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So! Life has pushed me to create something I fell will be beneficial, to those in my area;
Fem Uprising was created to fill the void of real camaraderie that's missing these days from Women's Empowerment groups. All walks of life, and females over 18 are welcome! Please spread the word if this is something that interests you <3
Black Actresses: Part I
Oprah Winfrey | Octavia Spencer | Gina Torres | Lupita Nyong'o | Viola Davis | Lynn Whitfield | Rochelle Aytes | Halle Berry | Gibourey Sidibe | Kerry Washington | Tracee Ellis-Ross | Amber Riley | Thandie Newton | Nicole Beharie | Kandyse McClure | Sanaa Lathan | Joy Bryant | Jurnee Smollett
Just a few short pointers for if and when a cop stops you/flags you down/pills you over
The Dunn trial is moving quickly. The jury could begin deliberations as soon as tonight (Feb.12). Please pray to Whoever or Whatever you pray to, and ask that this time, justice is done in Florida.
"Une Femme Est Une Femme" from Lula Magazine, Issue 19.
High femmespiration
most wonderful video I seen today, must watch! #racism #light #love #truth #lynch #america
An alien race known as "tall whites" is behind American efforts to create a global electronic surveillance system, according to an Iranian news agency
You are invited to submit a 1-2 page autobiographical essay or first person creative nonfiction(essays/memoirs) for this anthology .
The aim of Our Black is to create a book comprised of narratives on the Black Experience and the multiplicity of Blackness. The goal of Our Black is to build a collection of narratives that reflect the diverse experiences of Black folk, one which could be used to better understand the complexity, depth, and challenges of Being and living Black.
The book Our Black will be divided into these thematic chapters:
Acceptance and Ambiguous Blackness: Multi-Racial Identity in America
Be A Man: The Burden of Black Masculinity
Binary Minorities: Being Both Black and LGBTQ(IA)
Never Black Enough: Outside the Scope of Legitimate Blackness
The Intersection of Gender and Race: Being a black woman in america
Not Quite African-American: Black immigrants and First generation Americans
Black Self Identity: How Much is Blackness Defined by Whiteness?
If interested please send us an email at ourblackproject[@]gmail.com for more information and a copy of our writers' guidelines. We will be accepting submissions until March 1, 2014.
Please feel free to share this post as you please. I am truly blessed to be working on a project such as this and I am driven by its potential. With much work and dedication, this can be turned into something phenomenal.
All the best,
zellie imani
going to start on mine as soon as I settle into our new apt! :)
Malcolm X (via specialnights)
NOTE: Eligible applicants are all those who:
o Reside in New York City;
o Openly identify as LGBTQI;
o Hold neither US citizenship nor a green card*;
o Are working towards a Bachelor's Degree at an accredited, nonprofit New York City school;
o Have completed at least one full academic year at a United States college or university; AND
o Have a current, most recent, or cumulative grade point average (GPA) of 3.25 or higher**
*We also welcome applications from individuals seeking or already granted asylum in the United States.
**Renewal of this scholarship requires that recipients maintain a GPA of at least 3.25 each term.
NOTE: Scholarships will be awarded on the bases of both need and merit. Candidates should:
o Have a clearly expressed need for financial support;
o Have and be able to maintain an excellent academic record; AND
o Demonstrate interest and involvement in their school and/or local community
No thanks! No giving!
Kanye West has been so present in the media lately, between promotional appearances and his regular mid-concert "visionary streams of consciousness" (as he calls them), that any interview warranting a mention must be pretty damn special. His showing earlier today on New York's Power 105 is one such interview. For over 40 minutes, the hosts (especially Wendy Williams' former sidekick, Charlamagne the God), pummeled Ye with questions, frequently pointing out his contradictions. These included:
yeezy makes some aite points but.
I wonder what part of the interview people watched; Kanye West spent 40 minutes not acknowledging half of the BULLSHIT that came from the poisonous Charlemagne and continuously focused on his message, of anti everything. say whatever you like, but I can't agree with anyone shutting him down, that's not what I observed.


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[Minecraft 1.3.2] [API] Minecraft Forge v4.1.1Minecraft Tools [ September 11, 2012 at 7:15 AM ] 6,021 Views
How to use:
- Download ModLoader
- Download Minecraft Forge
- Open your minecraft.jar
- Drag the mod loader files over
- Delete META INF
- Drag over forge files
- Enjoy your Minecraft Forge
For Windows users, you just have to run install.cmd. If you're on linux, you need to copy files and apply patch manually for now, A install.sh for linux users too is on the way.
Minecraft Forge 4.1.1 Changelogs:
- Adds a SkyProvider class that can handle the rendering of the sky
- Expose more of the village construction parts for building village piece
- Villager trading, manipulation and village enhancement. Still WIP
- Updated onItemUseFirst call to include the new hit vector information
- Client side only classes are properly annotated, and denied loading on server side
- Add in a utility function that will tell you the context you're running in on either client or server: FMLCommonHandler.getEffectiveSide
- Server mods can now use noClip to push players through solid blocks without is being an invalid move and resetting the players position.
Bug Fix:
- EntityEvent.CanUpdate now functions properly
- EntityItemPickupEvent nolonger spams the 'pop' sound
- Added timeout to MC's download of sound resouces, allows sounds to play if MC's webservers are unreachable.
- Added and error if channel name is invalid – either too short, or too long for mod devs.
- Added a connect and read timeout for downloading libraries. This should really stop the "waiting forever" at startup screen.
- Fix up ML GUI ticking. Thanks sharose!
- Fixed bug in EntityMinecart that would cause them to fall through the ground at the bottom of slopes.
- Fix vanilla MC packet bugs for remote servers that use blocks with ids > 256
- Fix ModLoader adding XP Smelting
- Changed order in which EntityItemPickupEvent is called, it will no longer be called if the 'delay' on the item is still active.
- EntityItems that are in the world with invalid item stacks will now kill themselves. (Fixes infinite items from items on the ground)
- Added missing server side onBlockStartBreak hook, fixes Sheers.
- Use original minecart drag co-efficients for regular carts.
- Pickblock now replaces the currently selected item if it could not find a empty space.
- Fix textures not applying properly
- Fix lighting issue for air related to 4096 fix.
- Fix call to createTileEntity on blocks that extend BlockContainer.
- FillBucketEvent actually fires now.
- Fix custom items not properly having texture applied for partical effects.
- Fix silk touch on Ender Chests
- Fix keybindings not loading properly from gamesettings file after restart
- Fix placing torches and the like on inverted woden slabs.
This is mainly a bugfix and compatibility fix with ModLoader, now that it is released.
All know compatibility bugs at the time of this posting are fixed.
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By Score Atlanta
South Forsyth used four top 10 finishers to win the North Gwinnett Technical College Mountain Invitational on Saturday. Ryan Peppenhorst edged out White County's Austin Thomson by a second for first overall.
Flowery Branch took first at the Coach Benson Double Dip Classic, but Marist's Michael Thurston ran an impressive 16:19 and edged Walton's Kenan Farmer for first overall. All seven Brookwood runners finished inside the top 16 at the Covered Bridge Run on Saturday, and the Broncos topped Etowah, Roswell, Milton and Cherokee for first overall.
The 14th Annual Warner Robins Invitational played host to 24 high schools on Tuesday, and Perry edged out Westover for first overall. Perry's Jackson Reid and John Weaks posted first and second place, with Jackson finishing nearly 40 seconds ahead of the pace. Twenty schools gathered for the West Hall Invitational on Tuesday, and North Hall dominated. Junior Bryce Schuebert placed first, and teammates Quintin Miles, Zack Hill and Seth Chapman were right behind him making it a Trojan sweep of the top four fastest times.
On Sept. 14, North Hall will compete in a field of 31 teams in the Furman Classic in South Carolina, and Dunwoody, Eastside, Galloway, North Atlanta, North Springs, Pelham, Pope and Providence Christian will be making the trip. Along with the Furman Classic, The Warpath Invitational in Canton, Georgia and the Eagle Invitational at East Jackson High School highlight the weekend's biggest meets.
Last weekend, top girls teams gathered in two meets that showcased competitions that should go along way in preparing the best teams for region and state championship meets. The premier events were the Covered Bridge Run in Roswell and the Second Annual Nike Panther Invitational, hosted by Starr's Mill in Fayetteville.
Etowah won the Covered Bridge Run and took over the top spot in girls' Class AAAAAA. Kinsgley Green and Shelby Rensel took the top two spots for Etowah. In all, four runners for the Eagles placed in the top ten. Centennial placed second and was paced by a fourth place finish from Maddy Pederson.
