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Good Vibes (American TV series)
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|Good Vibes
|Created by
|David Gordon Green
Brad Ableson
Mike Clements
|Developed by
|Tom Brady
Brad Ableson
Mike Clements
|Voices of
|Josh Gad
Adam Brody
Debi Mazar
Jake Busey
Tony Hale
Danny McBride
Olivia Thirlby
Alan Tudyk
|Country of origin
|United States
|Original language(s)
|No. of seasons
|No. of episodes
|Executive producer(s)
|Tom Brady
Brad Ableson
David Gordon Green
Mike Clements
|Running time
|20 minutes
|Production company(s)
|Werner Entertainment
Rough House
Not the QB Pro.
Six Point Harness
Warner Horizon Television
MTV Production Development
|Viacom Media Networks
|Original network
|Original release
|October 27 –
December 29, 2011
Good Vibes is an American adult animated sitcom created by David Gordon Green and Brad Ableson and Mike Clements for MTV. The series follows the exploits of recent New Jersey transplant Mondo and his new best friend Woodie as they live their life in Playa Del Toro, a fictional Southern California beach town. The show was originally sold to Fox in 2008, and a pilot produced. When Fox passed, the producers looked for other buyers and in 2010 they received a series order at MTV.
On February 24, 2012, the series was cancelled after one season.[1][2]
- Montgomery "Mondo" Brando (Josh Gad): Mondo is a young overweight teenage boy from Bayonne, New Jersey who is rather self-conscious and insecure about his looks. At first he kept to himself but after befriending Woodie, he begins to break out of his shell. He starts taking up surfing and develops a crush on Jeena who finally became his girlfriend. Mondo has never met his father; in "Mondo Mia!" we learn that his father was a "cleanup man" for the Mob who had to go on the run after witnessing something he shouldn't (two mobsters making out). He is Jeena's boyfriend.
- Woodford "Woodie" Stone (Adam Brody): Woodie is Mondo's best friend. As opposed to Mondo who is short and fat, Woodie is tall and skinny. Woodie is a lazy, laid-back and hedonistic surfer. He hates doing any type of work and prefers to spend all of his days surfing. Woodie's family is incredibly rich, but he hates what material wealth has done to them and prefers to sleep in a bamboo hut outside the mansion.
- Barbara "Babs" Brando (Debi Mazar): Babs is Mondo's mother, she has worked several jobs: her current job is waitressing at a Hawaiian restaurant. She is very attractive and has large breasts and is the object of Woodie's (and every other man's) desire. A running gag in the pilot was that she longed for a job where she didn't have to work a pole, be on her back, be on her knees, and so on, and then several jobs where she did these things were seen: fireman-pole cleaner, meter maid, factory worker, mechanic, etc.
- Winthrop Aguilera Wadska (Tony Hale): Commonly referred to by his last name, Wadska is hyperactive, overly paranoid and somewhat psychotic. Wadska is known to engage in harmful and dangerous behavior and often gets Woodie and Mondo involved in some way. According to his sister Jeena he is on medication, possibly the reason behind his behavior. He also uses the Internet to prepare for both the apocalypse and college, whatever comes first to him. In every episode, his shirt has a different saying on it; similar to Frank's hats on 30 Rock.
- Jeena Wadska (Olivia Thirlby): Jeena is a popular and attractive girl who is Mondo's crush after having a vision about their graduation, marriage, life, afterlife in Episode 1. She is a bit of a tomboy and is very nice and laid-back. She also likes Mondo but she has an on-and-off relationship with Turk; in "Red Tuxedo" she breaks up with Turk and begins dating Mondo. She is Wadska's sister and Mondo's girlfriend.
- Dirk Kirk "Turk" Turkpatrick (Jake Busey): Turk is the resident tough guy. He is shown as a brash and unrefined bully often targets Mondo. However he has a very sensitive side and shown to be rather cowardly deep down. He used to date Milan and now has an on-and-off relationship with Jeena who later breaks up with him and starts dating Mondo.
- Milan Stone (Kari Wahlgren): Milan is Woodie's sister. She is a mean, vapid, vain, pretentious, snobbish, selfish, promiscuous and spoiled celebrity heiress who stars in her own reality show on MTV titled "16 and Bitchy". She has breast implants (which are removable by zipper) and used to date Turk. Despite her spoiled and snobbish demeanor, it is revealed that prior to her family's wealthy lifestyle, she and her brother always played together at the beach when they were young kids and that she still secretly cherishes that.
- Voneeta Teets (Danny McBride): The sex-ed teacher at Del Toro High. She is a bisexual who weighs 400 pounds and gets around in a motorized scooter, but she is immensely proud of her body and is insatiably horny.
- Lonnie (Alan Tudyk): A hippie and Gulf War vet who lives in a van by the beach. He gives Mondo and Woodie advice, usually while stoned.
- HJ & BJ Kuntz (Cree Summer): Identical twins who are Milan's friends/entourage.
|Original air date
|US viewers
|October 27, 2011
|Jersey boy Mondo moves to a laid-back Southern California beach town in the premiere of this animated comedy. He feels like an outsider until he meets Woodie, a local teen who offers to help him navigate through his new school, the bullies and the girls.
|November 3, 2011
|The boys find out about a loophole that lets them drink alcohol on the open seas, so they throw a party off the shore.
|"Tech Rehab"
|November 10, 2011
|The kids' parents get frustrated with the younger generation's dependence on technology, so they send the gang on a wilderness trip with a former tech addict, which goes horribly wrong.
|"Don't Blow Your Wadska"
|November 17, 2011
|Mondo finds out his crush's parents are out of town, and uses her eccentric brother to get close to her during a sleepover that goes horribly wrong. Babs and Ms. Teets go out. Absent: Milan.
|"The D-List"
|December 1, 2011
|Mondo accidentally drops his pants after swimming in freezing water, exposing himself to the entire school. Then, he's ranked at the bottom of "The D-List."
|"Breast Friends"
|December 1, 2011
|Jeena launches a mobile breast-exam initiative, inspiring the boys to cross-dress so they can attend and observe the event.
|"The Grass is Always Greener"
|December 8, 2011
|Mondo escorts Woodie's sister to her sweet-16 and gets a little too comfortable in her wealthy world.
|"Red Tuxedo"
|December 15, 2011
Mondo and Woody find out that Jeena and Turk broke up, so Mondo finds out that this is his chance to be with Jeena on the night of prom. Meanwhile Wadska helps Mila Kunis hide from photographers and in return takes Mila to the prom.Note: According to MTV this was supposed to be the season finale, yet it aired too early.[citation needed]
|"Mondo Mia!"
|December 15, 2011
|Mondo tries to find out the identity of his father by hacking his mother's Facebook account.
|"Virgin Hangover"
|December 22, 2011
|Mondo, Woodie and Wadska ditch school in search of a nudist beach. Absent: Milan.
|"Surf Legend"
|December 29, 2011
|Woodie loses a surf competition and worries that he's lost his "stoke," so the boys turn to Woodie's surf hero, Duke Sanchez, for help conquering an infamous wave, which would bring Woodie's "stoke" back. Milan thinks she might be pregnant.
|"Backstage Babs"
|December 29, 2011
|A call from the principal's office makes Babs worry that she's been too lax as a parent, so she decides to step up her parenting skills when she takes Mondo to a music festival, and helps him impress Jenna in the process. Wadska helps Turk get into the concert.
