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Sept. 10, Tinsel & Treasures, Sat., 9 A.M. to 3 P.M., Alamo Women's Club, 1401 Danville Blvd., Alamo, $3 admission
Sept. 15, Phoebe Members Meeting, 7 P.M., bring bookstore display dolls
Sept. 15–17, Bay Area Quilt, Craft & Sewing Festival, Thurs. thru Sat., 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., San Mateo Event Center, 1346 Saratoga, San Mateo
Sept. 16–17, Harvest Festival, Fri/Sat 10 A.M. to 6 P.M., Sun 10 A.M. to 5 P.M., Alameda County Fairgrounds, $9 adults; $7 seniors; $4 youth 13-17, under 12 free
Sept. 24, Halloween and Vine, Hermann Sons Hall, 860 Western Ave., Petaluma, $5 admission
Sept. 24, Art-is-You, Sheraton Sonoma County, 745 Baywood Dr., Petaluma, 6 P.M.–9 P.M. Phoebe Sharon Martin is participating in this trunk show and sale. Vendors will be selling finished art such as collages, assemblages, art quilts, steam punk jewelry, altered art, art papers, kits, beads, frippery, collage sheets, fibers, yarns, fabrics, unique vintage items and original flea market finds. Entry is free to all, with a donation to AIY's chosen charity.
Sept. 30–Oct. 2, Sierra Art Trails, Yosemite Foothills Open Studio Tour. Visit http://www.sierraarttrails.org for details.
Oct. 1–31, Phoebe Halloween Window Display, "The Book Shop," B Street, Hayward
Oct. 9, Fall Antiques & Collectibles Street Faire, Main Street, Pleasanton, 8 A.M. to 4 P.M., Free
Oct. 20, Sally Lampi's Needle Sculpting Class, Boy Scouts of America Building, 1001 Davis Street, San Leandro. Contact Colleen email@example.com
Oct. 20, Member/Associate Meeting, 7 p.m., Girls and Boys Club of San Leandro, 401 Marina Blvd., San Leandro. Highlight of the evening will be the Annual Phoebe Auction. Donate items; bring friends (and your check book) and shop!
Oct. 27, K.C.Willis Mixed Media Book Class. If you missed her recent class, sign up early for the next time she will be in our area. Her classes fill up fast! Go to http://studioretreats.ning.com/page/kc-on-the-road-2011 for details.
Nov. 11–13, The Women's Building Celebration of Craftswomen, Fri.–Sun., 10 A.M.–5 P.M., $9 adults: $7 seniors; under 12 free. A number of Phoebes will be participating in the "Go Figure, Dolls & Mixed Media" booth.
Nov. 12–13, BABE (Bay Area Bead Extravaganza), Sat. 10 A.M.–6 P.M., Sun. 10 A.M.–5 P.M., Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel, 10th & Broadway, Oakland (at 12th St., Bart Exit).
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From the Patriot Post:
"I own myself the friend to a very free system of commerce, and hold it as a truth, that commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive and impolitic - it is also a truth, that if industry and labour are left to take their own course, they will generally be directed to those objects which are the most productive, and this in a more certain and direct manner than the wisdom of the most enlightened legislature could point out." ~ James Madison (speech to the Congress, 9 April 1789)
Can't help but wonder what he'd think of today's Congress and the current regulations placed upon all industries that require lawyers and accountants just to figure out...
Thursday, March 06, 2008
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Posted by Maggie at 10:05 AM
Labels: free market, government regulation
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- Unknown said...
I'd like to know what he thinks about the interstate commerce clause which somehow gave congress the ability to even regulate what one grows on one's own property. Ridiculous.
- Timothy W Higgins said...
While we are at it, it would be interesting to hear Mr. Madison's thoughts on such things as closed shop states and the current uses of emminent domain.
I suspect that we would be looking at some literary vitriol that would leave the pages smoking.
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lmao brainless team.
lmao brainless team.
What the hell?!
This would be an absolutely pathetic loss.
Nvm, its Mullins lol
I found a stream just in time to watch Orlando score. Ipad going to sleep now.
Someone shoot me.
Nelsen got canned sliding to the lower playoff spots in August. Vanney is missing playoffs 2 years consecutive. oh but wait Parrick Mullins were OK keep going Vanney.
Vanney can't bitch and moan about wingers all season and throw Patrick fucking Mullins in the match. Vanney. Out.
Oh my. Jozy and Layrea both had chances.
Mullins f-off Vanney.
Did Gallardo have a leg cut off or something? What the fk is his deal.
I thought you were supposed to get cards for surrounding the ref?
Mullins! lol Vanney redeemed.
Haha Mullins scores OK then. Now go for it Vanney, Endoh off.
Just how Vanney drew it up lol
Super sub, lol.
Gotta say, the CSL match I was at the other day was better than this, and more exciting.
On the plus side, I spoke to Rafa Benitez and confirmed that he would be willing to coach an MLS side at some point. Spoke to a few players as well (mostly about European football and the World Cup, as well as the CSL), and while I think Hamsiks legs are gone he showed interest in MLS. Carrasco said he was looking to return to Europe but nothing is beyond the realms of possibility.
I guess shittalking Mullins earlier worked.
Caldwell's shtick of calling every tackle good and every booking bad is really tiresome.
Pls make a sub Vanney, be bold for once!
Are we really about to leave Gallardo and Benezet on the bench for the whole game?
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.
Bad vibe about Curtis Vanney relationship. Need to win. Need a goal. And we have two million dollars worth of wingers on the bench.
Vanney must be looking to get fired.
9 games left and you leave 3(two of which were signed to help immediately) high salary players on the bench.
Vanney needs to go. Anyone is needed for a breath of fresh air. He's lost the plot.
Another wasted game.


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Growing up in Portland, Maine, carrots were king and a minor obsession with carrot cake began. As a boy, it was not unusual for him to feign illness, skip school and bake the day away. Life revolved around food, the gardens it came from and the shared act of cooking for the family. Both Chef David's grandmothers were exceptional cooks; one a true Maine Downeaster and the other from Abruzzi, Italy. They taught him to respect the land and appreciate its abundance, and that the communal sharing of food is the quintessential and most powerful way to bring people together.
Chef David's professional career in Boston began 30 years ago. He spent 13 years with the Four Seasons Hotel company in Boston and San Francisco; both 5 Star, 5 Diamond Hotels and held positions as Executive Chef, Executive Sous Chef and Chef de Cuisine of the nationally acclaimed AAA, 5 Diamond restaurant, Aujourd'hui. He then moved to California as part of the leadership opening team of the highly anticipated Four Seasons.


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In this day and age, having smartphones is a pivotal part of anyone's lifestyle. With that in mind, smartphone stabilizers have found their way into the consumer marketing. These help to make smartphone users' lifestyles easier as they provide convenience for photography and video making.
Whether you are looking for a new smartphone stabilizers for travel purposes or looking for an upgrade to your current one, check out our latest reviews and top 15 breakdown. Some of these handheld stabilizers provide unique features to help the user optimize their smartphone use. Keep reading to learn what the Top 15 Best Smartphone Stabilizers in 2020 have to offer.
- List of the Best Smartphone Stabilizers of 2020 from Amazon.com
- 15. Movo MicRig Extreme Sport Edition
- 14. FeiyuTech SPG Plus 3-Axis Dual Handle Gimbal
- 13. Zhiyun Smooth 4 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer
- 12. Freevision VILTA 3-Axis Handheld Stabilizer
- 11. Hohem Smartphone Gimbal 3-Axis Stabilizer
- 10. EVO Shift 3 Axis Handheld Gimbal
- 9. FACEVER 3 Axis Handheld Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer
- 8. Feiyu Vimble 2 Smartphones Gimbal Stabilizer
- 7. DJI Phone Camera Gimbal
- 6. DJI osmo Mobile 2 Handheld Smartphone Gimbal
- 5. DJI Osmo 2 Mobile Handheld Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer Videographer Bundle
- 4. ZOMEI Gimbal Stabilizer Mobile 3 Axis Handheld Gimbal
- 3. Zhiyun Smooth 4 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer
- 2. DJI Osmo Mobile 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer
- 1. Zhiyun Smooth-Q 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer – Best of Smartphone stabilizers in 2020
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List of the Best Smartphone Stabilizers of 2020 from Amazon.com
15. Movo MicRig Extreme Sport Edition
This product from Movo MicRig has a unique feature. This smartphone stabilizer is great for those that are active as it is considered an extreme sport edition, perfect for action sports, landscape, and more.
