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There are many events that celebrate Cochise County's unique heritage and culture. Check our Calendar frequently to find out what's happening in our communities. Browse through the Calendar or search by keywords or Start/End Dates.
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For those who haven't heard, what's the book all about?
Dark Rose is the story of Portland's vice scandal of 1956, which was the zenith of repeated and often failed efforts to flush out vice, organized crime, and municipal corruption in what is today one of the country's most progressive cities. Portland's vice rackets, police graft, and dirty politicians were not unique; it is a familiar story for many mid-twentieth-century American cities. This fascinating event, however, headlined one of the most notable U.S. Senate committees, the McClellan Labor Rackets Committee, led by Senator John McClellan and his chief investigator, Robert Kennedy. Federal investigators were particularly interested in Portland because the Teamsters union was involved. Teamsters leaders attempted to organize Portland's vice industry as they had legitimate industries. So, Dark Rose is about Portland's seedy side, which was exposed by a snitch, two maverick reporters, and…well…Congress, with Robert Kennedy.
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Coyuchi-Coastal Living Towel Giveaway
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German soil, already entered by American soldiers, has been invaded by the British. A flash from the British Second Army last night revealed that elements of Gen. Dempsey's forces had crossed the frontier from southeast of Nijmegen, in Holland, and captured the German town of Beek, a mile inside the Reich.
The dispatch described the situation in the Nijmegen-Arnhem sector last night as "much brighter." The British were attacking everywhere along the front in an effort to reach the airborne forces at Arnhem in strength. Enemy resistance continued to be of the "last-ditch" variety, however, and a number of bitter German counter-attacks previously were repulsed.
A stubborn, five-hour German counter-attack in the Moselle Valley was smashed yesterday by the U.S. Third Army.
While American and German tanks were locked in a bitter struggle near Nancy, Ninth Air Force Thunderbolts roared in at tree-top level to strike at approximately 100 enemy tanks and armored vehicles. Returning pilots said many enemy vehicles were knocked out before the remainder fled into a near-by woods.
Meanwhile, the First U.S. Army cleared Stolberg, east of Aachen, of isolated German pockets. Southeast of the captured town, Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' troops were meeting stiff resistance. In this sector the Yanks were within three miles of Geilenkirchen, five miles inside the Reich and 12 miles north of Aachen.
In Holland, German Tiger tanks and self-propelled guns had counter-attacked in a vain effort to sever the Second Army's lifeline, the road from Eindhoven to Nijmegen.
It was announced yesterday that small units of the Second Army had crossed the Lek River near Arnhem and established contact with the main body of airborne troops, confined in a bare 1,000 yards and subject to unceasing enemy attacks. The previous link-up, announced by the American Broadcasting Station in Europe, evidently was merely a meeting on the south bank of the Lek effected by a patrol of airborne troops.
Posted on the south bank of the Lek were Gen. Dempsey's main forces. A crossing of the barrier in strength would outflank the Siegfried Line and open the way to the heart of industrial Germany.
The airborne army operating in the Nijmegen-Arnhem region was reinforced Saturday by an armada of 1,500 transport planes, gliders and escorting fighters which flew in men and supplies. The Germans claimed that a major landing had been made north of Eindhoven.
Troops of the First Canadian Army, driving five miles northeast of Antwerp, have established a limited bridgehead over the Antwerp Turnhout Canal.
My brother, six years older, was a medical officer with Patton's Third Army with a battalion aide station, the units closest to the battle lines. He participated in the action described in this article. I was flying P-51s with the Second Bomb Division Scouting Force at the time.


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UGint, a Korean machine tool builder, is quickly becoming a global leader in the technological and engineering advancement the machine tool industry.Backed by extensive resources, the company has become an award-winning manufacturer of High Speed, Vertical Machining Centers. This grown is largely supported by UGint's commitment to Research and Development and its focus on its core strengths in High Speed Machining. UGint takes the time to truly understand the needs of the customers and then designs machines that meet those needs.
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Demetrios Halter Wedding Dress
Demetrios bridal dress with halter top, a-line silhouette. The beauty is in the details! This dress has several dazzling jewels over the bodice, with the added touches of tulle flowers and ruffles in all the right places. The size 6 dress has been altered to include bra cup padding so the bride-to-be does not have to manage a strapless bra underneath. Veil can be included if desired. Veil has matching jewel-work along the sides and trails down to mid- to lower-back, depending on positioning of veil (can be worn anywhere from high to low on head).
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It's time for The Deviants by C.J. Skuse to go on tour. You don't want to miss this story of secrets and revenge. Feel free to follow the links below to see what my fellow bloggers have to say about The Deviants.
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Meal prepping is something that I began doing for one of two reasons. For one, it was getting entirely too expensive to eat out every day plus I am trying to monitor what I am eating. I watch YouTube videos every now and then of 'What I Eat in a Day' and bloggers that meal prep. I draw inspiration from those types of videos, but ultimately it's a trial and error.
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This multimedia case describes the story of NERTUS a joint venture between Renfe and Siemens and how the company has achieved success in the area of maintenance. The case includes three sections: interviews with company managers the maintenance process and a virtual tour of the maintenance facility.
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In this Heidelberg museum you can discover the many sides of the extraordinary Carl Bosch, famous for the Haber-Bosch process for ammonia synthesis.
This process enabled the production of nitrogen fertiliser on an industrial scale and heralded a revolution for agriculture. The museum shows the public figure who was chairman of BASF and later the chemical company IG Farben as well as the private man renowned for his legendary butterfly and beetle collections, his passion for astronomy and his role as cofounder of Heidelberg Zoo.
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SACRAMENTO COUNTY (CBS13) – Surveillance footage from the night of a murder in front of Home Depot has been released.
The incident happened around 7:40 p.m. on March 16. A man was loading some items he had just bought from the Home Depot along the 4600 block of Florin Road when a car pulled up and gun shots rang out.
The other car sped away, leaving the man with a fatal wound.
