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Feb 13, 2010
"Nodar" (R.I.P. 1988-2010)
3 rounds for time:
35 DB Dead Lifts - 75#/h,50#/h
Row 1K
50 knees to elbows
post time to comments
DB's must touch floor at bottom
knees have to hit elbows at top of K2E
As well, this is a link to an Online Metabolic Typing Test - this was a part of Nutrition 201 as well; if you feel interested, take the test and post how you scored, thanks.
114 comments:
- PTS said...
what weight should we use for barbell if we don't have DB's?
My other option is to tape some 5 and 10lb weights to my Kb's and see if that works.
- February 12, 2010 at 9:37 PM
- Brian Maier said...
what a terrible tragedy....wtf,metal beams along the track...just doesn't make sense. Everyone should have a little extra juice on this workout tomorrow. To Nodar and his family, my prayers are with you!
- February 12, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- Stephen Flamm said...
PTS - if the barbell-to-DB conversion from the FAQs works both ways, then 150 lbs. of DB = 225 lbs. on a barbell...
- February 12, 2010 at 10:02 PM
on a lighter note, i learned tonight that canadia has a long history of fiddle playing tap dancing beat poets. quite a diverse culture up there in the great white north. who knew?
- February 12, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Died right before he got to represent his country. He died with honour however doing what he loves.. RIP
- February 12, 2010 at 10:40 PM
- Ali Loach said...
Really hits home......my husband has done nearly 200 runs on that track; albeit on a skeleton sled.
I am thankful they have all ended safely.
My thoughts are with his family, friends and teammates.
I'll hit this hard tomorrow......damn near everything I hate but I'll give it all I have because I am able.
- February 12, 2010 at 10:45 PM
- Garage Crossfitter said...
225lb Barbell deadlifts it is....
RIP Nodar...my thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
- February 13, 2010 at 4:52 AM
- Martin Altemark said...
Jesus. This did hurt. Tried to push it for Nodar, but this really destroyed me. First round sub 9 minutes, but after that I was done...
As Rxd: 37:02
Last round not so much fun.
- February 13, 2010 at 5:21 AM
- Martin Altemark said...
Back is cramping still 1h after WOD... Not feeling very crossfit right now :-)
- February 13, 2010 at 5:59 AM
As rx'd
- February 13, 2010 at 6:00 AM
- Geoff Aucoin said...
WE knew that, Ken...
- February 13, 2010 at 6:36 AM
- SugarCoat said...
pull, pull, pull?
this doesn't look like an OPT WOD..
- February 13, 2010 at 6:56 AM
- Gord said...
*long break between 1st of DB and row. not feeling 100%. Thought I was going to need multiple breaks, but only needed the one.
- February 13, 2010 at 8:42 AM
- Gord said...
I stopped the watch while in bathroom
- February 13, 2010 at 8:44 AM
- Lisa M said...
Do we take the db from the floor or put them up on plates to proper height
- February 13, 2010 at 8:52 AM
- deejay said...
From floor Lisa
- February 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM
- Pols said...
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- February 13, 2010 at 9:01 AM
- Pols said...
Ken C, you forgot about our rich history of inoperative, hydraulically-powered phallic symbols. I don't know what was more awkward, watching Nash look around waiting for it too come up or Furlongs half-assed consoling shoulder rub of Rogge.
Did 2 rounds in 19:42, then stared at the DB's for about 5 mins thinking about puking. Too much going on right now and the holy trinity of nutrition, sleep, and training are all screwed up right now.
I fucking hate wasting training days.
- February 13, 2010 at 9:02 AM
- unit said...
oh squats were brutal... not sure where I stand... 1/2 the field 2 go yet...
- February 13, 2010 at 9:28 AM
- Lisa M said...
NICE WORK UNIT I am sure you will have kicked serious ass and represented the Big Dawgs well.
How many burpees did you have to do??
Did the metabolic testing definitely a mixed type. Now definitely have to get the book to read more.
Siking myself up for this WOD looks nasty and still fighting sore throat/cold/flu bullsh#$
- February 13, 2010 at 9:31 AM
- Jason Anderson said...
32:28 225# Barbell. Brutal pushed it for Nodar Last round grip was gone Subbed Ring K2E seemed like it was easier to kip but like I had to lift more to get to my elbows? How is this for a sub? Seems similar It's all I can do until our pullup cage gets fabricated really. Looking forward to tomorrow ouchies!
- February 13, 2010 at 9:36 AM
- Eric said...
I'm posting this here, but let me know if this is not standard proceudre...
Are there more 'appropriate' times in the programing where one can/should jump in (assuming they have the right level of conditiong, which I do...), or can someone jump in at any time??? And what's with the Febbers and Marchers???
Oh, and while I'm at it with the questions, what is the general weekly template (I noticed it seems to vary a bit, but nonetheless...) with regards to days on/days off?
Sorry, newbie here :S
- February 13, 2010 at 9:36 AM
Great job unit!
Only got through 2 rounds in 32 min.
Time constraints due to work. Deadlifts and rows felt good and were in a timely manner. K2e were horrible and slow and ten. in left elbow and shoulder was really acting up.
Need to add k2e to warm ups!
- February 13, 2010 at 9:38 AM
- PTS said...
Thanks Stephen I must've overlooked that in the FAQ.
used 225lb barbell DL's, with no bouncing allowed.
last night before bed I looked at the WOD and thought it was 1 round, so imagine my surpise when I was discussing the WOD with my fiance this morning and she mentioned it was 3 rds. talk about a change in mindset.
off for a 12 hr shift. going to make sure to be in and out of the patrol car often so my back stays loose.
nice job Unit!!
- February 13, 2010 at 9:38 AM
- Geoff Aucoin said...
Nice work, Unit, keep it up.
28 minutes flat with 800m runs sub'ed for rows (at the hall, no rower). Totally inadequate set-up but did my best today. Had to put bumper plates under the DB's so I wouldn't scare everyone under the gym and the diameter of the DB's was very small. 225lbs dls with a barbell would have been easier. K2E were scary slow today...
- February 13, 2010 at 9:43 AM
- Martin Altemark said...
Good work Unit! Just keep going, You're a beast!
Eric: Welcome! Marcher vs Febbers is when to peak for competition. Just jump in and go with the flow!
Weekly template will vary, as will the number of WODs on workdays. Lately it has been focus on harder/more work on weekends, but the future is unwritten. Or unposted at least.
If you decide to follow marchers I guess you can look at what febbers been doing the last few weeks to get an idea of what's to come.
- February 13, 2010 at 9:47 AM
- Heavy Evy said...
75#/h never felt so heavy, took to the 3rd round to really find the rythym in the knees to elbows, had some missed reps tht I had to repeat along the way.
R.I.P. Nodar.
- February 13, 2010 at 9:50 AM
- bso said...
You're in second so far, Unit.
- February 13, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- Chad Hall said...
Just took the Metabolic Test and result is Mixed Type.
I only have KBs so should I stand on a couple of plates so I can go lower to simulate going low with the DBs? Or just do the 225lbs on a barbell?
Going to do this after 5PM EST.
Great work Unit! My money's on you!
- February 13, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- Steve Howell said...
Nice work Unit! keep crushing it!!
- February 13, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- rackempackem said...
32:05 as Rx'd.
Expected hell after phone chatt with Martin Altemark before the WOD. I got hell. Paced it just right though. First round about 8:30. I rowed really slow but it was horrible none the less between 2:05 and 2:10 average, a bit faster first round maybe. K2E very broken. DL easier than expected and still horrible.
Thanks Mr Fitzgerald for an impressive date with the uncomfortable!
- February 13, 2010 at 10:37 AM
- David said...
Unit's next WOD will begin at 3:05 central time.
- February 13, 2010 at 10:41 AM
- Garage Crossfitter said...
31:43 subbed 225lb barbell DL's
Tough one, body is pretty beat down right now. My hip flexors and hams from the sprints are very tight, even after LOTS of rolling. CNS is pretty wore down after this wod....a few days off may be in my future...
- February 13, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- Stephen Flamm said...
43:29, using 225 lb. barbell DLs
Second round was a disaster. Partner used the 75 lb. DBs and finished in 34 and change.
- February 13, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Paul Klein said...
Sub with 225# barbell
Everything hurts.
Metabolic Test results
No Answer = 9
So I am a mixed type.
Word verification is CHILL
As in "after that workout I am going to sit on the couch and chill while watching tv"
- February 13, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- joey warren said...
Nice job Unit, keep killing it.
My hips still pretty sore from sprints and did this in globo gym, hard to get moving.
As Rx'ed: 28:14
*Paced myself pretty well, rows were slow, and K2E also slow couldnt hang on to bar
- February 13, 2010 at 11:11 AM
- Kris Hallee said...
metabolic typing- "B" wins by landslide- mixed type
OPT locals- "Nodar" will be up on the board next week
- February 13, 2010 at 11:15 AM
Rx'd: 39:43.
KTE's became very broken from the second round on, all 5's, grip deciding factor. RIP Nodar!
- February 13, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- Michael McCabe said...
31:28 rx'd
i am not comfortable at all with this time domain... on a positive note i'm starting to get comfortable with kipping the k2e (this still ate most of my time however)
unit you are a beast! i know you'll crush wod2 and whatever they throw at you for the last one!
- February 13, 2010 at 11:23 AM
- Bubba Hagood said...
This one sucked - probably too careful and broken on the deadlifts but no problems - took rows too hard which was a bad way to spend the energy - K2E went on and on.