- It is compatible with iPhones and Android devices
- There is a universal grip handle with an integrated stereo microphone
- Features dual capsules in X/Y configuration, low cut filter, and +10dB attenuation switch
- There is a universal 180 degrees fisheye lens for your smartphone, which instantly clips on your phone
- Includes a 1/4″ mount, a smartphone holder, GoPro holder, 3 mic output cables, furry windscreen, and metal shoe extender bracket
- Warranty: 1 year
14. FeiyuTech SPG Plus 3-Axis Dual Handle Gimbal
This product from FeiyuTech also has unique features. It is a dual handling system, pioneered for doubled stability for your phone.
- Dual handle system
- Five 1/4-inch screw ports for various accessories such as a microphone or tripod
- Smart face tracking: follows the target face while guiding gimbal movement powdered by the Feiyu app
- Precise balance adjustment: the slide bar balance system is adapted to phones and action cameras of various sizes and weight
- Enhanced finish with a motor arm for sports camera and smartphone gimbals to ensure anti-shake
13. Zhiyun Smooth 4 3-Axis Gimbal Stabilizer
This stabilizer is great for on-the-go use. Zhiyun has been able to create a product perfect for iPhone and Android device users, ensuring that the mobile filming is a seamless flow of production. This is a very popular option for those looking to make their own videos online.
- There is a built-in handwheel that features a zoom in and out system, assisting to take close-up shots
- There is a timelapse, hyperlapse, and motionlapse function that helps to customize the unique style
- Warranty: 12 months and a lifetime of customer service
12. Freevision VILTA 3-Axis Handheld Stabilizer
This quality smartphone stabilizer is easy to use and convenient for any mobile video maker. Freevision has been able to capture the usability and accessibility of this product for any user, making it a top choice.
- It is compatible with iPhone and Android devices
- Weighs: less than 208g
- Easy controls on zooming in and out, focus, exposure, and roll angle
- Versatile application functions, such as time lapse, long exposure, editing, etc.
- Battery life: 17 hours
11. Hohem Smartphone Gimbal 3-Axis Stabilizer
This stabilizer is a great option for any smartphones. It is ranked as a top smartphone stabilizer and provides easy use for any mobile video maker.
- Compatible with both iOS and Android devices
- Comes with anti-shake, optical stabilization, motion speed auto-adaption, face and object tracking
- Compatible with the Intuitive Hohem Studio Application
- Warranty: 1 year
10. EVO Shift 3 Axis Handheld Gimbal
This handheld gimbal is a quality smartphone stabilizer. EVO was able to create a unique accessory that could help transform your smartphone capabilities into a pro-quality video camera.
- Allows full control of your cameras to record and their zoom functions to work straight from the handle
- There are 3 easy to use stabilization modes, that gives you the ultimate freedom of motion
- Object tracking and time-lapse features allows you to take perfect panoramas and track anything for photo and video capture using the smart-track feature
- Up to 10 hours of run-time
- Warranty: 1 year
9. FACEVER 3 Axis Handheld Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer
This sleek and aesthetic looking smartphone stabilizer is a top of the line option as it provides the same functionalities as a basic stabilizer would, while providing a matte black finish look.
- Lightweight design, focus on the pull and zoom functions, face recognition tracking, panoramic shooting, intelligent anti-shake, and long-last battery: perfect for video makers
- On-the-go convenience: provides object tracking and stabilization for everything from small vibrations to intense instability such as jumping
- Compatible with most iPhone and Android devices
- Long-last battery for hours of live streaming
- Portable: easy to carry for all day use, design is created to support compact folding
8. Feiyu Vimble 2 Smartphones Gimbal Stabilizer
This smartphone gimbal stabilizer is from Feiyu, and it features the ultimate elimination of shakinessin videos. The objective of this product is to assist you in filming cinematic-like footage with your smartphone, which is perfect for any new video maker.
- It can control the phone camera via the shutter button and the Vicool application is compatible with the device: allowing for further fantastic operations such as panoramic photography and fast cutting
- Enables you to capture wider angles, for selfie and group photo options, with the 18 cm long extension bar
- There is a new trigger button for quick functions, which makes it easier while you are filming
- Compatible with iPhones and Android devices
7. DJI Phone Camera Gimbal
This great camera gimbal is small, compact, and convenient to carry. It is also extremely helpful in video and photo taking, and ensures that your smartphone acts as a quality camera throughout your shoots.
- It comes with Active Track technology, to keep your smartphone facing you as you move
- Smooths and cancels out unnecessary movements that you make, making it an anti-shake device
- Easy-to-use and carry while you are on-the-go: one of the best options for filming while travelling
6. DJI osmo Mobile 2 Handheld Smartphone Gimbal
This smartphone gimbal is also by DJI and it is one tailored towards the storyteller in you. Its functionalities falls towards creating the best cinematic experience within your smartphone. This is a quality choice for our review list.
- There is an active track technology, with built-in sensors
- Brushless motors help to ensure stability
- It is lightweight and portable as it is made out of high-strength material, cutting the weight to 485 g
- Perfect for every-day use
- 15 hours of battery life, it can also charge your smartphone or hours of streaming
5. DJI Osmo 2 Mobile Handheld Smartphone Gimbal Stabilizer Videographer Bundle
This bundle by DJI is amazing as it helps to incorporate the stabilizer with other accessories to optimize your filming experience. Just as the other two standalone products by DJI are great, this one offers the same high quality experience to help you make the best videos.
- Includes a smartphone stabilizer, power cable, a large gadget bag, spider tripod and support, and the deluxe digital camera starter kit
- The built-in sensors and brushless motors ensure stability
- Functions are great for smooth video, motion timelapse, zoom control, panorama options, portrait orientation, with a 15-hour battery life
- Includes full DJI USA warranty
4. ZOMEI Gimbal Stabilizer Mobile 3 Axis Handheld Gimbal
This handheld gimbal is great for anyone looking to create quality cinematic videos on their smartphones. It is easy to use with many features that help to perfect that environment. ZOMEI is able to find what helps users' to produce the optimal results, and have created this product tailored to that.
- Multiple modes: standard, panoramic, lock mode, time-lapse, face/object tracking
- Comes with a camera focus wheel for easy zooming
- Anti-shake design of this 3-axis gyro, making it stable and easy to capture clear images
- Configuration panel on the handle helps to connect the stabilizer with your smartphone via Bluetooth
- The light ring, shutter release, ISO, and other camera settings can be adjusted directly to help operate the phone and stabilizer
- Battery life: up to 12 hours
3. Zhiyun Smooth 4 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer
This smartphone stabilizer by Zhiyun is made to be for the experienced video maker. There is an application that is compatible with the smartphone. It creates a seamless interaction for photography and film.
- The ZY play application helps to support the gimbal while filming
- Integrated control panel design has many buttons to help the video experience
- There is a PhoneGo mode for instant scene transition
- Time-lapse and object tracking features help to ensure a seamless transition
- Two-way charging allows for a longer runtime
2. DJI Osmo Mobile 2 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer
This stabilizer comes with a casing that helps for on-the-go convenience. DJI has been able to create this product to tailor to users.
- Made up of high-strength composite material, weight is 485 g
- Up to 15 hours in battery life
- Compatible with iPhones and Android devices
- Includes the DJI Osmo Mobile 2 stabilizer, a power cable, a mini tripod, and a compact case
1. Zhiyun Smooth-Q 3-Axis Handheld Gimbal Stabilizer – Best of Smartphone stabilizers in 2020
This stabilizer is great for a smooth and seamless connection between your device and the product. It is compatible with many devices and known to be a top choice in the market because of its convenience.
- Compatible with iPhone and Android devices
- Enhanced camera functions such as face tracking, panoramic filming, and time-lapse
- Balance can be achieved in one minute
- 3 modes available: the mode button helps to switch between them freely
- Up to 12 hours of battery time


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Still here!
What a weekend. Kona Ironman was amazing again and so inspiring. Chrissie W. is an amazing athlete. She was injured in a bike accident 2 weeks before Kona and she made an amazing come back and won.
I haven't felt the greatest lately with drama coming back here. Sucks but at least it's not staying here.{ feel like I am trying to get sick}
Today I did 3.1 in 48 minutes. Dreadmill style. Lungs not so bad during it but now after they have not been the nicest. Next week mid week I will know for sure if I will be coming to marathon weekend. If so I can register!! Just knowing that put some spark back in my step. Never mind the end of this month will be here before I know it. My running store has the interval timer and I will go by and get me one on Tuesday.
Back on the hunt for a gym with a pool. I need to get my a– back in the water! My riding group needs to go back to Sunday rides!!! I miss riding and I know I will not be keeping up like before. My training buddy is in the hospital. She is having laperscopy sometime tomorrow. I wanted to visit but I feel like I am getting sick. If all they do is the Lap. She will be back up and out there getting ready for the half Iron. We text watched Kona. It was fun.
Well calling it. I will try to get better at blogging again.


