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Warner Bros. Buys Batman: Arkham Asylum Dev RocksteadyEntertainment giant Warner Bros. announced today that it has acquired a majority stake in Batman: Arkham Asylum developer Rocksteady Studios, a move which is likely to see the London-based studio creating video game adaptations of further key WB brands.
"Rocksteady demonstrated its professionalism and extraordinary development abilities with Batman: Arkham Asylum," said Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group president Kevin Tsujihara in a press statement. "This arrangement is a great strategic fit and we are very pleased to solidify our relationship with this talented development team."
"The Rocksteady team is very much looking forward to creating more great games based on widely recognized Warner Bros. brands like Batman," said Rocksteady game director Sefton Hill. As well as prized animated and cinematic properties, Warner Bros. owns DC Comics--home to Batman, Superman and Aquaman, among others.
Rocksteady unveiled a sequel to Arkham Asylum at the Spike Video Game Awards in December, seemingly taking bat-players to the streets of Gotham City this time around.
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(RNN) - A large tornado touched down in Bessemer, just south of Birmingham, AL late Monday, the latest touchdown in day where millions huddled in storm shelters and basements across the South.
In all, at least 11 fatalities have been confirmed in Mississippi and Alabama as a massive, fast-moving severe weather system pushed through the southeast on Monday.
According to a National Weather Service preliminary report, 58 tornadoes were tallied Monday.
Reports of tornadoes continued throughout the night and into the early morning Tuesday across Alabama. Tornado warnings early Tuesday morning included several counties.
As the storm moved into the state, sirens sounded in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham, just three years and one day removed from a massive tornado outbreak that devastated the area in 2011.
The Birmingham-area tornado, caught on camera by affiliate WBRC, hit close to UAB Medical West Hospital and continued to track south of the city of Birmingham before weakening.
The extent of the damage is not known, nor are injuries, but an apartment complex in Bessemer was reported to have been badly damaged. The residents had to be rescued, according to WBRC.
In Tuscaloosa, AL, city officials confirmed the likely storm-related death of a 21-year-old man, according to WBRC.
The Associated Press confirmed four deaths southeast of Athens, AL. Another two occurred at a trailer park in Coxey, AL.
A female victim died when their vehicle either hydroplaned or was blown off a road south of Tupelo, MS, according to WMC. Mississippi officials at a late-night press conference with the state's governor said they are working to confirm other storm-related deaths.
Two fatalities were reported by the Lincoln County Medical Center in Tennessee.
There were also reports of damage in Kimberly, AL, north of Birmingham, where a fire department was destroyed, according to the National Weather Service. WBRC reported that a gas station was being used as a triage site.
In Limestone County, AL, the Clements Fire Department and Clements High School took direct hits from the storm.
Affiliate WAFF reported heavy damage to homes in Aroney, AL, in the north part of the state, and in DeKalb County.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley declared a State of Emergency for the entire state. Bentley has also mobilized the Alabama National Guard and placed them on standby.
"Some of our communities have already experienced significant damage as a result of the tornadoes that began moving through Alabama earlier today," Bentley said in a statement. "By issuing a State of Emergency, I am directing all state agencies to take necessary actions to respond to Alabama communities that need help."
Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal has also declared a State of Emergency in advance of the severe weather.
"At this juncture, we've declared the emergency for the entire state because it's impossible to pinpoint where the weather will hit," Deal said in a statement. "Georgia is threatened at least through [Tuesday] and perhaps into Wednesday. We're prepared now and we'll be ready for recovery should we, God forbid, experience tornado damage or flooding."
Earlier in the day, a large tornado was confirmed near Brandon, MS moving east at 35 mph. The National Weather Service in Jackson, MS confirmed on Twitter a tornado passed south of their office, but tweeted they are "in good shape and fully operational."
A large tornado, three-fourths of a mile wide, was reported near Louisville, MS, shortly after 4:30 p.m. CT. The Weather Channel reported winds of 150 mph above ground with that funnel cloud. According to the Associated Press, 45 people were injured in storms that passed through Louisville, and no deaths have been reported.
In all, 16 counties in Mississippi reported tornado damage, according to Mississippi Emergency Management.
A tornado warning was also issued in North Carolina, as well as severe thunderstorm warnings for storms that could produce golf ball-sized hail and winds up to 60 mph in six North Carolina counties, according to WECT.
There were reports of damage at a marina between Coxey and Athens, AL, as the storm traveled through northwest Alabama, with a rain-wrapped tornado with 165 mph of wind shear, WAFF reported.
Meteorologists at WAFF likened the storms in Alabama to the storm that ripped through Tupelo, MS earlier Monday.
"These storms are not weakening," said WAFF meteorologist Lauren Jones via Twitter. "The atmosphere is very unstable and this threat continues for all areas [in northern Alabama] through the night."
