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Having done blog posts for a number of versions of Family Tree Maker in the past, I thought that I would share my plan for FTM2014.
At the top of the blog, are links to articles for FTM2012, FTM2011, FTM 2010. Selecting one of those links, I have attempted to collect on that page blog posts by Workspace for that Version of the program. In order to save space in the menu, I have dropped the links to FTM2008 and FTM2009. Those articles are listed in the Right Column already. I don't have control over the order in which they appear in the Category Listing. That is why I created these Version pages.
In the center of the list, is a link to those Training Resources, as well as Help links for the program.
These Version pages will be updated by the Categories / Tags that are on
the individual postings. I have attempted to capture all of the Blog
posts for FTM2014. Generally, they will be by Workspace, within the
program. Selecting one of the links below, should give you a list of
Blog Posts for that Workspace.
Please remember that you
can Search the Blog for articles on your topic. Try to use one word as
the keyword. Blog posts are listed with the most recent at the top or
beginning of the list.
I am currently working blog
posts by Workspace, focusing on new features that have not been
available in the past, followed by changes or updates to existing
features, then other blog posts as I see Questions or Issues that can be
best explained in a Blog Post.
There are many
features in FTM2014 that have been discussed in previous blog posts.
Those are not on the top of my list of blog posts. If you are looking
for something specific, check previous versions of Family Tree Maker,
starting with FTM2012 and working back to FTM2008.
The plan is to break the articles down to these workspace. The FTM2014 Version page will be updates as the posts are made. This list will not be updated and there are no links below to articles. This is for planning purposes.
FTM2014 - All Blog Posts for Family Tree Maker Version 2014
FTM2014 - Features
FTM2014 - Plan Workspace
FTM2014 - People Workspace
FTM2014 - Places Workspace
FTM2014 - Media Workspace
FTM2014 - Sources Workspace
FTM2014 - Publish Workspace
FTM2014 - Web Search Workspace
Family Tree Maker Tool Bar
Reminder: There are links to many Help and Training Resources in the Menu at the top of the blog.
Having said all of that, I am working on the ability for the readers to post a question, using a Google+ feature. It's not ready yet, as there are some missing components in Google that I haven't found. Stay tuned.
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Novak repeated conservative canard that Democrats "are opposing Judge Pryor of Alabama because of his religion"
CNN host and syndicated columnist Robert Novak repeated the baseless accusation that Democrats "are opposing Judge Pryor of Alabama because of his religion." In fact, senators who have opposed William H. Pryor's nomination to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals -- and even current Judiciary Committee Chair Arlen Specter (R-PA) -- have questioned Pryor over his willingness and ability to put aside his personal views and follow the law. Specter also echoed Democrats' concerns over inconsistent statements Pryor made to the committee regarding his involvement in the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA).
If Democrats opposed nominees because of deeply held personal beliefs, presumably they would have blocked many more than the 10 who have been filibustered. Few, if any, of the 205 Bush nominees who have been confirmed (most with substantial support from Democrats) have expressed any views on controversial issues that deviate from conservative orthodoxy. Indeed, many have come out in strong opposition to abortion rights. And if Democrats opposed nominees, as Novak claims, "because of religion," presumably those other nominees who are religious -- Catholic, Protestant Jewish, other -- would have been blocked as well, but that clearly didn't happen. What distinguishes Pryor, as well as the other nine nominees Democrats have filibustered, are statements they have made or actions they have taken that critics say suggest that they would allow personal ideology -- and not the dictates of the law -- to control their decisions.
On the issue of abortion, for example, Pryor referred to the Supreme Court's ruling in Roe v. Wade as "the day seven members of our highest court ripped the Constitution and ripped out the life of millions of unborn children." He has criticized the Supreme Court's ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey "for preserv[ing] the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history: Roe v. Wade." In a response to a 2002 NARAL Pro-Choice America survey of attorneys general, he reiterated, "Abortion is murder, and Roe v. Wade is an abominable decision." Such statements on that issue, as well as similarly inflammatory statements and actions he has taken on other issues, motivated several senators, including Specter, to question whether Pryor would be willing to follow the law. From the transcript of the June 11, 2003, hearing published by Federal News Service:
SPECTER: With that personal belief, Attorney General Pryor, what assurances can you give to the many who are raising the question as to whether, when you characterized [abortion] as an abomination and slaughter, that you can follow the decision of the United States Supreme Court, which you consider an abomination and having led to slaughter?
