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It's Showtime Apple Keynote Highlights
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Here are the highlights from today's Apple Keynote, titled "It's Showtime":
- Apple has announced a newly enhanced iPod. The standard iPod gets a 60% brighter screen with brightness control, 3.5 hours of video playback (up from 2 hours), gapless playback, and newly designed iPod headphones. The larger version of the iPod will do 6.5 hours of video playback. The
60GB30GB iPod will sell for $249, while the 80GB model will sell for $349. Available today.
- New games for iPod: The iPod now has purchasable games, which include Bejeweled, Cubis 2, Zuma, Pac Man, Texas Hold 'em, Vortex, and more. They can be purchased in iTunes for $4.99 each. Games will also work on older 5th generation iPods.
- New software updates for iPod: There is now a quick scrolling feature using letters, which allows you to jump to anywhere in your library virtually instantly and with more precision.
- iPod nano: Second generation iPod nano announced. It looks more like a tiny iPod mini, with an aluminum enclosure for the $149 2GB model, while the larger $199 4GB model sports green, silver, blue, and pink. Finally, the $249 8GB model comes in black. All have a 24-hour battery life. There are also new chargers, lanyards, and armbands. All three iPod nano models are available today.
- iPod shuffle: The iPod shuffle also goes 2ng generation today. Sporting a 12-hour battery life, the shuffle now is about the size of the Apple Remote, making it the world's smallest MP3 player. It has a metal body with a white click wheel, and a 1GB capacity. Available in October for $79.
- iTunes 7: Library now breaks up and separates different forms of media, and also provides sections for the Store itself and for devices. Apple will now provide album art for any music in your library, even if not purchased through iTunes. The 2006 NFL season will be available for purchase, and video resolution is now bumped up to 640x480 (up from 320x240) in H.264 encoding. Gapless playback is supported in iTunes 7. Even better, you can now sync you iPod content to a second computer!
- iTunes Movies: Apple is announcing that they are adding movies to the iTunes Music Store. Starting today, you can purchase films from Disney, Pixar, Touchstone, and Miramax (all of these are Disney owned.) Most titles will cost $9.99. You can pre-order new releases for $12.99 (or pay that price for the first week) - after that, they jump to $14.99. You can pre-order Disney's Cars today.
Movies are at near-DVD quality in 640x480 resolution, and you can start watching the movie while it downloads in the background. As for sound, movies have Dolby surround audio. Parental control allows you to block or allow movies by MPAA rating. There are 75 movies available for purchase, and more will be added on a weekly basis. The Movie Store is strictly for the US store for now, but
will goApple hopes to take it International in 2007.
- One Last Thing: Wireless Set-top Box: In the first quarter of 2007, Apple will be releasing a wireless set-top box for the television. About half the size of a Mac mini, the box will have integrated USB, 802.11 wireless antennas, HDMI ports, optical audio out, and component video out. Apple is calling it iTV, although that name may not be final. Obviously, it's meant to allow you to stream the video content on your PC to your television, using an interface that seems like an upgraded Front Row, controlled by the Apple Remote. Video startup is instant, and video looks great - close to DVD quality. Expect high-resolution artwork and movie text. The same videos will play on iTunes, your iPod, and now, your TV. The box also allows you to view trailers and other iTunes content directly from the Internet. Steve plays The Incredibles, which is curiously not in 640x480, but rather in widescreen high definition format. A sign of things to come? Apple says the device will work in conjunction with iTunes on both PC and Mac, and will sell for $299 USD, bringing Apple to your den, living room, car, and pocket.
- John Legend: Steve Jobs closed the event by introducing John Legend, telling everyone that without the artists, none of this means anything. Legend came out and sang for everyone.
That's it! You can now see all the updates on Apple.com reflecting everything that was talked about today. New iPods, new iTunes, and a lack of Core 2 Duo MacBook Pros.
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Interacting with the Genie
Interacting with the Genie[edit]
Once acquired, the lamp becomes like any object in his inventory. Pyro puts it in his bedroom, then gives it a rub (though he could rub it simply from his inventory). Rather than a genie merely appearing at the edge of the lamp, it creates a full NPC genie! He acts like a house guest here: he'll walk around, eat, watch TV, and more. You can return him to the lamp at any time by interacting with the lamp itself or the genie and using the "Return to Lamp" command, though he'll return to the lamp on his own if no one interacts with him for a few hours.
Pyro didn't summon him just to send him away, however. The genie gains the special interaction "Make a Wish," but before we do that, Pyro decides to talk him up first. As with many mechanics in The Sims 3, socialization leads to the best results, and a friendly genie is a happy genie... or rather, a genie who won't make your wishes backfire. Once the genie is at about +75 in the relationship meter, Pyro goes ahead and elects to make a wish.
This summons a pop-up box with a scrollable list of wishes. Most wishes unless otherwise indicated are not repeatable, and you only get three wishes, so think hard about what you want...
World Peace[edit]
Wishing for World Peace adds a medium-strength buff called "Peaceful," but only for the wisher. The wisher can also use the "Friendly... | Talk About World Peace" social interaction in conversation, but it has no effect other than raising the relationship meter with the target, . This is a good wish to immediately help offset a bad mood, but there are better wishes for that. Strangely, this wish doesn't affect any relationships; enemies will still be enemies, friends will still be friends.
Resurrect Sim[edit]
This wish is self-explanatory, but will be grayed out if the wisher doesn't know any Sims who have died.
After selecting this wish, you'll get a second pop-up box that lets you select any adult Sim in the entire neighborhood. After the genie works his magic, the wisher and the target will be +100 to each other and automatically in love. The target won't teleport the target to you, so if you're feeling dishonest, you can do this around a spouse or other loved one without immediate repercussions.
Long Life[edit]
This wish doubles the length of the bar for this stage only. For example, the Young Adult life stage defaults to 21 days. When this wish is granted, the bar will become 42 days.
Your Sim won't actually get any younger, however. For example, Pyro is four days old into his Adult life stage, which also defaults to 21 days. If he wishes for long life, the bar will double, so it will be 42 days long. However, Pyro is still four days old, which means he'll age up to Elder after 38 more days.
You'll see these changes on the first tab of the main panels by mousing over the life bar. If you were already on that panel when the wish was granted, you may have to switch to a different tab then switch back for the change to be properly updated.
Large Family[edit]
This wish applies a neutral moodlet called "Feeling Fertile." The next time you use the Try For Baby command on any Sim of the opposite gender, you are guaranteed to have triplets.
This grants you a permanent +25 buff; it's shown in the moodlets, but has no expiration timer. It's not enough to erase a completely horrible mood, but it will offset all but the worst debuffs, and it will usually put you into the bonus area (where you're constantly getting Lifetime Happiness Points) if you're even remotely happy otherwise.
This instantly grants the household $40,000. Also, this wish is actually repeatable! Score!