Smaller schools Pace Academy (ranked No. 2 in A) and Blessed Trinity (No. 1 in AAA) represented and placed fifth and sixth respectively.
In the Fayetteville meet, top ranked Landmark Christian in Class A boasted a one-two finish by Kathryn Foreman and Nicole Fegans, but the depth of Starr's Mill helped them earn the team win with three runners in the top 15 spots. Starr's Mill retains the top spot in AAAAA. Lambert, Lakeside-Evans (No. 4 in AAAAA), McIntosh (No. 2 in AAAAA) and Hillgrove (No. 9 in AAAAAA) were the top five teams in the meet.


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We are very happy to have won a tourism Breakfast Award for 2011/2012.
Where possible we use local organic farm produce or fair trade where not available. Special dietary needs can be catered for with prior arrangement.
Our breakfast menu is updated regularly but a sample of our breakfast menu is shown below:
Fresh fruit compote,Yoghurts ,Breakfast Cereals, Choice of Chilled Fruit Juices, Porridge Oats
Full Cornish breakfast including sausage, bacon, hogs pudding, fresh tomatoes, mushrooms. Served with your choice of fried, poached, boiled or scrambled free range organic eggs.
Smoked salmon and scrambled eggs served with dill, fresh chives and English muffins.
Selection of Omelettes
Fresh smoked kippers served with lemon and butter
Freshly baked bread with homemade jams and marmalade.
Full choice of teas and coffee
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Taco Mac, with locations all over metro Atlanta and in several other Southeastern locations, tied with the Brick Store Pub as your pick for the spot with the best beer selection. Staff photo
1. Taco Mac and Brick Store Pub (tie)
You say, "Just about any Taco Mac will have the largest selection of beer on tap in the Southeast. Brick Store Pub in Decatur has the rarest Belgium beers in bottles and on tap in the Southeast if not the nation."
3. Porter Beer Bar
4. Summits Wayside Tavern
5. Local Republic
1. Total Wine & More
You say, "Total Wine … for service, selection & price" and "Total Wine always has a huge selection."
2. Ale Yeah
3. Hop City
4. Tower Beer, Wine and Spirits
5. The Beer Growler
You can't beat the Brick Store Pub for the total beer experience. It's our pick (and one of yours) for best beer selection in and around Atlanta. Staff photo
1. Brick Store Pub
We say, "You can't beat this Decatur gem. You don't just drink beer here, you experience it. The menu descriptions will have you wanting to try everything, but the enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff will help guide you to your perfect brew. There's a reason this place is regularly recognized on a national scale. It's truly a joy to drink beer at the Brick Store."
2. Porter Beer Bar
3. Taco Mac
4. The Beer Growler
5. Ale Yeah
December 10th, 2012
2:17 pm
Ale Yeah!, Decatur and Roswell locations. Selection is fantastic and the service is what really sets them apart. Everybody inside the store knows the brews back and front and talk to you like you're a person, not a piece of meat w/ $20 in your wallet. The best beer store I've ever been in. Period.
December 10th, 2012
2:22 pm
Midway Pub in East Atlanta!
December 10th, 2012
3:05 pm
Hop City. Not even close.
December 10th, 2012
3:05 pm
Enter your comments here
December 10th, 2012
3:26 pm
Just about any Taco Mac will have the largest selection of beer on Tap in the southeast. Brick Store Pub in Decatur has the rarest Belgium beers in bottles and on tap in the southeast if not the nation.
For beer stores, Hop City is the best because they carry the widest variety of beers in Atlanta AND sell growlers. But it is not convenient to get to if you don't live in-town. Tower Beverage is my 'go-to' beer store primarily because I live close to it.
December 10th, 2012
4:01 pm
Definitely Diesel in the Highlands!
December 10th, 2012
4:09 pm
Clermont Lounge
December 10th, 2012
4:17 pm
Possibly Sigman Road Bottle Shop in Conyers has the widest selection of bottled beer
December 10th, 2012
4:18 pm
The Porter in little 5. Amazing beer selection, and a great experience! Best bar in ATL hands down. But don't take my word for it, check out all of the awards they have won for their beer choices.
December 10th, 2012
4:19 pm
Taco Mac. Outstanding selection, and they add and remove beers each month.
December 10th, 2012
4:26 pm
The Drafting Table on Decatur St. Just opened!
December 10th, 2012
4:30 pm
Steak' n Ale off Jimmy Carter Blvd!
December 10th, 2012
4:35 pm
Porter Beer Bar in Little 5!!
December 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
Just come to my house, I have the best selection in the city
December 10th, 2012
4:49 pm
Porter and Brick Store for bars. Hop City/Greens/Tower/Ale Yeah for stores.
December 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
Not even close!! Brickstore, which was rated as the #2 best bar in all of North America, blows everyone else away.
December 10th, 2012
5:01 pm
Kaleidoscope Bistro & Pub, Delirium on Tap!!
December 10th, 2012
5:16 pm
Brick Store if you're serious about some suds, just need to take some United Nations representatives with you to read the beer cards.
December 10th, 2012
5:18 pm
Raoul Duke's Basement
December 10th, 2012
5:28 pm
Brick Store. The others are amateurs.
December 10th, 2012
5:30 pm
Total Wine in Kennesaw! Very good selection!
December 10th, 2012
5:53 pm
Back in the 1980s I used to go to O'Hare's Saloon, downtown Atlanta. My favorite beer was Beck's. I no longer live in Atlanta. I left in 1981.
December 10th, 2012
5:54 pm
Summit's wayside tavern In Woodstock. 150 beers on tap!! Hundreds more by the bottle!!!
December 10th, 2012
6:07 pm
Brickstore by far.
December 10th, 2012
6:10 pm
Local Republic in downtown Lawrenceville has only 10 or 12 on tap, but they rotate the selection and it's always interesting new brews.
December 10th, 2012
6:15 pm
Brickstore! Brickstore! Brickstore
December 10th, 2012
6:34 pm
Smoke Rise Bottle Shop near Tucker/Stone Mountain.
December 10th, 2012
6:54 pm
Hop City for selection, knowledge & service. They have growlers too.
Total Wine in Alpharetta for service, selection & price.
Jax's in Cumming for local selection, but no service. Crafty Draught in Cumming has growlers, great knowledge & service, and is growing their selection.
I hear the Brickstore sets the standard for a brew pub.
December 10th, 2012
8:01 pm
Pubs – Taco Mac & Brick Store. Period. Stores – Haven't been to Ale Yeah!, but Total Wine always has a huge selection.
December 10th, 2012
8:05 pm
December 10th, 2012
8:30 pm
Neill: Brick Store is not a brew pub. Max Lagers is a brew pub. 5 Seasons is a brew pub.
December 10th, 2012
8:58 pm
The Beer Mug! Oh wait, it got bulldozed over a decade ago, darn!
Ah the good old days, when Peachtree Street still had dive bars.
December 10th, 2012
9:14 pm
The Porter and Brickstore both ranked in the top 10 Beer Bars in the world in the past few years and it looks like they're both up there again….http://www.ratebeer.com/RateBeerBest/table_2012.asp?title=Best+Beer+Bars+2012&file=bars_places_2012.csv
December 10th, 2012
9:20 pm
December 10th, 2012
9:37 pm
Brick Store – who else has a bar with just Belgian ales? The food's pretty good too.
December 10th, 2012
10:21 pm
Beer Growler Nation in Oak Grove
December 10th, 2012
10:58 pm
"The Beer Mug! Oh wait, it got bulldozed over a decade ago, darn!
Ah the good old days, when Peachtree Street still had dive bars."
The sad thing is there is not one establishment on that spot that has one bit of significance like the Beer Mug did. I mean what's there another grocery store, a no-sex massage parlor and a school of cosmetology? I ask you where are the Urban Planners??
December 10th, 2012
11:19 pm
The Brick Store Pub in Decatur hands down. I beleive that BeerAdvocate.com voted it at one time the best beer bar in the U.S.
December 10th, 2012
11:25 pm
Bar- Brickstore Pub – bucket list level beer selection. People literally travel to drink there.
Retail – Hop City – revolutionalized craft beer options in Atlanta. Lots of great options but that got there first. God bless em.
December 11th, 2012
1:30 am
The porter bar in little 5 points. My husband and I are beer travelers. There really is no contest here.