Sunday marked the three-year anniversary of the storms that killed 316 people across the South and Midwest, including the EF-5 tornado that hit Tuscaloosa, AL. A reported 208 tornadoes touched down during that outbreak.
In Mississippi, the Tupleo area appeared to be the hardest hit.
Several tractor-trailers were reportedly blown off of the road at the busy intersection of U.S. Highway 78 and U.S. 45, according to WMC.
The Weather Channel stated "major damage" took place at a shopping mall and other nearby buildings as a result of a severe storm cell. Residents and storm chasers posted pictures of flattened structures on social media sites like Twitter.
"Avoid the Tupelo area at all costs due to major damage," storm spotter Steven Heicher tweeted.
Tupelo Mayor Jason Shelton told CNN that city workers went through an emergency preparedness drill in the morning to get everyone ready.
KSLA confirmed a tornado touched down in Plain Dealing, LA around 3 a.m. Monday morning and damaged several homes.
Warnings were also issued after 2 p.m. for parts of Virginia and Tennessee. Areas around Memphis spent the majority of the day under watches or warnings as well.
People across the Gulf Coast states have been told to brace for severe weather, only one day after deadly storms drove through the Midwest.
The National Weather Service predicted "several tornadoes" for the areas of northern and central Mississippi, northwest Alabama, western and middle Tennessee and extreme northeast Louisiana. It also forecasted states as far west as Iowa and Texas and as far east as the Carolinas could see dangerous weather.
The NWS expected damaging straight-line winds and "very large hail" as well.
On Sunday, 17 people were killed as 31 tornadoes hit several states - 15 died in Arkansas, one in Kansas and one in Oklahoma. The towns of Mayflower and Vilonia were the hardest hit; a tornado that peaked at a half-mile wide ripped through them while forming a path 80 miles long.
President Barack Obama made a statement during his visit to the Philippines, offering his deepest condolences to victims and pledging federal resources.
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From WENN.com
The Mean Girls star has been staying with her mum, Dina, at her mansion in Long Island, New York in recent weeks, but the property is currently at the centre of a financial storm.
Dina has reportedly fallen behind with mortgage payments, and even borrowed $40,000 (£25,000) from her famous daughter last year (12) to help resolve the situation.
However, bosses at America's Chase Bank are still circling the property and served a legal notice, addressed to Lindsay and Dina, on Thursday (07Feb13).
The paperwork was taped to the property's front gate, according to the New York Post.
It is the latest in a long line of problems for the troubled actress, who is embroiled in a dispute over an allegedly unpaid tax bill, and is also facing allegations she lied to California police over a 2012 car crash.


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World Wetlands Day proclaimed. By solemn proclamation of the Convention's Standing Committee, at the urging of many Contracting Parties, 2 February 1997 has been declared the first annual World Wetland Day. 2 February, as probably everyone knows, is the anniversary of the signing of the Convention in Iran in 1971. A diplomatic note has been sent from the Ramsar Bureau, notifying the Contracting Parties of this decision and requesting information about the activities they are planning. [24/12/96]
Just published by Wetlands International -- the long-awaitedAtlas of Anatidae Populations in Africa and Western Eurasia, by Derek A. Scott and Paul M. Rose, published by Wetlands International with financial support from the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries of the Netherlands and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee in the United Kingdom. The 336-page book brings together a wealth of data on swans, geese, and ducks to support the implementation of the African Eurasian Waterbird Agreement, both on the flyway as a whole and on the states on its route, and includes a superb series of maps which illustrate each of the entries. It's available from the Natural History Book Service Ltd, 2-3 Wills Road, Totnes, Devon TQ9 5XN, UK (tel. +44 1803 865913, fax +44 1803 865280. [12/12/96]
National Ramsar Symposium (Japan). About 400 wetland experts, government officers, and journalists throughout Japan gathered at the recent National Ramsar Symposium in Niigata City and discussed wetland conservation of all Ramsar sites and other important wetland areas in Japan. The Symposium was held from 29 November to 1 December 1996 to celebrate the designation of Sakata, freshwater lagoon in Niigata City, as the latest Ramsar site in Japan. The Symposium was organized by the Environment Agency and the Ramsar Center Japan (a national NGO), which also organized the Asian Wetland Symposium in 1992, in collaboration with the active organizing committee members in Niigata. All participants acclaimed the symposium as successful and stimulating. For more details, contact the Ramsar Center Japan (tel & fax. +813-3758-7926, e-mail email@example.com). -- reported by Satoshi Kobayashi [11/12/96]
Mediterranean Wetlands Network launched. A Mediterranean Wetlands Network for Spain was launched at the 13th Spanish Ornithological Conference; over a hundred participants in a special meeting during the Conference viewed an inaugural issue of the Mediterranean Wetlands Newsletter, in which articles and news in both Spanish and Catalan covered the 5 Mediterranean autonomous regions in Spain and some international issues as well, such as the Venice Declaration and adoption of the MedWet Mediterranean Strategy. The next step is creation of regional networks that will tap into the national network and work toward creation of a web site and newsgroup for the initiative. [11/12/96]
Reassessment of Greek wetlands. The Ministry of Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works, the Ramsar Administrative Authority in Greece, has advised the Bureau that it has completed a reassessment of that nation's Wetlands of International Importance and has now provided precise areas and clearly delineated boundary maps for the last of its 11 Ramsar sites. The total area has been increased from 107,400 hectares to 163,501, including a very welcome increase of the Messolonghi lagoons site from about 14,000 to almost 34,000 hectares, and another of the Nestos delta from 10,000 hectares to almost 22,000. At the same time, the Lake Vistonis and Lake Mitrikou sites (a combined 13,800 hectares) have been combined into the "Lake Vistonis, Porto Lagos, Lake Ismaris & adjoining lagoons" site, with a surface area of 24,396 hectares, leaving Greece with 10 instead of 11 sites in total. All of Greece's Ramsar sites are on the Montreux Record.
