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6/12 It's not too late
First off, I'm at the three-week mark, so I get to start running today. I'll be running around on the field Monday so I'm progressing just like I want to and healing. Week No. 3, start running; Week No. 4, ramp it up a little bit and more activities on the field. Week No. 5, go out for a rehab assignment. Right now, I'm on pace.
Today I started shagging a little bit harder to find out how my legs feel. I've been long tossing for a week now so my arm's still there. The strength is still there. I've been in the weight room every single day. I'll go in there three times during the game and I'm hitting during the game, too. I've been working hard. I have to make sure when I go on the rehab assignment, I'm not DH'ing. I want to go in center field and start running around and play nine innings. Everything's going positive as far as my healing.
With the team, it's been a tough road trip, tough teams. We haven't played the way we wanted to play — everybody knows that. It seems like all aspects of the game aren't there at the same time — pitching, hitting, defense, timely hitting. We have to figure out a way to get Oswalt today and go back home with a win under our belt. It'd be positive on the plane ride home. Hopefully, we'll get some home cooking and try to straighten this thing out.
It's not too late. I told some of the older guys if we can decrease this thing by six, seven games going into the All-Star break, and be five, six games out, we still have a chance. We're not focusing on trying to get a 15-game winning streak but trying to win a series at a time. Hopefully, nobody takes off in the Central.
It seems like it doesn't get easier. The Brewers are winning, they're hot. They're not playing at home, which is a good thing but that won't make it any easier. Just the Yankees being the Yankees, they're professionals, they're expected to win and they're going to come in and do their thing. We have to get our focus. We know we can play any team.
— Marlon
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It's awesome to hear how you are doing! We miss you, can't wait to see you back on the field. Been worried about you…thoughts and prayers for you…and the rest of our team! Good times and hard times….always a Cub fan (born and raised that way).
Marlon, glad to see you're recuperating well, and we can't wait to have you back in the lineup.
But seriously.
The way the team has been playing this year, last year, the year before, etc., you really still think this team has a chance? Really?
No offense intended, but how hard did that ball hit you, man?
get the hell out of here barry. go post your crap somewhere else
Marlon – your the man and I couldnt be happier having you as one of the team leaders.
Thanks for everything you've done for us and get healthy soon. We Need Ya!!!!
HI Marlon, Glad to hear that you are getting stronger. I pray that you come back as fearless at the plate as always. I agree with you that if we can be 6 or seven out by the all-star break then we have a good shot at making it interesting. I'll be 53 in July and have been a fan since the mid-60's., when the seats were still affordable for kids. We would save and buy our own and take our bikes down. I've never boo'd a player or Cub team. . Boo'd… some fans for doing stupid things , however I still have faith in this year's team, and have been to two games this year. The main difference today is that tickets are so expensive that it's hard to justify spending that much money for a team that is so far out. I hope you guys stay hungry and make it interesting. I know injuries have plagued, but at today's ticket prices…you're either winners or yesterday's news. A friend of mine has season tickets , and face value is $112.00 for the premium games this year, like the Yankees. At those prices the average person just can't swing it in this economy. Winning certainly helps however. Get better, and God bless.
P.S. From your writing I can tell your a good guy.
First let me say that I'm really glad you're almost ready to come back. We need all the help we can get. But in reality, this team is not gonna make any playoffs, or even come close to being outta the cellar by the end of the season. Too many of they guys are over the hill and aren't gonna perform as good as they did a few years ago. Just think about the last two years. And you'll see how this team has dropped off in thier production. But like most lifelong Cub fans we still beleive that one day our time will come to celebrate. But not this year and not with this team. In all honesty you can 'stick a fork in 'em, they're done"! I doubt if they will even finish over the .500 mark at the end of the season.
Marlon, I am absolutely in love with your positivity! I always say there is a chance as long as you are not mathmatically out of it! I have to say that I was at the Reds Cubs game on June 6th, sitting right behind the dugout, and I loved watching you out there with all your energy and your smile during warm up. I feel as though when the team gets your positive attitude and hard work back, the heart will come back to the team that I love so much! Keep up the great progress and the hard work. Praying for your health!
Its great to see you doing good. Thumps up.. I like the positive message. Winning series at a time is the best way to go. Can't think of winning 15 games in a row in which it can happen but let us focus on winning each series and take it from there.
I realize that you have to take it 1 series at a time, but to get the lead down to 5 by the allstar break, (assuming all other teams keep their current pace) the Cubs would have to go about 17-9 or 18-8 to finish the 1st half. While not impossible, that is awfully tough. Howver, I wish you the best in your recovery, and we need you back as soon as possible.
Its never over till it's over we can get back in this so just remember that "A True Cub Fan Sees Diamonds When Everyone Else Sees Broken Glass" Go Cubs!!!
Thanks for the great post Marlon. Best of the luck on the recovery. I still believe!!
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Hi Marlon. I'm glad you are doing better. I look forward to seeing patrolling centerfield again soon.
Go dominate the NL Marlon and try to bring Chicago an NL Pennant. The reason I said pennant is 'cause I'm a Ranger fan(sorry) but get there.
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The NHL All-Star Game is scheduled for this Sunday afternoon in Ottawa, Canada. In areas of northern US and Canada, the popularity of the sport is unmatched, as kids grow up in a culture that sometimes revolves around the Canadian Junior Hockey League.
The main character of our Sports Movie of the Week, 'Youngblood,' can relate to a life built around hockey. In the 1986 film, Rob Lowe stars as Dean Youngblood, an upstate New York hockey prodigy who heads to the proving ground of the junior leagues in Canada. He meets teammates Derek Sutton (Patrick Swayze) and hardscrabble coach Murray Chadwick (Ed Lauter), as well as Chadwick's attractive daughter, Jessie (Cynthia Gibb). Youngblood also meets a nemesis, Carl Racki (George J. Finn), who forces the budding young star to prove that he's mature enough to make it past this challenging level of hockey.
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1. The on-ice play and hockey fight tutorial scenes are fairly well done, in part because director Peter Markle played ice hockey as a child.
2. If Hollywood wanted to make a movie with a premise of 'The Karate Kid on Ice,' this is it. Its tagline: "The ice… The fire… The fight… To be the best."
3. The film is almost a time capsule of 1980s movie cliches, from a blaring soundtrack to the ensemble cast, which includes Keanu Reeves in a small role.
4. From his jutting chin to his intense glare, Ed Lauter was born to play a hockey coach.
5. Then- NHL players Peter Zezel and Steve Thomas serve as Youngblood's teammates. Former NHL player Eric Nesterenko plays Blaine Youngblood, Dean's father.
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St. Francis (PA). After going 7-6 down the stretch last season and winning 10-plus games for the first time since 2011, St. Francis (PA) entered this season with more optimism and higher expectations than it has had in a while. Not only were the Red Flash picked fourth in the NEC preseason poll, but they even received a first-place vote – major respect for a program that hadn't finished in the upper half of the league for a full decade. After picking up road wins at Duquesne and Rutgers this week, however, it appears that respect was well-warranted – and maybe even insufficient.