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Proud to be a fully inclusive, non-discriminating organization.
Jo and her team of professional celebrants take pride in highlighting the milestones and commitments of your lives, at the time same acknowledging and honoring important transitions and events.
Please ask for our advice on readings to include in the ceremony, writing your own vows both for your wedding and your vow renewal, music, and tips and details to make your celebration a great success. As celenrants, we will collaborate in guiding you in the choice of the rituals, readings and music to fulfil your ideas for your symbolic wedding in Tuscany and Italy. Together we will discuss your idea of the ceremony, through Skype, email and phone consultations, until you reach the ceremony that meets your needs. You may want to rehearse the day before, but we will also be there before the ceremony to go over the final details, and present you with a beautiful parchment as a keepsake of the day.
Jo and her team of professional celebrants will celebrate and help you create personalized ceremonies such as symbolic weddings; vow renewals; commitment ceremonies; baby welcomings and adoptions; survivor tributes, in Italian, English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish and Russian.
In a recent interview, she described herself as follows:
I was born near Rome, the product of an American mother and a Sicilian father, I am fluent in both Italian and English. I would like to think that I got my creativity from my mother and my communication ability from my father. (Dad is a retired Protestant minister.). I moved to Florence when I was 19, in 1979, so this is where I lived most, which doesn't necessarily make me a true Florentine!
In addition to working as a celebrant, I also work as an English teacher for professionals as well as a translator, translating books from English into Italian and viceversa.
I sing in a choir called the Merry Maidens, a women's early music vocal ensemble.
I practice BioDanza and meditation. These activities are ones I hold near and dear to my heart because I think it is so important to continually deepen my aptitude for compassionate listening. It is also essential in helping me to create rituals which respond to your needs and ideas.
I am also a qualified IRACE (Institute for Research of Applied Cosmic Energy) practitioner; the method applies energy to specific centers in the body, and the sessions are very quick, lasting max 5 minutes, very handy for nervous brides (and grooms, and everybody, really!). I have also taken courses in Harmonic Massage and love offering massages to friends and family.
A very good friend of mine has suggested I answer the questions in the Proust Questionnaire, I selected a few and here are my replies: My main feature: generosity
The quality I like best in a man: determination
And in a woman: being open-armed
My worst trait: haste
The quality I would love to have: being more flexible
What I appreciate most in my friends: their ability to forgive my long absences
Hobbies: singing, drawing
My dream of happiness: being treated like a princess and learning to laze about
Favorite writers: Pablo Neruda, Ann Tyler, Barbara Kingsolver (among many others)
My greatest misfortune: becoming blind
My favorite historical character: M.L. King, Rosa Parks
The nation where I would like to move: New Zealand (not forever)
My favorite color: purple in all its hues
My favorite flower: tulips
My favorite classical composer: J.S. Bach
How I wish to die: in peace
Current state of mind: open to anything
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The first trailer for Marvel's Inhumans is here and, well, it doesn't look that great really.
Whilst they might not have the high profile of the X-Men or Spider-Man Marvel's Inhumans have been around for decades first appearing in the 60's. The origins of the Inhumans are a little convoluted but simply put they're the result of genetic engineering by the Kree (an alien race) on primitive man in the hopes to use them against their foes the Skrulls (another alien race) in a war. The Kree abandoned their plans and left the Inhumans behind on the Moon. Completely seperate from the rest of humanity they developed their own advanced society in the city state of Attilan.
Whilst the enigmatic Black Bolt (Anson Mount) might be the King of the Inhumans, capable of levelling a city just by whispering, Medusa (Serinda Swan) is Queen of the Inhumans and no mere trophy wife either. Medusa is not only a central figure within the Inhumans society, acting as interpreter for the silent Black Bolt (communicating via sign language) and helping conduct affairs of the state, she's also a skilled and capable fighter. Medusa's lengthy hair has greater tensile strength than iron wire and she can control and manipulate it at will. She can lift, hold and move objects (including people) using her hair and also use it for precise tasks like picking a lock. You'd never know any of this from what you see in the trailer though as there's no indication she has any powers, or any importance, at all. She doesn't even speak.
What's really interesting is the poster for Inhumans gives the impression that, understandably, Black Bolt, Medusa and Maximus are the main characters of this series but the trailer, the first trailer which will impact the first impression that potential viewers have, utterly fails to show why Medusa is on that poster. Whilst it's out of context it does seem to be indicating Medusa is basically helpless before Maximus who seemingly subjugates with no problems at all.
Marvel is pretty appalling at representation for anyone who isn't a white guy in their on screen universe. Medusa in Inhumans could be a prime opportunity to add another 'strong female character' to Marvel's on screen presence (granted it's a white woman) but the trailer utterly fails to give any impression that she matters at all in the world of the Inhumans, that's besides the complete absence of her powers.
Black Bolt's treacherous brother Maximus (Iwan Rheon) gets the main focus of this first trailer but the stand out by far is actually Lockjaw, the huge teleporting dog that serves as Black Bolt's guardian of sorts. Inhumans could be a great drama about a royal family that just happens to have strange abilities/powers but this trailer doesn't do a good job of selling it. There's a definite sense that it really doesn't have the budget to do these characters properly given their visual effects intensive powers.
There's a lot of noise about Inhumans being shot on IMAX but there's little evidence as to why it's been shot on IMAX, almost everything about the first trailer looks amateurish, bland and low budget in a bad way. Whilst the marketing seems to be trying to make it seem like 'event' TV the actual trailer does the opposite.


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Kona Coverage on TODAY!
>> Saturday, December 18, 2010
Today, NBC, 3-5 pm (central time)! I'll be watching.
Pharmie and I watched the live feed through her laptop hooked up to our TV with an HDMI cable back in October. We've never watched THAT much of it "live" before, and it will be interesting to see how they portray the race on TV today. This should be good!
While we were watching the live feed, we were working on some quilts (yes, we quilt together - shut your face). I showed this photo 2 months ago and made a joke about watching Ironman while working as my own Iron-man as I was ironing quilt blocks:
The cat didn't help with any of the quilting. Jerk.
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And then tomorrow, I'm doing an indoor track meet. (CLICK HERE for more info on this series of indoor track meets.) I'm going to see if I can set a new mile PR! I don't know if it's possible, but I've got a plan in place, and I'll see if I can execute. I've been eating and training worse over the last 2 weeks, so that's gonna hurt. (But the 1-2 weeks before that, I had some GOOD workouts.)
My last mile race 2 years ago which is my current PR (4:54.6)
Back next week with a race report and the winner of the "Ultimate Stocking Stuffer Giveaway!
(UPDATE: Did you see my wife's Evotri teammate in the Kona coverage? Rural Girl was chatting with Kathleen Allen (the Mom [of 4 kids?] who crashed and needed her RoadID) near the end of the broadcast. You could hear Rural Girl say "You betcha" as she was running across the screen! Pharmie and I LOVED it! CONGRATS RURAL GIRL on your 15 seconds of NBC Ironman fame!!!)


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After more than a decade of waiting, net neutrality has finally gone mainstream.
The term isn't new. A general reference to the idea that the Internet's data must be treated equally—and that its providers can't pick and choose when to charge more—the term "net neutrality" was first coined 13 years ago, and the concept behind it's far older than that. But like an item from the Bill of Rights, it's a vital concept from an earlier age, one that seems to need defending each generation.
This year, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said it would spend 60 days listening to the public's opinion on net neutrality. Reasonable, right? But we're talking about the Internet here, and the floodgates were opened. Activists jumped on board. John Oliver urged Internet trolls to join in. The FCC's site crashed repeatedly under the surge. The commission extended its deadline by an additional 58 days. When all was said and done, the FCC received nearly 4 million comments—then admitted it had undercounted by several hundred thousand. Even President Obama weighed in—after the comment period closed, of course, but it was a nice sentiment. We won't find out what the FCC will do until next year: Will it convert the Internet into a public utility, as many activists want? Or will we see some sort of muddied, hybrid solution?
While net neutrality dominated the news, it was hardly all that happened in Internet freedom in 2014. Turkey took a major step backward, blocking Twitter, YouTube, and dozens of other sites in an apparent attempt to censor commentary on government corruption. The world is still reacting to former National Security Agency (NSA) systems administrator Edward Snowden's revelations of the agency's drastic online surveillance programs. And Brazil passed the Marco Civil, a landmark Internet Bill of Rights that should inspire Internet activists around the world.
Here are the heroes of Internet freedom that played a major role in saving the Web as we know for at least another year.