This increases the Convention's total area covered under the Convention by 56,101 hectares, but reduces the total number of sites from 859 to 858. These changes are reflected in the Ramsar List posted on this site. [7/12/96]
Chile's new sites. Read about Chile's new High Andean sites (4400 meters!). Next door. [10/12/96]
The 96th Contracting Party -- Malawi. UNESCO has informed the Bureau that on 14 November Malawi deposited its papers of accession, and the treaty will enter into force for that country on 14 March 1997. Malawi designated Lake Chilwa as its first Ramsar site; this 224,800-hectare site is partly under government control but mainly under customary ownership, under the control of local chiefs. It is a shallow, enclosed endorheic saline lake, surrounded by an area of dense swamps and marshes, surrounded in turn by a belt of seasonally inundated grassland floodplain. The lake annually supports about 153 and 30 species of resident and palearctic (migratory) waterbirds respectively. About 23 species attain the Ramsar 1% threshold, including the Pinkbacked Pelican, Blackheaded Heron, Greyheaded Gull, African Skimmer, and Marsh Owl. The socio-economically useful land practices include fishing, agriculture (cultivation of rice and dimba), and human settlements. Lake Chilwa annually contributes about 25-30% of Malawi's total fish production. [29/11/96]
Reorganization in Australia.The whole of Australia's federal environment portfolio has undergone a review of its operations. As of 18 November, the Department of Environment, Sport and Territories, as well as several related statutory authorities (including the Australian Nature Conservation Agency, the Environmental Protection Authority, the Australian Heritage Commission, and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority), have been reorganized into Environment Australia. The former ANCA is now the Biodiversity Group within Environment Australia, and the Ramsar Administrative Authority in the country is now the Wetlands, Waterways and Waterbirds Unit, Environment Australia Biodiversity Group. The head of that unit is Dr Bill Phillips. [26/11/96]


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Alright well here's the deal for those of you that haven't participated in one of these before. It's basically PSD's version of the MLB offseason. Every team has a GM or two, they are allowed to make trades, sign free agents, etc. Each team will have a cap number, but they will also have the ability to get more cap space as time goes on through articles, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it. When the time comes, the participants will vote on the playoff teams, to which we will then move the voting to the MLB forum for the playoffs. Last year we had an 8 team playoffs, this year we're going with a preliminary number of 6, but that's not set in stone. Along with the playoffs, there will also be a voting for best future and best GM, due to the fact that some teams will obviously have different goals than others.
We'll start off with check-in, team options, and the creation of clubhouses and trade blocks. After that I'll do arbitration and allow a few days for teams to negotiate contracts exclusively with their own free agents. After that, we'll open up free agency. It's going to be my job to sign the free agents to the teams, and I will try to factor in everything that the actual free agents will be thinking. If you're mad that you didn't get a free agent that you thought you should, I'm sorry but I don't care. If you complain excessively, you will be fined payroll.
A few side notes
If you notice mistakes with your team, such as a player that should be making the minimum that I have in arbitration, let me know, I would bet that I have made a few mistakes, so it wouldn't surprise me.
All free agents and team salaries were taken from Cot's Baseball Contracts. You can find a full list of the Free Agents there.
I posted this in the Trades/Free Agent Signings thread as well, but when you send in a trade, make sure you include BOTH TEAMS PAYROLLS before and after the deal. Here's an example of what the trades should look like when sent to me.
Team 1 Gets
Player Name, Amount of money he's making in 2011
Old Team Salary
New Team Salary
Team 2 Gets
Player Name, Amount of money he's making in 2011
Old Team Salary
New Team Salary
If the trades aren't submitted in this format, they will not be submitted, I will message you telling you to resubmit them in the correct format.
In some circumstances (Mike Stanton for Brandon Inge as an example) I will veto trades. If you complain about your trade being vetoed, you will be fined payroll.