39.10 rx'd
- February 13, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- David said...
Latest results as of 1330:
Air Force WOD Results (Men)
155 regula, dave 05:31.0 331
167 Earleywine, Josh 05:35.0 335
162 Carlson, Joe 06:32.0 392
148 Howard, Jake 06:35.0 395
199 Martin, Garry 06:38.0 398
The last heat is set to go now.
- February 13, 2010 at 11:34 AM
- Erik Luber said...
rounds: 11:07, 13:15, 12:58
Done with 60# DBs. Knew this would be a marathon, so did my best to just operate below that anabolic threshold, and maintain a constant pace. Really enjoyed the DB DLs, never used my hamstrings so much doing a DL. First round of K2Es smoked my abs, this made DLs much more challenging.
Nice work Unit!!
- February 13, 2010 at 11:49 AM
- Covino24 said...
On Friday the 12th we had the pleasure of having Heather Keenan visit our box. Heather is a Crossfit Finalist and an amazing athlete. So we took a day away from OPT's training to do a fun WOD with our guests.
I started with some Power Snatch work for about 10 - 15 minutes and ended up going to 160#, which is a PR by 10# but felt very easy!!
The WOD:
21/42, 15/30, 9/18 reps of:
Kettle Bell Swings (2 pood) and Double Unders
My time for this workout was 6:12. I believe Heather killed it and got me by like 2 1/2 mins at a lighter weight for the KBS. Very Inspiring!
As for Today 2/13 I went back to OPT's training. We don't have 75# dumbbells, and I wanted to use Dumbbells to work on grip strength, so figured out the total pounds moved and used the heaviest dbells we had - 55# and did 50 reps/round
My total time was 34:20 and row times/round were 4:01/ 4:05/ 4:07
After about 5 - 10 minutes of rest I did some Heavier Deadlifts
3x3x3x2x2x1x1x1 reps at the following weight
275/285/295/305/315/325/335/345 - Felt good at all weights.. lots of room for a 1 rep max. Seeing alot of improvement in my overall strength and Olympic Lifts!
- February 13, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- Adam Rogers said...
Looks like Unit is currently in 8th, looking strong.
Hard to believe that first guy's time!
Keep up the strong work Garry, we're all rooting for you.
- February 13, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- Nathan H. said...
Need some advice guys. I mildly strained my hamstring during the sprints the other day. Should I take a full rest day and maybe do some stretching/mobility; or should I warmup and go through a workout subbing out hamstring stuff?
- February 13, 2010 at 12:07 PM
- deejay said...
39:05 w/ 70# kettlebells w/ 5# DB's taped to them. Stood on 7" of plates to make up for height difference.
- February 13, 2010 at 12:13 PM
- Roch said...
R.I.P. Nodar.
Rx'd :29:04
What a nice grinder!
Pace whent well, did not gas out but on K2E was short reps short rest.
Good job Unit!!!
- February 13, 2010 at 12:22 PM
- Pete said...
Started off with some light snatch balance and full snatch drills.
OHS x 15 with Bar
Snatch Balance x 5 with Bar
Snatch Balance 95lbs x 5 (3 sets)
Full Snatch 95lbs x 5 (3sets)
Today's WOD
My time: 35:12
Worked out at a YMCA in Vermont today, had to wait for equipment on a couple of occassions during the workout.
Ang's Time: 43:12
Great job Unit.
Just printed off that metabolic test. We'll have a look at it and post later.
Pete and Ang
- February 13, 2010 at 12:24 PM
33:16 as Rx'd
That was hard
Mixed type on the Metabolic testing
- February 13, 2010 at 12:34 PM
- Michael FitzGerald said...
27:52 as rx'd. Right forearm (medial side is very tight), and left elbow was a little wonky - used supinated grip K2E's. DB Deadlift was easier than I imagined - 3 breaks per round avg. Rows were purposly slow, happy with K2E's.
And I did not lie down afterwards. Do I get bonus points for not laying down?
- February 13, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- Erik Luber said...
Metabolic typung test:
Mixed type
Sometimes difficult to answer, as I have rarely experimented with all options...
- February 13, 2010 at 12:41 PM
- Lauren said...
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- February 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- Lauren said...
39 min ish?
had a malfunction with the rower, the timer and my palm.
Ripped bad on the last round of K2E so did so did 10 K2E and 100 GHD
still felt like a good wod.
- February 13, 2010 at 1:08 PM
- exp. said...
Great job Unit!
- February 13, 2010 at 1:17 PM
- OPT said...
Nathan, take the weekend to heal, return on Tues...one wise man once said..."the goal is to do the least amount of work for the best results"...work right now might not be best...
stay mobile - walk, upper body gymnastics but nothing dynamic..
- February 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM
Used same contraption as DJ...
WOD just took forever...
4 min rows...
DL were hard standing on weights...
K2Es were done in sets of 10s 5s and 4s...
Think my transition times b/w exercises were too long...that said not sure I could have broken sub 30min on this day...kudos to those who did...
- February 13, 2010 at 1:24 PM
- Garage Crossfitter said...
Im really interested in taking this metabolic typing test because my appetite varies constantly, somedays i dont even want to eat, others i am starving...so i would like to pinpoint whats causing that...
- February 13, 2010 at 1:56 PM
- Marie Rochat said...
Subbed GHD's for K2E becasue I tore my hands up quite bad 2 days ago while doing a pull-up intensive WOD at an affiliate I visited. I was originally going to just tape up and suck it up, but then I realized that I am exactly one month out from my sectional as of today, and decided I really can't afford to keep re-injuring my hands. They need to be healed and good to go for sectionals.
31:47 w/GHD sit-ups subbed for K2E.
- February 13, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- unit said...
40 reps...
ouch... I def need 2 work on my jerk... 90% of these reps were more like a clean and push press...
thanks 4 all the support y'all...
- February 13, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Covino24 said...
Nice Work Unit...Looks like 4th so far in the Clean n Jerk!! Keep killin it Big Dawg style!
- February 13, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Grant said...
BW 177# (why is BW increasing?)
Never thought about changing grip on K2Es. Next time...
- February 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM
- Brian Maier said...
Keep killin it, Unit!!!
- February 13, 2010 at 2:41 PM
- Dave X said...
About 1/2 way through wod #2, unit is currently running second in the overall competition!
Way to go Unit!!!
- February 13, 2010 at 2:51 PM
- Big L said...
OPT, will do. Thanks.
Awesome job unit! Keep it up man!
- February 13, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- Nathan H. said...
Oops, wrong account! The above post is mine.
- February 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM
Knees to elbows were slow and broken a lot for the last 30reps of each set.
Metabolic testing
mixed type
Need to track diet better to get a more accurate answer.
- February 13, 2010 at 3:00 PM
used 75lb KB off 7" plates
- February 13, 2010 at 3:12 PM
- unit said...
2morrows WOD
5min row (4 calories)
4min box jumps 24"/20"
3min hand squat snatch (75#/45#)
2min wall balls
1min hspu
sounds like fun!...
- February 13, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Lisa M said...
Nice Work Unit!!!
Holy crap that was not fun - somewhere around 40 min Never again will i do a timed WOD with three modalities at my globo brutal waiting for equipement, crap pullup bars etc. Ended up doing things out of order in second round instead of standing around waiting for these two ladies "rowing" yikes. The K2Es killed me, I liked the db deadlifts never done them before.
- February 13, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Stephen Flamm said...
Great performance, Unit. No rest for the shoulders tomorrow, huh?
- February 13, 2010 at 3:43 PM
- Justin Flynn said...
33:03 w/ 70# KBs and like DJ I stood atop two 45# bumpers about 7" high. K-E were the limiting part here. Just could not string more than 10-5-5-5... at a time. Grip was limiting factor.
Weighed myself this morning and was 210# Heaviest I have ever been. All lean mass. Feel really strong right now.
- February 13, 2010 at 4:03 PM
- BK said...
Subbed 2 pood for DB but stood on floor, breaks on last 2 sets at 15,25.
Rows 3.48, 3.58,3.53
KTE slow but got in swing late, doing 5's more knees to armpits, lazy ,lacking sleep ordinary sesh .
- February 13, 2010 at 4:06 PM
Great job, Unit, go get 'em tomorrow! Good luck!
- February 13, 2010 at 4:08 PM
- Andy said...
subbed sdhp for rows
I need to get a rower.
- February 13, 2010 at 4:10 PM
- Michelle said...
Did this WOD at OPT this morning. Not sure of total time as I had some timing issues. There were no 50# dbs at OPT so used 55#. Nice to do a WOD where I actually looked forward to the row!!!
Nice to see you G & K!!!
- February 13, 2010 at 4:17 PM
- Brian Maier said...
30:52 as RX'd
Finally getting my kip down on k2e's. I never looked so forward to rowing...used it as my rest period.
unbelievable....105 reps of DL and I'm fine but just tweaked my freakin neck moving a big screen TV in my house.
- February 13, 2010 at 4:29 PM
- Katrina Burton said...
Protien type
Wow... never felt like hurling during the WOD but I definately do now. That was ridiculously difficult. Told myself to just keep moving, keep going and push through the pain, something our dear Nodar does not have the opportuity to do anymore.
R.I.P Nodar
- February 13, 2010 at 4:31 PM
- Adam Rogers said...
Adam - 33:47
John - 49:58
Becky - 35:06 (135lb bb, 20/30 k2e/situps)
- February 13, 2010 at 4:44 PM
- David said...
