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The Pilgrim's Progress
by John Bunyan
Evangelist overtakes Christian and Faithful - Vanity Fair - the Pilgrims brought to trial - Faithful's martyrdom
Now when they were got almost quite out of this wilderness, Faithful chanced to cast his eye back, and espied one coming after them, and he knew him. Oh! said Faithful to his brother, who comes yonder? Then Christian looked, and said, It is my good friend Evangelist. Aye, and my good friend too, said Faithful, for 'twas he that set me on the way to the gate. Now was Evangelist come up unto them, and thus saluted them.
EVAN. Peace be with you, dearly beloved, and peace be to your helpers.
CHR. Welcome, welcome, my good Evangelist: the sight of thy countenance brings to my remembrance thy ancient kindness and unwearied labors for my eternal good.
FAITH. And a thousand times welcome, said good Faithful, thy company, O sweet Evangelist; how desirable is it to us poor pilgrims!
EVAN. Then said Evangelist, How hath it fared with you, my friends, since the time of our last parting? What have you met with, and how have you behaved yourselves?
Then Christian and Faithful told him of all things that had happened to them in the way; and how, and with what difficulty, they had arrived to that place.
Right glad am I, said Evangelist, not that you have met with trials, but that you have been victors, and for that you have, notwithstanding many weaknesses, continued in the way to this very day.
I say, right glad am I of this thing, and that for mine own sake and yours: I have sowed, and you have reaped; and the day is coming, when "both he that soweth, and they that reap, shall rejoice together," John 4:36; that is, if you hold out: "for in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not." Gal. 6:9. The crown is before you, and it is an incorruptible one; "so run that ye may obtain it." 1 Cor. 9:24-27. Some there be that set out for this crown, and after they have gone far for it, another comes in and takes it from them: "hold fast, therefore, that you have; let no man take your crown." Rev. 3:11. You are not yet out of the gunshot of the devil; "you have not resisted unto blood, striving against sin." Let the kingdom be always before you, and believe steadfastly concerning the things that are invisible. Let nothing that is on this side the other world get within you. And, above all, look well to your own hearts and to the lusts thereof; for they are "deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked." Set your faces like a flint; you have all power in heaven and earth on your side.
CHR. Then Christian thanked him for his exhortations; but told him withal, that they would have him speak farther to them for their help the rest of the way; and the rather, for that they well knew that he was a prophet, and could tell them of things that might happen unto them, and also how they might resist and overcome them. To which request Faithful also consented. So Evangelist began as followeth.
EVAN. My sons, you have heard in the word of the truth of the Gospel, that you must "through many tribulations enter into the kingdom of heaven;" and again, that "in every city, bonds and afflictions abide you;" and therefore you cannot expect that you should go long on your pilgrimage without them, in some sort or other. You have found something of the truth of these testimonies upon you already, and more will immediately follow: for now, as you see, you are almost out of this wilderness, and therefore you will soon come into a town that you will by and by see before you; and in that town you will be hardly beset with enemies, who will strain hard but they will kill you; and be you sure that one or both of you must seal the testimony which you hold, with blood; but "be you faithful unto death, and the King will give you a crown of life." He that shall die there, although his death will be unnatural, and his pain, perhaps, great, he will yet have the better of his fellow; not only because he will be arrived at the Celestial City soonest, but because he will escape many miseries that the other will meet with in the rest of his journey. But when you are come to the town, and shall find fulfilled what I have here related, then remember your friend, and quit yourselves like men, and "commit the keeping of your souls to God in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator."
Then I saw in my dream, that when they were got out of the wilderness, they presently saw a town before them, and the name of that town is Vanity; and at the town there is a fair kept, called Vanity Fair. It is kept all the year long. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where it is kept is lighter than vanity, Psa. 62:9; and also because all that is there sold, or that cometh thither, is vanity; as is the saying of the wise, "All that cometh is vanity." Eccl. 11:8; see also 1:2-14; 2:11-17; Isa. 40:17.
This fair is no new-erected business but a thing of ancient standing. I will show you the original of it.
Almost five thousand years ago there were pilgrims walking to the Celestial City, as these two honest persons are: and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore, at this fair are all such merchandise sold as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferments, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures; and delights of all sorts, as harlots, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, pearls, precious stones, and what not.
And moreover, at this fair there is at all times to be seen jugglings, cheats, games, plays, fools, apes, knaves, and rogues, and that of every kind.
Here are to be seen, too, and that for nothing, thefts, murders, adulteries, false-swearers, and that of a blood-red color.
And, as in other fairs of less moment, there are the several rows and streets under their proper names, where such and such wares are vended; so here, likewise, you have the proper places, rows, streets, (namely, countries and kingdoms,) where the wares of this fair are soonest to be found. Here is the Britain Row, the French Row, the Italian Row, the Spanish Row, the German Row, where several sorts of vanities are to be sold. But, as in other fairs, some one commodity is as the chief of all the fair; so the ware of Rome and her merchandise is greatly promoted in this fair; only our English nation, with some others, have taken a dislike thereat.
Now, as I said, the way to the Celestial City lies just through this town, where this lusty fair is kept; and he that will go to the city, and yet not go through this town, "must needs go out of the world." 1 Cor. 4:10. The Prince of princes himself, when here, went through this town to his own country, and that upon a fair-day too; yea, and, as I think, it was Beelzebub, the chief lord of this fair, that invited him to buy of his vanities, yea, would have made him lord of the fair, would he but have done him reverence as he went through the town. Yea, because he was such a person of honor, Beelzebub had him from street to street, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a little time, that he might, if possible, allure that blessed One to cheapen and buy some of his vanities; but he had no mind to the merchandise, and therefore left the town, without laying out so much as one farthing upon these vanities. Matt. 4:8,9; Luke 4:5-7. This fair, therefore, is an ancient thing, of long standing, and a very great fair.
Now, these pilgrims, as I said, must needs go through this fair. Well, so they did; but behold, even as they entered into the fair, all the people in the fair were moved; and the town itself, as it were, in a hubbub about them, and that for several reasons: for,
First, The Pilgrims were clothed with such kind of raiment as was diverse from the raiment of any that traded in that fair. The people, therefore, of the fair made a great gazing upon them: some said they were fools; 1 Cor. 4:9,10; some, they were bedlams; and some, they were outlandish men.