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Let the giving begin.
From 12:01 a.m. to 11:59 p.m. on Friday, you're invited to log on to http://www.loveutgiveut.org, search through hundreds of charitable causes and hopefully open your wallet.
More than 560 Utah nonprofits are signed up for a 24-hour collective campaign called Love UT Give UT, an effort to take fundraising beyond email blasts, 5Ks and galas.
Individual Utah nonprofits have long been resourceful when it comes to fundraising, and Utahns have responded, with Utah having the highest rate of charitable donations in the country, according to the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
However, 80 percent of Utah nonprofits operate on less than $100,000 a year and the big challenge for these groups is getting the word out, said Fraser Nelson of the Community Foundation of Utah, which is coordinating the Love UT Give UT event.
Nelson hopes the combined effort will bring donors out of the woodwork.
"From the very small, grass-roots groups to large, nationally known organizations such as the Boy Scouts, we want people to find and support the causes that they care about," Nelson said. "We really hope people learn about new organizations they've never heard of before."
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Like or loathe the new layout, there's definitely more space available for roadster owners, vendors, and those in the Specialty Parking or swap meet areas. It's the latter that always draws your scribe, who could happily spend the entire event in the swap meet. In the past I've done just that, either buying or selling, but that doesn't get many pictures taken or info gathered, so for the past few years I've donned my walking boots and hat, and made sure I saw every corner of the show, camera in hand. I still think some of the best discoveries are in the swap though, whether cars or just cool parts.
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At the time of the attack there were 18 BP employees at In Amenas. To respect the privacy of these individuals and their families, we cannot comment on their identities at this time. BP has been in close touch with the families of each of these employees since the incident began, offering support and providing them with available confirmed information.
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Balancing Act: The Ultimate Balance Nutrition Consulting Center
Note from Body Positive: Ultimate Balance manufactures and markets a line of nutrition supplements designed for people with HIV, and the company advertises its products in this magazine. This article deals only with the company's toll-free nutrition consulting service and is neither an endorsement nor a review of the company's products.
We've learned a lot over the years about HIV/AIDS, how the virus works, and how to help people stay healthy longer and slow the progression of the disease. Nowhere is this more the case than in the area of HIV nutrition. We've gone from simply trying to stave off HIV wasting any way we could to trying to build lean body mass, and we've increasingly recognized the importance of high-quality nutrition intervention early in the disease process.
As we've learned more, nutrition issues have also become more complicated. Each new drug that is introduced seems to bring with it a new set of dietary requirements and taboos and a new set of side effects, often gastrointestinal, to deal with. Certain nutrients enhance or inhibit the action of certain medications. Certain medications can cause problems with the absorption of certain nutrients. As medications are combined in different ways, the range of possible nutritional problems -- or benefits -- increases. And, of course, no two people are alike, and no two people have the same reaction.
As the need for good nutrition information and advice has become more apparent, the number and variety of responses to the need has increased. Funds awarded under the Ryan White CARE Act include funds for nutrition services. AIDS service organizations, both with and without Ryan White money, have set up nutrition counseling programs.
These programs, while they follow a fairly standard routine, offer counseling that is tailored to the individual PWA and his or her needs. In the nutrition counseling program at Gay Men's Health Crisis, for example, services are provided by Registered Dietitians who are HIV nutrition specialists. These nutritionists advise clients about diet or nutrition supplementation on the basis of the clients' own reported symptoms, their lab work, food diaries that they are asked to keep, medical histories, ethnic or religious food preferences or requirements, and other factors that affect their nutritional health and what they eat. Counseling is followed up, and recommendations are adjusted according to what is going on with each client's nutritional and overall health.
The Ultimate Balance Nutrition Consulting Center
Ultimate Balance, a Canadian company that is currently introducing into the United States market a line of nutrition supplements designed for people with HIV, has instituted what may be the first telephone HIV nutrition consulting service.
The nutrition counseling offered by Ultimate Balance seems to mirror the familiar format offered by not-for-profit AIDS service organizations -- and, for a price, by nutritionists in private practice -- except that it does it by toll-free telephone.
Your initial call may be taken by Karri Koach, the service's Registered Dietitian, or by one of three nurses who have received specialized dietary training. The telephone consultants also have access to a pharmacist with experience in HIV.
According to Karri Koach, the first call is mostly for the purpose of getting information and setting up a timeline for future consultations. She points out that most first-time callers do not have a large block of time to spend on that initial contact, and they may not have all of the relevant information at their fingertips. At this call, the consultant will get the caller's name, mailing address, and the name of the caller's doctor, and will arrange for the caller to consent to the release of information by the doctor to Ultimate Balance.
General background information that the consultant asks for includes both medical and lifestyle information. The R.D. or nurse will ask the caller to supply, then or in a subsequent call, information about his or her diagnosis, CD4 count, and viral load; the results of lab tests; whether the caller has AIDS or HIV; whether he or she has a history of hepatitis; what medications the caller is or has been on (this information is given to the pharmacist to review); whether the caller uses food supplements; and any use of recreational drugs.
Koach says that the consultation deals in depth with the caller's symptoms and history of HIV-related illness, in order to get a head-to-toe picture of the individual and her or his nutrition status and needs. Diarrhea, for example, is one of the most common complaints of people with HIV or AIDS, and it can be devastating to an individual's overall health. But there are a great many possible causes of diarrhea, some relating to the virus or HIV-related illnesses, some to medications, and some to diet or food-borne illnesses. Successfully dealing with diarrhea, whether medically, nutritionally, or through a combination of the two, requires understanding its cause.
In developing a nutrition profile of the caller, the consultant will inquire about weight and weight history, with an emphasis on the percent of any change. The percent of lean body mass, as opposes fat, is important, and obviously is something that the consultant cannot determine over the telephone. If it appears indicated, the consultant may suggest bio-impedance analysis, a rather new method of determining body composition, and may make a referral to someone in the caller's community who can perform the analysis.
Another important area that is investigated is the caller's eating habits and how they are affected by a variety of factors. How often does the caller eat? What does he or she eat during a 24-hour period? What about food security: Does the caller have facilities to prepare and store food properly? Are there social factors, such as isolation, that may discourage good eating habits and result in malnutrition.
According to Koach, the Ultimate Balance Consulting Center's approach is to work with each client to develop achievable nutrition and lifestyle goals that will help her or him maintain a good nutrition status and stay healthy. She asserts that the consulting service is separate from the company's marketing effort, stating that at no time does the consultant try to sell Ultimate Balance's product. Only at the end of the consulting session, she says, will the call be turned over to a company salesperson, if the caller wants it.
Related Ultimate Balance Services
Ultimate Balance has prepared a variety of materials on nutrition and lifestyle issues in HIV. Besides fact sheets on such topics as exercise, weight, food safety, and various gastrointestinal problems, sample diets for both symptomatic and asymptomatic HIV are available through the Internet or by mail if requested at the consulting center number.