WODs for San Diego and Arizona:
Workout 1:
Three rounds for time of:
15 Deadlift at 225 / 155 lbs
21 Kettlebell swings 2 / 1.5 pood
Run 400 meters
(20 min time limit)
Workout 2:
Seven rounds for time of:
7 Power snatches 95 / 65 lbs
7 Box jumps 30" / 25.5"
(15 min time limit. You must jump with both feet at the same time. The ROM is ground to full extension either on or above the box. The difference in height for men and women is based on the average height difference in the US for men and women).
Workout 3:
3 Rounds flying pull-ups (see video below)
21 / 10 Handstand push-ups (see video below)
30 KB Front squats 2 / 1.5 pood
150 meter Sand bag carry 80 / 50 lbs
20 Squat clean thrusters 135 / 95 lbs
Run 250 meters
50 Burpees
20 DB Shoulders to overhead 45 / 35 lbs
40 / 20 Push-ups (chest to easy button from staples and full extension with hands leaving the ground at the top)
Run 250 meters
50 squats
50 pull-ups (chin over the bar)
(On the Flying pull-ups, both hands must touch the bottom, both hands must reach the top and both hands must reach the bottom before dropping to the ground for the trip to count. Going one hand at a time is allowed. HSPU is head touches ground to locked out. )
Scoring will be the sum of your times for the first two workouts plus half of your time for the third workout.
Modifications will be allowed, but will disqualify you for Regionals.
- February 13, 2010 at 4:56 PM
- Tyler Smith said...
29:51, just awful. Deadlift was solid @ 225#... first set nearly unbroken... stopped to save some gas for later... Row times were all about 4:20 per 1000m... K2E were terrible. RIP Nodar.
Oh and I am definitely a Protein type... I think I had 10+ Cs for every A or B answer...
- February 13, 2010 at 5:00 PM
- Chad said...
subbed 800m run for row
subbed 100 anchored SU's for K2E's
rd's: 8:46, 9:59, 10:30
I'm thinking the SU's were cake compared to 50 K2E's. The DL were done with 75# and they weren't bad, unbroken first set then 25/10, 25/10. However I can only imagine how bad the grip would be after K2B's.
I don't like subbing things but I just couldn't get in the gym today. Had to go to apartment gym which is like globo gone wild!
I'm happy with my day. This morning I got to help build a garden for the homeless...felt good! Now it's time to take the wife out for V-Day!
nice job today UNIT!
R.I.P. Nodar.
- February 13, 2010 at 5:25 PM
- Chris Fodera said...
Listening to my better judgment and shutting 'er down this weekend. Left hamstring is still pretty sore from Thursday and my right knee is still a little tight/sore.
I'll reassess tomorrow and see how the lower half is feeling for tomorrow's WOD. If not, I'll pick back up on Tuesday.
In the meantime, I am going to stretch and buy and AirDyne. Although I've never been on one, I can't live with the thought of an apparatus nicknamed "Satan's Tricycle" not being at my disposal.
Nice job, Unit...remember to fuel for the purposes of recovery from today and preparation for tomorrow. Keep your head straight...this is your's if you believe it to be!
- February 13, 2010 at 6:07 PM
- Chris Dunkin said...
Great job Unit. Channel the anvil for the home stretch.
- February 13, 2010 at 6:12 PM
- Brent Maier said...
Time: 29:58 as RX'd
Notes: Those deadlifts with DB's sucked. Knee's were almost knocking together on all the deadlifts so that I wouldn't keep tagging toes on the touchdowns. Ran into technical difficulties on round 3 row so it cut into my time a bit. Held the rows at a 1:50-55 pace. No music today and by myself. This was a grinder that felt a lot like "Eva". This one wasn't fun. Good job Unit, keep it up!
- February 13, 2010 at 6:32 PM
- bso said...
According to this test I am a mixed type (A-7,B-24,C-24).
However, after reading Eat Move and Be Healthy earlier this month, I took this online one and was a landslide Protein type:
26% sympathetic
38% balanced
34% parasympathetic
37% slow oxidation
62% fast oxidation
Looking forward to learning more in the nutrition 201 dvd.
- February 13, 2010 at 6:47 PM
- Lisa M said...
Someone please tell me why they are releasing the sectional wods so early does this not go against everything crossfit where's the unknown and unknowable,
- February 13, 2010 at 7:01 PM
- Dave X said...
Subbed 225 barbell deads.
Still getting over a sinus infection. My brain was telling me to shut it down in second found but I pushed through it and completed all three rounds. My body celebrated by spewing my dinner all over my garage floor. I thought I had waited long enough after my last meal but the evidence to the contrary was right there in front of me.
Deads were very manageable even into last round.
Row was smooth averaged around 4 mins per round.
K2Es were the worst thing imaginable. Crushed me each round.
Great job today Unit and everyone who tackled this wod today head first with some passion.
- February 13, 2010 at 7:20 PM
- LuLu said...
I miss you guys already. Cert today was EPIC and my quads are FRIED.
CU Tuesday.
RIP Nodar.
- February 13, 2010 at 8:12 PM
38:41 as RX'd
Used thick handle DB's
Row was slow, workout fried the forearms.
- February 13, 2010 at 8:18 PM
- Stefani said...
41:41 w/35# DB's
First day back from being sick and decided to slow back into it.....this wasn't as bad as I thought is was going to be.
- February 13, 2010 at 8:27 PM
- Mack Lar said...
Feeling sick last couple of days plus only averaging 7 hours sleep for last week. Didnt feel mentally tough today but gutted through it.
- February 13, 2010 at 8:37 PM
30:40 as rx'd
Deads and rows felt good, k2e's were limiting factor
- February 13, 2010 at 8:50 PM
- Chad Hall said...
37:25 not as Rx'd
I was taking out a cistern for a while yesterday and absolutely destroyed my grip using a sledge and a jackhammer. I also now have an open blister the size of a toonie on my lower palm. Not really happy about this as it affected my grip ability.
First 2 rounds rx'd then finished with 50 butterfly situps instead of K2E due to overusing my left hand/arm to overcompensate my right hand.
My rows and deadlifts were completed in 6 minutes each time, just those darn K2E, need to start doing them in warmup.
- February 13, 2010 at 8:57 PM
- Yelvi said...
KTE were the limiting factor. Sets of 5 or less after the first round. Couldn't hold onto the bar anymore.
- February 13, 2010 at 9:05 PM
- Dave X said...
Units third WOD tomorrow:
For Reps:
5 minutes of Rowing for calories
4 minutes of Box Jumps for reps (20/24)
3 minutes of hang squat snatches for reps (45/75)
2 minutes of wall balls for reps (10 ft high)
1 minute of Hand Stand Push Ups for reps
Unit is currently 8th overall and this WOD could be right in his wheelhouse.
- February 13, 2010 at 9:10 PM
- John T. said...
had to use 65lb db's for lack of access to larger ones.
This was awful, I went out and drank beers (alot of them) last night for the first time in in a while and deservingly paid for it today. I had no focus, felt weak, and not all of my k2e's where legit.... lesson learned
- February 13, 2010 at 9:18 PM
- Lisa M said...
David X how many guys go through to regionals
- February 13, 2010 at 9:33 PM
- David said...
30 Men
30 Ladies
- February 13, 2010 at 10:01 PM
34:36 rx
- February 13, 2010 at 10:38 PM
- will said...
2921 70lbs kbs
- February 14, 2010 at 12:33 AM
- Jenny said...
36:34 rx
- February 14, 2010 at 5:33 AM
- February 14, 2010 at 9:26 AM
- tania said...
Did this test and a few other metabolic typing tests and no doubt about it, protein type. This is odd because I took a similar test last year and it was Mixed at the time. Maybe I just know myself a bit better now.
- February 14, 2010 at 10:58 AM
- rwcorson said...
As rx'd, 34:46.
Grip was shot.
- February 14, 2010 at 12:26 PM
- Jason Buzzard said...
As rx'd, 41:52. Was really hoping to get under 40 minutes. I think I tried to pace too early.
- February 14, 2010 at 1:32 PM
- Laura said...
43:10--KtoE were dismal, no way I could hold on for more than 4-5 at a time
- February 14, 2010 at 1:52 PM
- Chris Dunkin said...
God bless Nodar.
- February 14, 2010 at 6:53 PM
- Brandon said...
Did this as part 2 of a double Sunday and my lower back and hamstrings were tight before this. Right now it is a battle to stay loose. K2E were crazy hard, but I kept thinking about flying off a luge track and that was good motivation to get back on the bar.
Metabolic Type: Mixed (Roughly equal B/C and A much lower)
- February 14, 2010 at 9:21 PM
- Shane Gibson said...
35.55 rx'd. Grip was the limiting factor...kept my 2nd and 3rd sets of K2E very broken for fear of falling off the bar (my pull-up bar is nearly 10ft in air). Very tough WOD.
- February 15, 2010 at 8:41 AM
- Bear said...
Time: 39:20 min
My weak grip made me slow down. Similar experience as Shane Gibson :)
- February 15, 2010 at 1:55 PM
- bso said...
Back isn't ready for Nodar.
5 minutes AMRAP ring row... raise feet 1" every time you break the set. 40.
5 minutes AMRAP 25# kettlebell deadlift at 1020. Good exercise for me to build up stamina... that's about as much load as I can handle for reps right now.
5 minutes AMRAP no-leg rope climb from standing. Lost count... probably 10ish.
5x10 Hip Bridge with 45# bar at 1011.