10) Everyone who runs a small ISP
It's no secret that in the world of business that it's usually much easier being a big guy than a little guy. And when it comes to Internet service providers (ISPs), the big guys, the ones who make most of the money, are the most insufferable. Don't take our word for it: The three biggest ISPs in the country, Comcast, Time Warner, and Verizon, made the final four in Consumerist's "Worst Company in America" poll. (Comcast took top, uh, honors.) So you shouldn't be in the least bit surprised that those three—alongside other industry heavyweights, such as RCN, CenturyLink, AT&T, and Frontier Wireless—all refuse to support net neutrality. Maybe it's tough to blame them: They're not interested in your customer satisfaction, and were net neutrality to go by the wayside, they'd probably make more money.
While net neutrality dominated the news, it was hardly all that happened in Internet freedom in 2014.
But contrast that with some of the little guys. In an informal survey, eight smaller ISPs all said that they did support net neutrality. A single one, Bristol BVU, didn't respond. But Google Fiber (yes, Google here counts as a little guy, at least as a burgeoning ISP), iFIBER, Chattanooga Electric Power Bureau, Lafayette Utilities Service, Wave Broadband, Bristol BVU, Sonic.net, and XMission all said they'd rather preserve the Internet's basic principles than possibly scrape some extra profit.
So while it's awfully hard for the little guys—especially in light of the Time Warner-Comcast merger—at least we know who's on our side.
9) Susan Crawford
Yes, millions of Americans want net neutrality. But few, if any, express why this issue is important as well as Susan Crawford, described by Cory Doctorow as the country's "best commentator on network policy and network neutrality."
An economic realist with an eye towards equality, Crawford is eager to point out that without net neutrality, Internet providers would "systematically provide extraordinarily expensive services for the richest people in America, leave out a huge percentage of the population and, in general, try to make their own profits at the expense of social good." That's not great for the U.S., which Crawford says "should be looking the rest of the world in the rearview mirror," rather than debating whether we should even make the Internet a public utility.
There's even been newspaper editorials and White House petitions to elect Crawford to the chair of the FCC. While that seems too idealistic to ever come true, many Internet activists would see it as an improvement over current chair Tom Wheeler, a former lobbyist for the cable industry.
The history of the Internet is riddled with martyrs who pushed its boundaries, but none are more tragic than that of Reddit cofounder Aaron Swartz, the young activist who took his own life in January 2013 as he faced years in prison for downloading scores of academic articles. Attempts to create "Aaron's law," which would reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which Swartz was accused of breaking, went unheeded.
What did happen, though, is that filmmaker Brian Knappenberger released The Internet's Own Boy, a sensitive, nuanced, and riveting portrait of Swartz, his life, and his ideals. Appropriately, Knappenberger released his documentary to be shared for free on the Creative Commons license, which Swartz himself helped create.
7) Cynthia Wong and Katitza Rodriguez
More than a year and a half after Snowden's first revelations, the NSA remains unhampered by any U.S. reforms. But the agency's most advanced programs are designed to work outside our borders.
So it's not surprising, all things considered, that the U.N. has passed a non-binding resolution in favor of privacy—or that it took this long. But considering the U.S., as well as the four countries that house the NSA's main partner agencies—the U.K., Australia, Canada, and New Zealand—are all members of the U.N., the group's officially stance in favor of international online privacy is a pretty big deal.
Of course, this resolution took countless people and tons of diplomatic effort. But a large part of the work came from advisors Cynthia Wong, a senior Internet researcher at Human Rights Watch who's pushed for it since soon after Snowden hit the scene, and Katitza Rodriguez of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Both Wong and Rodriguez played integral roles in the U.N.'s decision to take action on this major Internet freedom issue.
6) Edward Snowden
Former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden will surely never have another year like 2013, when he fled the country to blow the whistle on a number of invasive programs. With Snowden still stuck in passport limbo with temporary asylum in Russia, a cynic could easily claim that his move did little in the long run. And that's true, at least in Washington, D.C., as President Obama's reforms are fairly toothless and Congress can't agree on any NSA reform bill.
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Despite not physically leaving his new motherland for more than a year, however, Snowden has become history's greatest cheerleader for what he says is the real way to hamper the NSA: encryption. He's beamed his face into South by Southwest, Ted Talks, and seemingly every privacy-focused conference (videos of which all made their way online for the masses) to preach that it's not actually that hard for common people to encrypt their emails, files, and chats, and that widespread encryption—not legislation—is the best way to protect your privacy.
It's worked, too. Cybersecurity and encryption expert Bruce Schneier recently estimated that 700 million people have taken steps to hide their tracks online since hearing of Snowden.
Nobody doubts that when you're thinking about Internet freedom, free speech is paramount. But what about the other side of that coin, when someone wants to share material online that could wreck your life? Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami, is likely the world's leading proponent of the criminalization of revenge porn (or, as she prefers to call it, "non-consensual pornography")—the sketchy act of putting intimate photos intended for a private audience in display for anyone to see.
Admittedly, it's a tough to draw the line. ACLU lawyer Lee Rowland previously told the Daily Dot that when looking at revenge porn laws, she has to "focus on whether these bills criminalize the mere sharing of an image—which I think never has a snowball's chance in hell of passing First Amendment muster—or whether it's focused on truly malicious invaders of privacy."
Photos via Mary Anne Franks
But you can't doubt Franks' results: Her laws, or at least laws that are rooted in her proposed draft legislation, are sweeping the country. By her own count, 15 states now have revenge-porn laws on the books, and all but three have passed them in the past two years. Eighteen other states, as well as Puerto Rico, are also currently considering such legislation. And her handiwork is at least somewhat in the majority of them—Franks says that she's personally assisted lawmakers in 19 of the pending or passed bills.
(Editor's note: Franks has written two op-eds for the Daily Dot, both of which are worth revisiting, "The Internet's privacy hypocrisy" and "Why nonconsensual porn should be a sex crime.")
4) Congressman Alessandro Molon
Over the years, plenty of Internet groups have created variants of an online Bill of Rights. But in April of 2014, Brazil became what's believed to be the first country to sign one into law. Called Marco Civil, the legislation's got a little bit of everything: net neutrality, privacy protections, and even provisions to save citizens from being bullied by overzealous copyright enforcement.
It's a monumental achievement that it even exists in the first place, as it took more than a decade of wrangling and negotiations, then had to pass both houses of Brazilian Congress and get the signature of President Dilma Rousseff. Even if we devoted this entire list to the people who made Marco Civil happen, we'd run out of slots. But perhaps nobody played a bigger role in actually getting it passed in 2014 than Alessandro Molon, the congressman who spearheaded it. Carolina Rossini, vice president of International Policy and Strategy at the advocacy group Public Knowledge and native Brazilian who's pushed for Marco Civil for years, called Molon indispensable. "Without his leadership, we would not have gotten it," she told the Daily Dot.
Patricia Royo, Molon's press agent, praised the bill's forward thinking. "[Marco Civil] managed to find an equilibrium amongst the many entities involved, guaranteeing net neutrality," she told the Daily Dot, "which is now being discussed in many countries, such as the United States, and also in the European Union."
3) Tim Wu
As any Ralph Nader supporter will tell you, not every political candidate has to actually win an election to make a difference. But for a while, it sure looked like Tim Wu might be able to do both. Often cited as the "father of net neutrality," Wu coined the term in a 2003 Columbia Law School paper. As he pointed out from the campaign trail, the paper's full title, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, offered two possible names for his concept—meaning the public could have described either side of the coin. "I thought, 'I'll see which one catches on.' I guess people chose," he told the Daily Dot this fall.
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Eleven years after his paper's publication, when Wu gambled that he had enough charisma to run for lieutenant governor of New York, he brought his issue to the forefront of the American news cycle like no one else could. Since New York invariably votes Democrat for governor, and the Democratic primaries in that state choose governor and lieutenant governor separately, Wu actually had a shot. Unlike any gubernatorial candidate, Wu received a glowing endorsement from the New York Times, and appeared on TV shows like the Colbert Report to talk about his pet project. He didn't win his election, but his campaign coincided with the height of the FCC's public comment period, allowing this ideal spokesperson to share his spotlight with one of the Internet's most fundamental issues.
2) Laura Poitras
There has likely never been a film that captures the intersection of technology and civil liberties—and the very real risks of the people that would bring them to light—as Poitras's Citizenfour. A pulse-pounding documentary about Edward Snowden, it's a once-in-a-lifetime confluence of a great film journalist given direct access to a moment that would change the world. In 2013, Snowden directly reached out to Poitras to share his cache of proof of the NSA's unbelievable Internet spying capabilities. Though the film would not come out until more than a year after the first Snowden revelations—fellow journalist Glenn Greenwald published his first Snowden story in late-spring of 2013, while Citizenfour debuted in the summer of 2014—it was worth the wait.