SPECTER: Attorney General Pryor, you are obviously a man with a very distinguished record. A magna cum laude undergrad and magna cum laude in law school, and you are a very articulate witness. You've had a very distinguished career. And what arises as a point of concern is that when these questions come up and they are so very, very close, whether your own philosophical orientation will steer you one way as opposed to another. So could you give us a statement as to the prevailing principles on these decisions which go both ways and have a very hard time to see somebody find a clear path as to what the standard is?
And, contrary to conservatives' claims that Democratic opponents have made an issue of Pryor's Catholicism, it was Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) who first raised Pryor's religion, at a June 2003 committee hearing. According to a July 29, 2003, Newhouse News Service report: "The issue of Pryor's Catholicism surfaced at a June 11 hearing in Washington when Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, asked him to state his religious affiliation." The report went on to note that Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Specter "quickly protested that the question was out of bounds."
Further, a report by the progressive judicial watchdog group Alliance for Justice noted that Democrats have raised ethical questions about Pryor's conduct in connection with RAGA. Despite voting for Pryor's nomination in the Judiciary Committee in July 2003, Specter said he would reserve judgment on a floor vote and cited the RAGA issue: "Before the floor vote, I intend to talk to [Pryor] about his role, if any, in soliciting campaign contributions from companies or individuals who were or were likely to be under investigation by his office" [Birmingham News (Alabama), 7/24/03]. Because Republicans have thus far failed to amass the 60 votes needed to stop the Democrats' filibuster of Pryor's nomination, Specter has yet to indicate how he would vote on the nomination.
From the April 27 edition of CNN's Crossfire:
NOVAK: They are -- they are opposing Judge Pryor of Alabama because of his religion.
PAUL BEGALA (co-host): No! No!
NOVAK: They have said --
BEGALA: They've approved any number of Catholics.
NOVAK: They talk about his religious views. They have.
BEGALA: They talk about his judicial views.

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Mini biography
Philip Kindred Dick was born in Chicago in December 1928, along with a twin sister, Jane. Jane died less than eight weeks later, allegedly from an allergy to mother's milk. Dick's parents split up during his childhood, and he moved with his mother to Berkeley, California, where he lived for most of the rest of his life. Dick became a published author in 1952 (his first sale: the short story "Roog"). His first novel, Solar Lottery, appeared in 1955. Dick produced an astonishing amount of material during the fifites and sixties, writing and selling nearly a hundred short stories and some two dozen or so novels during this period, including "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", "Time Out Of Joint", "The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch" and the Hugo-award winning "The Man In The High Castle." A supremely chaotic personal life (Dick was married five times) along with drug experimentation sidetracked Dick's career in the early seventies. Dick would later maintain that reports of his drug use had been greatly exaggerated by sensationalistic colleagues. In any event, after a layoff of several years, Dick returned to action in 1974 with the Campbell award-winning novel "Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said". Perhaps more importantly, though, this same year Dick would have a profound religious experience that would forever alter his life. Dick's final years were haunted by what he alleged to be a 1974 visitation from God...or at least a God-like being. Dick spent the rest of his life writing copious journals regarding the visitation, and his interpretations of the event. At times Dick seemed to regard it as a divine revelation; at other times, he believed it to be a sign of extreme schizophrenic behaviour. His final novels all deal in some way with the entity he saw in 1974, especially "Valis", in which the title character is an extraterretrial God-like machine that chooses to make contact with a hopelessly schizophrenic, possibly drug-addled and decidedly mixed-up science fiction writer named Philip K. Dick. Despite his award-winning novels, and almost universal acclaim from within the science fiction community, Dick was never especially financially successful as a writer. He worked mainly for low-paying science fiction publishers, and never seemed to see any royalties from his novels after the advance had been paid, no matter how many copies they sold. In fact, one of the reasons for his extreme productivity was that he always seemed to need the advance money from his next story or novel in order to make ends meet. But towards the very end of his life, he achieved a measure of financial stability, partly due to the money he received from the producers of "Blade Runner" for the rights to his novel "Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?", upon which the film was based. Shortly before the film was to premiere, however, Dick died of a heart attack at the age of 53. Since his death, several other films have been adapted from his works (incuding "Total Recall"), and several unpublished novels have been published posthumously.
Blade Runner - Director's Cut (1982)
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (novel) Hampton Fancher ...