Secondly, And as they wondered at their apparel, so they did likewise at their speech; for few could understand what they said. They naturally spoke the language of Canaan; but they that kept the fair were the men of this world: so that from one end of the fair to the other, they seemed barbarians each to the other. 1 Cor. 2:7,8.
Thirdly, But that which did not a little amuse the merchandisers was, that these pilgrims set very light by all their wares. They cared not so much as to look upon them; and if they called upon them to buy, they would put their fingers in their ears, and cry, "Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity," Psa. 119:37, and look upward, signifying that their trade and traffic was in heaven. Phil. 3: 20,21.
One chanced, mockingly, beholding the carriage of the men, to say unto them, "What will ye buy?" But they, looking gravely upon him, said, "We buy the truth." Prov. 23:23. At that there was an occasion taken to despise the men the more; some mocking, some taunting, some speaking reproachfully, and some calling upon others to smite them. At last, things came to an hubbub and great stir in the fair, insomuch that all order was confounded. Now was word presently brought to the great one of the fair, who quickly came down, and deputed some of his most trusty friends to take those men into examination about whom the fair was almost overturned. So the men were brought to examination; and they that sat upon them asked them whence they came, whither they went, and what they did there in such an unusual garb. The men told them they were pilgrims and strangers in the world, and that they were going to their own country, which was the heavenly Jerusalem, Heb. 11:13-16; and that they had given no occasion to the men of the town, nor yet to the merchandisrs, thus to abuse them, and to let them in their journey, except it was for that, when one asked them what they would buy, they said they would buy the truth. But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else such as came to put all things into a confusion in the fair. Therefore they took them and beat them, and besmeared them with dirt, and then put them into the cage, that they might be made a spectacle to all the men of the fair. There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport, or malice, or revenge; the great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them. But the men being patient, and "not rendering railing for railing, but contrariwise blessing," and giving good words for bad, and kindness for injuries done, some men in the fair, that were more observing and less prejudiced than the rest, began to check and blame the baser sort for their continual abuses done by them to the men. They, therefore, in an angry manner let fly at them again, counting them as bad as the men in the cage, and telling them that they seemed confederates, and should be made partakers of their misfortunes. The others replied that, for aught they could see, the men were quiet and sober, and intended nobody any harm; and that there were many that traded in their fair that were more worthy to be put into the cage, yea, and pillory too, than were the men that they had abused. Thus, after divers words had passed on both sides, (the men behaving themselves all the while very wisely and soberly before them,) they fell to some blows among themselves, and did harm one to another. Then were these two poor men brought before their examiners again, and were charged as being guilty of the late hubbub that had been in the fair. So they beat them pitifully, and hanged irons upon them, and led them in chains up and down the fair, for an example and terror to others, lest any should speak in their behalf, or join themselves unto them. But Christian and Faithful behaved themselves yet more wisely, and received the ignominy and shame that was cast upon them with so much meekness and patience, that it won to their side (though but few in comparison of the rest) several of the men in the fair. This put the other party yet into a greater rage, insomuch that they concluded the death of these two men. Wherefore they threatened that neither cage nor irons should serve their turn, but that they should die for the abuse they had done, and for deluding the men of the fair.
Then were they remanded to the cage again, until further order should be taken with them. So they put them in, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
Here, also, they called again to mind what they had heard from their faithful friend Evangelist, and were the more confirmed in their way and sufferings by what he told them would happen to them. They also now comforted each other, that whose lot it was to suffer, even he should have the best of it: therefore each man secretly wished that he might have that preferment. But committing themselves to the all-wise disposal of Him that ruleth all things, with much content they abode in the condition in which they were, until they should be otherwise disposed of.
Then a convenient time being appointed, they brought them forth to their trial, in order to their condemnation. When the time was come, they were brought before their enemies and arraigned. The judge's name was Lord Hate-good; their indictment was one and the same in substance, though somewhat varying in form; the contents whereof was this: "That they were enemies to, and disturbers of, the trade; that they had made commotions and divisions in the town, and had won a party to their own most dangerous opinions, in contempt of the law of their prince."
Then Faithful began to answer, that he had only set himself against that which had set itself against Him that is higher than the highest. And, said he, as for disturbance, I make none, being myself a man of peace: the parties that were won to us, were won by beholding our truth and innocence, and they are only turned from the worse to the better. And as to the king you talk of, since he is Beelzebub, the enemy of our Lord, I defy him and all his angels.
Then proclamation was made, that they that had ought to say for their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar, should forthwith appear, and give in their evidence. So there came in three witnesses, to wit, Envy, Superstition, and Pickthank. They were then asked if they knew the prisoner at the bar; and what they had to say for their lord the king against him.
Then stood forth Envy, and said to this effect: My lord, I have known this man a long time, and will attest upon my oath before this honorable bench, that he is-
JUDGE. Hold; give him his oath.
So they sware him. Then he said, My lord, this man, notwithstanding his plausible name, is one of the vilest men in our country; he neither regardeth prince nor people, law nor custom, but doeth all that he can to possess all men with certain of his disloyal notions, which he in the general calls principles of faith and holiness. And in particular, I heard him once myself affirm, that Christianity and the customs of our town of Vanity were diametrically opposite, and could not be reconciled. By which saying, my lord, he doth at once not only condemn all our laudable doings, but us in the doing of them.
Then did the judge say to him, Hast thou any more to say?
ENVY. My lord, I could say much more, only I would not be tedious to the court. Yet if need be, when the other gentlemen have given in their evidence, rather than any thing shall be wanting that will dispatch him, I will enlarge my testimony against him. So he was bid to stand by.
Then they called Superstition, and bid him look upon the prisoner. They also asked, what he could say for their lord the king against him. Then they sware him; so he began.
SUPER. My lord, I have no great acquaintance with this man, nor do I desire to have further knowledge of him. However, this I know, that he is a very pestilent fellow, from some discourse that I had with him the other day, in this town; for then, talking with him, I heard him say, that our religion was naught, and such by which a man could by no means please God. Which saying of his, my lord, your lordship very well knows what necessarily thence will follow, to wit, that we still do worship in vain, are yet in our sins, and finally shall be damned: and this is that which I have to say.
Then was Pickthank sworn, and bid say what he knew in the behalf of their lord the king against the prisoner at the bar.