This basically applies an invisible buff to all other Sims in the area, sort of like the Eye Candy buff, that increases the way the wisher is perceived. All romantic actions from the wisher will have a much greater chance of being accepted.
More Wishes[edit]
This is a wasted wish, but not a strictly negative one. Wishing for more wishes makes the genie grant one more wish... but you lose a wish by wishing for it. In other words, wishing for more wishes doesn't do anything, but it doesn't ultimately cost you anything either.
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"Everyone knows these places enhance our quality of life," the TV ad continues. By passing Prop. 21, it promises, voters can "protect our parks, wildlife and water."
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Advocates for the state's working poor should be up in arms over Prop. 21 for it is an insidiously regressive tax.
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For those who do not, they face late fees that will far exceed the $18 surcharge that Prop. 21 imposes.
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I gotta ask, though, for some specifics. That the dogma surrounding Christ is fabricated is undebatable—elsewise, there would not be in excess of 30,000 sects of Christianity with different dogmas. But is it a lie to suggest, for example, that we ought to exhibit love and caring for our neighbors—even those neighbors we consider "other"?
Yeah, I know Chris HItchens wrote that the Golden Rule (do to others as you would have them do to you) was too hard for humans to live by (impracticable was his word, as I recall), but I disagree. I've seen human beings—both secular and religious, atheist and theist—follow that "rule" with surprising faithfulness and with beneficial results.
If it's true that this is an ideal behavior, and Christ said it (even if he didn't originate it) it's still true, isn't it?
Reminds me of a minister I had a run in with once who insisted that Christ's words were true, but that everything Buddha said were lies. I pointed out to him that Buddha had also given a version of the Golden Rule (hatred does not cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love & do as you would be done by) and did it roughly 600 years prior to Christ in India. I asked if the fact that Buddha said it first made it a lie. Or was it only a lie when Buddha said it, but true when Christ said it? (Which, of course, is rationally untenable.)
Never did get an answer to that one... :)
is it a lie to suggest, for example, that we ought to exhibit love and caring for our neighbors
It is a lie that a god told us to do this. This doesn't change the fact that it's a nice thing to do.
I've seen human beings—both secular and religious, atheist and theist—follow that "rule" with surprising faithfulness and with beneficial results
Yep. And I get some "huh?" looks from theists who ask me the old chestnut "if you don't believe in God, how can you be moral?" when I tell them I believe in the golden rule but not its supposed authorship. As I see it, the "golden rule" is a foundation of humanism, actually.
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@Matt: No, it's not a lie. It is your opinion that it is a lie. It is an opinion to suggest that a God told us to do this, The opinion is understandable given the number of historical figures who have claimed to represent a God who has told us this.
Whether one believes in God or not, Christ is not all lies as the graphic implies. At worst, he's just a nice man.
@Barry: Of course, one can be moral without believing in God. To suggest otherwise is ... kind of silly, given the overwhelming evidence.
The point of debate is really whether morality can be separated from religion in a causal sense. The ideals that most people at least give lip service to agreeing to were first enunciated, taught, and made foundational to communities of humans by a religious figure who claimed some connection to the divine. These teachings so permeate global society (and from a variety of sources) that it would be impossible to separate any child from them.
To even attempt an experiment to see what would happen to a child reared completely without any religious ideals would require that the child not be given any moral instruction at all, either by word or deed.
@Maya. Was Christ really such a nice man? His lunatic philosophy of "no thought for the morrow" doesn't seem very nice or moral me: drop your family, drop your investments, drop your work and follow me without question like a mindless sycophant . What lunacy! So it seems even if he did exist (that's another debate)... he was well meaning but most probably insane and thought the world was about to end.
@Derek: Taken with the body of his teachings, the "no thought for the morrow" 1) doesn't figure that prominently in his philosophy and 2) is no more "Immoral" than Buddha's teachings on detachment from material things, which is really what the "seek ye first the kingdom of God" message is about. He offered a particular individual a choice—go back to what you were doing or follow me and make a difference in the life of your community. Jesus arrived on the scene in a very dire and turbulent historical period for Israel. The message, taken in total, seems to be "what you're doing is not working. Try this." I find it interesting that, historically, the major revealed religions seem to have that element to them—young people looking for alternatives to the turmoil of the day are offered a choice between material existence and spiritual life. Perhaps that is lunacy, perhaps not.
But no, Jesus didn't think the world was about to end—some of his followers clearly thought that he was going to return for them immediately, but his own words don't really support that idea. One vague reference to "this generation" (which some translators read as "this race" or "this people") seems to have been the source of doomsday predictions then and now.
What I find fascinating both among atheist and fundamentalist Christian thinkers is that as many times as Jesus stressed the interpersonal and societal teachings of love, forbearance, kindness, charity, and justice, it's those one-liners that are seized on as being either the way to salvation or the way to perdition. One line is extracted from the body of his teachings to "prove" that he is for all time the only way to salvation; one line is extracted to indicate he's immoral or loony.
To be fair, I know very few Christians who dump their families and jobs to go stand on a hillside, waiting for Christ to come and scoop them up. Yeah, there were those who did, but then there are extremists in any group of people, don't you find?


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One of the greatest benefits of mediation is that it allows people to resolve the charge in a friendly way and in ways that meet their own unique needs. Also, a charge can be resolved faster through mediation. While it takes less than 3 months on average to resolve a charge through mediation, it can take 10 months or longer for a charge to be investigated. Mediation is fair, efficient and can help the parties avoid a lengthy investigation and litigation.
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In the following pages we compiled a bunch of paint and body ideas we gathered while planning to clean up our own '63 Nova project. Nicknamed "The Hellion", this two-door hardtop is a perfect specimen for showing off bodywork and paint problems. Although the floor is un-rusted, the body is straight, and most of the trim is in place (even the rare hood emblem piece with the cast letters that spell "Chevrolet"), there are about seven rot holes in the car's body that need some patch repairs and the curdled cream paintjob has just got to go. Besides looking into the general bodywork it's going to need to become a respectable muscle car, we also plan on adding some custom touches to the car that you could also use on your own ride; things like custom trim molding and powdercoated bumpers as an alternative to chrome.
We contacted a few high-end body shops such as Quigley's Auto Body and O.C. Cars in Lake Forest, California, recently to get some inside info on products, tools, and techniques to use when repairing the paint and body of old cars. Think of the following pages as an oil pump primer for your paint and body ideas, something to get the gears grinding in your mind of paint schemes and styles. Hey, we learned something about bodywork in the last couple weeks, maybe you will too after reading this.