With the surveillance footage released Saturday, police believe the suspect car to be a teal green, 2000-2005 Buick Le Sabre sedan. Surveillance footage caught the car waiting in the parking lot just about 10 minutes before the shooting, police say. The car is then seen speeding off east on Florin Road after the shooting.
The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department is asking anyone with more information on the incident to call them at (916) 874-5115.


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Houston police chief battles NRA in vicious Twitter feud amid school shooting fallout
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images(HOUSTON) — The hard-charging publicity arm of the National Rifle Association is engaged in an increasingly vicious Twitter battle with Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, as the firearms organization struggles to contain fallout from yet another mass shooting.
The result has been a multi-day social media battle between Houston's top law enforcement official and a prominent and outspoken NRA personality. On Tuesday, the dispute escalated to include threats of legal filings, references to Nazi Germany and suggestions of inappropriate surveillance.
After last Friday's mass shooting at Santa He High School in Texas, which left ten people dead 13 wounded, Acevedo posted a desperate and emotional plea on his Facebook page to do something about gun violence.
"I know some have strong feelings about gun rights but I want you to know I've hit rock bottom and I am not interested in your views as it pertains to this issue," Acevedo wrote. "Please do not post anything about guns [not being] the problem and [that] there's little we can do."
"This isn't a time for prayers, and study and inaction," he continued. "It's a time for prayers, action and the asking of God's forgiveness for our inaction."
He followed up the comments on CBS News' Face the Nation, calling on the public to vote out lawmakers "that are doing nothing" on gun violence.
NRATV, a combative video production and social media operation that frequently targets perceived opponents of the gun organization, soon released multiple videos of NRATV hosts and guests criticizing Acevedo over his statements on gun violence and his so-called "sanctuary city" stance.
"I call him a political hack, in many respects, because he does the bidding of left-wing city officers that hire him," NRATV host Grant Stinchfield said in a clip the organization tweeted Monday. One Texas law enforcement officials, Tarrant County Sheriff Bill Waybourn, agreed in the clip, saying most law enforcement officers in Texas are "Second Amendment people."
"Art Acevedo is a police chief who thinks it's completely appropriate to ignore the law of the land when it concerns legal immigration," NRA spokesperson Dana Leosch said in a separate clip, "but thinks that he has the right to apparently go into every home in Texas and inspect how everybody's storing their #firearms."
Acevedo responded in a string of tweets late Monday night.
"NRATV is against what most major cities…police chiefs have to say about these issues," he wrote.
"NRATV is losing the moral high ground on what was once their core values, so let's try to talk about anything and everything under the Sun to deflect from issue at hand," he replied to a tweet from Loesch. "We know we are on the right track when that happens."
When a third NRATV clip accused Acevedo of ignoring gang violence in Houston to go after gun owners, the police chief replied, "Blah blah blah," and linked to an article about his department's arrest of hundreds of gang members.
Acevedo "was incredibly unhappy that I and others called him out," Loesch said in a clip released on Twitter on Tuesday, accusing Acevedo of espousing a "gun-grabbing ideology."
Acevedo responded with screenshots of him turning down Loesch's interview request, and warned further discussion would take place in a legal setting.
"We will be watching and will do our talking in a court of law if the need arises," he wrote.
Loesch retweeted a tweet from a conservative commentator comparing Acevedo to the Gestapo, and was still tweeting at the police chief into Wednesday afternoon.
"It's surreal to see a chief reacting to free speech this way," she wrote, eventually questioning whether she was already under surveillance.
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Ah!!! This is a super exciting post. Mackenzie was included in Refinery 29's top actresses from 2017 from Generation Z. Mackenzie is included on this list with a lot of amazing other young actors including her friend Joey King, Jazz Jennings, Malina Weissman, and many other amazing human beings. You can read Mackenzie's interview below and check out the full article by clicking here!
From Renesmee Cullen to co-starring alongside Misty Copeland in next year's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
Who do you consider a role model in your industry and why?
"I consider Yara Shahidi to be a role model in this industry because not only is she an extremely talented artist but she is also kind, smart, and funny. She's a good person for young people to look up to. She shows people that anything is possible thorough hard work and kindness. On top of all of those wonderful qualities she's incredibly smart. I have never met anyone who can even compare to her intelligence. Did I mention she's going to Harvard?! She's going to change the world. I'm proud to say that she's one of my oldest friends and one of the coolest people I know.
Who's your celebrity crush
"Dylan O'Brien."
What do you wish people knew about you?
"My dad is teaching me how to drive a stick shift so that I have a better chance at surviving the zombie apocalypse."


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ERSSTv3 data you can compare the northern and southern hemispheres with and without land. LO is the Land and Oceans monthly data and O is the Oceans only monthly data. N and S are the hemispheres north and south using the 0 to 90 data sets that are easily download. If there is no land modification impact, there would be no significant change in the LO-O for Land and Ocean (LO) temperature imbalance or differential between hemispheres and O, Ocean only temperature differential during the instrumental period. On the right axis scale, the differential increases from approximately -0.2 in late 1800s and near 1960 to approximately 0.1 C during 2000 to 2010. There is an approximately 0.3 C impact which would produce between 0.15C and 0.3C "Global" impact depending on choice of data set, smoothing and start-end dates. There is no way to separate out glacial melt from UHI to agriculture, but there is a significant impact due to some modification of land area.
"Green Revolution refers to a series of research, development, and technology transfer
initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1960s, that
increased agriculture production worldwide, particularly in the
developing world, beginning most markedly in the late 1960s.[1] The initiatives, led by Norman Borlaug,
the "Father of the Green Revolution" credited with saving over a
billion people from starvation, involved the development of
high-yielding varieties of cereal grains, expansion of irrigation
infrastructure, modernization of management techniques, distribution of
hybridized seeds, synthetic fertilizers, and pesticides to farmers."
The correlation between the green revolution and the land modification impact on global climate is at least interesting except for the most devoted minions of the Great and Powerful Carbon. The is other land use data available, but the data is very coarse, just decade averages in most cases. I may see if I can add some of that during half time.