Harrison Ford .... Rick Deckard
Rutger Hauer .... Roy Batty
Sean Young .... Rachael
Edward James Olmos .... Gaff
M. Emmet Walsh .... Bryant
Daryl Hannah .... Pris
William Sanderson .... J.F. Sebastian
Brion James .... Leon
Joe Turkel .... Tyrell
Joanna Cassidy .... Zhora
Plot Outline
Deckard is a Blade Runner, a police man of the future who hunts down and terminates replicants, artificially created humans. He wants to get out of the force, but is drawn back in when 5 "skin jobs", a slang term for replicants, hijack a ship back to Earth. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a huge, sprawling, bleak vision of the future. This film questions what it is to be human, and why life is so precious.
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Total Recall (1990)
Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (short story) Ronald Shusett
Arnold Schwarzenegger .... Douglas Quaid
Rachel Ticotin .... Melina
Sharon Stone .... Lori
Ronny Cox .... Vilos Cohaagen
Michael Ironside .... Richter
Marshall Bell .... George/Kuato
Mel Johnson Jr. .... Benny
What is reality when you can't trust your memory. Arnold Schwartzenegger is an Earthbound construction worker who keeps having dreams about Mars. A trip to a false memory transplant service for an imaginary trip to Mars goes terribly wrong and another personality surfaces. When his old self returns, he finds groups of his friends and several strangers seem to have orders to kill him. He finds records his other self left him that tell him to get to Mars to join up with the underground. The reality of the situation is constantly in question. Who is he? Which personality is correct? Which version of reality is true?
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Screamers (1995)
Directed by: Christian Duguay
Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (short story) Dan O'Bannon
Peter Weller .... Hendricksson
Roy Dupuis .... Becker
Jennifer Rubin .... Jessica
Andrew Lauer .... Ace Jefferson (as Andy Lauer)
Charles Powell .... Ross
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding, self-replicating race of killing devices known as Screamers designed for one purpose only -- to hunt down and destroy all enemy life forms But man's greatest weapon has continued to evolve without any human guidance, and now it has devised a new mission: to obliterate all life. Col. Hendricksson (Peter Weller) is commander of a handful of Alliance soldiers still alive on Sirius 6B. Betrayed by his own political leaders and disgusted by the atrocities of this never-ending war, Hendricksson decides he must negotiate a separate peace with the New Economic Bloc's decimated forces. But to do so, he will have to cross a treacherous wasteland where the deadliest threat comes from the very weapons he helped to create.
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Impostor (2002)
Directed by: Gary Fleder
Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (story) Scott Rosenberg
Gary Sinise .... Spencer Olin
Madeleine Stowe .... Maya Olham
Vincent D'Onofrio .... Maj. D.H. Hathaway
Tony Shalhoub .... Nelson Gittes
Originally a 30 minute portion for an anthology film, Impostor was retooled into a full length feature film. Based on the Philip K. Dick short story of the same name, it follows the lead character Spencer Olham's quest to regain his identity after being suspected as an alien android, in an future Earth at war with aliens that use the androids as bombs to destroy their enemies homeworlds.
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Minority Report (2002)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (short story) Scott Frank
Tom Cruise .... Detective John Anderton
Colin Farrell .... Detective Danny Witwer
Steve Harris .... Jad
Max von Sydow .... Director Lamar Burgess
Samantha Morton .... Agatha
Kathryn Morris .... Lara Anderton
Based on a Philip K. Dick short story, Minority Report is about a cop in the future working in a division of the police department that arrests killers before they commit the crimes courtesy of some future viewing technology. Cruise's character has the tables turned on him when he is accused of a future crime and must find out what brought it about and stop it before it can happen
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Paycheck (2003)
Directed by: John Woo
Writing credits: Philip K. Dick (short story), Dean Georgaris (screenplay)
Genre: Sci-Fi / Thriller / Action
Ben Affleck .... Michael Jennings
Aaron Eckhart .... James Rethrick
Uma Thurman .... Dr. Rachel Porter
Plot summary
Jennings (Ben Afleck) is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by clients to take apart other companies technologies and find out how they work. He is hired to do a special job, against the advice of some of his associates. When the job is completed, all memory of what he has been working on is ereased from his mind. That's when his problem really start to begin. He is hunted for something he has no recollection of doing and has only a little time to work it out. He has sent himself 19 seemingly unconnected objects, before his memory was wiped, to allow him to put the puzzle together and discover just what has gone on and what he has done. But the authorities are after him and time is very quickly running out.