When it comes to fitting body panels and doors, many bodymen look for consistent distance between all the door and fender gaps. Quigley's Auto Body in Lake Forest, California, is regarded as a top-tier body shop in the Southland. Bruce Berry says, body panel fitment and gap consistency depends on quite a few factors. "Every car is different," Berry says. "Sometimes it takes 15 minutes to get the panels straight (which basically consists of loosening and tightening various panel bolts until the panel gaps are equal), and sometimes it takes eight hours." Depending on how picky you are, getting body panel gaps square can be costly. On older cars, because oftentimes they've been in accidents, the body panels become mated to a particular car. When a customer wants to fit a fender from another car, although being the same year, it can be a bear to get the gaps equal. When they are too far off, some body shops will actually remove material or add material to the gaps to ensure they are straight, however, like we mentioned, that can be time consuming for the body tech, and costly for the customer, so it really comes down to budget. You can always try to align them yourself, it just takes patience. Also, Berry pointed out that even aftermarket panels sometimes need more "massaging" to get right, as opposed to a factory panel that's relatively straight.
There is a trio of basic types of paint available for autos today: enamel, acrylic urethane, and water-based. We won't count lacquer paint as it's illegal in almost all states, just know that every old car painter you talk to will reminisce about how great lacquer was back in the day and nothing can stand up to it today. We guess it's pretty toxic, so nowadays lacquer-based paints are nearly extinct in the hot rod and muscle car world.
Enamel paint is a hard-drying substance that typically gets baked on in heated bays. Enamels are tough when they dry, but can be tricky to apply for the inexperienced painter. Enamel with a top clearcoat is referred to as a two-stage system, and the enamels that don't require the clear are categorized as a single stage. Urethane paints are fairly new to the auto world, they can be pricey, but are easy to spray and have the toughness of enamels. Urethane paints are made using three ingredients: the color, a reducer to thin the color to the right viscosity for the spray gun, and a catalyst used to accelerate drying time. Once these elements are combined, the painter must use it posthaste or the paint could get ruined. Finally, the newest type of paint is water-based paint. This is a nontoxic product that can bond effectively to metal, primer, or even over an existing paintjob. This is the top choice for the hobbyist; however it does require a topcoat of clear urethane to protect the paint. All three paint types can be found at Eastwood.com, even lacquer based.
The Assessment
As we drove home in a '63 Nova hardtop that we just couldn't pass up despite seven rot holes, all we could think was, "please have a solid floor". Assessing your project after a purchase can prove to be a mixed bag; sometimes you get more than you bargained for. In our case, we got lucky and found a running shoebox a couple months ago on Craigslist.com and although some rust had started to eat away at the roof in some areas, the fact that it was a straight and running specimen made it irresistible. Now since we are not metal fabricators, we are leaning toward remedying the rot using some DuPont rust inhibitor then filling the holes with All-Steel, the metal-bonding body filler. We know it's not the absolute best way to get your car straight, but when you're frugal and/or content with your projects being less than perfect, then this method may work for you too. Just know that rust bubbles can still show up years down the road if you just treat and fill the rust crevasses. Look for a series of buildup articles on this Nova in future issues of CHP, where we make it go from a regular beater to a face beater.
Blast Off
When you finally decide that adding that new coat of paint over your car's 17 other layers of old paint is not the best idea, you'll need to start thinking of your stripping options according to your elbow-grease-to-expendable-dollars ratio. We recently thought we'd try to manually strip our project's paint to bare metal using some Aircraft stripper and a grinder, but after realizing how tedious and time consuming it was, we started looking into other options.
Soda blasting is a process we found out about that uses sodium bicarbonate (similar to baking soda, but formulated especially for blasting) applied to a surface using compressed air. Similar to sandblasting, soda actually does not harm the surface of your work (or the environment), during or after use. And because it's a relatively gentle substance, you can oftentimes leave the chrome and windows in place.
Carbon, grease, oils, gasket material, surface corrosion, paint and coatings from a variety of alloys, plastics, and composites are annihilated with the blasting process, however, soda blasting leaves hard-anodized coatings intact.
Look for an article in an upcoming issue, where we head to Cal Blast in Upland, California, with our new project car to get its terrible ointment-colored paint blasted away to bare metal. We'll be able to see exactly what kind of metal repairs and patching it will need.


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Pinopolis, South Carolina
Saturday, August 9, 2008 – 10:35 am –10:47am
Mr. George C. McIntyre, Chairman
Mr. Bradley R. Boles
Mr. T. Hal Campbell
Mr. William W. Coleman, Jr.
Mrs. Laura S. Crowther
Dr. H. Randall Dozier
Mr. L. Franklin Elmore
Ms. Melissa Johnson Emery
Mr. Robert E. Lee
Mr. Timothy F. Norwood, Sr.
Dr. J. Kevin O'Kelly
Mrs. Carolyn Beasley Shortt
Mr. W. C. Stanton
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Mrs. Shireese Bell, Morning News
Mr. D. Keith Best, Chair of the Faculty & Professor of Theatre Arts
Mr. Darryl L. Bridges, Vice President for Student Affairs
Dr. L. Fred Carter, President
Dr. Richard Chapman, Provost
Mrs. Elizabeth I. Cooper, Vice President for Public and Community Affairs
Mr. Jay Dowd, Vice President for Development/Executive Director of FMU Foundation
Dr. Rebecca H. Flannagan, Vice Chair of the Faculty & Associate Professor of English
Mr. A. Glen Gourley, Secretary of the Faculty & Professor of Theatre Arts
Dr. John R. Hester, Psychology Chair & Director of the Center for the Child
Mrs. Rachel R. Hamaie, Executive Assistant to the President
Mr. Murray G. Hartzler, Director of Athletics
Mr. Jay Kispert, Vice President for Business Affairs
Mr. Willson Stanton, grandson of Mr. W. C. Stanton
Dr. Charlene Wages, Vice President for Administration
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Mr. McIntyre presented the minutes of the June 6, 2008 Board Meeting to the Board for approval. Mr. William Coleman made a motion for the minutes to be approved. The motion was seconded by Mr. Frank Elmore. The minutes received unanimous approval by the Board.
President's Report:
Dr. Fred Carter began by welcoming the four new trustees to the Board, Mr. Tim Norwood, Mr. Boles, Mrs. Laura Crowther, and Dr. Kevin O'Kelly, and thanking them for their willingness to serve. He then promised, on behalf of himself, the Vice Presidents, and the University, that the time and effort that they dedicate to the University will not be wasted, but will directly benefit the students, faculty, and staff of FMU.
Secondly, Dr. Carter spoke about the dreams and plans for the next 5 years at FMU, which had been discussed at the retreat this year. A mother, father, and daughter walked up and spoke with the President after an orientation session this year and the father told him that this was a very important day for them. He then went on to tell Dr. Carter that he had driven by the University numerous times on his way between Florence and Marion over the years. When passing the University, he would always lean over the backseat and tell his daughter, "Someday we'll find a way for you to go to this college". Despite all of the plans that have been discussed over the past two days, FMU was created for the sole purpose of addressing the needs of families such as this. The faculty and staff of FMU have been able, over the years, to help more and more families from the Pee Dee to be able to afford and attend FMU. In the final analysis, this is the true purpose of this institution.