UPDATE: Since many seem to be in love with the Berkley Earth Surface Temperature data here is a comparison of the BEST NH land only with the ERSST3 Northern Oceans 20N-90N which shows more variation than the full hemisphere data.
Just to show how baseline dependent BEST is, this chart uses Tmax and Tmin with the 2000-2012 baseline and produces a new Tave.


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'In brief, our mission is to help maintain Beaconsfield a great place to live.'
Usually held mid-May.
'Meeting are held ... on Thursday evenings 7.30 for 8 pm from September to May.'
'The Society's objectives are to encourage beekeeping; to improve the standard of small-scale honey production and to educate beekeepers, new and old!' ... Meetings are 'held every 4th Tuesday in the month ... Meetings start at 8:00 pm and are held every month except August and December. You are welcome to join us for any meetings'.
Meets '2nd Friday of the month September - June, 7.30 pm'.
'We meet at 8.00 on a Tuesday.'
Occasional talks.
'We hold afternoon lectures at 2.00 pm on the third Wednesday of the month ... The lectures cover everything from individual artists to art movements such as Impressionism through to music and the decorative arts ... We also meet for occasional full day lectures on areas of special interest.'
'The monthly Lectures are held ... on the fourth Thursday of the month, starting promptly at 10.30 am.'
'We are one of the largest societies with almost 500 members divided into morning and afternoon sessions. Each year we organise nine lectures, two Days of Special Interest, two Cultural Tours (one at home and one abroad) and four day-visits.'
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Moog Minimoog Voyager – some improvised soloing and sequencing by REWO
February 28, 2013 · Posted in Uncategorized
Improvisation in one go by REWO on the Moog Minimoog Voyager supported with a 3-line sequence by the DSI Mopho, Moog Little Phatty and the Arturia MiniBrute. The bass-strings come from the Korg Wavestation EX.
REWO = René van der Wouden = www.renevanderwouden.net


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When I was in Art school, I did not know what I was going to do, and surely was not thinking of a career. I was never that pragmatic. I loved working with clay and the ceramic department at Humboldt State University was very exciting to me. I loved seeing the amazing work being done by the students. Later, I continued on at the University of Washington as a graduate student in ceramics, working with Howard Kottler and Patty Warashina. I was very lucky to have met them and had their encouragement, which directed me to be the artist I am today.
The idea of making a living as an artist was not taught (at the university) as most students went into academic teaching jobs out of school. I chose not to go that route. Instead, I went directly to New York City. I soon got a part-time teaching job at NYU and then Parsons School of Design as a way to pay the rent. My work progressed and I began to show in a New York gallery. This enabled me to see the possibility of earning money from my work. A living was not the goal with the work. I was always concerned with what I was making, and I was surprised when it found a person who loved it enough to buy it. Even though I am assumed to be successful, I still have many old works that were not as lucky and are packed in boxes in the basement. I have always challenged myself and always tried to move forward with the ideas. I wanted the work to have a fresh look, and never wanted to bore the viewer—or myself.
Because of the current economic recession, I have begun a series of small works and this seems to have helped sales a bit. I began not really thinking of sales or of who really liked my work or not. In the beginning, I made large-scale pieces and most of them never sold. I was always in a mode of evaluation and always assessed what I was doing and how it was communicating. I have learned that something small can have the communication capacity equal to a large-scale work. This is something that has taken many years to understand. Scale was an early major issue with my thinking and, through my experiences, I have realized the challenge of empowering something small to speak as loud and clear as a large form.
I usually step back a few steps and then try and move forward again and again. This is a pretty constant cycle. As for creative recharge, it usually comes from the process of working itself. I always discover when I search.
I really never thought the decision to pursue sculpture as a living was a choice. I always knew I would make something in the way of art. I have made sacrifices with regard to not having a steady income (by taking a full-time teaching job). This has haunted me for 30 years. I go back and forth with what I have chosen, but have loved my freedom and credit that freedom with why I have been able to produce the work I have in the years since graduate school.
This article appeared in the January 2010 issue of Ceramics Monthly.
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My health insurance is me trying to be as healthy as possible by eating right and knowing that I have limited exercise, although when I work I use my total body.
If you want to make ceramic sculpture, you first have to have ideas you'd like to make and not take it so seriously. I never thought of the work I have done as a profession. I guess I have thought outside the academic box and tried not to limit myself to clay or ceramics alone.
I really love to mix materials. I truly believe that my world has informed my work and will continue to do so. I try to think of the material of clay as a metaphor and remind myself of the cultural artifacts that we have in our culture that I can comment on with my work. I love all materials, but I especially love clay. I only worry about the material when it does not like to be treated the way I treat it. When it cracks, I have to deal with it, but I am not really focused on perfection so I give myself space to move.
Where to See More
Donna Schneier Fine Arts, Palm Beach, Florida
Duane Reed Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
101 Exhibit, Miami, Florida
Pacini Lubel Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California


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As a 1983 graduate of Clear Creek High School, I have strong roots in League City. I spent my adult life as a father, high school teacher, and basketball coach. Since retiring from coaching this year and with my children away at college, I now have time to give back to the community that has given me and my family so much for over 35 years.
What I love most about League City is the small, family-friendly atmosphere. We have festivals, fairs, and parades, yet plenty of close by amenities usually available only in large cities. I love the community support given to the Main Street area with dozens of local restaurants, shops, artisans, churches, and service-oriented businesses. As your council representative, I will support the preservation of this lifestyle as our city continues to grow.
I am a fiscal conservative and believe government should be small, efficient, and transparent. Having said that, I realize a local government is needed to address the many issues of a community like ours. I will address the spending of your tax dollars like I do the money in my own bank account – which my wife will tell you, I want to know where every dollar goes. I will ask lots of questions, and I will search for the best deals with the most economical answers to the problems we face.
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February 1, 2016
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Today's buildings are smarter than ever before, relying on numerous intelligent devices to control lighting, climate, and security, according to structured cabling vendor Superior Essex. As a result, the company today launched PowerWise Fiber, a premises optical fiber cable coupled with copper conductors to support Power-over-Ethernet (PoE) applications, including those with distances that exceed the standard 100m provided by category cables.