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Graduate Council Meeting
November 14, 2005
I. The meeting was called to order at 2:40 p.m.
Voting members and alternates present were: G. Alter, S. Baird, K. Bennett, G. Bernhardt, N. Bourbakis, W. Carmichael, C. H. Chen, R. Dodge, J. Dombrowski, B. Farmer, R. Grandhi, B. Jung, J. Leung,
B. Mathies, T. McKee, S. Narayanan, S. Nelson, J. Ovington, L. Ream, J. Rudisill, C. Ryan, J. Sherman, T. Sudkamp, J. Thomas (Chair), P. Vermeersch, A. Wendt
Non-voting attendees were: S. Foster, J. Kimble, G. Malicki, J. Petrick, W. Sellers
II. Approval of Minutes
It was moved and seconded that the minutes of the October 17, 2005 meeting be approved as written. Motion carried unanimously.
III. Report of the Dean (J. Thomas)
Program Review - Program Review for master's-level programs has been reinstated at WSU in response to the upcoming NCA reaccreditation visit and related Institutional Plan for Improvement. The reviews will be conducted on a 7-year cycle. Those master's programs that undergo review by a professional accreditation body, such as AACSB or NCATE, will only need to report to the University on the results of the accreditation review in some fashion. Doctoral programs will continue to be reviewed according to OBR criteria, as is the current practice. In all, approximately 30 master's programs will be subject to review, which means that there will be from 4 to 5 programs reviewed each year in the cycle. Current thinking is that a Program Review Committee will be formed each year for oversight of the process to represent at least those colleges with programs under review that year. A report will be prepared for each review; the appropriate dean will review it and add comments; and the documents will then be sent to the Policies Committee for a "review of the review." The new process may include external as well as internal reviewers, which would add an outside perspective of the program.
Distance Learning – NCA requires approval of programs that have more than 50% of their courses offered in a distance learning format. NCA provides criteria for such approval, as well as a compendium of Best Practices. An internal review process is being developed for WSU. As part of the upcoming NCA evaluation for continuing accreditation, it is intended to ask NCA for blanket approval of WSU distance learning programs, including five Department of Educational Leadership concentrations from Fall 2004. Such approval will, in part, be based on following our own internal processes.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD's) - Effective Fall Quarter 2006, WSU plans to shift from paper to electronic submission of theses and dissertations (ETD's). In lieu of paper documents being submitted to University Libraries for deposit, ETD's will be submitted to OhioLINK, in Columbus, for deposit.
IV. Committee Reports
• Policies Committee (L. Ream)
The Committee discussed plans for switching from paper to electronic submission of thesis and dissertation documents (ETD's), and is currently reviewing the proposal for implementation.
A new policy on Guidelines for Approval and Conduct of Graduate Distance Education Programswas discussed and approved by the Committee for consideration by the Council. Following discussion, a motion was made and seconded to approve the Guidelines; the motion was unanimously approved. The Guidelines will appear as chapter 4 in the Graduate Council Policies and Procedures Manual. A copy is attached.
The Committee also coonsidered a proposal from the College of Education and Human Services, Department of Education al Leadership, to appprove five M.Ed. concentrations for offering in a distance learning format. The concentrations are:
Classroom Teacher: Computer Technology
Classroom Teacher: Library Media
Educational Leadership: Curriculum & Instruction: Teacher Leader
Educational Leadership: Principal
Educational Administration Specialist: Curriculum & Instruction: Professional Development
Following discussion and additional input from CEHS, the Committee approved the CEHS proposal to go forward to NCA. The proposal followed the Guidelines just approved by the Council.
• Membership Committee (J. Petrick)
The Committee met November 10, 2005 and considered and recommended 3 nominations for full graduate faculty membership and 4 nominations for adjunct full graduate faculty membership.
The full member nominees are:
|Bubulya, Paula
|Bio Sci/S&M
|Kenyon, Lisa
|Bio Sci, Teacher Ed/S&M, Ed&HS
|Stireman, John
|Bio Sci/S&M
The adjunct full nominees are:
|Lloyd, Charles
|Schiml-Webb, Patricia
|Simpson, Stuart
|Webb, Paul
It was moved and seconded that the nominees be approved; the motion passed unanimously.
- Research Council (W. Sellers)
The RSP annual report for FY 2005 highlighting WSU Women in Research is now available.
Battelle is doing a study of Ohio uniivversities core ompetencies. Two daylong visits were hosted in early summer during which numerous WSU faculty members met with the study coordinators. An early report draft presents a favorable summary of WSU research strengths.