1) Evan Greer
Over the past few years, the activist group Fight for the Future (FFTF) has become a mobilizing machine. First famous for collecting names for a petition to block passage of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in late 2011, FFTF has quietly morphed into the Internet's go-to rallying point whenever the Internet's threatened. By now, the organization's formula is clear: It forms alliances with like-minded groups, makes a simple, good-looking website to explain the issue, and start san embeddable widget that makes it easy for visitors to sign their names to the cause.
FFTF's model truly came to a head in 2014, when campaign director Evan Greer launched a net neutrality campaign called Battle for the Net. Part of the campaign was a brilliant stunt, called Internet Slowdown Day. For one day only, Greer and company convinced dozens of websites—including media organizations like the Daily Dot—to adopt a "loading" GIF on their websites to simulate what life could look like if we lost net neutrality and visitors were on a site that didn't pay for premium service.
Cleverness aside, what matters is results, which the net neutrality campaign brought in spades. More than a quarter of FCC's nearly 4 million official comments on net neutrality (1.3 million) came directly through FFTF's campaign, and that number doesn't even include the number of people who saw the campaign and then shared their support for net neutrality directly with the FCC. It was, according to the FCC, the most comments the agency ever received on any issue.
Not even some of those who work closely with Greer know of her pre-FFTF background as a world-travelling singer-songwriter of, in her own words, "radical genderqueer folk-punk-mama kicking catchy singalongs for liberation."
"My success and ability to sustain my music (and support my family doing it) was entirely dependent on the free and open Web," she told the Daily Dot. "I think it's really relevant to why I care so much about Internet freedom."
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Sacral agenesis
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Sacral agenesis (also considered as part of the caudal regression syndrome) is a rare and severe sacral developmental abnormality.
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In normal pregnancy, the incidence is between 0.005 and 0.1%. However, in fetuses with diabetic mothers, the incidence rises to 0.2%. Of those with the condition, 16-20% have diabetic mothers.
- increased frequency of spinal dysraphism.
- Currarino triad
Sacral agenesis can be categorized into four types 1:
- type I: unilateral agenesis localized to sacrum or coccyx
- type II: partial agenesis with bilateral defects; the iliac bone articulates with S1, but the distal sacral elements fail to develop
- type III: total sacral agenesis; iliac bones articulate with the lowest lumbar element
- type IV: total sacral agenesis; iliac bones fuse posteriorly
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This article describes update KB3115455 for Microsoft Excel 2013, which was released on August 9, 2016. This update also applies to Office Home and Student 2013 RT. This update has a prerequisite.
Be aware that the update in the Microsoft Download Center applies to the Microsoft Installer (.msi)-based edition of Office 2013. It doesn't apply to the Office 2013 Click-to-Run editions, such as Microsoft Office 365 Home. (How to determine?)
Be aware that the update in the Microsoft Download Center applies to the Microsoft Installer (.msi)-based edition of Office 2013. It doesn't apply to the Office 2013 Click-to-Run editions, such as Microsoft Office 365 Home. (How to determine?)
Improvements and fixes
Fixes the following issues:
- Assume that you copy and paste a range of cells that has an ID property set in Excel 2013. If you use the ClearContents method to clear the content of the pasted cells, Excel 2013 may crash.
- Assume that you insert a spreadsheet to a notebook in OneNote 2013. When you select Edit and try to insert a comment in a cell in Excel 2013, Excel 2013 may crash.
- Excel 2013 silently blocks the loading of untrusted HTML files. This issue occurs after you install MS16-088: Description of the security update for Excel 2013: July 12, 2016 (KB3115262). After you install this new update, Excel 2013 will open HTML documents (even if they're renamed as .xls files) in protected view instead of silently failing.
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Just a month after Apple announced its health tracking platform for iOS 8, the company released a new beta version of the app with two new features: step counting and caffeine tracking, according to a report from 9to5Mac. Another report from 9to5Mac finds that Apple hired two engineers from the Nike+ FuelBand team in June, Ryan Bailey and Jon Gale.
These two are just the latest to join Apple's growing iWatch team. Along with Bailey and Gale, Apple also recently added the sales director of Swiss watch company TAG Heuer.
Based on the first version of the iOS 8 beta, Apple's Health app allows other health-related connected devices and applications to integrate data into Health to help users view all of their health metrics in one place. The app can also be a reference point for patients who want to use the app to send data to their physicians. At the time of Health's launch, Apple senior vice president of Software Engineering Craig Federighi announced that Epic Systems, an electronic health record company, was working with Apple on some kind of integration with HealthKit.
In the latest beta, a new step and distance tracking feature, which relies on the smartphone's M7 motion coprocessor, is the Health app's first tracking feature that doesn't rely on a third party health device or app. With the tracking feature, users can sort their step data by day, week, month, and year. They can also remove sets of step data from the app if they were included in error.
This feature marks the first time Apple has made use of its M7 coprocessor for step tracking, but other third part app developers have been doing so for some time. Moves, which was recently acquired by Facebook, Noom, RunKeeper and Fitbit all offer apps that use the iPhone's M7 motion coprocessor to passively track steps for users.
Apple also added caffeine intake to the company's list of nutrition tracking metrics, which also includes total fat, polyunsaturated fat, monounsaturated fat, saturated fat, cholesterol, sodium, carbohydrates, fiber, sugar, calories, protein, vitamin (A, B6, B12, C, D, E, K), and calcium. Activity tracker company Jawbone already offers a dedicated app that tracks caffeine, called UP Coffee.
But while Apple's Health app only allows users to manually add in data points to see how much caffeine they consume in a day, UP Coffee provides users with more information about how their caffeine intake affects sleep. After three days, the UP Coffee app will compare the user's stats to other coffee drinkers' and after one week, the app will provide the user with his or her "caffeine persona".
MobiHealthNews pointed out in early June, just after Apple announced HealthKit , that the new app left out several common health tracking fields from its first beta, including actual lab results and diagnostics data, information from connected pill boxes, mental health, and ovulation tracking. Visit MobiHealthNews' in-depth coverage on HealthKit's feature set for more on what it does and doesn't help users track.


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One stop Line Up Shop - All you need to know about setting your line up Hitwicket Cricket SetLineup SirInnkeeper Tips Strategy51 months ago
Hey guys! One of our veteran players, Sir Innkeeper, has some great tips on setting lineup! Read on to find out :)
"One of the most important (and often neglected) aspect of Hitwicket is to set the lineup.
Personally, in matches I have around 20-60% chances of winning, I take as much as 90 minutes to set my line up.
If it's above or below, don't bother so much :p
A lot of tips and tricks are involved in doing the same.
I do not know why, but I feel like writing a comprehensive guide on this topic, having seen that not many really helpful ones are available in the forum.
Note: This is of absolutely no use to complete newbies, I'm assuming there is a certain level of working knowledge with the reader.
A) The Research
Step I : Do not rush.
Seriously, don't. I guess this is the most important and interesting aspect of the game. You can check a shitload of stuff by giving yourself ample time instead of making this a 5 minute affair.
Step II : What to check?
Of course, the best way to start is to check the previous match of the player. Make sure you single out the loan player and if he's not playing, make the necessary adjustments in all your calculations.
If you are a musketeer, the best way to start is to go to the previous game and check the player analysis section. That gives you an idea about the difference in Form/Fitness since the last game to again make your calculations more precise.
Step III: The player list
Your analysis is 90% complete by now. However, just to make sure the opponent has played his strongest playing XI in the game you checked, it is always advisable to go through his player list once. A tip here is to sort the players by the skill index and opening the highest 15 Skill indexed players to make a secondary assessment.
Of course, if the gap between the 15th and 16th player is less, you should be a bit more thorough.
Step IV: The transfer history
DO NOT MISS THIS. I have countless times won my games by buying players in the last two hours. If you have a habit to set line ups well in advance, please make a visit to the website 30 minutes before time to make sure your opponent has not made a recent signing.
Step V: Identify Weakness
Check 3-4 matches for each batsman for a drop in stars, try to make out if he is weak against either spin or seam and plan out your bowling line up accordingly.
Similarly, if he is short of bowlers, try to make sure your batsmen are around to boss them.
So, this concludes our research part. This is easily the most important and boring part of setting the line up, but this gives us, with 99.9% of accuracy, a complete idea of what is in store for us ahead.
B) The Process
There is of course, no definite set of rules involving the same.
At best I can provide you some tips and tricks that are really handed and found by almost a year of experience in HW wherein I've played around 1500 matches :)
Toss Preferences
- Flat
Bat first if you have a good batting attack, don't feel that your bowling wont be able to defend it. Unlike proper cricket, where batting second is the obvious choice for a team like India, it's better to bat first and get a ton of runs on the board. The opponent might/should crumble under chasing pressure.
If you have a stronger bowling attack, evaluate the opponent. If you feel you can skittle him out real soon, bowl first. A low run rate will mean your batters will not take any risks and you should coast along.
