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The stand up paddleboard racing season heats up in June, the busiest months on the sport's racing calendar.
The 2014 GoPro Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado, is right around the corner, running June 5 & 8.
The event celebrates "the essence of mountain lifestyle," for four days in a Rocky Mountain setting. Expect to see top competitors in kayaking, mountain biking, slackline, fishing, mountain climbing and paddleboarding. Each day concludes with concerts and parties, but every event is intense, serious competition in sports not generally ready for prime time.
Scheduled for June 6-8 is the Stand Up Challenger Series event in Bilbao, Spain, which is pure paddleboarding every splash of the way featuring sprints and long distance racing Saturday and Sunday.
On June 7, paddleboarding California style kicks off with the return of the Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race that honors the city's claim to fame of having lifeguards at local beaches using paddleboards as part of their life-saving equipment since the 1920s.
There are also the London SUP Marathon on the River Thames on and the the Iowa Valley Resource Conservation & Development's Great Iowa River Canoe & Kayak Race, both taking place June 14.
On June 15, paddleboarders will gather in northwest Oregon (in the tiny city of Gaston, population 637 in the 2010 census) for the 11th annual Hagg Lake Open Water Swim and SUP Races. The event includes a 2.4-mile ironman swimming competition and four and eight-mile SUP race events. After that, head back to Florida for The Sunshine SUP Series kayak and paddleboarding fishing tournament, which takes place June 21 in Pampano Beach.
June also includes the Payette River Games (in Cascade, Idaho June 20-22), which boast an eclectic array of traditional and modern, up and coming sports, including lumberjack events, bocce ball, beach volleyball, river surfing, horseshoes, fly casting and disc golf. The Sarasota SUP Series Race (in Siesta Key, Florida on June 21) is a race for paddleboard purists.
That said, information on a series of regional events in the southeast are available at the Southern Stoke Paddle Series Web site – just click on the link. This will take you to regional races taking place in South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Alabama.
Catch a flight back to Italy for the June 25thButterfly Effect race in Porto Pollo, Sardinia, Italy. Then head back to Atlanta, Georgia for the Get Stoked Race (June 28) that includes long distance skateboarding, open water swimming and paddleboarding.
You might ask, what happened? Enthusiast will tell you the sport has been around for a long time, but suddenly took off as one of the up and coming sports in the 21rst century.
Paddleboarding traces its roots to the Polynesian Islands, where boards have been used for surfing for as long as anyone can remember. An engraving by John Webber, the artist who accompanied Captain James Cook to The Sandwich Islands, includes a beach scene with a surfer in it that was done in 1781.
In modern times, surfing is associated with recreation in Hawaii and southern California, the lifestyle of surfers made famous by the Beach Boys and many other rock and roll artists. Remember the 1963 song Wipeout with the relentless drumming and the twangy guitar solo done by a group called the Surfaris?
While wave riding has been around, stand up paddleboard racing is not new, either. The first Santa Monica Pier races were held in 1934, making it one of the longest continuously running paddleboard events. In 1936, promoters of the event added the Catalina to Santa Monica relay race, which continues today.
Long distance racing is also a staple of paddaleboarding. If the 32-mile crossing of the Channel of Bones in Hawaii each year isn't grueling enough (the ocean floor is 2,300 feet deep and waves often reach 30 feet high), there's the 119-mile Cuba to Florida race each year. And there are similar long-distance competitions in Europe, as well.
Meanwhile, companies like Legends SUP (legendssup.com) are flourishing as the sport grows. It is a prime example of an Internet business being positioned well as the popularity of an activity increases, because it can serve communities around the world simultaneously, while a brick and mortar store takes time and money to put together, only to be limited to serving a local audience.
It might be odd to think of paddleboarding as a new sport, served well by the Internet, when it is really predates the Internet by a few centuries.
The racing season getting underway is new, but the use of boards for travel, fun and competition is a sleeper, just waking up from a long, long nap.

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The clinic is staffed with qualified children's nurses, supported by healthcare assistants and play staff. All department staff attend annual updates in fire, health and safety as well as paediatric resuscitation. Some of the nursing staff have also undertaken advance life support training.
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A new trailer for The Avengers has surfaced and provides even more footage. We finally get a good look at the S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier along with some actual dialogue from Cobie Smulders as Agent Maria Hill. I'm not going to spoil anymore, take a look below.
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I think the Helicarrier looks like a pretty accurate depiction. I am also happy to see some focus on film's other characters. I love the primary cast but it's very exciting to see some footage that reveals more about the characters we do not know. The dialogue with Hawkeye (Jeremy Renner) was exciting, especially since he's had such a lack of screen time in previous Marvel movies. I hope there is a proper amount of time devoted to his character development in the film.


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Found in an artificial habitat. Three glass eels
A midden right at the edge of the river. Most likely eaten by a muskrat?
A cold dusk. A king fisher flew by too.
Under rocks during a very low tide. When I took the picture, I could only see little black crabs. Zoomed in at home I think they are invasive asian shore crabs ( only one in the pic, but many were under that rock)?
VEry low tide, sparse but many in number
Very low tide, while walking the shore
I can only guess that it was a mink. It popped out near the edge of the river and ran along the bank and into some rocks. It had a gait like no animal I have ever seen in the area. Another person who saw it said it looked like a weasel but it was almost entirely dark brown, black even, and the descriptions I have found pint to mink. Any thoughts? Mink in the Bronx? The habitat in that area seems appropriate.
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By Christopher J. Dorobek
Jan 05, 2007
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. So goes the famous quote by philosopher and novelist George Santayana. Anniversaries ' such as Federal Computer Week's 20th, which we are celebrating this year ' are a good time to remember the past and learn from it.
By looking back, we learn about where we have been and where we might be heading. We can more clearly see the hurdles we faced, decisions we made and plans we conceived.
The past rarely predicts the future, but it often determines how we approach the future.
As we compiled this list, we were struck by how many of the items are linked to one another. The list incorporates items from other stories in this issue and from a review of 20 years of Federal Computer Week's history. We look at 20 things'laws, policies, technologies, strategies and people ' that influenced the past 20 years of government information technology.
Some of the items pre-date the birth of Federal Computer Week. We included them because their influence has continued throughout the magazine's first 20 years. The order of the list and the items on it are our own. We welcome your comments at
' Christopher J. Dorobek
20. Raines' Rules
Raines' Rules didn't start with such a name. Franklin Raines, then director of the Office of Management and Budget, first proposed them in October 1996 in a memo titled 'Funding Information Systems Investments.' That name wasn't as memorable as Raines' Rules, which became the memo's moniker. That document attained great importance in guiding how agencies purchased information technology.