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More on the Zune HD
I'm not impressed by the Zune software. However, I was able to put some audio and video files in it so I could toy with the device.
The unit itself operates well. It's not an Ipod, so forget the Ipod-like interface. Still, it's easy to navigate.
I turned on the radio side, and once I tuned to a station I heard audio. Then I heard it switch to the digital stream. (This station does not have its analog and digital time aligned.)
I tuned to another station in the market that runs HD1 and HD2. The display shows the frequency with an HD1 under it. There's an HD2 to the right of that. Touching HD2 brings it up.
Sliding across the face scans to the next station up or down.
Operationally, it's easy to manipulate. It sounds decent. Digital reception in the interior of my office building was dicey. The radio switched to analog several times.
I'll take it around with me and experiment with the radio more.
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A proposal calls for a landfill to be placed between 27 and 28 Mile east of Gratiot in New Haven 7and Lenox Township.
There is a large wave of opposition to the proposed landfill, which was visible at an informational town hall meeting Wednesday night at Endeavour Middle School.
The New Haven Village Council voted 5-2 to enter into an agreement with Rizzo Environmental, which would operate the proposed landfill.
Some in the audience said they were not aware of the proposal until it was voted on by the village council.
"My husband is a kidney transplant patient. We moved into this community in 2003. There was no mention of anything like this. He's not allowed to mow the lawn because of the bacteria that's stirred up from lawn mowing. Something like this absolutely could kill him. His immune system is suppressed," said Karen Hea.
"What they're saying is because of the mismanagement of previous people that have run the board and run the town, we're supposed to pay for their mismanagement? That's not right. I would rather see this go to bankruptcy or maybe an emergency manager," said Tony Albacelli.
What's the benefit for New Haven and Lenox Township?
"There's significant benefits to taxpayers, but the number one would be that there would be competition in Macomb County, not just one landfill where everything's going, and they're setting prices that are higher for American municipalities than for Canadian municipalities," said Rizzo spokesperson Joe Munem.
New Haven Council Member Terry Tidwell voted no on the landfill proposal.
"It really stinks the way they brought it to us. They brought it to us 24 hours before the meeting, and they proposed that it was a community development project when it actually turned out to be a landfill," he said.
The state also needs to approve this proposal. That has not happened, and there is no timetable for when it may happen.
There is already one landfill in the area.
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Hi all. I am 27 weeks tomorrow and was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia and put on bed rest two weeks ago. I am currently going to the dr 2 times per week to check my BP and urine. Was anyone else diagnosed this early? If so, did you deliver really early?
It seems like everything I read is from people who are diagnosed at later in their pregnancies and end up delivering a few weeks later. I know my doctor doesn't have a crystal ball, but he won't give me a strait answer on if I am likely to deliver super early or a little early or what.
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September 14, 2008
the 50 year old man with the folder on his head
dark side:Now get to sleep. I'M WATCHING YOU.Yes that is my eye (supa freakay, ow) and yes I still have interesting news to tell you so just hold your horses. *irritating granny voice* Put that dial down, Everybody Loves Rei will be right back!
EDIT: Thanks for the comments! To answer some questions...
-I usually use a self-timer, but my friend took these (mooching and nagging are key).
-We didn't use a tripod, just slimy hands
-Taken digitally with my Canon Powershot A590 IS. Very good camera, easy to use, but advanced.
-I used Picnik to edit the first 3, using the Cross Process tool in the Create section. For the last 3, I used a program called Photo Filtre that you can download for free here.
I used PhotoFiltre to blend the picture of the tree with me sitting on a stump, so I will give steps on how to do it using that. I won't get too detailed since you're all pretty tech savvy and smart, but here you are:
1. "Copy" one of your pictures
2. "Paste" on to the photo you would like to blend it with
3. Right click on the photo with your mouse and go to "Paste options..."
4. A box will pop up that has different paste settings. The first one is "Opacity", and there's a bar thingy. Drag the cursor thingy to find the right amount of opacity you would like and hit Ok. For mine I did something between 25-35.
5. It should blend now, and you're done! To get rid of the marching ants just right click and hit "Validate paste".
6. If you want to blend a bunch, just repeat the steps until your eyes bleed.
I'm not the best with instructions, but I hope this helps! Have fun!
34 comments:
- Ana said...
The picture of you and the tree is creepy in a great way.
- September 14, 2008 6:29 AM
- yoncto said...
looove the pictures.
- September 14, 2008 6:36 AM
- Mathilda, Taiwan said...
Hi Tavi. Ive been browsing ur blog for a while and i LOVE it.
You inspired me to hav my own blog, and i actually opened one just YESTERDAY! Dont expect u to visit Cus there are only littlelittle things yet:P It's such a coincidence that u just post thing about managing a blog....thanks:)haha
ps.Those pics r amazing
Ahhh!i should have been the first to comment:O (see how popular tavi is!
- September 14, 2008 6:50 AM
- April said...
these photographs are gorgeous, as always.