PICK. My lord, and you gentlemen all, this fellow I have known of a long time, and have heard him speak things that ought not to be spoken; for he hath railed on our noble prince Beelzebub, and hath spoken contemptibly of his honorable friends, whose names are, the Lord Old Man, the Lord Carnal Delight, the Lord Luxurious, the Lord Desire of Vain Glory, my old Lord Lechery, Sir Having Greedy, with all the rest of our nobility: and he hath said, moreover, that if all men were of his mind, if possible, there is not one of these noblemen should have any longer a being in this town. Besides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my lord, who are now appointed to be his judge, calling you an ungodly villain, with many other such like vilifying terms, with which he hath bespattered most of the gentry of our town.
When this Pickthank had told his tale, the judge directed his speech to the prisoner at the bar, saying, Thou runagate, heretic, and traitor, hast thou heard what these honest gentlemen have witnessed against thee?
FAITH. May I speak a few words in my own defence?
JUDGE. Sirrah, sirrah, thou deservest to live no longer, but to be slain immediately upon the place; yet, that all men may see our gentleness towards thee, let us hear what thou, vile runagate, hast to say.
FAITH. 1. I say, then, in answer to what Mr. Envy hath spoken, I never said aught but this, that what rule, or laws, or custom, or people, were flat against the word of God, are diametrically opposite to Christianity. If I have said amiss in this, convince me of my error, and I am ready here before you to make my recantation.
2. As to the second, to wit, Mr. Superstition, and his charge against me, I said only this, that in the worship of God there is required a divine faith; but there can be no divine faith without a divine revelation of the will of God. Therefore, whatever is thrust into the worship of God that is not agreeable to divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human faith; which faith will not be profitable to eternal life.
3. As to what Mr. Pickthank hath said, I say, (avoiding terms, as that I am said to rail, and the like,) that the prince of this town, with all the rabblement, his attendants, by this gentleman named, are more fit for a being in hell than in this town and country. And so the Lord have mercy upon me.
Then the judge called to the jury, (who all this while stood by to hear and observe,) Gentlemen of the jury, you see this man about whom so great an uproar hath been made in this town; you have also heard what these worthy gentlemen have witnessed against him; also, you have heard his reply and confession: it lieth now in your breasts to hang him, or save his life; but yet I think meet to instruct you in our law.
There was an act made in the days of Pharaoh the Great, servant to our prince, that, lest those of a contrary religion should multiply and grow too strong for him, their males should be thrown into the river. Exod. 1:22. There was also an act made in the days of Nebuchadnezzar the Great, another of his servants, that whoever would not fall down and worship his golden image, should be thrown into a fiery furnace. Dan. 3:6. There was also an act made in the days of Darius, that whoso for some time called upon any god but him, should be cast into the lion's den. Dan. 6:7. Now, the substance of these laws this rebel has broken, not only in thought, (which is not to be borne,) but also in word and deed; which must, therefore, needs be intolerable.
For that of Pharaoh, his law was made upon a supposition to prevent mischief, no crime being yet apparent; but here is a crime apparent. For the second and third, you see he disputeth against our religion; and for the treason that he hath already confessed, he deserveth to die the death.
Then went the jury out, whose names were Mr. Blindman, Mr. No-good, Mr. Malice, Mr. Love-lust, Mr. Live-loose, Mr. Heady, Mr. High- mind, Mr. Enmity, Mr. Liar, Mr. Cruelty, Mr. Hate-light, and Mr. Implacable; who every one gave in his private verdict against him among themselves, and afterwards unanimously concluded to bring him in guilty before the judge. And first among themselves, Mr. Blindman, the foreman, said, I see clearly that this man is a heretic. Then said Mr. No-good, Away with such a fellow from the earth. Aye, said Mr. Malice, for I hate the very looks of him. Then said Mr. Love-lust, I could never endure him. Nor I, said Mr. Live-loose, for he would always be condemning my way. Hang him, hang him, said Mr. Heady. A sorry scrub, said Mr. High-mind. My heart riseth against him, said Mr. Enmity. He is a rogue, said Mr. Liar. Hanging is too good for him, said Mr. Cruelty. Let us dispatch him out of the way, said Mr. Hate-light. Then said Mr. Implacable, Might I have all the world given me, I could not be reconciled to him; therefore let us forthwith bring him in guilty of death.
And so they did; therefore he was presently condemned to be had from the place where he was, to the place from whence he came, and there to be put to the most cruel death that could be invented.
They therefore brought him out, to do with him according to their law; and first they scourged him, then they buffeted him, then they lanced his flesh with knives; after that, they stoned him with stones, then pricked him with their swords; and last of all, they burned him to ashes at the stake. Thus came Faithful to his end.
Now I saw, that there stood behind the multitude a chariot and a couple of horses waiting for Faithful, who (so soon as his adversaries had dispatched him) was taken up into it, and straightway was carried up through the clouds with sound of trumpet, the nearest way to the celestial gate. But as for Christian, he had some respite, and was remanded back to prison: so he there remained for a space. But he who overrules all things, having the power of their rage in his own hand, so wrought it about, that Christian for that time escaped them, and went his way.
And as he went, he sang, saying,
"Well, Faithful, thou hast faithfully profestUnto thy Lord, with whom thou shalt be blest,When faithless ones, with all their vain delights,Are crying out under their hellish plights:Sing, Faithful, sing, and let thy name survive;For though they killed thee, thou art yet alive."
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Tricks After passing cards, the player holding the 2 of clubs leads the first trick.
Each player must follow suit if possible. If you have no cards of the suit led, you may play a card of any suit. Exception: You may not play a heart or the Queen of Spades on the first trick, even if you have no clubs.
The highest card of the suit led wins the trick. The winner of a trick starts the next trick.
Hearts may not be led until a heart has been played (this is called "breaking" hearts). The Queen of Spades may be lead at any time. [NB: In traditional Hearts, playing the Queen of Spades also breaks hearts.]
There is no trump suit.
Scoring At the end of each hand, each heart taken by a player counts -1, and the Queen of Spades counts -13.
If one player has taken all 13 hearts and the Queen of Spades (this is known as "shooting the moon", or "slam"), that player scores 0 and all other players score -26. Warning other players about an attempt to shoot the moon is team play, and a breach of Hearts etiquette.
When one or more players reach zero, the game ends. The player with the highest score wins.