The rules outlined how OMB would expect agencies to comply with the IT Management Reform Act of 1996, which became part of the Clinger-Cohen Act. They established criteria for evaluating major information system investments. The rules codified a belief that the government should use commercial software before creating its own and emphasized that IT systems existed to support an agency's mission.
19. PDAs
When personal digital assistants first made their appearance, few anticipated a world in which employees are so addicted to the Research in Motion BlackBerry that people now fondly refer to it as the CrackBerry. BlackBerries and other PDAs are much more than status symbols today. They have become essential to how the government does business.
One of FCW's early stories on PDAs referred to Apple Computer's Newton, which the article said 'shook up the industry.' Even back then, people sensed the potential of handheld computers.
'Handhelds also have emerged as a popular tool for collecting data in the field, where information can be entered into the handheld then downloaded into a full system later,' wrote Gerald Lazar in the July 27, 1998, issue of FCW.
'Several vendors, such as Palm Computing, are pushing handheld devices as replacements for pen and paper in the maintaining of address books and similar organizational tools,' he wrote.
Few, however, could have foreseen that just a few years later, after the September 2001 terrorist attacks, BlackBerries would be essential for communication.
18. Telework
The concept of being able to work from somewhere other than the office is possible because of IT. In recent years, telework has become an essential tool for creating continuity-of-operations plans and keeping and attracting employees.
The concept was first mentioned in FCW June 2, 1997, in a profile of Lt. Col. William Golden, then director of command, control, communications and computers for the President's Office of National Drug Control Policy.
'Golden's initiatives to bring his organization online and set up e-mail has made it possible for staff members who sometimes work until nine or ten o'clock at night to telecommute from home,' wrote John Monroe. 'In cases like this, technology means more than bits and bytes. It means improving the 'quality of life' for office staff.'
Even in 1998, the government was considering telecommuting as a way of keeping critical employees. As agencies reprogrammed their information systems for the Year 2000 rollover, they needed federal workers. Telework let many of those retired employees come back to work part time.
Today, FCW refers to telework rather than telecommuting, but the concept lives on.
17. Seat management
Seat management was a precursor to the trend of outsourcing IT. The concept, probably more accurately described as desktop outsourcing, was for vendors to supply a full suite of desktop IT tools. It freed agencies from having to install or take ownership of PC hardware, software and peripherals.
FCW first mentioned the concept in July 1997 as the General Services Administration was getting ready to award a seat management contract. Leading the initiative was John Ortego, then deputy assistant commissioner at GSA's IT Integration service and acting director of GSA's Federal Computer Acquisition Center.
Later, the Navy used the seat management concept for its Navy Marine Corps Intranet program, and it outsourced the entire land-based IT infrastructure to EDS.
A decade later, outsourcing continues to be controversial.
16. Search
Twenty years ago, no one would have thought that a simple function such as search would be so essential. A small company called Google changed all that. FCW first mentioned Google in an April 2001 profile of Greg Redfern, then director of the Defense Department's Computer Investigations Training Program. Redfern said Google was his favorite search engine.
Search engines developed to help people manage an explosion of electronic information. Few organizations have as much data to manage as the federal government. Its early efforts to make government information accessible were called WebGov. They were part of the Clinton administration's National Partnership for Reinventing Government initiative. The idea was to build a Web portal that could help people find information they need.
'The WebGov project is designed to provide a single source for the public to use when searching the Internet for data from the federal government,' said Greg Woods, the initiative's deputy director.
WebGov evolved into the FirstGov portal. FirstGov was born when Eric Brewer, a University of California at Berkeley computer scientist and founder of the search engine company Inktomi, offered millions of dollars to defray the cost of developing FirstGov.
15. Electronic records
As more work is done electronically ' archivists refer to such material as being 'born digital' ' it was inevitable that electronic documents would be considered federal records and would need to be stored and saved.
E-mail archiving became the subject of a much-watched lawsuit in 1996, when Public Citizen, a Washington, D.C., interest group, sued Archivist John Carlin about a National Archives and Records Administration rule that allowed agencies to delete electronic records from agency computers if a paper copy had been created. NARA eventually won the lawsuit, but the case raised the visibility of the problem of dealing with electronic records.
In 1996, FCW columnist J. Timothy Sprehe wrote, 'The problem is that most agencies are running parallel and duplicate records systems, one on paper and one electronic. The majority of records are now created electronically, yet agencies almost universally print out the electronic record and save the paper version as the record copy. Both paper and electronic versions get sent to NARA, so the agency ends up choked with work and spends half its resources on space.'
Today, NARA continues its efforts to create an Electronic Records Archives, which the agency hopes can become a comprehensive and systematic way to preserve electronic records.
14. The PC
Power to the people ' that's what the PC brought. Rather than requesting reports, people could download them to their desktop computers.
Computers traditionally ran in back rooms out of sight. The PC made technology accessible and even understandable.
Sometimes IT executives grew frustrated with PCs because they led people to believe that the computer sitting on their desk was theirs rather than a tool to help them do their jobs more effectively. Read more about the role of the PC.
13. The network
Yes, networks existed before 1987. But only in the past 20 years have we begun to understand the power of the network. DOD is shifting to network-centric operations. Visions of information sharing that were once science fiction concepts are increasingly in the realm of the possible.
The increased dependence on networks creates new vulnerabilities, however. Information security has always been important in government. But in a networked world, the difficulty of securing electronic information is much greater. Read more about the role of networks.
12. Storage
The power and growth of technology is more visible in recent advances in storage technology. Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's famous law states that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every 24 months. For storage advances, 24 months might be too conservative.
Greater storage requirements drive increases in storage capacity as people find they need to keep just about everything.
Like so many technologies, storage is a double-edged sword. As storage capacity increases while storage formats shrink, data becomes more portable. Portable data creates greater security risks, exemplified by data losses last year at the Department of Veterans Affairs and elsewhere. Twenty years ago, no one had to worry about a federal employee having the personal data of millions of people. Today, a thumb drive can store that much information.
11. National Performance Review
The National Performance Review, later called the National Partnership for Reinventing Government, was created in 1993 as part of the Clinton administration's effort to improve agency management. Led by Vice President Al Gore, NPR was focused on 'creating a government that works better and costs less.'
Technology was at the heart of NPR's objectives. Many of the successes came from using IT to streamline processes.
Under NPR, the government created the Hammer awards to recognize federal programs that operated efficiently. The award was based on a legendary $436 hammer, which came to embody government inefficiency. One NPR initiative allowed people to electronically receive Social Security payments, thereby saving time, printing and mailing costs and reducing the number of lost or stolen checks each month.