In addition, the company is developing a workshop-style component to provide HIV nutrition information to PWAs and others. The one attended by the author in September was definitely not for novices, dealing with such issues -- important in HIV nutrition, but not in everyone's vocabulary -- as glutamine deficiency, how to increase glutathione levels, and the function of carnitine. But many HIV-positive people have educated themselves to expert and near-expert levels on subjects that affect their health, including nutrition. Several such self-schooled individuals attended the session, and they asked probing and sophisticated questions that engaged and challenged the company's representatives.
Is The Consulting Center's Service Valuable?
It depends on whom you talk to, and apparently on the circumstances.
Edwin Krales, Nutritionist/Outreach Coordinator at the Momentum AIDS Project, has reservations about whether a nutritionist who works for a company that manufacturers supplements can be neutral, as compared to someone who provides nutrition consultation through an AIDS service organization. "I give my clients the best and most up-to-date information I have, period," he says, "and I get my salary whether or not the guy eats his vegetables."
Krales cites an example: Like most HIV nutritionists with whom the author has spoken, he prefers that people get the nutrients they need through diet, not supplementation. Selenium deficiency is common among people with HIV, and it can be corrected with a supplement containing selenium. But Krales tells his selenium-deficient clients to eat two Brazil nuts every day. It meets their needs and corrects the deficiency, he says, "and it tastes better and is a whole lot cheaper."
Maria Baldo, a nutritionist who advised clients of Gay Men's Health Crisis for over four years, sees both drawbacks and benefits to the service. In reviewing some of the information that Ultimate Balance was offering to PWAs, she disagreed with the company's emphasis on wasting as a problem in HIV nutrition. "That's old," she says. But she is glad to see that the service refers people to places where they can get bio-impedance analysis.
Baldo also points to a sometimes overlooked problem. "We're spoiled in New York," she says, "where every agency has its Ryan White nutritionist." But what about parts of the country where every AIDS service organization doesn't have a nutrition program ... or where there aren't even any AIDS service organizations? According to Baldo, a telephone consulting center such as that run by Ultimate Balance could be a PWA's best source of HIV-related nutrition information.
The Ultimate Balance Nutrition Consulting Center, 1-888-550-5350, is open Monday through Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-8:00 p.m., and Friday, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m., Eastern time. For those with Internet capabilities, the company's information sheets and meal plans are available at www.bioadvantex.com.
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LeAnn Rimes is the first to admit she's had a lot of problems over the last few years — but she insists an eating disorder isn't among them. Two years ago, the "How Do I Live" singer sparked concern when she started dropping pounds and inches from her already-thin frame, prompting some to speculate that she was anorexic. However, in a new interview with the Daily Mail, she says the weight loss was simply a side effect of all the stress she was under because of the controversy surrounding her personal life.
"People said I was [anorexic], but I didn't have a problem with eating, as I ate a ton all the time — I could eat my husband under the table!" she tells the U.K. publication. "But I was going through a time when I just wasn't sleeping — my mind wouldn't shut off and my heart was breaking."
That heartbreak was a result of her very public affair two years earlier with now-husband Eddie Cibrian. As first revealed by Us Weekly, Rimes, 30, and Cibrian, 39, met on the set of Northern Lights in 2009 when both were still married to other people — she to dancer Dean Sheremet, he to future Real Housewife Brandi Glanville. They fell in love and eventually tied the knot, but the last few years have not been easy.
Rimes describes the period after their affair as a "turbulent" one. "To say I've been on several roller coasters is an understatement," she admits to the Daily Mail.
These days, though, she's in a much healthier place, both emotionally and physically. At least part of that is attributable to her decision last August to enter a 30-day rehab program for "anxiety and stress" issues. The other part, she says, is thanks to the support she gets from Cibrian.
"Now I'm secure about my body, although I'm like any other woman and have my moments of self-doubt. But it's nice to have a husband who tells you you're beautiful all the time," she gushes. "I'll say to him, 'I've gained a few pounds,' and he'll say, 'Good!'"
"It just gives you another level of confidence," she continues. "But being in this business, I've noticed that image-wise, it's definitely worse for a woman."
Rimes says Cibrian was also the inspiration for much of her new album, Spitfire. "I think the last four years of my life just came out through my music," she says. "I don't think I expected the album to be this honest, but I found that the emotions just came pouring out of me. It was liberating and cathartic to write, but it wasn't easy."
One song on the record, "Borrowed," describes the pain of being in love with a married man. "Obviously, it was a very controversial topic to write about, and as hard as it was for me to write the song, I think it painted a true picture of that situation," she tells the Daily Mail. "I wasn't being hard on myself when I wrote it — that line about feeling pathetic was just true — but I wanted to describe a very stark moment in my life. You just feel in complete limbo and I felt guilty too; it wasn't pretty at all. But I made my choices and I'm living with them. I know I'm not the first person to go through it and I won't be the last."
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FOXBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 29 (UPI) -- Tim Tebow, in a final bid to make the New England roster, threw two touchdown passes Thursday to bring the Patriots a 28-20 win over the New York Giants.
Both of Tebow's scoring throws went to Quentin Sims in the fourth quarter, rallying the Patriots to their third win in four preseason contests.
Tebow hit Sims with a 52-yarder early in the fourth quarter that gave New England a 21-20 lead.
The Giants gave up the ball deep in its own end of the field during the final seconds in a desperation attempt to move the ball into field goal range. New England took over at the New York 9-yard line and instead of kneeling down to let time run out, Tebow threw another scoring pass to Sims with just 6 seconds remaining.
Tebow completed 6-of-11 passes for 91 yards with an interception.
New York's Eli Manning played more than most starting quarterbacks do in a final exhibition game, going 6-of-9 for 74 yards and a touchdown. His 3-yard scoring pass to Hakeem Nicks in the opening period was one of just three touchdowns produced by the New York offense during a 1-3 exhibition campaign.
The Giants start their regular season in the first Sunday night game of the year on Sept. 8 at Dallas. It will be the fifth time New York has played in the new Dallas stadium and the Giants have won all of the first four. New England will play earlier that day at Buffalo.


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Benny Benassi – Electroman (album)June 19th, 2011 by Siegz | Dance, Music Video |
In early June, Benny Benassi released his latest album, Electroman. After downloading the album, I was surprised to find almost all the hits I loved which I why it deserves a spot up on here. We only promote great music, and this album is probably one of the catchiest electronica albums I have listened to.
I highly recommend listening to the whole album and checking it out on iTunes. Here's five songs why it's a must-download album!
Benny Benassi – Rather Be Feat. Shanell
Benny Benassi – Spaceship Feat. Kelis, Apl de App & Jean Baptiste
Benny Benassi – Cinema Feat. Gary Go
Benny Benassi – All The Way (Live) Feat. Ying Yang Twins
Benny Benassi – Control Feat. Gary Go
After the jump, watch the official music video to an amazing production by Benny Benassi with Chris Brown's "Beautiful People".


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With the release for the last of the Trilogy of the series Rachel has revamped the first two books and then ordered 3 new covers for the series.