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Good Vibes received mixed reviews from critics. Some, like San Francisco Chronicle's David Wiegand found its writing to be "juvenile, hormonal and often pretty dang funny",[3] while Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's Rob Owen branded it "aggressively dumb, sex-obsessed and occasionally misogynistic".[4] In its review of the first season, the AV Club criticized the pilot, praised later episodes and expressed optimism towards the series' future, mentioning that "this isn't a recommendation exactly—there are still a few too many problems with the surface level of the show—but the undercarriage is sound, and it wouldn't be surprising if this developed into a surprisingly sweet and winning little show given enough time".[5]
The show achieved a metascore of 58[4] on Metacritic and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 70%, with an average rating of 6.15/10.[6] It was cancelled by MTV on February 24, 2012 due to low ratings.[7]
- ^ "Good Vibes canceled, no season two | canceled or renewed TV shows". TV Series Finale. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
- ^ Deadline: Animated Comedy 'Good Vibes' Cancelled By MTV After One Season
- ^ "'Beavis,' 'Good Vibes,' 'Allen Gregory' reviews". SFGate. 2011-10-27. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ a b "GOOD VIBES : SEASON 1". Metacritic. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ VanDerWerff, Todd. "TV Reviews: Good Vibes". AV Club. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ "GOOD VIBES (2011 - 2011)". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2012-02-24). "Animated Comedy 'Good Vibes' Cancelled By MTV After One Season". Deadline. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
External links[edit]
- Good Vibes on IMDb
- 2011 American television series debuts
- 2011 American television series endings
- 2010s American adult animated television series
- 2010s American high school television series
- 2010s American satirical television series
- American flash adult animated television series
- English-language television programs
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If we hadn't, maybe there would be a hand
stringing the tape out from the video
of the apocalypse. There would also be
a river, crested and fallen, which we couldn't
edit the dirtiest parts out of. We'd go to church
on YouTube, with foils of dye in our hair.
We'd just make another day of the week
to avoid mowing the lawn. Not everybody
hates grass, after all. Eventually though,
we'd spray the shit out it anyway, with
a product called New Testament Weed Killer.
It was on sale! These were some of the ways
we avoided looking at each other in this condition,
with our lips successfully reassembled,
because we'd actually gotten used
to going about our days without them.
About the Author: Lucas Pingel lives in the Twin Cities and teaches at St. Catherine University. He is the author of two chapbooks, most recently All Types of Breath Included (Further Adventures, 2009). Other poems have recently appeared in The North American Review, Cant, West Trade Review, Sawbuck, and Midway Journal.
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Put on your dance shoes!
So this totally is probably the least unsexy Halloween costume ever, but if you're a quirky film nerd or even a history nerd, you'll hopefully recognize this right away. The documentary film Grey Gardens has really left a footprint in contemporary film and modern times, with all the themes swimming in one movie. From hoarding, to the Kennedy's, cat ladies, mental health issues, mother-daughter relationships, self-esteem, you name it, this movie covered it all.
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Promises, Promises
was based on The Apartment, written by Neil Simon.
It took inspiration (and hard work) 8 years,
but it finally opened as a Broadway musical,
thanks to Burt Bacharach, Hal David, and Michael Bennett.
Above, Jerry Orbach with a very popular apartment,
and several business types vying for its key.
A. Larry Haynes, Dick O'Neill, Vince O'Brien, and Paul Reed
Jill O'Hara as Fran Kubelick.
Jill starred in the original production of Hair,
just one year before this.
Below, some of the ensemble players,
a few of home we would see in Bennett's A Chorus Line
just a few years later:
Kelly Bishop, Ken Howard, Baayork Lee, Donna McKechnie,
Frank Pietri, and Marian Mercer.
Jerry was so popular in the 60s
he got a Blackglama ad.
What becomes a legend most? :)
Our movie corner:
Seven Brides For Seven Brothers,
a 1954 release, that narrowly missed Best Picture
(On The Water Front scarfed the award that year!).
Above "Goin' Courtin'...
all but one of the 6 brothers
(we'll leave Howard Keel out of the equation)
were professional dancers and/or gymnasts.
Jeff Richards (who played Benjamin) was a baseball player,
who looked great, but couldn't dance a lick.
Below, "Lonesome Polecat".
Yes, Jane, it's time for the beards and the long underware
to come off!
After a successful Off-Broadway "run",
it opened in September of 2001, just days after 9/11.
Despite fears of non-attendance,
audiences came, and it ran for 3 years.
Jennifer Laura Thompson as Hope Cladwell
and Hunter Foster as Bobby Strong
Officer Lockstock and Little Sally
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This is a classic. So well-written. My favorite of Agatha's. I have recently completed my collection of her books, so the reading can begin!
About this one: I loved it when I read it that first time. Last Christmas, I watched and enjoyed the BBC version of it, then I reread the book..then I didn't like the adaptation so much... *hehe*
The best part was the ending. I love it when books surprise me! And I was surprised on this one.
I remember reading the murder of roger ackroyd and the man in the brown suit (I will review both of them in the next couple of days), so there is a lot of work to be done. I was thinking of picking up the endless night.
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Sailing the Blue Skies since 2001.
Deadly Creatures (Wii)
Pub: THQ/Dev: Rainbow Studios
ESRB: T/Players: 1
N- THQ's Deadly Creatures is about creatures in a desert, and the gameplay is as straightforward as the premise. You play alternatingly as a tarantula and a scorpion, and you traverse terrain, engage in battles against other various desert life, and generally just try to survive. There's really no motivation provided for you to engage in this cycle other than because it's just what you're supposed to do, but I suspect that that would also be the case for real scorpions and tarantulas.
This is, perhaps, one of those games that's more about the experience than the gameplay. Realistic graphics combined with creepy sound effects and wonderfully moody music create a dark and compelling atmosphere that's usually associated with survival horror. I think this is the aspect of the game that most makes it worth playing.
The gameplay, as stated earlier, consists of moving forward and fighting whatever gets in your way. The path winds around the ground, up walls, across ceilings, through various objects littered (literally) across the desert landscape, and seems deliberately designed to disorient you. The fighting is methodical, and uses a combination of buttons, gestures and IR pointing. Since it focuses on good timing and finding openings in your adversaries' defenses, I think it feels very strategic, and I found it to be compelling.
Being that tarantulas and scorpions don't have much personality of their own and thus can't really tell a story, the developers attempted to compensate for this by adding a couple of human characters named Wade and Struggs that mainly stay in the background. You'll only have brief and infrequent encounters with them as they fulfill their simple story arc, but it does indirectly provide an overall goal for you and your otherwise motiveless arachnids. In addition, Wade and Struggs are voiced by Billy Bob Thornton and Dennis Hopper, who ensure that their presence is always entertaining.
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Serves 10
- Pork butt or untrimmed end-cut pork shoulder roast, 7 to 9 pounds
- Olive oil
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
- Hickory wood chips, soaked in water for 30 minutes
- Vinegar Sauce (recipe below)
- Carolina Coleslaw (recipe below)
- 8 plain white hamburger buns if you want to sandwich it
2 .Do not trim any excess fat off the meat; this fat will naturally baste the meat and keep it moist during the long cooking time. Brush pork with a thin coating of olive oil. Season with salt and pepper. Set aside on a clean tray until ready to cook.
3. Before placing the meat on the grill, add the soaked wood chips. Place the chips directly on gray-ashed briquettes or in the smoking box of your gas grill. If you are using a charcoal grill, you will need to add charcoal every hour to maintain the heat.
4. Place the pork in the center of the cooking grate, fat-side up, over indirect low heat. Cover and cook slowly for 4 to 5 hours at 325°F to 350°F, or until an instant-read thermometer inserted into the middle of the pork registers 190°F to 200°F. The meat should be very tender and falling apart. If there is a bone in the meat, it should come out smooth and clean with no meat clinging to it.
5. Let the meat rest for 20 minutes or until cool enough to handle. Using rubber kitchen gloves, pull the meat from the skin, bones, and fat. Set aside the crispy bits (fat) that have been rendered and look almost burned. Working quickly, shred the chunks of meat with 2 forks and "pulling" the meat into small pieces from the butt. Alternately, you can chop the meat with a cleaver. Chop the reserved crispy bits and mix into the pulled pork. While the meat is still warm, mix with enough Vinegar Sauce to moisten and season the meat (about 3/4 cup).