10. Competition
A series of laws and policies ' now broadly referred to as procurement reform ' changed the way the government bought everything. Those changes, however, were particularly important for IT, which had been hamstrung by a bureaucratic process mandated by the Brooks Act. That process resulted in agencies buying outdated equipment at noncompetitive prices.
The goal of reform was to mirror the private sector's procurement practices as much as possible. Increased competition was essential to that plan because it would create innovation while reducing costs.
Today, more than any time in the past 10 years, those reforms are coming under renewed scrutiny amid questions of whether deregulation went too far.
9. Year 2000
Some people thought it was a joke when they heard that computers could crash when trying to understand that 1999 had turned to 2000. But the Year 2000 bug had important implications for information systems. The federal government spent $8.5 billion to prepare its older systems for the Year 2000 rollover, according to a February 2000 report by the Senate's Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem.
The problem existed because it had been the practice of computer programmers to represent the year as a two-digit number. People feared that computers would misconstrue 2000 for 1900 and stop working.
In some ways, the IT community was too successful. The lack of problems caused an uproar amid allegations that the government blew the problem out of proportion. The Senate special committee's report, however, concluded that the Year 2000 effort was time and money well spent.
'Minor consequences aside, Y2K has spurred the modernization of our nation's technology base and positioned it for continued economic growth,' the report states. 'In addition, the Y2K readiness experience has taught us valuable lessons about the nation's technological dependencies, interconnections and vulnerabilities. These lessons will prove invaluable as Congress examines new policies addressing critical infrastructure protection and future information technology issues.' Read more about the Year 2000 bug.
Few areas have undergone more dramatic change than the world of telecommunications. Even the definition of telecom has evolved in the past 20 years. GSA is largely responsible for providing telecom services to the government. FCW has covered nearly three generations of federal telecom history, beginning with GSA's FTS 2000 contract, followed by FTS 2001 and, most recently, Networx. Telecom has been one of FCW's most enduring stories. Read more about that history.
7. Microsoft Windows
The government often worries about creating standards, but it didn't have to create an operating system standard. Microsoft provided that standard when it created Windows. The company introduced the operating system in 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS so that its product could compete with Apple's popular Macintosh interface. Windows became the dominant operating system in government. But as Microsoft launches Vista, it faces more competition than it has in years. Read more about Microsoft Windows.
6. E-government
The current Bush administration made e-government a cornerstone of its IT plans. But e-government initiatives began during the Clinton administration with NPR. 'Government will be transformed by electronic means for doing business and provide the public with better access to the government, similar to how Amazon.com transformed bookselling,' NPR officials said in April 2000.
In 2002, President Bush signed the E-Government Act, which requires agencies to make wider use of the Internet to provide information and services to citizens. Read more about the E-Government Act.
5. The Clinger-Cohen Act
Lawmakers passed the Clinger-Cohen Act more than a decade ago. Named after former Rep. William Clinger (R-Pa.) and former Sen. William Cohen (R-Maine), the act became a seminal law for IT management.
In addition to creating the post of the chief information officer, Clinger-Cohen seeks to improve the way the federal government acquires and manages IT. It requires agencies to plan major IT investments, enforce accountability for those plans, use standards and commercial products whenever possible, and adhere to modular programming when developing systems. Read more about Clinger-Cohen.
4. E-mail
If PCs put technology on the desktop, e-mail was the PC's killer application. In April 1996, David Barram, GSA's administrator at the time and a former Apple Computer executive, announced an initiative to give agency employees e-mail by Flag Day.
'Using this tool called the Internet, companies, governments and individuals around the world are inventing exciting new ways to do their work, improve service to their customers and communicate with each other,' Barram said at the time. 'I believe that use of the Internet will be a key competitiveness factor for GSA in the coming years and that GSA employees must begin to learn how this new resource can change the way we do business.' Read more about e-mail.
3. CIOs
With the recent proliferation of C-level positions, it's difficult to remember a time 20 years ago when the federal CIO position didn't exist. Most federal IT officials were information resources managers.
The Clinger-Cohen Act created the CIO position, which has been evolving ever since. CIOs now play an important role in helping agencies fulfill their missions.
People still debate whether CIOs have a seat at the table, but most now agree that it falls on CIOs to ensure that information systems provide measurable benefits to federal agencies.
The CIO Council established a governance structure for federal IT executives. Back in June 1996, when the nature of the council was being debated, FCW wrote, 'The emerging Chief Information Officers Council could become either an influential force in information technology management and procurement or a 'debating society' that shares war stories over lunch, depending on how seriously its members take their charge.'
2. 2001 terrorist attacks
Many people say the 2001 terrorist attacks changed everything. No single event has had a greater impact on the country and the government. We still feel the effects of those events more than five years later. The attacks led to the creation of the Homeland Security Department. They also put information sharing higher on agencies' priority lists. Sharing information was no longer an option ' it became a necessity.
1. The Internet
The Internet was not created in the past 20 years. As a concept, it dates to the 1960s. But the Internet is one of those things that changed everything. In PowerPoint presentations, the Internet is depicted as a puff of clouds pierced by lightning bolts. Magic, in other words. We all have occasionally wondered, 'So how did I do my job before the Internet?'
The task of the government IT community has been to harness that magic, which has transformed nearly every federal function. Read more about the Internet.
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SHARE"It wasn't like we banded together and said, 'Oh let's make a group of girls who are going to go down in history'. It wasn't like that at all. It's easy for us to have a perspective on those early days but at the time, it was what it was. People knew us when we walked down the street."
Elle MacPherson is talking down the phone from her London home, and I've just put her on hold. For the second time. Hearing ringing in the background, she coolly asks, "Do you want to get that?" The antique dealer from downstairs, anxious to close my Sydney office for the evening and not content with my first excuse, has called again. "Look," I say, "I can't talk right now, I'm talking to Elle MacPherson." There are no more calls; she seems to understand. After all, MacPherson is kind of a big deal.
We all know the story of The Body. Most of us grew up on a visual diet of her astounding figure in high-cut swimsuits and all-over suntan. As soon as I was ready for a fancy bra, I dragged my mum into the Grace Bros department store to buy a piece from her eponymous lingerie line. Just as I star-jumped to her workout video back in the days of VCR. Why? Because she's my supermodel. She was tattooed forever on my teenage consciousness as the embodiment of the ultimate woman: walking for Calvin Klein in the early 90s, wearing all brown, impossibly tall, sophisticated.
