text: In between big workouts, I'm back on the treadmill doing shorter intervals. Very short in fact! Today's sprint workout was a warmup followed by 15 sets of 1 minute sprints. After each sprint I walked for 2 minutes to get my heart rate back down. While my effort level was definitely Zone 4, it takes a while for the heart to ramp up to a really fast beat, so my data shows that I would just touch Zone 4 by the end of the sprint. I was running at 9.4 mph, which is about my fastest mile pace. (Told you I wasn't a fast runner). Next time I have to hold that pace for 2 minutes...bet my heart rate will get a bit higher in the zone then!


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2017 Gainey Cup kicks-off May 1 on Fort Benning
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FORT BENNING, Ga. – The 2017 William J. (Joe) Gainey Cup, a grueling competition that aims to identify the Army's Best Scout Squad, gets underway May 1 with events scheduled at various locations across Fort Benning.
The four-day competition, hosted by the 316th Cavalry Brigade, pits 24 six-man Cavalry Scout teams competing in back-to-back events that test their physical conditioning, Cavalry skills and team strategies.
The annual competition, established in 2013, features Cavalry Scout Squads from across the Army to include units from the 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C.; U.S. Army National Guard, 25th Infantry Division, Fort Shafter, Hawaii; 10th Mountain Division, Fort Drum, N.Y.; 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, Texas, and a team from Canada among others.
The first event is scheduled to kickoff at 5:30 a.m. Monday, May 1 and the competition will conclude at approximately 11 a.m. May 4.
A formal awards ceremony will be held at Harmony Church, Building 4303, immediately following the final event.
The competition is open to the public and several events are spectator-friendly.
A schedule of events will be released no later than April 26 and posted on the Fort Benning Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FortBenningMCoE/.
Family and friends are also encouraged to "Tweet" updates and photos on their favorite teams during the competition using #GaineyCup, @Fort Benning.

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It is time once again to vote for the 2014 Shiitake Awards!
Vote on the dumbest sex offender stories and the worst among those who exploit sex offenders for person game. Vote and share the awards with fellow activists! Voting ends February 1. It is free and fun. Most of all, you get to stick it to those who stick it to Registered Citizens.
Below is the full list of Nominees.
Please pick the 2014 Worst News Mutt (Worst Reporter). There are four finalists.
Please choose the 2014 Worst Politico (politician). There are four candidates.
Please choose the DUMBEST quote of 2014! There are four candidates.
Please select the dumbest law of 2014!
Please Select the 2014 Everyday Zeroes (this category is for people who aren't politicians or reporters). There are four finalists.
Please Select the winner for the 2014 Holy Shiitakes Award (dumbest sex-offender-related story of the year). There are three finalists
Please Select the ICBS National Chump-ion (aka dumbest state of the year). There are three candidates.
- Don Lehman, Glen Falls Post-Star (NY): In the story on an auto-accident, Don Lehman made it a point to bring out the past of one of the accident victims, who is a Registered Citizen. It is fairly amazing that a number of individuals rebuked Lehman; Don Lehman himself proclaims, "there seems to be inexplicable sympathy for sex offenders in some circles" in an article he wrote to defend himself (adding "Since many readers seem to be ignorant about how the newsgathering and publishing process works, here is some insight."). He later implies the man should be in prison for life but the system failed, all of which has nothing to do with the auto accident.
- Mike DeForest, WKMG 6 Orlando (FL): DeForest ran a sweeps week "Sex Offenders who have jobs and we get one fired" story in October, which featured a number of Registered Citizens trying to make a living. DeForest bragged about getting one fired. A couple of months later, one of the targets of his first story won $3 Million from a scratch-off ticket, and DeForest ran a nasty story on the lotto winner. DeForest seems almost obsessed with this man, making it a point to remind readers of his earlier expose.
- David J. Neal, Miami Herald (FL): This guy is the antithesis of award-winning Miami Herald reporter Fred Grimm. This guy is not even a news reporter—he's a sports writer. But since he decided to write a report on a former Florida International University baseball pitcher throwing the first pitch at an FIU game and that this pitcher is now a Registered Citizen. He even justified his article in a subsequent email: "Because it was adjudged to be of news value when a large public university gives even the minor honor of throwing out the first pitch to someone with that crime on his record. Some very vocal people had the same reaction as you. Others had the "What were they thinking?" reaction." Not to mention much of the subsequent correspondence consisted of snide remarks.
- Margery Eagan, Boston Herald (MA): The Boston Herald is not exactly a bastion for unbiased and non-opinionated reporting, but Eagan takes the cake by suggesting banning Registered Citizens from winning the lottery because one registrant used his lotto winnings for bad purposes. "Simple common sense tells you this spells disaster: a dangerous career sex offender, with $10 million to burn…A known pedophile wins $10 million in the lottery. Within days, the Lottery realizes it. And neither they, nor anyone else, says, wait a minute here. So from 2008 until now, **** lived as he chose on his winnings, and who knows how many children paid."
- Grady Judd, Sheriff, Polk Co., FL: Sheriff Dudd's online entrapment stings involved trolling the Plenty of Fish dating site to entrap people looking for relations with adults, then switching the ages after contact had been made. Sheriff Grady Judd, when asked about over-aggressive detectives, instead went on the offensive: "The concern (I have) is that you inflate your investigative reporting to make it glitzy." He continued to call those entrapped "Predators" even when the DA elected not to prosecute. It is worth noting Sheriff Judd was the sheriff who arrested the man who was allegedly selling a "pedophile guide" on Amazon back in 2010 for "obscenity charges" despite living in another state.
- Richard T. "Dick" Moore, State Sen., MA: Proposed a bill to prevent Registered Citizens from winning the lottery. Only a guy named Dick could come up with this. "The money, Mr. Moore suggested, could be withheld and donated to a fund for victims. 'Whenever (a sexual offense) happens, the victims of sex crimes need certainly a lot of counseling and other assistance,' Mr. Moore said. 'And if someone is benefiting from the state lottery, we ought to be able to access that money to help pay some of the bills of people who have been hurt.' Asked about potential ramifications on civil liberties, Mr. Moore acknowledged he was "sure the (American Civil Liberties Union) wouldn't like it."
- Matt Gaetz, State Rep., FL: Gaetz played a role in preventing the former head of the FL sex offender program from getting a job in Wisconsin, in addition to his constant pimping of FloriDUH's new "scorched earth" policy. Today FloriDUH, tomorrow the world? Did I mention he had a recent arrest for DUI and can be found on mugshot websites?
- Kurt Wallace, State Rep., AL: Kurt Wallace tried for years to push a statewide anti-clustering law. After ReFORM-AL fought this year's version of the anti-clustering law, Wallace secretly pushed a local anti-cluster law to shut down a halfway house in his district, which went from committee to Governor's desk in 12 days, superfast by Alabama standards. On the upside, he was voted out of office. A Shiitake Award would be a fitting swan song.
- Emily Roberts, aka "The Guidance Girl" (NY): Roberts is a licensed psychotherapist in NY working mostly with teens. This quote came from the Dec. 11th Dr. Drew on Call segment, also featuring Once Fallen, in a discussion about the Registered Citizen who won the lottery in Florida. Not only does she feel we should suffer, we have a high recidivism rate as well: "Well, they should have to suffer. I mean they have ruined someone's life forever. This child will forever harmed. This child will never be the same again. And, the other children, because it is pretty likely that he offended and hurt other children, as well beside these two children, because around 75 percent of people who offend do it again. So, we do not know. He could have done it again."