V. Old Business
Stephen Foster continued a discussion about the Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) proposal. Compared to peer institutions, Wright State University has the fewest number of electronically submitted thesis and dissertations (electronic submission has been made mandatory in some institutions).
An ETD policy will be presented to the Policies Committee in Winter Quarter, 2006. The draft poliy is attached to these minutes.
- There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 3:50 p.m.
4.00 Guidelines for Approval and Conduct of Graduate Distance Education Programs
4.10 Definition of Distance Education
Distance education is defined as a formal educational process in which the majority (>50%) of the instruction occurs when student and instructor are not in the same place. Instruction may be synchronous or asynchronous. Distance education may employ correspondence study, audio, video, or computer technologies.
Distance education programs as defined herein are governed by an agreement of the regional accrediting associations. Wright State University is subject to policies and procedures disseminated by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.
4.20 Overview of Approval Process
In order for an existing graduate degree program or graduate certificate program to be officially designated and offered through distance delivery methods, including but not limited to electronically offered or on-line programs, a proposal for such delivery must first be reviewed and approved. The initial approval is by the appropriate college or school graduate studies committee and the college or school faculty if required by that unit. The proposal is then forwarded to the School of Graduate Studies for review by the Graduate Council through its Policies Committee. Graduate distance education programs must then be submitted to and approved by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA). If the program being proposed for distance delivery is a new or revised program, approval of the new program or the program revisions must proceed in parallel with approval of distance delivery by the procedures described for such approvals in this Manual, chapter 3.
4.30 Preparing Distance Education Program Proposals
A proposal to offer a program by distance delivery should be prepared by following the outline given in NCA's Seeking Approval of Proposed Changes: Documentation to Support a Change Request (The Higher Learning Commission Handbook of Accreditation, Sec 7.2) and available at (tbd)
In the process of completing this outline, the proposal author should also address the expectations for a quality distance education program given in Guidelines for Distance Education which is available at (tbd)
In addition, the proposal author should prepare a one page Executive Summary to accompany the proposal during the review cycle.
Following college approval, one copy of the proposal and the executive summary should be submitted, preferably electronically, by the college dean to the School of Graduate Studies.
School of Graduate Studies DRAFT DRAFT DRAFT
Policies and Procedures Manual
Effective Fall Quarter 2006:
6.88 One (1) electronic copy of the thesis, in portable document format (pdf), must be deposited with OhioLINK not later than 30 days after the end of the quarter in which the degree will be granted (due dates are published by the Graduate School and distributed to the departments and program offices). An electronic thesis or dissertation is called an ETD. OhioLINK, in Columbus, is the repository for ETD's for the state university system in Ohio.
Students may seek assistance in preparing and setting up their ETD files either from the Graduate School (344 Student Union) or at the Student Technical Assistance Center (STAC) in 240 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library. The ETD submitted to OhioLINK must be carefully produced and free of errors in style, mechanics, and format; therefore, a format check by the Graduate School in advance of submitting the final ETD is strongly recommended. The student should submit the ETD file as an e-mail attachment to email@example.com or on a CD to the Graduate School for the format check
Once the format has been checked and all additions and corrections made, the student may submit the final ETD directly to OhioLINK at http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/ or through the Graduate School for transmittal to OhioLINK. The ETD is e-mailed as an attachment to OhioLINK, or it can be submitted to the Graduate School either as an e-mail attachment to firstname.lastname@example.com or on a CD. . When a Wright State ETD has been received, OhioLINK notifies the Graduate School of receipt by e-mail. The ETD is not placed online at OhioLINK until the Graduate School has approved it for release.
In cases where a patent, copyright, or other intellectual property issue is involved, the student and advisor can request a publication delay or embargo of the ETD from the Dean, School of Graduate Studies for any length of time, as mutually determined. In this case, the ETD is placed on a secure server. It is not released to a public server until approved by the University
In cases where the thesis cannot be prepared as an ETD (e.g., some creative theses), the student may request a waiver to the ETD requirement by submitting an academic petition to the Graduate School in advance of the due date.
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MB Madaera
Lost 31.7 lbs fat
Built 11.7 lbs muscle
Chris Madaera
Built 9 lbs muscle
Keelan Parham
Lost 30 lbs fat
Built 4 lbs muscle
Bob Marchesello
Lost 23.55 lbs fat
Built 8.55 lbs muscle
Jeff Turner
Lost 25.5 lbs fat
Jeanenne Darden
Lost 26 lbs fat
Built 3 lbs muscle
Ted Tucker
Lost 41 lbs fat
Built 4 lbs muscle
Determine the Length of Your Workouts
Evaluate Your Progress
Keep Warm-Up in Perspective
"Doing more exercise with less intensity,"
Arthur Jones believes, "has all but
destroyed the actual great value
of weight training. Something
must be done . . . and quickly."