If you feel you won't be able to skittle him out but feel he doesn't have a top notch attack, bat first and try to reach a score that will really rattle your opponent and try to strange him in chasing pressure. Make optimum use of the AFT feature in this case.
It is always advisable to bowl first on both these tracks, regardless of other conditions, ceterus paribus. Aim to really restrict your opponent and then coast along with no pressure.
Of course, in special cases you can bat first, but it really hampers your ability to win that particular game.
- Sporting
It is a drunk pitch, it claims to help everything but actually helps nothing. Apply the logic used in both the above points to reach a definite conclusion.
I'd bat first if I have a stronger batting line up and vice versa on Sporting.
Bowling order
- If you have five bowlers, there isn't much to worry about. Phase them out in the best way you can. If you see an apparent weakness in a line up, of course, try to place your bowler there to exploit it.
- In case of 4 bowlers, and i mean really good bowlers, bowl them upfront. A lot of people make the mistake of leaving them for later, but the game works such that towards the end, they will go too. So, either batting first or bowling first, upfront bowling is a must.
- If you have 3 strike bowlers, now is the time you start to phrase out. The last 4 should ideally be of the comparatively weaker bowlers (4th and 5th). Try to hide the rest four overs sandwiched between the good ones.
- In case you have two bowlers, I'm assuming you have a great batting attack. Bat first, get runs on the board. If you think the total is defendable, go hard upfront for a spell and then try to get your bowlers back later, i.e from around the 14th-18th over.
- In case of a single monster, bowl him out ASAP and hope for a run through.
Batting order
- Against a seam attack, assuming he has a really good/decent attack, it is most advisable to reverse the first four batsmen i.e. send in bowlers as bakras upfront. the No. 5 should be your 4th best batter, followed by the second best and then the best.
- Of course, try to inculcate the left-right combo in all cases/
- Against a crumbling attack, I would 10/10 times send by best two batters ahead and take the PP in the first 5. Needless to say, it only gets tougher.
- Against a batting team, assuming the opponent really doesn't have good players, play your best and 3rd best player in the begin and follow up with your 4th best player at 1 drop and 2nd best at No. 4. This can be reversed.
- It is important to note that a 10* batsman can boss a 10-11* bowler and easily play a 12* bowler. In short a batsman with 1-2 stars less can boss/handle a bowler 2 stars better than him.
The Powerplay
Ever since the powerplay is giving increased stars, the best way to use it is to try and make your good batsmen come at par with his good bowlers in his prime bowling stage.
For example, if you have a good batter and a few decent bats lower down the order, it is advisable to play your good bat (if he is within 2 stars of the good) bowlers so that he can actually play them out and even if he does get out after a while, your decent players lower down the order can boss out his comparatively weaker bowlers.
Nah, sorry, not divulging details on that calculations :v
However, if you have good bats and the opponent has only 1-2 good bowlers, always try to use 'AMP'. Try it once if you haven't yet and try the same score with AFT, you will see the difference. "
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Pro BMX rider TJ Lavin was in critical condition after a crash during the Dew Tour Championships, according to a Las Vegas hospital.
Lavin, who also hosts the Real World/Road Rules challenges on MTV, was thrown from his bike after failing to get his feet back on the pedals during a jump, ESPN.com reports. The 33-year-old biker was knocked unconscious and suffered a shattered wrist and broken ribs.
He was rushed to the University Medical Center in Las Vegas Thursday night. He remained in critical condition Friday. The hospital offered no other details.
Besides his hosting gig on MTV, Lavin composes music and has appeared on Cribs.


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The least valuable criticism we have of Charlie Chaplin maintains that he was a tremendously gifted comic until he started taking himself too seriously. My quarrel starts with the underlying assumption that the greatness of any comic artist can be measured with a laugh meter. I'll readily grant that there's more to laugh at in The Circus (1928) than in Monsieur Verdoux (1947), Limelight (1952), or A King in New York (1957), but that doesn't make it a better movie. The other three offer some of the richest experiences in the history of cinema, and if quality of emotion counts for more than quantity, especially in comic works, they're remarkable for their sharpness, depth, and complexity. They are all narcissistic reveries, yet none of them can be reduced to Chaplin assessing his own persona—though this is undoubtedly one reason they're of interest.
I'd be prepared to make a similar case for the virtually impossible to find last feature of Preston Sturges, an independent effort known in French as Les carnets du Major Thompson and in English as The French They Are a Funny Race (1955). The critical consensus finds this work painfully unfunny, but that wasn't my reaction when I managed to find a print in the early 80s. "Painfully unfunny" is the way I'd describe The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend (1949), Sturges's last Hollywood picture, but Les carnets was funny, albeit in an uncharacteristically quiet way—thoughtful and courtly rather than raucous and lunatic, as Sturges's best pictures were. Viewers hoping for the old Sturges had their expectations dashed, and that apparently prevented them from seeing more fragile and less obvious traits—much as advocates of Chaplin's tramp couldn't get past his disappearance and appreciate the very different attributes of Verdoux, Calvero, and Shahdov.* * *
I didn't laugh once during Woody Allen's 33rd film as writer-director, Anything Else, and I can't recall laughing much at his 32nd effort, Hollywood Ending, either, though at least I heard some laughter around me. It would have bothered me less this time if the emotions on view were more attractive. I was mostly curious to see Allen attempting to reinvent himself for the youth market—assigning many of his own familiar mannerisms to Jason Biggs (American Pie, American Wedding), a 25-year-old playing a 21-year-old aspiring New York writer, Jerry Falk, and assigning some of the same and a few other mannerisms to himself, a 67-year-old playing a 60-year-old grumpy writer and schoolteacher, David Dobel, Jerry's mentor.
The film has periodic scenes with Jerry and Dobel walking through Central Park, each actor offering a slightly different version of Woody Allen shtick. But the heart of the film—if it can be said to have a heart—is in Jerry's scenes with two other characters: the neurotic actress and aspiring singer he falls in love with, Amanda (Christina Ricci), and his dysfunctional and highly dependent agent, Harvey (Danny DeVito).
I don't think it's accidental that Amanda brought to mind Annie Hall (1977) or that Harvey conjured up Broadway Danny Rose (1984), my two favorite Woody Allen pictures. (I can't count the 1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily? as his funniest movie, because he didn't direct it.) Amanda is introduced to us as a lovable shiksa goofball out of the Annie Hall/Diane Keaton mold; Harvey is presented as a lovable Jewish, or at least Jewish-style, loser out of the parade of showbiz might-have-beens who populate Broadway Danny Rose. The problem is, neither of them continues to be very lovable. Worse, we begin to realize early on that Allen hates both of them for giving Jerry such a difficult time, though they do so in almost antithetical ways—Amanda by rejecting and betraying him sexually, Harvey by clinging to him as if he were a life raft. These unpleasant traits quickly overwhelm whatever it is we're supposed to love about these characters.
I don't mean to imply that Allen isn't being at all self-critical. Dobel isn't just cranky—he's paranoid and violent, nearly always seething with rage. Allen doesn't present him as though he expects us to love him for these qualities. In fact, the self-hatred that's Allen's trademark is more obvious here than in any other character he's played. If he expresses anything resembling sustained affection for anyone in this story, it's for Jerry, who's plainly intended to represent his younger and more hopeful self. I happen to find this affection almost as disagreeable as the hatred he expresses toward the three other leading characters, because it excuses too much. To all appearances, Jerry is just as big a hypocrite as Amanda. But he's narrating the story, and it's his view of himself that's clearly meant to prevail.
This leaves us with only one other character who might be said to reflect the quality of this film's emotions: Amanda's mother, Paula, played by Stockard Channing, who also aspires to be a singer and moves into Jerry and Amanda's apartment halfway through the picture. Paula is seen chiefly as an irritation and a threat to Jerry's well-being, especially when she insists on renting a piano so she can accompany herself when she practices. But in one of her last appearances she interrupts his train of thought while he's writing to sing him a song, and the film suddenly becomes intriguingly ambiguous. Is she supposed to be a good singer or a bad one?
For once, the film doesn't tell us what to think, and we hang suspended. Paula/Channing isn't a wonderful singer like Billie Holiday—a frequent reference point in the dialogue and on the sound track—or even like Diana Krall, whom we see as herself, singing and playing piano at the Village Vanguard, where Jerry and Amanda go to hear her. Furthermore, we wouldn't think of Channing as a singer or a piano player in the first place, and she can't be said to be singing precisely in tune. Yet the film clearly isn't trying to say that she's awful either. It's something revolutionary in a Woody Allen movie: a moment when a character is neither wonderful nor awful. But then the plot returns to the usual bitterness.