- Lauren Book, Lauren's Kids (FL): Lauren Book stated the following in support of adding the words "Sexual Predator" to the driver's licenses of some registrants in FloriDUH: "This designation is a tool that we as community members – from law enforcement officers to TSA agents to teachers, daycare workers, doctors, nurses and everyone in between – can use to further protect the children and families of Florida… I believe a statutory reference is too benign. This is a scarlet letter that clearly states 'WARNING! Keep this individual away from children!' They are a clear and imminent danger, and parents and families have a right to know."
- Barney Bishop, Florida Smart Justice Alliance (FL): The following statement was given during testimony before the Florida legislature in support of 50 year mandatory minimums: "We think that very long sentences are warranted; in fact, we'd like longer sentences. And I would just say in closing that with respect to smart justice that maybe what we ought to really be doing is thinking about giving the victims' families an opportunity to have visitation with the perpetrators and a pair of scissors. That's our idea of smart justice, Mr. Chairman, not anything short of that."
- Chicago PD Detective John J. Escalante (IL): When Apple moved to add cop-blocking encryption to newer cell phones, LEOs like Escalante tried using Predator Panic to argue against the privacy measure. "Apple will become the phone of choice for the pedophile," said John J. Escalante, chief of detectives for Chicago's police department. "The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I've got to get an Apple phone."
- Arizona HB 2515: Arizona's so-called "revenge porn" law makes it a felony — and potentially a sex offense — to share any image of nudity or sexuality before you get consent from every person pictured. Among the first to be investigated under the new law was an art photography display published in the Phoenix New Times. The ACLU is now representing a number of publications in a class action suit against the state (Antigone Books v. Horne).
- California SB 967: Also known as the "Yes Means Yes" or the "affirmative Consent" law, the bill requires affirmative consent to be "ongoing throughout the sexual activity," meaning that sexual partners must agree to each step of a sexual encounter as it progresses and consent can be revoked at any time. The standard would apply to all sexual encounters regardless of whether the parties are having a one-night stand or are in a long-term relationship. Critics say the proposal unfairly burdens those accused of sexual assault. "How does a person prove they receive consent shy of having it videotaped," Joe Cohn, the legislative policy director at the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told Inside Higher Ed. Cohn said the policy reverses the presumption of innocence for the accused, which he called a "dramatic and important shift."
- Missouri Constitutional Amendment #2: This bill is a load of #2 alright; the amendment allows hearsay evidence of past sex crimes against someone in court accused of a sex crime. This is all the more interesting considering this is an amendment to the state constitution.
- Carole Stabile, Oregon: Carole Stabile, a feminist professor at the University of Oregon, expressed outrage that the UO hired a Registered Citizen speak at a campus event to discuss the consequences of committing a sex crime. -- "We're universities, for heaven's sake, where we have some of the brightest minds in the country working on and researching these very issues. Why not bring some of them in to talk to students in at risk subcultures rather than a sex offender turned campus lecture circuit speaker whose main argument is that raping a baby sitter can happen to anyone?"
- Chad Hightower, Texas: Hightower, a now-former Wise County Texas Sheriff's Deputy, was arrested for forcing Registered Citizens to pose for embarrassing nude photos while claiming it was part of the registration process. -- According to the arrest warrant affidavit filed by Texas Ranger Ron Pettigrew, Hightower forced a male sex offender to strip naked and be photographed…On June 17, he met with Hightower to complete the paperwork, and was told nude photos would need to be taken. "Deputy Hightower represented this as a change in the sex offender registration required by the state," the affidavit states. The victim was taken to a bathroom in the sheriff's office lobby where he stripped naked, and Hightower took "several photographs from all sides" before telling the victim he could get dressed and leave, the affidavit states. A month later, the victim had to meet with Hightower again to update his sex offender information. He was told the photos were defective due to a glare, and more would need to be taken…Hightower directed the victim into the impound office where he once again was photographed in the nude. The two were the only ones in the building at that time. "After a short time, Deputy Hightower reportedly advised (the victim) he believed the next thing the State was going to require was photographs of a sex offender's erect penis," the affidavit states. "Deputy Hightower asked (the victim) if he could obtain an erection for him, so that the needed photographs could be taken and (the victim) would not have to return in the future for them."
- Brent Oesterblad, Chuck Rodrick, & Traci Heisig, aka Offendex: Offendex is notorious for creating a private registry to attempt to extort Registered Citizens. This year, they lost a $3.4 million civil suit -- A shadowy network of Arizona-based Internet companies that used public records to demand money from sex offenders and harass those who complained has imploded amid lawsuits, court hearings and new standards enacted by banks, social media and technology companies. The websites, including Offendex.com, SORArchives and Sexoffenderrecord.com, in November stopped seeking payments from people in exchange for removing profiles, blaming the change on "many conflicts, threats, unreasonable requests and false accusations about this website…In an interview with Call 12 for Action last month, website operator Brent Oesterblad accused owner Charles "Chuck" Rodrick of taking elaborate steps to conceal his ownership of the websites and misleading state and federal judges about it. Rodrick and Oesterblad, both of whom were convicted on fraud-related charges in the early 1990s, are at the center of several state and two federal lawsuits… Among the financial transactions detailed in court were tens of thousands of dollars to Rodrick's girlfriend, Traci Heisig. Heisig, who is a court reporter and owns Desert Hills Reporting in Phoenix, is a joint plaintiff in the defamation suit against Rodrick's ex-wife, her boyfriend and a sex offender in Washington."
- Kellie Green, Texas: Kellie Green used a giant-sized photo of her 12 year old girl as a prop to attempt to force the small town of Mart to fire a Registered Citizen hired to perform sanitation duties for the town. -- At this week's Mart City Council meeting, Kellie Green, 38, who is no relation to Lonnie Green, stood before the elected officials holding up an enlarged photo of her 12-year-old daughter. "How has the council worked toward her safety?" she said. "Can you tell her that you had the safety of the children of Mart in mind when you hired this person?" Kellie Green demanded that Lonnie Green be fired. The mother of six children said the council needs to realize the city can't absorb the liability of keeping him as an employee. Hiring one sex offender sets a precedent that hiring all sex offenders is OK, she said. If one child is hurt because of that practice, the repercussions, financially, legally and publicly, would devastate the city, Kellie Green said.
- Manassas City (VA) cops proposed making child pornography to prosecute child pornography: A 17 year old boy takes a picture of his penis and sent it to a 15 year old girl (the girl sent naked pics of herself to the boy but was not charged for some reason). The girl's parents call the cops, and the cops charge the 17 year old boy with possession AND manufacturing child porn. It seems the police came up with a brilliant idea-- they were going to take the kid to the hospital, give him a shot of something to give him an erection, and take a picture of the boy's erect penis to compare with the photos he sent to his girlfriend. The plan was later dropped, but the suggestion alone is Shiitake-worthy.
- Alabama high school's failed attempt at an entrapment sting leads to an alleged rape: I wonder if these "edumacators" got the idea from that idiotic Dateline NBC show, TCAP. If you can't trust police with conducting a proper sting, then how reasonable is a plot where school officials hire a mentally handicapped girl to be bait for a potential rapist? – "A 14-year-old girl with special needs allegedly was raped at school after a teacher's aide persuaded her to act as bait to catch an accused sexual predator, a fellow student…On January 22, 2010, the boy approached a 14-year-old girl with special needs who had already declined his "recent, repeated propositions" for sex, according to the brief. "She was not physically or mentally handicapped, although she does qualify for special education classes," Artrip told CNN. When the girl told Simpson, she encouraged the girl to "meet (the boy) in the bathroom where teachers could be positioned to 'catch him in the act' before anything happened," according to the brief. The girl initially refused, but then agreed, according to Artrip. Simpson and the girl went to Dunaway's office to explain the plan. Dunaway "did not respond with any advice or directive," according to the brief. "If this was problematic for the administration it would have been better to express that on the front end instead of the back end," said attorney McGriff Belser III, who represents Simpson. The girl left Dunaway's office, found the boy in the hallway, and "agreed to meet for sex," according to the brief. "Something went wrong," said Artrip. Instead of meeting in the boys' bathroom on the special needs students' corridor, the boy told the girl to meet him in the sixth-grade boys' bathroom, in another part of the school, according to the brief. "No teachers were in the bathroom to intervene," the brief reads.