"Power-over-Ethernet is a method of distributing power and data to a device using communications cabling, and plays a critical role in smart buildings where numerous devices, such as Nest, intelligent LED lighting and security cameras, can be powered and controlled using a single cabling system," the company said.
The initial PowerWise Fiber cable design consists of two 2 mm bend-resistant G.657.B3 single mode fiber simplex interconnect cables and two stranded 16 AWG copper conductors. The use of G.657.B3 fiber allows the cable to be installed in environments where the pathway may require a number of 90° turns, yet the attenuation loss will be the lowest of any other typical single mode fiber type, it said.
"Our customers required a small, flexible and durable cable for applications that exceeded the 100 meter reach limitation of Power-over-Ethernet and twisted-pair category cables," said Dr. Paul Neveux, director of global product management for premises fiber products at Superior Essex. "We designed this composite power and fiber cable especially for security camera applications where the reach often exceeds 100 meters."
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I have a thought, and I think, 'Ooh, I'll write about that; I need to SAY SOMETHING about THAT.' Used to be, I would immediately get to some device and hold forth about whatever it was I was thinking and feeeeeeeeling. Now, I just wait until the urge passes, with the thought that comes, 'No one gives a shit about what YOU think; no one is waiting anxiously to read about how YOU feeeeeeeeel.'
So, ironically, here I am, blogging about not blogging, writing about what I'm not writing about.
All these blogs. All of us longing to be HEARD. Shouting deafeningly into cyberspace with all the effect of a whimper.
My frustration and weariness grows with each waking moment…oh, but I am dangerously close to writing about how I feeeeeeeeel. 'Fuck off, Autumn; no one wants to hear it!' The thing is, it's not so much that no one wants to hear it, it's that no one is listening: there is too much noise. We are desensitised. And so, the good, the poignant, the profound gets lost with the bad. No one is listening. Thus, shout = whimper.
The word 'futility' springs to mind. But, forgive me; there I go again, frighteningly close to sharing a thought. And, perhaps, I only state the blatantly obvious. There's the damn forest, the damn trees are falling all over the fucking place, no one's there to hear them… you get the idea… or, maybe you don't.
My friend Stevie Jones has a brilliant song about what we do here on the Internet. It's better than any commentary I could or could not make…
I still have hope that music can carry a message to this world (damn it all, I just shared a fucking thought again; the art of not blogging is a difficult one, apparently). Artists have never been here to entertain you; we are here to make you feeeeeeeeel. So, who knows, maybe this little whimper will get through. But, I'm for sure NOT writing about it.


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Meeting 50,000 altar servers, Pope Francis urged young Catholics not to waste their time on the internet or mobile phones.
The young people were taking part in a pilgrimage to Rome, sponsored by the German bishops' conference, and the group included tens of thousands of Germans ages 13 to 27, but also altar servers from Austria, Switzerland, Lithuania and northern Italy. The five-day pilgrimage included Masses and talks focusing on the freedom God gives to people and the challenge of using it well.
Pope Francis told the pilgrims that "time is a gift from God" but, like other gifts, it must be used well. "Perhaps many young people waste too much time in useless things: chatting on the internet or with your mobile phone … the products of technology that should simplify and improve the quality of life, but sometimes take attention away from what is really important," he said.
As for time management, Pope Francis said to the young people, "but you're German and you do this well."
For the first time in his pontificate, the Pope gave a short public homily in German — a language he learned in the late 1980s when he worked on his doctorate in Germany — during the evening service in St Peter's Square on Tuesday.
During evening prayers with the young people, he said, "God showed us that he is a good father. How did he do it? Through the incarnation of his Son, who became one of us."
In Jesus, the Pope said, "we can understand what God really wants. He wants human beings who are free because they always know they are protected like the children of a good father."
Still preaching in German, the Pope said God needed a human being to bring his plan to completion: Mary, who "was totally free. In her freedom, she said yes."
Later, responding in Italian to questions three young people posed in German, Pope Francis asked the young people to be very attentive when serving Mass, a service that "allows you to be close to Jesus, the word and bread of life."
"I'll give you some advice: the Gospel that you listen to during the liturgy, read it again personally, in silence, and apply it to your life; and with the love of Christ, received in Holy Communion, you can put it into practice," he said.
The young people asked the Pope what their role in the Church should be, how they could reconcile Church activities with other activities and responsibilities and how they could experience the freedom he is talking about when their lives are governed by family and school rules.
Pope Francis told them the world needs "people who witness to others that God loves them, that he is our father," and that they are the ones who need to share that good news with their peers.
Responding to the question about freedom, Pope Francis said that if people do not use it well, it leads them far from God and "can make us lose the dignity with which he has clothed us," which is why the Church, one's parents and schools make rules and give young people guidance.
A misuse of freedom "can transform into slavery, slavery to sin," he said. "Dear young people, do not use your freedom unwisely. Don't squander the great dignity of being children of God that has been given to you."
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Earlier this week I suggested that America's gun owners have often been let down by the leadership of the gun-rights movement. I don't know if that has ever been more obvious than it is today.
The press conference - well, a statement really, since there were no questions permitted - held by the NRA's Wayne LaPierre is quite extraordinary. Reading the transcript I thought at first that it must be a parody written by gun-control activists determined to discredit the National Rifle Association. Turns out there's no need to attempt that, not when the NRA is prepared to do the job itself.
I don't know if I can recall a performance quite as stupid, bone-headed, ill-judged, morally obtuse, tone-deaf, politically obnoxious and emotionally unintelligent as this. Heckuva job, NRA.
The NRA's solution to America's gun problems? Armed guards in every school. Because, yes, the further paramilitarisation of American life is just what every child needs. Apparently so:
The National Rifle Association's 4 million mothers, fathers, sons and daughters join the nation in horror, outrage, grief and earnest prayerfor the families of Newtown, Connecticut … who suffered such incomprehensible loss as a result of this unspeakable crime.Out of respect for those grieving families, and until the facts are known, the NRA has refrained from comment. While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent.