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I hear reports ever day it seems as to how a teenager has disappeared. Why is it that so many kids from 13- 16 years old seem to be vanishing? Is there a predator out there taking them and selling them? Are they getting mixed up with mysterious "online" dating? Are they hooking up with strangers, fall in "love" and then run away?
The most alarming things I keep hearing about is all the toddlers that are being snatched. First of all why would anyone let a toddler play without supervision in the front yard? That is just asking for a disaster. Oh man, I would never let our little one play outside alone this young. Heck, who knows what age is "ok" these days. What happened to the days when I was a young kid and could not only play outside alone but could ride my bike around the neighborhood alone and go out and play as long as I was back in time for dinner or before dark which ever came first? There are so many more things to worry about with our young children these days.
Sometimes I think if our little guy could be locked up and kept on a leash to keep him safe I would in a heartbeat if I thought it wouldn't traumatized him. But we can't do that to our kids, if we did they would grow up missing the most fundamental aspects of growing up… Time away from Mom and Dad to do what they want and to explore new things.
My heart goes out to all parents and families who have lost a child. For the children who are missing, I hope most of them can be found and brought home.


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It has been a rather volatile winter season this year with large swings in temps and periods of wintry weather which are typical in La Nina winters. As we put met winter to rest, who is ready for met Spring? Well, those who are looking for an early start to Spring (unlike last year which began in earnest in February) this year will likely paint a different story. Is it going to roar like a Lion at the open??? There is a storm which fits the LRC pattern and will likely become a large impacting system across the Plains/MW region to open up the month. The active pattern is not going to let up as March Madness will be the theme, centering most of the exciting weather across our sub forum.
I strongly believe this month will be packed with winter storms (possible blizzard or two?), severe wx, cold start...warm finish??? The magnitude of high latitude blocking that will has become established early this month will set the stage for an active storm track across our sub forum.
I'm encouraged to see the moisture pattern show signs of it retrograding back farther west into the Plains if you take a look at the latest CFSv2 trends. Based on the LRC pattern, and where I believe we are heading, these maps look good to me.


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The Motor Company gets a lot right. But it has more than a few limitations placed on it by various governmental bodies. One of the most detrimental (and easiest to fix) areas affected by regulation is your Harley's air cleaner. As part of our Roland Sands Design (RSD) bolt-on performance upgrade project, we'll be installing the Turbine Black Ops air cleaner (#1010-0964/$429.95) onto our 2011 Sportster Forty-Eight.
Like the Slant 2-into-1 exhaust system we install next (page 74), the Turbine is all about flowing air as efficiently as possible and looking great while doing it. RSD's unique two-tone Black Ops finish mates up perfectly with the blacked-out Forty-Eight's powertrain and general sinister attitude. But more power and a more efficient engine are what's important here. The Turbine carries a K&N air filter within its jet engine-shaped body for the ultimate in air filtration technology. RSD includes a new, smoother-flowing backing plate with its air cleaner kits as well as hidden, internal crankcase breathers. Even though we went with the Black Ops finish on our Forty-Eight, the Turbine is available in a variety of finishes for Sportsters and Big Twins.
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Originally posted in Psych Central
I have abstained from drinking alcohol for 6 months. Day to day, I rarely think about it. I go to weekly meetings and have tools. But, occasionally I get tempted. I went to a restaurant where the drinks were flowing and they looked good. But, I just looked.
Then, I got an annual review at work. It was mostly good, but I focused on the negative comments. It upset me and I felt sad. I came home and I had a strong desire to have a drink to numb my emotions. But, I did something else. I distracted myself. My son had a concert and then I kept myself busy until I fell asleep. I made it to another day.
I went to my group and we did a cognitive therapy sheet. In this sheet, you look for the activating event, the belief(s) (distorted, irrational), consequence of that belief. Then you dispute the belief to come up with more effective ways of thinking, and better emotional consequences.
The activating event was the review and the consequence was the urge. I had all kinds of distorted thoughts. The main one I came up with was that it was "all" bad. The members helped me come up with more. Then we disputed the thoughts and came up with something more balanced. I thought the negative comments are things I can work on. Even if I don't believe the new thought 100%, it helps.. And, I am not as anxious, sad, moody now.
You don't have to have a mental illness to have distorted thinking. Anyone can. Based on the work of Aaron Beck, David Burns wrote about 10 types of cognitive distortions in his book "Feeling Good- The New Mood Therapy"1
The types of distortions he lists are:
All-or-nothing or black-or-white thinking. This is one thing I was doing where since part of the review was bad, it was all bad
Overgeneralization- If it happened once it will repeat itself.
Mental filter– This is another thing I was doing, where I was only seeing the negative and not seeing the positive
Disqualifying the positive– dismissing compliments, praise
Jumping to conclusions by Mind Reading or Fortune Telling
Magnification (Catastrophizing) or Minimization
Emotional Reasoning– Feelings are not facts
Should Statements
Labeling- Mislabeling or name calling
Personalization– attributing the blame to yourself when it is not all yours
By working through the Activating event, Belief, Consequence, Dispute Belief, effective ways of thinking and better emotional consequence, you can learn to deal with these distorted thoughts. They can help not only with urges but with anxiety, depression and just looking at things in a more balanced fashion.
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Moving into a new parish, lots of people want to tell you lots of things. Happily, here at St. Peter's the vast majority of things have been so positive my head spins more from euphoria than confusion! Another angle to all this is that I've begun to get my very first questions. I've only been on the ground two days, but already someone called to ask, "Should I give 10% of my income to God before or after earthly expenses?" I don't know who the parishioner is – I received the question via voicemail from the secretary – but what a neat first question to get! I started thinking about it… Classically, Biblically, we are invited to give 10% off the top… before expenses… With the caveat that God desires no one to abandon their natural obligations to the support of children, spouses etc. So please do feed your family and then give to the collection on Sunday.
Corollary to this, particularly here on the Hill where our young adult population is booming, it got me thinking, what should a young adult be giving. It's hard starting out in life, especially in a city as expensive as DC. Many more 'veteran' parishioners (not just here but in any parish) will comment "Young people today don't give…" I'm not sure that's entirely true… but in any event, I did a little number crunching after prayers this morning.
Average individual income in DC is about $80k. Divide that by 52 weeks/year and you get about $1,500/week. 10% of that is $150 dollars per week. If everyone in the Church gave that amount regardless of their salary we'd have so much money to serve the community we wouldn't know where to start! That said, it's REALLY hard to figure out how your average young adult could sacrifice that much per week without cutting into essential expenses… So, I thought to myself… "What would it take to give 5% of an average income each Sunday?" Here's one quick calculation of things your average young adult in DC could give up easily to put $75/week in the collection:
1 Cocktail on a date or out with friends (including tax/tip) = $20
3 Starbucks coffee based drinks (latte, frappe. etc) = $15
1 Sixpack of beer (Budweiser from Walmart in DC ) = $7
1 Pack of cigarettes (in DC approx.) = $7
1 iTunes video rental of a new release = $6
Various midday snacks / munchies = $20
Even this was a challenging number to arrive at, but here's a few encouraging thoughts. First, I can tell you from experience that my prayer life and my life walking out on the streets is infinitely better when I'm actively tithing. I contribute to the parish and to the poor right at the beginning of the month so the money isn't there for me to spend and somehow God makes it all work! Second, it's ALWAYS been hard, even in Biblical times. For a first century shepherd in Judea to send his first 10% to the Temple was a tremendous sacrifice on his part… but here's the key: He sent it "as a sacrifice to the temple." It was an investment… a gift to the Almighty for which God was sure to reward him with grace. Here in Washington the funds our parishioners give end up building up beautiful parish communities where the poor are served, the sick are cured, and the whole of the community can rejoice to see each other in worship and fellowship… In short, we manifest the Kingdom of God by our giving. When you put all of that together, the sacrifices necessary to give up the list above gets put in perspective. Finally, even taking all that into account, I know… all your priests know… it's hard. We're in it with you. God our Father calls us to "heroic virtue," and believe me when I tell you that I look at the generous fidelity of our parishioners as truly heroic! Peace!


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Rue McLanahn passed away recently. As a tribute, and a big fan of the Golden Girls, I wanted to share some of my favorite Golden Girl quotes.
Blanche: I think you owe me an explanation.
Dorothy:Well, Ted and I-
Blanche:I don't need to stand here and listen to this!
hair stylist:Who's hair do I wash first?
Blanche:Mine. I'm first. I'm the dirtiest.
Blanche:Now honestly, do you think I'm competent at what I do?
Rose:Based on the sounds from your bedrooms I'd bet your damn near spectacular!
Blanche:And there were thirteen little girls up there…and then the curtain opened and the music started and twelve little girls started to dance. And one little girl wet her pants. That girl in the puddle was me.
