforts. The self-contained, mobile RERN systems combine cellular phone, radio and satellite communications technologies to provide emergency responders with the full spectrum of communication capabilities.Â
See attached graphic illustrutating areas of responsibility for Task Force Kentucky.Â
For more information on the Kentucky National Guard and the Department of Military Affairs, visit: www.dma.ky.gov Â


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Kate's travelling with Mr Rocknroll
Check out Kate Winslet arriving in San Francisco on Friday with her new boyfriend Ned ROCKNROLL. Yes, as already noted, that is his name. It is his REAL NAME. It is not like a costume that he can take off, a goofy Halloween gag or a temporary tattoo.
That dude was born Abel Smith. Perfectly nice name, Abel Smith, non?
Abel Smith went to the government offices one day and filled out a form. On that form, he formally requested to have his name changed from Abel Smith to NED ROCKNROLL.
He FILLED OUT A FORM!!!!
I just...
I'm sorry. But you'll never, EVER convince me that a man who asks people to call him NED ROCKNROLL is someone I could be friends with, let alone get hard for. No doubt I'll get an email today from someone who "dances when no one is looking" and seizes the day every day admonishing me for not, I dunno, embracing Ned's rocknroll whimsy, and how sad that must be, that I can't appreciate the silliness and frivolity of life.
That's true. I don't condone f-cking around with one's name. It's terrible feng shui. He changed his name and his wife didn't want to be married to him anymore. How's that for inviting the bad sh-t up into your life?
When a man changes his name to Ned Rocknroll, it can only mean one thing - he's a f-cking loser. And Kate Winslet's with him. What are you doing???


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Environmentally Challenged: When Doing Good for the Planet Isn't Appreciated
Mama Greenest hits a snag when using reusable bags at the self-help checkout lane in the grocery store
A very irritating thing happened to me in the grocery store this weekend. I had stopped to pick up a handful (or bagful, as it were) of stuff and was checking out in one of the self-help lanes when a store employee came over and started putting my things in plastic bags. I pointed out to him that I had a reusable bag and so he stopped and walked away, leaving nine or ten (small) items in four plastic bags.
I finished checking myself out and as I went down to un-bag my groceries I turned to the woman directly behind me, who had a cart piled high with stuff, and asked if she would use my unwanted plastic bags. She stared at me as though I had just asked her to pay for my toilet paper and answered incredulously "No." She watched me as I began to transfer my purchases into my canvas bag and then snapped, "Why don't you just put the plastic bags into your big bag?" Now, maybe I'm just a smug hippie, but it seems pretty darn obvious that if I bring my own bags it's because I don't want to take the ones from the store. I politely told her as much (minus the smug part) and finished my re-bagging. She went to wait in another lane.
Now, excuse me for a moment while I dust off my soap box: At this point in our climate crisis I want so badly to believe that people are paying attention and making different choices. Every day presents us with dozens of opportunities to minimize our impact, from where we choose to get our food to what we choose to throw away. We cannot afford to be frivolous and wasteful; it's literally becoming a life or death situation. I spend so much time trying to remind my daughter that it's important to reuse things, to not let the faucet run, to not waste food or paper. All the little things is what will make the biggest difference in the end. It wasn't so much that the woman didn't want to reuse the bags — though that alone does offend my inner smug hippie — but that she thought what I was doing was a waste of time. Doesn't inspire a tremendous amount of hope. Of course, it could just be the universe telling me it's time to stop shopping at that store so I can start my summertime local challenge. More on that next week...
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Inquiry Question
Reading 1: The Gettysburg of the West
[Refer to Map 1 to locate places mentioned in the following account of the battle.]
The trans-Mississippi West, New Mexico Territory in particular, was far removed from many of the passions and issues that defined the Civil War for people east of the Mississippi River. For large areas of the West that were recently won from Mexico or still organized under territorial government--where people were still struggling to survive in hostile environments--arguments over secession and states rights may have seemed rarified. Nonetheless, men answered the call to join eastern armies, so the frontier armies were drastically reduced. Indian raids began to increase as some tribes seized the chance to regain lost territory while others turned to raiding for subsistence, their U.S. treaty allotments having been disrupted by the war. Yet, the Civil War was not strictly an eastern war, and in 1862 Confederate forces invaded New Mexico Territory.