Variants Normal game is 100 points. Quick game is 75 points.


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I am on my way to New York this morning. In honor of the trip, I wanted to explain some of what I am taking, and why. I will skip the clothing, except to say that I brought layered things, comfortable shoes, an umbrella, and a couple of warm jackets. It is all in one suitcase, I learned to travel light when I was working and flying every week.
Now the traveling light thing goes out the window. Since this trip is based on genealogical research, I packed with that in mind. My not-so-brief (thank goodness it has wheels) case contains:
- Magnifying glass, computer glasses
- Pencils, pens, notepads, index cards
- Notebook with:
- Family group sheets
- Maps of each location I intend to research
- List of individuals by location, showing what events took place in that location
- List of research locations, including address, phone, fax and hours they are open. Yes, I called ahead.
- Camera, extra data cards, battery charger
- Laptop, cord, small mouse, small surge suppresser, cute USB cord
- Portable scanner
- Computer lock
- Extension cord
- iPhone with GedView and my gedcom loaded, a pdf reader app and pdf family group sheets and lists, address book, clock, GPS, camera, dictionary app, Dragon Dictation, music, games, Facebook, Google including maps, WordPress– well, almost everything. If I didn't really need to type on a real keyboard and see a bigger screen, I would not need the laptop.
- Lifesavers
- Change for copies
- More stuff you don't need to hear about
My cemetery kit contains:
- Trowel
- Spray bottle
- Gloves
- Flashlight
- Tin foil
- Old shoes
- Mirror
- Paintbrush
I have a cooler, but it is mostly empty. By the time you read this I will have crossed the US/Canada border and I wanted to minimize the potential for problems. It is just easier to buy food in New York. I have an electric frying pan, a small electric tea kettle, an empty water bottle, laundry soap and dryer sheets, and our travel kitchen bag with paper plates, napkins, plastic utensils, a can opener, my prescriptions and vitamins, garbage bags, baby wipes, hand sanitizer and empty plastic foot storage bags. I also have a small reusable lunch cooler bag. Papa and I do not often eat in restaurants, and I won't be doing so too often on this trip.
If you think I forgot something, it is too late to help me. Luckily, I know there are stores in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts, and those are the places I will be visiting.
The most important thing is something I am not carrying with me, my Google Map. I constructed a map with all the landmarks and research locations marked. Each marker has the phone, hours and other details about the place. I hope between the iPhone and the map I will get to the places I consider most important and accomplish as much as possible.


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I have a command that I run in a folder that outputs MD5 hashes and filenames on the terminal:
ls |sort -nr | xargs md5sum
I need this output in a text file that I can download and compare to another folder on another customer's machine. How can I modify the command such that its output is stored in a file in say
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The Brotherhood story continues with the Hidden Ones, included in the Assassin's Creed Origins' Season Pass.
Years after the birth of the Brotherhood, Bayek is called to the Sinaï Peninsula to investigate a clash between a rebel faction and occupying Roman forces. As he seeks to bring peace, Bayek must shape the code that will one day be known as the Assassin's Creed.
This first expansion brings new content to Assassin's Creed Origins with a mission that takes you deeper into the story of the Brotherhood's formation. Explore the beautiful region of Sinaï and meet new characters that will show you a whole new perspective of the Brotherhood.
- Improve Bayek with a higher level cap and new gear
- Explore a new region - Sinaï and the Red Sea
- Find new legendary weapons with special attributes
- Customise your assassin with unique outfits and mounts
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If you're a small business, you're in good company. Nearly all businesses (99.7%) in the U.S. have fewer than 500 workers. In fact, if you have fewer than 20 workers, you have something in common with 89% of businesses.
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Revenue-wise, we all know the breakdown is quite different -- the big firms take a big chunk of the pie despite making up such a small percentage of total businesses. It's tough to be a small business because you've got to compete with the big dogs despite having limited resources.
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And there was the Los Angeles Dodgers Clayton Kershaw, 11-2 with a 1.78 ERA and fresh off a 41-inning scoreless streak that ended last week. He chose Wainwright, who will start Tuesday night at Target Field against the Seattle Mariners Felix Hernandez. "Its going to be great catching them," said Milwaukees Jonathan Lucroy, the NL starter behind the plate. "A lot more fun than facing them." When baseballs elite met at Citi Field last year, NL batters managed just three hits in a 3-0 loss. A year earlier in Kansas City, the AL had just six hits in an 8-0 defeat. Never before had consecutive All-Star games ended in shutouts. "Guys are throwing harder. Guys have more pitches," said Philadelphia second baseman Chase Utley, making his sixth All-Star appearance and first since 2010. The big league batting average is at a 42-year low. Strikeouts are at an all-time high. Wainwright and Kershaw are on track to become the first pair of qualifying pitchers in one league with a sub-2.00 ERA since the Mets Dwight Gooden and the Cardinals John Tudor in 1985 -- the last time Minnesota hosted the All-Stars. "Aside from having the ability to win two World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals, I think this has to be one of the highlights of my baseball career to this point," Wainwright said. "One of the coolest things I can say I did is to start a big league All-Star game." Kershaw understood Mathenys decision. "If Im him, Im probably going to pick Adam, too. Its his guy and he had the best half," Kershaw said. Hernandez, the first Venezuela pitcher to start for the All-Stars, also has sterling credentials: an 11-2 record with a 2.12 ERA. He described his task pretty simply: "Just throw zeroes out there and get my team to win. Thats all I got to do," he said. Back in the great pitching era of the 1960s, the game was different. 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Dear Hurren Family,
Merry Christmas! 2012 has been a great year. Thanks for sending me your lists. I didn't receive them in the mail, like I usually do, but just at the last minute, they arrived somehow, magically on my desk. There was just enough time to make sure we had the right presents for each of you.
Cohen, great job learning to walk and talk, this year. Next year you need to learn to poop on the toilet, and then you'll be golden. You almost made the naughty list a few times, because of all your whining, but I gave you a pass, since you're pretty adorable, most of the time.
Luke, you are doing awesome in school, this year. Great job! You're very smart. There were a few times during the year that I thought I was going to have to put a bear on the naughty list for eating your face off, but it turned out it was just you screaming really loud. Maybe think about toning it down, for the neighbors' sake. But keep up the good work and remember to be nice and kind to everyone.