Drawn into a world she thought impossible, Lexia's innocent night of partying leaves her dazed, confused and asking questions she's not sure she wishes to know the answers to. Attacked by vampires, Lexia's ability to defend herself triggers events she can't escape. Before long, she struggles to keep up a façade around her friends and family. Then, there is Lincoln. Finding herself irresistibly drawn to him, Lexia senses he desires something more dangerous than a simple romance. Lincoln has secrets and what she learns changes her life forever. A story of love, loss, and, betrayal, Lexia and Lincoln's lives will never be the same again.
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All Lexia ever wanted was to graduate from high school and leave Deadwood. Now she would give anything to have her quiet life back Her Father was murdered and her best friend, Alice kidnapped. With the help of Lincoln, the Panther Shifter she has fallen in Love with; they rescue Alice. But rescuing her wasn't as easy as first thought and Lexia and Lincoln barely make it out alive. Lexia met her Mother, the Mother she thought had left her as a baby. But Secrets unravel and Lexia learns who she really is. Her Mother created her and she was created for one purpose only... Darkness. Follow Lexia as she runs from her Mother and the fate she set for her. Can Lexia fight the Darkness within her? Can she have the 'happily ever after'" she wants? Only one thing is certain, sacrifices will be made and lives will be lost.
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She's been named Lexia, 'man's defender', by the one who raised her and died for her, the man she called her father. She's been named Maura, 'for darkness', by the woman who created her, a mother who sees her as a weapon, and tool for power. She has battled for her freedom, for the revenge of her father's death, and then given it all up to save the man she loves. She's given up her soul, her humanity, and now, there is only one question left. Can she create her own destiny or is she bound to follow the fate set for her before she was born? Maura? Lexia? Only one thing is certain; war is coming.
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"Interesting," Lexia murmured as the pack of wolves surrounded her, each snarling and snapping their teeth, just waiting to rip her to shreds. The dark grey wolf directly in front of her shifted. "What about this situation is interesting, hunter?" "That a pack of of alpha wolves would band together. I presumed you were a normal pack." She smiled as his face turned to shock. "Yes, I can tell you are all alphas. Just like I've known you've been living around our base for the past week." "Then why would you walk to your death? Is that what you want, hunter?" Lexia feigned a laughed, both bored and amused. She needed to wear her mask here. Bringing shifters into the play could work either in Lexia's favor or against. "I'm not afraid of death, but I did not come here seeking it. I came to make you a deal." "We do not make deals with hunters," he growled, his jaw clenching. "Yes, I thought you might say that but I think you should listen to what I have to say before we fight. It has been a while since I've had a worthwhile opponent, but I really would rather work with you than waste your lives." Lexia suppressed the repulsive shiver threating to travel down her spine; her words were so like Maura, she felt her stir within. The awakening darkness hoped to take hold again. He smiled at her and Lexia sighed. Do I really have to do this? Why can't things be easy for once? As the wolf behind her crept closer, she kept her eyes focused on the two black wolves at her front. "It really is impressive you've banded together to take down the hunters. My mother is quite pissed off with you." The wolf was a few yards away from her back. "No families to protect, no weaker pack members to be held as threats. Ten strong, top of the pack wolves ready and willing to die for their cause." She moved, whipping around in a blur, her leg curling into the air, kicking out into the wolf's side. He flew across the ground as the other two leapt. Twisting toward the floor, Lexia missed the first wolf as it sailed over her head and met the third full on. They crashed to the floor, soil flying up into the air. Lexia didn't try to get away. Instead, she ignored the sharp teeth that ripped her flesh. Wrapping her arms around the wolf, she squeezed, hearing one, two, three ribs crack. The wolf whimpered, his grip on her flesh loosening until he was pinned beneath her, a knife to his throat. The urge to release the wolf and run coursed through her. She looked into the wolf's eyes seeing the monster she'd become, the monster her mother had made. Only the need to see her mother's demise kept her together. "Impressive. You're strong, but you all still have your humanity. I may not have your mate, child, brother, or friend held at knifepoint, but you still care. You'd all feel something if I sliced my knife into his throat. Someone once told me your humanity was your strength. Maybe it is. If I killed this wolf now, you'd all fight with a strength powered by loss, revenge, and maybe I wouldn't get out of it. First though, will you listen to me? Just hear me out, and then by all means, try to kill me." Lexia stood up, backing away from the wolf at her feet, palms up and looking at the man who remained in his human form. "Who are you?" he asked. "I'm Maura, or maybe you've heard of me by the name Lexia?" Her choice to use Maura purely so Lincoln wouldn't find out she was back. She might be Lexia again, but never could she be his Lexia, his Wildcat. By the widening of his eyes and sharp intake of breath, he knew. "You're Lincoln Turner's mate." "No, I'm not. I'll never be her again. I am a hunter and I'll die a hunter. First though, I plan to kill my mother and destroy her plans." Lexia was surprised by the calm, level tone she upheld. Just the mention of Lincoln's name caused her insides to lurch. "You'd kill your own mother?" he asked surprised. "Do not mistake me for someone who cares. I feel nothing for her. I feel nothing." The lie rolled easily off her tongue. It was days like today, when she so easily slipped on Maura's mask, that she wondered who she truly was. She wanted with all of her soul to be Lexia, but the name didn't quite fit anymore. She'd spilt too much blood, and Maura; Maura represented the darkest of her days, a darkness she never wanted to visit again. "But why would you want the hunters dead in the first place?" "My reasons are none of your concern. Will you help me or not?" "Why not just kill her yourself?" he asked, standing firm. "Oh, don't worry. I plan to kill her, but she is not the only problem. There is more than one head to this monster and not all are so easily within my reach. It appears some of the humans are behind this program." Lexia wasn't sure of everyone who needed to be eliminated. All she knew was it would be an impossible task to take on alone. "Human?" he whispered, looking horrified. "Yes, shifter, monsters come in all shapes and forms." "How do I know you're telling me the truth?" "You don't, but I'm hoping one of you is called Adam?" Lexia silently pleaded with the universe for her hunch to be right. A white wolf fidgeted to her right. "I'm also guessing what brought the ten of you together was your hatred for the hunters. You've chosen to fight instead of hiding, which means you've either a death wish, or have nothing left to live for, other than revenge, and the grief of those you've lost." Still the wolves seemed unaffected by her words. Lexia decided to put her cards on the table. Turning, she looked at the white wolf she hoped was the Adam who belonged to the shifter woman locked in her room. "Adam, Sahara is still alive." He shifted, anger and desperation evident on every line on his face. Stepping forward, his body language screamed of aggression. "Where is she? How do I know you are telling the truth?" His words were savage, etched with the growl of his wolf. Lexia held her hand toward him. "Here. I rubbed my hand through her hair before I left." The other shifter stepped out, his arm blocking Adam's path. "Adam! She could just be tricking you. You've seen how fast she moves. Her knife could be in your chest in seconds." Lexia pulled her sword from its sheath and her knife from the holder on her thigh. Throwing them to the ground, she inhaled deeply, hoping she'd not just made a grave mistake. "I mean you no harm." She offered her hand again. Adam walked slowly forward, his grey eyes never leaving hers. Slowly, he took her hand and brought it to his nose. The second he caught the scent of his mate, his whole body relaxed and he clung onto Lexia's hand breathing deeper. "Sahara," he whispered. Lexia felt the pain in his words as if they were her own. For a second, she imagined it was Lincoln in front of