December 11th, 2012
4:44 am
Bobby B has got it right. Chris and the crew atThe Local Republic on the Square in Lawrenceville has an awesome rotating selection and the burgers are the best Ive ever eaten. Beer and Beef, what else is there?
December 11th, 2012
5:23 am
Taco Mac….hands down has the best SELECTION. Obviously the other commenters don't understand the word "selection". Brickstore is GREAT…but I wouldn't say they have a great selection. Maybe the most unique selection, but not the best. When Taco Mac has 40+ beers just on tap, never mind the many, many more in bottles. That is truly a selection. Vote based on selection….taco mac. Seems everyone wants to feel like they're so smart and know beer so well by voting for other places with only 20 or so beers on tap. Why don't you just get a count of how many beers each location had and call it a day.
December 11th, 2012
6:20 am
December 11th, 2012
7:09 am
Summit's Wayside Tavern near Snellville has the best draft beer selection in town.
December 11th, 2012
7:23 am
This contest is too broad. Narrow it down a little bit AJC.
December 11th, 2012
7:33 am
Summit's Wayside Tavern in Snellville best selection of drat and bottled beer.
December 11th, 2012
7:38 am
The Beer Growler in Avondale Estates!
December 11th, 2012
7:48 am
Whiskey Ben's… (Previously Key West) Brand new management… brand new menu …… lots of beer……Karaoke starting Jan 8th……Braselton exit off I – 85. Go North 1/2 Mile. Ask for Chase. Best bartender in town.
December 11th, 2012
8:13 am
The Beer Growler
December 11th, 2012
8:16 am
The Bear Growler in Avondale Estates – hands down!


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Playing for Kansas, Jeff Withey averaged 3.9 blocked shots per game and made a reputation for himself as one of the best rim protectors in college basketball.
The Utah Jazz already knew that about him. But that's not why they brought the 7-footer in for a workout on Wednesday morning.
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What the front office wanted to see was how he responded offensively. They wanted to see how deep the range was on his jump shot and how he played facing the basket. The defensive abilities would always be there.
"In that way, today was a unique experience," Withey said. "We did a lot of three-on-three stuff, a lot of shooting. It was different. Of course there's the altitude factor and people want to see how you deal with that. So there were a lot of different layers to this workout."
Withey is intriguing. He's a little different than some of the guys the Jazz are looking at for their second first-round pick — 21st overall — which is Withey's projected range. He's already 23, one of the oldest and most mature guys in the draft.
Most deem him capable of coming in right away and contributing on the defensive end.
He's a true center, which would allow the Jazz to play Derrick Favors at his natural power forward spot.
And it's not like Utah hasn't had previous success with 7-footers out of Kansas: Greg Ostertag had a long career playing alongside Karl Malone 15 years ago.
"He was impressive," Jazz head scout Walt Perrin said. "He shot the ball a lot better than we anticipated. He showed us a side of his game that we didn't see while he was in college. We didn't want him to do much back to the basket stuff. We wanted to see him expand his game."
Tuesday marked Withey's 12th pre-draft workout, typical for a guy like him with fluctuating projected draft value. With the Jazz he worked out with three other guards: Brandon Paul from Illinois, Ray McCallum Jr. from Detroit and John Allen out of Western Washington. Big men Jackie Carmichael and Christian Watford rounded out the group.
Perrin said it wasn't intentional, but Withey found himself matched up with other bigs who shoot the ball from the perimeter. Along with the guards, Withey found himself in a workout where playing facing the basket was the norm, not the exception.
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I love your dog.
I do.
The way he rests his golden muzzle on my knee as we sit and chat over a cup of coffee is so endearing.
The way his fur sheds in a perfect concentric circle around my ankles (I have always wanted a pair of Uggs) is considerate.
And the way he makes a bee-line for my crotch as soon as you leave the room? A sure sign of brilliance.
Oh, hi, there, boy.
Look! A ball! Over there. Gogetitboy! Gogetityougoodboyyougooddoggogetit!
Hey, boy, that's a little too intimate for our first get-together.
Whoa, you're a persistent bugger, aren't you?
Okay fine, to the left, that's good, that's good. Now, to the right…You've done this before, haven't you boy?
Really, I do love dogs.
But I should be restricted to other people's dogs. I should be forced to wear a house arrest anklet that goes off near PetCo.
Having a dog in my own house brings out my complete and utter incompetence. I have no idea what to do with an animal living in my house. I feel like I'm living with a ticking shitting time bomb. I sit and stare at the animal as it licks its genitals.
Look at you. You are an animal. You are in my house. You are an animal in my house licking your genitals. This is so weird. Wait, stop being a freak! Everyone has a dog. Why are you such a weirdo? Only a weirdo can't have a dog licking its genitals in her home.
When we decided to get a dog for the kids I could hear the great unspoken collective voice of all my friends and family: "She can barely wipe her own ass, how is she going to have a dog?"
But my husband and I talked it over at length. Why should the whole family be deprived of a dog's love because I am Dogis Incompetentis? I promised to be engaged, patient, involved, Not A Quitter of the Family Pet.
First we went to the local animal shelter to check out the dogs. After a short visit we were told that it was not wise to rescue a dog if you have young children in the house. I think they said something like, "We can't guarantee that Fang won't tear out your 2 year old's jugular because 2 year olds look and smell like big juicy hotdogs!"
Then we tried to rescue a pug from a local Portland pug rescue organization. We filled out a 5-page application.
No, we haven't left a box of kittens by the road.
No, we haven't had any sparring chickens in the backyard.
No, we aren't criminals, perverts, lacto-ovo-vegetarians, supporters of wheat grass movements, growers of peaches, pubic hair or viewers of Glee.
We went to a rescue event and showed off our pug interaction skills. We even went through the at-home interview with a prospective pug. But the interview was at 6 pm and every single one of our children melted down in succession because, well, it was 6 pm and they all wanted to pet the dog RIGHT NOW NO ME I WANT TO HOLD HIM! NOMEWHYDOESN'TTHEDOGLOVEMEWAHHHHHHHH. The childless pug interviewer was dismayed and deemed us unworthy of being able to handle a dog.
So we put out word in the pug community (oh, yes, there is a pug community) and found a breeder who was looking for a family with whom to place an older puppy. All it took were the words "potty trained," "crate trained," and "such a sweet, sweet boy!" Before I knew it we were on a family road trip in the Silver Bullet on the way up to the armpit of Washington to meet the pup.
As soon as we met the pug it was a done deal. He was so damn cute. The curly tail. The dear little snort. The kids were in love. My daughter said, "I've never felt so understood in my whole life, he just really gets me."
The first few weeks were filled with puppy love. But then we realized that the dog, named Ozzie Jellyroll Crunch, was pretty much running the show. He was peeing all over the place, and finding interesting places to poop (indoors).
We started working with a trainer.
I recall her cocking her head and saying, "Wow, he really doesn't seem to be motivated by any of my usual tricks!" (Subtext: This dog is an asshole) and, "He sure is stubborn!" (Subtext: And he's stupid to boot!)
We've had Ozzie for about a year and I've come to the conclusion that he is:
1. A Sociopath: An Axis II personality disorder characterized by "…a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood."
—–>evident by his constant desire to urinate on my bed, on clean laundry and the carpet.
—–>evident by his obsessive need to chew up the children's toys despite the gajillion dog toys and chewy bones at his disposal
2. An Anarchist: a person (or in this case dog) who promotes disorder or excites revolt against any established rule, law, or custom.
—–>evident by his insistence on chasing the cat
—–>evident by how many library books he has chewed up
—–>evident by his nose being firmly planted up the ass of any creature at his disposal (including cats and children)
So, when I snuggled into bed late last night and was met by the damp and pungent odor of dog pee on the comforter I silently cried You muthaFUCKING Dog! But I have pledged to Stay The Course of Canine Insanity so despite his diagnosable issues, I will stay the course
and hope my shrink will hook me up with a good pharmaceutical pacifier.


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16 U.S. Code § 3113 - Definitions
As used in this Act, the term "subsistence uses" means the customary and traditional uses by rural Alaska residents of wild, renewable resources for direct personal or family consumption as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, tools, or transportation; for the making and selling of handicraft articles out of nonedible byproducts of fish and wildlife resources taken for personal or family consumption; for barter, or sharing for personal or family consumption; and for customary trade. For the purposes of this section, the term—
(1) "family" means all persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption, or any person living within the household on a permanent basis; and
Source(Pub. L. 96–487, title VIII, § 803,Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2423; Pub. L. 105–83, title III, § 316(b)(4), (d),Nov. 14, 1997, 111 Stat. 1593, 1595.)