Walker, you have had a great year with school, sports and all your extra activities. Your enthusiasm and creativity are immense. Keep imagining and keep inventing! I wasn't able to fit a whole science lab on my sleigh for you, but keep at it and eventually you'll get there. Remember to do what your parents tell you, without being told twice, and they will help you accomplish your dreams.
Porter, your list was very unselfish this year and I have given you a special gift in your stocking. Thanks for being such a kind-hearted and generous young man. Now that you are getting so big, there is more responsibility on your shoulders, but I know you can handle it. Good luck in your new school. It will be a change, but you'll soon make lots of new friends.
Karli, you're as smoking hot as ever and your husband is lucky to have you. Seriously, it's like beauty and the beast over there. Have you seen how hairy he is? Oh, well. Keep up the good work and stay classy.
Mike, sorry about the hairy comment. Between you and me, there's nothing wrong with a bit of man fur. Keeps us warm on those cold winter nights, am I right? Anyway, you're still the most amazing person in the entire world. Seriously, I made a list and checked it twice, and you came out on top both times. Solid job.
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Garyn & Jill, don't think I would forget you. Glad you could come stay with your family for the holidays. Jill, good luck with your new job hunt. I'm rooting for you, but with those crazy Democrats in office, there's only so much even I can do. Garyn, good luck with grad school and stay thirsty, my friend.
Pudge, good boy, but please lay off the Chinese noodles. Rudolph nearly passed out from the stench, when we landed on the roof. ps bark, bark, barkity, bark, woof!
Best Holiday Wishes,
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ps All the reindeer say thanks for the grapes. They were a big hit.
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Before AC/DC – For Malcolm & Angus there was the Marcus Hook Roll Band – Song Premieres on Rolling Stone, Billboard, MSN & Guitar World..
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Tales of Old Grand-Daddy
CD/vinyl/digital download * Release date – June 3
Just before Malcolm and Angus Young took us on a debaucherous decent down that Highway to Hell, they joined with their talented brother, George Young and guitarist Harry Vanda, to form the brief, yet musically significant group, The Marcus Hook Roll Band. Back then, there was no such person as Marcus Hook, nor did the 'band' originate from the borough of Marcus Hook in Pennsylvania. George and his fellow musicians only ever existed as a band in studio, releasing three singles and one album in the early '70s. When any of these tracks turn up on internet auction sites today, collectors bankrupt their PayPal accounts to win them. Now, The Marcus Hook Roll Band is releasing their one and onlyalbum, 1973's Tales of Old Grand-Daddy, on June 3 through Parlophone as CD/vinyl/digital download.
Song premieres began rolling out last week with Rolling Stone giving fans a taste with "Louisiana Lady", following with today's on MSN and in Billboard where writer, Gary Graff spoke to original producer Wally Waller for his insight into the recording sessions with the Young Brothers.
Rolling Stone – "Louisiana Lady"
MSN – "One of These Days"
Billboard – "Ride Baby Ride"
Guitar World – "Natural Man" …premiere coming next week…
The truth is, if the Marcus Hook Roll Band had ever come out of the studio and played live, then the AC/DC phenomenon that electrified the rock 'n roll landscape for decades, might never have gotten off the ground. Do we have your attention now? The Marcus Hook Roll Band is one obscure, but significant, persona of the legendary partnership of Harry Vanda and George Young. Their better known personas are the '60s beat phenomenon The Easybeats, and later the mysterious entity Flash and The Pan. Dutchman Harry Vanda and Scotsman George Young first met as displaced teenagers in an immigration hostel in Sydney, Australia.
1. Can't Stand The Heat
2. Goodbye Jane
3. Quick Reaction
4. Silver Shoes & Strawberry Wine
5. Watch Her Do it Now
6. People and the Power
7. Red Revolution
8. Shot in the Head
9. Ape Man
10. Cry For Me
11. One Of These Days (Previously Unreleased)
12. Natural Man (1972 A-Side of Regal Zonophone RZ 3061)
13. Moonshine Blues (1974 B-Side of 'Can't Stand The Heat' BASF – 06 19196-0)
14. Louisiana Lady (1973 A-Side of Regal Zonophone RZ 3072)
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The HSL color method is well-supported in modern browsers but somewhat neglected by coders, partly due to the fact that HSL is quite different from alternative CSS color models:
- It's easy to translate from hexadecimal to RGB color codes, but difficult to translate from those color models into HSL.
- Hex and RGB PhotoShop color values can be directly transferred to your CSS, but PhotoShop's HSB color model is not the same thing as HSL.
- HSL doesn't give you a greater gamut: it works in the same color range as hex and RGB.
Despite these restrictions, HSL is very much preferred by designers, and I'm about to show you why.
Understanding A New Color System
First, you need a new mental model for color. Forget sliders: instead, focus on the wheel above. You can see red, green and blue: red, at the top, is at 0 degrees, green is at 120 and blue at 240, dividing the color wheel into thirds. Equidistant between those are yellow, cyan and magenta (from the CMYK color system), at 60, 180 and 300 degrees respectively.
Starting at the top of the wheel and moving clockwise, we proceed through the rainbow hues you recall from school: ROY G BIV. An alternative mnemonic is "Young Guys Can Be Messy Rascals" – Yellow, Green, Cyan, Blue, Magenta and Red, starting at 60° and increasing in equal increments.
So the first component of HSL is easy: it's a specification of how many degrees around on that wheel a particular color is.
As an example, purple is halfway between blue (240°) and magenta (300°), so the HSL code for it would be:
hsl(270,100%,50%). (Don't worry about the other numbers yet). Making the purple "more blue" would move it counter-clockwise on the color wheel, giving us
The next component, saturation, is better described as "intensity". At the outside edge of the wheel, colors are fully saturated: they are as "colorful" as they can possibly be. Moving inwards, colors get closer to grey. So saturation is "how far away is the color from grey?" Any HSL color with a saturation of 0% is the exact same shade of grey, all other things being equal.