- February 16, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- Melisa C said...
as rx'd 42.28
Killed grip, K2E ate up ALL my time. Ripped on the last round.
- February 16, 2010 at 6:27 PM
- exp. said...
As rx'd 30:58
- February 16, 2010 at 7:06 PM
- dontpanic356 said...
built to heavy CJ.
Had wrong weight for deads. so not as RX'd
KTE were aweful. Doing singles on last 25 or so.
- February 16, 2010 at 10:19 PM


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Call this week's global-warming debate in the Senate a marker in the sea change in public opinion on the issue – and a window on what the next Congress may do to curb carbon emissions.
The top presidential nominees in both parties back a cap-and-trade system to limit US emissions of greenhouse gases. President Bush opposes it, and the White House is expected to detail objections to the 494-page Senate bill on Monday.
While the debate that begins Monday on the Senate floor is unlikely to yield a bill Mr. Bush will sign, it is already realigning prospects for legislating in a new administration.
For Republicans, who face dim prospects in November congressional elections, the bill offers an opportunity to get behind their probable presidential nominee. Sen. John McCain (R) of Arizona was an early and outspoken voice for mandatory emission-reduction targets and timetables. Other Republican lawmakers remain adamantly opposed to a big federal role.
For Democrats, it's a high-profile occasion to target Republican lawmakers who vote against an issue that has been gaining favor with the public and with a widening coalition of business, labor union, and public-interest groups.
"The political landscape on global warming has dramatically changed," says Jeremy Symons, a spokesman for the National Wildlife Federation (NWF). "We've never had union support in the past or this depth of support from business and faith groups," he adds, citing a letter last week endorsing the bill signed by Alcoa, General Electric, and the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, as well as the NWF, Trout Unlimited, and the Interfaith Power and Light Campaign.
The Senate bill would mandate that US emissions of greenhouse gases be cut to 19 percent below 2005 levels by 2020 and up to 71 percent by 2050. The bill also proposes a $800 billion "tax relief fund" over the next four decades to help Americans pay energy bills.
"Senators have come together across party lines to write a law that will not only enable us to avoid the ravages of unchecked global warming, but will create millions of new jobs and put us on the path to energy independence," said Sen. Barbara Boxer (D) of California, in the Democratic response to Bush's weekly radio address on Saturday.
Senator Boxer, who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, is presenting an amended version of a bill first sponsored by Sens. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut and John Warner (R) of Virginia.
The bill proposes establishing a trading system for carbon-emission credits that supporters say will give companies a market incentive to reduce greenhouse gases. Critics say it creates a vast new federal bureaucracy at a high cost to the US economy and taxpayers.
In the House, Rep. Edward Markey (D) of Massachusetts, chair of a Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, is introducing a "cap and invest" bill this week that also aims to cap emissions and use some $8 trillion in revenues expected to be collected from polluters to invest in clean technologies.
"The chorus for change is deafening," he said at a press conference at the Center for American Progress last Wednesday. "Today we must start the clean energy age."
Many Senate Democrats were wary of introducing a bill identified with Senator Lieberman, who switched his party affiliation to Independent after losing his 2006 primary race and is endorsing McCain for president.
At the same time, Republicans are expected to fall out over the size of the federal role in curbing the problem. Sen. James Inhofe (R) of Oklahoma, who is leading opposition to the bill in the Senate, says the bill will increase household costs for an Oklahoma family of four by $3,298 a year and raise taxes on Americans by $1 trillion over the next 10 years.
White House objections pertain, among other things, to the bill's timetable for achieving reduction targets.
"The goals that it sets for carbon-emissions reductions would require a technological leap to achieve those reductions, but does not have at all a realistic time frame for allowing technological advances to emerge," says White House deputy press secretary Tony Fratto. The president also opposes "burdensome new requirements" and "extremely high costs."
In an April 16 address on global warming, Bush announced a new national goal: to stop the growth of US greenhouse-gas emissions by 2025, by accelerating the development of new technologies.
Meanwhile, critics of the bill aim to discourage Republicans from breaking with the White House on the issue. "The economic consequences are devastating," says former Rep. Pat Toomey (R) of Pennsylvania, now president of the conservative Club for Growth, which launched a TV and radio ad campaign against Democratic senators in Montana and West Virginia and Republican Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina, who are seen as likely to back a cap-and-trade system.
"Democrats don't expect to pass this bill," says Mr. Toomey. "They want to demonstrate to their core constituents that this is what they want to do and Republicans won't let them. It will be a useful political ploy for them."
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LINCOLN, Neb. (March 10, 2007) - The No. 48 ETSU men's tennis team fell to the No. 53 Drake Bulldogs today, at the Nebraska Tennis Center in Knoxville. ETSU falls to 13-4 on the year while Drake improves to 11-2.
The Bulldogs jumped out to an early 1-0 lead as they took the doubles point. Enrique Olivares (
The Bucs fought hard as they were able to take matches to three sets in several positions. Serrano tied the match at 1-1 cruising past Guilherme Marsiglia, 6-1, 6-3 in the fourth slot. But the Bulldogs were able to regain a 3-1 lead and clinch the match when Olivares fell to Maor Zirkin, 6-2, 6-3 in the No. 2 position and Ahlgren fell to Ivan Mendoza, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 in the No. 6 position.
Drake then took a 4-1 lead as Predrag Burmazovic (
"I just really want to commend my team for a great effort. We have had a small injury, but there is no defeat we can't get over. We fought very hard," said head coach Yaser Zaatini. "We showed a lot of courage playing a lot of tough teams on the road. Going 4-1 on the road proves that we can take any one, any where, any time and under any conditions. I'm really proud of the guys for their effort."
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No. 53 Drake 5, No. 48 ETSU 2
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No. 2- Maor Zirkin (DU) def. Enrique Olivares (ETSU) 6-2, 6-3
No. 3- Dalibor Pavic (DU) def. Felix Insaurralde (ETSU) 2-6, 6-2, 6-4
No. 4- Sebastian Serrano (ETSU) def. Guilherme Marsiglia (DU) 6-1, 6-3
No. 5- Lisandro Picardo (ETSU) def. Bokang Setshogo (DU) 7-5, 7-5
No. 6- Ivan Mendoza (DU) def. Alex Ahlgren (ETSU) 2-6, 6-2, 6-1
Order of Finish- 4, 2, 6*, 1, 5, 3
No. 1- Zirkin/Pavic (DU) def. Ahlgren/Sandlant (ETSU) 9-8
No. 2- Olivares/Serrano (ETSU) def. Marsiglia/Setshogo (DU) 8-2
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Vitamin C is an antioxidant, which can prevents free radicals from creating damage to your skin. In addition, vitamin C has been proven to repair skin and stimulate the synthesis of collagen, which decreases with age and sun exposure. Studies have shown that vitamin C helps to minimize fine lines, scars, and wrinkles. I've been using different vitamin C products on and off throughout the years, and I had been looking for a good new one.
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There's is a light orange scent to the product, which fades quickly. It absorbs in probably about a minute or two. After the first week, my skin was visibly smoother and looked lifted. It definitely turned back the clock. Over the past few weeks, the effect has continued. Small pores, smooth skin, glowing complexion. With my Chanel Le Blanc Brightening Concentrate, sun block, and rainy Parisian weather, my skin is much brighter. There were some darker area which have faded probably down to 10-30% of what they were and some areas have become clear. These are easily covered with my Nars Tinted Moisturizer. Overall, I'm really pleased with Perricone MD's Vitamin C formulation.
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The product warns that you may feel some tightening. I did the first few times, then never again. The Perricone MD is formulated to be non-irritaing (some vitamin C formulas can cause patches of my face to go red). I haven't gotten any dryness or irritation with this creme.
I bought this from the Perricone MD site, which has frequent promotions. For example, I signed up for automatic delivery and got a 10% discount plus a free Perricone MD Ester Eye Serum. Although that promotion has ended, if you register for the site, you'll get the latest promotion by email.
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I love the effects of Vitamin C! I have been using the Cosmetic Skin Solutions Vitamin C, E Ferulic serum every morning wait an hour and then apply my Le Blanc serum and Le Blanc moisturizer and I really like it (and I continue to use Retin-A 4-5 nights a week). Have you ever tried the CSS or the Skinceuticals Vitamin C serums? If so how does it compare?
I also use Skinceuticals but the Phloretin CF and it is brilliant. I just recently read about the Perricone product and of course would love to know what results you have seen. Cheers!
I was especially interested in your comment that some vitamin C products cause your skin to develope red patches. I have the exact same problem 🙁 Perhaps I'll give this one a try and see what happens.
I read your post again and I see you are quite specific about your results. I will definitely give this one a go! Your blog is an inspiration. Thank you!
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Do you put on the Le Blanc serum first and then the perricone or vice versa? Do you follow with a moisturizer?
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I returned, safe and sound. Spent most of the time in Mexico City, but also visited San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuanto. All were beautiful and awesome in their own ways. The food was soooooooooo damn good.
Going back to Mexico City for Christmas. Anyone ever travel internationally with a pet? Planning on taking the family mutt this time.
how was san miguel de allende?
San Miguel was beautiful. Very vibrant, very active little town with lots of Mexican culture and history, a great street scene, tons of art studios and shops, and very easy to walk. It's become a hotspot for US expatriates and tourists, so there was definitely more Americans, and more English being spoken, than other areas. While this inherently isn't a downside it has caused San Miguel to become overly crowded, overpriced, and the focus on catering to tourists seems to have left the citizens of San Miguel behind.