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This Act, referred to in provision preceding par. (1), is Pub. L. 96–487, Dec. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 2371, as amended, known as the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 3101 of this title and Tables.
1997—Pars. (3) to (5). Pub. L. 105–83, § 316(b)(4), which directed the addition of pars. (3) to (5) was repealed by Pub. L. 105–83, § 316(d). Pars. (3) to (5) read as follows:
"(3) 'customary and traditional uses' means the noncommercial, long-term, and consistent taking of, use of, or reliance upon fish and wildlife in a specific area and the patterns and practices of taking or use of that fish and wildlife that have been established over a reasonable period of time, taking into consideration the availability of the fish and wildlife;
"(4) 'customary trade' means, except for money sales of furs and furbearers, the limited noncommercial exchange for money of fish and wildlife or their parts in minimal quantities; and
"(5) 'rural Alaska resident' means a resident of a rural community or area. A 'rural community or area' means a community or area substantially dependent on fish and wildlife for nutritional and other subsistence uses." See Effective and Termination Dates of 1997 Amendment note below.
Effective and Termination Dates of 1997 Amendment
Until laws are adopted in Alaska which provide for definition, preference, and participation specified in sections 3113 to 3115 of this title, amendment by Pub. L. 105–83was effective only for purpose of determining whether State's laws provide for such definition, preference, and participation, and such amendment was repealed on Dec. 1, 1998, because such laws had not been adopted, see section 316(d) ofPub. L. 105–83set out as a note under section 3102 of this title.
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Clean with a light muskiness, almond, a hint of cow barn (nice!) and subtle woodsmoke. With water it shows good weight along with hot oatmeal, brick dust and a whiff of fresh asparagus.
Thick and unctuous - think caramelised apple with good acidity building up.
Light and tight.
Ardmore shows its gentle side. When will people discover this distillery?
Fragrant. Floral and malty. Freesia. Honeysuckle. Barely sugar. Opens on citrus notes. Lemon posset. Refined and complex. Hint of marshmallow
Crisp like raw silk. Not as smooth as the nose would have let expected. A fizzy spicy feel on the tongue. But the same delicacy. Light fudge at midpalate.
Smooth, gently spicy with a fresh note of icy mint.
An enticing whispering whisky
Colour: white wine.
Nose (neat): Exactly Ardmore, with this very precise moment where the fruitiness and the smokiness find perfect balance. I don't know if it's rather smoked peaches and cranberries or the other way 'round, but what's sure is that it works. Also melons, hay, garden bonfire, a little coal, tangerines… In short, very Ardmore. With water: the barley comes out more. Fresh muesli.
Mouth: plain and pure estery peat. I mean, smoked sweets and drops (pineapples, oranges, strawberries, apricot, melon and god knows what else). Then more roots and pepper, both white and black, but this very peaty fruitiness will just remain there. Spectacular in its own kind. With water: an even bigger fruitiness. Lovable and much quaffable.
Finish: medium long, tart, light, fruity, very clean.
Comments: I love these Ardmores. Perfect if you like peat but do not always want to feel like you've put your head into a stovepipe. Ahem. SGP:546 - 90 points.
Nose: fairly malty and neutral at first, not much smoke. Light buttery notes. Some vanilla and soft fruits (peach, papaya). All this mixed with an interesting leafy / mossy character and the lovely sooty, diesel-like aromas that we've found in Ardmore before.
Mouth: oily mouthfeel, sooty at first. Then a terrific burst of tropical fruits. Light pepper. A nice, slightly medicinal twist towards the end. Very good.
Finish: medium long, medium dry with smoked almonds. Unfortunately also a slightly soapy / zesty note which I don't like too much.
Another great Ardmore 1992, balancing between zesty / mineral notes and tropical fruits, with a smooth underlying sootiness.
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From the get-go, I've been dreading the inevitable episode where we'd spend too much time delving into this season's tiresome side plots. And after last week's high-octane romp -- complete with multiple gasp-worthy cliffhangers -- I had a feeling that this week the writers might slow things down before going into overdrive and bringing the season to a close.
We're rounding the final curve of Season 6, but this week it felt like the writers were struggling to find enough content to fill the hour-long show.
Spoiler alert #1: Sookie doesn't drown
But really, did anyone think there was even the remotest of chances that Sookie would be killed off? As "Don't You Feel Me?" begins, it's Bill who's feeling Sookie. When he senses her distress at being drowned, he calls out her name just like he used to back in "True Blood's" heyday. Then he sends Warlow to rush to her rescue.
Warlow hurls the spirit of Corbett Stackhouse in the form of Lafayette high up into the air and scoops Sookie out of the water. Sookie asks Warlow to use his magic light to blast her daddy's spirit out of Lafayette's body so that she can tell her father to buzz off and leave her alone for good. Corbett doesn't put up much of a fight, especially considering how passionate he was about drowning his daughter just moments earlier.
Next, it's Warlow's turn to need rescuing. When Billith summons Warlow back to him, Warlow starts convulsing and vomiting blood just like Jessica did in the season premiere. No worries, though: Sookie grabs Warlow's hands and they escape to the faerie dimension, beyond Billith's reach.
Sadly, it's not at all flowers and light in faerie land. Warlow warns Sookie that she needs to tie him up, as night is coming and he's not sure he can control the vampire within him after dark. (Especially since he's hungry, and that Sookie is mighty tasty.)
While Warlow is tied up, he and Sookie have a nice long chat about Warlow's thousands-of-years-in-the-making plan to turn Sookie into a vampire so that they might live out a blissful half-fae/half-vamp life together for all of eternity.
At first Sookie seems (rightfully) perturbed by Warlow's fixation on her, but then decides that instead, she might as well be the "danger whore" that all of Bon Temps believes her to be. To that end, she lets Warlow feed on her, takes her own bite of his neck, and then makes passionate love to him until the two climax in a giant burst of faerie light.
Spoiler alert #2: Eric and Pam don't kill each other
Instead, they use their stakes to dispatch of all the guards hidden in the viewing cell. Eric pokes a hole in the two-way glass, and plays peekaboo with Steve Newlin.
Governor Burrell is peeved that he didn't get to witness Eric and his progeny destroy each other, and chains Eric up in an even smaller cell. It's into this room that Nora is wheeled, tied to a stretcher. The governor isn't through trying to get under Eric's skin just yet. How did Burrell know that Nora was important to Eric?
"That vamp queen Newlin" is the gift that keeps on giving. Methinks Eric is going to remember Newlin's role in all of this, and I look forward to watching him get his revenge.
Governor Burrell wants Eric to know firsthand the pain of losing a loved one, seeing as it is Eric who turned his beloved Willa into an evil vampire. He injects Nora with a virus he calls Hepatitis V, and leaves the room to let Eric watch as the poison spreads through Nora's veins.
Speaking of Willa, she convinces her father to let her out of solitary confinement so that she can play Connect Four with Tara. When she starts having some weird bodily sensations, Tara explains that Eric is summoning her and that Willa must go to him (and also, kill whomever tries to stop her along the way).
Willa is a fast learner, and has no trouble doing just that. She reaches her maker and with her help, Eric and Nora escape their cell. The three make their way through Vamp Camp looking for Pam, Tara and Jessica -- Willa insists on saving the latter two. Instead of finding their friends, they stumble upon a bottling facility within the camp. Eric sees that bottles of TruBlood are being injected with Hep V, and is properly freaked out by the implications this could have.
Are you there, Lilith? It's me, Bill
Bill (finally) realizes that Jess has been carted off to Vamp Camp. He's desperate to speak with Lilith, and arranges to have Professor Takahashi drain him of all his blood and bring him to near-death state. That's how he was able to see Lilith last time, so he figures it'll work again. It does work, but as it turns out, Lilith doesn't much care for Bill's attitude and basically tells him that he's on his own from here on out.
When Takahashi rouses Bill from his coma, Bill sees on the TV that Governor Burrell is going to be facilitating the sale of discounted TruBlood, in a supposed attempt to help return life in Louisiana back to normal. This makes Bill especially angry, and he commands Takahashi to give him the faerie blood he had been testing. Bill drinks the vial of Warlow's blood in one quick gulp and daywalks on over to the governor's mansion.
Winning this week's badass award, Bill is shot with no less than 10 bullets upon arrival at the mansion but is unharmed; instead of dying, he uses his Billith mind powers to make the governor's soldiers shoot each other dead.


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"What do you want to be when you grow up?" It's an omnipresent question in childhood, but more often than not the answer is pretty cloudy. Here are some great tips on how to lead your little jack-of-all-trades on a path to the career of their dreams.