Henry Sibley, who resigned his commission in the U.S. Army to join the Confederate Army, realized that the void created in the West could be an opportunity for the South. After raising a brigade of mounted Texas riflemen during the summer of 1861, Sibley led his 2,500 men to Fort Bliss and launched a winter invasion up the Rio Grande Valley.
Colonel Edward Canby, who had been appointed the Union Commander of the Department of New Mexico in June 1861, anticipated the invasion and had already begun to consolidate his 2,500 regular army troops. By early 1862, Canby had almost 4,000 soldiers he could put into the field.
Sibley's Brigade approached Canby's Union forces near Fort Craig in south-central New Mexico. Threatening to cut off the fort by controlling a nearby ford, Sibley drew Canby's soldiers out from the fort and engaged them in a closely contested battle at Valverde on February 21, 1862. The smaller Confederate force prevailed against Canby's troops, who retreated to the security of nearby Fort Craig. Sibley believed the U.S. forces had been defeated too soundly to present a rear-guard threat, so he advanced north. The Confederates occupied Albuquerque on March 2. Sibley then sent the Fifth Texas Regiment, commanded by Major Charles Pyron, to the unprotected territorial capital of Santa Fe. The few Union troops retreated to Fort Union, destroying ammunition and supplies.
The only thing that appeared to be standing between Sibley's Confederate Brigade and Colorado was Fort Union, the major army depot on the Santa Fe Trail. By seizing the supplies and weapons kept at Fort Union, the Confederates would be able to continue their march north through Raton Pass to Denver, the territorial capital of Colorado.
The First Colorado Volunteers, an infantry brigade of 950 miners, were quickly organized under the command of Colonel John P. Slough. They marched the 400 miles from Denver through the deep snow of Raton Pass to Fort Union in only 13 days, arriving at the fort on March 10. After a brief rest and re-supply, Slough defied orders to remain at Fort Union. Joined by some regular army troops and New Mexico volunteers, Slough's 1,350 soldiers departed Fort Union on March 22, and they followed the Santa Fe Trail westward to meet the enemy. By March 25, the Union advance troops, under the command of Major John M. Chivington, set up Camp Lewis at Kozlowski's Stage Stop east of Glorieta Pass, a gap in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Meanwhile, Pyron's Fifth Texas Regiment had left Santa Fe, following the Santa Fe Trail eastward, marching on Fort Union. After following a southward swing through Glorieta Pass, he intended to join with other Confederate troops. Pyron's Texans camped at Johnson's Ranch in Apache Canyon, just west of Glorieta Pass, unaware of the Union troops only nine miles away.
On the morning of March 26, 1862, a scouting party of Colorado Volunteers led by Chivington left Camp Lewis to locate the Texans. They discovered and captured a Confederate scouting party in Glorieta Pass, then ran into the main body of the Confederate force in Apache Canyon, about 16 miles east of Santa Fe. A two-hour scrimmage, known as the Battle of Apache Canyon, ensued. Although Chivington captured 70 Confederate soldiers, he fell back to Pigeon's Ranch. By evening, both sides called a truce to tend to their wounded.
The following day, when Union spies notified Colonel Slough that the Confederates had been reinforced, Slough decided to divide his forces. Slough's 900 soldiers would proceed west along the Santa Fe Trail and block Glorieta Pass, while Chivington and Lieutenant Colonel Manuel Chavez of the New Mexico Volunteers would take 450 men over Glorieta Mesa to attack the Confederate right flank or rearguard. Colonel Scurry decided to leave his supply train at Johnson's Ranch and march his 900 men eastward along the Santa Fe Trail the next morning to force the battle where he wanted it.
On the morning of March 28, Slough's men broke ranks near Pigeon's Ranch to fill their canteens at Glorieta Creek. Scurry's quickly advancing Confederates came upon the Union troops and opened fire on them. The Union soldiers quickly formed a defensive line along Windmill Hill, but an hour later, fell back to Pigeon's Ranch.
Scurry's Confederate soldiers faced the Union artillery at Pigeon's Ranch and Artillery Hill for three hours, and finally outflanked the Union right. From Sharpshooter's Ridge they could fire down on the Union troops, so Slough ordered another retreat, setting up a third battle line a short distance east of Pigeon's Ranch. The Texans charged the line shortly before sunset. Slough ordered his soldiers back to Camp Lewis leaving the Confederates in possession of the field. Both sides were exhausted after six hours of fighting, each having sustained more than 30 killed and 80 wounded or missing.