"I was a little before the girls on the cover of Vogue like Christy, Naomi, Claudia – the girls who were in the George Michael video – I was already doing Sports Illustrated," MacPherson explains. "People like Cheryl Tieg and Christie Brinkley were the beginning in a way, simply because they were girls who had names and defined personalities from being on the cover of Sports Illustrated. This was an iconic magazine widely circulated across all demographics; women and men. Before Victoria's Secret, before the supermodels, before anything, there was Sports Illustrated."
MacPherson's 183cm frame found its way into a record five swimsuit issues for the title. The then-editor Julie Campbell, often credited as instrumental in turning models into celebrities simply by being first to publish their names next to their shots, was fundamental in shaping MacPherson's career. "The first year of working together, Elle was very, very shy. If I had to change something, she would – literally – get tears in her eyes, she so much wanted to please," said Campbell who, ironically, called the model her "little Elle" in the 1989 behind-the-scenes made-for-HBO documentary. "I know what she feels good in: she's happiest if you put her in something to go scuba diving and let her go play on the beach."
It earned MacPherson her famous nickname at a time when models began to attract multi-million dollar endorsements, and status came in the form of first-name recognition. "There was a lack of glamour in the film industry at the time," says MacPherson. "Fashion filled the hole with the popular girls ... standing out for who they were. There wasn't a stereotypical type of beauty. There was Linda Evangelista, who at that time was androgynous with her short hair, and you had a sex bomb with Cindy Crawford and the Bridget Bardot look-alike with Claudia Schiffer and Naomi (Campbell) of course. All very distinct and people from all around the world could relate to one of the girls."
If glamour was what the world wanted, glamour it got. Wall Street was booming, hedonism reigned supreme and as for the supermodels, it seemed they ruled the world. Was it really all about uptown apartments, champagne and sushi? "Yeah," MacPherson laughs, "it was incredibly glamorous. We dressed up all the time; we wore heels every day, Chanel jackets and short skirts. When you walked in the room, people knew about it. People stopped. It was a time of excess so it wasn't frowned upon. Guys were doing the same thing, dressing in three-piece suits, bling watches and driving fast cars. It was just a period where money and excess and labels and beauty and style were very important. The same way there was the Hollywood glamour of the 60s. It was an important time for the fashion industry – there were fantastic designers like Versace and Azzedine Alaïa who had created this incredible fashion so girls were wearing bodycon clothes, big hair, lots of makeup, minimal jewellery – it was all about a silhouette."
This was a glittering scene far away from where the Cronulla-born MacPherson grew up and the girl-next-door persona we first saw on a TAB Cola commercial. Just 17 when she arrived in New York City, signed to Click modelling agency, she was unsure of how long she would be there, with no chaperone and a series of roommates because she couldn't afford her own apartment. "It was a shock because I was scared for a lot of the time. We'd all heard the stories about the violence in New York and it was a really dangerous city. I would walk down the street and would always be checking behind me to see if someone was going to follow me.
"I missed my family desperately. And I felt really lonely and remember calling my Mum just sobbing saying I missed everybody so much." Turning around and going home, however, wasn't an option. MacPherson had the vital statistics and knew how to use them – although the way she tells it, modestly, she was simply "unusual". "I had a very athletic body and America hadn't seen that. It was sort of Amazonian. I was just this chick from the beaches and I didn't know how to dress, or do my hair and my makeup and I wasn't interested in fashion magazines. I'd never been cool or worn the right things. I was happy in a pair of board shorts and flip flops so it was easy for me to model bathing suits and to rely on my body because it didn't require me to have any sense of personal style.
"I really focused on that and was more comfortable with my body than a lot of people. American women aren't brought up with the same sort of liberty of their physicality as Australian women are. I'd lived my life on the beach so putting on a bathing suit came very naturally to me. You compare that to a girl who grew up in France or the Midwest – they are not very easy with their body. It worked for me."
Despite her naïve demeanour – shown most memorably in her 1988 appearance on Letterman – she proved youth and exuberance, and a dash of entrepreneurial instinct, make a powerful combination. She appeared in every issue of Elle magazine for six years straight, marrying creative manager and photographer Gilles Bensimon, 20 years her senior, when she was 21 (they divorced after six years), produced her own calendar and founded the Fashion Café with fellow supermodels Claudia Schiffer, Naomi Campbell and Christy Turlington. In 1994 she posed nude for the Herb Ritts editorial in Playboy, (which was not published in Australia, a choice by the model herself) and in the same year walked haute couture for Valentino.
Seduced by the big screen, MacPherson also took up acting, her first role being a walk on in Woody Allen's Alice. It wasn't until the Norman Lindsay-based Sirens – for which she famously gained nine kilograms – that she began to wear the thespian tag. Future roles included Batman's girlfriend alongside Uma Thurman and repeat appearances on the top-rating sitcom Friends.
"In 1996, I moved to LA and downplayed everything," says MacPherson of the vocational shift. "I cut my hair; I was flat shoes and jeans and T-shirts and really focusing on a film career. I made 10 movies in two years. Then I had my son…" – a pregnancy captured for Vogue by Annie Lebowitz – "… and moved to London. That was a completely different era in my life."
Never far from the spotlight, MacPherson – now 47, a single mother of two and a business-woman with a reported net worth of over $120 million – has continued to attract media attention for her lovers, controversial campaigns (think her sultry reading of Tennessee Williams for Elle MacPherson Intimates), and business deals (she signed with Revlon at age 44).
Recently, a film (for an iPad application no less) and feature with bi-monthly fashion bible LOVE, thanks to its Birmingham-nerd-turned-uber-editor Katie Grand, proved she's as age-defying and desirable as ever. "It's not the kind of thing I normally do because I'm not someone who pursues fashion particularly or who wants to be the cool, groovy girl," she says of the tongue-in-cheek editorial snapped by Sharif Hamza. "I really love Katie and I like her perspective on things. I just felt quite honoured to be a part of the crew of women who were doing it. I feel it was a really honest, interesting selection of women. She had the balls to honour people that most magazines wouldn't. She really thought about it – she chose very consciously the people she was going to have in that, there were no gratuitous fillers or anything."
Indeed, if ever there was a doubt of MacPherson's street cred it was quashed when she walked for Marc Jacobs, who she has known since he worked for Perry Ellis and with whom she shares a love of art, in his exclamatory God Created Woman show for Louis Vuitton AW 10.