No matter how old your child is, you can discuss their interests and talk about professions that correspond with those interests. Even better, encourage your children to take part in activities that relate to what they want to be. Let your vet-in-training volunteer at an animal shelter, find a community garden that might want a young landscaper, or get your future Oscar-winner into a drama club.
But with careers, it's important to keep the information and advice you give your child age-appropriate. For instance, explaining the financial drawbacks of being an actor to a preschooler may make them reluctant to discuss the topic in the future. While your child is still young, it might be a good policy to encourage any and all career ideas your child has, and support them in finding programs appropriate to nourish those interests.
When kids reach the end of middle school or the beginning of high school, there are many resources for getting more practical about a career decision. Most middle and high schools have guidance counselors available to discuss career paths with students. Parental involvement in these meetings is usually encouraged, so take advantage of this; your presence can help the conversation be more fruitful.
Internships are available to younger and younger kids these days. But sometimes trying out a profession in real life won't live up to what your child imagined it would be. If your child becomes disappointed or discouraged, explain to them that that's okay: just because this didn't suit them doesn't mean they can't learn something from it.
Talk to your child about the path your career has taken you on, highlighting jobs you had as a teenager and what you learned from them. If possible, invite your child to join you for a day at work. Or, if another parent you know works in the industry your child is interested in, ask them if your child could spend a day shadowing them.
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Steven Spielberg directs Daniel Day-Lewis in his award-winning turn as our 16th president. Sally Field and Tommy Lee Jones also star in this superior historical drama.
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Action-filled tale of undercover cops and the mob in Los Angeles, circa 1949. Sean Penn and Ryan Gosling star in this thriller directed by Ruben Fleischer.
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Welcome to the Waiver Wire's EVERY BATMAN EVER MARATHON. In the weeks leading up to the release of 'The Dark Knight Rises' I will be watching and analyzing every feature film based on the Caped Crusader. The Batman film franchise is an old one with roots stretching all the way back to film serials produced in the 40′s. The first feature film came about in 1966 and our love affair with The World's Greatest Detective has continued on ever since. Check back every Wednesday for the newest installments and I encourage you to join in and do the marathon with me. Here's the schedule (click on the date for past installments):
Intro: 5/23; Batman (1966): 5/30; Batman (1989): 6/6; Batman Returns (1992): 6/13; Batman Forever (1995): 6/20; Batman & Robin (1997): 6/27; Batman Begins (2005): 7/4; The Dark Knight (2008): 7/11; Recap/Rankings: 7/18; The Dark Knight Rises (2012): 7/25
The Recap
We are one day away from the release of The Dark Knight Rises and I'm full on freaking out. The early reviews are positive, I've managed to avoid spoilers (so far) and my quest to ban myself from watching any new clips or trailers has been a smashing success. My midnight Imax tickets are locked and loaded and I've just spent the last seven weeks watching and analyzing all of the Batman films leading up to this point. I'm ready. But first I want to take a look back.
This weekly marathon started as an idea I presented to the other Waiver Wire writers with me saying something like, "I'm going to try and watch all the Batman movies and write about it but will probably forget one week and ruin the whole thing." As it turns out once I started I was hooked and the movies and reviews have been something I've looked forward to each week. What's been remarkable to me is watching the franchise go through so many transitions while factoring what I know about the production history of each film and the eventual direction of the character. Before ranking anything I want to give out a few awards.
Award For the Craziest Moment: This award should probably just go to Batman: The Movie (1966) because it is one long spiral into brightly colored insanity. But that would be a cop out so instead I'm going to give the award out to two different scenes (less of a cop out), the first is Adam West's Batman attempting to dispose of a comically oversized bomb for upwards of a year in the 1966 film. This ties with the Batman & Robin scene in which Mr. Freeze tries to make his army of hockey playing henchmen sing, all while wearing polar bear slippers and a robe. I'm pretty sure Arnold wouldn't have been a Governor if one of his opponents thought to whip out that scene.
Award for the Best Batman/Bruce: My Nolan bias is going to win out here. The award goes to Christian Bale for his smarmy public Bruce Wayne and snarling, badass Batman. It's a combination of a great dramatic actor clicking with his director and Bale's ability to handle the grueling fight choreography. His divisive Bat voice works for me and he has the acting chops necessary to carry out Nolan's artistic vision.
Award for the Best Villain: Who am I to argue with the Academy? The award goes to Heath Ledger for his jaw dropping performance as the Joker. The most amazing part of his take on the character is how transformed Ledger is as an actor. It's a rare thing to see someone truly disappear into a character but this is one glorious instance. When you compare it to Jack Nicholson's performance you can see what I'm talking about. Jack is fun, but you know exactly who's under that makeup. Heath is damn near unrecognizable, and not just because of his makeup. Plus there's this.
Award for the Best Gotham: And the award goes to…Batman Returns and Mr. Tim Burton. Rewatching this movie made me remember that, before Burton was making horrendous, unforgivably bad versions of Alice in Wonderland, he was a visionary artist capable of creating dark blockbusters that brimmed with imagination.
Burton imbues his Gotham with a timeless quality that no other director has been able to match. Nolan's grounded Gotham is great for his film's but Burton really grasps the gothic and noir elements of the source material. His Gotham seems to exist in a time between the Great Depression and the mid 50's. Yet modern technology isn't shied away from. This style blends with Burton's dark inclinations and the result is a city that feels like a place where Batman would really exist.
My Mistakes: Someone pointed out to me that Robin's costume in Batman & Robin is actually a red and black version of the Nightwing costume. While Schumacher made the mistake of putting Chris O'Donnell in that costume, I have to concede that the design is a great nod to the comics and solves the problem of translating Robin's skimpy source material outfit to the screen.
The Rankings
Each of these films has been out for years and has had a chance to sink in. Their cultural impact is established and their iconography is firmly in the mind of Batman fans. I've also seen each of these films more than once and have had time to process them fully. For that reason I'm going to rank the films in this franchise before seeing The Dark Knight Rises. I'm going to do an analysis of TDKR but I don't want to rank it before giving it time to set in. So now, without further ado, here are rankings:
- #7- Batman Forever (1995)
In last place is Joel Schumacher's first attempt at killing Batman. Batman & Robin is a worse film. Hell, Batman: The Movie is a worse film. But Forever is just so much less watchable. It's not campy enough to qualify for 'so bad it's good' and it's not a great film by any other standards. Val Kilmer is an awkward, goofy Batman and he's pitted against two villains who seem to be in a contest to try and be more ridiculous than the other. Jim Carrey and Tommy Lee Jones do have moments of over the top performing which leads to laughs but for the most part their performances are just sort of sad. Plus, this movie unleashed the atrocious superhero acting of Chris O'Donnell on the world and I'll never forgive it for that. You can skip this one at Blockbuster (if you can even find one).
Next up is 1966's camptastic take on the "Bright Knight." Adam West is fun to watch in this film because he comes across as deranged instead of heroic. But not typical Batman deranged. More like Death to Smoochy deranged. You never know exactly what bizarre monologue or kooky device he'll whip out next and Burt Ward's overzealous Boy Scout version of Robin is the perfect sidekick. The villains are all giggling lunatics prone to astonishingly bad plans and any gadget owned by Batman has "Bat" in front of it. This may not be a good movie but it sure is an experience.
- #5- Batman & Robin (1997)
In 5th place is the film which killed Batman as a film franchise for eight long years. It's silly, visually confusing and never manages to come together in any meaningful or exciting way. On the other hand, it has some of the most cringe worthy one-liners ever committed to the screen and an Arnold Schwarzenegger performance for the ages. Batman and Robin's omnipresent nipples and huge cod pieces are just a small sample of all the ways Schumacher went wrong with this film but you'll have a great time watching it and, in this case, that's what counts.
- #4- Batman (1989)
Tim Burton's first crack at the Caped Crusader didn't hold up as well as I expected it to. It's a decent movie and Burton was at the top of his game when he made the film. His visual instincts are sharp and he crafts a really fun Gotham that works well within the tone he tries to establish. Still, Nicholson's Joker is more enjoyable in an "enjoy Jack Nicholson" way than he is a good Joker. The character's origin is far too boilerplate and his connection to Batman is lazy and foolhardy. Mostly this film feels like something that Burton had a vision for that was tampered with by the studio. My belief in that explanation is bolstered by the next film on the list…
Burton's follow up is a different animal entirely. I'd forgotten just how good this film is until I rewatched it for the marathon. In fact, it holds its own with any of Nolan's movie and you can really tell that Burton had much more control over the direction of this movie. His take on Gotham is even better than before and his cavalcade of bad guys features iconic performances from both Danny DeVito and Michelle Pfeiffer. It doesn't hurt that Christopher Walken was thrown in too. This film is bigger, badder and darker than its predecessor and the peak of Batman's early filmography.