Believing he had won the battle, Scurry soon received devastating news. After a 16-mile march through the mountains, the Union force led by Major Chivington had come upon the Confederate supply train at Johnson's Ranch. They had driven off the few guards, slaughtered 30 horses and mules, spiked an artillery piece, taken 17 prisoners, and burned 80 wagons containing ammunition, food, clothing, and forage. Scurry was forced to ask for a cease-fire.
Lacking vital supplies, Scurry could no longer continue his march on Fort Union so he retreated to Santa Fe. Two weeks later, General Sibley ordered his army to retreat from Santa Fe and relinquished control of Albuquerque. There was no further Confederate attempt to invade the western territories. The Battle of Glorieta Pass had decided conclusively that the West would remain with the Union.
Questions for Reading 1
1. Identify the issues that concerned residents of the western territories at the time of the Civil War. How were they different from or similar to issues that interested easterners and why?
2. What developments convinced General Sibley that a Confederate campaign through the far West could be successful?
3. Approximately how many soldiers were involved in the fights at Valverde and Glorieta Pass? Compare these numbers with those of battles farther east, which occurred at nearly the same time, in the Shenandoah Valley at the Battle of Kernstown or at Shiloh (Pittsburg Landing.)
4. What role did geography play in determining that Glorieta Pass would be the site of a battle? How did Scurry and Slough adapt their battle plans to the geography of the area?
5. Why was the destruction of the Confederate supply train at Johnson's Ranch an insurmountable problem for the Confederate invasion? What additional hardships would it have created during the long retreat from New Mexico?
Reading 1 was adapted from Richard Greenwood, "Glorieta Battlefield" (Santa Fe County, NM) National Register of Historic Places Registration Form, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, 1978; and U.S. War Department, The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. Four series, 128 vols. (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1880-1901).


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Critique is something near and dear to my heart. There's nothing like an outside perspective on our work to understand where we are as artists, and how to get where we want to be.
I think, though, that there are misconceptions about what critique is and isn't, or maybe what it should and shouldn't be. For that reason, the word "critique" tends to strike fear in the hearts of vulnerable artists. I'd like to address a few points for your consideration.
Critique does not have to be brutal and abrasive to be effective. I really do not understand the mentality that a mean critique is somehow more effective. I feel just the opposite; an unnecessarily abrasive critique tends to instantly put the "critiquee" on the defensive, and the hurt feelings can prevent the critique from really being absorbed. It is possible to be just as honest and frank without ripping holes in the self-esteem.
Let's say you went to your hairstylist asking for advice on how you could improve your look. Would you want the feedback to start with, "Well, your current hairstyle is ugly and makes you look like a troll?" Of course not. It's not necessary.
Critiques that include the word "can't" are rarely valuable. I hear this a lot. You can't center your subjects. You can't use high contrast. You can compose your shots like that. You can't have that much DOF. Can't, can't, can't. This is art, folks. There are very few things that can't be done successfully. An effective critique will not tell you what you can't do; it will help you identify your tendencies so that YOU can decide how you would like to address those issues. A good critique-giver will help you understand why certain things generally work, and leave it to you to decide what is right for you.
The best critiques take into account your personal taste and what you are trying to accomplish. Critiques based solely on the preferences of the critic will only tell you how to make that person happy. It's much more valuable for you to get feedback on how to achieve the results YOU want. I may personally prefer muted color, but if you love saturated color, my job is to help you do saturated color well.
A truly effective critique should help you identify opportunities for improvement and direction in your entire body of work — not just nit-picking little things in individual images. At the end of the critique, you should have a very clear idea of what you want to achieve and how to achieve it. And a really good critique will also help you understand what you do well, so you walk away feeling positive and motivated. it is at least as important to understand your strengths as it is to understand your weaknesses.
Critique should never be accepted blindly. You've heard me say it before. Just because someone said it doesn't make it so. It's up to you to listen to what is said, consider the point of view of the critic, and decide if and how you will act on it. Only you can truly understand your sense of beauty and what you want your work to say. Apply what it makes sense to apply. You should never have to worry about offending the critic; the critic who demands gratitude and obedience is (generally) just plain old insecure.