- September 14, 2008 7:14 AM
- Hannah Cheeto said...
The pics are beautiful, and the outfit is love... kind of Dolce and Gabbana, I think? But mixed plaids are really awesome.
- September 14, 2008 7:51 AM
- Emily said...
LOVE the pic of you in the trees. I think I actually owned that flannel for a while...
- September 14, 2008 7:53 AM
- hazel said...
these pictures are amazing. did someone take them or did you have a tripod/timer?
- September 14, 2008 8:42 AM
- fashionista said...
Those PICTURES.
- September 14, 2008 8:45 AM
- Arabelle said...
ohmyofdgdg my pictures feel inadequate and ugly now. BOO.
i don't think i could love you any more than i do but oh well LOOK WHAT HAPPENED, LOSER.
- September 14, 2008 9:09 AM
- belimba said...
do you take your pictures with a self timer? >0<
I'm jealous. I can't make mine work for me as good as yours does for you.
- September 14, 2008 9:35 AM
- Johanne said...
I love the picture with the tree. very artistic!
- September 14, 2008 10:00 AM
- Joey said...
Is that your backyard? It looks like a horror movie! What's up with the stumps?
- September 14, 2008 10:45 AM
- deko and posh said...
Love ur blog. Great pics!!
deko and posh
- September 14, 2008 10:54 AM
- laia. said...
dudes, you are an awesome grunge explosion. i love it 100%
- September 14, 2008 11:03 AM
- The Stylish Wanderer said...
WHAT FREAKIN AMAZING PICTURES! Jessus tavi, good job.
- September 14, 2008 11:03 AM
- minnad said...
dude i love your fotos
- September 14, 2008 11:31 AM
- bewkworm said...
if i said you remind me of kurt cobainw when you wera plaid, would you be insulted? not that i mean to be mean, that is. i love grunge just as much as the next person. sooo... don't marry courtney love?
- September 14, 2008 11:47 AM
- Jeanine said...
The pictures are fantastic. I also love how you combined the different plaids.
- September 14, 2008 12:36 PM
- Nice and Shiny said...
Ohhh, lovin the plaid clash. Who knew it would be so easy, it looks great! I'll have to give that a go.
Good advise as well, you don't sound patronizing at all!
-ps-what happened to your eye! I hope your okay!!! <3
- September 14, 2008 12:46 PM
- Tavi said...
Thanks you guys! To those who asked, I usually use a self timer, but here I bribed my friend with Razzles and Pop Rocks to take them for me (Hi HANZ). Come to think of it, I believe my dad has a tripod somewhere...gotta use it next time I take pictures.
hannah cheeto-You mindreader you! I was thinking "why have I been so obsessed with D&G lately..." when I put up the pictures. Haha!
belle-No, you still have better pictures, because they involve you killing a zebra and wearing hammer pants. And your dance moves are beautifully epic.
joey-Haha, it does look creepy. This is our yard at our cottage, we have a marshmallow roasting pit and the stumps are seats.
abigail-not insulted in the slightest. My hair is somewhat Cobain-y. They talked about him on NPR the other day and then my mom asked me if I knew who he was, and I was like "ROAR FEED ME RODARTE KURT COBAIN SWEATER TIGHTS" and then we talked about Courtney Love's lips. Kurt Cobain actually said one of my favorite quotes, "I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not." PREACH IT, BROTHER! God I'm cheesy.
- September 14, 2008 1:03 PM
- Tavi said...
Oh, also to Nice and Shiny-Haha! My eye is fine, what happened was my friend shook the camera a little as I was blinking, and this creepy picture came out!
- September 14, 2008 1:05 PM
- Fashion Slacker said...
all those pictures are so great! love it all!
- September 14, 2008 1:10 PM
- Fashion Babbler said...
you always post the most interesting pictures, I love it!
- September 14, 2008 1:19 PM
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- September 14, 2008 2:36 PM
- dave said...
did you take those photographs yourself? digital? film? post-editing?
- September 14, 2008 2:39 PM
- janeaca said...
you're so super duper cute. can't believe you're only in 7th grade! i like the picture with the trees superimposed upon the photo of you. how did you do it?
- September 14, 2008 2:52 PM
- Ana said...
Grassy-ass about the photos. Well I suppose it could be sketchy but then again I think most of us can be creepers online. *guilty smile..yes i kind of stalk your ridiconculously (yes i am a fan of obnoxious words) cool outfits*
- September 14, 2008 4:50 PM
- Tavi said...
Haha! Yes, most of us are. At least in the fashion blogosphere, where there are so many stylin peeps that I would like to kidnap and force to tell me their shopping secret-I mean, um, heh heh *sweats uncontrollably, looks around nervously*...
- September 14, 2008 5:12 PM
- Fashion Is Poison said...
bebe! great post, i love the instructions btw.
- September 14, 2008 6:48 PM
- catbird said...
your blog rules my school. super great.