6. Serve hot, sandwich-style on a hamburger bun and top with coleslaw. Serve more sauce on the side if desired.
Vinegar Sauce
Makes about 3 cups
- 2 cups apple cider vinegar
- 1/2 cup tomato paste
- 1/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 1 tablespoon salt
- 1 tablespoon ground white pepper
- 1/2 to 1 tablespoon red pepper flakes
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
OR even simpler just try:
white vinegar, cider vinegar, salt, pepper and tabasco
Carolina Coleslaw
Makes about 3 cups
- 1 recipe Vinegar Sauce
- 1 medium head green cabbage, chopped
Toss the sauce and cabbage together until well mixed and not quite wet. You may have sauce left-over. Refrigerate. Let sit for at least 2 hours or overnight before serving.


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Tricalysia has several distinct taxonomic groups with numerous species and notable morphological variation in Africa. The species of Tricalysia from Madagascar are classified in their own group, Tricalysia sect. Androgyne, which differs from the rest of the genus in having unisexual flowers on dioecious or gynodioecious plants and may be monophyletic (Tosh et al., 2009). In the revision of Tricalysia in Madagascar, Ranrivelo-Randriamboavonjy et al. (2007) included one species, Tricalysia ovalifolia, that does not belong to Sect. Androgyne and has since been separated into another genus, Empogona; the species of Empogona were previously included in Tricalysia, but morphological and molecular data support the separation of these two genera (Tosh et al., 2009).
Tricalysia is similar in aspect to some species of Ixora, which has four-merous flowers and petioles that are articulated at the base. Tricalysia is very similar to Coffea, which has bisexual flowers, the calyx limb sometimes reduced to a thin rim or skirt that is shorter than the disk, and fruits with two rather planoconvex pyrenes that are adaxially sulcate; Coffea has many more species and in general is more commonly collected than Tricalysia in Madagascar. Empogona differs from Tricalysia in its usually well developed pedicels, its lobed calyx limb, its bisexual flowers, and its fruits that are black at maturity (see also the key to these genera below). Tricalysia is also similar to Cremaspora, which is found in the Comores but has not yet been documented from Madagascar, and has sessile flowers in axillary glomerules, a pubescent calyx limb with developed triangular lobes, bracts and bracteoles that are not fused in pairs, and the stigma very shortly bifid at the apex.


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Not long ago I was talking to an engineering manager who was preparing performance reviews for his team. He had two people he wanted to promote that year, but he was worried that his peers were only going to endorse one of them. "Jessica is really talented," he said. "But I wish she'd be less abrasive. She comes on too strong." Her male counterpart? "Steve is an easy case," he went on. "Smart and great to work with. He needs to learn to be a little more patient, but who doesn't?"
I don't know whether Jessica got her promotion, but the exchange got me wondering how often this perception of female abrasiveness undermines women's careers in technology.
I focused on performance reviews for a couple of reasons. First, reviews provide written documentation of people's perceptions. My friend called Jessica "abrasive," but would he put that into her lasting professional record?…
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My February trip to Indiana to film two online classes for Annie's went great! The weather even cooperated and it was much warmer than when I was there two years ago. Both classes are live now, so I can reveal that they are "Tunisian Crochet: Beyond the Basics" and "Learn to Crochet Pineapples." Each class has two projects; here are some pictures.
The projects for the Tunisian class are a two-texture scarf and a lacy shawl. The ones for the Pineapples class are a fringed lap blanket and a lacy half-circle shawl.
As usual, the crew was terrific. It's amazing how many people are in the studio, all working to make sure the class is professional and polished. Three camera operators, the producer, director, editors, stylists...no wonder Annie's classes are such high quality.
I was invited to one of my favorite yarn shops, The Knitter's Edge in Bethlehem, PA, to celebrate Local Yarn Store Day on April 21st. What a fun afternoon! The owners, JoAnne and her daughter Amanda, should be used as role models for any shop owner. Their store is spacious--with dedicated classrooms!--well-stocked with yarn for every budget, and staffed with knowledgeable, caring people. They set me up in their beautiful bay window to do a book-signing and some Tunisian crochet demos. I met all sorts of nice people who had come from nearby, and from as much as several hours away. (That goes to show you how valued The Knitter's Edge is.) One of the women I met that day has since invited me to teach two introductory Tunisian crochet classes at the Middletown Thrall Library in New York state in August. A lovely surprise to have that work out.
I'm looking forward to my trip up there. Not sure if I will have time to visit Manitoga: The Russell Wright Design Center then, but I certainly hope so. I have been on the travel/architecture beat recently for The Hunt Magazine. My article about the National September 11 Memorial & Museum just came out in the summer edition; in the fall, features about Ladew Topiary Gardens and the Chicago Architecture Foundation River Cruise will be published; for winter, I'm covering Hollyhock House (a restored Frank Lloyd Wright site in Los Angeles) and Grounds for Sculpture in New Jersey. Manitoga would fit right in.
I'm excited to report that Delicate Crochet is listed for sale! Check out the "Books" page and the "Sneak Peek" to see photos of the 23 projects included in the book, and the names of the designers who contributed patterns. Amazon has the publication date as 12/1 but it should actually be ready to ship in late October/early November. If you are going to TNNA or CGOA this summer, look for Stackpole Books and some of the designers showing off some sample garments.


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Last month, researchers from across U-M came together to hear from the nation's leaders in traumatic brain injury (TBI) at MCIRCC's Massey TBI Grand Challenge. The event kicked-off the competition, which funds innovative solutions that address the golden hours of care after severe TBI.
The Center for Disease Control estimates that 2.5 million children and adults sustain TBIs in the U.S. each year, making it a major cause of death and disability that can have severe and lasting effects on individuals, families, and communities. Thankfully, the Joyce and Don Massey Family Foundation is helping to develop solutions that can help limit the impact of TBI with their generous donation that funds Grand Challenge projects.
Teams that submit to the Grand Challenge are eligible to win up to $600,000 of funding to take their idea from research to commercialization in hopes of developing a life-saving diagnostic, device, therapeutic, or health IT solution. To kick off the ideas for this year, we had an impressive and compelling lineup of speakers and activities that led to a very successful event.
After welcoming remarks from Robert Neumar, MD, PhD, and Marschall Runge, MD, PhD, attendees were able to learn what makes the Grand Challenge event so personal to the Massey family. Brenda Massey, the president of the Joyce and Don Massey Family Foundation, shared her powerful story of seeing her mother live with the devastating effects of a TBI and how the Grand Challenge teams will be able to help other families affected by TBI.
The keynote speaker, Geoffrey Ling, MD, PhD, presented the current challenges to TBI diagnosis and treatment, and also discussed the tough decisions doctors have to make when evaluating a TBI patient.
Department of Defense (DOD) service members and families represent the largest U.S. population suffering from the impact of TBI. There to speak to this issue was Tammy Crowder, PhD, Neurotrauma Research Portfolio Manager, who discussed the Combat Casualty Care Research Program, neurotrauma scope and purpose, and what drives DoD investment.
Attendees were also able to get the gripping perspective of first responder, Marc DePasquale, 18D, NREMT, who went through a day in the life of a military paramedic. He was able to illustrate the difficulty paramedics face in the field especially in terms of the resources and medical tools available to them in dire situations. Survival Flight responders took us through the challenges of treating TBI patients while racing through the skies. In particular, they discussed the difficulties of monitoring intracranial pressure in the field as well as looking towards the future with nanobot diagnostic technology.
In the afternoon, former U-M Men's Basketball player Austin Hatch shared his emotional story of surviving two plane accidents that took the lives of his parents', his trying road to recovery, and his new outlook on life as a result of his miraculous outcome. His discussion put things into perspective as to why the Grand Challenge is so important in developing new and innovative solutions for TBI patients.
The main takeaway from this year's event is that TBI is indeed a widespread problem that impacts both stateside civilians and servicemen and women overseas, and that no idea is too early or too novel for the Grand Challenge. Presentations from previous Grand Challenge winners highlighted this notion, especially Rodney Daniels, MD's Digital EVD and ICP monitor that began as a sketch on a napkin.
The next Grand Challenge event will take place in May when we host the Pitch Day competition for all of the submitted entries.


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You're The Grownup In The Relationship – Act Like It!
Life Ruiner.