- Withholding sex and not listening to your lover's feelings count as "sexual violence" at the University of Michigan: Michigan's football program isn't the only embarrassment to the University of Michigan these days. It seems UM has published a rather strange set of definitions of sexual violence which includes "withholding sex" and "discounting your partner's feelings." -- Examples of abuse listed on the University of Michigan's domestic violence awareness website say "sexual violence" includes "withholding sex and affection" and "discounting the partner's feelings regarding sex" – definitions that have come under fire by some men's rights activists. The terms, found under the heading "definitions," also suggest verbal or psychological abuse include: "insulting the partner; ignoring the partner's feelings; withholding approval as a form of punishment; yelling at the partner; labeling the partner with terms like crazy [and] stupid." Janet Bloomfield, social media director for "A Voice For Men," an activist group that counters feminist extremism and misandry, took aim at these University of Michigan examples, first on her Twitter account over the summer and more recently in an email to The College Fix. "These kinds of policies contribute to an increasing level of sexual misconduct hysteria and essentially create a chilling climate for young men," Bloomfield said. "When things like 'withholding sex' and 'ignoring a partner's feelings' are framed as a pattern of behavior that is abusive, they are not only pathologizing normal relationship behaviors, but they are opening the door for vindictive or spurned partners to make allegations that can have profound effects for the accused."
- FloriDUH: FloriDUH has dominated the worst state category, and with its "scorched earth" policy in place, FloriDUH seems the logical choice to continue its dynasty as ICBS chumps. Aside from the scorched earth policy, Lauren Book, Sheriff Grady Judd's botched online entrapment stings, and the abundance of Florida reporters and quotes in this year's Shiitakes make a strong case for a repeat performance.
- Missouri (aka 'Mizzery"): Missouri almost monopolized this year's dumbest law category will bills targeting registrant lobbyists, removing the ban on hearsay evidence in Sex crime cases, and allowing civil commitment on out-of-state registrants arrested on non-sex crimes help make the case for Missouri. Add the story of Donna Rosele, the hairdresser trying to pass a mandatory castration/ death penalty law on certain sex offenders, and Mizzery gives FloriDUH a run for its title.
- WisCONsin: Someone had to fill the third slot. Why not the cheesehead state? After all, Wisconsin seems poised to be the first state in almost a decade to pass a statewide residency restriction law, despite the evidence of its inefficacy. 2. Sarah Barwacz of CBS 58 Milwaukee takes credit for convincing Wilwaukee to pass 2500 foot restrictions, making about 98% of the city off-limits. And the WI Governor has already stated he will support such a bill.


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Blake went in for chemo on Tuesday afternoon and came home on Thursday afternoon. If that sounds like the shortest stay ever, you're right! This is what happens now that the Red Punch is one type of chemo only.
Blake worked for quite a while with the physical therapist today. She taught him how to use one crutch and climb the stairs. No more scooting up and down the stairs! This is another exciting milestone towards normalcy.
We'll go back to the clinic on Thursday to see if he can get more chemo. A nurse practitioner explained to us that his body will regenerate healthy blood more slowly, as his bone marrow has been through so many months of chemo. So we hope that we can continue at a good pace, but realize that delays are almost certainly part of finishing up.
We're all tired. Prayers for a restful and restorative weekend are appreciated.


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Che! (Web Exclusive)
Reviewed by Robert Cashill
Produced by Sy Bartlett; directed by Richard Fleischer; written by Michael Wilson and Bartlett, from a story by Bartlett and David Karp; cinematography by Charles Wheeler; edited by Marion Rothman; art direction by Arthur Lonergan and Jack Martin Smith; set decoration by Stuart A. Reiss and Walter M. Scott; music by Lalo Schifrin; starring Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode, and Barbara Luna. Blu-ray, color, 96 min.,1969. A Twilight Time release,www.screenarchives.com.
I'd like to say that the prospect of normalized relations between the United States and Cuba led me to Che!, an account of the guerrilla leader Ernesto "Che" Guevara focused largely on his involvement with Fidel Castro. But, really, I wanted to fill in a blank in my viewing of all the movies lambasted in Harry Medved and Randy Lowell's The Fifty Worst Films of All Time (1978), which made a big impression on me as a kid. Thirty-seven years later, scratch Che! off that particular bucket list item—and score one for the book.
It's a juvenile volume, one that roughs up the likes of Last Year at Marienbad and Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible films to razz "cultured" cinema. (Medved, the brother of conservative commentator Michael Medved, wasn't much older than myself when he co-authored it.) Raising the profile of bad cinema, as this and other Medved-penned titles did, was a harbinger of the current culture of snark that we're stuck in. Yet Che! fully deserves the abuse. Part of it is for the usual reasons the book seizes upon, the poor casting and acting, and the risible dialogue, among them. I'll throw in the flat lighting and indifferent production design, as airless as a Macy's showroom, adhering to 20th Century-Fox house style when something less "studio" was warranted. Mostly, though, it's the insult to a fascinating history it represents, one that a Hollywood studio, two years after the execution of its subject, was ill-prepared to handle.
Conscientious filmmakers were involved. Sy Bartlett had written and produced sturdy war movies including Twelve O'Clock High (1949) and Pork Chop Hill (1959);Che! ended his career. It was also the last screenwriting credit for the distinguished Michael Wilson, who talked about his frustration with the film in an interview withTake One magazine published a few months after his death in 1978. "I should have known better than just to think that one could do an honest picture about Guevara in a stronghold like 20th Century-Fox," he said. "But I was persuaded by a number of my close friends to give it a try, because times were changing." Not that much, however—displeased with his concept, Wilson's services were "terminated" on the first day of shooting. He let his name remain on the film when he was allowed to advise on its re-editing, but his recommendations were ignored, and the experience left him "completely ashamed and humiliated."
The choice of director must have suggested a lowering of tone. While comfortable, even expert, at film noir (1952's The Narrow Margin), fantasy (1954's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), and true crime stories (1968's The Boston Strangler preceded Che! on his resume), Richard Fleischer was a company man, one who had soldiered through the musical dud Doctor Dolittle (1967) for Fox chief Richard D. Zanuck. Zanuck, Wilson recalled, was intrigued by Guevara's appeal to younger audiences, who had abandoned Dolittle and another failed Fox musical, Star! (1968). But the film can't bring itself to capture the romanticism of the Che posters that decorated campus dorm rooms at that heady time.
The germ of Wilson's idea, a running colloquy on Guevara as different characters debate his legacy, remains. The point was to let the audience decide if the revolutionary was a saint or a sinner. Fleischer's artless direction, and a rushed-seeming production of modest scale, work against this from the start—the first unintended chortle comes early, when a taxi driver, a typical man on the Havana street, catcalls, "He should have died the first day he set foot on Cuban soil, bastard!" (The obvious backlot taxi, plunked down on location in Puerto Rico, doesn't help sell the line or its delivery.) More will follow, as we meet Guevara, portrayed by Omar Sharif, and the Castro of Jack Palance.
In "Why Che?," the vintage featurette included on the Blu-ray, Fleischer says he cast the two actors based on their strong physical resemblances. Yet it plays like the sort of parody you'd find on the Funny or Die Website. Robbed of his usual suavity, the Egyptian Sharif gives a stiff performance as the Argentine Guevara, who gives Castro the backbone he needs to carry out his revolution. Best known for his black-hatted cowboys, Palance, encased in a putty nose to rival Steve Carell's inFoxcatcher, chomps on cigars and the available scenery as Castro, who can't make a move without his beloved Che.