- September 14, 2008 9:53 PM
- Jessica said...
great pictures.
and i love your new blog banner :)
- September 15, 2008 7:11 PM
- TEXTSTYLES said...
kudos on the photography.
explore and expound.
- September 16, 2008 2:06 PM
- Niki said...
Tavi, I just found your blog a few weeks ago and I am LOVING it. You're so creative, and I have to say I'm really jealous of your style. Thanks for all the fun, keep posting. :D
- January 08, 2011 6:37 PM
- Niki said...
Agh, and HOW do you get pictures like this?? They're just beautiful, I love the colors and lighting quality.
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I read Tim Ferris' "4 Hour Body" book in the spring of 2011. Although I did really get myself into great shape during the summer and fall of 2011 with his "slow-carb" approach to dieting, the chapter that probably had the most profound effect on my life was "How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days."
His story about hating swimming, about how it exhausted him and how he hated it and how the inability to swim embarrassed him really resonated with me. It took me a heck of a lot longer than 10 days to learn to swim, but I can now do it in a manner that I guess I would say is "effortless."
It took me about 9 months to get to the point where I could do ten laps in a row without stopping. Ferris recommends the Total Immersion swimming technique. Purchasing the TI book, checking out the website and buying a few of the videos definitely helped me on my way to learning to swim effortlessly. Here's a pretty popular video that shows perfect TI form:
Here are a couple of the things I learned that might help you if you didn't get much out of your swim lessons in childhood and now want to participate in a triathlon or just be able to swim laps as an alternative to plodding away on a treadmill for hours as a cardio workout.
1. Get some goggles - You're going to have to get your face in the water if you ever want to learn to swim with any sort of efficiency. The first step to being able to do this is to get a good pair of goggles. Keeping water out of your eyes is essential to being more comfortable with your face in it. Ferris recommends the Kaiman Aquasphere, which is also my goggle of choice. If you swim at an indoor pool like I do, you're going to need to replace these every couple months, the chlorine is going to deteriorate their ability to do their job and there is nothing more frustrating than swimming with leaky goggles. The Total Immersion videos feature swimmers using a variety of goggles, it appears that the inventor of TI, Terry Laughlin prefers the AquaSphere Seal goggle since that's what I always see him wearing in his videos. This isn't a commercial for AquaSphere though, Speedo, Dolfin and other companies make similar goggles and maybe one of them will work best for you. You'll want to make sure you get a pair that doesn't hurt your face and put pressure on the bridge of your nose, but stays on when you dive into the water, which you'll maybe eventually want to do.
2. Get your face in the water - One of the reasons I was so exhausted previously was that I was trying to swim with my face out of the water. That puts you in a completely inefficient position where you have to fight hydrodynamics and your body and legs act like a giant underwater brake that you need to fight against. Like I said above, you need to get your face in the water if you want to do effortless laps. I guess if you're satisfied with doing endless laps of backstroke you really don't but I wasn't and you're going to seriously handicap yourself in a triathlon if you don't learn to swim with your face in the water. The first thing to remember is to always be breathing out when your face is under water. I got used to this by doing a lot of bobs in the pool and even practicing blowing out in my bathtub at home! Eventually, I did a push off drill like this exhaling as long as I could underwater.
The push-off after a turn is still one of my favorite parts of my lap swim.
3. Get in the pool as much as you can - I have to say this is actually somewhat of a challenge for an adult. There are a lot of open swim times and opportunities for children to participate in swimming and learning to swim but, especially if you are a single guy in his mid-30's it isn't the easiest thing to find open lap lanes to practice. I actually borrowed my nephew and 14 year old cousin and took them to the pool a few times so I didn't feel weird about practicing at "Family Swim Night." You'll never improve unless you continually get in the pool. Once you've made some progress you need to go back and do it again and improve on that progress. Once you finally get it, you'll be able to be out of the pool for a month or two and jump right back in, but during the time you're learning, you're going to fall back unless you get in at a regular interval. For me that was at least once a week. If I skipped swimming for two weeks I'd go backwards in progress, once a week and I improved or at least stayed the same. So scour the pool schedule for all of the open lap times you can and get in and get in the water. I even signed up for lessons, just so I'd get more pool time which brings us to the next point.
Me after my first mile with no rest between laps!