Unfinished Business:
No unfinished business.
New Business:
Mr. McIntyre announced the creation of two new committees. The first is a nominating committee which will nominate Board leaders for the 2009-2011 term. This committee will be composed of the three immediate past chairs, Mr. Ken Jackson, Mrs. Gail Richardson and Mr. Robert Lee. They will announce their nominations at the February 2009 meeting. The Board will vote on these new officers at the June 2009 meeting.
The second new committee will be the Audit Committee. This is an entirely new committee, which is being appointed at the recommendation of the President. This committee will be composed of the current Board Chair, the immediate past chair, the chair of the Financial Affairs and Facilities Committee, and the President. This committee plans to meet two to three times a year and will report back to the Board after doing so.
Mr. McIntyre then reminded the Board of the future dates of the Francis Marion University Board of Trustees Meetings, which are:
November 7, 2008
February 6, 2009
June 5, 2009
Mr. McIntyre asked if there were further announcements to be made. Dr. Chapman then reminded the Board of the dedication for the Center for the Child on August 14, 2008 and the Freshman Move-in Day on August 16, 2008.
Mr. Norwood made a motion to adjourn. Mrs. Carolyn Shortt seconded this motion. The Board adjourned at 10:47 a.m.
Respectfully Submitted,
Carolyn Beasley Shortt


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August 16, 2003 -- Maybe two months. Maybe two years. . . . No one seems to be able to pinpoint, or even provide an educated estimate, of when Maciej Lampe might become a regular contributor in the Knicks' universe. But most - including Lampe himself - seem certain it will come.
"It all depends," said the 18-year-old, 7-0 Lampe, taking a break from a summer camp for about 250 kids at Basketball City right before Thursday's blackout.
"I never played in the NBA," he added. "I don't know how good the guys are."
Trust us on this one: They're pretty good.
"I'm just hoping to work hard every day and we'll see. It all depends on how quickly I develop.
"It might take a month or two years . . . you never know," Lampe added, one day after signing a three-year deal worth an estimated $2.88 million, a contract that had to wait until a buyout agreement could be reached concerning his Euroleague pact with Real Madrid. "It all depends on my game. My goal is to learn as much as I can the first year."
The Knicks, who have stockpiled more size than any other team in the galaxy, were impressed by Lampe's showing in the summer league, especially his time in the Rocky Mountain Revue in Utah, where he was an All-League pick. They were also impressed with his versatility.
But how and when Lampe - a projected lottery pick who dropped to the second round because of the contract issues - will translate that versatility into production is anybody's guess.
"He's such a talented guy and he picks things up real quick, but it's still hard to say," said Herb Williams, one of the Knicks assistant coaches. "He doesn't shy away from working. He picked the offense up real well this summer at two or three different positions. Any time you've got a guy like that, it just depends. He's 18. He's going to make mistakes. But it just depends."
Lampe insisted he never had any doubts about resolving his contract for this season. It was merely a matter of how badly the Knicks wanted him.
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"I have a lot of work to do," Lampe said. "And in New York, you've got to
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Kolkata-based Mithu Chakraborty, a housewife and a mother of two, surprised herself by winning reality show "Dance India Dance Super Moms". Now she hopes to hone her skills further, and gradually impart dance training to kids who can't afford it.
The 34-year-old had trained in Bharatnatyam briefly in her younger days, but being on a reality show platform gave Mithu a chance to try out different dance forms.
Now she is yearning to learn more.
"Due to the show, I got to learn so many different dance forms and I want to learn more. I also want to teach kids the various forms of dancing. So, I will try to get some sort of training and teach those people who can't afford training," Mithu told IANS over phone from Mumbai.
Mithu is glad that her family, especially her husband, was supportive of her desire to compete at a national platform.
"I had to gather a lot of courage to ask my husband if I can participate in the show, but to my surprise, he agreed in one go. I never thought he will say 'yes' and I really thank him for supporting me so much."
"If he wouldn't have been there, these four months (on the show) would have been really difficult for me," she added.
In fact, she says, "Every housewife must go out and do whatever they want to do because if you do something with a pure heart, it will always give you good results."
As part of her victory on the show, Chakraborty took home the "DID Super Moms" trophy and a cheque of Rs.10 lakh.
She credits her two sons for making her journey in the competition easy.
"These four months were really difficult for me. Every now and then I used to think what my kids are doing, what my husband is doing. But, hats off to my boys. I just can't imagine that they lived alone without me and they took care of everything in my absence.
"I got strength from them, I just thought if they can do so much, why can't I?"
"DID Super Moms" was judged by choreographer-filmmaker Farah Khan and choreographer Marzi Pestonji.


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- 1992
- Hanna-Barbera Studios
- The Addams Family Episode Guide
- Cartoon Characters: Gomez Addams, Morticia Addams, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Pugsley, Wednesday, Granny, Cousin Itt, Norman Normanmeyer, Normina Normanmeyer, Norman Normanmeyer Junior (N.J.).
- Vocal Talent: John Astin (Gomez), Nancy Linani (Morticia), Debi Derryberry (Wednesday), Jeannie Elias (Pugsley), Rip Taylor (Uncle Fester), Carol Channing (Granny), Jim Cummings (Lurch), Pat Fraley (Cousin Itt), Edie McClurg (Normina Normanmeyer), Rob Paulsen (Norman Normanmeyer), Dick Beals (N.J. Normanmeyer), Ruth Buzzi, Ernest Harada, Erv Immerman, Brian Mitchell, Manion Ramsey, Hal Rayle, Susan Silo, Marcelo Tubert, Renee Victor, Marcia Wallace, Anderson Wong, Anna Mania Horsford.
- Directed By Robert Alvarez, Don Lusk, Carl Urbana.
Supervising Director: Ray Patterson.
- Produced By Ron Myrick.
Executive Producer: David Kirschner, Mark Young.
- Animated By Joanna Romersa, Frank Andrina, Joan F. Drake, Allen Wilzbach, Richard J. Bowman, Margaret Nichols, Art Scott, John Kafka, Kunio Shimarnura, Rebecca Bristow, Ed Love, Bob Kirk, Ken Southworth (Animation Directors).
- Written By Bill Matheny, Lane Raichert.
Story Editor: Bill Matheny, Lane Raichert.
- Music By Guy Moon.
Theme Song: Vic Mizzy.
- Edited By Gil Iverson, Tom Gleason, Tim Iverson.
Supervising Film Editor: Terry W. Moore.
- Story Editor: Bill Matheny.
- Creative Consultant: The Lady Colyton.
- Assistant To Producers: Karenia Kaminski.