"Marc had just called me and said, 'I'm doing a show, it's called God Created Woman and I want you to come, it's important you come and would you please be here tomorrow'," she recounts. "I said, 'I'll call you back' and got off the phone and thought, 'I don't want to go to Paris and do a show, I don't have time and it's always so complicated and chaotic and it's not really my thing and I don't need to do it and I have so much work going on at the moment and what if I don't fit the clothes' … all of my 'what if' moments came in and I calmed down and just thought, 'OK, Marc's called, he wants to send a message and do you want to be part of that message or not?'And then I thought … 'if I believe that beauty is universal then why wouldn't I go and share that conversation with Marc?' So I called him back and said, 'OK, I'll be there'. I didn't ask any questions, like who else was doing it or who was opening. I just got on the plane and trusted him. And then I got there and he put me in this dress and said, I'm putting you in a ponytail and you're closing the show."
Although a catwalk veteran, MacPherson wasn't prepared for feeling "incredibly sentimental" when she walked out onto the ring and saw people clapping and looking at her in a 'wow, you're here' way. "I was so taken aback and I didn't know what to do. I was embarrassed and proud and enjoying seeing friends I hadn't seen for ages in the audience and I couldn't do the model face, pretending I wasn't there – I was engaging a lot with the crowd and then when I got out I was thinking perhaps I'd been a bit too friendly. I had smiled the whole way through in a way but it was so spontaneous that I sort of couldn't help it."
She was apologetic when she saw Jacobs after the show but he told her he couldn't have planned it any better. He later said to media of his choice: "We just thought, who would be gorgeous?"But this was about more than gorgeous. It was beyond supermodel. It was a woman being true. A powerful, emotional woman not afraid to show her true feelings to a world that thinks it already knows her. "I'm much freer today than I have ever been," she says, putting it down to age. "Having a sense of humour and being able to recognise that it doesn't really matter. It all matters and nothing matters. Being in the moment is a great thing."


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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Lupus hair loss: playing it safe or living in fear?
You can read about my personal hair loss stories here, but as far as damage control, I've tried everything. I've gone short, I've kept it long, I've wound stringy strands around my head to mask bald spots. I've used product, and then not used product. I've worn hats, played up my jewelry, all in an effort to preserve my precious, thinning hair, or at the very least, detract from it. I've shed many tears over my hair, too.
But not last week. Last week, I decided to be bold. I decided it was time to cut my hair. I've been letting my hair grow all winter long, primarily because I was enjoying my long, thick, healthy locks. (When you've experienced thinning, wispy, stringy locks before, you know when to celebrate how good you have it.) But I was also holding onto my hair out of fear. Because I've been contending with this current flare since August, I was playing it safe, just in case my increased symptom activity decided to set off a round of hair loss. But I decided that playing it safe for too long can be detrimental. I was no longer just being conservative, or preemptive. I was actually being fearful. Month after month, I was setting myself up to anticipate the loss, to fear its imminent arrival. But now, after almost 6 months, it's time to get back to living. Proactively. With lupus in tow.
Regardless of what this current flare decides to do, I needed a style change. If I do end up losing a ton of hair due to lupus, I might as well get used to having a shorter, newer 'do anyway. Thankfully, my girlfriends came to the rescue, and on my recent girls' weekend, we scoured the internet for just the right picture of what I wanted. I didn't go drastically short...just above my shoulders to cut off about 3 1/2". But it's new, and different. And it's me. It's not me keeping my hair long for lupus. It's me cutting my hair because I wanted to. And if lupus decides to take a few strands here or there - so be it.
After all, I have a brand new hair 'do to enjoy.
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- April 21, 2014 at 8:19 AM
Hi Sara,
Thank you for this post! I read it when you first posted and just came back to read it again because it's so encouraging to me. I have Sjogren's and have also lost hair a couple of times - in the "significant thinning" category. I also just had a big flare, and wonder if I'm headed for another round. I'm not going for another style now - maybe this summer. It's just very encouraging to hear the way that you don't let lupus run your life but the other way around. I have learned so much from you.
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We heard this, oh, 87 times at the Jay-Z concert…responding every time with a "Wooo!", waving our hands in the air like we just don't care. (Although we clearly SO did.)
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Amici Opera Company, which has been producing shows in the Philadelphia area since 1998, has found a new local home.
The opera company has two upcoming shows at its new home, United Methodist Church of the Redeemer, at 1128 Cottman Ave. (at Lawndale Avenue) in Burholme. It had been at Holmesburg United Methodist Church.
The company will present Cleopatre on Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m., and Saturday Feb. 23, at 4 p.m.
Tickets cost $25 at the door, $22 for senior citizens and advance purchases, $15 for students and $10 for children under age 12.
Amici puts on shows year round in Philadelphia, the suburbs, South Jersey and Delaware.
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Steven Soderbergh's new drama series The Knick , which explores life in and around New York's Knickerbocker Hospital in 1900 (an era when the average person died before 50, much sooner if they fell ill) is as bracing and aesthetically daring as modern television gets. The biggest testament to its risk-taking nature, however, might be that it airs on Cinemax.
That's right, Cinemax –- or "Skin-emax," as those hacky jokes have glossed the premium cable network since the dawn of the VCR. HBO's kid sister has been around since 1980 and its raison d'etre has mostly been serving as a pure film outlet as HBO's airwaves got crowded with original, non-movie content. As the TV revolution intensified and cineastes and A-list movie stars kept gravitating to the smaller screen, Cinemax has ramped up its original content offerings. When Soderbergh, the prolific, versatile auteur behind everything from the Ocean's Eleven franchise down to indies like The Girlfriend Experience, decided to "quit" film, noting how much talent was flocking to TV, The Knick was his entry into the smaller screen. Clive Owen came aboard to play brilliant-but-flawed surgeon John Thackery, and the show quickly gained momentum. But in conversations with HBO executives, with whom he'd created the award-winning Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra, he expressed a strong preference for the show to air on Cinemax rather than HBO. As he explained at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour last month, "I kind of wanted to be the big kid at a small school … I'm glad that that worked for them because it allowed for a smaller teacher‑to‑student ratio." As with examples such as Louie C.K., who delivers finished episodes of his FX show Louie without interference, Soderbergh and his seasoned group of collaborators got extraordinary freedom.
The result of that show of faith is the debut 10-episode season, which kicked off Aug. 8. A second season has already been ordered, with the target of airing in the same window next year. It's early yet, but early support from most critics is giving Cinemax and parent company HBO hope that the series can put the network on the prestige content map, à la Mad Men on AMC, another network known in its early years for showing only movies. Kary Antholis, president of Cinemax, is careful not to make any forward-looking statements. Asked whether the show could be transformative for Cinemax, he told me, "When Steven Soderbergh says he wants to direct 10 episodes of a series for your network, that alone is a transformative moment. It says to the creative community that Cinemax is a place to take sophisticated, cinematic genre material."