The New Bodybuilding for
Old-School Results supplies
MUCH of that "something."
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"I cannot provide an exact formula for success, but I can furnish a formula for failure. Give bodybuilders what they want: Easier, longer, more frequent... exercise. Instead, I supply bodybuilders with what they need:
harder, briefer, more infrequent... exercise."
— Arthur Jones Inventor of Nautilus and MedX Equipment
The above insight of Arthur Jones, which is on the back cover The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results, sets the tone for my illustrated manual... which, I'm happy to say, is available NOW.
Casey Viator, with his 19-inch upper arms and 15-inch forearms, projects mass, symmetry, and muscularity. In Chapter 12, Casey talks about the routines that worked, and didn't work, for him.
I took the front-cover picture of Casey Viator at New Smyrna Beach, Florida, in 1978. Casey, under the mentoring of Arthur Jones, was the youngest-ever winner of the Mr. America contest.
I trained and traveled with Jones and Viator for more than a decade. Much of this book is based on those experiences — which include a surprising number of adventures involving champion athletes — as well as 32 eye-opening, carefully crafted, bodybuilding routines.
I've taken the lost techniques used by many Golden-Age Mr. Americas and combined those concepts with today's science. The outcome is The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results.
Old-school conditioning targets proportionate muscular development, which includes a well-defined, compact waist. I certainly don't like nor want that bloated, drug-induced look of a modern pro bodybuilder. When I began exercising in the early 1960s, well-built men were NOT controlled by steroids.
Not only that, but men of the old school passed down their muscle-building strategies and techniques from athlete to athlete, older to younger. There was a great deal of coaching that took place in the gym, along with hard work, common sense, and simplicity — which are sorely lacking today.
Your muscles can be, and should be, developed efficiently through intense, brief exercise. Intense, brief exercise works — only, and this is important, if you have the knowledge and the guts to train in this manner.
Almost anyone can make it through 3 sets of 12 exercises in 2 hours and call it a workout. But the real renegade is in and out of the gym — after 25 minutes of take-it-to-the-limit, heart-pounding, muscle-burning exercise. That, for the uninitiated, is high intensity.
It's no shocker today that hard exercise isn't mainstream.
If you're unsure about whether or not to give high-intensity training (HIT) a fair trial, The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results will knock you off that fence. You'll either LOVE it or HATE it... you won't be undecided.
WARNING: This new book is NOT for everyone. It's for the few tough, disciplined men — who want bigger muscles... faster.
Below are bulleted highlights of this muscle- and brain-stimulating manual.
• Unravel the historical, basic, top-10 HIT concepts from bottom to top. Plus, there's an updated list of 50 salient guidelines.
• Examine the latest outside-the-box techniques from innovative HIT thinkers.
• Investigate how MONEY turned muscle building into a huge bamboozle, which promoted more-is-better training.
• Incorporate three critical keys from motor learning into your strength training and bodybuilding, for automatic improvements.
• Meet Arthur Jones — as only a few people have seen him. Jones was the father of high-intensity training (HIT). He personally trained Casey Viator for the 1970 Teenage Mr. America, 1970 Mr. USA, 1971 Jr. Mr. America, and 1971 Mr. America... all of which he won. Several chapters introduce you to Jones's WHYs and HOWs of bodybuilding.
"The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Resultsprovides an important connection to a magical past... and a bridge that will keep the ideas of Arthur Jones — a very smart, one-of-a-kind man — alive and vital in the future."
— Kim Wood Former NFL Strength Coach
• Employ this tried-and-proven collection of 16 whole-body, HIT routines. You probably won't like any of them, but who said you were supposed to embrace an exercise session? Each one — properly performed — is brutal, yet productive.
• Apply my most requested routine — the Best of the Best. With it, Eddie Mueller packed on 15 pounds of solid muscle in four weeks and added 4 inches on his chest and 4 inches on his thighs.
• Comprehend why split routines MAY or MAY NOT be right for you.
• Need something different? Try... Cadence Variation: 6 Ways to 60. A little variety could be your ticket to significant progress.
• Eavesdrop on Arthur Jones, in 1971, teaching Don Shula about strength training. Shula promptly led the Miami Dolphins to the NFL's only undefeated season.