And it is a love story, a doomed one, as a triumphant Castro whoops it up at Havana's Hotel Riviera once Batista flees and Guevara, sulking in monkish solitude and wheezing from asthma, plots further revolution. "It took two years to reach Havana, and after two days I'm sick of it!" moans Che. "Cuba needs you. I need you!" Castro wails. It's Guevara who gets Castro to stockpile Russian missiles on Cuban soil, and it's he who's most bitterly disappointed when Castro and the Soviets "capitulate" to America once they're caught out. "You held this meeting and purposely kept me uniformed!" cries Che, when Fidel steps out on him with his Russian friends. "Let's talk about this when we're alone," responds Castro, in a lover's whisper. But the relationship is beyond fixing. "I've got to start more fires than the American fireman can put out," says Che, as he plans to leave for Bolivia. "You want your own show," says a defeated Castro, who, sidelined for the last half hour of a short but interminable saga, turns up once more to lament his comrade and smoke another cigar or two. Woody Allen's Bananas (1971) has fewer laughs.
Given Fox's desire for a "youth movie," there's nothing in Che! to hook an audience that would embrace Easy Rider that same year. According to the disc's fawning liner notes (product to push and all that), Francesco Rosi and Tony Richardson considered films on Guevara, and they might have brought revolutionary technique to match his revolutionary fervor. Other than a split screen or two borrowed from The Boston Strangler, Fleischer just plods through what remained of the original script and conception. Clearly the front office was not in the mood for ambiguity—Castro is a patsy for Guevara, and the movie's protagonist is an ascetic, humorless taskmaster. Self-defeatingly, Che!'s politics and sentiments are not those of its intended audience but of its silent majority parents, who wouldn't be caught dead at a movie about Guevara and Castro.
Besides that featurette, where Fleischer muses about Guevara's "absolute failure," the handsome-looking Twilight Time Blu-ray includes an isolated score (a workmanlike one, by Lalo Schifrin) and the film's theatrical trailer ("Superhero to some, villain to others!"). The label produces only 3,000 units of each title it distributes, though I wouldn't expect a run on this one.
Robert Cashill, a member of the Online Film Critics Society, is a Cineaste Editorial Board Member and the Film Editor of Popdose.com.
To purchase Che!, click here.
Copyright © 2015 by Cineaste Magazine
Cineaste, Vol. XL, No. 2


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festival of lights * gainesville, florida child photographer
happy diwali! today is our special hindu holiday where we welcome the new year and honor Laxmi, the goddess of wealth. we light candles (diyas) and place them all around our homes to celebrate our yearly festival of lights. it's a time to clean house, wear new clothes and reflect in prayer. plus bear gifts and eat yummy food. this year, we have so much to celebrate....new baby and new home. i only wish we could be with our family in ny/nj to make this day just a bit brighter.
so here's to a new year with more health, wealth and happiness for all!
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gettting started a little early . . .
last year i had somebody ask me to buy life insurance in order to "protect" them if i died. i said no way, i have watched lifetime movies, you buy a guy life insurance and he'll try to kill you before the next commercial break. dude said "you'd have to be alive a year before i could collect on you" which is not exactly "baby baby baby i can't imagine life without you!"
i don' t have life insurance to protect anybody. my kids know where the change jar is and nobody else seems to be inclined to be protected. but this commercial which has been airing on my thai soap operas makes me want to go to thailand and buy some!
after watching it, i gotta ask–
my superhero ashton flew away last night. he was five years old. he had battled cancer for the past several months. he had endured a stem cell transplant and lived at the dayton children's hospital and then at cincinnati children's hospital with his mother erin.
ashton's father passed a number of years ago and so i would like to believe that he will be there to greet ashton in the city of remembrance that exists.
i have such admiration for this friend of mine! prescott seymour is a drag queen living in new york who works under the stage name sutton lee seymour. he is part of the seymour family, which is the most admirable family on earth because they share every holiday, sunday dinners, etc. with each other. even the exes. and their kids. and stepkids. and futures.
meanwhile, my friend works under the name sutton lee seymour sometimes. and he had this to write:
I have to tell this story, and please know it's not praise I'm looking for. It's change!
I was at my subway stop last night heading to my show, "in face" but in boy clothes. I do this for physical comfort, not from fear of being gay bashed. But last night I encountered a homeless man who decided to scream at me with hate once he saw my face (btw, I looked really pretty last night). I never really encountered this before.
I wasn't afraid of him because he was on the Queens bound platform and I was on Manhattan bound platform. But he kept screaming, so I moved. But he wouldn't stop.
And then something just hit me, I needed to do something. I considered going to the MTA folks in the booth but opted against that. Instead I left the subway station and went to the Dunkin Donuts and bought a cheddar, egg, sausage sandwich, a banana, a donut, and a bottle of water. Btw, nobody seemed bothered by my stunning face.
I went back up to the platforms, going to the Queens bound side this time. And I found the homeless man. And yes he did start yelling at me again. And I shut him up saying…
"This food is for you. Please eat up and remember it was a 'faggot' who decided to love you instead of ignore you today."
And he didn't do anything for a minute so I just left the food in front of him. And then he said thank you, which honestly surprised me because I was expecting more hate. And I left for my platform with no slurs coming from the man. And my train pulled up as I got back over and I saw him eating. And I headed to my show.
I realize that maybe this was risky, but there's still so much hate out there that we can't ignore it or fear it. And we can't change hate with more hate. Only love. Will this change that man forever? Probably not. But I'm certain he won't forget. At the end of the day, there are people who still need help. And hopefully, that man will think twice before he starts gay bashing. That's my wish.
if you're reading this, you're a friend. or my exboyfriend. and if you're erin carley and you're reading this, you need to know you're someone i'm praying for. erin has helped me through the last year and a half which has pretty much been the worst i've experienced. i only hope in some small way that i have returned the favor. because her worst year and a half makes my crazytown stuff seem like a jennifer aniston sitcom.
erin's son ashton has cancer. he has had a stem cell transplant but his body is rejecting it.
i don't know where you are about prayer. i sometimes feel like God doesn't listen to me because the cacophony of prayers from six billion folks has got to be pretty intense. but i suspect that God wants this boy to have health, strength, and peace. so if you are indeed a reader/friend could you do a powerful act of prayer by asking the archangel michael to intervene?
from cincinnati children's hospital, all the positive energy in the world. wouldn't it really be cool to have prayer make such a difference?
If they had not told me I was ugly, I never would have sought my beauty. If they had not told me that they would break me, I never would have learned I'm unbreakable. If they had not told me that they were trying very hard not to be mad at me, I wouldn't have known that they failed.
"We live in Bozeman," my facebook friend Lanny wrote me. "Stop by. Sarah and I would love to see you."
I arrived in Bozeman expecting saloons, hitching posts, wood sidewalks and the clop-clop-clop of horses. Instead, there had been some geographical hocus pocus because Bozeman is basically a very sweet, charming college town with soigne restaurants and trendy clothes stores. It looked to be imported from Massachusetts except for the mountains at a distance.
"I could get used to this," I thought.
To be fair, greater Bozeman seemed to stretch a mere four blocks in every direction, but that was so much larger than any ville I have been in for the past week so I was impressed.
I followed the directions Lanny gave until I got to the part where I was to follow the switch backs.
I am scared of heights. Sky rise hotels I'm the one asking for the second floor. All of the West Virginia by ways spooked me. I have never been to the top of Willis Tower even though I lived in the Chicago area 53 years.
I cried all the way up to Lanny's house because at every turn I thought I was going to fly over the edge of the road and tumble down the mountain.
Shortly after I arrived, Sarah returned from a grocery trip.
