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Colic occurs in the first few months of life when baby's digestive system is still adjusting to life outside the womb. The periods of crying may occur at the same time every day for many days or after mealtimes.
Signs of colic include, bloated tummy, gas, frequent spit ups, disrupted sleep patterns, inconsolable crying. During the episodes baby's back may be arched, knees may be pulled to the chest, fists may be clenched and the arms and legs may flail. Symptoms may cease after a bowel movement or after passing gas. Allergies such as lactose intolerance can also cause symptoms.
Babies cry when they are, hungry, cold, hot or needs a diaper change However, if the crying continues frequently for long periods of time and on a daily basis, it may be colic. Even though colic may be distressing for both baby and parents, it is not harmful and has no long term effects on infant development.
There are many solutions to solving baby colic such as colic tablets, over the counter drops and gripe water. Many parents try distraction methods such as turning on the vacuum cleaner or driving the baby around in the car until the baby falls asleep while others utilize anti-spasmodic prescriptions from the doctor.
One traditional solution is the Juju band which is specially developed to help with the symptoms of colic. When the abdomen is distended, wrap the Juju Band snugly around baby's tummy. The heat from the Juju Band will help to release the gas and bloating that baby is experiencing. Babies often stop the crying when the pressure of the gas is released. If crying continues and you feel the need for more assistance, consult your pediatrician.


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Adventure Time Creator Wants To Make A Game
Adventure Time creator Pendleton Ward just happens to be a big gamer, and if he had his way, we'd get an Adventure Time game that looks a little like Skyrim.
We recently spoke to Ward about the upcoming season of Adventure Time, the hit Cartoon Network animated show, and the eccentric creator let loose about his love for games. "I think games are amazing for telling stories. I don't think that people do that very often. I think story isn't always the most important thing to game designers, but I wish it were. I think that the best games have stories, and when I eventually make games, story will be front and center."
When we pressed Ward about a possible upcoming Adventure Time game, he admitted, "I'd be stoked to work on an Adventure Time video game. I think that might happen eventually if the show stays popular. I vow to make a topnotch game.
"If it was a small budget I'd work to make a sidescroller, but if we had the largest budget in the world I'd love to make something like Oblivion, but set in the Adventure Time universe where it's a giant free-roaming world. It might be fun to make it have Monster Hunter style gameplay with Katamari graphics."
Ward is a big gamer. He talked with us at length about his play through of Dead Island, and admitted that the next season of Adventure Time would feature a lot of zombies. We wonder if we'll start seeing a lot of dragons about halfway through the season once Ward starts Skyrim.
A collection of episodes from the first two seasons of Pendleton Wards show, Adventure Time: My Two Favorite People, goes on sale on DVD on September 27, for $14.99.

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"Foothills Above Santa Barbara...1999"
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I painted the first version of this painting in 1999. I thought I was done at that point. I never varnished it after it had dried because the more I looked at it the more I felt it just didn't feel finished. Late last year I put it back on the easel and made lots of changes. I added the larger trees in the mid ground and totally revamped the foreground. I also added more rocks in the mountains. It sat drying once again but still I felt it was missing something. I decided to go at it once more and make more subtle changes to the foreground especially the flowers. I touched up the trees with branches and added twigs and smaller branches to areas of the bushes. At this point I'm calling it finished for good because it now feels finished.
The upper photo is very much like the scene actually looked. I wanted those dark shaodws of the mountains and probably overlooked the rather mundane mid and foregrounds of the original scene. What I added and changed was out of my head but I think adds more interest. Switching the point of interest from the mountain shadows to the trees was better for the painting regardless of the accuracy of the scene. I still see what I liked in those dark shadows along the mountains, they now add to the total painting. I think that had I not added the tall trees and just revamped mid and foreground colors, flowers and grasses it might have worked that way too forcusing on the mountains again....hmmm, idea for another painting.


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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Nearly 50,000 runners took off Sunday morning for the ING New York City Marathon.
As CBS 2's Janelle Burrell reported, it was the first New York marathon race since Superstorm Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombings.
The marathon began at Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island. Runners will then go across the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, through Brooklyn and into Queens at the halfway point.
The race then was to proceed over the Ed Koch Queensboro Bridge into Manhattan, and up First Avenue all the way through the Bronx over the Willis Avenue Bridge.
The race then was to return to Manhattan down Fifth Avenue, and finally into the finish line in Central Park.
The wheelchair division took off at 8:30 a.m., and the Foot Locker Five Borough Challenge, Handcycle category, and select ambulatory athletes with disabilities, followed.
Professional women began at 9:10 a.m., and most of the other runners were set to take off between 9:40 and 10:40 a.m.
And security has been a major focus. All 45,000 runners will be screened, and their bags will be checked, at the start point Sunday morning. A total of 1,500 TV-quality surveillance cameras have been trained on the course – especially concentrated on the finish line area.
Police helicopters, harbor units and scuba divers also have been assigned.
There will also be 49 police dogs on the ground, including specially-trained canine units that can detect explosives moving through a crowd.
"Two years ago there was security, but not nearly like this," said runner Jane Kinsella of Hauppauge.
Overall, race organizers have spent twice as much on security this year compared with the last race in 2011.
"We feel secure we feel good about this," said Kerin Hempel of New York Road Runners. "We're really looking forward to an event that everyone can enjoy."
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But police Commissioner Ray Kelly reassured runners that the course is safe.
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But many marathoners wanted nothing more than just to get started.
"This is my first marathon," said Karen Brand of San Francisco. "I'm getting a little jittery, but get some coffee in me a bagel and it'll be good."
"So ready!" added Birgit Sacher of Santa Rosa, Calif. "It's hard to train two years in a row for a marathon, but it's energizing and the city's so welcoming."
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Dr. Miriam Nelson, Ph.D., is Associate Director of the Human Physiology Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. Miriam has done extensive research on the benefits of exercise.
JMMim, can you tell us about the latest scientific findings on the health benefits of exercise?
MNThe early studies on this subject focused on how exercise helped people with heart disease. Soon, we realized that exercise could also reduce the risk of diabetes. Since then, the list has grown considerably.
People who exercise regularly lower their risk of hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, depression, anxiety, sleep problems and frailty. Frailty is a special problem for the elderly because it leads to bad falls and generally poor health. We know now that even the frail benefit from exercise. One of the main benefits of exercise is that it increases lean tissue in the body. Lean tissue includes muscle, bone, and internal organs — basically everything in the body except fat. We tend to lose lean tissue as we age. Exercise helps keep your weight under control and reduces the risk of stroke. More recently, studies have also shown that people who exercise are less likely to get breast or colon cancer.
The exciting news about exercise is that it can be used both for prevention and for treatment of disease. In the past, doctors were reluctant to prescribe exercise for patients with serious illnesses such as heart disease, diabetes or extreme obesity; they were afraid that it might be too stressful. We now know that exercise is a great help in treating many of these disorders.
Why Not Just Prescribe Human Growth Hormone?
JMI have read several studies indicating that that lean tissue mass can be increased just as easily by taking injections of human growth hormone (HGH) as by exercise. Why, then, don't we recommend HGH, particularly for the elderly who might find exercise difficult or inconvenient?
MNThe growth hormone research has been very exciting. As you mentioned, the research showed that older individuals on HGH did gain lean tissue. The problem is that while it does increase lean tissue mass, it does not make skeletal muscle any stronger. This was a major disappointment. Skeletal muscles are the muscles we use to move our limbs and joints. The studies show that HGH can give you bigger but not necessarily better muscles. In other words, it is not going to help you get up out of a chair, climb stairs, or walk.