Now, we must speak … for the safety of our nation's children. Because for all the noise and anger directed at us over the past week, no one— nobody — has addressed the most important, pressing and immediate question we face: How do we protect our children right now, starting today, in a way that we know works? The only way to answer that question is to face up to the truth. Politicians pass laws for Gun-Free School Zones. They issue press releases bragging about them. They post signs advertising them.
And in so doing, they tell every insane killer in America that schools are their safest place to inflict maximum mayhem with minimum risk.How have our nation's priorities gotten so far out of order? Think about it. We care about our money, so we protect our banks with armed guards. American airports, office buildings, power plants,courthouses — even sports stadiums — are all protected by armed security.
We care about the President, so we protect him with armed Secret Service agents. Members of Congress work in offices surrounded by armed Capitol Police officers. Yet when it comes to the most beloved, innocent and vulnerable members of the American family — our children — we as a society leave them utterly defenseless.
And the monsters and predators of this world know it and exploit it. That must change now! The truth is that our society is populated by an unknown number of genuine monsters — people so deranged, so evil, so possessed by voices and driven by demons that no sane person can possibly ever comprehend them. They walk among us every day. And does anybody really believe that the next Adam Lanza isn't planning his attack on a school he's already identified at this very moment?
It didn't get any better after that introduction, either. It's almost as though you could be forgiven for thinking that beneath this curdling self-pity and self-righteousness the NRA sees some grim upside to the Sandy Hook tragedy. Perhaps now other Americans will finally see that the NRA has been right all along. Finally! More guns are needed.
(Of course, as has swiftly been pointed out, this is no guarantee either: Columbine High School had an armed guard. Despite this and despite Sandy Hook schools are safe places for kids. They really are. )
The Americans I know who own guns are not morons. The same cannot be said of the NRA's leadership. There are times when playing to the dafter elements of your core support may make sense; this should not have been one of them.
I think that were I a member* of the NRA, I'd be resigning my membership this weekend.
*And if I were American I might be! Of course I'd be a member of the ACLU too.


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06jul16 The source of this release is Balestra Media whose clients include Free Chelsea Manning, ACLU. and Fight for the Future:
Chelsea Manning's lead attorney, Nancy Hollander released the following statement at about 2:00pm EST today:
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"I had a privileged call scheduled with Chelsea at 2pm Leavenworth time yesterday, after the Army has now said she was hospitalized, but the Army gave the excuse—which I now believe to be an outright lie—that the call could not be connected although my team was waiting by the phone.
"Despite the fact that they have reached out to the media, and that any other prison will connect an emergency call, the Army has told her lawyers that the earliest time that they will accommodate a call between her lawyers and Chelsea is Friday morning. We call on the Army to immediately connect Chelsea Manning to her lawyers and friends who care deeply about her well-being and are profoundly distressed by the complete lack of official communication about Chelsea's current situation."
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Madames and monsieurs please return to your cubicles
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Your hair is gorgeous! Beautiful jumper too - I love that colour. I get what you mean about the weather! I wore ankle boots today, figuring it would be at least a little bit chilly. Ended up sweating my feet off and having to buy new shoes as I was out. Any excuse.ReplyDelete
Following :) And thank you for your lovely comment! You will have to post your photos when you get them. xx
Your jumper looks so snuggly & cosy and looks super cute with the collar! I totally share your love for all things burgundy, plus it's defs appropriate for A/W so why not wear it constantly! xxReplyDelete
Haha! That jumper does look cosy, I love the cut and colour of your hair too :)ReplyDelete
Hollie x
I love the pretty little collar peeping out, and i can never get enough of plum and so i wont mind in the slightest.ReplyDelete
Love your hair too, looks lovely!!!!!
Sal xxxx
absolutely gorgeous, i have the black and the neon pink version of that jumper! love it xReplyDelete
Your jumper looks so cosy! Love the cute collarReplyDelete
this jumpers pretty! I'm loving burgundy at the moment too! :)ReplyDelete
this outfit is fab! abso love the collar with the gorgeous jumper :) xReplyDelete
aw, your blog is so cute! i love the collar with this outfit!ReplyDelete
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- Anonymous17 September 2012 at 01:06
Ahhh what a lovely outfit. Blue and red tones always go so well together. I believe I have those jeans too... lovely fit!ReplyDelete
LOVE LOVE your outfit!ReplyDelete
Lovely jumper, looks perfect with the collar xReplyDelete
How weird - I'm wearing the exact same jumper as I type! And I've previously worn it with a blouse-and-black-bow combo too! xxReplyDelete
The amount of Burgandy items I've been getting my hands on recently is ridiculous and this jumper is lovely!ReplyDelete
I also nominated you for the Liebster award if you want to get involved :)
Tamsyn x
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Your outfits gorgeous! I love the colour of your jumper! And by the way you have brilliant taste in music! Thank you for my comment xxReplyDelete
That jumper's gorgey-porgey and it looks great with the collar peeking out! xReplyDelete
You look really lovely, love the collar and necktie, i like wearing my topshop top the same way too xReplyDelete
I love burgundy it always seems to be my go to colour in the autumn! Love this outfit...looks so cosy!ReplyDelete
Cara x
I'm a big burgundy fan too. Saw this amazing jumper in H&M this week but they didn't have it in my size- now I know Topshop do a lovely one I'll have to check there too xxxReplyDelete
your outfit is lovely, burgundy is one of my fave colours too. I've already been sneeking it in to most of my outfits even ahead of winter :) xReplyDelete


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Although Jennifer Meyer's jewelry collection is among the top-selling brands at Barneys New York, cynics might be tempted to dismiss the designer as an "It girl" who benefits from the regular appearance of celebrity friends like Kate Hudson and Gwyneth Paltrow on her Instagram feed.
Then there's the fact that her father is Ron Meyer, vice chairman of NBCUniversal, and her husband, from whom she separated last year, is Tobey Maguire ("Spider-Man")." But Ms. Meyer, 40, has built her business since 2005 by focusing on something that's resonated with customers: delicate jewelry that is feminine and casual enough to wear every day.