- #2- Batman Begins (2005)
Upon rewatching this film I was surprised by how great it was. After The Dark Knight took over the world in 2008 it was easy to forget about its predecessor but that would be a mistake. This is the definitive Batman origin story and the bold choice to keep Batman off screen for over an hour pays off in a big way. That is, we care about Bruce Wayne. Christian Bale is a big part of this, along with a big, idea driven script that manages to balance thematic excellence and kickass set pieces. This film also introduced the world to a grounded version of Batman who seemed as if he could almost exist in real life. That feat alone deserves a round of applause because it was not easy to pull off in a believable fashion.
Are you really surprised? This film is adored, and decimated the box office, for a reason. Nolan crafted one the all time great summer blockbusters by doing something few big budget filmmakers do, focusing on story and characters. Sure there is great action and Nolan knows how to put a huge budget on the screen in a satisfying way but it's the deep pathos and complex themes of The Dark Knight that makes the film so damn great. It assumes the audience is filled with intelligent people who want to be challenged by ideas. That puts it miles apart from the average Michael Bay picture.
And do I even have to say it? Heath. Fucking. Ledger.
I've really enjoyed these weekly trips to Gotham and I'm beyond excited to take one more trip tomorrow. Check back next week for the conclusion to this series and what may end up being the greatest film trilogy of all time.
Last Up: The Dark Knight Rises (2012): 7/25


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How does virtuality translate into reality?
This week in my bioelectricity class, we spoke about electrical stimulation of nerves. One method of stimulation is to place a electrode directly on the surface of a nerve. One of the considerations of this method, however, is that the anode (positively charged side) and cathode (negatively charged side) of the electrode each cause a redistribution of charge around the electrode. Consequently, the anode induces a complementary "virtual cathode" and the cathode creates a complementary "virtual anode." These components aren't actually there, but we can observe a similar redistribution of charge that implies that something unseen is going on. Despite the fact that these components are not physically present, they have real effects on the functionality of both the electrode and the nerve. The virtual cathode and anode can cause a very real, measurable voltage change in the nerve, and can effectively block a nerve signal, which is dependent on the voltage.
In what other ways can intangible entities have physical manifestations? In this case, the unintended effect has a negative consequence, but can we find useful applications of such a circumstance?
Also, if these imaginary aspects can effect reality, what does that say about our definition of what is real and what isn't?
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Apr 7 2012: Observer effect state that the act of observation of a process or an event will have different outcome comparing with no observation. But in order to analyze the relation between the input and output, observation is inevitable. Base on such assumption, then nothing we observe is real. But to not to observe anything to get the "reality" is not achievable. So I think it is really difficult to distinguish real and imaginary.
Apr 7 2012: I don't believe you're correct. We arrive at the "macro world" through quantum decoherence. This decoherence is a direct effect of observation. It's been proven that quantum decoherence of elementary particles can even be observed at the macroscopic level given certain circumstances.
Additionally, no matter what the experiment someone performs they must create some window of observation which has a direct effect on the outcome of the experiment. A prime example is when using an oscilloscope and observing the inter-modulation distortion caused by different windowing schemes.
Apr 7 2012: Rex, the problem is that in a macroscopic system, these quantum effects tend to cancel each other out.
I'm not aware of any circumstances where quantum effects are observable in the macro world. Any more details you could provide ?
Answering to your 2. paragraph: even if that were true, we have no possibility to prove it, because you couldn't compare an outcome that had an observer with one that had none.
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Yuvraj Singh's 6 sixes off Stuart Broad (South Africa 2007): It was like a TNT explosion, the kind Durban had not experienced before. It left Broad and England shell-shocked and the world watched in awe as Yuvi exploded. India were 171/3 at the end of the 18th over, thanks to Sehwag and Gambhir's heroics at the top of the order. Yuvi was batting on 14 off six deliveries when Broad came on to bowl the 19th. As six consecutive sixes flew into the stands - and beyond, Yuvi entered history books by lashing the fastest halfcentury in T20 off just 12 balls! Each one was sweetly timed and went off the middle of the bat. The fifth one, hit over midwicket one knee was easily the pick of lot as the crowd went berserk. India, of course, went on to win the match by 18 runs and capped it off winning their maiden title by beating Pakistan in the final.


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The long run gets shorter. You have little choice. You can do the same workouts and mileage until your early 50s if you're lucky ("At the same perceived effort albeit at a slower pace," (Alan, 54).) After that your options are reduced, as the long run gets more demanding. "The last three years have challenged my ability to hold progressive overload. I cannot now insist on 20-plus miles every Sunday long run" (Chris, 63). "Not as long and not the intensity–the recovery took too long and interfered with the whole week's training" (Bernie, 62).
Dan (67) points to the danger that, unless you make the longer runs slower, they become too near your new (slower) race pace, and leave you flat for races. Scott (47) runs more time now, sometimes 3 hours, to log the distance he wants, but recognizes the cost/benefit problem, "given that goal No. 1 is to remain uninjured and keep running daily."
It was the ever-lurking injury issue that caused Les (59) to shift to mostly long, slow running, which has given him extra endurance (as a Team in Training coach, he's often running for 8 hours back and forth supporting his beginners through a marathon). Coach and runner Diane (73) has perhaps the best solution: "Run similar amounts of time, so shorter distances. Those who have already built a solid base need less focus on adding up the miles."
Yes. At any age interval training is the shortest cut to race preparedness. Even Ed Whitlock (80), who famously runs round and round his local cemetery, told me two years ago, "I haven't run intervals for five years." OK, but even my math can figure that means he ran intervals to age 73. "A qualified yes–the intensive work gradually gives way to greater volume" (Dan, 67). That seems the consensus–retirement-age runners have less inclination for intensive training, and it may be less essential.
Against that general trend, however, set the revival of Norman's racing by running long repeats for the first time at 70: "The long intervals–3 minutes up to 10 minutes–were really important. They taught me the physical and mental discipline of racing for 40 minutes" (Norman, 73).
Handle intervals with care. Always build a base of miles first. Be aware of the "reduction of options" (see above), which means as you get older and recovery is slower, you can't fit everything into each week. "On Tuesdays I alternate 8 x 3 minutes with a 10-mile tempo/pick-up run" (Grant, 43). So try a two-week training cycle, a brilliantly simple solution proposed by British guru Bruce Tulloh.
Shorten the intense phase. "Track and tempo sessions are still key, but now I do them for only four weeks before a big race instead of eight" (Gabby, 44). Ger, a Dutch coach, does the same. Reduce the impact/injury risk. Almost all my respondents have given up training in spikes. Paula (37) no longer races on the track. Bernie (64) often does her speed work on grass. Jo (38) does hers on a straight trail because track bends aggravated a foot injury. Norm (73) does his on a rail-trail, by time–6 x 3 minutes, say, instead of 6 x 800m, which cured his crippling anxiety about lap times. Haile (38) and Chris (63) do their speed work on a treadmill. And see "Warming Up" and "Recovery."
Yes, especially if you race marathons, but they may have to alternate with intervals. "You can do too many tempo runs as you age and run yourself right out of your aerobic base" (Chris, 63). "Don't let them turn into mini-races" (Dan, 67). "Slower now, keyed more to marathon pace, and often on grass" (Bernie, 64). "I love to run at various paces. Would you cook the same dish every day? I do more impromptu tempo runs now, especially after a miserable work day, going hard for 30 minutes or so" (Scott, 47).
The older you are, the longer it takes to recover fully from hard races. And aging bodies are cunning. If you race too often, yours will find a comfort zone, and you'll become a 75 percent racer without realizing it. As you age, you need increasingly to make your body aware in training of the difference between a 25 percent day and a 100 percent one.
Be selective. You're old enough (if you're reading this) not to have to impress the crowds every week. Learn to treat some races as building blocks in your training program, alternatives perhaps to your tempo run, starting at a casual jog, then picking it up with, say, 2 miles to go. Or fit your interval session into a race–race one mile, jog one mile, and repeat, which will give you a useful 3 x 1-mile session in the course of a local 10K. Successful racing is always a balance of hot effort and cool judgment, and you can use minor races to teach yourself that self-control.