Another problem with HGH is that it has significant side effects. People taking growth hormone can experience insulin resistance. There can also be problems with the cardiovascular system and with nerve entrapment syndromes, such as carpal tunnel syndrome. So, in many ways, it is not a particularly desirable means of treating frailty in older individuals. By the way, it's also very expensive.
Diet and Exercise
JMShould you change your diet when you are exercising? Is a combination of diet and exercise better than exercise alone?
MNEverybody should have a healthy diet whether or not they are exercising. We all need to eat more fruits and vegetables and less animal fat, and limit our total fat intake to 30% of total calories. There is nothing different about the ideal diet for a person in an exercise program. One thing that does change, however, is that when people do exercise, research shows that they will eat more to make up for the extra energy they are burning up. This means that with exercise you can add good things like protein, vitamins and minerals to your diet without gaining weight.
In the mid-1980s, we did a study of women in their early 60s who were very inactive. We compared them to active women of the same age. The active group ate, on average, 300 to 400 calories a day more than the inactive group, yet had 6 kg less body fat. We have also done studies where we have taken inactive people and put one group into an exercise program alone and another into an exercise program combined with a high-protein or other special diet. All of these studies found that exercise greatly increases aerobic capacity, muscle strength and muscle function. None of them, however, found that dietary changes alone made much difference. It seems that if somebody already has a good diet, then changing it a little bit is not going to help much.
Should You Take Vitamin Megadoses?
JMPeople who begin exercise programs often ask whether they should take extra protein or 'megadose' vitamins. What do you think?
MNThere is no evidence at all that eating more protein than what most people get in a normal diet gives you bigger or better muscles than does exercise alone. Most Americans usually get more protein than they need. However, some older men and women do not get the Recommended Dietary Allowance of protein. They should make sure that they are getting adequate protein in their diet when they are starting an exercise program, preferably from food rather than from pills or supplements. Milk shakes and other dairy-based foods are the best sources. For most men and women, given a healthy diet, protein or vitamin supplements do not make any difference in health or fitness.
There is one thing you do need to get more of when you exercise: fluids. Many people become dehydrated without realizing it, especially older individuals or people who exercise in the heat; in these situations, the amount of water the body needs goes up dramatically. If you are exercising you need at least eight glasses of fluid per day. This should not include alcoholic or caffeinated drinks, both of which actually cause your body to lose fluids.
It is important to get enough calories in your diet, but for most people, the body's ability to regulate appetite will adjust their calorie intake to their energy expenditure. When you start an exercise program, your appetite will generally increase to meet your extra needs and you will maintain a normal weight. If you need to lose some weight, however, your appetite usually will not come all the way back up to compensate for the extra energy that is expended. This is why exercise and dieting are better than dieting alone when you need to lose weight.
When Exercise Isn't a Good Idea
JMAre there people who should not exercise?
MNThere are times when exercise is a bad idea. One example would be if you have an unstable medical condition, such as unstable angina, poorly controlled diabetes, or uncontrolled blood pressure. Another is if you have had recent major surgery or some other health crisis. In these cases, wait until a doctor tells you it's okay. Once your condition is stable, then you can start to exercise. Of course, you need to start out at an easy and doable level and then slowly progress to greater physical activity.
Kinds of Exercise
JMWhat are the different types of exercise and what benefits does each provide?
MNThere is much more to exercise than just aerobics, the exercise that most people tend to think of first. Aerobics does provide a solid foundation for physical fitness. Aerobic exercise is defined as an activity in which a person is using a large number of muscle groups for a duration of at least 20 minutes. The goal is to be working hard enough that the heart is beating faster than at rest. An ideal intensity level would be somewhere between 60 and 75 percent of your maximum heart rate. You need to do aerobic activity at around that intensity level at least three times a week for 20 minutes at a time, in order to get results.
Strength Training
MNStrength training is an important type of exercise and different from aerobics but it has not been studied until very recently. We believe that strength training is useful for older people because it helps preserve bone and muscle mass. We lose about one-third of a pound of muscle every year after age 40. Aerobic activity does not seem to change that equation, but strength training can slow or even reverse muscle loss.
Strength training is defined as an activity in which we lift a heavy object eight to 10 times with muscles contracting. For example, if I have a weight in my hand, with my arm at my side, and I contract my biceps muscle to bring my forearm up towards my shoulder, I am causing my biceps muscle to be trained.
The rule of thumb is that if I can lift the weight only eight to 10 times before I become overly fatigued, then that is a good strengthening exercise. However, if I can lift the weight, say, 15 or 20 times, then a heavier weight should be used. You need to do strengthening exercises two to three times a week to get a significant benefit.
Flexibility and Balance Training
MNFlexibility exercises should also be part of any good aerobic or any good strength training program. During a warm up or a cool down, you should stretch your muscles. With the elderly in particular, balance training exercises, such as walking on a low balance beam, can actually improve coordination and reduce the likelihood of falls.
Another important point is finding the right exercise for you. Aerobic activity is the most important exercise for young and middle-aged adults because it helps with weight control and cardiovascular health. Somewhere in our late 40s or 50s strengthening exercises become equally important. By the 70s, 80s and 90s, however, strengthening exercises become even more important than aerobic activity because of their ability to reduce frailty, reduce the risks of having falls, and generally help people maintain their independence.
JMIncidentally, for those of you who are interested in some of the detailed particulars of the exercise programs that Miriam Nelson and her laboratory have designed, she's written two books Strong Women Stay Young and Strong Women Stay Slim.
Exercise and Osteoporosis
JMCan you tell us about the role of exercise in fighting osteoporosis?
MNMuch of my research has focused on osteoporosis, or loss of bone density, which causes the bones to become brittle. Most women experience osteoporosis as they age. A couple of years ago, we did a study of women, not on estrogen replacement therapy, between the ages of 50 and 70.5 Half of the women did strength training in our laboratory for two days a week for one year and half went about their normal activities. All of the women had been quite inactive. After one year, the women on strength training were 75 percent stronger. They gained an average of three pounds of skeletal muscle and lost three pounds of body fat. Their balance improved by 14 percent and their bone density increased by about one percent in the spine and the hip. The women in the control group, however, experienced the normal age-related declines in bone density of about two to 2.5 percent in the spine and the hip.
One of the most exciting findings of this study was that the women who did strength training actually became more physically active in their everyday lives and even took up new activities. They were gardening more and walking more; they went canoeing and ballroom dancing on the weekend. This was really encouraging.
The finding that strength training reversed age-related losses in bone density is important because fractures are a big problem for older people. Strength training also gave these women much better balance and increased muscle mass, both of which reduced their risk of having a fall, as well as making them less likely to suffer a fracture if they did fall.
Exercise and Rheumatoid ArthritisIn the past, most patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were told to rest and take it easy; if they wanted to exercise, they were told to limit their range of motion and avoid bearing weight, for example, by swimming or exercising in a pool. It is true that people with RA often have difficulty walking and bearing their full weight. We have found in our lab, however, that strengthening exercises even help RA sufferers. In fact, strengthening exercises are particularly good for these individuals because chronic inflammation causes them to lose muscle mass and other lean tissue. And medications that treat RA, such as corticosteroids, can cause further bone and muscle loss.