- Storyboard Artists: Michael V. Bennett, Linda Rowley, Blue Barrington, Bunce Bwana, Greg Garcia, Drew Gentle, Gary Hoffman, Elaine Hultgren, Scott Jeralds, Peter Kingston, Brad Landreth, Tom Nesbitt, Philip D. Stapleton, Maria Piluso, Lane Raichert, Keith Sargent, Karl Toerge, Keith Tucker, Barbara Dourmashkin Case, Louis Scarborough, Jr.
- Recording Director: Gordon Hunt.
- Animation Casting Director: Lynne Batchelor.
- Talent Coordinator: Jill Ziegenhagen.
- Director Of Music Production: Bodie Chandler.
- Graphics: Iraj Paran, Tom Wogatzke.
- Design Supervisor: Scott Jeralds.
- Character Design: Ginny Hawes, George Goodchild, Andre St. Amour, Emily Michels.
- Design Assistants: Dana Granger, Barbara Krueger, Jesus Rodriguez.
- Animation Supervisor: Chris Cuddington.
- Assistant Animation Supervisor: Nary Jamlig.
- Clean-Up Supervisor: Butch Orosa.
- Animation Checking Supervisor: Jan Adams.
- Animation Checking: Beth Goodwin.
- Background Supervisor: Al Gmuer.
- International Background Supervisor: Jonathan Goley.
- Background Layout Keys: Drew Gentle, Al Gmuer, Jim Hickey, Gary Mouri, Ronald Roesch, Swinton O. Scott III, Dean Thompson.
- Backgrounds: Bonnie Callahan, Jonathan Goley, Andy Phillipson, Patty Palmer-Phillipson, Leonard Robledo, Ron Roesch.
- Xerography: Star Wirth.
- Tracing Supervisor: Ros Mandi.
- Word Processing: Gail Prewitt, Linda Germain.
- Ink And Paint Supervisors: Alison Leopold, Stella Reyes.
- Colour Key: Brenda Burns.
- Production Managers: Kris Zimmerman, Catherine Peza.
- Assistant Production Manager: Benji Agoncillo.
- International Production Coordinator: Jo Ham.
- Production Coordinators: Vicki Casper, Rosanne Rodriguez.
- Production Assistants: Tori Pollock, Sandy Benenati, Debby Lathrop, Valerie Menk, Linda Moore.
- Program Executive: Ellen Cockrill.
- Production Publicist: Joseph Swaney.
- Sound Editor: Michele Douglas.
- Music Editor: Peter Collier.
- Track Readers: Jim Hearn, Kerry Iverson, Kay Douglas, Carol Iverson.
- Sound Direction: Ed Collins.
- Rerecording Mixers: Jim Aicholz, Ezra Dweck.
- Negative Consultant: William DeBoer, Jr.
- Camera: Dan Bunn, Raul Salgado.
- International Production Executive: Paul Sabella.
- Executive In Charge Of Production: Jayne Barbera.
- Produced In Association With: Fil-Cartoons, Inc.
- Production Supervisor: Jerry Smith.
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Characters Copyright © 1973 Charles Addams
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012
rambling, rain & running
It's Tuesday, well now Tuesday evening, but Tuesday through Saturday..I workout or run. Last week, I've merged them into one workout. Saturdays are typically my longest run of the week, so I rest up on Sunday and then usually Monday too since I only have a 3 mile run scheduled on that day.
The local gym is about 1.66 miles from my house. Last week, I ran there, biked, ran home...except a lot of the running on my non-scheduled training day was walking due to HEAT. Isn't that insane? Complaining about heat mid-March. Well, I never really complained, I just dealt with it, but it's no secret that me and 'heat' do not get along well, although last week I handled it fine.
Last week (I remember now) I almost doubled my calories burned than I did during prior weeks. This is a fine line for me because I am training for my first half marathon, but I am on a weight loss journey as well. My 'off' running days no longer say 'circuit' training, so I was really only running/working out 3-4 times a week. (but there was a 10 and 12 mile run in those weeks *cough*) I need to continue to lose weight. I need to lose more weight to run faster. I need to run more to lose more weight. Lather, rinse, repeat. However, I will not NOT NOT risk injury to do this. I won't run many more than my sheduled miles, I won't do any new fitness thing that my body isn't used to. I knew biking was safe and holy-ball-of-sweatball madness, I sweat more on that bike than running OR elliptical.
Today (back to the Tuesday reference in paragraph one), I ran IN THE RAIN. Me. I knew it was raining, geared up, and went out in it...on purpose. It was awesome. And not hot.
I got to the gym, took off my extra t-shirt, hopped on a stationary bike and did 16.4 miles in 60 minutes. I love the intervals because they make me cry and you can't tell I'm crying because I'm sweating so much. Then I got off the bike, wobbled around like a newborn foal, put on my wet t-shirt, walked out, and ran all the way home. I'm amazed. My quads were so fatigued when I hit the road again, but I pushed through it. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN? The foal found her legs and galloped home, in the rain....proudly. (I won't mention the overpass she had to get over, ok, maybe I will).
Oh, and I did a brick.
Posted by Lori @ Hit the Ground Running at 7:21 PM
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Maybe you will start a new trend for all women to jog in their wet t-shirts. You know when its hot out and to prevent heat stroke. Seriously though I would have been proud of myself for that kind of workout. I suggest you reward yourself with a relaxing evening of the Orange County Housewives.ReplyDelete
What an awesome post AGAIN! You really are very funny (so is daniel, btw) and very inspiring. I can't believe how you've embraced your fitness goals. Those intervals must be unbelievable! And a BRICK! (I did look it up.) Keep it up Lori. There's no telling where you'll end up but it'll be awesome.....ReplyDelete
You've crossed a line - and it's a good one :) Way to rock that workout (just like you're going to rock the half in a few weeks!)ReplyDelete
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 501 diseños de 67 diseñadores freelance.
Company is developing a novel wireless device monitoring solution to reduce a commercial building's energy and maintenance costs.
The name comes from energy efficiency, and is a combination of the word virtual and joule (e.g. energy). The cheapest form of energy is the energy you don't use.
Virtjoule's team highlights: successful commercialization of cleantech software (acquired by Carrier); expertise of low-cost rapid prototype design/manufacture; development of robust engineering organizations for both Fortune 500 (Director IBM) and venture-backed startups (VP Macromedia)
The target audience will be customers (see below), angel/venture investors and potential employees.
Target customers are commercial building owners and operators that manage large portfolios (1000+) of buildings. Typical customers are Walmart, General Electric, Target, Johnson Controls and the Federal Government.
Our solution (integrated hardware and software) will be monitoring HVAC rooftop units (i.e. package units) and more specifically their components (i.e. compressors and fans).
See http://www.trane.com/COMMERCIAL/DNA…spx?i=1104.
The product has the potential to monitor other types of machines in the future.
The buildings to be monitored are low to medium rise buildings like strip malls, large malls and low rise office buildings (4 stories or less)
The audience is almost exclusively male with an average age between 35-50 and generally have technical educations.