HSL Saturation Values: hsl(45,x%,50%)hsl(45,0%,50%) hsl(45,25%,50%) hsl(45,50%,50%) hsl(45,75%,50%) hsl(45,100%,50%)
Luminosity, or "brightness", specifies how far away the color is from black or white. A brightness level of 50% means the color is perfectly balanced between light and dark, and will essentially remain unchanged. Reducing luminosity darkens the color: all HSL colors with a luminosity level of 0 are pure black. Increasing brightness does exactly that: at the extreme of 100%, all HSL colors are white. Between, you have many possibilities, as illustrated below:
HSL Luminosity Values: hsl(90,100%,x%)hsl(90,100%,0%) hsl(90,100%,25%) hsl(90,100%,50%) hsl(90,100%,75%) hsl(90,100%,100%)
With practice, this new mental map of color will become instinctive: you'll likely find that it is much easier to create and manipulate color specified in HSL in your stylesheet code than hex or RGB. Even if you choose not to use it all the time, HSL has some very specific advantages in certain circumstances, as we'll see in the next article.
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It's official. My bio is up on WHDH's website, so I'm officially part of the team. I can't tell you how super excited I am about being back here in Boston.
To be honest I didn't think I'd be back. After the first winter in Charlotte, which was sunny and gorgeous, hubby and I kind of thought we'd never leave the South. We imagined my next career move could take us to Atlanta or we'd just stay in Charlotte forever; we didn't contemplate a move back to the Northeast. I even donated almost all of my winter coats and most of my snow gear. We were done with snow.
Then came the call to come up for three months. The station needed some freelance reporters to fill in as two reporters were out on maternity. I hesitated. I didn't want to move back, live with friends and work at a station that was once competition (I'd worked at the Fox affiliate from 2003-2006). We had dear friends here in Charlotte and while on sabbatical, I had finished my first novel, volunteered a ton, and took improv classes. I was happy. But I missed working. So I took the assignment with this in mind, I'll hate it and know I'm done with news or I'll have some new, updated stories for my resume reel. But it didn't take long for me to remember why I loved reporting in a big market; stories of national and international significance were constantly happening. I was covering the police raid of the accused Time Square bomber's Connecticut home. I was standing outside the Garden as the Celtics attempted another championship. I interviewed a concert violinist who left her instrument on a transit trolley, only to have it returned. Even with all that, I still hesitated when the station offered me a full time position.
I thought I wanted to pursue my news anchoring dreams more. I thought I wanted to focus on my fiction writing. I thought I might try something outside of TV news. But in the end, I couldn't imagine doing anything else but telling peoples' stories; using their words, my words, my photographer's video.
While at WHDH during those three temporary months, I gained new perspective, saw a new opportunity, and regained my love of TV news. Ultimately, what I found was a new place to call home.


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To access the rest of the city and its main business districts, nothing could be simpler : Villa des Ambassadeurs is served by metro lines 6 and 9, which both provide quick access to the capital's different quarters and its most famous sites, such as Montmartre, the department stores, the Louvre and the Pompidou Centre. Whatever your plans or needs, don't hesitate to ask us for advice on how to make the most of the capital and its many treasures !
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On March 4, 1887, a young man named William Randolph Hearst placed his name on the masthead of the San Francisco Examiner as "Proprietor" for the first time. It was, though no one realized it then, a historic event.
Over the decades, Hearst experimented with every aspect of newspapering, from page layouts to editorial crusades. By the 1930s, he had built the largest newspaper chain in the nation. At the same time the Hearst organization became deeply involved in magazine publishing.
The interest Hearst and his managers had in communications extended beyond the printed word as well. Their involvement with the new technology of broadcasting led to the acquisition of radio stations in the 1920s and the ownership of one of the first commercial television stations in the nation—WBAL-TV, Baltimore, Maryland—in 1948.
William Randolph Hearst died in 1951, but his legacy, Hearst Corporation, has continued to grow and prosper. Today, it is one of the nation's largest diversified media companies and the San Francisco Chronicle is one of its premier media.
The Express-News leadership group is comprised of savvy media experts, bringing years of media and publishing experience to this historic and trusted company.


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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump will host "Saturday Night Live" on November 7.
It won't be Trump's first time hosting—he took the reigns back in April 2004 during his time on "Celebrity Apprentice"—but it will be his first appearance since crossing the entertainment divide to become a full-time politician.
Trump is part of a long list of real-life politicos who have faced the comic players—and occasionally themselves (see Hillary Clinton, below)—on the weekly sketch show which includes Chris Christie, Mike Huckabee, George Pataki, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Alan Stuart "Al" Franken, Bob Dole, George McGovern, Ed Koch, David Paterson and George P. Shultz.
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Barack Obama The 44th President (usually impersonated by "SNL" players Fred Armisen or Jay Pharoah) appeared on the "Halloween Party" cold opening sketch Nov. 3, 2007 and uttered the famous line: "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" In the episode, Obama (at the time a U.S. senator vying for the Democratic presidential nomination) attended a Halloween party at Hillary Clinton's (Amy Poehler) house where she was portrayed winning the presidential nominee nod.
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been impersonated by players and guests including Jan Hooks, Ana Gasteyer, Amy Poehler, Drew Barrymore, Rachel Dratch, Vanessa Bayer and most recently by Kate McKinnon. Clinton appeared in the Oct. 3, 2015 scene as bartender Val, who listens to the woes of McKinnon-as-Clinton. The former secretary of state also appeared alongside Poehler in a 2008 sketch.
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Al Gore made a cameo on May 13, 2006, appearing twice during the episode. The vice president did the cold opening and then an alternate universe sketch where he is president and catches Osama bin Laden. It was not Gore's first time on "SNL," he made his debut in the 2002 opener alongside his wife Tipper in which the couple have a two-minute make-out session. The cast has to pull them apart before Gore suffocates his wife.
Jesse Jackson The former Democratic presidential candidate appeared on the show in 1984. During one sketch he praises "SNL's" diversity after witnessing a control room filled with black technicians and producers. When the Reverend leaves the room, the black workers depart and the white producers return.
Sarah Palin Tina Fey's unforgettable portrayal of the former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee became a breakout topic of the 2008 presidential race. Palin herself appeared on the show in 2008 and watched Fey's impersonation. Alec Baldwin remarks in the episode that Palin is "way hotter in person."
Rudolph Giuliani The Mayor of New York City appeared on Jan. 13, 1996 and was seen fighting with Janet Reno, portrayed by Will Ferrell. Giuliani participated in perhaps the most poignant "SNL" moment when, surrounded by firefighters and police, he opened the show that aired Dec. 15, 2001—the first episode to go live after the September 11 terrorist attacks. "SNL" Producer Lorne Michaels asks Giuliani if it's OK to be funny. His reply: "Why start now?"