In a study done by the chief of our laboratory, Ronenn Roubenoff, M.D., people with RA undertook programs of strength training with impressive results. They felt less pain, gained flexibilty, and became stronger. The bottom line is that strength training has a wide range of benefits. As with the women I talked about earlier, the RA patients became more physically active in their daily lives.


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Man survived the fierce test of the Ice Ages because he had the flexibility of mind to recognise inventions and to turn them into communal property.
Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man, p 39
Let us pose a challenge to the prevalent attitude towards intellectual property. The society in which we live exists as a result of previous technological successes in overcoming environmental difficulties. Now, what if we are to posit some new difficulty on a par with the last Ice Ages. It would be a way of asking, with John Rawls, in what type of society we want to live. How would we ideally cope with flows of information in such a world?
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|The tomb of Willam Graham McIvor in the
St Stephen's Church cemetery in Ooty.
The story of quinine in India is an interesting one and has some surprising connections to ornithology in India that I was exploring on a recent visit to the Nilgiris.
The story behind malaria, cinchona and quinine is so fascinating that the sheer number of publications on the history of cinchona is staggering (there are several bibliographic compilations on the topic!). Looking at the literature for India suggests that vast changes in landscape have been caused just so that people (at least the ones that did not have sickle cells and other forms of evolved resistance to malaria) could enter new regions which they further altered by building roads and habitations. "Malarious" regions, mainly forests, were probably large pockets of natural protection for biodiversity. Malaria literally means bad air and the theory was that diseases were spread by miasmas (gases or mists) and this partly justified the idea of treating higher elevations as safe sanataria. There was even the field of "medical topography" that dealt with the spatial distribution of disease and although they might have erred on causal factors, the practitioners did attempt to collate evidence. The sheer number of people involved in researching and fighting the problem (often dying in the process) of diseases (particularly malaria, plague and cholera) and the spin-offs to the sciences of botany, entomology, chemistry and oddly ornithology is just incredible. Scientific pursuits that saved human lives earned a halo of nobility. Seen in this light, the public repute of the botanist is sadly a lot lower than it was before.
The cinchona introduction program was part of a solution to a problem coming in the way of the colonial quest for more lands. The Spanish had discovered the effectiveness of Cinchona bark in curing malarial fever and their extraction of the bark led to near complete destruction of trees in some regions and then the British Empire saw the problem of dependence on dwindling South American supplies and rising costs.
|Detail on the tomb of McIvor with Cinchona carvings
Clements Markham is the man who takes a lot of credit for the cinchona program in India. He was knighted for this achievement but the idea that cinchona could be grown in the Nilgiris was first floated by John Forbes Royle. Royle "inferred from a comparison of soil and climate with the geographical distribution of cinchonaceous [=Rubiaceae] plants, that the quinine yielding cinchonas might be cultivated on the slopes of the Neilgherries, and of the Southern Himalayas, in the same way that I had inferred that Chinese tea plants might be cultivated in the Northern Himalayas." (27 June 1852)
Markham, a chronicler, explorer, geographer and writer also attempted to bring back the spelling Chinchona to correctly reflect its etymology - the plant is named after Lady Ana de Osorio, countess of Chinchón, wife of the Viceroy of Peru, who was (according to a very dubious version) in 1638 afflicted with a "tertian" fever while in Lima. Don Francisco Lopez de Canizares, heard of her illness and sent a parcel of bark that was used by the natives around Quito to treat fevers (worth remembering that South America was by and large malaria free, although it may have had one form of malaria, until Columbus and European movement c. 1492). The Countess recovered rather miraculously and word of the drug travelled rapidly. She took back bark to Spain to distribute among the sick there and it soon came to be known as Pulvis Comitissae (the Countess' powder) among the druggists. Linnaeus came to hear of the plant via the French and though he intended to name the genus after the Countess, he spelt it wrong (in the 1767 edition it even got printed as "Cinhona"). The Spanish botanists Ruiz Lopez and José Antonio Pavón Jiménez noted the spelling mistake and described several species in the genus but the spelling stuck and many were upset that it credited "cinchon", a policeman's belt, instead of their dear Countess. Markham's attempts at taxonomic emendation of the spelling were not as successful as his mission to introduce cinchona into India.
|Markham's map of the "Chinchona" plantations.
|An illustration from 1862. The European man sitting in the group is Sir William Denison (after whom Francis Day named the pretty fish - "Miss Kerala" (Sahyadria denisonii ). To Denison's left and holding a spade is McIvor. McIvor helped transport trout for Day's project to introduce them into the Nilgiris. Day started off as an ornithologist before taking an interest in fish. He supported Hume's Sind bird survey.
...result was due in no small degree to the action of Mr. A.O.Hume C.B, the Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Revenue, Agriculture, and Commerce.
Mr. Hume saw that two millions of Her Majesty's subjects were annually living in India of low malarious fevers, of which fully half might he saved if we could put the chinchona febrifuge retail into every pansari's shop at 1 rupee per ounce. He calculated that ten tons a year at least should be forthcoming, or, on an average, 100 grains per man. Mr. Hume felt strongly on the subject, because he had had great practical experience of malarious fevers; because he had proved, in thousands of cases, that the chinchona febrifuge is a real remedy; and because we had triumphed over the cultivation difficulty, and could, at comparatively very moderate cost, ensure in ten years a bark crop sufficient to produce the ten tons required. He felt that nothing stood between us and the saving of countless multitudes from death, or grievous suffering, but an economical process of manufacture; and that, rightly considered, this is infinitely more important than any other question before the Government of India. It involves simply the possible saving of a million lives and of an immensity of suffering such as few can adequately realise. He urged that nothing should be allowed to come in the way of this great work, that it should not be paltered with, but that it should be taken in hand at once, in the very best way that could be discovered, and with the ablest instruments money and trouble could procure.
|Davison could speak Tamil, "Burmese",
Malay and Hindi!
Apart from Davison, Hume had another major ornithological correspondent in J. Gammie at Mungpoo, Darjeeling who was in charge of the cinchona plantations. It appears that Gammie was a major collector of fauna and specimens from Mungpoo have gotten around the world since. (Some years ago there was a query for locality information for a specimen of Bengalia (a kleptoparasitic fly) from Mungpoo). There is very little known about J. A. Gammie though his son, George Alexander Gammie (1864-1935) is a better known botanist. Gammie senior collected plants, birds, insects, and reptiles for various collaborators and correspondents. He is remembered in Lycodon gammiei.
|An odd cinchona tree
(presumably C. succirubra) in Ooty
being admired by Henry Noltie.
The cinchona project was obviously not a complete success as malaria managed to keep a grip (and still does today with the potential to save some wilderness areas) and the next big wave of work on the disease was by the surgeons and physicians of the Indian Medical Service. Many of them, with a completely new level of training in biology, contributed to the study of natural curiosities and contributed beyond their professional area of research.
The cinchona project had its impact well beyond India - even in its ornithology spin-offs. Imagine my surprise when I found that a comprehensive bibliography of cinchona cultivation was compiled in 1945 by R.E. Moreau, the brilliant ornithologist who worked in Africa as an accountant.
Note: Please note that tonic water today does not have the quinine levels needed for therapeutic use, so no it is not beneficial to your health! You can however have some fun by shining ultraviolet light on tonic-water and watch it fluoresce.