"This is not a spoiled Hollywood child," said Ms. Paltrow, who has been friends with Ms. Meyer for a decade. "This is a completely industrious, hardworking woman who's not leveraging anything that she was born with, other than her talent."
Ms. Meyer's simple 18-karat gold pieces often use motifs that are whimsical or talisman-like. Charms in the shape of wishbones and four-leaf clovers that dangle from a slender chain are best sellers, as are a variety of items adorned with a large heart.
Nothing is fussy, loud or overly large: There are earrings and chain necklaces accented with sleek bars of gold, either plain or filled with diamonds or lapis lazuli, and little earrings in the shape of hearts or arrows. Prices for the most basic pieces start around $200, rising to several thousand for larger or more embellished ones.
Many items seem destined to be gifts, such as necklaces with white gold discs that are inlaid with diamond pavé initials and mismatched stud earrings with the words "love" and "you."
Ms. Paltrow, for example, said that she always wears a stack of six of Ms. Meyer's thin gold bands, a present from her boyfriend, on her pinkie.
"I wanted to design pieces that you wore all the time," Ms. Meyer explained over coffee at a downtown Manhattan hotel during a recent visit. "I knew what I wanted to wear and I couldn't find it: I wanted that delicate jewelry that you never took off, that you showered in, that you slept in."
On this particular sunny Saturday morning, she wore nearly a dozen pieces of her own design — a couple of gold pendants, a ring accented with a small pavé diamond disc, a handful of slim bracelets and oversize hoop earrings. Although the items varied in thickness and size, there was a coherence to the style, a casual sensibility that suggested the laid-back lifestyle of Ms. Meyer's hometown, Los Angeles.
"It's a specific look," said Karla Welch, a stylist who has placed Ms. Meyer's designs on clients like Elisabeth Moss and Olivia Wilde. "You know when it's a Jen Meyer piece. Her pieces have an identity."
Jewelry-making was not a lifelong goal for Ms. Meyer, although as a child she did spend afternoons making rings and medallions with her paternal grandmother, Edith Meyer, who designed enamel pieces in a tiny Santa Monica apartment, its kitchen crowded with a kiln. She studied child and family psychology at Syracuse University; when she returned to Los Angeles in 1999, she went straight into the work force, although not exactly by her own choice.
"I was done with college and my dad said to me, 'Here's the deal: You have two weeks to find a job,'" she said. She quickly gravitated toward style-related work, first as the West Coast beauty and fitness editor of Glamour and then in the publicity departments of Giorgio Armani and Ralph Lauren.
"She was unflappable and she was also humble," recalled Wanda McDaniel, who hired Ms. Meyer at Armani, where she is executive vice president, entertainment industry communications worldwide. "There's no Hollywood artifice about her at all. She's just a very cool, ambitious, friendly person — and she did work very hard."
Rebekah McCabe was Ms. Meyer's boss at Ralph Lauren and now is senior vice president of artistic direction, store design, events and public relations at Chanel. "She doesn't rest on her laurels," Ms. McCabe said. "There's an innate sense of wanting to do well, wanting to work hard, not take anything for granted and always improving. She doesn't call in any favors."
Ms. Meyer began dabbling in jewelry design while working at Ralph Lauren, making pieces in her bedroom and taking Saturday morning classes at a local bead store. By then she was dating Mr. Maguire; they married in 2007 and have two children: Ruby, now 10, and Otis, 8.
When they moved in together, the money she saved on rent was earmarked to create the core of what became her collection. "I felt like, 'This is a dream of mine — what better thing to blow your money on?' " she recalled. "It works or it doesn't work — I tried."
With a handful of pieces completed, she quickly saw signs of success: a dainty leaf pendant she showed to the stylists Nina and Clare Hallworth ended up on Jennifer Aniston in the 2006 film "The Break-Up." A friend's introduction to a buyer at Barneys led to the store carrying the line; it's now also sold on several websites, including Net-a-Porter, and next summer Ms. Meyer intends to open a shop in the Los Angeles area. (The company, which is privately owned, does not disclose sales or revenue figures.)
Production is handled by artisans in downtown Los Angeles, and Ms. Meyer and her 10 business and marketing staff members are based in a bright office in West Los Angeles.
Ms. Meyer's collection has always had many pieces that cost less than $1,000, including a selection of thin bracelets and stud earrings. She gradually has added higher-priced pieces to the mix, such as a long necklace of prong-set diamonds that retails for slightly more than $25,000 and a heart-shaped pendant encrusted with pavé diamonds at $6,000.
"It really ranges from a very opening price point to something very special, so it does speak to a very large group of people," said Leah Kim, who oversees women's wear, including jewelry, for Barneys. "That's where she was so smart in being able to merchandise the line as such, so anyone can find something special for every occasion."
Even the larger, more expensive pieces have a sensibility that's more about low-key ease than traditional Hollywood glamour. "It's really been important for me for all these years to stay with my aesthetic — the everyday classic piece that you're not going to get sick of," Ms. Meyer said. "I don't want it to be trendy or of-the-moment. I don't want you to look in your jewelry box in five years and be like, 'Why did I invest in that?' I want you to love it forever."
Like fellow designers Irene Neuwirth and Jacquie Aiche, Ms. Meyer has remained firmly rooted in Los Angeles. "There was never a point where I was like, 'Oh, I wish I lived in New York City,' " she said. "Not even a little bit. I was born and raised in L.A. I'm a L.A. girl. I love the quietness of L.A. and that you can just keep your head down and work."


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High School Football Player Dies From Head Injury in N.Y.
A seemingly routine play turned quickly tragic on Friday night in Phoenix, N.Y., as a student-athlete was declared dead roughly two hours after sustaining a head injury during a high school football game.
Ridge Barden, a 16-year-old junior at John C. Birdlebough High School, got his first varsity start on Friday night as a defensive tackle. In the third quarter, with the opposing Homer High School nearing the end zone, the Homer team ran a routine run play on third down and got stuffed short of the goal line.