The logo will be deployed as: a permanent label on the solutions wireless hardware monitoring devices, on our marketing materials and on our website.
- Clean, simple and bold design
- Can be either a typeface logo (Microsoft) or can include an icon (AT&T)
- Generally the less colors the better, but feel free to experiment
- Ideally works well in black and white in addition to color
- Simplicity
- Intuitive
- High tech
- Useful
- Innovative
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK) and .eps
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
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Kids Learn Independently With The New Smartscope
It was a joy to watch my three friends, aged 5, 8 and 9 years old, gather their specimens from outside and head to their new Ravensburger Smartscope to magnify, identify, explore and learn. We started with pollen (since we were … Continue reading
New York Toy Fair 2016 Hot Trends for Learning Toys
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Preview of the NY Toy Fair
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How Dollhouse Play Can Strengthen Essential Learning Skills
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I was going to title this blog, "The importance of Play Accessories " but that sounded too boring so instead…."Desperate to Find That Missing Play Piece!" As I get ready for the Toy Fair, where I have to make quick … Continue reading
PAL Award Top Ten Picks 2015 To Be Announced on NBC CT TV Today!
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Worry Eaters Offer Opportunity For Kids To Share Concerns
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TRAINING: The average day for this training camp starts with a 3-mile run. A team practice in the afternoon.
When and why did you start training for fighting? I have been drawn to combat sports my entire life. My parents had us in more traditional sports to steer us from boxing, etc. But I found myself in a Professional NHB fight at 22 years old. I was playing college football at the time. After my fight, I dropped out of school, gave up my scholarship and dedicated myself to a life of mixed martial arts.
What ranks and titles have you held? None. I developed my own system of martial arts which has no ranks or belts - American Whu-Hitu. The only title I strive for is that of UFC welterweight champion.
Do you have any heroes? My Father because of his faith and ability to persevere.
What does it mean for you to fight in the UFC? I am proud to be in the UFC. It amounts to being at the top of my profession.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Associates degree in the field of General Education while attending Dixie State College in St. George UT. I gave further education up to pursue a professional mixed martial arts career.
What was your job before you started fighting? College athlete
Favorite grappling technique: Slamming people
Favorite Striking technique: Hitting them in the face
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Last year, THQ listened to fans, dumped motion controls, and put out a Wii version of a WWE game that fans could be proud of. It was a port of the PS2 version, but it had all the presentation and flair of the "current-gen" games — just none of the online features. This year, THQ is staying the course and delivering another PS2 port that's solid and fun, although the graphics could use some work.
This iteration of WWE SmackDown vs. Raw is delivering more than 70 Superstars, Divas, and Legends, along with a plethora of match types and options. Most are things you should know from last time around — Championship Scramble, Extreme Rules, and so on — but that doesn't mean WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 hasn't packed in a bunch of tweaks and additions.
For starters, there's a new mode called WWE Universe. This is basically the combination of the old career and exhibition modes. Here, the game is generating an infinite WWE calendar packed with Raws, SmackDowns, Superstars, and pay-per-view shows. It plans the cards based on rivalries and rankings, and you pop in to play whatever match you want. If you don't dig a certain card, you're free to whip up a match of your own.
The only catch is, you can't just put a Superstar (created or otherwise) into a world title match — that honor has to be earned by climbing the ranks and winning a No. 1 Contender match or snatching the briefcase at WrestleMania's Money in the Bank match. You'll play as wrestlers, raise their rankings, and earn your spots. Even better, the game is tracking rivalries and tossing in random cutscenes. Maybe Vince McMahon introduces another opponent after you've won a match or maybe your opponent attacks you during your entrance.
WWE Universe is undoubtedly cool. Basically, it's a never ending career mode where the game tracks feuds, Royal Rumble winners, and more. When you create wrestlers — whom you can now give all the attribute points you want and who stick with the "layer" system folks know for clothes — they're entered into the shows. You can simulate a decade and see how far they go or jump in and manage teams and rivalries so you can see the relationships unfold. WWE Universe is your SmackDown vs. Raw playset — make some changes and see what develops.
The flipside to that freedom is Road to WrestleMania. On the surface, WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011's Road looks like that of the past — you choose one of five tales and play through the weeks leading up to that Superstar's appearance on the grandest stage of all in between watching a bunch of cutscenes. However, there's a twist here: this year's Road to WrestleMania has you wandering around backstage.
It's an epic standoff!Now, most shows will require you to go talk to someone before a match can begin, but there are a bunch of side quests to engage in here. If you want, you can rush to the gorilla position and head out to that week's match, but if you're the "do everything person," there are conversations to listen in on, people to talk to, and fights to start. Now, picking backstage brawls might sound foolish (and in a way, I found it to be), but every match or fight you engage in rewards you with Superstar points that you can apply to your move damage and damage resistance — it's like a mini-RPG in a way.
Trouble is, leveling up your attributes is a bit of a bitch and not worth it. I've done every Road to WrestleMania, and I didn't find the leveling process worth much — you have to pick fights with every Superstar backstage to get enough points to really max out your character. There's definitely something to be desired here. Although all the Superstars are voiced, mouths flap like mad and there's no lip syncing to speak of. On top of that, the backstage environments are empty caverns and the brawls you get into seem to go on way too long.
Here's the thing, though: even with those stumbles, I dig this year's Road to WrestleMania. Sure, the free roaming can be really cheesy and almost seem low budget at times, but the stories themselves are rad. Who doesn't want to see Edge and Christian reeking of awesomeness, Jericho getting Pedigreed on a car, or John Cena dealing with Randy Orton's mind games? Toss in that the Undertaker's storyline takes WWE SmackDown vs. Raw to places I never thought THQ would, and you've got a truly unique mode. There are decisions to make and different paths to go down. Sure, it's really rough around the edges, but the characters you unlock and the stories you get to be a part of make it cool.
I haven't touched on controls much, and that's because they're largely what you already know and expect. You can use a Wiimote/nunchuk or a GameCube controller, but I went with the third option and used a Classic Controller Pro. You run with a shoulder button, grapple with the right stick, and so on. However, there are some adjustments this time around like your ability to reverse a pin into a pin of your own. Still, the biggest change is the fact that there's no longer a strong modifier for grapples. Now, the game will read how damaged your opponent is and scale your attacks based on that.
That might sound fine, but I ran into a problem with it. Most of the time when you grapple, you start with a simple armbar or similar chain grapple move. From there, you move the stick again to enter into a slam or throw. Trouble is, reversing still comes down to one button this time around, and these chain grapples are really easy to reverse out of. This means that when I played people, I found myself getting into a lot of armbars, but reversed before I could get to a simple suplex. When I was playing Bryan Williams of THQ fame, I wanted to pull off different moves but he kept reversing everything, so I found myself doing the same running attack over and over.
There's a balancing issue that needs to be worked out here. When I can't even pull off a simple body slam, something's wrong and most definitely frustrating.