That's my name for today. My son Dylan is 6 years old, and he's pissed at me, and he's decided to call me Life Ruiner.
He's not just saying, "You're a life ruiner."
He is literally addressing me as if my name were Life Ruiner.
"I'm going downstairs to watch TV, Life Ruiner." "Will you make me some lunch, Life Ruiner."
You're probably thinking it's funny. Okay, it's definitely a little bit funny.
But we've been struggling the last few days, and he's been expressing a lot of anger, and he's been saying he doesn't love me and that he doesn't want to be around me. And so my feelings are hurt. Like, not just "tell him my feelings are hurt so he will understand the effect of his words." My heart is legitimately heavy, and I feel like shit about the whole thing.
When Dylan does something I don't like, I have a fork in the road ahead of me. I can go down one road that has a lot of control, discipline, punishment, power struggles, laying down the law, telling him like it is… all that stuff.
I don't go that way. That way is miserable.
I'm going to take the other path. I'm taking the path that has love, connection, cooperation, respectfulness, and joy.
Of course, that's a little harder when I feel like dirt. I feel like crying. I feel like lashing out.
But there's a great big powerful truth that sits in the middle of my relationship with my child.
It's completely undeniable.
It's completely obvious.
It's that I'm the fucking grownup.
Like, seriously. There are two of us here, and one of us is a child who is newer to the world, has fewer resources, has less experience, and who needs more support. And one of us is a grown adult with a whole world of options available to me.
So I gotta step up. I gotta show up. I gotta be the bigger person.
I'm not saying that's easy. It's downright treacherously complicated sometimes.
In this Life Ruiner situation, there's a whole minefield to walk through to get somewhere better.
- I have to set aside my own feelings and respond in a way that helps HIM and prioritizes HIM.
- I have to stay focused on being the gentle, loving parent my son needs, with a caring tone of voice, open body language, and emotional availability.
- I have to model healthy boundaries, because my response will inform how he reacts in the future if someone calls him names.
- I have to listen deeply, beyond his words, and figure out what my son is saying that is coming out as accusations and name-calling.
That's a LOT to accomplish when I'm feeling brittle myself!
But I'm up to it. Because I'm the fucking grownup!
So we made it through the moment. I found the feeling he was wanting to express but hadn't figured out yet. I modeled good boundaries by not answering when he called me the wrong name, but staying available to all other communication. I kept expressing my love AND my confidence that we could solve this problem together.
And we made it!
Some people use the idea of "because I'm the adult" to demand that they be treated a certain way. They want respect. They want deference. They want to be in charge.
I think that's a really shallow view of adulthood.
I want to use my adulthood to be a shining example. I want to be the bigger person. I want to use my powers for good.
Being the adult doesn't have to make me stingy. It can make me awesome!
And that makes my parenting awesome, too. It makes my relationship with my kid awesome.
It makes life more awesome all around!
PS: I'm finishing up this post a few days later, and I can report that everything turned around after that day. The days leading up to the Life Ruiner Incident had been full of negativity, but since then it's faded. My son has not called me a single name or said he doesn't love me. Some of those moments of stepping up to the grownup plate are tough! But acting like a grownup really pays off!
If you need some extra help, I have a whole course to help you connect with your child, with their wants and needs, and with the unique person that they are.
Issa is a wild and rebellious mama who wants to live a carefree life where that little anxious voice is put on mute. How about you? As a writer she feels successful if just one other person feels any comfort or inspiration from what she's written.


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Business Optimism Drains SBA Loan Funds
Optimism about the economy has led to a problem at the Small Business Administration – a lack of funds to loan to businesses.
With two months to go in its fiscal year (ending Sept. 30), the SBA has run out of money to loan. Because of the surge in borrowing, the SBA reached its $18.75 billion limit for the year. Barring an act of Congress, small businesses will have to wait until Oct. 1 to have their loans approved.
Last year the SBA didn't reach its limit until September and Congress was able to raise the limit.
Businesses can still apply for loans and banks can send them on to the SBA. There they will be held in a queue for processing until more loan money is available.


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CBS news visits MoMath/
Mo Rocca of CBS Sunday Morning visited MoMath and talked with museum founders Glen Whitney and Cindy Lawrence. He is seen here learning about Harmony of Spheres, a Moey built and engineered interactive sculpture that demonstrates the intervals between musical notes when touched.
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Gerald set up his woodcarving business in 1986 after gaining a BA (hons) degree in fine art. His interest in woodcarving began while working for a leading furniture making firm, and then studying woodcarving at the London college of furniture, he has gone on to complete a post graduate certificate in education and taught city and guild students part time in the local technical college and adult education.
A member of the prestigious Master Carvers association, Gerald has completed many commissions for furniture manufacturers, Interior designers, Architects and private individuals around the world.
With his artistic background Gerald is often called upon to assist with the design of projects and has spent many years researching woodcarving and furniture history to help clients to achieve historical accuracy and quality.
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V.K Rajeev welcomed us warmly to lush and verdant Thattekani in Idukki district. A gentle river flowed past his house and seated nearby, he traversed back in time as to how he started his one man venture. Right from childhood, Rajeev had displayed an artistic bend of mind. All genre of crafts interested and fascinated him. While pursuing his diploma in telecommunications at Malappuram Cheladi Polytechnic, he knew his heart was not in it.
All his spare time was devoted to drawing, sketching and water colours. He experimented with paper craft and pulp craft. Even on holidays while at home he noticed that bamboo trees were in abundance all around his residence.
'Bamboo intrigued me. I wanted to learn more about it systematically' – Rajeev.
With that aim in mind, he sought out and worked with some NGO's which were into promoting bamboo products. Every working minute was spent studying in depth about the availability of bamboo and its physical properties, behaviourance. 'I gathered a lot of information. I wanted to do something different, traveled all over India, worked in different shops to find out what people were working with in bamboo.
Rajeev realized that not many people had put bamboo to good use. It was originally the Chinese who had brought to light its spiritual properties.' The empty space in the bamboo is like our mind – hollow and empty….I was deeply fascinated by the spiritual connection associated with the bamboo.'
Rajeev finally struck on a novel idea of creating wind chimes out of bamboo.'It was at Vaithiri resort that I met Mr.Manjila who was manager there.' He spoke to me in length about wind chimes and the spiritual connotations associated with it. It was then that the idea struck me that I could make wind chimes out of bamboo.'
Sound can influence the mind of man in many ways. For 3 - 4 years Rajeev worked on bamboo designing and creating and selling various bamboo products. Each day he diligently set apart to work with bamboo and fine tune them into wind chimes.
Wind chimes originated in south East Asia 500 years ago. Rajeev studied the Bali , Chinese wind chimes and noticed how finely tuned they were.' No one makes wind chimes like mine. The Chinese wind chimes crack within 2 – 3 years. Mine does not. I have devised my own measures of preserving and sustaining my chimes over the years. I am confident that mine can compete with and excel those made in china or Bali'-proudly proclaims Rajeev.In a month Rajeev is able to make only 3 bamboo wind chimes. They are priced between 1000 and 3000Rs.
He does not believe in advertising and it is sole of purely word of mouth 'It is a spiritual and artistic quest for me. I can't market it. It is tantamount to selling my creativity. It's sold purely by word of mouth and people who buy it treasure it. 'smiles Rajeev.' wind chimes can help remove emotional blockages in the body'.Rajeev handed us a two and a half feet long bamboo pole and asked us to twist it. A random noise, very soothing emanated from it.. The other products created and sold by Rajeev include the tribal flute with tribal pictures hand painted on them. Each flute is priced at Rs.100
Warly paintings done on flutes, bamboo mates with pictures of horses, elephants similar to cave drawings, incense sticks, utility lamp shades – creativity reined supreme in Rajeev's workshop.
'I buy khadi cloth and paint tribal art on them. My products are showcased and sold at several choice outlets in the state'- Rajeev explains. Odds and ends in Rajaji Road Ernakulam , Organic hotel ( Luminaire) in Panampilli Nagar , Kochi are the two outlets which mainly promote Rajeev's bamboo craft.