4. Sign up for lessons - Not only does this get you guaranteed time in a pool but you'll see that you aren't the only one who is trying to learn these things who isn't also trying to learn how to write their name as well. The worst part of adult swim lessons is actually signing up for the class. I have to admit that I had a little shame telling the young lady behind the desk at the pool that I wanted swim lessons. Well, she didn't laugh at me or point at me saying, "You're a man twice my age, what do YOU need swim lessons for?" like I expected. She just signed me up and from there it was actually pretty awesome and beneficial to my progress. Generally adult swim lessons have people at a variety of levels all mixed together, you might have someone who can do no more than get in the shallow end along with someone looking to streamline their technique for their next Iron Man. Instructors usually focus their attention on those with the least experience or the most questions so if you come with a set of drills in mind already, you're going to probably get an hour of uninterrupted pool time to get your practice done. You get out of adult swim lessons what you put into them. Working with someone who knows more about something you're trying to learn is always going to help you so get the advice and get your questions answered, so have the instructors look at what you're doing and take their advice on how to improve, then practice more outside of the lessons. I've seen people in my adult swim lessons go from being awkward head up swimmers to practically human-dolphins and I've seen people who basically just wasted an hour of their free time after work for six weeks in a row, it all depends on what you take from the swim lesson and put into it outside of the lessons on your own.
5. Use all the equipment at your disposal - One area I disagree with TI inventor Terry Laughlin on is the use of pool equipment such as pool bouys, flippers, snorkels and kickboards in the development of your swimming skills. At one point or another I used all of this pool equipment and I think without it It would have taken even longer for me to be swimming effortless laps. I used a FINIS "swimmers snorkel" to eliminate the apprehension I had about breathing and concentrate on the rest of my form at first. I also used fins when learning the dolphin kick and I really think it helped me get down the movement I needed to be doing. One of the most valuable pieces of equipment to my own development was the pool buoy. My kick is terrible due to a rather common problem a lot of people have who learn to swim when they are older, their ankles aren't very flexible and this inhibits their kick. By taking the kick out of the equation, the buoy helped me put the finishing touches on my breathing and when it was time to graduate to bilateral breathing, the buoy helped me there as well. At first I could only breathe properly with the pool buoy but as I got more and more comfortable with the buoy, I was eventually able to do 10 laps with the buoy, then five laps without, then 10 laps with and 10 laps without, then 10 laps without, and 10 laps with then 20 laps without, now I rarely use it anymore. I think Laughlin has a point that you don't want to become reliant on pool "toys" in your swimming but if you have discipline and make sure you use them only as a stepping stone to better swimming I think they are an invaluable resource to learning to swim.
My flip turn off the wall
6. Don't give up - This may sound cliche, but learning to swim when you're older really requires that you have a real desire to be able to reach your goal. It takes a lot of work and there may be times when you think you'll never get it. You just need to continue and at least keep your abilities from deteriorating. Tim Ferris is clearly a much more extraordinary human being than I am in that it took him only 10 days to learn what took me probably 10 or 11 months. To achieve the level I'm at seemed like it took forever. For a while I just swam length by length, I remember the first time I swam a mile, it took me an hour and a half. I swam length by length with at least minute rests in between each length. Now I can swim two miles without any rests in between lengths or laps. I still have a lot to learn, I'm really slow and it takes me about 35 minutes to swim a mile or 36 laps right now. Competitive swimmers can do this easily in the low 20's, so there is a lot of improvements I obviously could make to improve my technique.
7. Get the right suit for the job - One last bit of advice, especially for men is to forget whatever modesty you have and get a form fitting swimsuit. Women already have to deal with the fact that their swimsuit shows every curve and bulge of their body. If you want to effectively and efficiently swim men have to get the same kind of suit. This doesn't mean you need to buy a pair of tiny Speedo briefs and strut around shamelessly. A pair of Speedo jammers covers as much as a pair of compression shorts and will cause you infinitely less problems with drag. Save your swim trunks for water skiing and your rich brother-in-law's backyard pool bar-b-cues. When you're learning to swim laps or swimming as a part of your cardio workout, wear a form fitting suit that doesn't act as a hydrodynamic drag as an underwater parachute. One last word on suits, if you're going to swim in a chlorinated pool, you're going to want to get a polyester swimsuit. Until I learned this valuable lesson I was buying a new nylon/lycra and swimsuit every two to three months. I purchased a TVR Durafast Polyester swimsuit about a year ago and although all of the threading has been bleached whiter than my dentist's wife's teeth, the suit is still basically the same color as when I bought it and hasn't disintegrated like a nylon/lycra suit tends to do after heavy usage in a chlorinated pool.
Those are a few of the things I learned on my way to making swimming an effective part of my fitness routine. If you stick with it and have the desire to learn, you can go from being a splashy aqua-phobe like I was to a near mer-man or maid, which I certainly am not...yet. Swimming is a great no-impact workout and a lot more fun than the eliptical or treadmill in my opinion. Plus you open up a whole new way to have fun, have a goal to work towards and meet people by giving yourself the skills you need to enter triathlons. I don't imagine that I'll be able to pound my knees and back on a treadmill into my 80's and 90's but I'm pretty sure I'll still be able to get my laps in at the pool, I might be even faster and more efficient by then!


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Authorities said just after 8 P.M. Saturday, Hettinger was trying to cross Old Bullard Rd. with her baby, when she was hit by a black four-door Mercedes Benz sedan.