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Russian villagers sent Leonardo DiCaprio a handmade "Oscar" to show their appreciation for what he said about climate change while accepting his actual Oscar. He explains it in his Instagram post:
Thank you to the people of Yakutia for this wonderful gift, especially all of the women who gathered and donated the materials that went into creating the statue. As they wrote in their letter, Yakutia is home to the coldest inhabited place not only in Russia, but also on Earth – and the region is extremely vulnerable to climate change. Rising temperatures pose a major threat to its people, their way of life and their natural habitat. #Russia #ClimateChange #Earth#Yakutia #ActOnClimate
This local news report is in Russian, but you can watch them sculpt the initial design before making it.


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Here's reason number 3,489 why the Ryan brothers are the best.
According to the Nola Defender, new Saints defensive coordinator Rob Ryan celebrated his team's opening week victory over the Atlanta Falcons with a night on the town. But Ryan didn't head to a swanky downtown bar. No, he went to an uptown dive bar called Ms. Mae's and bought drinks for everyone in the house. And he did it in style:
"When he walked in the whole bar clapped," said Ms. Mae's bartender Jason Matherne.
"He put down 100 bucks and was like buy everybody a round and keep the change," Matherne said.
Anyone who has seen the sun come up outside of Mrs. Mae's knows $100 can buy a lot.
And keep the change! Bless you, Rob Ryan.
h/t Neil


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Editor's Note: Anyone who has heard me talk on Paperclipping Roundtable the past six months or who attended my seminar at CHA Winter 2011 knows that I am both a personal fan of art journaling's value as well as a believer in its increasing importance to the paper crafts industry.
Karen Stockham, today's guest author, is the former owner of Tumblebeast Stickers and a licensed family counselor. She uses art journaling with her clients in her private counseling practice. I've asked her to share from her perspective as a mental health professional why art journaling is so useful to her clients.
For readers who wish to learn more about art journaling, enrollment is currently open for Karen's new class at Big Picture Classes, called "Write Down To The Nitty Gritty". Because it is a topic that I so strongly believe in, I will be appearing as a guest instructor during the class, sharing some of my own personal art journaling and the journey that it has taken me on.
Life's challenges and the stress they bring are an unavoidable part of living. And sometimes the weight of certain challenges seems almost unbearable. There are many ways to help keep our buckets full and filling even when we are dealing with substantial grief. Friendship, activities, hobbies, non-perfectionism, acceptance for what and who you are, a place to vent, family connections and friendship connections are all helpful.
And at our fingertips, we have yet another tool to use. People have long used journals to record feelings and thoughts. We use scrapbooking and crafts as a tool to record memories. Putting the two together in art journaling is a therapeutic tool I use in my private practice with clients which is not only enlightening but also a vehicle for releasing stress and working through life's inevitable struggles. It is one way to fill your bucket.
Using expressive journaling with creative art is a powerful way to allow for connection building and profound learning about you and your inner self. It allows for time to create and for time to process. Guidance from your inner self is not only healing but extremely helpful as you heal. It is very therapeutic.
So what is the difference between a journal and an art journal? Journals become art journals when you add depth, color, and creativity through illustrations (such as photographs and embellishments of any kind) to your journal. That sounds like scrapbooking, card making and crafting, doesn't it? Art journaling is not about creative talent – it is about allowing self-communication through more than just words. Combining both expressive writing and creative art expression allows for taking an in-depth look into your own soul. You can see what you already know, and begin to learn and address what you still need to discover. This can be a very rewarding journey of self-discovery.
To derive the greatest benefit from your art journal experience, don't hold back when expressing yourself. Don't worry about your creative skills (or lack of them). Ignore the negative voices telling you that you're not an artist. Give yourself permission to explore, to play, to create, and most of all, to listen. The creative process is a healing process. Words alone can be limiting, and thus using writing and art together provides a place for pent-up traumatic emotions such as anger, hurt and grief to be expressed when they are much too painful or buried too deeply to express verbally.
Allowing for self-discovery triggers emotional catharsis. Gaining a sense of empowerment and a bit more control as you heal is essential. Art journaling is a gentle, safe and private way to let it all out. Through this process you can vent spontaneously, creatively and lead yourself to some therapeutic relief.
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Paper models help explain the Universe
11 June 2009
Free cut-out and make paper models have been released online by Canon. The designs are for the structure of the Sun, a sundial, a lunar globe, interactive planisphere, cut-away Mt. Fuji, and a cross-section representation if the Earth.
The designs can be easily downloaded, along with detailed instructions of how to successfully construct them. They will help explain the workings of our planet and other astronomical objects to a wide audience, and encourage hands-on investigation of astronomy.
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