Rajeev is a sole entrepreneur.'To make bamboo chime requires immense patience , concentration and utmost devotion .the bamboo has to be soaked , rough tuned, again dried , moisture inside the bamboo should stabilize with room temperature .then again it is fine tuned. I use a self designed knife and sand paper to fine tune it again. It is all hand made. No machines are used'
It was time for Rajeev to leave for his workshop. He took out a flute and played mellifluously on it. The tunes lingering in our ears, long after we left thattekanni and its unique entrepreneur.
Rajeev can be contacted at 09747709209 or mailed at
or at the following address -
Rajeev V.K
Marur House
Thattekanni P.O
Idukki District-685606


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Recipe for Two: Holiday Decorating
Congratulations on surviving Thanksgiving! We walked away with crazy family stories, per usual. What would the holidays be without a little crazy anyway? Now we are full on into the winter holidays and our house is already ready to go! Growing up my family used to wake up at the crack of dawn the day after Thanksgiving to go to the tree farm. Grandpa HAD to be the first one on the lot lest some one steal our perfect tree. And after a rousing battle arguing over who had indeed found THE best tree, we would head to the mall for Black Friday shopping, return home and trim the tree. These days, we all avoid Black Friday shopping and hitting the tree lot when the crowds are around. Northern Virginia has gotten a little crowded for us to keep that tradition.
Instead, I asked my parents to bring me gathered greenery and winter berries from their woods home. I made a wreath and planter fillers for the front porch and of course, couldn't help but to tuck little bundles into glasses around the house. The fruit tree is also up (Here are some images from back in 2012!) and our house gave us an authentic 1960's aluminum silver Evergleam tree.
So let me just back up a second with that. Yes, the house gave it to us. When we moved into our 1890's home, the attic was packed with random boxes. The previous owner was supposed to clean it out, but once we caught his workers ALSO pulling out architectural features (like solid wood staircase posts and trim) we told them to just stop! It was a pain to remove all those boxes ourselves, but one gem we did find was this Evergleam tree. The house rewarded our hard work. This was the first year we finally decided, what the heck, we're sure it's missing some pieces and it's probably in bad shape but let's put it together. WRONG. It is in gorgeous, perfect condition and they're actually pretty rare to find! In fact, after a certain Charlie Brown Christmas special where the Evergleam was touted as the symbol of a commercialism Christmas, many people tossed their trees to return to evergreens. But lucky for us, these someones just put it in the attic. And now we have a kick ass Evergleam.
I'm sure you all have a little crazy in your lives right now, but take a weekend or an evening and do a little holiday enjoying. It's worth it, even if it's just two of you in a house. Here's how to make it happen:
- Music: I have Pandora's Christmas station on right now as I work, but if you want a full album OF COURSE I'm recommending Michael Bublé.
- Put on something cozy: Break out the waffle knit and plaid! After climbing up into the attic (note...where we found a squirrel who had been playing with silver Christmas ball ornaments in the loose fill insulation. And that explains pawprints on my storage boxes!) and putting them back I'm totally ready to change into something cozy.
- Put up simple greenery: I feel like people forget how beautiful just plain winter branches and greens are. I clip a few architectural pieces and throw them in vases or German Conservenglas (like above) which also keeps the cats out. For pre-lit greens you can use year after year, I love this simple design of boxwoods.
- Light some candles: with the caveat that, please remember they're on! These Anthropologie gold pomegranates, pears and pineapples are AWESOME. They're a great double gift since you can use the holder itself after the candle is gone.
- Coffee, hot chocolate and tea: Or all of the above. I like how these pottery mugs are simple but have interest because of the texture.
- Wrap some gifts: I love brown craft paper for gift wrapping! Add your own twist by doing some painting on top or buying this cursive writing wrapping paper if you're all crafted out.
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I've heard from some that I need to keep writing. I'm not sure why as I think I live a very dull life now.
I've gotten a few weeks of rest now and that has helped me to feel a little more sane. The last few weeks of school were just nutso. I just operated out of some kind of obligation and don't have any idea where I got the energy from to manage those last weeks.
I just heard that my dear friend in Richmond, is in the hospital after a fall today. She has a "minor" hip fracture. That's an oxymoron like "Gigantic Shrimp." "Minor Hip Fracture." Nope, that's an oxymoron. I hope to hear what's up with her tomorrow. I hope it's so minor they don't have to operate. If you're a praying person, please remember Lucille and her family and physicians.
Tonight I was reflecting back on my days as a Mental Health Provider on a homicide / suicide hotline. I was remembering this guy that called in and said, "If you want to tell something to God, tell me and I'll relay the message because I'm blowing myself up at Midnight." Now, I don't know about you, but for me those words made my heart skip a beat. This was way, way back in the day when caller ID was just coming out and we didn't have it. In order to get a trace on a call, took about 15 minutes that I had to keep the person on the line.
He explained that he was a munitions worker in Vietnam and that he had all the ingredients for Napalm and was planning to blow up his house. Now, I'd grown up watching the nightly news and seen what Napalm could do. Do you know, off hand, what the ingredients are? I sure didn't. I figured worst case scenario he could have gasoline, and that wasn't a highly controlled substance. So, I had to believe him. Now blowing up a city block ... that also got my attention, and it was about two hours until Midnight.
With five incoming lines, I walked to another desk, called the hotline myself, and when the phone rang I asked Mr. Napalm if I could put him on HOLD. Being the polite homicidal maniac that he was, he allowed me to put him on HOLD. Whereupon, I immediately called the operator, asked for a supervisor, and informed her I had a homicidal person on X phone line and was requesting an emergency trace. Naaaah, that didn't take long.
Thankfully when I went back to line X, he was patiently holding. I now had two phones with two different people talking to me: one phone applied to each ear. This was going to be a LONG night.
So the phone company traced the call, and then transferred me over to the police who were using me to funnel information to them from the caller. They'd ask me questions like, "Can an officer come to the door?" I'd then turn around and ask my caller, "So look, I'm thinking this isn't the greatest plan you've ever had. So, what about surrendering to the police?" His reply back to me was, "If someone comes up to my house the whole thing will blow. I have booby traps all over the yard and house." So, then I'd repeat what he just said, "So the yard and porch are covered with booby traps." And the caller would feel affirmed that I was listening, and the police would get the information on the other line.
What made me think of this experience today was watching a hospital show where a guy was clearly nuts. You see, at the time I'm talking to this guy, I don't know he's nuts. I think he is homicidal and has the stuff to make a bomb and blow a city block to kingdom come. I've often thought of him because he and the police frightened me so much that night.
After an hour or so of phone and verbal juggling, the police asked me to get him to show where he was in the house by turning on a light. I worked a "No." into my conversation. They were incredulous, and asked me again to get him to turn on a light to show where he was. I worked another "No" into the conversation. The police officer asked me, "Are you saying 'No" you won't get him to turn on a light and show us his position?" I worked a "Yes" into the conversation.
I couldn't be directly responsible for his death, and I had visions of a sniper trying to get a "bead" on him. I couldn't be on the phone with this man and hear him get shot. I just couldn't do that.
After about another 45 minutes of wrangling with him, we'd found out more information about him. The police tracked down his parents and he'd been thrown out of the Army as unfit for service (because he was nuts) and he had no knowledge of how to make munitions. (Big sigh.) I'd also talked enough to him to find out he'd been in jail before and was scared of men. So THE only female officer on duty that night in a rather small, rural county got her to drop writing a ticket to some schmuck on the highway, and she went over to, what by then was, a BIG deal. By now the police had blocked off his whole neighborhood. The bomb squad was there, and pretty much every officer in the entire county. I'm still talking to two people on two different phone lines.
I got to listen as the female officer carefully came to the door and knocked. Loudly knocked, I might add. I encouraged him to open the door and let the female officer (I promise) in to arrest him. I got to hear as he was taken down, as the phone went klunking across the floor, and finally as an officer picked up the phone line and said they had things under control now. And he was alive. Sick. But alive.