Gregory Jacobs, executive producer of The Knick, has collaborated on more than 20 projects with Soderbergh over the past two decades. He noted how many crew members on The Knick also worked on Candelabra and had film-heavy resumes. "We really approached it as a film," he said, noting the shoot was "cross-boarded," meaning the 73-day shoot was organized as a film shoot would be, as opposed to cranking out complete episodes one at a time. "We really wanted it to give it a level of craftsmanship and in every aspect a cinematic feel." Electronic music by Cliff Martinez (Drive, Spring Breakers) pulsates, dropping out at key moments to showcase natural sounds, like the frantic cranking of a suction-pump siphoning blood. Cameras trace surprising routes through hospital corridors and opium dens. "We are just not going to use the conventional TV coverage where you stay on someone's face every time they say a line," Jacobs said.
The backing of Cinemax made it much easier to make those kinds of artistic choices, he added. "This network felt like a place that was emerging," he said. "There is room for us here." The Knick is the jewel in a fairly small crown, joining Banshee and Strike Back on Cinemax's roster of originals. (Lest it seem that Cinemax has completely forsaken its roots, it should be noted that its "After Dark" lineup includes shows such as Topless Prophet.) The show will get an initial boost from HBO, which will air the first couple of episodes. HBO ended 2013 with 29.3 million subscribers, according to SNL Kagan, compared with 14.1 million for Cinemax. But the smaller has more room to grow. At year-end in 2009, HBO was at 28.9 million subscribers. Cinemax, meanwhile, gained 16% from 12.2 million in 2009. Antholis has his eye on those numbers, rather than projecting a number of original hours or shows, as cable networks are known to do. "We just want to make the best shows possible," he said. "The number of hours isn't as important as who we're working with and the level of execution."
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WASHINGTON - Occupants of a car are protected by seat belts, airbags and dashboards devoid of sharp objects. A pedestrian's only defense generally is to get out of the way.
More than 4,000 people are killed and 70,000 injured each year in the United States when hit by cars. Typically they're struck in the legs and thrown onto the hood. Their bodies slide until their heads smash into the windshield-wiper arms, the windshields or both.
With U.S. regulators considering rules or incentives to make pedestrian accidents more survivable, Honda and Volvo have led automakers making design changes that bring safety advances to the outside of vehicles.
They include breakaway wipers, hoods with space between them and engines to absorb impact energy, and exterior airbags designed to keep a pedestrian's head from hitting the windshield.
"A pedestrian that's hit by a car, it doesn't have to be a death sentence," said Jacqueline Gillan, president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety.
The number of pedestrians killed in U.S. traffic crashes declined from 4,892 in 2005 to 4,109 in 2009 before rising again to 4,432 in 2011, the most recent year available from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Fourteen percent of people killed in crashes that year were pedestrians.
In Japan, pedestrian deaths are about a third of traffic fatalities. That led Honda, based in Tokyo, to make design changes to vehicles that it has brought to the U.S., said Doug Longhitano, a U.S.-based Honda safety research manager.
Fenders on Honda or Acura models sold in the U.S. are offset from the frame, as are hoods from engines, to provide some limited cushion if a pedestrian is hit. Windshield wipers are designed to break away so they don't gouge or gore a person on impact, Longhitano said.
Those design changes have been standard on Honda and Acura vehicles sold in the U.S. since 2008.
Volvo, the Swedish carmaker owned by China's Zhejiang Geely Holding, introduced the windshield airbag as standard equipment on its V40, which isn't available in the U.S., for the 2013 model year, said Laura Venezia, a U.S.-based spokeswoman.
General Motors includes space between the hood and engine to provide a buffer, said Heather Rosenker, a spokeswoman for the Detroit-based company.
Auto regulators are working on global pedestrian safety standards that could be adopted into a U.S. regulation, NHTSA Administrator David Strickland said, declining to give a timeline.


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Days before the Open de España teed off, England's Stuart Little was at home contemplating a week off. At the halfway stage now, however, the left hander is in a share of the lead with Gregory Bourdy and Carlos Rodiles.
The 39 year old was fourth reserve on Tuesday morning, but a spate of withdrawals saw him move to first on the reserve list, and prompted Little to book a flight to the Spanish capital on Tuesday afternoon.
On Thursday, Anthony Wall became the fourth withdrawal of the week, handing Little an opportunity that he has grasped with both hands.
Despite continuous rain and lightning delays over the first two days, Little posted an eight under par total of 136, having added a second round 69 to his opening 67 before play ended on Friday night.
By the time the second round was finally completed, midway through Saturday afternoon, Little had been joined at the head of affairs by Frenchman Bourdy, who carded a 69, and Spaniard Rodiles, who added an excellent 66 to his opening 70.
Bourdy had a chance to take the lead outright into the third round, which will begin later on Saturday afternoon after a stunning run of three birdies in a row from the 15th to the 17th. But the Frenchman's chance of outright prominence was dashed with a bogey five at the 18th.
There were no such bogey worries for Rodiles – winner of The European Tour Qualifying School at San Roque last November – his second round 66 being the epitome of precision and accuracy with three birdies in each half and no dropped shots.
The trio lead Little's fellow Englishmen Nick Dougherty (71) and Mark Foster (69) and South African Charl Schwartzel (68) by a shot after they all ended their opening two rounds on seven under par 137.
Little said: "This is only my fifth tournament of the year, so to play like this so far is absolutely fantastic."
"I developed a few problems technically and trying to compete with a B-game is pretty much impossible. My game was not good enough and I couldn't find a solution quick enough.
"It's not enjoyable when you are struggling. It was very difficult to erase the problem and I'm still not 100 per cent comfortable, but it's nice to see positives and to have the feelings of 2005 coming back.
"When I suddenly went up to first reserve on Tuesday it was an easy decision to travel. It's not as though Spain is a long-haul flight, but I hadn't booked anything so all that had to be done.
Despite all the delays caused by the horrendous weather in Spain on Thursday and Friday, organisers were delighted to reach the halfway stage with 66 players having made the cut for the final two rounds, which fell at level par 144.
The third round is planned to begin at 4.05pm local Spanish time with players playing in three balls from both the first and tenth tees. The final three ball featuring Bourdy, Little and Rodiles will tee off at 5.50pm local time.
Obviously, there will not be enough time for the third round to be completed on Saturday, meaning players will return to complete their third rounds on Sunday morning before the final round – again in three balls – will take place.