Still, the good additions outweigh the bad. Hell in a Cell has been revamped so that the cage is realistically sized and weapons are underneath the ring, Story Designer is back and has more scenes to use and less restrictions on created characters, and the Universe matches have logos in the beginning letting you know where the show is coming from — it's just another small addition that sucks you into the experience.
Make up your own caption, folks.If WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 has a weakness, it's that this title does feel a lot like a fixed-up version of last year's. Story Designer has new scenes along with some bells and whistles, but it's the same thing as before and you still can't share tales online. There's a new position for Create-A-Finisher, but it's what you know and have used in the past. Although there are new items in Create-A-Superstar, it's the exact same setup you've been fooling with for years. From there, bouts like the Inferno match and Extreme Rules are the same song and dance you've seen before. Now, I'm not saying any of that stuff sucks; most of it is actually really cool. It's just that it feels like well-worn territory in some sections.
Disappointing for Wii fans is the fact that the game doesn't look all that good. It's solid, but the game can't hold a candle to the PS2 version. The characters look like they have sharp edges, I could see structure lines in the backstage environment and through the ref's head, and so on. These issues lessen the presentation and "you're there" feel of the game, and so does the fact that the commentary seems to be wrong here more than in the other versions (and it was wrong a lot there, too.)
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In the end, there are three main annoyances that stand out to me with WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2011 on Wii: the frustrating grapples, the rough Road to WrestleMania backstage stuff and the lackluster graphics. Not being able to transition to a hip toss, watching John Cena's mouth open and close at random, and seeing the washed-out character
s sucked me out of the experience.
Thankfully, there's plenty to like this game — and that's really cool for the Wii. Making choices in the stories, never knowing what was going to happen in WWE Universe Mode, and seeing the TV presentation is great. Sure, it feels like a suped-up version of last year's title here and there, but there's nothing wrong with that when the game is this much fun.


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Is lip balm addictive? I remember back in the dark ages of 1985 reading in my Seventeen magazine (never mind that I was by then eighteen) that lip products containing petroleum products were addictive. It didn't really explain why. I later found several theories, the best being that petroleum jelly does not sink into the skin, so it only gives short term relief and over time can actually dry the skin more. The major lip balm companies aren't advertising this of course, and there seems to be quite a bit of disagreement on the matter.
Regardless, I took it quite seriously at the time and pondered the matter as I swiped my lips with petroleum jelly laden Chapstick. I then decided that no way in double hockypucks was I ever going to be addicted to lip balm! So I started reading labels and buying other lip products, ones without that evil ingredient.
I found some wonderful stuff. So wonderful that I started to wear it all the time. Now I even wake up in the middle of the night to put on my current favorites. Life is very wrong without something on my lips. Over time I even gave up worrying about whether the products contained petrolatum. What the heck, I could always alternate with other stuff (although I still prefer balms with natural ingredients) .
More recently, I read that medicated lip products such as Carmex or Blistex contain addictive ingredients because they create an addictive tingling sensation that, along with drying ingredients, that make you seek to reapply the product. I don't regularly use those products anyway, so I wasn't concerned. But have you tried the tingly lip plumpers that are all the rage now? For some reason I seem to really like that sensation, so I keep reapplying them….
So back to the question of whether lip balm is addictive: I certainly get pretty darn uncomfortable without it. I also can't, and won't give it up! For further reading on the matter (a lot of further reading), Lip Balm Annonymous is a wonderful source for information and amusement. If anything, browse the pages that include company specific statements and information, and peruse the hate mail page which is full of amusing rants from people with apparently little sense, or at least a serious inability to recognize humor. The site is a bit dated, but still quite relevant.
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iTunes visualisations are nice to look at (though nothing will replace Winamp's in my heart), but this Sound Scape concept looks a treat with the inbuilt LED projector beaming visuals out to match the music being played.
It's all based on nature, so if you're playing 50 Cent don't expect images of guns to be projected. Instead, the concept renders show fluffy clouds and relaxing pools of water. A stone-like controller can change tracks or volume - or at least would do, if it was actually a real product. Sadly this concept is as real as the cerulean clouds it projects. [Hyunsoo Choi, Hyori Kim & Gisung Han via Yanko Design]


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As a public school child in the 70's, my Valentine's Day often ended in tears. I remember digging into my optimistically large brown paper bag in first grade to find only three envelopes, even though my mother had insisted I fill out mass-produced cards for every child in my class. "No one likes me!" I […]
I've been writing this blog for close to a year. While I'm no Finslippy (heck, I'm not even an Ima on the Bima), my readership seems to be slowly increasing. For all of you who are new to my blog, I though I would re-post some of my personal favorites over the course of this week. (Does this have anything to do with having to send home 23 progress reports this week? You bet it does!)
from March 19, 2009
Something Jewish About Breastfeeding
I spent the afternoon with my friend Tanya today, who writes a fantastic breastfeeding blog for Motherwear. I promised I would write "something Jewish about breastfeeding" for her.
"The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast." Genesis 21:8-21
It might be hard to imagine throwing a feast to celebrate weaning. Many of my peers breastfed their children into toddlerhood, and even then had palpable ambivalence about ending the nursing relationship. But when I came across this passage in the Torah, shortly after my daughter Ella stopped nursing, I was struck by the idea. If only I had celebrated reaching this milestone rather than apologizing for it!
My first daughter Ella and I had a very rough start with breastfeeding. She came into the world jaundiced, and consequently, very sleepy. With no lactation support, I didn't know that I should pump during this time in order to build up a strong milk supply, and at a few weeks old she was diagnosed with failure to thrive. I was deeply committed to exclusively breastfeeding, and met with the lactation consultant at the local hospital (who had been on vacation during our extended hospital stay) as well as every La Leche leader in Southern Oregon. I tried every recommendation, but because of our late start, nothing made a difference. Ultimately, and with a broken heart, I gave into her doctor's insistence that we supplement with formula. Even then, I continued to seek solutions, and after another month of pumping every three hours, day and night, with a hospital grade pump, I was able to increase my supply to the point where my daughter began refusing the formula.
I share this to say that I fought hard for the privilege of breastfeeding my daughter. But, on her first birthday, when she refused the breast, I breathed a sigh of relief. While I probably wasn't ready to initiate the weaning process, I was really, truly ready to stop breastfeeding. Despite all the progress I had made, I never stopped being anxious about breastfeeding. I never stopped worrying about how much milk she was getting, and I never really gained confidence as a nursing mom. So when she refused the breast, with the stubbornness that she now displays as a kindergartener, I comfortably glided into "don't offer, don't refuse" mode. She never reached for the breast again.