Overall I preferred Guanajuato. Same bright, vibrant, active feeling as San Miguel, but the city was a little larger with more to do. We went to Guanajuato in the middle of El Cervantino, so the city was packed 24/7 with people outside partying and playing music all night long. Food was cheap. Street vendors everywhere. The tunnel system in the city was both amazing and terrifying. Lots of interesting museums. Beautiful theater. Was an amazing city.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – A busy weekend for the MIT men's swimming and diving squad ended the same way it began this afternoon, with victories, as the Engineers took to the road and came away with wins over New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference foes Springfield College and the U.S. Coast Guard Academy. MIT downed host Springfield, 231-68, and took a 231-63 decision over Coast Guard.
Like they did on Saturday, MIT won every event, going 1-2-3 six times over the course of the meet. Junior Max Pruner (Sioux Falls, S.D.) had a strong outing for the Engineers in the distance freestyle events, winning both the 1,000 and 500 races. In the 1,000 he turned in a 9:47.08 time, following that up with a 4:45.19 effort in the 500. Both times were season bests for Pruner.
Junior Ron Rosenberg (Newton, Mass.) was also a double winner for MIT. He started by taking the 100 Back in a time of 53.52 and then came back to complete the double in the backstroke by taking the 200 in 1:55.87. Junior Brendan Liu (Lake Oswego, Ore.) was also strong in both events, finishing second to Rosenberg in each.
Continuing off of their strong showings on Saturday, sophomores Colby Dunn (Weston, Mass.) and Michael Liao (Newport Beach, Calif.) also won a pair of races for MIT. Dunn took the 50 Free in 21.43 and came back to capture the 100 Free as well in 46.53. Liao won both of the breaststroke events for the Engineers, winning in the 100 with a time of 59.12 before taking the 200 in 2:10.76.
MIT will be on the road again in its next action as it travels the short distance over to Tufts University for a 1:00 p.m. meet on January 21.


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8. Adding More Loops
9. Cycling
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12. Changing Instruments
13. Onscreen Keyboard
14. Musical Typing
15. Recording a Real Instrument
16. Recording Guitar
17. Exporting Your Song
18. Saving Your Song
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21. Moving Around
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26. The Region Editor
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28. The Media Browser
29. The Notepad
30. More About Loops
31. More About the Loop Browser
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Lidia's Italy In America "New York Italian Style" In this episode, Lidia shares three delicious recipes that she picked up on Arthur Avenue and in Little Italy, New York. Zucchini and Eggplant Parmigiana, Roberto's Chicken Piccante and Skillet Cauliflower Torrisi are all the very core of Italian American comfort food. She also visits the Maugeri Farms in southern New Jersey and the Migliorelli food stand in Union Square Market in New York City to see what kind of traditions these Italian American families are passing down to generations to come. D
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Taste This! "Grilling on the 16th Floor" Get a beautiful view and useful tips on how to grill from a New York City terrace! Chef Joe will teach you how to have a summer barbeque high in the sky! He grills on a state of the art, outdoor, portable grill. His menu includes sausages, steaks, and even vegetables on the grill!. D
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Cuisine Culture "Daniel Boulud, New York" Daniel Boulud takes us to his butcher in New York's Meat Packing District to choose the cut for his famed Seared Rib Eye and Red Wine Braised Short Ribs, teamed with a Tomato in a Light Choron Sauce stuffed with Marmalade, Spinach Fondue, Diced Buffalo Mozzarella Salad and a heavenly serving of Pommes Dauphines. We recreate coveted dishes from the acclaimed restaurant Boulud: Peekytoe Crab Salad in a mold of Persian Cucumber-Black Sesame Coulis, draped with Early Mesclun and Radishes. Dessert is arguably the best molten lava cake in the world: a Warm Guanaja Chocolate Coulant filled with oozing Liquid Caramel and paired with a Creamy Milk Sorbet. D
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Chefs A' Field: Culinary Adventures That Begin On The Farm "New York, New York" From the harbors of Cape Cod and a fishing venture for wild striped bass to the organized chaos and dazzling array of fresh fish to be found at New York City's Fulton Fish Market, Chef Rick Moonen of New York's Restaurant RM takes us on a gourmet experience in ocean conservation. Recipes: Wild Striped Bass Poele with Mushroom Nage; Pomery Potato Salad. D
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Assessment In Math and Science: What's The Point? "You Will Be Tested On This!" Teachers are under pressure to get their students to perform well on state and national tests. Sometimes, however, it seems that too much attention is paid to these tests. This workshop considers how teachers can use standardized tests to focus their teaching on improved student performance in the classroom as well as on these external measures of success. D
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Rediscovering Biology: Molecular to Global Perspectives "Session 5. Emerging Infectious Diseases" New diseases arise and old diseases, such as malaria and influenza, are returning with renewed vigor. This session studies the complex causes and far-reaching impacts of emerging infectious diseases around the globe. D
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Whole Child, The: A Caregiver's Guide to the First Five Years "Creativity and Play" The relationship of creativity to self-worth and self-expression. D
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Social Studies In Action: A Methodology Workshop, K-5 "Workshop 4. Applying Themes and Disciplines" What do we teach? Working from the NCSS themes and standards, the onscreen teachers identify approaches to integrating disciplines while teaching social studies content. Classroom video segments illustrate effective strategies for teaching across the curriculum and provide an opportunity to reflect on teaching practices. The session ends with the teachers developing a lesson plan that incorporates a variety of themes and disciplines. D
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Looking at Learning....Again Part 2 "Conceptual Change" With Dr. Peter Hewson. In this workshop, we explore the role played by prior knowledge in the learning of new science ideas. Only when a new idea is understood, accepted, and found to be useful does it begin to be exchanged for a previously held scientific belief. D
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Hands On Crafts for Kids "Games and Sports" What could be more fun than combining games and crafts? Craft a game board, make up a game, or celebrate your favorite team. We begin with team bracelets in your school colors. Then, make a shoe tag for your backpack or sports bag. D
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Hey Kids, Let's Cook "French Crepes" We're always teaching you recipes from other cultures, and today we're going to show you how to make a breakfast that the French just love - French crepes. They're very thin pancakes and we are going to roll them up and serve them with different fillings. Crepes are great for breakfast. D
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Ask This Old House "Painting Kitchen Cabinets/Installing a Smart Thermostat to Reduce Energy Use" Host Kevin O'Connor travels to Chicago to learn how subway trains are serviced. While in Chicago, he helps a homeowner paint kitchen cabinets. Then, landscape contractor Roger Cook teaches how to estimate landscape material by the cubic yard. D
7:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Surprising Bulgaria" Rick finds a time warp of old and new chic shops in the city, and donkey carts in the country.G
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Rudy Maxa's World "Mendoza, Argentina" The heart of Argentine wine country is nestled in a valley beneath the snow-capped Andes whose iconic summit, Aconcagua, is the highest in the Western hemisphere. Glacial runoff from the mountain range feeds the miles of vineyards that, along with fruit and vegetable farms, blanket the lowlands. Rudy drives into the thin air of the Andes, visiting the graveyard of those who died trying to summit Aconcagua. D
8:30 pm
Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way "Simple Savers" A native of Lyon, France, Jacques demonstrates his regional version of fried and poached eggs as he makes the classic salad of frissee aux lardon. With thoughts of spring he makes spaghetti with raw tomato-anchovy sauce.G
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Bistro-Style Steak and Potatoes" Test cook Bridget Lancaster shows Chris how to make the five-star meal at home and serves it with Potato Galette. And finally, equipment expert Adam Ried reveals his top pick for wine openers. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Class "Sausage Crostini, Goat Cheese Linguine & Melons in Wine" Joanne teaches her student Heather how to prepare three quick and simple recipes packed with lots of flavor and texture which she can make at home despite her busy schedule. Recipes: (1) CROSTINI WITH FENNEL SAUSAGE, (2) LINGUINE WITH GOAT CHEESE AND ARUGULA, (3) SUMMER MELONS IN SWEET-SPICED WINE. Student: Heather Tay - Sales Executive. D
10:00 pm
Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "Decadent Organic Dairy" On a visit to an Oregon organic dairy, Caprial and John come across products that lend amazing flavor and aroma to their creations: mushroom dip with truffle oil, basil sour cream dressing and grilled lamb chops with cumin yogurt sauce.G
10:30 pm
Rick Steves' Europe "Surprising Bulgaria" Rick finds a time warp of old and new chic shops in the city, and donkey carts in the country.G
11:00 pm
Theater Talk "Amy Herzog On Belleville and Joe Allen On Restaurant Row" We welcome celebrated young playwright Amy Herzog to discuss her new play, Belleville. Herzog talks about the lengthy process it took her to create this work, as well as her other recent stage successes, After the Revolution and 4000 Miles. Next we head to Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen to interview legendary restaurateur Joe Allen. D
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Closer to Truth "Why Explore Cosmos and Consciousness?" Cosmos and consciousness seem utterly different, the former encompassing the vast universe, the latter emerging from tiny brains. Yet consciousness founds most religions, and some cosmologists speak profoundly about consciousness. D


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Homesickness sounds like the least important topic imaginable. In modern America, a longing for the familiar places and people we are separated from is routinely castigated as an immature character flaw barely tolerable in children at summer camp, much less in adults.It's not something I'd previously thought about at a societal level before, at least not explicitly. But my previous experiences with uprooting and how acute the pain of relocation can be have certainly affected my adult life. I've turned down promotional opportunities that would mean relocating outside the Kansas City metro area on multiple occasions with, I suspect, far less regret than most of my peers in a similar situation would have. Whether that's from moving frequently when I was younger or from being more naturally inclined towards my old stomping grounds than others are isn't something I can definitively answer, and it's probably some combination of both. But my point is, I get homesickness.