Pos | Player name | Nat | Hole | Par | ||||||
1 | SCHWARTZEL, Charl | RSA | 18 | -16 | ||||||
2 | RANDHAWA, Jyoti | IND | 18 | -15 | ||||||
3 | RODILES, Carlos | ESP | 18 | -14 | ||||||
T4 | FOSTER, Mark | ENG | 18 | -13 | ||||||
T4 | DYSON, Simon | ENG | 18 | -13 | ||||||
T6 | ANDERSSON HED, Fredrik | SWE | 18 | -12 |


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Celtic Thunder makes its second 'Voyage' to Abbotsford
Celtic Thunder will make its second "voyage" to Abbotsford later this year.
The popular group, which has surpassing sales of one million units, rang in 2012 with a new CD and DVD concert special, called Voyage. Voyage, the concert, was broadcast across the U.S. on Public Television and Celtic Thunder is now bringing the performance across north America.
The show pays homage to the musical culture of Ireland, while exploring the musical journey each soloist has undertaken since the beginning of Celtic Thunder four years ago.
Former members Damian McGinty and Paul Byrom have moved on while Keith Harkin is working on a solo project. The rest of the ensemble including Keith Harkin, Ryan Kelly, Neil Byrne, George Donaldson and Emmet Cahill welcome 13-year-old Daniel Furlong to the fold as a guest artist on this show.
The group performances highlight the diversity of Irish music and song; from the powerful rendition of "Dulaman" to the love song "Maid of Culmore," the collection also features a rousing performance of "Galway Girl" and beloved Irish party song "My Irish Molly-O."
Celtic Thunder will perform Voyage at the Abbotsford Entertainment and Sports Centre on Nov. 27 at 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale on Monday, April 16 at 10 a.m. Tickets are available at abbotsfordcentre.ca, the AESC box office, the Abbotsford and Matsqui recreation centres, Whatcom Wine and Spirits or by phone at 1-866-977-2372.


text: Man and His Dog Find Ambergris, Which We Must All Remember Is Not the Same as Whale TurdsDoug Barry2/02/13 1:30pmFiled to: ambergriswhaleswordsKen wilmanDogbeachsperm whaletweetFb43EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Ambergris, that versatile sperm whale excretion that Herman Melville wrote so prodigiously about when the ocean was just a Dave & Buster's for murdering sperm whales, can be a pretty valuable beachcombing find, way more valuable than a mostly intact conch shell, horseshoe crab, or buffalo nickel. Just ask unemployed English beachcomber Ken Wilman and his boxer Madge, who, while taking a seaside jaunt recently, found a lump of ambergris that could be worth as much as $180,000.AdvertisementThough a French dealer has already offered Wilman a little less than $68,000 for the snapping-turtle sized lump of ambergris, experts in the field of intestinal secretions of the common cachalot think Wilman could get a whole lot more, pending a more thorough examination. That's because ambergris is not only super-rare, but super-useful in the production of fancy perfume. Obviously, Wilman and Madge are pretty stoked about this.Not so stoked is the Guardian's Deborah Orr, who takes extreme umbrage with The Mirror's deployment of the phrases "whale vomit" and "whale poop" throughout its coverage of Wilman's find. To not make use to the lyrical word "ambergris" in its headline, The Mirror has made a sordid toilet joke out of the sperm whale's sublime digestive tract, which produces ambergris to keep its belly safe from the snapping beaks and crystal horns of the mythical unicorn squid. Ambergris is totally not gross like vomit or poop, "So," Orr hammered into her word processor, "it's rather a shame that the media prefers to refer to it as 'whale vomit.'"AdvertisementSeriously. Ambergris is a beautifully euphemistic word for the stuff that sperm whales either regurgitate or defecate. Let's all have a little more respect for the giant, mottled Corn Pops that make our most redolent fragrances, and exercise a little more discretion when discussing biological functions. Whales don't poop or vomit ambergris, you guys — they amberpiss it. I think the science is pretty clear on that score.Dog walker finds smelly lump of whale vomit on beach that's worth £100,000 [Mirror]Reply43 repliesLeave a reply


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Why You Eat When You're Not Hungry
Overcome common situations where you tend to chow down on food when you don't really need it
We've all done it, and sometimes we don't even realize when it's happening. Maybe you graze when you're bored, or reach your hand into the office candy jar each time you pass by. Perhaps when you're feeling sluggish in the afternoon, you head to the vending machine for a pick-me-up. All of these are opportunities to eat for reasons other than hunger. No matter why food calls your name, one thing rings true: We have all eaten something when we weren't truly hungry. While that's OK from time to time, too much eating without thinking can really hurt your weight management goals. And depending on what you eat, hurt your health, too.
Take a look at these 10 situations that encourage you to eat when you're not hungry, plus tips to cope in a healthier way.
To Cope
Emotions are a common eating trigger. Happy? You might eat a treat to celebrate. Sad? You might eat to soothe yourself with comfort food. Angry? You might take it out with a fork instead of the person who really caused it. But if you turn to food for emotional reasons, you won't resolve the underlying issues. It may help to track your eating habits in a journal, noting your emotional state when you headed for that snack. Writing it down may help you make a connection you hadn't seen before, like the fact that you eat when you're lonely or angry. Then you'll know for the future to look for a different outlet, such as calling a friend when you're lonely or turning to that punching bag when you're mad or stressed. If emotional eating is a known problem for you, check out SparkPeople's 10-step guide to overcoming emotional eating.
Out of Boredom
Sometimes you're not emotional—you're just bored. For many people, eating seems like a good solution when there's nothing better to do; whether you graze at home on the weekends or entertain yourself with lavish dinners out. But eating can only last for so long—and then you have an afternoon to fill! If you know boredom is a trigger for your emotional eating, have a list of strategies in place to keep yourself busy and entertained when you don't have anything else to do. Catch up with an old friend, write an old-fashioned snail-mail letter, write in your journal or blog, volunteer in your community, take up a new hobby or read a book you've always wanted to read. Better yet, make your boredom-buster an active endeavor, such as trying a new class at the gym, playing an active video game, going for a walk with the dog or flying a kite. Eating won't sound as appealing if you have a fun alternative to occupy your mind and your body!