John McCain first hosted in 2002 and then again in 2008, just days before voters were asked to choose between him and Obama. The opening sketch features McCain appearing on QVC because he can't afford air time on the networks. Fey, impersonating Palin, hawks "Palin in 2012" T-shirts.


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Remember Ordos City, that ritzy urban planning project in the Gobi Desert where most people can't afford to live? Design firm MAD Architects recently completed the blob-like local museum. I repeat — the Chinese government commissioned a museum that looks sort of like a bashful Shai-Hulud in a chichi desert ghost town. If you build it, will they come?
Above is a video of the museum by MAD, and here are photos of its interior and exterior by Iwan Baan. Witness the incredibly rosy synopsis of this project:
[The] Ordos Museum was designed to be the new irregular nucleus for the new town, to encourage the history and culture of Ordos to extend further into the future. The design of the museum was conceived as a reaction to this city plan. It takes the form of a natural, irregular nucleus in contrast with the strict geometry of the masterplan.
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Introduction: Prof. Kalyan Mukherjea (1943-2010) was an outstanding sarod player, trained by two eminent Gurus of Bengal -- Radhika Mohan Maitra and Prof. DT Joshi. Prof. Mukherjea also happened to be an eminent Professor of mathematics. He allowed the musician in him to be rediscovered after a chance encounter with Lyle Wachovsky of India Archive Music, New York.
Mukherjea's took his basic degree in Mathematics at Cambridge in England, and a Ph.D. from Cornell (Ithaca, NY.USA). He served on the Mathematics Faculty of the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) for eight years. In his last years, he was associated with the Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta.
In his e-mail to Deepak Raja (June 25,1999), Kalyan Mukherjea said: "I was a radio artist in India for six years; but I never had a musical career. I have played if and when asked to. Even in Bombay, I have performed only twice or thrice. I am not sure Bombay audiences should feel specially deprived, because in totality, between 1989 and 1995, I have done only two concerts. After my stroke in May, 1995, I am a hemiplegic, and now, only an ex-sarod player."
Prof. Kalyan Mukherjea writes about his evolution as a musician.
Bernard Shaw is reported to have remarked that his education had continued unabated throughout his life, except for a brief interruption when he was sent to school. I hope I do not give a similar impression in what follows, since I attach a considerable degree of significance to my development when I was not under the tutelage of a Guru.
I started learning the sarod at the age of twelve from the late Pandit Radhika Mohan Maitra. Besides being much admired as a musician with an impeccably pure and orthodox style, he was - already at the age of forty - a teacher of great repute. This reputation, of course, attained legendary proportions by the time of his untimely death in 1981.
As with all beginners amongst his students, he started me off with a year or so of rote learning. I would visit him once a week, and copy out the set pieces. The following week, I would play what I had taken down the previous week, and satisfy him that I had, indeed, mastered the material. These pieces, in twelve elementary ragas, had been written down in voluminous ledgers by one of his earlier students during the early stages of tutelage.
It was a somewhat tedious affair. Now I realise that what he was trying to achieve was not just getting our hands working properly. He was also inculcating in us good musical taste, correct grammar, and diction. His pupils can easily be recognised by the way they blend intricate right hand plucking (bols) with the melodic line and this, I feel, is a consequence of this early rote drill that we went through.
Once Radhika Mohan decided that the basic skills had been transferred, he proceeded to teach me to improvise. The first session, as with all students, was alap in Malkauns. He would sing and I would try to play the phrases back to him. The week following, I would have to improvise along the lines he had indicated the previous week and he would correct what he perceived to be errors and faults. After my skills on the instrument had outstripped his somewhat limited prowess as a vocalist, he started to play his sarod while teaching me, and I would follow him, repeating his phrases. This is how I received all my lessons after the third year on. I recall, I learnt only three ragas (Malkauns, Bageshri, and Poorvi) in the first two years of improvisation.
What might surprise some is that he never asked me to play a phrase for the reason that it would make my recitals attractive. If he commended a phrase, he would prefix it with some comment like "this is where the raga lives" or "without this, you cannot make the raga's character clear". His philosophy was that the student should improvise according to what seemed attractive to his own, rather than Radhika Mohan's, musical thinking. There was no point, according to him, in teaching a horde of people to play according to the taste of Radhika Mohan.
This has had the peculiar consequence that his better students play completely different styles, although they are instantly recognisable as Radhika Mohan's students. Moreover, they disagree quite openly about what constituted the essential ingrediants of Radhika Mohan's style and what is the musical legacy they ought to preserve for future generations.
During the years of 1960-61, there was a break of sorts in my tutelage under Radhika Mohan. At that time, his friend, Prof.DT Joshi, was spending some time in Calcutta. I had just finished my Intermediate Degree exam and found it easy to spend the whole morning and evening learning from Joshi. In the afternoons I would go to Radhu Babu. When college resumed for my final year of Degree studies, Radhu Babu stopped teaching me. Instead, he instructed me to devote my limited time to music studies with Prof.DT Joshi.
In fact, this did not matter very much; both Radhu Babu and Joshi-ji came around every evening to chat with my father, and after they had settled down with their refreshments, I would be summoned and would have to satisfy both the Gurus that I was not getting corrupted by the other one's tutelage. So, I ended up having more 'taleem' than ever before.
Those who are not aware of how jealously Hindustani musicians guard their pupils from being influenced by other musicians, will not realise what extraordinary breadth of mind and heart Radhika Mohan showed by this gesture. I cannot imagine any other guru showing this kind of generosity and such a confident ego.
Between 1962 and 1976 I lived largely outside India, first studying at Cambridge (England) and Cornell (Ithaca, NY) and finally teaching for eight years at UCLA. Although I would resume my lessons with Radhika Mohan whenever I was back home on vacation, my musical attitudes changed rather dramatically over these years abroad.
This was the first time I was being exposed to different traditions in music. I do not think that Western classical music and Jazz, the only two musics I learned to enjoy, had any direct effect on my music. However, this exposure broadened my musical horizons enormously.