Postscript: There is an interesting paper on malaria research and birds - pointing out how birds were used for testing anti-malarials while also playing a key role in the plasmodia research of Ronald Ross. (Manwell, Reginald D. (1949) Malaria, birds and war. American Scientist 37(1):60-68.)
Further reading
Postscript: There is an interesting paper on malaria research and birds - pointing out how birds were used for testing anti-malarials while also playing a key role in the plasmodia research of Ronald Ross. (Manwell, Reginald D. (1949) Malaria, birds and war. American Scientist 37(1):60-68.)
Further reading
- Bibliography on Cinchona (Kew)
- A short history
- Malaria treatments
- King, George (1880) A manual of Cinchona cultivation in India. Calcutta: Government Press.
- Moreau, R. E. 1945 An annotated bibliography of cinchona-growing from 1883-1943. Nairobi: Government Printer.
- Raman, A. (2012) Malaria management in the 18th and 19th century India: role played by Madras Presidency. Current Science 102(12):1717-1720.
- Tan, Kevin Y.L. (2015). Of Whales and Dinosaurs: The Story of Singapore's Natural History Museum. Singapore: NUS Press.
- Veale, Lucy (2010) An historical geography of the Nilgiri cinchona plantations, 1860-1900. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
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Not on the Lips (2004)
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Critic Reviews for Not on the Lips
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (3) | Fresh (6) | Rotten (2) | DVD (1)
I can't think of another French movie that's given me as much pleasure in years.
The movie oozes kitsch but is not without class.
If light opera is your thing, this one is lovable and soulful.
Artfully staged and enthusiastically performed but unavoidably pretentious.
Audience Reviews for Not on the Lips
Spirited comedic operetta set in 1925 as a high society woman's husband meets her ex-husband for a major business deal while each unaware she had previously married the other. I don't like musicals as a rule but when a cast shows a level of commitment on par with Chicago or Moulin Rouge then I capitulate. This cast surely had to know their stuff on par with a true live show performance as the very long takes and pinpoint timing must've required many many hours of rehearsal. Audrey Tautou sparkles as a supporting character and comes in 5th or 6th in screen time, while it's Isabelle Nanty playing her older sister who gets the best lines, sometimes speaking directly to camera and the audience. Script includes some witty satirization of art movements and the people who only follow the hottest trend, for example the hot ticket is for a new ballet with a seal as the leading dancer, and Cubism has been supplanted by Spherism.
Super Reviewer
Textbook definition of how NOT to film a musical. The blocking and cinematography are so static. Even a stage musical would have been directed better than this. The Midsummer Night's-esque story gets cuter in the third act, but on the whole, a shallow farce. Isabelle Nanty is quite good.
Super Reviewer
Utter madness and quite charming. Funny, crazy, musical.
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If the NHL cellar-dwelling Columbus Blue Jackets want to turn things around, they might look at drafting young Canadians.
Three psychology professors have discovered that a hockey player's month of birth influences how scouts and coaches judge his talent, and this subconscious selection bias often puts the wrong players on the roster. The study, published online in the journal PLOS ONE, found NHL teams have long underestimated the talent and potential of players born in the second half of the year and tend to overlook them in favor of relatively older players.
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"If teams really wanted to win, they should have drafted more of the relatively younger players," Deaner said.
Deaner didn't set out to identify selection bias in the NHL draft. He was studying the possibility of a correlation between facial shape and aggression when he discovered a link between birth month and career length.
"We dug into 27 years of data," he said, "and we found that relatively younger players had a consistently longer career."
Deaner asked Steven Cobley of the University of Sydney, and Aaron Lowen, also of Grand Valley State, to join him in diving deeper into the data. They found that, on average, NHL draftees born between July and December comprised 34 percent of those drafted, but played in 42 percent of the games and scored 44 percent of the points. On the other hand, those born in the first three months of the same year comprised 36 percent of drafted players but played in just 28 percent of games and scored 25 percent of the points.
The researchers focused on Canadian players because Canadian youth leagues assign players by age, with a December 31 cut-off date. That makes it easier to compare players who are the same age but were born at different times of the year.
Deaner concedes drafting athletes is an inexact science and myriad factors come into play, but the evidence suggests NHL teams have been "consistently fooled by players' birthdays or something associated with them." He's at a loss to explain just what is behind the selection bias, which occurs when someone – say, a coach – grants fewer opportunities to relatively younger players than might be warranted by their talent.
His study stands in contrast to studies that have demonstrated relative age effects, which occur when players who are relatively older within their age group are deemed more likely to succeed. Such research suggests the accepted knowledge of RAEs prompts people, consciously or subconsciously, to choose older players. For example, about 40 percent of players in Canada's elite youth hockey leagues are born in the first quarter of the year, while just 15 percent are born in the last quarter of the year. Deaner's results suggest relative age effects are a leading cause of selection bias.
Deaner isn't the first to suggest that those born in the earlier months might be overrepresented in sports. Before the 2006 World Cup, the folks at Freakonomics speculated there might be an unusually high number of early month birthdays on European soccer teams because of the year-end cut-off for determining eligibility for youth teams. However, after further research, they concluded that the World Cup might not be the best place to examine this because different leagues have different age guidelines. That's not to say they didn't find evidence of relative age effects on national teams.
But before teams go out and draft the just the youngsters, hockey analyst and former NHL exec Craig Button says to proceed with caution. After a look at the study, he thinks it's a bit too narrow (just Canadians, no goalies) and that there are many other criteria that lead to the relatively younger players outperforming their older counterparts. According to Button, the study looks at RAE and selection bias using the NHL has supporting evidence, without discussing the factors that led to the player being drafted. There will always be players who are selected later who outperform those who are selected earlier, he noted.
"The scouts watch games by the thousands and they are looking at so many different aspects of a player," said Button. "What
aspects of a player's skill set are weighted more greatly when assessing players and then ultimately selecting them? What of those skills and aspects could be affected by age would seem to me to be a plausible question."
Some reasons? Players who are drafted at 18 are at different stages of physical maturity. Lots of things affect this maturity, but when it occurs, the difference in maturity at draft time is decreased by the time it comes to actually play. Another problem Button had with the study was that it only evaluated Canadian players, who make up only about half of those drafted. Between 1991 and 2007, the draft has changed a lot, because of the growing presence of European players in the NHL. Button also cautioned against using a 365 day span instead of a calendar year.
"This is also a hotly debated issue in education circles," he said. "The bias in selection may be more because of maturity differences because bigger, stronger players who are more mature may have a 'leg up' in performance at the ages of 17 or 18 or the less mature player may not be quite as capable."
Finally, Button said scouts are mostly there to judge performance. Projection, or understand the criteria that would positively or negatively affect a player might be a better indication on why the younger players outperform in certain instances. A more mature player requires less projection, but only one of the reasons this is so is age.
Deaner and his team admit they don't yet fully understand the selection bias they've uncovered, though Deaner has a few ideas about what might be going on. Like Button, he acknowledges that being a few months older can give a child the appearance of a physical advantage (something the Freakonomics piece suggested)– in this case making them more likely to be selected for the elite youth teams and, later, in the pro draft. Another theory is that the younger kids might be performing better in the long run because of the underdog effect, in which they work harder to overcome any obstacles, real or perceived, to their success.
Whatever the case, Deaner's research could have implications for the league, and teams like the Blue Jackets might want to give him a call.
"I think once the NHL teams are aware of this, they may revisit their draft strategies, but nobody has contacted me yet."