The New York Times sets the scene for what happened next:
A seemingly typical play run thousands of times in countless high school football games each weekend. There were no pounding hits or awkward takedowns. No reason for each player not to get up from the pile and return to his huddle. Yet one player remained on the field too long after the play was over. With everyone else on their feet, defensive tackle Ridge Barden was face down on the field.
Barden's coach and team doctors ran to attend to him, where at first, he was talking and appeared coherent. But within minutes, Barden collapsed after trying to stand and had to be taken from the field on a stretcher, according to WSYR-TV in Syracuse.
The boy was taken to a hospital initially and was being transferred to a larger medical facility in Syracuse when his condition deteriorated, the Associated Press reported. The paramedics in the ambulance attempted to turn around, but were unable to save Barden's life.
The autopsy results revealed that Barden died from a cerebral hemorrhage, a result of the football injury he sustained Friday night.
"Ridge was a dedicated team player and someone who gave 100% to every practice and game," read a statement on the Phoenix Central school district's website. "Ridge was also a kind, caring young man who was devoted to his family. We will miss his smile, enthusiasm, and dedication to the football and wrestling teams at Phoenix."
Lessons to Learn
Now, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo did recently sign the state's concussion law, which requires any student-athlete suspected of a concussion to be immediately removed from play and not allowed to return until he/she receives medical clearance.
But keep in mind that the new concussion law wouldn't have helped in Barden's case, anyway. It's not like he went to the sidelines after sustaining his head injury, then decided to return to play. The damage had already been done by the time doctors rushed out to the field to attend to him.
Remember, no matter how advanced football helmets become, they still won't prevent all concussions.
Helmets "certainly help to mitigate forces that are distributed by impact to the skull and the intracranial cavity and the brain," said Dr. Kevin Guskiewicz, a professor of sport science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, during a panel discussion earlier this summer.
"But the brain is still going to move inside that cranial cavity regardless of whether there's a helmet on or not." (Last month, Dr. Guskiewicz was named a recipient of a "Genius Grant" from the MacArthur Foundation for his research on concussions.)
In other words: Think of your brain as an egg yolk and your skull as an egg shell. While the shell protects the yolk from escaping and leaking everywhere, the egg yolk can still move rather freely inside that shell. If you shake said egg shell back and forth, the yolk will slam against the walls of the shell.
The same thing happens to brains, even when protected by football helmets.
Given football's nature as an inherently dangerous sport, student-athletes and their parents should understand the potential risks every time they step onto the football field.
But no parent should be forced to mourn the loss of his or her child because of youth sports.
What's the solution? How can schools ensure the safety of student-athletes? There's no easy answer.
That said, The Atlantic offers a great starting point in an article today about the evolution of sports medicine:
For now, however, the best defense is a good offense—minimizing head contact, wearing appropriate protective equipment, recognizing symptoms, and getting proper treatment are the best ways to prevent and mend sports injuries.
Unfortunately, Barden won't be the last student-athlete to die as a result of sports. One can only hope that his death will inspire an even greater focus on student-athlete safety, saving other student-athletes' lives in the process.
Photo: Ridge Barden a 16-year-old lineman from John C. Birdlebough High School in Phoenix, N.Y., died after he was hit during a high school football game on Oct. 14. (Barden Family via AP)
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Monday, 30 June 2008
Lord Darzi's review - a good effort, but why aren't we doing this already?
As the Darzi review on High Quality Care for All has just been published, I felt I should put my two penneth in.
It's all very well saying we're going to empower the staff and patients to develop a high quality NHS, but to actually do that requires a long, hard look at what is preventing the NHS from doing that already - namely huge bureaucracy, historical and systemic scapegoatism (is that a word? it is now), conflicting targets, political maneouvering and an awful lot of conjecture and rhetoric and (contentious I know) an attitude that the medical profession knows all, despite the fact that some patients are actually experts on their own conditions (god forbid we actually have patients who are intelligent enough to understand medical theory!!!).
I read Darzi's review (very quickly, obviously) and I was, well, suprised! Seemingly ridden with conjecture, in that in every section the introduction makes sweeping references to something each and every politician with anything to do with health would love - the right words are there, but there is actually some weight behind them. The review contains some practical examples and realistic suggestions (in my considered opinion, obviously).
Of course, the majority of the NHS will say every one of those suggestions is unworkable, but that's what happens when people with great ideas are squashed under a ton of processes, policies and long, long conversations about what colour it should be. It just needs some brave, fearless and quite positive people to try and make what appear to be sensible actions a reality.
I thought it was a good effort :-) Make your own mind up, read it here.
Other stuff stopping me having time to blog is that I've
1) begun blogging for and supporting the "webinisation" of the inclusive and innovative website Patient Opinion (they're up for both the New Media and Catalyst awards btw...and yes, they paid me to say that - I'd say it for free, just don't tell them that :-)
2) been taking even more photos and learning to paint on silk (if only there was money in being an artist)
3) been trying to decide what to do for the (immediate) rest of my life.
Generally though, I've had enough of being resolutely hated by everyone in the media, the NHS, and eHealth Insider, due to having the audacity to work NHS Connecting for Health and have decided to discover what really useful stuff I could be doing without the booing when I mention where I work (yes, that really happened....) - I've got until the 1st October. If someone wants to offer me a job, preferably before that date, that would be lovely :-)
Oh, and did I mention, I'm looking for work? :-)
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- Unknown said...
It is sadly far easier to point fingers at those of us working within the NHS rather than applaud the good work that is being done, but it is perhaps a mark of our times. To be fair who amongst us is brave enough to celebrate the good and applaud those of us who do achieve?
Life in the NHS is full of change, commitment and challenges(!)and yet opportunity, innovation, achievement and satisfaction also play a major part.
For those of us working within IT our profiles have never been so publicly high, but that too can be a positive opportunity - if we but perceive it to be so.
Good Luck Helen in your new ventures!