her. For a second, she longed to be with her mate again. "She's alive, Adam, and I'm willing to get her out in exchange for your pack's help," she said dully. Her words no longer sounded like Maura's. Just being around shifters brought her so much pain, so much longing. "Anything," he whispered, releasing her hand. Emotion filled eyes. "Now wait, Adam, you can't decide for us all. She might never follow through, and Sahara could be dead," the shifter ground out through clenched teeth while the rest of the wolves grew visibly restless. "Grey, if there was a chance your mate was alive, you'd have us all walk to our deaths for her," Adam stated. "Just so you know, I don't have long. Leaving the compound isn't the easiest of tasks, and Sahara doesn't have long either. The reason my mother is capturing shifters is because she's experimenting on them. I broke Sahara out earlier, but her disappearance has been noticed." They all growled in unison, closing in. Lexia held her ground when her every instinct said run. "Kill me now and there is no one to help her. My mother will stop at nothing to get what she wants." She took a small step toward Grey, grounding out, "Will you help me?" "Why not ask your panther to help you?" he spat. Lexia paused, as she silently struggled with an explanation that wouldn't give too much away. Lincoln would do anything for her but she knew they could never be together again. She'd done too much to deserve that happy ending. "I do not want him involved," she snapped. "So you still do care?" Grey stated smugly. Yes, so so much. Though Lexia would never admit that. "You are all the same, grasping at any sign of hope, of emotion. If Lincoln were involved, he'd be too busy trying to save me, but I was lost a long time ago. I may not come out of this alive, and I don't care, but he does. That will jeopardize the mission and he'd end up dead. I joined my mother so he could live. I gave up my life, my humanity for him. It would all be pointless if he died." Grey smiled and Lexia wasn't sure why; wasn't sure what secret she'd given away. Do you see through the mask I cling to so precariously? "We'll help you once we've received Sahara." "Good. Sahara will arrive after dark today. She'll be hidden inside a truck on a supply run. Do not show yourself until you are sure it's her. She will be with a hunter. Harm him and our deal is off. Sahara must be taken far away from here. Lucy Hunter can never know I helped you, not yet anyway." Lexia turned, walking away with an emotion she'd not felt in a long time swirling within her. Hope. "Lexia, how will we get the information from you?" Looking back as she walked, Lexia called, "I'll find you." Her pace quickened, ready to run. "Oh, and, Grey, tell no one of this meeting. Not even Linc."
© Rachel M Raithby 2015
Born and raised in N.E.England before moving to New Zealand in 2008. She now lives in Queensland, Austraila with her Husband, three Children and a Golden Lab. Paranormal Romance Author of The Deadwood Hunter Series and YA Paranormal Author of Winter Wolf. A New Dawn Novel She hopes you love her characters as much as she does :)
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I was super happy to be a guest DT for Donna during 2011. I love her products and am a huge fan of her work!! Below are my three projects I created using her papers and products!! Thanks so much for looking!!
This first photo is of my daughter, Tyler, dressed as Red Riding Hood. I love this shot, because it reminds me of a still frame from a movie. I had lots of fun distressing this page.
The flowers were taken from her Crafty Chronicle newspaper!
The drips of white are with Mixed Media Inx embossing powder by Donna.
This page is of my daughter, Rylee. I edited the photo to give her wings.
For these beautiful sparkles I used Donna's Fairy Dust Glitter and Glue Gloss. The frame is Dusty Attic.
These feathers are made by Dusty Attic and you can buy them right now in my Etsy shop. I sprayed them with water first and then frayed the edges. After they dried I coated them with Donna's Mixed Media embossing powder.
The words are also Dusty Attic and I chose to leave these bare with just a touch of Mixed Media Inx Jasmine.
The butterfly is also coated in Fairy Dust.
This last page is of my youngest daughter, Brooklyn. She is out picking wishes which she does every year.
The Gemini clipping is from the Crafty Chronicle.
The Gnome is also from the Crafty Chronicle and the grasses are Dusty Attic chippies.
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Says Darren Aronofsky's Version Of 'The Fighter' Was Much Darker Than His & Many Other Things Gleaned From A Recent MOMI Talk With Spike Jonze
"If you don't like any of my movies, just give it ten years."
As we mentioned yesterday, on Wednesday night the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens kicked off their David O. Russell retrospective with a screening of "The Fighter" followed by a Q&A with the director and guest moderator Spike Jonze. The hour-long conversation covered Russell's entire career and topics wide ranging from discussing his influences, risking his life for "The Royal Tenenbaums" and watching his debut "Spanking The Monkey" (an uncomfortable comedy about incest) with his 16 year old son. The evening had a great casual vibe and it was really interesting seeing the two filmmakers discussing their work so candidly, even pausing briefly as Jonze decided to pass Russell's Altoids out to the crowd.
Jonze started by asking Russell to name how old he was, what kind of music he was listening to and what kind of person he was during the making of each of his films. Though this concept got lost by the time they reached "Three Kings" it was a great way to start the conversation. The night also included a brief interruption from actress Rosie Perez and Jonze's own mother Sandy, who asked the night's final question. Here are the many highlights from Wednesday nights epic interview, including right off the top something we've never heard about before, a lost David O. Russell project the filmmaker shelved right before making "Three Kings."
Prior to "Three Kings" Russell almost made a "There Will Be Blood"-type film about the industrial revolution but thought it would be arrogant…
"I was, kind of, I think impressed by Quentin Tarantino at the time and I think I was kind of interested in trying something that had some more octane to it. I just wanted to try something different. I wanted to try to do something that had some propulsiveness to it. Weirdly, I was researching a movie that turned out to be a lot like "There Will Be Blood." I was researching [a story] about a father and a son that at the beginning of the oil thing, in the Oklahoma oil fields. I went to Princeton University and I met the history department and I was going to do this whole thing about the 20th century and what industrialization meant. I ended up thinking that it was just arrogant to try to make a judgment about the 20th century. And I thought that that was kind of easy and kind of a cheap shot to say that technology [was bad], cause for every bad thing it had done you can name twenty good things it had done. So I decided not to make that."
The origins of the long-gestating boxing drama, "The Fighter"…
"This movie was going to be made by Darren Aronofsky and he picked very different things than I would have picked and he would have made a very interesting film. I think he's a great filmmaker. So it's the things that I look for the things that i think are funny the things that I think are emotional. Like with "The Fighter," I think I've learned a lot. You kind of learn a lot about what interests you and it also changes over the years. And I would say right now what interests me the most is something that's very real and emotional and raw but also kind of fascinating in a way that certain characters or people can be. You know it when you see it…characters that kind of make my mouth hang open like "who are you?" When I saw this family in their photo album and Darren's script didn't really have the mothers or the sisters as much or the girlfriend. The women were much smaller and it was much more dark about Dickie's dark crime stuff. When I got to know the family I saw that was really only one part of the story and what really fascinated me about the story that I'd never seen was a mother who was as strong as that, who had done that with that gang of sisters. And the girlfriend who's so tough and the impact [of] how they were with these men. It's just a world. Right away you're like, "this is a world that is very interesting to me." People call it dysfunctional and all that and that was a word they threw around with "Spanking The Monkey." I don't like that word so much. I think that everybody is dysfunctional. Would you look at "Raging Bull" and go "those were some dysfunctional people?" You'd go, "those are some amazing people."