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Every client I serve gets a consultation and continued service before and even after their shoot day. Among many other experience related topics at this meeting in my studio we discuss the retouching of your images. My purpose for this is not only to make sure we are compatible in a client/artist relationship but to educate you on my philosophy on "boudoir" images. I want you to know and be familiar with my style so you will be ecstatic with your final product.
At a recent consultation I was explaining this to my client. I also told her a story of another client who mentioned she had never had real professional portraits of herself except for her wedding day nearly 40 years ago. This client agreed, saying she had some head shots made in the last few years, it being her only other professional imaging experience of herself only. She told me the photographer so heavily retouched her images and even changed the shape of her face so that she barely recognized herself. Her quote was, "Was I really so hideous that I needed all that?". Her photography experience left her questioning her beauty and damaged her self esteem.
This is exactly what I don't do.
I strive to help you look stunning on the day of your shoot by utilizing expert hairstyling/makeup, your pre-planned wardrobe which I have educated you on how to choose, expert posing and lighting. When I utilize these things, heavy retouching is not needed. My level of expertise really shines here.
What do we retouch? These decisions are primarily yours. I nearly always clear blemishes and smooth skin if needed in addition to whitening your teeth and eyes. However, other things like body or face shaping are just not needed in my workflow. Some women have scars or birthmarks. The removal and retouching of those are your choice. Many of my clients see scars as part of their journey. This is another reason why the consultation is so important…you need an opportunity to communicate these issues and make decisions about them.
My goal is to increase your self esteem. My goal is to reflect your inner and outer beauty to you. When you show your images to others I want you to be able to tell them, "This is how I looked and felt that day in Marsha's studio…beautiful"
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While I had some time to myself (Andrew was sleeping) I did some sewing!!!
It's been a great day of sewing! I actually felt like I accomplished something.
I worked on my Windmills mostly. I had cut out more pieces from some fabric that I was gifted the other day. I really needed to mix in some different fabrics. I'll gradually add more in as I can.
I ended up piecing 34 more of the small windmill blocks. That along with the few that I already had done was enough for 3 1/2 big blocks. I need 5 big blocks to make a row. Today's sewing got me almost halfway!!! I am planning on doing 6 big blocks long and 5 across.
I also pieced lots of Tumblers as well. I ended up getting them sewn into sets of 4 and sets of 8. I will keep sewing them together until I get my long rows.
Supper today included Fresh Ham from my sister. It was delicious! Along with this, I fixed green beans, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese and cornbread. I try to fix this stuff as healthy as possible for them. There are also a few things like this that I can't eat. This evening I had a tiny piece of ham, a small portion of mashed potatoes and a bunch of green beans! :)
Richard works the next 3 days and is off the weekend. Friday evening we have plans as it is my little nephews birthday as well as his mom's. :) So my nephew and SIL's birthdays are on the 21st and my precious mommy's birthday is the 22nd. Mom will be 62. She will never know how special she is to me. I love her with all of my heart and I make sure that I tell her every single day. :)


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Best cures for toenail fungus
Toenail fungus is never pretty but it's something virtually all people will need to face in the past and other in your lives. Having nail fungus does not mean that you are at all yucky, it implies that a person has had a close encounter with many yucky fungus. It would appear that a lot of will just ignore the problem and go on. But to get toenail fungus cures is something that you will need to be concerned about instead of wishing the issue away.
toenail fungus cure
Nail fungus is one area that causes some yucky looking toes but most importantly, if left unattended might cause some extreme pain or infection. You might be wondering the way it was that you even came across the fungai? Well, should you be someone that would rather visit pools, take showers in public areas or ever have to get in a locker room, then those are all locations that are breeding cause an athlete's foot infection. Wearing sandals in places this way is simply good practice. They don't really must be anything fancy, just something to hold some space between you and the floor.
Fungus grows in places that are moist and damp, inside of sweaty shoes included. To hold toenail fungus from attacking feet you can test wearing some cotton socks or putting some foot powder with your sock before you decide to wear it. That can help to keep your feet very dry.
There are many different cures that you can use that will keep your toes clear of fungus. Obviously you can go the prescription medicine route but there are various kinds of organic and natural cures who do so. A natural nail fungus cure that is certainly extremely popular is white vinegar. Apple cider vinegar continues to be long known for its anti-fungal properties so it will be no surprise it can be among the widely used nail fungus cures. Simply soak feet in apple cider vinegar for twenty to 30 mins two times a day before you notice that the signs and symptoms have ceased.
Other natural nail fungus cures is usually to apply either tea tree or peppermint oil towards the involved area. Tea tree oil is completely 100% natural and organic because it is produced by the bark and leaves of the tea tree. It is just a cure all that's been employed for centuries. Rubbing a tiny bit of either of those oils in the affected area will work to heal any kind of toenail fungus. Yogurt is the one other stop used by either eating it or rubbing it on the affected region. Yogurt contains acidophilus that will attempt to relieve any type of fungus.
Yes you will find prescription medication that you can get from the doctor however if you simply cure your trouble with natural remedies that have been useful for decades, or even centuries, have you thought to try them out?


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Following yesterday's reminder that it's been 9 months with no UT3 Linux client, we decided to follow up with some of the other game studios that over the summer have promised Linux-native game ports. The first company we heard back from was IGIOS.
IGIOS is the Finnish company specializing in 3D visualization and software porting that was contracted to port Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor to Linux. These two action games were developed by Frozenbyte Studio, another Finnish company whose portfolio just consists of these two Shadowgrounds titles.
In Two PC Action Games Coming To Linux we shared all of the details on these two games coming to Linux. This was back in March and it was expected these games would be shipping in the spring time. That never happened and now we're almost through summer. However, this is what we heard this morning from IGIOS:
We are negotiating with our publisher, it seems to take a while cause of lawyers, but now we are getting it true. I'll inform you about the release and how to get gold master for testing as soon I know the details from publisher. Hopefully this will happen in week of two. I'm really sorry for this delay.
So it looks like Shadowgrounds and Shadowgrounds: Survivor may be released on Linux in the near future. At Phoronix we should have our copy soon, so expect more information.


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At Pueblo County High School, if you don't pass, you don't play . . . or dance, or cheer or go to this week's football game.
Beginning this year, County's administrators implemented a new eligibility rule that requires all students to have passing grades in order to attend or participate in any school-sponsored events.
The rule is similar to one that the Colorado High School Activities Association requires for student athletes and band members.
That rule requires a weekly grade check and those students who have at least one failing grade are ineligible to participate in activities or games for that week. Once the grade has been improved to passing, the students can resume activities.
County's administrators have taken that a step further.
"We've always held our athletes to high standards and we felt that should be the same for all our students," said Cherie Toussaint, assistant principal and activities/athletic director at County.
"If our athletes failed a class, they were not allowed to play but yet you had students sitting in the stands watching the games who had more 'F's' than the athletes," she added. "We believe that all of our students should be held to a higher standard."
When John DeLuca took over as principal last year, Toussaint said one of the first conversations she remembers having with DeLuca was about setting higher academic standards for all students.
"The fact is, the students are here to get an education," Toussaint said. "What service are we providing our students if they don't walk out of here with a high school diploma in four years?"
DeLuca said he wanted to make sure that all students at County are successful, not just athletes and band members.
"This is a proactive approach to keeping kids from going down that road of failing completely," he said. "We're hoping this will prevent our kids from getting off track and getting lost in the shuffle."