Because Other People Are Eating
When you're out enjoying a dinner with family or friends, it can be easy to eat when you're past the point of fullness—especially if you're enamored in conversation and not paying attention to your satiation level. Perhaps more common, it's easy to indulge when others around you are eating, too. It makes you feel like you fit in, and that it's OK since everyone else is doing it. Research shows that our habits mimic our companions' actions in situations like these. You don't have to swear off happy hour with friends to watch your weight though. When your dining companions devour a second basket of bread or chips, or order dessert, don't automatically follow suit. Check in with your hunger level to see if you really need it or if you'll be more satisfied with the fun conversation. If you have trouble stopping yourself from reaching for more, use some of these dining out tactics to stay in control.
Because Food is There
Have a candy jar at the office that calls your name? Do you feel powerless to pass up food at a party, even if you've already eaten? When food is in plain sight, it can be so easy to grab a handful simply because it's there. It looks good. You like it. It's right in front of you. What's the harm? Any food that is nearby, visible and easily accessible is hard for anyone to turn down. If you're unable to nix the trigger food altogether, move the treats out of sight—you'll be less likely to grab a handful. So if you buy a bag of Oreos, put them on a high shelf in a cabinet—not on the counter. Instead of a clear candy jar, try an opaque one or move it to another location. (Alternatively, stock the candy jar with a healthier, more filling treat—like nuts or trail mix.) When you're already full and food is out at a party, stand with your back to the table or in another room. The flipside of this works, too. When you keep lots of other healthy foods in sight, like a bowl of fruit on the table, you're more likely to eat them.
Because It's a Special Occasion
If you work in a big office or have a big family, it can seem like every day is someone's birthday, anniversary, or shower. And if those celebrations often involve cake or alcohol, it might seem that every party is a calorie-laden minefield. If you don't want to have a piece of cake every day, don't automatically get in the cake line when it's your bosses' birthday—you can always show your face at the celebration without taking part in the punch bowl. Remember: Celebrations are about the people, not the food. If you do best without temptation, skip the gathering altogether or bring your own low-cal treat. Here's another tactic: New research shows that just imagining yourself eating a treat can decrease your desire to eat the real thing. Passing up cake or celebratory food on occasion just got easier!
Because You're Tired
The dreaded afternoon energy lull can drive even the most disciplined of us to food—especially sugary treats. But that sugar rush might be followed by an even worse crash. Instead, take a walk around the office, head outside for some rejuvenating natural light, or drink a cup of coffee or a tall glass of cold water. A change of scenery might be just the ticket to battle the afternoon lull.
Because the Clock Says So
Do you pull out your lunchbox when the clock strikes noon, just because it's time for lunch? Or head to the kitchen at 6 p.m. just because that's your typical dinnertime? Don't just eat when the clock tells you to! When mealtime hits, use it as a cue to check in with your current hunger level. Are you actually hungry? If so, whip up that healthy meal. If not, wait until your body tells you to eat, and ignore the clock.
Because It's Free (Or Cheap)
Everyone loves to get a good deal. But don't eat up just because something is free (think free samples at the grocery store) or super cheap (buy-one-get-one-free sodas or all-you-can-eat buffets). Always check in with your body's hunger level before you automatically fill your plate with a freebie.
Because You Can't Say No to Food Pushers
If you're a people pleaser, it can be hard to say no, especially when friends or family offer you scrumptious food. And sometimes people who push food don't take no for an answer. Have excuses lined up in your bag of tricks—and be honest. "I'm not hungry" works well, as does "I'm trying to lose weight." If you end up with a piece of cake (or a whole cake to take home!) despite your protests, remember that you're in control (it's rare that people will try to force feed you). You can always set the fork down or share the cake with neighbors or co-workers, or simply eat just a small portion.
Because You Suffer from Clean Plate Syndrome
Most of us have grew up hearing, "There are starving kids who would love to eat that" to get us to clean our plates as kids. And for many of us, the well-meaning notion to prevent kids from wasting food and encourage them to eat their broccoli has stayed with us into adulthood. Do you still feel obligated to clean your plate, even when you're not hungry enough to comfortably finish it all—especially at a restaurant where you're paying a premium for a meal? Fortunately, most of us live with modern amenities like refrigerators and microwaves that make stowing away almost any meal for another time easy. (See, no waste necessary!) To prevent overeating, take stock throughout your meal to gauge how hungry you are; you might find that you don't need those last few bites after all. If that doesn't work, use smaller plates at home to eat less! And lastly, get over your fear of leftovers. I've met countless people who say they simply don't eat them. Why not? Many foods taste better the next day or two, and most things can be refrigerated and eaten without sacrificing flavor or texture.
If you eat for reasons other than being hungry, check in with yourself. Knowing what true hunger feels like can help you recognize when you're eating for other reasons. If you can't avoid the specific triggers that cause you to eat when you're not hungry—and there's no way to avoid them all—knowing these strategies will help!
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Until We Meet Again
We are a worldwide Church, brothers and sisters. Our membership is found across the globe. I admonish you to be good citizens of the nations in which you live and good neighbors in your communities, reaching out to those of other faiths as well as to our own. May we be tolerant of, as well as kind and loving to, those who do not share our beliefs and our standards. The Savior brought to this earth a message of love and goodwill to all men and women. May we ever follow His example.


text: GOOG-411 Graduates Labs, Saves Time and MoneyAdam Pash10/15/07 4:00pmFiled to: Telephony411GoogleSaving MoneyTimesaversPhoneSearch17EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Previously mentioned GOOG-411, Google's free telephone directory assistance tool, has graduated from Google Labs and gotten a whole new web site. This doesn't mean much except that Google's serious about supporting GOOG-411, so the accurate, lightning-fast voice-recognition directory assistance is here to stay. For a lot of us, the cost of an expensive cell phone data plan supersedes the convenience of internet access on your phone, and—likewise—the cost of a call to your traditional 411 service is an expense no one wants to incur. As you can see from the video, the free GOOG-411 is a simple, free way to get on-the-go information from the comfort of your phone for only the cost of a call.1-800-GOOG-411 [Google]


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Renee has such a beautiful body. Never get tired of revisiting her work.
Meet Renee Ross!
Meet beautiful and sexy Renee Ross, a brand new super-hottie here on XLGirls.com! Wisely deciding that her treasure-filled chest should be shared with the Boob Brotherhood, Renee contacted us and sent us some test shots. She's 48-32-40 and destroys a 40J cup! She's a former cheerleader and actually works as a nurse but when she looks in the mirror, she knows where she belongs! Right here! "My goal was to just get into a magazine," said Renee, a SCORE exclusive from the snap. "All I wanted was to be in a magazine and pose just once. So I have reached that goal and I am so happy about it. And now I am excited to think about what could be my next goal. This whole thing has just been so fantastic. I can't even begin to describe it to you." Enjoy her debut! When you're done with the photos, check out Renee on video! .
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