• Attention football players and coaches — How to be Big, Strong, and UNBEATABLE from the proper application of METABOLIC CONDITIONING. Anyone interested in sports will be awed by these practices.
• Test the most productive calf cycle... EVER! For an entire week, you'll have trouble walking. After that, you can see and feel your lower legs growing.
• Blast your deltoids with this PUMPED and W-I-D-E-R, two-week blitz, from one of the few men who actually had shoulders that measured 24-inches across.
• Build iron-vice grip strength with techniques from old-school titan, John Wood.
• Think you may want biceps and triceps that are TOO BIG? If so, you must take off your shirt for Boyer Coe's unvarnished arm cycle.
• Rediscover the lost art of rib-cage development — right from the horse's mouth. I won a number of Best Chest awards in the early 1970s and you'll get my advice on how to stretch, breathe, and contract during the recommended exercises.
Jim Haislop (left) won the 1968 AAU Mr. America. The following year, I won Mr. Texas and worked out with Jim in Tampa, Florida. In this photo, Jim weighed 218 pounds and I weighed 203 pounds.
• Appreciate Ben Sorenson, who was the manager of Vic Tanny's famous gym in Santa Monica (near Muscle Beach) from 1947-1949. Sorenson details the 1949 Mr. USA competition between John Grimek and Steve Reeves and voices his opinion of why Grimek won, even though Reeves had the best physique.
• Uncover authentic adventures at Muscle Beach, which involve certain legends of bodybuilding. There are meaningful lessons among these episodes.
• Reminisce with Jim Flanagan about Milo Steinborn, the last of the old-time strongmen, as he describes what it was like to train in Steinborn's Gym.
• Laugh with Kim Wood as he shares a report of the 1971 NABBA Mr. Universe in London. The men entered included Pill Bearl, Hergio Saliva, Egg Park, and Rank Fane.
• Is the barbell squat the single best free-weight exercise? Find out from Dan Riley, strength coach of the NFL's Houston Texans.
• Dissect the Best Golden-Age Bodybuilders, muscle by muscle, as judged by experienced insiders who were there. Review the outstanding physiques of Larry Scott, Freddy Ortiz, Tom Platz, Scott Wilson, and Mike Mentzer.
Review the super high-intensity workouts that Mike Mentzer performed prior to winning the 1978 Mr. Universe. (Photo by Jon De Vaul)
• Gain from Casey Viator's experiences of being the strongest man Arthur Jones ever trained. Discern what Viator recalls about his most grueling exercise sessions.
• Listen carefully as Wes Brown talks about working out with Arnold Schwarzenegger in the movie, Pumping Iron. Find out how to apply Arnold's methods for best results.
• Have you ever thought about doing a one-arm chinup? Learn how from Joseph Mullen, a 70-year-old strongman, who has been there and done that.
• Consider the Spartan training philosophy of Werner Kieser — who has 130 successful HIT gyms in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria.
• Marvel as Andy McCutcheon, a muscular HIT enthusiast from England, outlines how he was able to break the British record for pushups, by doing 107 in 60 seconds. He then discusses his training with Dorian Yates. Finally, McCutcheon details how he applies 15 abdominal exercises over three training sessions to shred his midsection.
"Ignore the past," Arthur Jones believes,"and you'll be doomed in the future to make the same mistakes... repeatedly." Instead, study the past and profit from it. The photo above was taken of Jones in 1968, during one of his African adventures.
• "I finally learned," Arthur Jones says,"that a proper workout with barbells had to be brief in the extreme — so brief that I was always tempted to increase the number of exercises or sets, since the workouts never appeared to contain enough; but when I did increase anything in the workouts, the production of results was always reduced, ALWAYS."
• "So far without single exception," Jones continues, "the advanced bodybuilders that I have trained or closely associated with seem to be unable to progress beyond a certain point if left up to their own devices — and if actually good results are produced, they must be constantly supervised in their training; if not, they quickly start backsliding.
• "Under the circumstances, I can reach only one logical conclusion; they either do not understand or will not accept the validity of the actual important points — and when permitted to supervise their own training, they quickly fall back into habits of overtraining insofar as the amount of training is concerned, and under-training in intensity of effort.
• "I have been shocked by the ignorance of a very high percentage of the bodybuilders I have met. Don't be disturbed by the term ignorance, it simply implies a lack of knowledge, and we all are ignorant on at least some subjects, and most of us on nearly all subjects.