Last year, school officials required all students to have passing grades to attend major events such as homecoming or the Snowball dance.
This year they expanded it to require students to have passing grades to attend all school-sponsored activities or events, including but not limited to assemblies, dances, athletic events, field trips, drama presentations and concerts.
Toussaint said each week school administrators meet with students who are failing at least one class to notify them of their status.
DeLuca said the process is time-consuming but worth the effort.
"It is taxing because we're spending a lot of days on kids (who are failing), but we've made the commitment and we're going to follow through with it," he said. "As for the kids, most of them are taking this seriously. When I see them in the halls, they're telling me that they're working on their grades. Some of them are even bringing their grades up by Wednesday."
Even if a student brings up the grade by the end of the week, they are still ineligible until the following Monday.
Toussaint said school administrators and teachers maintain a weekly list of the ineligible students to ensure that they do not attend events or activities.
"We have administrators at each game who know who shouldn't be there and if they see them, they won't let them in," Toussaint said. "Do we catch them all, probably not, but we do catch the majority of them."
DeLuca and Toussaint said the new rule appears to be working.
"The good thing is that the list is long at the beginning of the year, but it's getting shorter each week," DeLuca said. "In the long run, I think this is going to pay dividends, especially with our younger students who won't be getting into those bad habits early."


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|The Venice Pier midway featured rides and concessions. The Giant Dipper and Bobs roller coasters are on the left and Some Kick coaster is at the seaward end of the pier. The Noah's Ark fun house is in the foreground. - 1925
|Venice Pier midway at night. - 1938
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Espectroscuro - Friday 12/07/2013, 11:14
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Do you fancy taking a quiet stroll through Clint City on this beautiful summer's night? Well you risk falling into the clutches of a mesmerizing Piranas member or into the branches of a strange Roots tree!And be sure not to stay out too late in the city's parks as you might well be swept up by a ferocious Huracan member and then forced into the holy ring of Pile Tower to be offered up in sacrifice to the blazing sun priestess!Discover Calliope, the level 4 Piranas recruit, and Willow, the new level 2 Roots member, all adrift in the parks of Clint City. Come and meet Lobezna and Kinichaw, the level 3 and 5 Huracan fighters, for holy fights in the name of the Sun!
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5 new missions have been added. Find the list of Newblood missions by clicking on the Missions tab.
Thoazol - Thursday 25/07/2013, 18:20
Moderator - Wise Men Distracted
Sakrohm, Ulu Watu and two fillers.
-DaddySteel- - Thursday 25/07/2013, 19:51
Haha, not seeing even one clan in that sugesstions that id welcome to have a new card
Though Montana deserve something nice after Mona+Avola being banned, they dont need anything.
Id personally hope for two more Huracan like last week, since they still lack a 4* and a 3*.
Sakrohm and Ulu wont get a beast so short after Daddy Jones and Mokra each, may Mokra be banned or not.
Gheist just got Mechakolos and wont get anything for sure.
Id actually like this 2x Huracan, Bangers, Rescue
Thoazol - Thursday 25/07/2013, 20:04
Moderator - Wise Men Distracted
Probably not a beast or anything even remotely epic, but since it's been roughly four months since the latest Ulu Watu, Montana, Uppers and Sakrohm were released I'm going to guess that at least two of those will get a new card. Specifically Ulu and Saks since I like those better.
mhmd hosam - Friday 02/08/2013, 20:10
Hihihilalala - Tuesday 06/08/2013, 14:43
I personally would like a SoA for Skeelz or perhaps a SoB for Junta?
yaoihuntresse - Wednesday 07/08/2013, 20:23
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This is OT, but does any one else notice that Tula's final level pic seems zoomed out more? Which I don't mind.


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IMAGINE, as 19th-century utopians often did, a society rich enough that fewer and fewer people need to work — a society where leisure becomes universally accessible, where part-time jobs replace the regimented workweek, and where living standards keep rising even though more people have left the work force altogether.
If such a utopia were possible, one might expect that it would be achieved first among the upper classes, and then gradually spread down the social ladder. First the wealthy would work shorter hours, then the middle class, and finally even high school dropouts would be able to sleep late and take four-day weekends and choose their own adventures — "to hunt in the morning," as Karl Marx once prophesied, "fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner ..."
Yet the decline of work isn't actually some wild Marxist scenario. It's a basic reality of 21st-century American life, one that predates the financial crash and promises to continue apace even as normal economic growth returns. This decline isn't unemployment in the usual sense, where people look for work and can't find it. It's a kind of post-employment, in which people drop out of the work force and find ways to live, more or less permanently, without a steady job. So instead of spreading from the top down, leisure time — wanted or unwanted — is expanding from the bottom up. Long hours are increasingly the province of the rich.
Of course, nobody is hailing this trend as the sign of civilizational progress. Instead, the decline in blue-collar work is often portrayed in near-apocalyptic terms — on the left as the economy's failure to supply good-paying jobs, and on the right as a depressing sign that government dependency is killing the American work ethic.
But it's worth linking today's trends to the older dream of a post-work utopia, because there are ways in which the decline in work-force participation is actually being made possible by material progress.
That progress can be hard to appreciate at the moment, but America's immense wealth is still our era's most important economic fact. "When a nation is as rich as ours," Scott Winship points out in an essay for Breakthrough Journal, "it can realize larger absolute gains than it did in the past ... even if it has lower growth rates." Our economy may look stagnant compared to the acceleration after World War II, but even disappointing growth rates are likely to leave the America of 2050 much richer than today.
Those riches mean that we can probably find ways to subsidize — through public means and private — a continuing decline in blue-collar work. Many of the Americans dropping out of the work force are not destitute: they're receiving disability payments and food stamps, living with relatives, cobbling together work here and there, and often doing as well as they might with a low-wage job. By historical standards their lives are more comfortable than the left often allows, and the fiscal cost of their situation is more sustainable than the right tends to admits. (Medicare may bankrupt us, but food stamps probably will not.)
There is a certain air of irresponsibility to giving up on employment altogether, of course. But while pundits who tap on keyboards for a living like to extol the inherent dignity of labor, we aren't the ones stocking shelves at Walmart or hunting wearily, week after week, for a job that probably pays less than our last one did. One could make the case that the right to not have a boss is actually the hardest won of modern freedoms: should it really trouble us if more people in a rich society end up exercising it?
The answer is yes — but mostly because the decline of work carries social costs as well as an economic price tag. Even a grinding job tends to be an important source of social capital, providing everyday structure for people who live alone, a place to meet friends and kindle romances for people who lack other forms of community, a path away from crime and prison for young men, an example to children and a source of self-respect for parents.
Here the decline in work-force participation is of a piece with the broader turn away from community in America — from family breakdown and declining churchgoing to the retreat into the virtual forms of sport and sex and friendship. Like many of these trends, it poses a much greater threat to social mobility than to absolute prosperity. (A nonworking working class may not be immiserated; neither will its members ever find a way to rise above their station.) And its costs will be felt in people's private lives and inner worlds even when they don't show up in the nation's G.D.P.
In a sense, the old utopians were prescient: we've gained a world where steady work is less necessary to human survival than ever before.
But human flourishing is another matter. And it's our fulfillment, rather than the satisfaction of our appetites, that's threatened by the slow decline of work.