"How do you DO it?" I cried.
"Oh, you get used to it," she said.
And she's absolutely right.
After I left the Joneses, I traveled up to Canada to Banff.
in Banff, I visited my facebook friend Madame X. Madame X doesn't want me to use her name because she has a stalker ex-boyfriend. She's even changed her name on facebook in order to shield herself from him. I totally sympathized. We had a wonderful evening in town and the next morning we climbed Sulphur Mountain. There is a series of switchbacks up the 7500 elevation mountain. There were spots when I would look down and cry. There were spots where I told myself that it was okay, I have lived a long, lovely life and I have two great sons to show for it. There were spots when I counted my steps "one, two" and then stopped and started over. This wasn't altitude sickness, this was naked fear.
But there was a weird part of me that was proud that I was keeping up with Madame X. After all, she's an adorable, athletic twentysomething year old. Here I am fifty four years old and I'm keeping up. Then we got to the peak.
"Sorry I was pretty slow," Madame X said. "But I twisted my ankle a few days ago."
Still, I got up the mountain. I even sat on top for a bit and even looked down. But now I had a problem.. . . how to get down. i am a western girl used to switchbacks but not quite ready for the ride back down. Maybe you're afraid of something–lightning, clowns, spiders. I believe you are not afraid that you are inadequate, but your deepest fear is that you are powerful beyond measure. xxoo
i'm pretty much a city girl and a scaredy cat so the combination means i have had major anxiety attacks all through south dakota, wyoming and montana. jeez, there's so much open space. on the other hand, some of the folks i'm meeting i wouldn't trust taking to times square without a significant dose of ativan—for them.
a few years ago my italian friend federico cenci was writing a book about my grandfather and i invited him to stay in my home in winnetka, illinois. he stayed for a month and we traveled to the university of illinois rare books and manuscripts library for extra material. mostly, he worked in the guest room. one afternoon he asked if we could take a day trip somewhere to see the sights.
"where would you like to go?" I asked federico.
"mount rushmore," he replied. "i'd like to see the presidents."
"uh, you understand mount rushmore is like a three or four day road trip?"
actually, mount rushmore is a fourteen hour and twenty six minutes 930 miles road trip if traffic is perfect, you're wearing depends, no doz is delivered through an i.v., and you trick out the back of the car with an endless tank of gas.
federico was crestfallen.
"i'm sorry," i said. "name somewhere else you'd like to see."
"niagra falls," he said, brightening considerably.
niagra falls is wonderful but it's still a good nine hours and eighteen minutes under the same conditions described.
in a rough justice compromise, we drove to chester, illinois to visit the birthplace of popeye comics creator e c seger.
federico returned to rome and finished his book. on any given day, he can drive from rome to milan (5 hours, 13 minutes), make arrangements for brunch in pisa (3 hours 36 minutes), or spend a weekend in naples (2 hours 11 minutes). his idea of how large the united states is/was a bit skewed. oddly, i have the same problem. i just had no idea how many miles get tucked up under my tires.
so this morning i pulled into the parking lot of the mount rushmore national park outside keystone, south dakota. the usual tour buses of japanese tourists and refugees from aarp. families with kids who are more interested in the concessions stand. a lady berating the staff because she wanted to climb either lincoln, washington, teddy or tommy. the teenagers taking selfies. i sat down on a bench and took it all in. and thought to myself…..i gotta tell federico that i made it.
but of course, i have verizon phone service so i couldn't.


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Harrah's Cherokee Casino and Hotel (Cherokee, N.C.) recently underwent a new sound system install, handled by PXS Audiovisual Technologies (Covington, La.) and overseen by director of engineer John McGovern. The venue's production supervisor, Ryan Hargis, says this on the d&b audiotechnik J Series install: "The Event Center is designed for concerts but will also host banquets and sporting events. Since the bulk of the events are concerts, we wanted to go with a sound system that any touring act would be comfortable using, as well as providing our guests with the best possible experience." d&b modeled the room while PMK Consultants (Dallas) took care of the acoustical treatment and layout of the space.
"Everyone was on the same page going into the install; the high level of communication between all three parties through every stage was invaluable," says Hargis. "The main components of the system are J8 and J12 in the flown array, along with J-SUBs. To supplement the hanging loudspeaker.s there are ground-stacked J-INFRA cardioid subwoofers. To provide fill for the closest seats to stage, d&b E8 loudspeakers were chosen, and ceiling-mounted E12 loudspeakers to provide balcony delays. We also use d&b M4 monitors and Q-SUBs for drum sub monitors, while for sidefills we fly Q-SUB and Q7s. All the loudspeakers in the room are driven by d&b D12 amplifiers, which are networked and controlled through the d&b R1 remote-control software interfaced through an iPad.
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Tech literacy notes:
danah boyd has a new piece about how teens use Twitter, and the related privacy negotiation involved. (And the fact that teens seem to be doing just fine with it, mostly.)
New technology needs:
I've seen extensive discussion in several places recently (The PubLib list, in particular, but elsewhere) about library patrons using apps to scan their library (or grocery, or whatever) card and carry the device, not the card. Brian at Swiss Army Librarian has a great post on the issues of using scanned barcodes on mobile devices, and looks not only at the policy piece, but at the technology one (many scanners won't correctly read the screen version, but there's a cheap fix).
Brian also had a great piece on keyloggers, and why it's so critical for librarians to be aware of what their technology devices look like and do, so they can spot things that shouldn't be there. This lead him to a third post, talking about what technology skills librarians should have, and why (or at least a start on a meaningful list.)
Better teaching:
Iris, at Pegasus Librarian, has had several great posts this week, on multi-disciplinary seminars, uncovering research practices in student writing, and "Breaking up with best practices, hooking up with learning goals", which is a great title and an even better post.
I always love Iris's attention to process and detail, but I particularly love the post on research writing, and the rubric and materials she links to immediately made my brain start wandering across what things could be implemented in other settings – both other educational settings, but also in conversations about online literacy, digitial citizenship, and so on.
Doug Johnson has been running pieces this week from a chapter of the "technology survival" book he's working on for teachers. In it, he lays out three samples of how different schools and settings might use technology, all of which have some obvious benefits, but also some flaws or at least challenges. You can read some of the background behind his approach (with links to the three examples).
And from a different perspective, a post on one of the personal finance blogs I read, Get Rich Slowly, had a guest post about an 11 year old's first budget (and ongoing cost decisions) that I found really interesting from the perspective of "stuff we don't always teach/talk about well". I found the need to jump back and start with more basics (about what the point of a budget is, why it's useful, etc.) to be a really interesting analogy to where I sometimes find myself in information literacy work – just because someone knows how to use a piece of technology for one task doesn't mean that they know all about using it thoughtfully.
Future of the field:
Doug Johnson has an interesting post on how to answer the question of "Should I go into the school library field?" I also like the two School Library Journal articles he links to at the end of his post.


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This paper reviews currency-based measures (CBMs) directed at banks in 49 countries between 2005 and 2013. These measures apply a discrimination, such as less favourable treatment, on the basis of the currency of an operation, typically foreign currencies. The new data shows that CBMs have been increasingly used in the post-crisis period, including for macro-prudential purposes.
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The informal economy has proven an enduring problem in the developing world as much as in advanced economies such as those of the European Union. This Policy Brief was prepared by the LEED Programme of the OECD with the financial support of the European Commission, Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion.
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The OECD Working Party on SMEs and Entrepreneurship (WPSMEE) project on "New approaches to SME and entrepreneurship finance: broadening the range of instruments" aims to help broaden the finance options available to SMEs and entrepreneurs.