Anyway, there is a larger purpose to this post than mere self-indulgence. In the review, Steve writes:
Human emotions probably don't change much over time, but the words we use to describe them certainly cycle, whipped by fads and social forces. For example, Matt cites a pair of contemporary psychiatrists who note that many of their unhappy patients come to them having already self-diagnosed themselves as "depressed"—a respectable 21st Century malady for which pharmaceutical firms invent and market expensive pills—"but were in fact lonely."And he quotes the book's author, Susan J. Matt:
"[As] the longtime companion and sometime synonym of homesickness, [nostalgia] has become a less troublesome emotion, signifying a diffuse, unthreatening, and painless longing for the past. ... As an emotion, nostalgia has come to be widely celebrated, perhaps because it is now seen as harmless. Whereas the homesick may believe they can return home, the nostalgic know that moving backwards in time is impossible."I wondered if the history of the terms "homesick" and "nostalgic" in the American library would reflect this. As the former became tainted as a sign of puerility and the latter something goofily celebrated by SWPLs, we'd expect a decrease and an increase in literary frequencies, respectively. Well, that's exactly what we get (nostalgic, homesick):
The transition began after WWI and was proceeding in earnest by the end of WWII. Today, the term "nostalgic" is three times as common as the term "homesick" is. Go forth and be fruitful, I guess.


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The fixture lists for the English football teams were announced yesterday and for one team in particular, Crawley Town FC, nicknamed the Red Devils, a tough bunch of fixtures await them.
Crawley will begin only their third season in the Football League after being promoted from the Blue Square Premier at the end of the 2010/11 season.
The Reds have coped well with the sudden step up to higher class football finishing third in League Two and 10th in League One in the 2012/13 season just gone.
However, this season is likely to be the hardest they have faced in their time in the Football League with big named clubs entering League One.
The likes of newly-relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers being one of the big names on fans' lips.
Richie Barker, the Reds' current manager is relishing the prospect of welcoming these big named clubs to the Broadfield Stadium and subsequently travelling to their grounds too.
One big club that Crawley have already faced in their previous League One campaign last season, Coventry City, will be the Reds' first fixture of the 2013/14 season and to the delight of the fans will be at home too.
In a report on the club's official website Barker said: "There are no easy games in this league, we know that and we're pleased to be at home.
"Coventry will have a very good team so were pleased we have home advantage."
The first month of the 2013/14 season will be a tough test for the Reds with the visit of Coventry City and newly-promoted side Rotherham United to the Broadfield Stadium.
Also the three away games at Tranmere Rovers, Peterborough United and big name side Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Barker added: "It's a tough start, the teams that have come down from the Championship are massive clubs and we're playing two of them away in the opening month.
"It's probably the toughest start we could have wished for."
The visit of newly-promoted Rotherham United brings more than just a fixture.
Reds' former boss Steve Evans is the current manager of The Millers and facing the side which he took to the fifth round of The FA Cup and guided to two successive promotions will not be easy.
The Reds also have another fixture to look forward to as their involvement in The Captial One Cup begins on Tuesday 6th August with a visit to Cheltenham Town.
For a full list of Crawley Town's fixtures for the 2013/14 season click here.
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Courtesy of Wellesley College Sports Information
WELLESLEY, Mass. – In a key late season NEWMAC match-up, MIT defeated Wellesley College, 25-20, 22-25, 25-21, 25-23 at the Keohane Sports Center on Tuesday night. With the win, the Engineers clinched the No. 1 seed for the upcoming NEWMAC Championship Tournament which kicks off on Tuesday, Nov. 2.
In the opening set the teams battled to a 10-10 tie before a kill from Alex May sparked a 9-3 run for the visitors. The Blue (18-9, 5-2 NEWMAC) trimmed the lead to 23-20, but could get no closer as MIT wrapped up the set 25-20.
Wellesley rebounded in game two, jumping out to a 5-1 lead, highlighted by consecutive kills from Taylor King. MIT (24-7, 8-0 NEWMAC) fought back, cutting the lead to one point on six occasions, but the Blue maintained their advantage throughout the set for the 25-22 win.
The Engineers established a 5-1 edge to open the third set, but Wellesley tied the score at eight with a kill from Elizabeth Campbell. MIT regained an advantage with a four-point serving run from Anna Dikina, with the help of two kills by Kelly Schulte. The Blue capitalized on three Engineer errors and knotted the score at 12. After trading sideouts which evened the set at 17, the Cardinal and Gray grabbed the lead for good courtesy of two stuff blocks from Schulte and Cecily Joujon-Roche and one stuff block by Schulte and Jenny Li to spark a 25-21 win.
The Engineers grabbed an early 7-4 lead in game four, capped off by a kill from Barden Cleeland. Wellesley narrowed the gap to two (11-9), but MIT responded with a 7-1 run that included three more kills from Cleeland. The Blue bounced back with a five-point serving run from Alice Cummings, trimming the lead to 17-16. The Engineers broke away again, increasing their cushion to 21-17. Wellesley mounted another charge but fell short, dropping the fourth and deciding set 25-23.
May paced MIT's balanced attach with 11 kills to go along with nine digs. Cleeland and Li each finished with nine kills as Joujon-Roche posted eight kills and six blocks. Schulte registered seven kills, five blocks, and three aces while Katie Spielbauer collected 12 digs. Alyssa Rothman tallied 41 assists and three blocks as Dikina notched seven digs and three aces.
Wellesley's Campbell had a match-high 17 kills, while Cummings picked up 10 to go along with 12 digs. Isabel Custodio recorded 23 assists for the Blue with Victoria Peng adding 17.
The Engineers return to action on Saturday, Oct. 31, when they host Mount Holyoke at 1:00 in their final regular season match. The Blue will play at Springfield on Thursday, October 29, at 7:00 p.m., and then close out its regular season on Saturday, when it hosts Smith at 1:00 p.m.
Engineers Top Wellesley, Capture NEWMAC Regular Season Crown
Courtesy of Wellesley College Sports Information


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He's Baaack!
Seven years after his humiliating fall from power, Newt Gingrich is a changed man. Happily married, playing golf, writing Civil War novels. And suddenly talking about running for president
Newt's on his third glass of Chardonnay, and those sharp little teeth are out again. "I mean, I think it's perfect! I can't believe it! I wanted to roll on the floor and giggle when I learned they got Howard Dean as chairman," he says. "'What we need to do is get a Vermont governor who's an extreme antiwar left-wing nutcake and who screams on television!' I mean, I understand why the Clintons want him as chairman. He makes Hillary look normal!"
He's sitting in the first-class car of a southbound Amtrak train alongside two aides with stricken smiles. He's been on the loose in Philadelphia all day, lecturing businessmen on our shabby health care system, bursting into a bookstore to sign copies of his latest best seller, horrifying Sean Hannity's radio audience by raising—as it seems Newt's destiny to do—the specter of Clinton: The Sequel. ("Anybody on our side," Newt warned me, "who thinks you can beat Hillary just by being shallow and belligerent, they're just gonna get their lunch eaten.")
But the main event in Philly was a World Affairs Council luncheon speech. In the ballroom of the Union League building, he stepped to the podium with a cocktail napkin's worth of notes and reeled off a piercing analysis of Bush administration policy. After mildly applauding the president's "vision level," Newt bore in, chiding the administration for its occupation of Iraq, warning that the president's Russian soul buddy, Vladimir Putin, was presiding over "an alarmingly robust research-and-development program in weapons systems," and saying of Bush's Social Security initiative, "What they are currently doing will not pass." Along the way, Newt said yes to stem-cell research, no to the "concept" of adolescence, yes to paying kids to study, no to the culture at the U.S. Agency for International Development, yes to "the American model of rolling up our sleeves," and no to "the European model of elegant decay."
But did he convince anyone of anything? This is the eternal Gingrich question, of course. There is (and has always been) a repellent quality to his intelligence: Every utterance has the ring of a boast. And now, sitting across from him on the train back to Washington, I'm feeling that same magnetic confusion. I tell him he hasn't sold me on his notion that the decline of God in public life is one of America's "preeminent" threats. Didn't the 2004 election demonstrate that the secular lefties are on the ropes?
"No, they're not on the ropes," Newt says. "They're out of power, but they're not out of control. They control the universities. They have control of the Senate, the staffs of bureaucracies. They have the control of the language we use."
Uh, isn't the majority party in the Senate...Republican?
"You can't pass anything genuinely radical. You can't get it through the Senate."
But why is radical the only way to go? Like the idea you raised in Philly today, the one about paying kids money to make good grades in math and science. C'mon. It's a nonstarter.
Newt drains his wineglass. "I'm eager to produce calculus, physics, and biology majors that will compete with those in China and India," he says. "I think I have a strategy that does that. What's your solution? Another twenty years of hopelessness?"
This is classic Gingrich: Either go with my Big Idea or...fail! Take Iraq, for instance, where the administration "messed up," Newt says, because "we should've maintained the Iraqi army. And should have created an interim government immediately. And should never have had a single speech on television by an American speaking English. And the world would've been a different place.
"And just so you know this isn't armchair quarterbacking," he says, throwing a glance at his national-security adviser, Bill Sanders, a fair-haired soldierly sort who returns a knowing nod, "we will give you, not to quote but to know it exists, a paper from August 2002 explaining how you do this."