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A have a good friend named Janet Long. She has recently started a business called A Cottage Company Designs. She is one of the most talented woman that I know. I have asked her to design a couple of Christmas cards for me to use for my clients. Here is one of the cards that she designed for me. If you want to see more of her work you can find it HERE. If you need any sort of cards or announcements made she can do it for you!
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Burtenshaw Children
I just love these kids! They have lived next door to us for several years now. My boys play with the younger boys and the little girl almost every day. The oldest boy is one of my piano students and I look forward to him coming every week! On top of being some of the nicest people you could know, they are so good looking!
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Friday, October 21, 2011
The Ward Family
This is another great family that I have been able to photograph every year. It is so fun to see the families grow and change. I loved their colors! I think I am going to have to keep this in mind for my family!
I think this is the sweetest picture. I totally understand what it is like for a Dad to have a little girl after having boys. Not that boys aren't wonderful, I wouldn't trade mine for the world! But there is something very special between little girls and their Dad.
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Hawkins Grandchildren
My good friend, Lisa, asked me to take pictures of her three cute little Grandchildren. She was so excited to have their pictures done because it was the first time any of them have had their pictures professionally taken. They are the cutest little kids. The little boys were totally traumatized by having their pictures taken. The baby pretty much cried the whole time, even on our second attempt a day later. Poor Lisa, I am sure she was exhausted by the time we finished. She really wanted a picture of all three of them together but that just wasn't happening so I told her she had to be in a picture with them so they at least wouldn't be crying. Isn't she the most beautiful Grandmother? She is as beautiful inside as she is outside.
This is my new favorite picture. I just think this little face is so cute!
Even though her cousins wouldn't cooperate, this little girl was more than happy to ham it up. This picture screams personality!
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
John and Dayna- Engagements
This cute couple is from Driggs, Idaho. I am so glad I was able to meet them and I wish them all the best with their wedding plans!
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Dec 9, 2017
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This episode celebrates Deep House with an infusion of African Beats, Classical Blues, Disco, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Soul, Techno and UK Garage music from Antarctica, Auckland, Barcelona, Berlin, Brasilia, Cape Town, Chicago, Detroit, Dubai, Istanbul, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Palestine, Paris, Reykjavik, Shanghai, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto, and more.
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Nobody thinks higher of John Gagliardi, who retired Monday after coaching the St. John's University football team for 60 years, than Eden Prairie High School football coach Mike Grant, who played for Gagliardi from 1975-78 and coached under him in 1987 and '88.
Grant was coaching at Forest Lake High School before taking a leave of absence to join Gagliardi's staff for those two years. When Grant was ready to return to Forest Lake, he recalled being called in by the president of St. John's and being told he shouldn't leave because the president believed Gagliardi was going to quit and Grant could be the next head coach.
Of course, Gagliardi coached 24 more years before retiring. Grant returned to Forest Lake until 1992, when he took over at Eden Prairie and has since won seven large-school state football titles.
Grant never would have considered the St. John's job while Gagliardi was coaching, but now that he has retired, Grant said if offered the job, he would be interested in taking it under the right circumstances.
"Yes, I'm interested in talking to them, yes you can say that," Grant said.
On whether he could help the Johnnies compete with St. Thomas, Grant said: "I wouldn't take the job if we couldn't. I recruited hard for St. John's. St. John's can recruit itself in a lot of ways. You know a lot of kids just want to go there. Now we have alumni that played for them and they want to send their kids there.
"If I took that job, I wouldn't be going up there to have a job, because I have a great job. I'm not looking for a job. If I took the job, it would be to win a national title."Praise for Gagliardi
Nobody has a higher regard for Gagliardi than Grant.
"One, John is one of the smartest people I've ever met," Grant said. "Intellectually he's really, really smart. So if he had been a doctor or a lawyer or a scientist or whatever, he would have been one of the best in that. He's really, really smart.
"Second, he's a great psychologist. He's very similar to my dad [former Vikings coach Bud Grant] that way. He didn't major in psychology, but they were great psychologists of how to motivate people."
Grant talked about Gagliardi's tremendous common sense about how and why to do things.
"The other thing is that because he's so smart, he was always innovative," Grant said. "He always was ahead of the curve. So if there was the wishbone offense, John would take it to the next level. He was always ahead of that and have a different or better option. When the passing game started to come around in the '80s and the spread [offense], John was at the front of that."
Asked about what influence Gagliardi had on Grant, he responded: "I think a tremendous amount. There's three people that influenced me: John Gagliardi, Bud Grant and Pat Grant. I figure I got the best of three Hall of Famers. My mom was a Hall of Fame mother and took care of everybody and treated people well. And obviously my dad and John are Hall of Famers. I figure those three people influenced me, and John was a huge part of that."
Yes, it's always a pleasure when there's a chance to write about two of the greatest people and coaches in the history of this state -- John Gagliardi and Mike Grant.Taylor fond of Coach K
Vince Taylor, who will be on the Gophers bench Thursday as an assistant to Tubby Smith when they face Duke in the Battle 4 Atlantis tournament in the Bahamas, played three years for the Blue Devils under coach Mike Krzyzewski.
"I started three years at Duke, my sophomore, junior and senior year," said Taylor, who has been with Smith the past six years.
"We went to the Final Eight and my senior year I led the ACC in scoring and was all-ACC. I learned a lot about basketball from Coach K but really matured as a man and learned -- to never set out to be average, strive and set goals and play hard and never quit -- from him.
"Determination, and just giving 110 percent every second you're on the floor and never give up. Never give up. He's a tough guy just like Bobby Knight, but after that, he'll give you a hug. It's all about competing."
Krzyzewski, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history, has a career record of 930-291 and has taken his Duke squad to four national titles (1991, 1992, 2001 and 2010) and 11 Final Fours in his 32 years with the program.
Thursday's matchup will be only the third between Duke and the Gophers, with all the games played on a neutral court.
Coach K has faced the Gophers only once in his career, an 87-70 NCAA tournament victory in 1989 over the Clem Haskins-led Minnesota squad in East Rutherford, N.J. The only other meeting between the teams took place in 1954, a 79-73 victory for the Gophers in the Dixie Classic in Raleigh, N.C.Spartans confident
Apparently coach Mark Dantonio of Michigan State, 2-5 in the Big Ten and 5-6 overall, believes his Spartans will beat the Gophers when they face them at TCF Bank Stadium on Saturday afternoon. A headline in the Lansing State Journal read: "Mark Dantonio's guarantee: Michigan will win, qualify for a bowl.
"When we win Saturday -- and I'll say when -- we will be a 6-6 football team, we're not climbing out of the cellar at 2-10," Dantonio said at his weekly news conference.
Dantonio's Spartans have lost five Big Ten games by a total of 13 points.Jottings
Add Jeff Meslow from White Bear Lake among Division I football officials from Minnesota. He's assigned to work a Football Championship Subdivision playoff game between Cal Poly and host Sam Houston State on Dec. 1.
Two former Hamline football players -- Shannon Currier, former head coach at Truman State and Concordia (St. Paul), and Chad Rogosheske, now an offensive line coach at Bucknell -- are reported to be the leading candidates for the Pipers' football coaching vacancy. Also interested in the job is former outstanding Gophers offensive line coach Gordy Shaw, now an offensive line coach at Idaho. There are a lot of people who would recommend Shaw as a great coach and recruiter.
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She took pasta salad, mixed melons (in the HK container), some grapes and half a pig shaped boiled egg. The lunch box came home empty, must have been a hit.