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While de-industrialisation and offshoring have dominated the news about manufacturing during the past decades, recent years have witnessed a number of examples of companies re-shoring activities back to OECD economies. Policy discussions often ignore the profound changes manufacturing has undergone. This working paper addresses this issue against the background of long-term structural change in OECD economies.
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Winter holidaysKid Friendly, Things to Do — By Anne-Sophie Redisch on February 19, 2011 at 10:55 am
This weekend marks the beginning of the winter holiday (sports holiday) for all the schools of Oslo and much of the rest of the country.
Cross-country skiing is extremely popular and many families head for the mountains. Others prefer to stay in town, so be prepared for heaps of skiers on the city's trails this week. But no worries, there's room for everyone. Oslo offers more than 2600 kilometres of prepped cross-country trails, many lit up at night.
For alpine skiing, slopes in the nearby mountains make great day- or weekend trips, but again, there's really no need to get out of town. Hop on the metro to Tryvann Vinterpark, for fun in the snowboarding, downhill and Telemark skiing slopes, play in the half-pipe or with the jumps and waves at the terrain park.
If you have children along – or you're a kid at heart, don't miss the 2-km-long toboggan run Korketrekkeren. Is ice skating more your cup of tea? Oslo has several skating rinks scattered around town, including Spikersuppa next to Parliament on Main Street Karl Johan (skate rental available).
For more leisurely outdoor activities, have a stroll through one of Oslo's many parks (like Frognerparken) or along Akerselva River. Or – if you're not into all that winter sports but looking for some family fun, why not take your kids to the cool little Kon-Tiki Museum, where they can learn all about one of our favourite explorers, Thor Heyerdahl, famous for crossing the world's oceans in rickety rafts and papyrus boats. Lots of actitivites are on at the Kon-Tiki Museum during the winter holiday.
Oslo winter photo by Not forgotten/flickr's Creative Commons


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The best days have bikes in them.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Friday, March 29, 2013
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Miss S Rides Alone
This was Miss S's first time riding solo for a CicLAvia. It was a little crowded and that made her nervous sometimes, but she made it through with no accidents. She made her mama proud.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
Tweed Ride Time!
Date:19 Jan 2013Time:10:00Location:Valley Village ParkAddress:200 Westpark Drive, North Hollywood, California 91601Categories:Family FriendlyDetails
Ladies and Gentlemen, mark your calendars and prepare your finest tweed for a memorable historic ride! Join us for this 7 mile bicycle ride that features bicyclists in TWEED, MOXIE and MOUSTACHES.
C.I.C.L.E.'s Tweed, Moxie and Moustaches Ride is coming up on January 19, 2013. I am so excited! C.I.C.L.E.'s rides are always a good time and dressing up in vintage is super. Miss S has nothing Tweedy to wear so I don't know what I am going to find for her, but hopefully I'll come up with something in time. What will you be wearing?
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Big & Chunky: Creepy Edition with Tyler and Andre 9000
Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:04:26 — 44.2MB)
Raw Rant #123
Hide your 13 year olds!! this is the Halloween edition, mainly because I just found this episode hiding in the porn section of Michelle's hard drive.
Featuring one of my personal favorites Tyler and Andre who is not allowed within 100 feet of high schools or keyboards.
While we really want to do the Big and Chunky show more often we need you all to speak up and get me motivated.
Talking About:
Celeb Crush: Bill Nighy
Pirate Radio
Your Medical Questions
and a bunch of other stuff I cant remember considering this is like 2 months old.
Welcome back Mouse and crew, ill be playing some poker over at Party Poker for the remainder of the show.


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The first draft I wrote of this blog post, I let sit as a such (a draft) for three whole days. When I came back to it, I realized that the entire time I danced around my true opinion about the Kayla Itsines Beach Body Guides. I was also really negative, which made it harder to express my opinion. So I'm going to start from the beginning and that beginning includes a major, major point that I need to communicate.
A few months ago, Kayla posted something akin to "if you want a beach body, you can never drink alcohol." Which, ok, whatever. I'm not a huge drinker. I'm really not. But that kind of statement rubs me in such a wrong way that I can barely explain it. The extreme restriction of your food, even if you end up with a "healthy" body like Kayla's, is not healthy. This leads me to a secondary point: Kayla's entire bit is about having a body that looks a very particular way. If you want a body that looks just like Kayla's, then these are the workouts for you. If you want your body but better, then maybe hold off.
Saying you will never eat this or never eat that because it's "bad" for you is incredibly disordered, but is masked by the guise of being "healthy." There are many, many fitness "gurus" with extremely severe eating disorders -- one I used to follow stir fried her vegetables plain in WATER and said it was "tasty and flavorful" with no sauce. Excuse me, but that's boiling a bunch of veggies and calling it a stir fry; not only does it sound frankly gross, it's extremely disordered. It's like the watermelon Greek yogurt "cake" or apples sprinkled with cinnamon and called a "pie." All I'm saying is, thinspo has morphed into fitspo and there are a lot of girls with bad, bad eating disorders hiding it behind "Paleo" diets and weight lifting. Being obsessed with restricting your food and your body is not healthy, no matter how you express it, and denying yourself things you want, from stir fry and cake to a glass of wine, is not only life sucking, but pretty bad for you emotionally. It is possible to live a well-rounded like where you enjoy alcohol and cake as well as kale and chia seeds.
The fixation on one type of healthy body is not only ridiculous, but damaging, and undermines Kayla's entire message of being healthy. I definitely fall prey to the "bikini body" idea -- I mean, I'd kill for a body like Kayla's -- but the fact is, I'm about 5 inches shorter than her with a completely different body type. It's just not going to happen. There is a way to be healthy, fit, and happy without looking just like Kayla or super thin. The only "fit, healthy" bodies we see are bodies that are thin, and that is wrong. You can be in shape and not that shape at the same time, but you wouldn't know that browsing through Kayla's instagram feed. All the girls end up looking the same (and just like Kayla) and to me, there is something inherently sad about that.
Beyond those issues, I have issues with the guides themselves as well. Mainly, they cost about $60 a piece (there are two guides, so $120 total) and are about 100 pages long. But way, the workouts only consist of about 15 pages in each guide. So, the bulk of the guide is not workouts: it's Kayla's writing, which hovers somewhere around "big sister telling you how to live your life" and "omg what". For a $60 guide, that kind of grinds my gears. I like to get my money's worth and personally, a 100-page digital file that contains only about 15-20 pages of workouts is kind of a bust. If it was a physical book, it'd be different -- but c'mon, that's just a rip off!
The guide suggests that alongside the circuits you do 3-4 sessions of HIIT workouts (high-intensity intervals, basically) and then 2-3 sessions of light cardio (like walking). That's a lot of working out. I work out a lot, but I simply do not have time to dedicate nearly 10 hours a week to it. I just don't. I could use that 10 hours to work, write, hang out with Danny, cook delicious dinners, grocery shop, play with my dog, or whatever.
So what are the workouts themselves like? Most of the workouts are intense and tiring; I find myself sweating, red-faced and exhausted at the end. That being said, Kayla workouts have a reputation as being intensely hard and yes, some moves are challenging (I personally HATE sit ups with a twist and commandos, because I think those moves could easily be replaced by simpler exercises with the same result), but the workouts themselves are not exactly I'm-gonna-die hard.
It's a difficult concept to express but: most workouts are hard. These workouts are also hard. But I would not rate them the hardest workouts I have ever done. (I think that title will always be held by conditioning weeks in Track when I was in high school.)
I can see why they get results -- it's nice to follow a simple plan. However, are these workouts worth the $60 Kayla charges? Absolutely not. You could put together these plans on an app like PumpUp or find similar workouts on Pinterest.
I also want to talk about Kayla's "H-E-L-P" guide, which is about healthy eating and lifestyle planning. It includes a week's sample meal plan and let me tell you, that meal plan is sad. Here are my issues with it:
- It is not vegetarian. There isn't a vegetarian option. I hope you like eating meat two times a day (and therefore, have the money to do that).