On "I Heart Huckabees"…
"I was trying a little something more conceptual in that. Something that in retrospect I wish I had made more visceral. And I think the parts of it that I like best are the more visceral parts with Mark [Wahlberg] and Jason Schwartzman. I think I was more interested in comedy too. Coming off "Three Kings," you know I did this movie that was very heavy, or heavier, and even though I always have to see comedy in things. Things to me that are are always funny and sad, that's what interests me the most."
Russell has seen "The Royal Tenenbaums" more than 50 times including while he's driving in LA. His Ford Escape has a TV screen that had never been disabled when the car is driving (as it was supposed to be), but Russell was unaware. He says he usually ends up playing the film repeatedly while he's "in traffic."
"That's a film that when it first came out, we were a little bit of a group with Wes [Anderson] and everybody and Sofia [Coppola]. Wes shared that script with me when it came out and I didn't really get it when I read it. I was like 'Wes, I don't know if you know that there's no 375th Street in New York?' And he was like 'No, I'm making up New York.' And when I saw the film I still didn't really get it. I thought it was precious and I was a huge fan of "Rushmore," there was no bigger fan of "Rushmore." The funny thing about it is how your feelings can change about cinema. So if you don't like any of my movies, just give it ten years. Ten years later, I just fell in love with ['Royal Tenenbaums']. I just watch it and I see so much brilliance
On cribbing from influences, and pleasing Woody Allen…
"I was really into Woody Allen at the time of "Husbands and Wives," so that was kind of my pitchfork. I always tell people not to worry about that too much, because you read about Bob Dylan or The Beatles and I always thought "That's cheating, you cant write that way" but that's how everybody writes. A lot of people write that way. Bob Dylan said the way he writes all his songs is [that] he has somebody else's song in his head all day. It could be a Roy Orbison song, it could be a Hank Williams song. All day he's talking to people, people think he's really talking to them but he's really just listening to this song in his head and at some point he jumps off into his own thing. And John Lennon would say 'oh we thought we were doing a Roy Orbison song' and you kinda look at it and go 'that really doesn't sound anything like a Roy Orbison song to me.' So when "Husbands and Wives" was in my head, and not ironically Woody Allen loved the film ("Flirting With Disaster") and invited me to come meet him after that 'cause he thought "finally a filmmaker who is ripping him off a little bit" because I remember he said that Paul Thomas Anderson was ripping off [Martin] Scorsese. And I think that he was happy someone was finally going his way a little bit."
How the fight scenes in "The Fighter" had to be different from "Raging Bull" and other boxing movies…
"I loved 'Raging Bull' but we were certainly not going to do what [Scorsese] did. I wouldn't even attempt to. "I feel like I have "Raging Bull" and "Rocky" sort of in my [mental] hard drive and I did not need to look at them again. I knew I was not going to do what they did. And everything [Scorsese] did, the camera is inside the ring and very often inside the fighter. It's very often between the fighters and Mark[Wahlberg] specifically wanted to do something that was more real than that, which I thought was interesting. So I knew it was more challenging for me as a filmmaker to make it intense where everything is from outside the ring. So what we got saved by, was how much footage we had. We had 6 HBO cameras and then we had 2 free floating cameras, so that's 8. And he said to make sure when you were shooting, it was a little ADD with 8 monitors, just make sure certain shots you had were money. To me the money shots were always the rougher ones that were looking up into the lights, that were sort of messed up. And the DP [Hoyte Van Hoytema] wanted to shoot with the original beta that they had used [during the real HBO fights] in 1990, which when you blew it up gave it a very rough look. We had 79 hours of fight footage. In 3 days we did the fights. In those 79 hours, that was a very big task [to edit the fights together]. That was kind of the bane of our existence in the editing room for a while, you'd be like 'oh that's the fight, there's the fight.' You'd watch it and go 'well that kinda sucks.' You'd look at it and it's like, 'well that's not very compelling.' So it took a lot of times before we whittled it down to where that's like 'that's intense, that's good.' "
On "Spanking The Monkey"…
"I was in my early thirties and I was listening to Nirvana and this band that's in the movie Morphine and Mark Lanegan — I was really into those guys, all that kind of intense which kinda was reflected in the movie. We came out of the 80's which were all poppy and all of a sudden it was really attractive to be heavy. And to be kind of unflinching."
On showing "Spanking The Monkey" to his 16 year old son…
"I kind of always dreaded him seeing that film because it's a very uncomfortable film. I used to call it a 'feel bad film.' Then he wanted to watch that and I said, 'I don't want to watch that. That's just going to be horrible for about 500 reasons.' And he said 'well let's watch it,' so we watched it and like the first half of it was just such a horrible uncomfortable experience for me, squirming, gross. It's just gross emotional content and also because it's your first film so just every single novice performance thing that happens on the part of the actors that I didn't catch as a director. I completely realized why he liked it. I realized that he loves it because he's into being an anguished adolescent. He's like really into that 'you don't understand how lonely and horrible it all is' and that horrible anguished feeling is dialed right into that movie."
All of the interview segments in "The Fighter" were unscripted.
"I just fell in love with the found footage of them on the couch. We did not have scheduled time for those interviews and [they were all] unscripted. They would just sit down and I just threw questions at them. We would do it between setups, like in the middle of the night. I said 'just sit on the couch', I'm very proud they were so comfortable. That's the best thing, I think the thing the director can be most proud of is when the set is so comfortable that the actors are so in character they're comfortable to do anything like that. To just say 'sit down in character and I'm going to throw questions at you'."
About being proud of the the conclusion of "The Fighter"… [spoilers]
"It just seemed very fitting emotionally, it seemed like a knockout punch to me emotionally to see Dickie so humbled. And when Christian [Bale] cried that was unexpected. You know, it just happened. I think he was so in character that he felt what it was like to give that over for his brother and to be happy for his brother but sad for himself all at the same time."
On being able to have his creative way with the "The Fighter" despite years of development…
"It was different for me certainly because I had brought Mark [Wahlberg] scripts twice before, I had brought him "Three Kings" and I had brought him 'Huckabees' and this was a case of him bringing me something that Darren Aronofsky had had. I think I've had a bumpy few years writing many things and sort of tying myself up in knots writing things and you know, that can happen. So I was happy to have a simple thing that I saw how it could be done. And I had a very clear take on it. Mark is very loyal to me and very much a protector of me so I knew I wasn't coming in somewhere where I was not going to be able to do what I wanted to do. And that's the only way I know how to do things. So I came in and I said 'This is how i see it, this is how i want to do it,' and they just cleared the way out and they let me do that."