(Later, I obtain this paper, which Newt sent to the White House and the Pentagon. Since I'm not permitted to quote from it, let me instead present its essence: After the overthrow of Saddam, our Special Forces swoop in and somehow persuade Iraqi military units to immediately switch sides to the winning team, thus avoiding major bloodshed and facilitating true liberation. Now, that's big. Shall we try it in Iran?)
Newt's phone rings. His hammerlike tones go mushy: "Hello....Well, it's the best of all worlds here. We have GQ, Bill Sanders, and Vince Haley [Newt's aide-de-camp] all on the same train, drifting southward and drinking wine, and I'm trying not to say anything that'll make you angry. I have Sanders and Haley ready to dive on top of me when I start to get bad." Glaring at me: "This is my daughter, you cannot use this, this is off the record...."
No one's springing out of his seat to pump the former Speaker's hand. No one's looking too giddy from such proximity to celebrity. Because the guy they're eyeballing was literally and deservedly America's most unpopular politician not long after he and his fevered minions, the freshman class of '94, demanded revolution. And when Newt's revolution wasn't revolutionary enough for his minions and they pounced on him like Willard's rats, no one shed a tear. Nor was it ever really acknowledged that Newt had some of it—okay, a lot of it—right. The ancient Democratic House committee chairmen were power-mad gasbags. The federal budget was a foul and bloated mess. Welfare could be reformed without millions dying in the streets....
Here on the train, as Newt hangs up and signals for me to throw a few more fastballs his way, I can't pick a topic A without a not-so-casual reminder that, ahem, guess who's been all over this stuff from time immemorial?
"I did a speech on bin Laden in 1996."
"I've been paying attention to Iraq since I met with Cheney in September of 1990."
"My first speech on personal accounts for Social Security was November of 1986."
"I first talked about doing all of this in August of 1958."
All of what?
"Saving civilization."
It's the time of Newt. And guess who isn't ruling out a presidential bid?
But hold on. When you talk about rolling on the floor and giggling about Howard Dean, you have to know that nothing would make the Democrats roll on the floor and giggle more than the prospect of you running for president.
"Sure. Sure. I understand that."
No more glinting teeth. It's a tight, defiant smile now.
So then would you be content to run just for the sake of promoting your ideas?
Newt doesn't hesitate. "No," he says. "I have never in my entire life played just to play."
There's no frolic to the man. He doesn't do small talk. Small is someone else's world. When Newt's footloose in a new city, he heads to the local zoo, asks to see the zookeeper (one of Newt's early ambitions), and quizzes him on disease prevention and mating in captivity. When he emerges from a movie—say, one of his favorites, like Braveheart—he's not rehashing plotlines or favorite scenes, he's locating the Message, the Undercurrent, the Historical Context. And when he's at home after a long day of transforming America, he dips into the light reading on his nightstand—right now it's a study of the Mafia in Sicily ("the perfect analogue for modern terrorism") and a four-volume recap of the Civil War ("so I can defend my novel when it comes out").
If you think he's an audacious, even preposterous character now, you should've been in Carrollton, Georgia, in 1970. That's when Newton Leroy Gingrich, a 27-year-old military brat and assistant professor of history, wandered onto the West Georgia campus. The students didn't know what to make of him. Clunky black plastic glasses, thrift-store khakis, and shaggy sideburns (a lame nod to the counterculture): the archetypal Geek Prof. Didn't quite talk raht, believed in integration and something called the environment. And a Republican, here in Dixie!
You think he gave a damn what anyone thought? Newt was already in a rush to greatness, apportioning his time in savage little nuggets, duly noted in pocket-size appointment books: Five minute nap. Read watch girls swim. 10 min. "All in the Family." 10 min. Reading Science Magazine. Hey, it worked: Twenty-four years later, he was the Second Most Powerful Man in America—and still in a multitasking bustle, holding press briefings during his morning two-mile march from his apartment to the Washington Monument, shaping the day's message while working off last night's enchiladas.
And for what, all this frenzy?
"This is not about Gingrich"—that's Newt talking—but rather history. Newt's here to make history, and if that wins him a place alongside his heroes Lincoln and Churchill—both of whom drew scorn until history waved its vindicating wand—well, even better.
Newt's unholy rich now, and on his own terms. Could've been a lobbyist, could've done a Visa commercial...All too trivial. Instead, he's made his pile consulting on health issues, delivering $50,000 speeches scrawled on the back of coasters, and writing marginally readable books that the faithful scarf up like OxyContin.
How relad is he? Well, he's golfing now. "Very badly," he says. "But it's good for me. Because it forces me to stop. I would have been a much more effective Speaker if I'd been golfing back then."
Callista, his wife, turned him on to the links. And to opera. And, it turns out, to modern marriage. "It's a wonderfully humbling experience to have a wife with a real job," says Newt. "Now I build all my vacations around her schedule."
Getting here, of course, was not so fun. The press made great sport of it in 1999, when Clinton's Berater in Chief dumped his longtime "best friend and closest adviser," Marianne (for whom he'd dumped Jackie, the mother of his two daughters), after a lengthy affair with House Agriculture Committee staffer Callista Bisek, a high-cheekboned blond twenty-three years Newt's junior. Though history is clearly not on the Gingriches' side, friends maintain that this marriage will stand. A Republican colleague recently witnessed a tableau of the Gingrich marriage in microcosm: Newt pacing outside a Tysons Corner department store, speed-reading some mammoth book, his index finger flying across the typeface...all the while standing sentry over an armada of shopping bags, with Callista depositing more bags at his feet before darting inside the store again.
"Monday and Tuesday nights we spend together," Newt says. "And then we try to take Friday night also. But it's a very complex process"—squinting those eyes even tighter now, as if the topic were Sunni participation in post-Saddam Iraq rather than how to pleasure the spousal unit. Love is grand, but seldom has history been made sharing a bowl of popcorn and watching some poseur bloviate on The O'Reilly Factor.
It's true. I heard him tell one adoring audience, completely without irony: "For about three and a half years, we really did change things." Yes, well. It's doubtful the Contract with America will qualify as a document for the ages. Welfare reform? No one, not even Newt, is claiming that the Age of Entitlement has dwindled in our rearview. The end of the seniority system in House committees? Great, except that today's Republican-led committees are every bit as petty and secretive as the ones the Democrats tyrannized years ago. Budgetary discipline? Pshaw. Legal reform? Never got off the ground. In truth, the only lasting history achieved by Newt thus far is his monumental contribution to the art of partisan gut fighting.
Back in 1978, he had this to say to a group of Georgia partisans: "I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty." By 1988, Newt was deep in the humus, reminding his minions, "When in doubt, Democrats lie," and exhorting them to promote the Big Idea of "the loony left" and of candidate Michael Dukakis as "Daffy Dukakis," who "lies" and "is a joke." It delighted Newt that year to see George H. W. Bush lambaste Dukakis for his membership in the ACLU—"an organization with a long and distinguished history," he would acknowledge later, while still insisting the cheap smear was "legitimate." Politics as history? Some other time.
Amid all the crashing of cymbals and scalping of career politicians, Speaker Newt forfeited a golden opportunity to make history by reforming Social Security. Though he mentioned it in the Contract, it went largely unmentioned by Newt in 1995. Then he devoted all of 1996 to thwarting the reelection of Bill Clinton. In fact, Bill was amenable to touching the Third Rail—and so, Newt tells me on the train, "Clinton and I discussed it and plotted Social Security for the fall of '97. I believe if Lewinsky hadn't happened, he would've been able to propose it at the State of the Union in '98."
Lewinsky _happened? _No, what happened is that Newt went hammer and tongs after Bill's crowning bimbo eruption, driven nearly insane by what he called "the most systematic, deliberate obstruction of justice, cover-up, and effort to avoid the truth we have ever seen in American history" and pledging before a red-meat crowd that "never again, as long as I am Speaker [will I] make a speech without commenting on this topic." And to what end? Murder-suicide: Clinton got impeached, but the Lewinsky backlash cost the Republicans five House seats and Newt his bully pulpit...while Social Security reform, that one jewel of an accomplishable Big Idea, fell quietly off the table.
"Total admiration," Newt says of Hillary. "You have to respect her. This is a first-class professional. And if Bill is First Spouse, it'll be one of the great moments. A new TV show! The East Wing!"
The Clintons are never far from Newt's mind. They're like the Kennedys were to Nixon: glamorous, charismatic, brazen power-grabbing elitist amoral lying dream killers. Wrong on health care, wrong on the budget, wrong on the military...and so goddamned clever! Newt's staff and the class of '94 had seen it time and again: Every time Speaker Gingrich galloped into the Oval Office with his musket loaded for Slick Willie, he shuffled out holding his own gonads. "It got to the point where the Republican freshmen were afraid to send him in there alone," remembers Newt's archivist and friend, Mel Steely. "By the time Newt would get back to his office, Clinton's press secretary had already announced the opposite of what they'd agreed on. I'd say, 'Newt, how did you get suckered in?' And he'd say, 'Clinton would come up from behind his desk, put his arm around me, and say, "Newt, you're absolutely right." Just charm the pants right off of you.'"