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"The mother appeared to be in very serious condition, and the baby appeared to be in serious condition as well," Robeson said. "The baby was crying and moving."
The crash happened right in front of an outdoor anniversary party and barbeque for a local clothing store. Sgt. Robeson said two officers were working on an extra duty job in a nearby parking lot and immediately responded to the scene.
Witnesses told police that Hettinger tried to cross the street at a location that did not have a crosswalk. They also said that the crash happened when it was still light out and both parties should have been able to see each other coming.
While police said alcohol is not a factor in the accident, they did take the driver's cell phone and are investigating whether or not texting or other distractions could have played a role in the crash.
According to Hettinger's Facebook page, she currently studies engineering at UT Tyler, after graduating high school in 2012 in Seguin.
Sgt. Robeson has identified the driver of that vehicle as 40-year-old Angela Minick. Robeson said Minick did not suffer any injuries from the accident, and there is no indication of alcohol use by either Minick or Hettinger.
Tyler Fire Department, Tyler Police Accident Investigators, and Major Crimes Investigators responded to the scene as well. At this time, the case remains under investigations and no charges have been filed.
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Humans tend to be sooo human oriented, looking for "meaning" in animal vocalizations. Dogs bark, growl, whine, grunt, do soft mmh-mmhs, etc., etc. but the standard communication model for human speech with a speaker at one end, and a listener at the other and a "message" in between just does not fit animal communication. Animals probably do not convey information to each other. Why would they? It would not confer any survival advantage to the speaker. So instead, look at what the dog has to say from the dog's vantage point.
The frequency code as described by E.Morton has been shown to fit close communication between animals. There is now evidence from several hundred species on this, including fish and humans. The medium is the message, an animal uses ritualized communication to manipulate other animals into some sort of action. High pitch and harmonic spectrum communicate smallness, "don't hurt me", submission, friendliness, not willing to go into conflict. Low pitch and harmonic spectrum like a dog's growl is a warning. Low pitch and a spectrum with lots of noise is a dire threat that unless the listener moves away, something bad will happen.
What we call pitch is produced by the vibrating vocal cords, and animals reinforce this by also changing the resonances in the vocal tract size so that they sound smaller or larger. This is done by pulling the lips back to shorten the vocal tract so that the animal sounds smaller together with the high pitch, or by pulling the corners of the lips forward to increase the length of the vocal tract to sound larger. Look at a serious threat from a dog, the corners of the lips is the sure sign that tells you how close the dog is to follow through on the threat. In addition, dogs lower the larynx as well in a threat to sound even larger. Humans of course are totally used to decipher this, we constantly calibrate the speech of various size people to normalize the vowel space, for example.
Human speech uses the same frequency code where for example questions in many many languages are signalled by some sort of high pitch, a question meaning uncertainty, appeal to the listener. Lower or falling pitch over a sentence signals assertiveness, dominance (?), etc. So of course humans should be good at deciphering friendly and threatening canine vocalizations.
Humans also manipulate the size of the vocal tract in the same way as dogs and other animals by retracting the corners of the lips. John Ohala demonstrates that this is the answer to the eternal "riddle of the smile": why would you show all those teeth when you intend to be friendly? Well, retracting the commissure of the lips shortens the vocal tract so you sound smaller, and friendlier, and non-threatening.
Of course dogs have a lot more to say other than manipulating other beings. They certainly have the "alert alert alert" bark. There is a special high pitch of the play bark.
Some dogs use a type of harmonic spectra soft mutterings when communicating with people, never with other dogs, as if to imitate human speech to a small extent. I have observed these signals when dogs attempt to manipulate me into waking up, or getting my attention.
Canine vocalizations should really be described much more from the dogs' point of view, not from the usual anthropocentric angle. This article is quite correct that dogs have a lot to say. I also observe that dogs that have been brought up to communicate with their person
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Humans are animals. Animal vocalizations, whether primate, canine, or anything else do have meaning. If anything, your definition of 'conveying information' is more human-oriented than the author's. Do you not think that a warning bark is trying to convey something?
You seem to be generally agreeing with the article, while your objections focus more on the language the author uses. It should be obvious that the author chooses that approach because they are communicating the information to humans, not to dogs
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- Subluxation—The humeral head moves part way out of the shoulder socket.
- Dislocation—The humeral head moves completely out of the socket.
- Anterior—The humeral head moves toward the front.
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Abrams GD, Safran MR. Diagnosis and management of superior labrum anterior posterior lesions in overhead athletes. Br J Sports Med. 2010 Apr;44(5):311-318.
Dumont GD, Russell RD, et al. Anterior shoulder instability: a review of pathoanatomy, diagnosis, and treatment. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med. 2011 Aug 2.
Gaskill TR, Taylor DC, et al. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2011 Dec 19(12):758-767.
Luime JJ, Verhagen AP, et al. Does this patient have an instability of the shoulder or a labrum lesion? JAMA. 2004;292:1989-1999.
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