The final question of the night was asked by Jonze's own mother who was in attendance. She said that she had listened to an interview with Russell on Fresh Air and got to know him better through that interview. Because he identifies with so many diverse characters in his films and is able to humanize them she asked what is it that enables him to do that. Russell, for the first time that night, was speechless and said he didn't know how to answer the question. So his friend Spike Jonze answered the question for him. "I think [David is] a very present person and when he's with people he's very present and he's very open. He's got one of the most genuine laughs, he really sees humor everywhere and a lot of times he makes me feel a lot funnier than I think I am because he laughs at things that I don't think are that funny but he sees some little weird idiosyncratic thing in the way I might have said it or something and he genuinely is just a very open person. And I have incredible conversations with him about everything and I think he has that ability with pretty much everyone he meets, wherever they're from and whatever they do."
If you haven't seen "The Fighter" by now, you really should. It's a great example of the best in studio filmmaking as well as one of the best films of last year. Russell took a concept as well worn as a boxing movie and really injected it with some new life. (The film played even better for this writer the second time around.) And that opening credits sequence alone, wow. As for Russell, we hope that whichever project of his that manages to bubble up first (and there are a lot of possibilities), that he'll make it into something great. — Cory Everett
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THURSDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) -- When it comes to helping Parkinson's disease patients retain vital motor function, weight training may be more effective than stretching or balance exercises, a new study concludes.
The findings "reconfirm our notions that exercise plays an important part in the treatment of Parkinson's disease," according to one outside expert, Dr. Nora Chan, director of the Movement Disorder Program at Winthrop-University Hospital, in Mineola, N.Y.
The research involved 48 people with Parkinson's who were randomly assigned to either a weight-training program or a workout routine that included flexibility, balance and strengthening routines. Both groups exercised for one hour, twice a week for two years.
The severity of the patients' motor symptoms, including tremors, was assessed after six, 12, 18, and 24 months of exercise. The symptoms were checked when the patients were not taking their medication.
Both groups showed improvements in motor symptoms at six months. But patients in the weight-training group had a 7.3 point improvement in their Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale after two years, while the patients in the other group returned to the same scores they had at the start of the study.
The findings are being released early but will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's annual meeting in New Orleans in April.
"While we have known that many different types of exercise can benefit Parkinson's patients over short time periods, we did not know whether exercise improves the motor symptoms of Parkinson's over the long term," study author Daniel Corcos, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said in an AAN news release.
"Our results suggest that long-term weight training could be considered by patients and doctors as an important component in managing Parkinson's disease," he added.
Another expert, Dr. Andrew Feigin, said the study is one of many that seems to support the notion "that regular strenuous exercise may have long-term benefits for Parkinson's disease patients." However, participants knew which type of exercise they were being assigned, so that might have influenced their mood or motivation, according to Feigin, a neurologist specializing in Parkinson's disease at the Feinstein Institute for Medical Research in Manhasset, N.Y
For her part, Chan added that "further studies are needed to clarify whether certain exercises are more suitable for patients with different symptoms, in different stages of disease, how cost effective these various programs are, and the exact mechanisms by which exercise improves Parkinson's disease symptoms."
Findings presented at medical meetings are considered preliminary until publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
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Stephen Jones is a leading British Milliner. He was born in 1957 and graduated from Saint Martins School of Art in 1979. Jones started his millinery career by making hats for friends at a time when London was the centre for creativity and iconoclastic fashion ideas.
Pop music and clubbing were at the heart of youth culture and they had an enormous influence on Jones. He made hats for Boy George, Spandau Ballet and Grace Jones and by 1980 was sufficiently established to open his own shop. As his reputation and clientele steadily grew, he was invited to represent Britain in fashion shows in New York, Montreal, Helsinki and Tokyo. As a result he is known today as the first designer to bring millinery into the forefront of the modern fashion world.
In addition to his Model Millinery collection, he designs the widely-distributed Miss Jones and JonesBoy diffusion ranges. In 1984 he became the first British Milliner to work in Paris designing hats for Jean Paul Gaultier, Thierry Mugler and Comme des Garçons whilst more recent associations include Marc Jacobs and Giles Deacon. However his most celebrated millinery is with John Galliano for his eponymous label and in particular their creations at Christian Dior.
In 2008 he launched a unique collaborative fragrance with Comme des Garçons. Jones' hats are in the permanent collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Le Louvre in Paris, The Fashion institute of Technology and The Kyoto Costume Institute. Jones co-curated 'Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones' at the V&A (2009). In 2008, he was honoured with the Outstanding Achievement Award at the British Fashion Awards.
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I'm not sure about that, but I do love it, and it's certainly a nice thing to hear!
I used Cluck Cluck Sew's Bizzy Kid pattern and it's a winner. A really excellent pattern for a baby boy. I found the two Suzanne Ultman, Critter Community fabrics (the birds and the forest) first and then built the rest of the fabrics from there, managed to use up a few stash fabrics....but lets be honest, not many!!! But now I've added to the stash with my leftovers, right!? so it's all good. I used some natural linen as well, gives the eyes somewhere to rest, and a bit more practical for a baby than white I think.
The backing is a quilt set from Ikea with graduating blue dots, the blues work well with the colours in the quilt top and give the quilt a bit of depth. The binding is a simple navy stripe.
But for me the biggest achievement on this quilt is the quilting. Yes, my first ever attempt at free motion machine quilting using the stitch length regulator on my new Bernina 550QE! I did an all over loose stipple design, I can't say it was easy and it did require a fair bit of muscle to manoeuvre the quilt. But the machine made it a whole lot easier than it would've otherwise been and I'm pretty pleased with the results for a first go. If you look closely (don't) you can see a few bumps but overall, its fine. Probably what I wouldn't do again is use a navy thread on the back with white on the front, the navy has come through to the front in a few places, but it's not terrible.
Another close friend has just had a baby boy, so the planned quilt for my mum for Christmas is on the backburner (Mother's Day maybe?) and I need to get started on a new boy quilt. Looking for inspiration....


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-Continuing my "vagabond journey" to track down the roots of my ancestors -
I sorted out my Virginia Travel brochures last night. There are so many places to visit in Virginia. I have one more night around the Blue Ridge Parkway as I travel north before I get to Bev's house near Wash DC.I started the day at the continental breakfast with a Krispy Kreme donut. I don't usually eat donuts, but somehow this seemed the right thing to do. Something just made me eat that doughnut!! Mmmmm good. Got more gasoline – and headed through Bedford, VA, a town with some big houses with lawns so big you could graze your cows on it. There are no fences between houses. Lots of rolling hills. Virginia is a fantastic state.
After 15 miles I came to the Blue Ridge Parkway and two Whirlybird helicopters. Today was the start of the campaign to eradicate the Gypsy Moth, which is destroying many of the trees along this part of the Parkway. The caterpillar of the moth eats all the leaves. The helicopters have spray nozzles to spray the trees like a crop duster.