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Hampton takes no action on proposed trail
by Sandy Hadler
Cory Bienfang of Bolton and Menk, Hampton's city engineer, excitedly told Council members at the March 8 meeting that he had just learned MnDOT agreed to pay $75,000 toward the cost of the proposed biking/walking trail that would run for about a quarter of a mile on the west side of Highway 50 from the Heights of Hampton to the downtown area. If Hampton can also acquire a full DNR grant of $150,000, the State would end up paying three-fourths of the the cost of the proposed $300,000 trail project.
Bienfang asked Council members if they wanted to move forward with the project, regardless of whether they get the DNR grant or not. He said the City would have to get a low interest loan, or possibly bond for the project, if the DNR grant is not awarded to Hampton, or is only partially funded.
Councilman Jerry Huddleston, who has been a major proponent in trying to get a safe travel way for residents to walk or ride bikes safely between the Heights of Hampton and the downtown area, was excited about the prospect.
Other Council members were a bit more reluctant, noting that there are capital improvement projects that need to be done, including major work on one block of Main Street and two blocks of Belmont Street. They questioned whether the City's portion of funding for the proposed trail shouldn't go instead for those repairs.
Bienfang admitted that the infrastructure needs in Hampton are real, but the streets do not have to be done at the same time, and the city could use the $175,000 that is built into the 2016 budget toward street repair. He noted that from a surface and underground perspective, Main Street and Belmont Street have the worst three blocks in town, and will cost around a million and a half dollars to repair. He questioned, "Is the trail the greatest need for Hampton at this point? The need is there for both (trail and road repair) projects."
Comments from Sam Radford and his wife, whose property would be negatively impacted by the trail, diminished some of the excitement for Bienfang. The couple had read in the paper, after the February Council meeting, that he had said the City would have to pursue land acquisition, if the trail was to be built. If that was not successful, and the City really was serious about the project, they'd have to consider condemnation of the property.
The Radfords were upset that the City had not notified them that some of their property could be taken for the trail, and if they refused a land acquisition deal, there was the possibility their property could be condemned.
Bienfang said, "I apologize for how you found out." He said it had not been his intent to cause them concern, and he hoped they would share in the opportunity the city has to work with MnDOT to provide a safe means for children and adults to get between the Heights of Hampton and the downtown area. He said, "I'm certainly not prepared to have negotiations tonight. I don't even know what the value of your land is." He added, "I'm not sure the trail is happening. It is a great opportunity, but there are lots of facets to look at."
Councilman John Knetter explained to the Radfords that the Council had wanted to be sure the City could fund its portion of a trail, before they broached the subject with the affected landowners. He said, "I do apologize that we didn't contact you first."
The couple had other unrelated complaints about kids breaking windows on their vehicles, that a neighbor had planted a garden on their property, people have built fire pits on their land, and left garbage laying around, as well as a number of other infractions by Hampton residents.
They were told to contact the City if these problems continue, and a Dakota County deputy will check into any ordinance violations that occur.
The couple said they feel abused by the community, and now feel even more abused by the City. They were concerned they would lose some of their land, and then get charged an assessment on top of that.
Wendy Carpenter, Hampton's City Clerk, said because this would be a new construction project, typically there aren't assessments.
Mrs. Radford said, "We love our place. We bought it as an investment and you are going to get a big piece of it. How would it sit with you? This is not a small thing. It is a big thing."
Huddleston responded, "I wouldn't be happy, but I would consider it because it is good for the community. The intent is to add to the community, not to take it from you."
The Radfords asked for a study to be done to determine how many people would use a trail, and at what times of the year. This request was not acted on.
Council members expressed concern about proceeding with the trail project at this time. Knetter said if the city didn't get a full grant, they would have to pull the project. Huddleston agreed that if they got less than half of the DNR grant, the city would have to relook at the trail project.
Councilor Amanda Jensrud asked what would happen if Hampton is awarded a full DNR grant and doesn't accept it. Bienfang said there would be no penalties.
Knetter stated that once they had put together everything that had been discussed that evening, he realized it was not "do-able" to move forward with the trail project at this time. Jensrud agreed, stating, "Until we know the key components, I don't feel comfortable moving forward."
Bienfang said MnDOT will be looking for an answer soon.
Jensrud said they'd need as much time as possible to contact the other landowners who will be affected by the project.
Knetter said, "We need to see if we can agree with the landowners. There is no sense in pursuing it if the west side property owners don't want it."
Bienfang said he will contact MnDOT and let them know that the city will need a week or two to find out more about these other factors.
Other business
•Council members passed a resolution to participate in Dakota County's All Hazard Mitigation Planning.
•Chris Meyer reported on the City's 2015 financial statements. He said the city currently has $175,000 to spend on improvements in the City.
•A Dakota County deputy reported there have been a number of thefts that involve pick-up trucks and trailers, in particular landscaping trucks. He warned not to leave trucks in a shed or garage with the keys in the ignition, and to lock doors on all vehicles.
•Council members tabled discussion on two proposed Planning Commission appointments, as there was no agreement on whether to appoint one or two new people to the Commission. Councilor Luhring recommended tabling the issue until there is a formal resignation by one of the current Planning Commission members. Action will be taken after the resignation is made official.
•Marlin Reinardy was granted permission to let the Cardinals use the Community Room free of charge on April 9.
Thursday, March 24, 2016
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China would never have captured a US spy plane if the US were still flying the high speed Blackbird reconnaissance aircraft it scrapped in 1999.
The cat-and-mouse game over the South China Sea that ended in the death of a Chinese pilot on Sunday is not so unusual. Many countries, including China, have aircraft similar in general function to the captured EP-3E ARIES II. Their flight crews are used to encountering fighter 'escorts', whose purpose is to 'encourage' the surveillance aircraft to move away.
But for three decades up to 1999 the US operated a fleet of reconnaissance aircraft that flew so fast that they out-ran fighters, and even missiles, launched to intercept them – the Mach 3+ Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird and its A-12 predecessors.
Despite flying over and near the world's trouble spots for more than three decades, no SR-71 ever fell into unauthorised hands or had their top secret sensors compromised. And they never put politicians in the difficult position of negotiating with a foreign power for the return of the aircraft and its two man crew.
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The electronic intelligence gathering capability of the SR-71 remains among their most highly classified secrets.
They did not perform the same role as the 24 crew EP-3E, with its teams of code-breakers and signals experts. But the Blackbirds' Electromagnetic Reconnaissance System was capable of scanning a portion of the spectrum, selecting signals of special interest and then relaying that data in real time.
Sources indicate that although an SR-71 would not have been able to perform as broad a scan on a single mission as the EP-3E, it would have been able to achieve the goals described in the media for this ill-fated mission i.e. intercepting the communications from a Chinese destroyer.
The SR-71 fleet was grounded after a 1989 decision by Pentagon chiefs. They believed that satellites and other assets including Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) could perform the functions of the Blackbirds.
A surprise move by the US Congress in 1994 released funding to bring them brought back into service, but their return was short lived. A Presidential veto in 1997 withdrew funding. In 1999 the USAF officially ended the operation of its SR-71s.
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In the case of the slow flying EP-3E, the key factor in assessing the amount of classified information and equipment that will have fallen into the Chinese hands is time. During a Pentagon briefing, Rear Admiral Craig R. Quigley put the time between the mid-air collision with the J-8 fighter and the EP-3E landing on Hainan at between 15 to 20 minutes.
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