Charmed Newt right out of the history books, too...but only for now. See, Newt's convinced that the Clintons will be there in 2008, that Hillary will be sitting atop the Democratic ticket. Picture that, and picture this: The Republican Party base consults reality. McCain is not one of them; he'll never make it out of South Carolina. Frist, Pataki, Hagel? Please. To fight a Clinton, a gladiator is required. Someone with big ideas, who sees that politics, in the words of Mao Tse-tung, "is war without blood." Meanwhile, look who's in Iowa and New Hampshire—just, y'know, signing books. A Lincoln's Birthday address in Sioux City? Sign him up! And wherever McCain and the GOP dwarfs of '08 show up, an earnest farmer or mother of seven will be there to proffer a barrage of cogent Newt-inspired questions: "Uh, Senator, in what way does your health care plan fulfill the twenty-first-century imperative for a transformational binary market-oriented system?" And as the candidates stammer and Clinton looms, the backstage boys of the GOP might very well cry out, much like they did with Reagan back in '66: _Please, Newt! Save us! _
That's why Newt isn't ruling out the presidency. Sometimes the only way to make history is to let history come to you.
Newt's youthful Aide Vince comes rushing down the aisle. "Sam Waterston's on this train!" he says. "He's—you wouldn't believe this. He's performing at the White House tomorrow night! Reenacting Lincoln's speech at Cooper Union!"
Watching the clouds gather on Newt's face, I say, "The Killing Fields. Law Order."
Still nothing. But when Vince adds, "Anyway, I thought I'd arrange a meeting," his boss shrugs in acquiescence, then gets up to take a leak.
It's just us lilliputians now: me, Vince, who's massaging his BlackBerry, and Newt's military guy, Bill, who stands more or less at ease. I slide Bill the front section of today's Times and ask him what he thinks of the lead story, about U.S. torture policies in Iraq.
The man who briefs Newt Gingrich on national-security matters shrugs and says with a grin, "Hey. If it works, it works."
I thought most experts say torture doesn't work, I say.
Bill raises an eyebrow as a way of saying: Hmm. You've got a point there. Though not much of one. Then Newt returns, and he and Bill take two seats on the other side of the aisle. Vince is on the phone now, saying to someone at Gingrich Central Command, "Yeah, Sam Waterston. I'm gonna hook 'em up. It'll be fun."
Waterston is wearing a wide-brimmed hat and accepts Newt's handshake with a please-God-don't-let-anyone-see-me-doing-this sort of smile. (Sam coughed up $22,000 for the losing team last year.) Newt launches into a spiel on the Cooper Union speech—Lincoln as teacher of history, the great man's punishing logic, core values up the wazoo...
When he comes up for air, Waterston steps in. "And the thing about the speech is, it's funny," he says. "Not jokes. I mean, the structure."
Newt says nothing, yet leaves no doubt what he's thinking: Funny? One of the most transformational speeches of all mankind..._funny? _
Here's what's funny, unless you're Newt Gingrich: It's not the Clintons who stand in Newt's way of making history. It's George W. Bush.
When I ask Newt to describe where he and the president part company, he begins by saying, "I'm not sure there's any major philosophical difference. There are a lot of nuances that I'd do different. I tend to fall into an analytical-historical model. I was politically aware by the late 1950s. If you asked the president, 'When did you start thinking about this stu?' I think you'd get a different answer."
_Ooof! _
Newt explains that history is jolted by a succession of cresting and receding waves. "First we had a wave called Goldwater," he says. "Then we had a wave called Reagan. Then a wave called the Contract with America. And in all fairness, you have a wave called Bush."
In all fairness? The air is swampy with condescension.
"The challenge of the Bush legacy," he goes on, "is this: You have pieces that are really terrific. Then you have pieces that are like, 'What were those guys thinking?'"
He tries so hard to choose his words carefully, he really does. He even describes himself as a Bush "ally." (Think FDR and Stalin.) But he just can't hide his sense of intellectual superiority. Relying on gut instinct—instead of on historical models? Spending political capital—what the hell does that mean? (Newt: "It's a term he loves, and it's not how I think.") Now, if you consider the other side of it: proud egghead, inveterate grandstander, jelly-belly, philanderer...Does this sound like W.'s kind of guy?
It drives Newt nuts, this "wave called Bush" that he can't ride. Though he shamelessly drops Karl and _Dick Cheney _and _fifty-one hours of top-level briefings in December alone! _like Scuds into his monologues, Newt's regular bombardment of e-mails goes largely unheeded by the White House, according to an administration official who's seen his missives.
Newt managed to hold his tongue throughout 2004. He could've buried Bush on Iraq, but that might've cost 'em the election. This year is different. He's got books to flog, airtime on Fox News to fill, all those audiences the Washington Speakers Bureau has lined up for him to bedazzle, a candidacy to consider, Big Ideas to ratify...And Newt's no dummy: You don't get face time in the Oval Office with that kind of agenda. No, you stand in the hallway, whispering to Dick and Rummy about Iran and Syria and China and Russia. And you try to wait out the Bush wave.
At which point, Newt will face a final barrier to history's Valhalla: himself. It's one thing to have Newt Gingrich standing outside the box, willing to risk ridicule rather than play smallball. It's another thing, though, to let Newt inside the box, permitting him to explode it with his outsize appetite for Radical Transformation. When I ask a longtime Newt admirer to assess the Speaker's political future, his praise falters. "Newt's motivated by ideas," he finally says. "But another motivation, in my view, is that he wants to be a historic figure....I'm done selling him short. This guy has an incredible ability to reshape himself. Almost Clintonesque.
"What worries me is his desire to make history. That could lead to overreaching—and frankly, which presidents make history? The wartime presidents. That would make me a little nervous."
But as Newt would surely argue, that's just one end of the seesaw. Look at it this way: You can stride fearlessly into the breach...or you can face extinction.
Tough choice.
_Robert Draper is a GQ correspondent. _


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Nearly two weeks after FBI agents rescued her from the Idaho wilderness, San Diego County teenager Hannah Anderson gave her first interview, thanking those who helped find her and dismissing others who have criticized her online.
The first segment of the 16-year-old's interview with NBC aired Thursday morning at the top of the "Today" show. Hannah, who officials say was kidnapped by family friend James DiMaggio after he killed her mother and 8-year-old brother, said if it wasn't for the group of horseback riders who spotted her in the Idaho wilderness, "I probably wouldn't be here right now."
The search for Hannah began Aug. 4 after her mother and brother were found dead at DiMaggio's burning property in eastern San Diego County, and ended six days later at a remote campsite more than 1,000 miles away.
After the horseback riders reported seeing the two near Idaho's Morehead Lake, FBI agents raided the camp and whisked Hannah to safety. DiMaggio was shot and killed.
Though officials have stressed that Hannah was a "victim in every sense of the word," she has drawn scrutiny and criticism in the days following her rescue. When asked about some of the comments posted about her online, the teenager said, "They don't really know the story, so they kind of have their own opinion on what they hear."
"You are who you are and you shouldn't let people change that," she said later. "You have your own opinion on yourself and other peoples' opinion shouldn't matter."
The teen also spoke of letters she wrote to DiMaggio that, according to search warrants, were among the items seized from his home. Authorities have not detailed what the letters said, or the contents of a handwritten note also taken from his property.
Hannah said the letters were from a year ago, when she and her mother weren't getting along.
"They weren't anything bad," she said. "They were just to help me through times."
Hannah said that before her ordeal, she had never heard of the Amber Alert credited with her rescue.
"I didn't really know what it is, but I know it helped people find me," she said.
She expressed thanks for "the Amber Alert and the sheriff and the FBI ... everyone that put in their time to find me."
"And my dad," she continued. "And my friends and my family and all my supporters that helped spread the word."
Hannah wiped away tears as she remembered her 8-year-old brother Ethan, saying he "had a really big heart." Her mother, she said, was "strong-hearted and very tough" and "knew how to handle things."
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Roasted fingerling potatoes would be great with this colorful dish. Ask the butcher to roll and tie the pork loin for you.
- Yield
- Makes 6 servings
- blood oranges
- 1 3-pound boneless pork loin, rolled and tied
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided
- 1 large onion, cut into 8 wedges
- 2 fresh rosemary sprigs, leaves stripped from stems, plus additional sprigs for garnish
- 1/2 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup low-salt chicken broth
- 1 large garlic clove, pressed
- Blood orange slices
- Position rack in center of oven; preheat to 450°F. Using vegetable peeler, remove peel (orange part only) in strips from 3 blood oranges. Place pork in large roasting pan. Rub with 2 tablespoons olive oil; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Toss onion, orange peel, and rosemary leaves with remaining 1 tablespoon oil in medium bowl; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Arrange onion mixture around pork. Roast until pork and onion are beginning to brown, about 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile, squeeze enough juice from oranges to measure 3/4 cup; pour juice into small saucepan. Add wine, broth, and garlic. Boil until reduced to 1 1/4 cups, about 7 minutes.
- Add 1/2 cup orange juice mixture to roasting pan. Baste pork with pan juices. Reduce oven temperature to 350°F; continue roasting pork until thermometer inserted into thickest part of pork registers 150°F, basting often and adding more orange juice mixture as needed, about 30 minutes longer.
- Place pork on platter and cover loosely with foil. Place roasting pan over medium-high heat; add remaining 3/4 cup orange juice mixture to pan. Boil until slightly thickened, about 3 minutes. Remove strings from roast. Slice pork; place on platter. Pour sauce and onion mixture over and around pork. Garnish with rosemary sprigs and orange slices.
Per serving: 426 calories, 21 g fat (6 g saturated), 117 mg cholesterol, 119 mg sodium, 11 g carbohydrate, 2 g fiber, 42 g protein