"Targeting one key race as the aim of the whole program really gave me a focus, and put the other races into perspective. In the past all races were equal to me, but this time each had a place and a purpose, a different objective from what the watch said" (Norman, 73). "My body now has only a certain amount of races and hard training without injury. You have to pick your goals" (Bernie, 64).
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" Magic Mike" tells the story of an aspiring entrepreneur pursuing the American dream … who are we kidding? Who really cares about the plot?
Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and a cast of handsome Hollywood hunks show off their best assets as strippers in an all-male revue.
AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire compares the movie to "Sex and the City."
"This is a movie that's tailor-made for groups of friends to get together and giggle and ogle at the spectacle of it all. And it is a lot of fun -- there's no shame, we're all friends here -- but it's also more substantial than you might expect, and more mundane," Lemire wrote on Boston.com.
The more mundane aspect centers on Magic Mike's (Tatum) efforts to start his own business.
"Come for the beefcake, stay for the economics lesson," Lemire added.
Perri Nemiroff of Shockya.com admitted wanting to see "Magic Mike" for one reason and one reason only.
"In all honesty, I'm not usually one to seek out a film for the sake of eye candy alone. But 'Magic Mike' is a different story and, can you blame me? While I definitely got what I came for in that respect, 'Magic Mike' turned out to be much more than a star-studded peep show of a feature; it's got substance," Nemiroff wrote.
According to Nemiroff, moviegoers checking out "Magic Mike" just for the show will not be disappointed.
"The strippers are present and accounted for, but so is a surprisingly thoughtful plot that actually manages to steal the spotlight quite often. Turns out, these strippers really do have feelings, too," Nemiroff explained.
Here's what other movie critics had to say about "Magic Mike":
"Shoulda been big fun, but a deadly combination of no script and a strange lack of sexiness renders this male-stripper tale an aimless, although very commercially calculated, bore." - David Noh, Filmjournal.com
"[Director Steven] Soderbergh clearly gets a kick out of flipping the gender roles of sexual objectification. The club scenes cater to male fantasies of mass female adoration, while the hordes of delirious, drunken women stuffing singles into jockstraps represent a liberating switch from the usual depictions of sleazy men leering at pole dancers." – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter
"… enlisting a squad of Hollywood hunks to strip down to their thongs alongside him, Tatum (backed by producing partner Reid Carolin) drains the shame from a profession that gets no respect, serving up a guiltless girls' night out likely to rank among the summer's word-of-mouth sensations." – Peter DeBruge, Variety
"Magic Mike" stars Channing Tatum, Alex Pettyfer, Matthew McConaughey, Cody Horn, Olivia Munn, Matt Bomer, Riley Keough, Joe Manganiello, Kevin Nash, Adam Rodriguez and Gabriel Iglesias.
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they have pursued DeRozan in the past,
DeRozan fills a need,
they don't want Williams,
they have 4 guys who can play the point,
Roy is not likely to play no matter how much he wants to,
draft picks are hardly a sure bet,
this is a weak draft class,
it is a weak free agent class on the wing,
they need to start winning as Love is able to opt out in 2 seasons,
ownership is looking to sell.
Maybe those factors tie in to things. Most likely they don't.
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Winona Ryder thought Mel Gibson was homophobic & anti-semitic. Ryder remembers an incident with Mel about 15 years ago at one of those big Hollywood parties. Mel was really wasted and he made a horrible gay joke about Ryder's friend and said something weird about her being Jewish.
Winona sharing embarrassing stories about famous people with GQ's Alex Pappademas, "I remember, like, fifteen years ago, I was at one of those big Hollywood parties. And he [Mel Gibson] was really drunk. I was with my friend, who's gay. He made a really horrible gay joke. And somehow it came up that I was Jewish. He said something about 'oven dodgers,' but I didn't get it. I'd never heard that before. It was just this weird, weird moment. I was like, 'He's anti-Semitic and he's homophobic.' No one believed me!"
The world fell in love with Winona Ryder in the 1990s; then she fell off the planet after a slew of bad relationships and her infamous shoplifting incident (a subject that, according to GQ's Alex Pappademas, "she tries not to talk about").
Now she's back, in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan, portraying a former ingenue who refuses to go quietly when the director pushes her aside in favor of a younger ballerina.
January issue of GQ on newsstands nationwide December 21st.
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WTT Smash Hits Raises $500,000 For AIDS Charities
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CLEVELAND, OH, USA - The 19th annual WTT Smash Hits presented by GEICO was held at historic Cleveland Public Hall on Thursday night. Hosted as ever by tennis legend Billie Jean King and music superstar Elton John, the event raised more than $500,000 for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.
Before the on-court action began, the co-hosts and players attended a pre-match reception and live auction. The top auction items of the night were the two popular Billie Jean King hitting sessions, which King served up for $17,000 each; other items included a 2012 Super Bowl Package, two Elton John-signed piano benches, hitting sessions with Andy Roddick and Martina Navratilova, and a French Open package.
As the focus switched to the tennis court, Sir Elton partnered Navratilova to a 4-3 (5-4) victory against John McEnroe and Amélie Mauresmo in a celebrity doubles set. Then things got 'serious'. With a crowd of 3,477 fans cheering on, Team Elton (Roddick, Mark Knowles, Mauresmo and Lauren Davis) recovered from an early 10-3 deficit to edge Team Billie Jean (McEnroe, Jan-Michael Gambill, Navratilova, Coco Vandeweghe) by a scoreline of 19-18.
After the men's and women's singles and doubles and the mixed had been played, the two sides were locked at 18-18. Roddick sealed the victory for Team Elton by beating Gambill in a Supertiebreaker, 7-1.
"It's a great experience playing with Sir Elton John… I love his music," said teenager Davis, who hails from Ohio but now trains at the Evert Tennis Academy in Florida. "Growing up watching these players on TV, it's so cool to be here."
Over the past two decades WTT Smash Hits has raised more than $10.5 million for the Elton John AIDS Foundation and local charities throughout the US.
"You have to make sure you can give the money raised to the right people," said John during a pre-match press conference. "Our challenge now is to get medicine to people who can't afford it, and get rid of the stigma that's still associated with AIDS."
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You can write ANYTHING you want! Make it real story, anime-story, gaming story, one-shot, romance, love tri-angle, anything! But it HAS to have TH somewhere in there.
Once again, this can involve any world, fictional or real, but Tokio Hotel MUST be mentioned.
Imaginary bonus points if you have Cloud, Leon, Neji, Kurama, Axel, or Riku in it. XD
If you've never heard of the band or havent watched the videos, Youtube has them all. Just type in Tokio Hotel and a video should pop up easy. (Ready, Set, Go!, Monsoon, Dont Jump, etc)
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Our 2013 Community Health Needs Assessment, conducted for Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties, drew upon demographic and secondary data for more than 100 specific health and quality of life indicators in each county collected by Healthy Communities Institute (HCI).
Data is typically presented in comparison to other counties, state average, national average, or Healthy People 2020 targets. Data is primarily from state and national public health sources and the source is identified for each indicator. Indicators illustrate how our community compares to national, state, and local health measures. They are not indicators of individual hospital or health provider quality.
We encourage you to explore the dashboards and demographics provided here for Antrim, Benzie, Grand Traverse, Kalkaska, and Leelanau counties. There are also a variety of state and local reports, promising practices, and national funding opportunities that may be of use. This information may help you and your organization better understand the health needs present in our community and identify ways you can work with others to address health issues and improve health outcomes.
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Iraqi Jewish Treasures Displayed in D.C. Before Being Shipped Back to … Iraq
In the chaos of the 2003 war, remnants of a once-thriving Jewish past were saved (or stolen?) by America. Where do they belong?
On one level, this is a question of access. If these materials return to Iraq, it's hard to imagine that Israeli scholars will be able to travel to Iraq to consult them. But this is a practical problem, to which American authorities are offering a technical solution. As part of the restoration process, NARA's staff will be carefully digitizing every book and every document in the collection that cannot be found elsewhere. NARA's Doris Hamburg promises that the rare materials will be made available for free on NARA's website, and they will be word-searchable, with annotations by experts. Ironically, the massive digitization project that is intended to accompany the return of Jewish cultural treasures to Iraq will make the archive more widely and easily available to Jewish scholars from around the world than it would have been if NARA had kept the collection in Washington. Astoundingly, much of the Iraqi Jewish archive—once-secret trove hidden away by a police state, unknown and far from the public's reach—is about to become one of the most easily accessible collections of Jewish materials in the world.