That is probably one of the most scary times I've ever had in my life. With five incoming lines, there were calls I ignored. Were any of those calls people who were genuinely suicidal in that moment? Whatever happened to that poor guy? Was he taken to a hospital where he belonged or was he charged with something like a "false police report" and sent to jail? Or both?
I talked and trigaged lots and lots of calls over the three years I worked on that job, but this was one of two really memorable calls. I have since talked to officers that were in the field that night and remember that call, from the police side of things, and yes -- there was a sniper there. For a woman that follows the "rules" and does what the nice officer instructs, it was also scary to me to defy the instructions of the officer who was attempting me to get the caller to turn on the lights. It was frightening to me to think I might be listening on the phone when some guy got his brains blown out. It was two hours of terror. At least one of those hours, I was fearing for the lives of many. The other hour (it was about 11:45 by the time all this ended -- I didn't get my message through to God via this guy) I was terrified for one man's life. I don't think I can ever forget those two hours.
But you know, when a kid shows me a tiny dab of blood and begs to go to the nurse, "It's an EMERGENCY!!!" I can't help but think, "You have no idea how NOT an emergency this is."
It's been 18 years since that event. The mentally ill don't live as long as the rest of folks. If I was a betting person, my bet would be that he's no longer with us in this life. I hope in the next life, if there is one, that he is relieved of his illness and the chaos it brings into his life.
Yup, an EMERGENCY is definitely not defined as a drop of blood or a scratch or a blister or a bloody nose. You have to think really big to get my attention and have ME call it an emergency.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
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Triebe were, however, for Freud not just abstract constructs or concepts in a theory of motivation or personality, to be sorted out from other forces of motivation, to be classified and distinguished from affects, perceptual and cognitive processes, and somatic needs. Triebe, instincts, were – much more than scientists, doctors, ministers, judges ("the educated circles") wanted to admit or know – what made the human world go around, what drove people to act and think and feel the way they do, in excess as well as in self-constriction, inhibition, and fear, in their daily lives in the family and with others, and in their civilized and professional occupations and preoccupations as well. They dominated their love life and influenced their behavior with children and authorities. They made people sick and made them mad. They drove people to perversion and crimes, made them into hypocrites and liars as well as into fanatics for truth and other virtues, or into prissy, bigoted, prejudiced, or anxious creatures. And their sexual needs, preoccupations, and inhibitions turned out to be at the root of much of all this. Rational, civilized, measured, "good" behavior, the noble and kind deeds and thoughts and feelings so highly valued were much of the time postures and gestures, self-denials, rationalizations, distortions, and hideouts – a thin surface mask covering and embellishing the true life and the real power of the instincts.
The life of the body, of bodily needs and habits and functions, kisses and excrements and intercourse, tastes and smells and sights, body noises and sensations, caresses and punishments, tics and gait and movements, facial expression, the penis and the vagina and the tongue and arms and hands and feet and legs and hair, pain and pleasure, physical excitement and lassitude, violence and bliss – all this is the body in the context of human life. The body is not primarily the organism with its organs and physiological functions, anatomical structures, nerve pathways, and chemical processes.
If Freud had not had all this in view, and the vagaries and foibles of people, his own and those of his patients, he would never have been able to write his case histories and to create a scientific psychoanalysis as distinct from both neurology and academic psychiatry and psychology. He would not have been able to understand dreams and jokes and neurosis and the psychopathology of everyday life. He created, partly in spite of his inclinations and not without grave misgivings, an entirely new method and standard of scientific investigation which went counter to scientific principles and methods derived from or devised for a different realm of reality – principles and methods that stultified an appropriate approach to and grasp of psychic life. He could do this because he was unwilling to accept the narrow limitations imposed on science by the science of his day, whose child he remained nevertheless. He broke out of those limits and widened the field of scientific action, while loath to accept the consequences of such a venture in all its implications. But had he not in such a way brought science and life as it is lived together again, psychoanalysis would never have had the impact on modern life and scientific thought that we see today.
Instincts and the life of the body, seen in the perspective sketched above, are one and the same. They become separate only when we begin to distinguish between soma and psyche. But once this is done – and without this distinction there is neither physiology–anatomy nor psychology – instinct in psychoanalysis must be understood as a psychological concept. I believe it means reintroducing the psyche into biology and physics if one speaks of Eros and Thanatos as universal cosmic tendencies. Whether this is legitimate or not remains, in my opinion, an open question; this psyche, however, would in any event not be psyche or mind in terms of human psychology. Within the framework of psychoanalysis as a science of the human mind we must, if we accept the Eros-Thanatos conception (or its less "metaphysical" form, the duality of libido and aggression), speak of instincts as psychic representatives, and of life and death instincts as such representatives.
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Well, we've got just another week or so in beta, so this will most likely be our last update of fabrics before we go live for everyone! We are thinking of spring with this batch ...
|Ciel is a dreamy sky-blue double-knit poly. It's medium weight, and has a basketweave texture, which makes a solid color knit much more interesting to wear. The texture also gives the fabric a nice body, so the shift will hold its shape when it's on you. The color is fun and versatile -- imagine it with a red cardigan or a purple blazer or gray tights.
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HTC is partnering with Cryptokitties, Animoca, and Bitmark to help create Exodus.
This past May, HTC confirmed it was working on a new phone by the name of "Exodus." Rather than release another typical Android handset, Exodus is a smartphone that's powered by blockchain. Today, July 11, HTC announced it's opening up early access for Exodus during Q3 this year.
Per an HTC press release:
Context and meaning are being destroyed by copyright and privacy laws that were written for a bygone era. Join the Exodus of people who will take back control of the value that exists in their personal identity and data. HTC, the leading innovator in smart phone devices, is spearheading a movement and it starts in the third quarter with the launch of early access to the world's first major blockchain phone – the Exodus.
To help make Exodus a reality, HTC is partnering with Cryptokitties, Animoca, and Bitmark. HTC says its partnership with Cryptokitties "is the beginning of a nonfungible, collectible marketplace and crypto gaming app store."
By working with Animoca (the distributor of Cryptokitties) and Bitmark ("the crypto-based digital ownership project"), HTC will be able to further its advancements into the crypto world.
As someone who's not very invested in blockchain, none of this means that much to me. However, if this is a niche you find yourself getting excited about, are you interested in what HTC's trying to do with its Exodus project? Do you plan on signing up for the early access program? Sound off in the comments below.
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My two-years-older brother, was an inspiration to me—a giant. As a teenager, he was fascinated with military airplanes. Hanging on strings from our basement bedroom ceiling and covering every shelf were more than a hundred plastic model planes he had meticulously assembled and painted, making sure every color and decal matched the real thing. His airplane collection ran from the de Havilland biplanes and Fokker triplanes of the First World War to the Vietnam-era F-111 "fast movers" and B-52 bombers. He even had Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft models.
His interests included the whole universe, and he bought his own telescope so he could look at planets and measure the magnitude of stars. Even through the light pollution of all the city streetlamps, he would find the planets and star formations and explain their sizes and distances to me. My brother gave me my first look outside our galaxy, at one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors: a very faraway spiral called Andromeda.
My brother had mountains of books and magazines about warplanes, and he knew all about the big fighter aces from each war. But the Korean War and the Cold War made it personal. "Fight MIGs!" he would say, pointing to a picture that showed rows of F-86 Saber jets in Korea, below an arched sign marked "MIG Alley." His dream was to be a carrier fighter pilot wearing wings of gold.
He studied algebra, trigonometry, and calculus and could measure the speed and altitude of the multistage rockets the two of us launched in Patton Park behind our Detroit home. Using one simple instrument—an inclinometer—and a notepad and stopwatch, my brother figured it all out.
Unlike me, he never got into trouble. He completed Junior ROTC and graduated from Western High School. He was big into sports—played ice hockey, football, and baseball. He was a natural leader, and Congressman John Dingell nominated him for the U.S. Naval Academy. When his nomination didn't pan out, my brother rode buses to Highland Park Community College, in the slums of Detroit, so he could complete an associate degree and be a pilot.