For example, I became aware that the sarod was, relatively speaking, a rather undeveloped instrument. Nothing about the sarod is standard - not the wood it is made of, not the number of strings, not the fingering, not the material out of which the bridge is made. All these are variable and attributed to differences of opinion between exponents of different gharanas. When one compares this with the situation obtaining in the violin or the piano, one realises that what is involved is not merely a matter of different musical schools playing different styles using slightly different techniques. It could be that a single basic entity is still undergoing a process of evolution along different lines. Certainly I feel this is so, and hence have had no compunction whatever about experimenting with the technical aspects of sarod playing.
I have tried out different fingering techniques, different materials (such as Teflon and ebony) for the plectrum and even an abortive attempt at using Kevlar for covering the drum of the sarod !
Of other interesting and ultimately rewarding experiences, I ought to mention is my participating in the graduate seminars on Hindustani music conducted at UCLA by Prof. Nazirali Jairazbhoy. It is in these seminars that I first saw how an undogmatic and analytical approach to our music can help demystify and clarify a lot of do's and don'ts that pervade the teaching of every gharana.
When I returned to India in 1976, I resumed learning from Radhika Mohan. But, this was quite different from my earlier training. He had formally retired from playing in public and was, as a result, often not in the best of shape in terms of technical virtuosity. However, he was now more willing to talk about the esthetic aspects of presenting a piece of music to an audience. He was also more mellow in his approach to the raga. He even conceded that it might be permissible to violate the law as long as the spirit of the raga was enhanced by this license. I certainly found this new (really older!) Radhika Mohan an extraordinarily sensitive teacher, ideally suited for advanced students who had already developed a musical personality of their own.
Every musician learns from other musicians, especially those who are his friends. I have had many such friends to whom I owe a debt. In have particularly rewarding memories of the two summers I spent in Bombay, visiting the Mathematics Department of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. On those sojourns, I stayed with my friends, Parveen Sultana and Dilshad Khan. This was the only time I have actually lived with professional musicians and seen how they go about the business of keeping their musical skills in fine fettle. Dilshad would, in particular, goad me into practicing harder. This was a delightful experience and I am sure my music gained from it.
I must finally add that I find the process of teaching - even complete beginners - an interesting and rewarding experience. I have been fortunate in having had very interesting students, including those who wouldn't be welcomed by most sarod players. Trying to help a gentleman who is starting on the sarod at the age of sixty with the only ambition of playing ten, or fifteen minutes of alap in Malkauns, or trying to explain to a young American with very fast hands how to settle down and play a raga correctly and methodically, is certainly challenging. But, in doing so, the teacher ends up with a clearer conception of what is essential to the music he plays.
So, I find that my musical education has continued unabated throughout my life . . . .
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KTM-sponsored rider Ty Howard got some track time with the new 2011 KTM 1190 RC8 R, and the Texan seems to be very positive about the changes the Austrian company has made to its already potent superbike package. Instead of aiming for more power, KTM's goal was more rideability (though the Ready to Race brand did manage to squeeze a few more ponies out of the 2011 machine).
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Whole Life Makeover: Walking Lunges
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Personal trainer Michelle Cederberg is one of the experts helping former Olympic luge athlete Kathy Salmon Farstad regain control over her work, personal and physical life. To start you on your own road to fitness bliss, head to a park and try these exercises, then share your fitness goals and quandaries with Michelle and other Canadian Living readers in our Whole Life Makeover forum.
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Start on your regular walking or running workout with a good 10 minute warm up. Choose a route that takes you through a park or some place with park benches, playground equipment, cement retaining walls, stairs, or hills – your very own outdoor gym.
Alternate run/walk intervals with the exercises below. You'll be amazed by hard you'll work and how quickly your regular run/walk will pass by.
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Michelle Cederberg is a longtime fitness instructor, teacher, personal trainer and public speaker. She heads the personal-training departments at Heaven's Fitness and Fountain Park health clubs in Calgary. Cederberg has a master's in kinesiology from the University of Calgary and specializes in exercise-and-functional fitness and exercise-and-health psychology. Cederberg teaches in the faculty of physical education at Mount Royal College in Calgary and gives presentations on numerous health and wellness topics across Canada and the United states to fitness leaders, teachers and the general population.


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Fantasia1940 Animation | Family | Classic
Fantasia, Walt Disney's animated masterpiece of the 1940s, grew from a short-subject cartoon picturization of the Paul Dukas musical piece The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Mickey Mouse was starred in this eight-minute effort, while the orchestra was under the direction of Leopold Stokowski. Disney and Stokowski eventually decided that the notion of marrying classical music with animation was too good to confine to a mere short subject; thus the notion was expanded into a two-hour feature, incorporating seven musical selections and a bridging narration by music critic Deems Taylor. The first piece, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, was used to underscore a series of abstract images. The next selection, Tschiakovsky's Nutcracker Suite, is performed by dancing wood-sprites, mushrooms, flowers, goldfish, thistles, milkweeds and frost fairies. The Mickey Mouse version of Sorcerer's Apprentice is next, followed by Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which serves as leitmotif for the story of the creation of the world, replete with dinosaurs and volcanoes. After a brief jam session involving the live-action musicians comes Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony, enacted against a Greek-mythology tapestry by centaurs, unicorns, cupids and a besotted Bacchus. Ponchielli's Dance of the Hours is performed by a Corps de Ballet consisting of hippos, ostriches and alligators. The program comes to a conclusion with a fearsome visualization of Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, dominated by the black god Tchernobog (referred to in the pencil tests as Yensid, which is guess-what spelled backwards); this study of the sacred and profane segues into a reverent rendition of Schubert's Ave Maria. Originally, Debussy's Clair de Lune was part of the film, but was cut from the final release print; also cut, due to budgetary considerations, was Disney's intention of issuing an annual update of Fantasia with new musical highlights and animated sequences. A box-office disappointment upon its first release (due partly to Disney's notion of releasing the film in an early stereophonic-sound process which few theatres could accommodate), Fantasia eventually recouped its cost in its many reissues. For one of the return engagements, the film was retitled Fantasia Will Amaze-ya, while the 1963 reissue saw the film squashed to conform with the Cinemascope aspect ratio. Other re-releases pruned the picture from 120 to 88 minutes, and in 1983, Disney redistributed the film with newly orchestrated music and Tim Matheson replacing Deems Taylor as narrator. Once and for all, a restored Fantasia was made available to filmgoers in 1990. A sequel, Fantasia 2000, was released in theaters in 1999.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide


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