But such technical solutions do little to address the sense among many Israelis and American Jews that to comply with the 2003 agreement and return the Iraqi Jewish archive to Iraq is just plain wrong. It is a curious aspect of modern life that archives, the ordinary bits of paper produced in the course of daily life, are often treasured as deeply as great works of art and religious objects. It was surely for their symbolic meaning more than any practical use that they were confiscated in the first place by Saddam's secret police, which was determined to exercise its power over a terrorized population. It was also because of this powerful symbolism that Rhode, who helped discover the waterlogged books and papers in the Mukhabarat basement, went to such incredible lengths to salvage them and have them restored. As a religious Jew, Rhode has a view of the archive itself as being sacred because of the ritual sacredness of the Torah scrolls and other holy texts it contained.
Ten years after they were found, the symbolism of the collection is still strong. In Israel, Iraqi Jews and their descendants have built and maintain the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, near Tel Aviv. In Israel, heritage centers such as this one help sub-ethnic groups remember their past and continue their distinctive identities as their descendants become more and more Israeli. Sending the collection there, as Rhode and others have called for, would certainly be a meaningful act—symbolically restoring a past to a community that has lost so much.
But the symbolism is no less meaningful for Saad Eskander, the head of the Iraqi National Library and Archives, who, since taking charge of the institution in the fall of 2003, has managed to get its damaged structure rebuilt and mobilize his staff to put its collections back in order. In 2010, when funding delays made it seem as though the Iraqi Jewish archive might be stuck in a kind of limbo, never to be fully restored, he met with U.S. officials to let them know how important the return of the collection was for the future of Iraq. Himself of Kurdish background, Eskander believes it essential for the Iraqi public to know that Jews are not a people foreign to Iraq. For Iraq to re-imagine itself as a place where people of different backgrounds can live together in peace, knowledge of the past is an essential tool.
In the face of loss, the desire to repair what is broken and to see justice done is a natural human desire. Jews feel it particularly strongly when it comes to the suffering of other Jews, even those who live far away, and especially when those Jews suffered merely on account of their Jewishness. It's a solidarity borne of the knowledge that it could have happened to us. It's out of that sense of solidarity that some Jews are going to continue to demand the "restitution" of these archives to Jewish hands. But it's a different kind of solidarity, and a hope for a different kind of justice, that motivates those who seek its return to Iraq.
The archive will be on display in Washington, D.C., through January 2014.
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Ten Things I Learned at AGU's Virtual Globes Sessions
There's nothing like obsessively posting to Facebook to get a guy into blogging. My friends on the Big Blue Time Sink know that I post links more or less daily, mostly out of pure nerdy silliness. Once in a while there's something substantial that merits further commentary, though. I kept wishing I had a slightly more serious way to comment: so began this blog. As it turns out, this is probably just the medium I needed for a few other nerdy – but less silly – pursuits.
First off, I'm trying to drum up support for Glen Richard's wonderful new Teaching with Google Earth library at Carleton College's Science Education Resource Center. I'm also looking for presenters for a session on Google Earth and geoscience education at the 2009 GSA conference. I anticipate that a big part of my writing here will cover the intersection of virtual globe use and science pedagogy. Probably the last thing the Internet needs is yet another blog about Google Earth – there are other blogs more current, more insightful, and better looking than mine – but here I am. Like a lot of other scientific users of virtual globes, I'm interested in using them to visualize and distribute geospatial data. However, I'm also interested in the ways in which virtual globes can get students to connect with the real world around them. I'm hoping to get a little more into this idea in later posts.
Second, I'm trying to make my research a little more accessible to the public. Not too many students come to college thinking that they want to study paleomagnetism and rock magnetics. Probably none do. Probably nobody but a shadowy cabal of underground mole-men know what the f*** those things are. Probably when people hear me say "crystal structure" and "magnetometer" they think I'm some kind of new-age hippie. A blog might be a good way to get the word out that we're actually doing some relevant, worthwhile stuff (some might say awesome), and to fool some unsuspecting students into working with me. So I'll be devoting one day a week – make it Wednesday – to writing about my research.
So, to inspire you to start looking into using virtual globes in your classroom, here's a "top ten" list of virtual globe tricks/tools from this year's AGU. I posted this on Facebook a couple of weeks ago, and Kurt picked it up on his blog. The list is definitely from my personal point of view, and omits a lot (for example, I missed Michael Jones' Frontiers of Geoscience lecture). What's on your personal AGU highlights list?
Ten Things I Learned at AGU's Virtual Globes Sessions:
- Search for environmental data with SciScope – very limited now, but a great concept: http://www.sciscope.org/
- Help students write KML for Google Earth with the KML Interactive Sampler: http://kml-samples.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/interactive/index.html
- Capture and modify Google Earth topography in SketchUp (as long as your viewpoint is close to the ground in GE…). Does this mean I might be able to import some topography (e.g. from lidar data) and make a Collada file out of it, then view it in GE? I still haven't got a straight answer.
- Explore the oceans, draw profiles, examine oceanographic data with GeoMapApp: http://www.geomapapp.org/
- Identify solar and wind energy potential with 3Tier's FirstLook: http://firstlook.3tier.com/
- Find coastal landmarks with Kurt's GeoCoastPilot (even though it wasn't what he was presenting!): http://ccom.unh.edu/vislab/projects/GeoCoastPilot.html
- Make thematic maps in KML from public data, or use the Thematic Mapping Engine to make your own: http://www.thematicmapping.org/
- Put Google Charts in Google Earth balloons or use them as placemark icons: http://earth.google.com/outreach/kml_entry.html#tA%20Googol%20of%20Heat%20Beneath%20Our%20Feet
- Beware of design flaws in your KML that might make people laugh at your lack of forethought: http://googleearthdesign.blogspot.com/ (Rich Treves' example of the UK government's "Do Drugs" pencil was hilarious)
- Use NASA WorldWind, formerly PC-only, on any platform (just a preview so far) and make extensions for it because it's open source: http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/


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Absence can make the heart grow fonder – but it can also drive lovers crazy when busy lives and careers keep making partners absent again and again. A text message or phone call might help a bit, but it doesn't soothe the ache of missing your lover's smile or seeing him/her at the dinner table each evening.
So what can lovers do when they have busy lives that constantly pull them apart, challenging the relationship at every turn? Many couples in these types of relationships are learning that having an official date night, no matter what night of the week it needs to fall on, can make a world of difference. Instead of a few minute phone call, men and women get a whole evening full of connection, romance and time "alone," so to speak.
The Story of Rob and Julie
Regular readers Rob and Julie from Chicago emailed me to tell me of the long distance date nights they have down to a science. Rob is a pilot and is frequently away from home, calling Chicago's O'hare Airport his second home. They have a unique challenge because not only are they apart often, they are frequently in different time zones and date nights cannot be one specific day of the week.
Julie states the first rule she learned is that they both had to be flexible, never knowing exactly which night Rob would have time in a hotel to relax. They decided to have the date night ritual figured out in advance, able to be implemented at any time. When Rob knows he is going to have time that isn't at 3am Central Time for Julie, he sends a romantic text giving Julie a heads up stating "how about a date tonight?"
Rob and Julie decided a date night in house is the easiest – and they like it because they both have quiet and privacy, without interruption. I asked Julie to write out what their date night consisted of, and she was happy to oblige. She explained that the entire evening is done through Skype, so they can talk openly and see each others faces throughout the entire evening:
The evening begins with both Rob and Julie eating together with their laptops set up facing each other. Julie stated the meal doesn't matter, but when possible they try to eat the same thing. They look at each other while eating and talk openly like they do at home, about anything happening in their lives.
Bottle Of Wine And Music
Julie has access to the stereo, so as they usually do at home, Julie puts on their favorite music softly, they both have a bottle of wine and they relax on the couch or bed. To create more ambiance, Julie explained they adapted this ritual by lighting candles and dimming the lights a bit, even though their image gets a little fuzzier on the computer. Julie said it felt too sterile and forced with all of the lights on in the home.
Any Activity
Depending on time constraints and mood, sometimes they both watch the same movie simultaneously, sometimes they read a book to one another – but most of the time, they just like to relax and talk.
Finally, when they are both getting droopy, they get ready for bed and continue talking, eventually turning out the lights – until they are both ready to go to sleep.
Rob and Julie certainly have a difficult long distance challenge, with the inconsistency of being a pilot. However, since date night was created, they both state that it helps ease the pain of separation and adds a huge, romantic spark to their relationship – unable to wait until they are together again!