He graduated in 1970 and joined the Marines. It was a perfect choice: he was smart and confident, and he completed Officer Candidate School at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, becoming the second commissioned officer from our neighborhood. He then went to Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida, for flight training. He flew dozens of sorties in a T-34 Mentor, and twice that number in a T-28 Trojan (a large radial single-engine aircraft). But his accomplishments and success turned into cockiness. Three days before my second-lieutenant brother was scheduled to receive his wings, he mouthed off to an instructor, was given a fourth down, and got dropped from flight school.
That set him on a downward spiral of bitter thinking and not learning from his mistakes. He was offered navigator training, but he refused, blaming the flight instructors for his woes. "If I can't fly," he said, "I don't want anything!" Meanwhile, he broke up with his beautiful sweetheart. The Marines sent him to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, as a platoon leader in a combat engineer unit. But he kept calling home, blaming one sergeant after another for his disappointments.
Two years later, he got out of the Marines, returned home, and went to the University of Michigan, Dearborn. I was home from Vietnam by then and working as a Wayne County Sheriff's deputy. I kept encouraging him to become a police officer since there were lots of openings and the pay was great. "I don't wanna be a dummy cop!" my brother would say, preferring to stay on unemployment and live in the basement of our parents' home.
My first wife and I took him on vacations to Mackinac Island and Niagara Falls, but nothing seemed to make him happy. He was bitter that all the firearms I had been collecting over the years were selling for a profit while his model airplanes just gathered dust, so I eventually had to move everything of mine from my parents' home to my flat.
Several months later, my brother signed up as a police officer in Dearborn, a suburb just west of Detroit. Things were looking good. He was back into running—even doing the Boston Marathon—and other cops loved him for his wit and sense of humor.
That is, until he fell in love with a secretary from Dearborn. For whatever reason, she didn't respect my brother's history, his friends, or our family. She needed to have him all to herself, and he did little to resist.
And just like that, my handsome, six-foot-one, critical-thinking former Marine captain, police officer brother was gone. He found more and more fault with his own family and adored hers. His friendships faded as he drifted away from neighborhood buddies, fellow officers, best friends, and family.
The final break between my brother and me happened at Lee's Imperial Tavern in Windsor, Ontario, in spring 1983. For years, we had a weekly ritual of going to Canada with our dad and neighborhood buddies, but my brother was becoming increasingly angry because his plan of making it big in the stock market kept failing and he was often short of money. We were sitting in the bar, talking about the new television series Cosmos, and I expressed admiration for Carl Sagan and the series.
I don't know what he heard in my comments, but something enraged him. "You're an atheist! An atheist!" my brother shouted, and he swung a fist at my face.
A friend of ours, sitting between us, blocked the punch. "If you need to hit somebody, hit me, not your brother!" he shouted.
I refused to fight with someone I loved, so I stood up and started to walk out of the bar. All the while, my brother kept jabbing his finger at me and shouting, "You're an atheist! You didn't listen to anything I told you! You atheist!"
My brother had talked a lot about religion, and I did listen. But what he failed to recognize was, he never asked what I thought. I was always just his little brother, "Dummy Bob."
I stepped out of the tavern and ran twelve miles from Windsor, Ontario, across the Ambassador Bridge and back to my parents' house and my car in southwest Detroit.
My brother never apologized. Instead, he blamed our lifelong friend, Tom Howard, who had blocked the punch—a devout Catholic and former Vietnam combat Marine—for starting it.
And that provided the excuse my brother needed to write off his last best friends and me.
In March 1989, my brother drove to our parents' new home on Grosse Ile and rang the doorbell. He hadn't talked to our mother and father in months. It was night, and our parents opened the door.
"There's your Christmas presents!" he said, gesturing to a large garbage bag on the driveway before walking back to his car.
Our mother called his name, pleading from the porch for him to come in.
"I don't have time!" my brother said, getting back in his car.
Two months later, my mother had a stroke and could no longer talk. She died that November.
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The decades of bitter, jealous thinking took a toll on my brother. He lost his bright smile and sparkle and turned into an angry-looking overweight guy with an implanted pacemaker and defibrillator. I'll never understand why someone so gifted and enlightened could take such a dark turn. He was such a giant to so many people—me first among them. I just wish he had been stronger for himself.


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A pub doorman was knocked unconscious after alledgedly being punched on the back of the head.
The incident alledgedly took place on Sunday evening while the victim was working at The White Lion Hotel. He suffered a blow to the back of his head and minor cuts and bruises.
Police are appealing for information to find the offender who immediately fled the scene. He is described as a 40-year-old man, of medium build and he was wearing a suit. If you were at the pub on the night or witnesses the assault, please call police on 101 quoting crime reference log "EG2308".


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I Chose Life (by Elena Hung)
I chose life.
I chose life when my husband and I planned to have a baby.
I chose life when we celebrated the two little lines on the pregnancy test.
I chose life when I started to eat healthier, took my prenatal vitamins every day, and eagerly attended every appointment with my midwife.
I chose life at my 20 week ultrasound, when the doctor referred me to a maternal fetal specialist.
I chose life when the maternal fetal specialist said something was not quite right with my baby's heart.
I chose life when we met with the genetics counselor, who used words like "abnormal" and "atypical" and "syndrome" and "termination."
I chose life when I was labeled "high-risk" and scheduled for weekly monitoring.
I chose life when I had a million conversations with my doctors and midwives and prepared for every possible scenario.
I chose life when I was induced at 39 weeks because my baby stopped growing and her movements slowed down.
I chose life with each contraction in labor — gentle mild ones over three hours, crazy intense ones over twenty minutes — and when I brought her into this world with three quick pushes.
I chose life when I held her in my arms and kissed her moments after she was born.
I chose life when the neonatologist examined her at bedside and then rushed her to the NICU.
I chose life the next morning when the cardiologist recommended we transfer her to the cardiac ICU at the local children's hospital.
I chose life when I sent her on her way, armed with the name Xiomara, which means "ready for battle."
I chose life when we did Kangaroo care every chance we got in that hospital room full of life-saving machines.
I chose life when I handed her over to the surgeon who would perform her heart surgery when she was 11 days old.
I chose life when I pumped breastmilk for her round the clock for months on end.
I chose life when I attended rounds with the doctors every single day and obsessively Googled every new medical condition discussed.
I chose life when I walked her down to the OR to get her tracheostomy and feeding tube placed after she was unable to breathe and eat on her own after nearly three months.
I chose life when I did my trach care training and learned how to care for her medically.
I chose life when my husband and I took turns sleeping at her bedside in an uncomfortable hospital chair for 169 nights straight.
I chose life when we finally brought her home for the first time on a cold December day.
I chose life with every scary 911 call and terrifying ambulance ride that followed.
I chose life when I gave her manual breaths with the AmbuBag every time she turned blue and stopped breathing.
I chose life with every suctioning of the trach, every tube feeding, and every nebulizer treatment.
I chose life every time I forced myself to get back up after breaking down.
I chose life when I fired every therapist, home nurse, and doctor who didn't have her best interest at heart.
I chose life when I powered through after days without a shower or sufficient sleep.
I chose life when I researched every therapy, medication, program, doctor, and procedure that could possibly help her in any way.
I chose life when I fought with our health insurance to cover the care she needed.
I chose life when I applied for Medicaid on her behalf to prevent our family from financial ruin.
I chose life when I gathered documents and applied for grants to pay for "non-covered benefits."
I chose life when I helped her with her physical therapy exercises all day long, every single day, so she could finally hold her head up on her own at 8 months old.
I chose life as we learned sign language together so we could communicate.
I chose life with every new therapy toy or medical equipment acquired.
I chose life when we turned occupational therapy exercises into fun games every day.
I chose life when my husband and I attended one doctor appointment after another…after another after another.
I chose life when we loaded up the car and drove 9 hours to Cincinnati Children's Hospital because they have the best Aerodigestive program in the country.
I chose life every three months when we drove to CHOP in Philadelphia because her pulmonologist there specializes in kids on home mechanical ventilation.