- It is dry.
The suggested meal plans are painfully lame. One lunch is literally: flax seed wrap, two cups of lettuce, 1/2 can of tuna. THAT'S IT. I think I would just find the nearest bridge and jump off of it if that's what I decided I needed to eat for lunch everyday to have my ~ideal body~. Way to suck all the joy out of life.
There are totally ways to eat healthy food that is also fun and flavorful. You don't have to eat plain, dry lettuce with plain, dry tuna on a flax seed wrap, I promise.
I'm not saying that Kayla sounds like a total bummer to hang out with. Except that I totally am. She advises girls to order "cereal or muesli" when eating out "or just plain fruit." Honestly, get out. That's ridiculous. Have some fun, child, and some restricting your eating so much! Living life miserable and eating cereal while your friends enjoy pizza or pasta or whatever is absolutely not worth it.
I'm not trying to say that healthy food can't be fun. There are lots of healthy foods that are delicious and fun. But Kayla's guide seems to suck all the fun out of food. She even refuses to call "treat days" treat days. She says you should get one treat meal and that's it, not a day to just enjoy yourself and not stress about how you're going to eat as much dry protein as possible.
Healthy food can be delicious and fun and you don't have to obsess about it like a total weirdo. But that's just me and I guess I don't have Kayla's "beach body" so maybe I'm totally wrong and my life will change when I start eating everything dry and protein-filled. But I also suspect I'd be deeply miserable if I did that too -- and sometimes, you have to make a choice.
The Verdict
I have a lot of issues with self-styled "fitness gurus", obviously. The fixation on healthy bodies all looking the same way (that is, like Kayla's body) is extremely unhealthy. As well, while I know I need to make choices to eat better, restricting until I'm miserable and forcing myself to never eat certain foods again (like ice cream or full fat cheese) is a concept I don't really want to be involved with. Kayla doesn't seem to have mastered the concept that food can be healthy and delicious, nor does she seem to embrace the idea that there are more examples of healthy bodies than just generally "thin."
Do I like the Kayla guides? Yes, I enjoy them as a workout to supplement my usual cardio and running. Do I think they are the greatest workout ever? Absolutely not. Do I think they are worth the money? No, definitely not. Do I think Kayla needs to think long and hard about the advice she gives to people, especially young girls? Uh-huh, you bet I do.


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Yesterday this popped up on the TL. I checked around the post to see if my friend had any additional commentary, but it was just your typical re-post from some wannabe-funny page. With thousands upon thousands of likes. I clicked out.
My head wanted to feel the mob emotion: Cute. But something about this photo made my belly feel so weird. Knotted. Nahh, I thought.
So I posted it to twitter to see what my siblings thought, and this is what we got:
85% of voters said nah, belly weird.
I felt emotionally validated. Some of my siblings even RTd with their own commentary which helped give me language to navigate my emotions.
I was feeling so many ways, but mostly I kept thinking of my own white mother and the way she used her kids to appropriate Black Culture, proudly standing with her Black Children's Posse behind her… FROWNING. Just like this little girl in the picture.
It's overkill. It's ugly regardless of intent. It's ruining her own culture for her. Just no.
So when someone asked me why it made me uneasy, I thought I had my answer. But as I began to respond, I found myself again in reflection. And I figured it out.
There are so many things coming together in this photo, but I think for me this is what it triggered.
Why I, Black daughter of a White Woman, vote this photo NAH MY BELLY WEIRD NO:
On the first day of kindergarten my mom dropped me off at the white school across town, like BYE FELICIA. I walked into an all white classroom and the kids let me feel it. I remember the girls didn't want to play with me and when I got home and my mother asked me why not, I just asked her why I wasn't white too? And I remember crying… trying to understand why I wasn't white like her, wasn't white like the other kids. Why couldn't I be? Then wouldn't they play with me?
When I look at this picture, I see this little girl with a sad face on her first day of kindergarten and I think about that. And I think about the way my white mother couldn't help me when I cried to her that first day. She couldn't help me because she didn't understand what I was internalizing about the world and myself. It's a struggle she's never had to face, so, like a white woman, she dismissed the issue entirely.
The first day of kindergarten was one of the biggest moments in my life to realize I was not like my white mother and had to be quiet about it.
So for me, this picture is about how white women think they're finally "in" because they have Black Children but do not empathize with the experiences of their Black children. This picture is about how white women, in their apathy and emotional laziness, often inflict the pain back on Black People as a witty mother's punchline. This is about how white women erase, dismiss, and caricature their Black Daughters pain as a way to "bond".
I wonder when this picture was taken. I wonder what this white mother is doing for her Black daughter besides using her as an all access pass to Black Culture for a cheeky photo-op. Teaching her daughter to find white women appropriating Black rhetoric as cute. Something she's a part of. Even if she frowns. Especially if she frowns.
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The Dilbert creator talks with HBR senior editor Dan McGinn. For more, read his book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life.
DAN MCGINN: Welcome to the HBR IdeaCast. From Harvard Business Review, I'm Dan McGinn. I'm on the phone today with Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert. And the subject of the life's work interview in our November magazine. Scott has a new book out entitled How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big. Kind of the story of my life. Scott, thanks for joining us today.
SCOTT ADAMS: Thanks for having me.
DAN MCGINN: So, Scott, this new book is a memoir. Why did you write it?
SCOTT ADAMS: Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in a small town in upstate New York. And I didn't really have a lot of role models who had been really successful. I mean, people had been successful in their jobs, but nobody had really broken out and done something important. And I always felt jealous of all those rich kids, the Harvard-bound types, who could look at their family and their friends, and they just got all kinds of advice, all kinds of useful tidbits, role models, that sort of thing.
And I thought, wouldn't it be nice to write a book about how at least one person did it. I'm not suggesting that anything that I do would work for anyone else. But I think it's useful to see people's story, see what was your plan, what did you do, how did it turn out. So that was the genesis part.
DAN MCGINN: Before you were a cartoonist, you earned an MBA degree. What did it teach you?
SCOTT ADAMS: Well, Dilbert was one of the few success stories that came out of that era. It's very unusual for a comic to break out. And I would say that, at least, half of that had to do with my business training. And the other half is just pure luck and timing, and being in the right place at the right time, which I also talk about at length in the book.
But just to give you a specific example, when Dilbert first came out, I didn't really know what was working and what wasn't, because I had no contact directly with the readers. And it doesn't take a lot in the MBA program before you're taught what seems obvious now, that you need to have a direct channel to your customers, and adjust your product based on their feedback. So I started putting my email address in the margins of the strip, way back in the dawn of the internet.
And I got just hundreds, sometimes thousands of messages a day and found out that there was a common theme. People loved it when Dilbert was in the office and they liked it a lot less when he was at home, or just hanging around. And Dilbert became an office-based comic. And that was really the change that made it all work. Now, since then, as it got bigger, just managing the Dilbert empire from anything from the contract negotiations to the calculating the cash flow for various business interests, almost every bit of education I got at Berkeley was useful.
DAN MCGINN: During the first five years you were writing Dilbert, you continued working full-time in corporate IT. Why did you do that?
SCOTT ADAMS: Well, in my case, I couldn't quit my day job right away, because the comic started very slowly. And then, as I said, it wasn't until I made it a workplace comic that it even had any potential. So the first few years was just necessity, but eventually, it turned out that I was getting so much material during my day job for the strip that instead of being twice as hard by having two jobs, it actually made both of them much easier.
So my day job didn't bother me anymore, because I didn't worry about getting fired so much. You know, at least i had a back up plan. And my cartooning job was almost ridiculously easy, because I was just transcribing my experiences that happened that day. So the two of them worked together to be effectively like one job.