- Sun Jul 06, 08:06:00 am GMT
- Helen Nicol said...
Thanks for your support Catherine, but no matter how positive the opportunity, dealing with huge and relentless negativity about specific areas of CFH work that I have no control over, involvement in or detailed knowledge of gets ya down after a few years.
Having tried v hard to please people, but there's just too much "we can't do it because..." going on for me.
- Sun Jul 06, 10:15:00 am GMT


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In December of 2005 I read an article in the New York Times titled "Getting Fit, Even if it Kills You". In short, this article was about a workout protocol titled CrossFit.
In November of 2007, I was fortunate enough to have a CrossFit box open up near the apartment that I lived in at that time.
After a few email correspondences with the owner, I elected to check out my local CrossFit box.
I drove through a network of streets in a relatively new subdivision with street names like Winding Way. Using a flashlight and a printed map from MapQuest (I couldn't afford a GPS at the time), I finally found my way to Walpole Lane. As I approached the approximate address I saw a huge man (John Coffey like) flagging me down and waving me toward his driveway.
I pulled up, parked my truck, and turned the ignition off. Before I opened the door of my F150, I seriously considered re-starting the engine, putting the transmission in reverse, and getting the hell out of dodge.
But I didn't. I opened the driver side door. THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST DECISIONS I'VE EVER MADE IN MY LIFE. I was 27 years old at the time, two years removed from discovering this thing called CrossFit on the front page of the NYT. And I was about to walk into a garage gym owned by an unknown person and try this thing called CrossFit.
The box owner, and the guy that would become my coach, walked down the driveway to greet me with his hand extended. "Mr. Fuller", he said, "nice to meet you and welcome to TitanFit". Immediately thereafter he said "follow me" and opened the door connecting his garage to his living quarters and introduced me to his wife Carol, son Thor, and daughter Tyra. This simple introduction to complete strangers, including Herb himself (my coach), reassured me that I was glad I parked the F150 and stepped out.
After a brief verbal consultation regarding my current fitness level and history of sports, gym memberships, etc., Herb asked me to review and sign the waiver that all CrossFit athletes are now familiar with when joining a box. This put a little bit of reservation back at the forefront of my mind. But soon I would realize that all of these reservations and fears were part of my psyche, not what my new coach was trying to forecast. He wanted my business, but was protecting his own interest as well.
"Our warm-up is their workout", coach Herb said.
My coach instructed me through some stretching and limbering exercises, a short 5-minute calisthenics warm-up, and introduced me to a few movements that would be in my first CrossFit WOD (Workout Of the Day). Upon ensuring that my movement standards during my demonstration session were correct in form and adequate to perform the WOD he had planned, he walked to a small 3′ x 4′ dry erase board and wrote a short metcon (metabolic conditioning) workout for me to complete.
I don't remember the style of workout, time domain, rep scheme, or even all of the movements from that first CrossFit WOD. I do remember that kettlebell swings were part of it, though. I also remember being extremely humbled both during and after the WOD, and vomiting in the trash can in Herb's driveway about 10 minutes after completing it.
"What did you think of your first experience with CrossFit, Mr. Fuller"?, Herb asked as I sat back in the garage and tried to collect my thoughts. "I'm going to give it a shot", I replied. And thus began my relationship with Herb, his family, TitanFit, and the CrossFit protocol that would have a profound impact on my life.
After that first WOD and until approximately February of 2009, I was extremely consistent at TitanFit and the results were astounding. I was in the gym completing CrossFit WOD's an average of 5 days each week. In April of 2009 I had to take an exam to obtain my Professional Engineer's license and my training at TitanFit had to take a back seat. Later in 2009 I resumed my training at TitanFit and again was pretty consistent until the fall of 2011, with the same astounding results. At that time work obligations prevented me from being an active athlete at the gym. I obtained my CrossFit Level 1 Certification in 2010 and helped as needed at TitanFit until my 2011 hiatus.
Over the course of my time in the gym, and outside of it, I've learned a lot. Herb taught a farm-boy from a small town in Illinois (population 1400 at best) more about weightlifting and the CrossFit protocol than one could imagine. And when you spend hours in a dimly lit garage with your coach and then finally move to a "box" when membership suggests he can afford the rent, you get to become pretty damn good friends.
Although I was at the gym sporadically after my 2011 hiatus, I continued to be involved with social functions and was still considered to be part of the TitanFit family. The folks that have walked into the doors of TitanFit over the years came for the same thing as I did initially, but those that are still currently members have found the same takeaway that I feel today.
TitanFit was not created with any sort of business model in mind. It was created for like-minded people to improve their health, share their success's and failure's, and have fun in doing both. And Herb Sampson, our coach, owner, mentor, and friend has created this environment at TitanFit like I've never seen before. And it is infectious. His Gym, My Gym, Your Gym.
In late summer of 2014, I hit a road block. BIG TIME. A mid-life crisis, of sorts. With the help of my girlfriend and a few close co-workers, I shifted my head back in the direction I needed to go. The very next person that I reached out to was Herb Sampson, my coach. I had been almost absent as an athlete from TitanFit for 3 years. He said "come back in". Soon thereafter, other members of TitanFit heard of my setback and reached out to me as well. And this is where Herb and the community of people he's built at TitanFit really shine.
But I was stubborn. Something that had worked for me so well, for so long, seemed so far off in the distance to me now. I had a desire to return to TitanFit for the results I'd previously seen and the mental sharpness and clarity it provided me, others wanted me to come back for the community and camaraderie aspects, but I couldn't bring myself to physically or mentally walk back through the door.
The first 6 months of 2015 were pretty rough for me, but I did eventually walk back into TitanFit on occasion. In December of 2015 I told myself that what has worked in the past is sure to work again, but it is more incumbent on me to make it happen than anyone else. My coach and my TitanFit family could drag me through those doors, but they couldn't make me complete the WOD.
On December 28, 2015 I walked back in to the gym I've always loved. It took me no less than 15 minutes to figure out what I'd been missing in my life. The people, the place, and my coach & one of my best friends – Herb Sampson.