I chose life when my husband and I did her trach care every night and trach change every week to help prevent infection.
I chose life when I lugged her ventilator, oxygen tank, pulse oximeter, feeding pump, suction bag, and emergency bag everywhere we went.
I chose life when we enrolled her in a pre-k special education school program so she could socialize with her peers.
I chose life when we went to story time at the library and waved to the animals at the zoo and and played on the swings at the playground and splashed around in the kiddie pool and cheered loudly at baseball games and watched Sesame Street together.
I chose life when I fought for every chance for her to just. be. a. kid.
I chose life when I met my U.S. Senator and looked him in the eye as I told him why he needed to fight tooth and nail for my daughter.
I chose life when my friends and I walked the halls of the Senate office buildings all summer on behalf of medically complex children across the country in desperate need of access to affordable quality healthcare.
I chose life every single time, every single day. I am still choosing life for my daughter.
The Republican tax plan does not choose life.
It chooses to repeal part of the ACA, which will lead to 13 million fewer Americans with health insurance. Americans that include children with medically complex needs like mine.
It chooses to raise insurance premiums on the millions of American families who do not have the "freedom" to go without health insurance because of the medical conditions in their family.
It chooses to create over a trillion dollars in debt — debt that our children will have to pay off — so that corporations and wealthy individuals can have more money.
It chooses to create that deficit with the idea that they will make up for it down the road with hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, the program that keeps our children alive and thriving.
In short, it chooses to threaten the quality of life of the most vulnerable amongst us, including our children.
If you support this bill, you don't get to call yourself pro-life. If you support this bill, you are not choosing life.
I chose life. If you also choose life, join me in this fight.
~ Elena


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Eric Kesler and the crew of his new Dufour 410 Sea Dacha didn't waste any time getting down to business in the 470-mile Annapolis-to-Newport race earlier this summer. And as you can see in this photo taken before the start, they were pretty ready for the sporty conditions they experienced in the race. And so was their Dufour 410. In fact, an overnight offshore race like the Annapolis-to-Newport race was almost tailor-made for a boat like the 410. It's fast and easy-to-sail and it will also take care of you when the seas get up. The cockpit is wide enough to provide excellent visibility for the helmsman, and plenty of room for the trimmers and crew to work. Sail controls all lead back to the cockpit and dual instrument pods in front of each helm deliver all the vital in for you need to keep the boat sailing fast.
But the cool thing about the 410 is that it truly is a cruiser / racer. It has a fast hull shape with a sophisticated keel and rudder system and a powerful rig, but it's manageable as well. It's a comfortable cruiser that as we see, can also win races. And you don't have to be a veteran offshore racer with decades of experience to handle it. In fact the Sea Dacha came in 1st place in their class in spite of the fact that some of the crew had limited offshore experience. And this is where Eric's relationship with Grady Buys, his after sales yachting specialist from North Point Yacht Sales in Annapolis, Maryland really paid off.
Grady didn't just sell Eric a boat. He helped him get it set up for both cruising and racing and then he even joined Eric's crew on the race up to Newport. And not only that, they won their class. Talk about full service!
So if you're looking for a new Dufour in the Annapolis area give Grady a call. He knows boats. He knows racing. And he sure knows Dufour. And if you're lucky, he may even race with you.
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The first thing that comes to mind when you think of Mt. Rainier National Park is of course the mountain itself. Topping out at about 14,410 feet, Mt. Rainier is not only the tallest mountain in Washington, it also boasts the most glaciers as well. Mt. Rainier's glaciers cover more than 35 square miles and are important sources of water for six major rivers. If ice isn't really your thing, consider this -- Mt. Rainier is also an active volcano!
Mt. Rainier is a mecca for mountain climbers, with approximately 10,000 people attempting to summit every year! It's a difficult climb, and only about half reach that ultimate destination. Because there are so many activities that you can do at Mt. Rainier, it can be a very busy place, especially on a beautiful sunny day.
Mt. Rainier was originally referred to as "Tahoma" or "Takhoma" by the indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest. One translation for these names is "mother of waters". It is believed that the city of Tacoma adopted this as their city name due to their proximity to (and love for) the mountain. The current name, Mt. Rainier, was given by British explorer, George Vancouver, who named it in honor of his friend Rear Admiral Peter Rainier. In 1890, the United States Board on Geographic Names declared that the official name of the mountain would be "Rainier".
Established in 1899, Mt. Rainier National Park boasts five developed areas and each have their own historical significance and overall ambiance. The areas are Longmire, Paradise, Ohanapecosh, Sunrise, and Carbon & Mowich. We recommend spending time exploring them all but hope you'll enjoy our brief synopsis.
Longmire was the original park headquarters in 1916. Though no longer the park headquarters, there is museum and a Wilderness Information Center. Paradise is the second of the developed areas and is most famously known for its brilliant fields of wildflowers in the warmer months. It is also quite popular for winter recreation as it receives on average 643 inches of snow per year. Ohanapecosh is thought to meant "standing at the edge" and is a great option as it is typically more dry and sunny than Longmire and Paradise. The old growth forests located in this area allow visitors to experience a unique beauty and complexity often lacking in more urban settings. Sunrise is a very popular option as it is the highest elevation reachable by car. At 6,400 feet, Sunrise offers stunning views of wildflower meadows, glaciers, and Mt. Rainier. Lastly, Carbon & Mowich is the area that refers to Carbon River and Mowich Lake. Carbon River got its name from the coal deposits found in the area. It is often rainy and resembles a temperate rainforest. Mowich Lake is set within a glacial basin and is both the largest and deepest lake within Mt. Rainier National Park. This is another great spot to take in the wildflowers.
Whether viewed from the shores of Puget Sound or from the top of the mountain itself, Mt. Rainier is a beautiful icon for all who live in the Pacific Northwest and beyond!


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The state Senate is scheduled to vote Tuesday on two measures pushing for a constitutional convention sought by business and rightwing ideological interests to add a balanced budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The proposals, Assembly Joint Resolutions 20 and 21, lay the groundwork for Wisconsin's participation in an Article V Constitutional Convention if it materializes. The proposals were already approved by the Assembly last June and, unlike state policy and spending bills, do not require GOP Gov. Scott Walker's approval.
Congress would be required to call a constitutional convention if 34 states call for the event. So far, at least 27 states have approved such resolutions. If a convention occurs, any amendments approved at it would have to be ratified by at least 38 states.
The push for a constitutional convention was inspired by rightwing groups and their wealthy backers, including billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch and two groups they fund: Americans for Prosperity and the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). ALEC is a special interest bill mill that unites business and other powerful special interests with state legislators around the country to develop "model" pro-business and social policies that can be introduced in state legislatures around the country.
The two Wisconsin resolutions are formally backed – see here and here – by Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) , the state's largest business group, and the National Federation of Independent Business. A host of social policy, disability, domestic abuse, religious, labor, and good government groups oppose the measures.
Backers of the convention say it's needed to rein in federal spending, but opponents caution that it would tie the government's hands in times of recession and cause great economic hardship. Opponents also say that the con-con could take up other amendments that could curtail individual rights or benefit wealthy special interests at the expense of the public interest.
Republicans control the Assembly 64-35 and the Senate 20-13 in large part because of the millions of dollars that WMC and Koch-backed groups have spent since 2010 on outside electioneering activities to support Republican and conservative legislative and statewide candidates.
Since January 2010, WMC has spent an estimated $18.6 million on outside electioneering activities to support Republican and conservative legislative and statewide candidates. In addition to its millions of dollars in outside spending, WMC boasts 3,500 member businesses who are generous individual and political action committee contributors and hail from more than a dozen special interest groups. Those special interests include business, manufacturing, energy, insurance, health care, transportation, construction, real estate, finance, tourism, agriculture, road builders, natural resources and telecommunications.
Americans for Prosperity, a rightwing ideological group, has spent an estimated $5.7 million since January 2010 to help elect Republicans and conservatives to legislative and statewide offices.