Blanche:Terrific little figure, gorgeous hair, perfect skin. Just like looking in a mirror!
Sophia:Get some windex!
Rose:I don't believe it.
Blanche:Neither do I. Landing herself a doctor and she still wants to finish college!
I think this show is hilarious and I love watching it. It also has a lot of touching moments, like the episode where Blanche dreams that her husband came back. That was a beautiful episode. Anyone else have some favorite Golden Girls moments or quotes?


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Home/Birth: A Review in E-mails
by Carina Finn, Arielle Greenberg,Jiyoon Lee, & Rachel Zucker
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I think what I can't get outside of is the context, how to write about a book of poetry that is inexorably linked with my embodiment, which to me becomes automatically an economic and a political act because of the way that I think about the world, about a book of poetry that is so problematic. I'm sitting at this table in your living room and my copy of gender trouble is sitting on the table beside my computer, and on the futon there are two books of poetry that are radical by which I mean perceived as somehow non-normative when what radical means is the root or origin; to touch upon or affect what is essential and fundamental; thorough, far-reaching.
we have been sitting on the futon looking at pictures of especially cute babies we know and my arms are sore because I spent most of my day playing with a baby. you made tea and I felt lame telling you about some game I played with the baby and my face hurts from smiling. you are standing in the kitchen cutting a melon and talking about artaud and I feel stupid writing this in this kind of narrative which is an issue both of the book and of this piece of writing we are trying to make.
I also think it is impossible to escape context. my/our/her contesting
bodies without organ.
my/our/her bodies covered in openings/wounds that are entrance and exit.
does that turn you on? is that/that is the way it is supposed to be.
That scares me.
My body is that. You'd hit that. that is/is that my body? the distance
of that/death.
I'm not sure I understand that. I'm not sure I could handle that.
You'd like to handle it theoretically and I don't know what to make of that.
The chair I lean against/The table you lean towards to look
I look at the ceiling/you look into that
I didn't know whether to read home/birth as poem or theory and I thought myself dumb for trying to make a distinction, as if that even matters or exists. what does matter and what I think is important is that before I read home/birth I thought birth was basically dying and now I'm starting to believe it can be something else.
it has taken us approximately the gestational period of a human child to write this essay and when I think about writing it I think I am going to die but somehow I am not dead and we keep writing.
Does body exist in writing?; Can body exist in writing?
Can body exist?; Is body alive? ; Is writing alive?
I/she cannot forget that time passes. Body reminds us over and over again.
Swollen breasts, swollen stomach, spilling blood, fetal position that
I/she assume in pain...
the particles of our writing unfinished, brooding without being born,
assuming fetal position...
As a girl I/she sometimes want to hide in writing when body becomes
burdensome. Writing is the space where I/she do not have to have a
As a woman I/she still sometimes want to hide in writing from my body.
The body follows me into my writing.
I still am not sure where body can be. we leave and we return to our
body again and again. our body is home.
Home/Birth: Our body that is severed from birth.
Home/Birth: Our birth that is severed from our home.
Home/Birth: Where we should return, our body, our home,
Our text connected to the circulation system with our body...
I want there to be communities, units, I want to talk about it. I had to come out to my family about birth like it was a dirty word and got shot down anyway. all I wanted was to break some silence or open a space. does that make me a radical feminist? I am in a book club we read this book about how gender studies students are changing themselves and the world. if I say I am a feminist can I "just" be a poet or am I required to change the world? if I don't identify am I a bad woman? maybe it's all this internalized self-hatred, like the way they taught queer theory in the early 80s.
I think of our body & text
I think of our aloneness.
self-hatred self-hatred self-hatred.
all the girls that write on livejournal pretending she is writing for herself.
sometimes I wonder if I/she is past "that phase".
can a text be "past all that?"
self-hatred instills aloneness in me/her, my/her body, and my/her text.
can a text weave those alonenesses?
before the aloneness trickles down into the darkness, our loneliness...
loneliness, our muffled mouth.
loneliness, she in a delivery room.
loneliness, the chill that she feels from the chair, from a stranger
with cold touch...
I want to say "whatever" and be over it I am so over it, I mean, sickness. like what if all of the women in america tried as hard to be whole as we try to fall to pieces: medicalization as a result of hysteria as a result of the white hot metal claws of everybody coming to judge you in the night. birthing beds are supposed to be a little sexy. we're supposed to paint arrows on our stomachs, have babies. "hurry up now it's time" but those words aren't for girls or little human-vessels. Poetry. what a giant thing. what a mahogany not-allowed.
I send texts because I cannot communicate properly. I am making a text & sending it, we are writing each other &/or writing in circles, like quilters, carrying on some grand old tradition. if we were having tea in a living room and having babies or not having babies we could talk about ideas they would still be ideas.
if I give you this blanket will you cease to be lonely? empty out the fluff in your head like popped sacs of gender-appropriate colored paint? maybe we don't have to make decisions about being active maybe everybody doesn't but some people must. if I pull at little threads, pretend to be awake, dress entirely in feathers or deliver-ance, par lance, can you hear me now?
impossible words & its hesitation becomes a lump, like the pregnancy
in medical context becomes a lump of constant precariousness,
something that may go awry, rupture in a wrong way (like a sac of
pus), something that needs to be successfully delivered in
standardized format.
Standard delivery is successful delivery; ineptitude should be
extinguished for the Child is the Future.
There is only One right way. The voice of the Father.
Our voices silenced, our will voided. There is void where we are
silenced, a dark hole.
lying on her delivery chair, she cannot see what is going on during
the delivery.
it will remain unknown.
what is happening down below her waist is covered from her with a
sanitized bedsheet.
what is happening will remain dark, a hole in the memory, a hole in the body.
fuck the waif fuck the baby fuck the future it's my/your body and I am a part of the free world's economy. I am/my body [is] not a piece of furniture. what I am trying to do is build a great female folk song. we are not just going to sit in art galleries and talk about love while in videos teenage girls grin & vomit.
we are too familiar with this void;
girls vomit to void themselves,
avoid their body; we want to be body without organ.
motherhood is the opposite of that, labor is the opposite of that.
girls fear the swollen belly, swollen breasts.
girls want to be void; girls want to avoid...
this aversion toward birth...
this aversion towards our body...
let's talk about theory, how we hide in it, little heathen academics. when I said I wanted books instead of babies I meant it. once I sat in a woman's library in brooklyn she had made this decision she was happy lounging alone on her settee. let's be rhizomatic to the world, let's be books. we don't have time to make bodies we are busy making our bodies which are not ourselves they are a rendition of our intelligence. if you're smart enough to know you're smart you don't want to pass on that burden. my imaginary daughter is a son wrapped in tweed left on the steps of some grecian academy in a basket made of the fruits of my life.
We need to talk: What an obnoxious thing to say.
There are difference between talk vs. speak.
we can't just speak, 'speak' with autonomy, 'speak out' as a singular
being with this void in us: we can't "just find the Voice", like many
Guide to Creative writing tells us to.
The Voice, the phallic singularity.
girls' void cannot be cured with speaking.
The dark hole the women who gave birth without being part of it cannot
speak of it.
We need to talk. You know, we need to talk!
We need to text message. We need to gchat. We need to write to each other.
We need to weave our voices to see what is there in the darkness that
cannot be spoken (just yet).
To do that, we first need to talk.


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"The sequence of six pictures of the real action were taken in one second," photog Pia Dierckx told The Daily Mail.
Dierickx, 48, was observing the lioness and her pride as they prepared to cross a riverbed in Botswana. When a threatening crocodile appeared, the lioness sprung into action and grabbed the animal by its mouth. The two engaged in a quick but fierce battle, each biting the other, until the lioness ran off relatively unscathed, save for a cut to her lip.
Dierckx reportedly told BPNS that it happened so quickly, she didn't even notice it.
"It was only when I downloaded my pictures later that I saw what had happened," said Dierickx.
This isn't the first time a lioness has been spotted protecting cubs. Last year, a mother lion was photographed rescuing her cub struggling on a slippery slope.
In another precious moment caught on film this year, a lion trainer visiting four young lions on his last day of work was overwhelmed by their outpouring of love for him.
Unfortunately, some lions are threatened by indiscriminate killing and habitat loss, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Read the rest of this entry »


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The Nov 13 reception for our current artist, Wolf Kretlow, drew a nice crowd. With great interest people viewed his photographs of historic Union county, many amazed that such old structures still existed. Mayor of Elizabeth, J. Christian Bollwage, was in attendance and thrilled to see the historic photographs of his city.
Most residents of NJ don't know that the state has such a long and important past and that many of the structures in Wolf's photographs played an important part in shaping that history. Stay tuned for a future blog entry where I will be focusing in on the American history behind the photographs.