• "Things," Jones concludes,"that I always assumed everybody knew, seem, in fact, to be totally new to most current bodybuilders — things that almost all bodybuilders did know, and understand, at one time, basic things, simple things, obvious things."
Isn't it time that you explored those basic, simple, obvious things that lead to bodybuilding success?
Learn how to combine more-intense sets with less-frequent training . . . to get bigger and stronger. Do so effectively by looking back to the future.
You can gain from the wisdom of Arthur Jones, and the knowledge of other master trainers, as described and revealed in The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results.
In one of my recent visits with Arthur Jones, he said: "Doing more exercise with less intensity has all but destroyed the actual great value of weight training. Something must done... and quickly."
The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results supplies MUCH of that "something."
The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results is the most factual and in-depth book I've ever written. It contains 112,000 words and 248 photos, which are spread over 312 pages. There are seven parts that divide into 34 chapters... and each chapter will help you get bigger and stronger faster.
The New Bodybuilding for Old-School Results is exactly what serious bodybuilders NEED.
It's time to learn from the past and accelerate to the future.
"A careful reading of this volume will provide you with the necessary CONFIDENCE to train harder and briefer... more productively."
— Ellington Darden, Ph.D. (Photo by Michelle Wells)
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Yes - I made ornaments that were quickpoint on one side and felt on the other. Also made several small felt stockings and gingerbread men for the tree.
Those ornaments are so cute
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Cute birds! I like to make beaded ornaments - I've made angels and elves! Will post photos once I get them out of storage
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
Merry I posted some photos under a new thread
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas
I have never made them, but I remember my sister making them back in the 70's. We had Soldiers,Teddy Bears, and I think Christmas trees.


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It's not uncommon for people to have champagne wishes and caviar dreams, even if they live on a beer budget. But a new invention from Beverly Hills Caviar is helping to make those highbrow fantasies more attainable to the regular blue collar crowd.
Kelly Stern and Brian Scheiner, husband-and-wife caviar connoisseurs, have developed a caviar vending machine. The first were unveiled Nov. 23 at Westfield Topanga, Burbank Town Center and Westfield Century City shopping centers in California.
"What I want to do is make caviar affordable for everybody," Stern told ABCNews.com. "What's the point of being in business in America if you can't sell to all of America? We decided to choose three separate malls because any normal person with kids is not living in West Hollywood. Normal people live in the suburbs. The caviar is accessible, not next to Louis Vuitton and not next to Armani or Burberry. It's in a convenient place where you're not uncomfortable with someone looking at you checking out."
Stern said she wants their customers to be at ease while choosing the products they're buying.
"We want everybody to just go there and play with it and have fun with it and buy what they want. Buy stuff for $50. Buy stuff for $5,000. No one is judging you," Stern said.
The idea for the vending machines came innocently enough, from their now-5-year-old daughter's obsession with cupcakes.
"Our daughter was three and half, and she came up with it when we bought a cupcake on the Sprinkles machine," Stern said. "She looked at me and said, 'Mommy can we put caviar in the machine?' My husband was like, 'Hmm, that's a very interesting idea.' She's five today and here you go. We have the first caviar machine and they're pretty amazing."
The vending machines offer a range of caviar, from an Imperial River Beluga Caviar at $500 per ounce, down to actually-affordable Wasabi Tobiko caviar for only $10 an ounce, which has been much more popular with the crowd.
Caviar isn't the only delicacy being offered. A full selection of other unusual gourmet foods, not typically found at your supermarket, include items like escargot, gourmet salts, and truffle oils. For your four-legged friends, there's even a special assortment of caviar just for your dogs and cats.
The caviar is guaranteed fresh, too. The goods are dispensed in insulated boxes, and need about 30 minutes to defrost for the optimum dining experience.
"The caviar is preserved in perfect temperature and definitely no moisture," Stern said. "It's not manhandled, because you don't want people to touch it. You don't want a high-ticket item to be handled by people. We are trying to keep it as sanitary as possible. It comes in a sanitary bag, in a sanitary box with a mother of pearl spoon so it's ready to eat."
The total inventory retail worth is about $50,000, which also raised concerns about security and the possibility of items being stolen. Three cameras were installed in each machine to take your picture as you purchase.
"We have a lot of eyeballs on the machines," said Stern. "A lot of people are looking. Even if it takes them a long time to make the move, we know as soon as they will, they'll be clients for life. They were told all their life this wasn't attainable, and now it is. We are here right now to just convince everybody to try it once."