Instead, we could have thrown a party, as Abraham did for Issac. Dear friends, let's celebrate this child who has grown and thrived despite impossible odds (according to the Torah, Sarah was 90 when she conceived.) While at first I questioned why Abraham held the party instead of Sarah, I realized that party must have been meant to honor her as well. Loved ones gathered to celebrate a mother who found joy late in life, and would probably not live to bear another child. Yet, she was allowing her son to move on with grace to the next of many stages of increasing independence.
Zoe was born 10 months later. Determined to do a better job, I pulled out my Medela pump at the first sign of jaundice and had her weighed several times a week until we were convinced that all was well. I was jubilant and for the first time, felt great about breastfeeding. But at her six-month checkup, when she was still nursing exclusively and on demand (and refusing any kind of bottle with a now familiar stubbornness), we discovered she had actually lost weight over the last two months. All my anxieties returned, and once again, I became a slave to the baby scale.
I didn't have a party when Zoe weaned, either. But I learned something from Sarah and Abraham. Weaning didn't need to be a time of mourning, but instead of time of celebration. I gave myself permission to initiate the "don't offer, don't refuse" process as Zoe approached one year. When she quickly weaned, I didn't make excuses and I didn't feel remorse. I was proud of the obstacles I had overcome to raise two beautiful, healthy daughters and was pleased to take a tiny step back to watch them grow.


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Overweight women find health care access and attitudes a constant struggle.
"The participants in our study described the experience of seeking healthcare as a constant battle and struggle and were upset by the reactions of healthcare staff" says lead author Professor Emily Merrill from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
"They told us that they felt even more uncomfortable with specialists than with their own family doctors and nurse practitioners."
Four themes emerged: struggling to fit in, feeling not quite human, being dismissed and refusing to give up.
Women talked about feeling shame and embarrassment because they did not fit into the normal healthcare environment because of their size and needed larger gowns, blood pressure cuffs, scales and chairs.


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Banks to pay $8.5B over foreclosures
WASHINGTON -- Ten major banks agreed Monday to pay $8.5 billion to settle federal complaints that they wrongfully foreclosed on homeowners who should have been allowed to stay in their homes.
The banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Wells Fargo, will pay billions to homeowners to end a review process of foreclosure files that was required under a 2011 enforcement action.
The review was ordered because banks mishandled people's paperwork and skipped required steps in the foreclosure process.
The settlement was announced jointly by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and the Federal Reserve.
The agreement is the banks' latest step toward eliminating hundreds of billions of dollars in potential liabilities related to the housing crisis that crested in 2008. When they release fourth-quarter earnings later this month, the banks hope to reassure investors that they are making progress toward addressing those so-called legacy claims.
But advocates say the foreclosure deal allows banks to escape responsibility for damages that might have cost them much more. Regulators are settling at too low a price and possibly at the expense of the consumer, they say.
"This was supposed to be about compensating homeowners for the harm they suffered," said Diane Thompson, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center.
The payout guidelines already allowed wronged homeowners less compensation than the actual damages to them, she said.
Under the settlement, people who were wrongfully foreclosed on could receive from $1,000 up to $125,000.
Failing to offer a loan modification would be considered a lighter offense; unfairly seizing and selling a person's home would entitle that person to the biggest payment, according to guidelines released last summer by the OCC.
The agreement covers up to 3.8 million people who were in foreclosure in 2009 and 2010. All will receive some amount of compensation. That's an average of $2,237 per homeowner, although the payouts are expected to vary widely.
About $3.3 billion would be direct payments to borrowers, regulators said. Another $5.2 billion would pay for other assistance, including loan modifications.
The companies involved in the settlement also include: Citigroup, MetLife Bank, PNC Financial Services, Sovereign, SunTrust, U.S. Bank and Aurora.
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The deep question behind 'Another Earth'
A new movie opening in Minnesota this week asks a simple, but potentially very deep question: If you were to meet yourself, what would you say?
Two college friends, Brit Marling and Mike Cahill co-wrote "Another Earth." They made it on a small budget with Marling in the lead role and Cahill directing. It's a smart emotion-filled story which may make Marling a star.
It would be easy to hate Brit Marling and Mike Cahill. She's incandescently beautiful. He's pretty good looking: they are both smart, and funny. Yet they seem genuinely pleasant. Cahill is even willing to take a crack at a simple description of their movie.
" 'Another Earth' is a minimalist science fiction romantic dramatic thriller," he said, slowly and carefully.
"Ooh, that's the best I've ever heard it done," Marling said, clarly impressed.
And she's heard it a lot in recent years. But minimalist?
"That's the one you are picking contention with?" Marling laughs. "That's so interesting."
"The idea is that the science fiction is very, very much in the background," Cahill said. "If it were an equation, there is only one new variable in the science fiction and that is the appearance of a duplicate Earth with all 6.3 billion of us also living there.
"So the science fiction element is very slimmed down for the purpose of that, confronting yourself. The ability to meet another you."
Cahill and Marling are self-described space geeks who met in college at Georgetown. They collaborated on short films, but often spent time just shooting the breeze, making up stories they'd build around space factoids.
They became fascinated with the idea of another earth, Earth 2, and the implications of speaking with the person who would have the greatest empathy with you - yourself.
"From there we worked our way backwards into what is the human drama where meeting yourself with the possibility of confrontation would have the greatest emotional resonance?" Marling said. "And that seemed to be a story a girl who couldn't forgive herself for something she had done."
They wrote the story of Rhoda Williams, a young woman who on the eve of going to MIT to study astrophysics hears scientists have discovered Earth 2. That night she also makes a terrible mistake that not only wrecks her life, it destroys a stranger's family.
Marling said they had to imagine what it's like to have life change irrevocably in an instant.
"There's no set of instructions," she said. "And I think that happens to Rhoda. It's like 'BAM!' She is in a moment and there like are no rules or advice for what to do next.
As the years pass, and Earth 2 draws closer, Rhoda desperately looks for ways to make amends to the stranger, and to herself. An answer appears in a TV commercial, offering a "unique and life-changing experience" with a trip to Earth 2.
Rhoda looks for a way to get to Earth 2 to find the other Rhoda to ask how she's dealt with tragedy.
Many questions are posed in "Another Earth" but the answers are up to individual interpretation.
As filmmakers, Cahill and Marling try to build an emotional bridge to the audience.
"It's almost as if we are building a bridge, a literal bridge over a river," Cahill said. "The audience needs to put the final bricks in."
Critics have loved the film. Fox Searchlight Pictures bought it at the Sundance Film Festival.
Marling is part of a generation of female performers who creates her own destiny by controlling her own films. Buzz is already beginning to build around another film she co-wrote and starred in, called "The Sound of Your Voice," due out later this year.
Cahill's favorite reaction came from a 12-year-old girl in Philadelphia.
"And she goes 'I just have to say that 'Harry Potter' is my favorite movie. Until now,' Cahill said.
"I almost was in tears. I was like 'I don't care if that's a lie, it's the most beautiful think I have ever heard in my life.' "
"Twelve year-olds don't lie," Marling laughed.