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I backtracked a little so I could get a good view of the Western side of the Parkway, towards the rest of the Appalachian Mts. Parts in this valley area were homesteaded by my Harbison ancestors. John Harbison was born about 1747 in Botetourt Co (or Craig Co) VA. Later his family moved to Kentucky and his brother James was killed by Indians. His daughter Rachel, married Amos Thornburg. It's beautiful land, but no doubt difficult to carve a farm out of the forest wilderness. I saw many cabins only 100 years old, which were falling apart and abandoned many years ago.
At the Otter Peaks Visitor's Center I took a hike along a stream. What a beautiful area. And as I drove along the quiet Blue Ridge Crest I heard Lee Greenwood on the radio and I can echo his words: "There ain't no doubt I love this land, God bless the USA"
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But I did see several deer in various places along the way, also lots of squirrels. There was some construction on the roadway but didn't cause a delay. Skyline Drive is less pastoral than further south on the Parkway, but with tremendous panoramic views.I got off Skyline Drive to spend the night at Day's Inn in Luray, VA. I wanted to find a place with TV to see the last episode of "Survivor After the Outback". After the final show of Boot Camp next Wednesday I'll be able to give up on this TV thing. I skipped dinner, expected to open a can of mandarin oranges, but couldn't fine my can opener.


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The heart's circulator pump as well as a Grundfos circulator pump are at the centre of a campaign launched by Grundfos Holland to support a charity institution for heart patients. "Pumps for life" is the slogan of the special charity programme which will also benefit four other charities.
Diabetics will benefit from a campaign for dosing pumps and a campaign benefiting patients with stomach, liver or intestinal problems focuses on AP sewage pumps. Remote controlled E pumps are connected with brain patients and fire fighting pumps are in focus in a campaign for patients with burns.
The marketing department of the Dutch company was inspired to develop the special campaign by the TQ process started by Grundfos Holland last year. Based on Grundfos' mission, vision and corporate values, the campaign is to demonstrate that Grundfos has a responsible attitude towards problems in society at large.


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Dark Canyon Wilderness
IntroductionThe United States Congress designated the Dark Canyon Wilderness (map) in 1984 and it now has a total of 46,360 acres. All of this wilderness is located in Utah and is managed by the Forest Service.
DescriptionWith narrow, steep walls that block the light in the morning and late afternoon, Dark Canyon Wilderness is aptly named. Once home to a small segment of the widespread Anasazi Indians (Ancestral Puebloan), the canyons included in the area (Dark and Woodenshoe Canyons, and their tributaries) make up the roughly horseshoe-shaped Dark Canyon Wilderness. This is an extraordinarily beautiful and remote section of the Colorado Plateau where sculpted and colored walls of Cedar Mesa sandstone rise above the canyon floors. You may see evidence of the Ancestral Puebloan culture in the form of structures, rock art, or artifacts. Remember, it is against the law to remove or disturb any archaeological resources you may encounter. Please leave things as you have found them for future study and so those that come after you may experience this unique resource as well. The Dark Canyon Wilderness is located in southeast Utah near the town of Blanding. To reach the ten different trailheads that provide access to the Wilderness, visitors must ascend roads to the top of the Elk Ridge Highlands which may be snowdrifted into early summer in heavy snow years. From these trailheads, you descend into the canyons that comprise the Dark Canyon Wilderness. The Utah Wilderness Act of 1984 created Dark Canyon Wilderness, representing the first major Colorado Plateau Canyon terrain to be protected in the National Wilderness Preservation System. This diverse canyon country contains arches, old-growth Ponderosa Pine stands, meadows, springs, seeps and hanging gardens. Due to years of drought, some seeps and springs have disappeared making water very scarce. Plan to carry all the water you may need with you and/or contact those with local knowledge for the location of the very few water sources. Check the Dark Canyon Wilderness Blog at wilderness.net for updates on water and trail conditions. Life zones range from ponderosa pine and aspen-covered high country to more arid desert vegetation in the bottom of Dark Canyon at the Wilderness boundary. High red rock canyons dwarf visitors with terraced castle-like walls towering 3,000 feet above the canyon floors. Wildlife species are diverse and include mule deer, elk, turkey, some cougar, black bear, and bighorn sheep. All the trails dropping into the canyons are moderate, but they are often difficult, if not impossible, to find and follow. Be sure to carry a good, detailed map and a compass. Once you're on the floor of Dark Canyon itself, however, you'll have no trouble following Dark Canyon due to the canyon walls, through the length of the canyon. At the junction of Dark Canyon and Woodenshoe Canyon, you may ascend the Woodenshoe trail out of the Dark Canyon Wilderness or continue past the western Wilderness boundary into the BLM-managed Dark Canyon Primitive Area and on down to the Colorado River or upper end of Lake Powell when the reservoir is full.
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Over the last two months, most of the United States and southern Canada have been locked into a "snow drought", but for parts of Vermont, at least, some significant snow may be on the way.
Snow has been hard to come by this winter in East Middlebury, and it seems that each time we pick up an inch or two, a thaw or rainstorm comes along and melts it. The seasonably cold temperatures and lack of snow have meant ice, and lots of it, and the icy rivers and streams seem out of place flowing through the snowless forests. The lack of snow cover has also led to solidly frozen ground, which could translate into a soggy mud season this spring.
Vermont is not alone in its lack of snow so far this winter. Most of the "lower 48" states have picked up little or no snow thus far this winter, a dramatic difference from last year. Oddly, southern New Mexico and western Texas have been snowy, which is great news for this drought stricken region. California's Sierra Nevada mountains, on the other hand, are still nearly snow-free this winter. Most of California experiences little or no summer precipitation, and relies on Sierra snowmelt for summer water, so if significant snowfall does not occur in the next few months, the area will be in for a difficult summer.
Where is the snow? Parts of coastal Alaska have been absolutely buried in the stuff. The Austrian Alps have also been receiving dumpings of snow. This winter has played out as an almost exact opposite of last winter, and the reason may be a poorly-understood jet stream phenomena known as the Arctic Oscillation. As described in this blog post by meteorologist Jeff Masters, the "negative" phase of the Arctic Oscillation that occurred last year favored heavy snow in much of the United States, while the current "positive" phase favors warmer, dry conditions.
The lack of snow in Vermont has been hard on snow lovers, especially those who depend on snow sports to make a living. Not everyone is disappointed by the winter, however - a friend who works for Central Vermont Public Service has told me that the thus-far mild winter has been very helpful for finishing up repairs from Irene's devastation last summer.
Snow is finally in the forecast for Vermont with a two-part storm moving into the state. Today's storm will feature easterly winds and tomorrow's storm will feature northwesterly winds, so both slopes of the Green Mountains should pick up similar totals - perhaps 8 or 10 inches - by the weekend. In the Champlain Valley, sleet and rain mixing with the snow may limit total accumulation to a couple of inches. More seasonable weather with occasional snow is in the long-range forecast, so there is a good chance that I will finally get to try out my new cross country skis next week (though Breadloaf may be a better bet than the Middlebury golf course). As for the rest of the winter, there are some indications that the positive Arctic Oscillation pattern may wind down, but it is too early to say for sure. There is still a chance for my forecast of above average snow to come true this winter, but at this point it is not looking likely. Maybe I should have stuck with looking at the woolly bears.


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