DAN MCGINN: How much harder was it to find material once you left your job at Pacific Bell?
SCOTT ADAMS: It was a little harder. I still got tons of email from people suggesting things. And, unfortunately, the cubicle existence is a little like prison in the sense that you can imagine somebody getting out of prison after 30 years, and you say, do you still remember that? Do you have any vivid memories of that cell? you know, the memories don't really die.
DAN MCGINN: At one point, Dilbert was published in 70 countries. How well does this material translate across cultures?
SCOTT ADAMS: Well, it seemed to work everywhere that there was some kind of a cubicle culture. And I'll call it a Western business attitude or way of doing things. So it didn't work as well in Japan, for example, where being insolent to management just seemed like something you wouldn't do, whereas in Australia and Great Britain, for example, you would expect that the employees are going to be pretty cynical and they're not going to hold their tongue that much, especially the engineers, who are a little bit less frightened of getting fired, because they're highly employable.
DAN MCGINN: You launched the Dilbert website in 1995. Why were you thinking about a digital strategy so early?
SCOTT ADAMS: It's funny to think back to those early days of the internet when people didn't know how things were going to play out. But originally it was kind of a back door marketing plan, because it's really hard to sell into newspapers. They usually have to fire a cartoonist to get a new one and they don't like to do that, because people complain. So it's hard to sway a manager.
And I thought if we can get people excited on the internet, we could gather letters from people who said, hey, I like this, and bunch them up, and hand them to the sales people. And they could take that into the editor and say, look, people already like this thing, so there's no risk. And it turned out that's exactly what happened. We just got hundreds and hundreds of positive emails. And the sales guys literally took them in and spread them out on the desks of the editors, who said, OK I get this. Let's have that tomorrow.
DAN MCGINN: As a cartoonist, you sell your strips to newspapers. How early did you get a sense that the newspaper industry was in trouble and how do you try to shift your business model?
SCOTT ADAMS: You know what's strange is that I predicted newspapers would only last five more years almost the day that I started cartooning? So I've been wrong on my five-year prediction every time so far. And even as newspapers shrunk, usually it was a city that two newspapers would go down to one, and Dilbert usually was a survivor, well, really, every time, was a survivor in the remaining newspaper.
So it turns out, I had no impact on revenue and just kept growing. So it's actually at the largest number of newspaper customers it's ever been at. But obviously, readership in general is declining.
DAN MCGINN: In your new book you list a whole series of business ventures that you started that failed– a frozen burrito company, two restaurants, computer programs, tennis gadgets– how did these failures change the way you think about management?
SCOTT ADAMS: In this case, the failures were all part of a larger strategy, which was trying one thing after another, they had the quality of if it worked– and they were all long shots– if it worked, they could grow forever. There was no upside camp. So that was always my strategy right out of college, I actually had a diary, which I still have, in which I'd mapped out my life strategy. And that was to build something using my creativity that could be reproduced easily and infinitely. And Dilbert was just the thing that worked. The other things you mentioned were kind of in that category, but they didn't work.
DAN MCGINN: One of your employees once said, Scott should be shielded from tough decisions the way a crawling infant needs to be protected from household hazards. Is it true you're not the world's best manager?
SCOTT ADAMS: They were probably too kind. Yeah, there's a tough balance being a manager. You can't be too liked, and I like to be liked. So completely incapable as kind of a day-to-day manager, because I'm more interested in being liked than getting the job done. So yeah, I was largely incompetent at that and many other things I did.
But in the restaurant in particular, I'd gone into that to be a investor not a manager, and I ended up doing a little managing toward the end, just to see if I could make a difference, and it didn't.
DAN MCGINN: How did your own experiences as a manager inform the cynical tone of Dilbert?
SCOTT ADAMS: My most basic belief about management is that it's people flailing around, hoping that something lucky happens external to them that makes them look as if they did a great job. And all of my experiences of that type, which is if you looked at the things that failed, objectively, they weren't worse ideas than the things that worked. And there was nothing about the execution, especially, that was the make or break, it was almost always the timing, the luck, the lightning struck.
And so I always manage my career to do enough things that if there's enough lightning and I'm doing enough things, my odds of getting lucky are pretty good. And that's my basic view of most management. You know, Eric Schmidt is worth how many billions of dollars because he hooked up with the Google guys and went to work every day. Maybe he's the best manager in the world, but he kind of was a little bit lucky that he got that job.
DAN MCGINN: So you're saying management really doesn't matter?
SCOTT ADAMS: I think it's certainly something you can do wrong. So avoiding doing it wrong is the big thing. And I think if you're a bit of a psychopath or sociopath, I don't know the exact definitions of those, you know, if you push people to think that you being happier, and you as the manager making more money, and you as the company making more money is more important than the employees' own personal life and their health, then you're a great manager. And you absolutely can do great things. And you'll probably be able to reproduce that wherever you go.
So there's a certain amount of evil that's built into the system. It's a creative evil. I mean, I'm very pro capitalism, because I don't have a better idea that obviously works. But you've got to embrace that evil a little bit and you've got to understand that that's part of the process, and that's always been a problem for me.
DAN MCGINN: Do you really believe the Dilbert principle, the idea that the least competent people become bosses, because it's the place where they can do the least harm?
SCOTT ADAMS: Well, at the time it was written, I was working at Pacific Bell. And they very much were doing that exact thing. So the people who were a little bit technical, but, really, they weren't going to be inventing the next iPod or anything else, those people got moved to management, because, maybe, their bullshit skills were good, that was about it. And the people who were geniuses, the technology gurus, the people who were really going to make a difference, the last thing you want to do is ruin their productivity by moving them into management and making them order donuts and schedule meetings.
DAN MCGINN: Did you watch the TV show The Office? Either the British or the American versions of the TV show?
SCOTT ADAMS: I watched them both and love both of them, yeah.
DAN MCGINN: Did you think that they were drawing on Dilbert at all, or did you see their sensibility as somewhat different?
SCOTT ADAMS: 100% different. In fact, it's kind of a weird psychological experiment why anybody would see them as similar in the first place. They're, I guess, about incompetent bosses and bad employees, but it kind of ends there. Their shows were entirely character-based and about their love interest, and almost none of it was about anything that looked like work. Dilbert's more about the strangeness of the power dynamic between managers and employees, and the ridiculousness and the absurdness of the management structure sometimes, and the craziness of the management fads.
DAN MCGINN: Have you sensed the lull in management fadism?
SCOTT ADAMS: Yeah, actually, if you were to plot it on a graph, you would find that the number of management books was increasing up to about the time that the Dilbert principle came out and said, I'm pretty sure every bit of this is bullshit. And so many people agreed with that, that I think it just became a little more embarrassing to put down the management fad that type of book, unless you had pretty good research to back it.
DAN MCGINN: So you take some credit for this?
SCOTT ADAMS: I do in the sense that anything which is marketable, something that by its nature is easy to make fun of. Human nature is such that you want to avoid it. You don't want to be the person that gets mocked. So I heard lots of anecdotal reports from people, who would say, my boss started to say something that was ridiculous, kind of management fad talk, buzz words, and stopped himself and said, OK, this sounds like it came out of the Dilbert comic.
And then kind of reset and started talking English again. So I do know that the fear of being the target of humor, and it's very real, because if you get too crazy, you're going to have a Dilbert comic slipped under your door or emailed to you anonymously. People want to avoid that. So yeah, it's a little bit of a control on the worst of the management fad excesses, I think.
DAN MCGINN: Well Scott, thanks for joining us today.
SCOTT ADAMS: Thanks so much for having me.
DAN MCGINN: That was Scott Adams. The book is How to Fail at Everything and Still Win Big. For more, visit hbr.org.


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