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Free Webinar on "How to set up your business on popular sites". For people who are relatively new to the world of social networks, setting up a buisness online can be a challenge. And it's a struggle for people who may use these platforms for their personal networks and now seek to find an online voice for their businesses. This live, one-hour webinar will teach you:- How to create Facebook ads and sponsored stories- How to create a Twitter account, schedule distribution and track links- How to set-up and brand a YouTube channel- How to use Pinterest for your business.Register at: www.frontier.com/social
For more than two, HOTEL CALIFORNIA has touched the hearts of fans all over the world, by fairthfully and accurately reproducing the Grammy award winning sounds of kthe Eagles. The magic and mystique of this truly timeless music, is powerful as it captivating. So join us now on a trip down a dark desert highway, fell the cool wind in your hair, and experience Grammy award winning sounds. Relax it's time to check into the Hotel California. Tickets: $16- $22. For ticket information contact 828-524-1598 or visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com
Over 30 incredible items to bid on from Drakes Diamond Gallery, Ann Jacobs Art Gallery, Rosenthals and Wolfgangs just to name a few! A gallery of items will be posted on Trimont Christian Academy's facebook page beginning April 27th. Bidding will begin by phone on May 1st and will end at the conclusion of our Education Fair on Thursday, May 3rd. Proceeds of the Silent Auction to benefit Trimont's "Be A Blessing" Fund. For additional information contact 828-369-6756.
Ticket Prices: $60 each, 2 or more $50 eachGet ready for an unforgettable day of inspiration, learning, networking and more. Chick-fil-A Leadercast is a one-day leader development event broadcast LIVE from Atlanta, GA to hundreds of sites throughout the nation, including Franklin, NC. 9 top speakers include Tim Tebow, Andy Stanley and John Maxwell.
Sponsored by Dnet & Site Dart
For additional information and tickets contact 828-524-1598 or www.greatmountainmusic.com.
Enjoy a fantastic evening in the NC mountains while helping those in need!
Tickets: $12Grab your family and friends and join us for an evening of food and fun. At the Taste of Home Cooking School, you will learn 10 new recipes and cooking tips and techniques you can use to become a star in your own kitchen! Each attendee will receive a valuable gift bag filled with free products, coupons and Taste of Home magazines. Plus, you will have the chance to win one of many valuable door prizes. Let's get cooking at the Taste of Home Cooking School.
For additional information contact 828-524-1598 or visit www.greatmountainmusic.com
Follow Clues & Cues to find your way along the mystery route. Starts and Ends at the Smoky Mountain Center for the Performing Arts.Lunch included. Cost $100 per car. 1st, 2nd & 3rd place prizes. Goody Bags for each participant.Information: 828-349-6887 or www.angelmedfoundation.org
Registration is available at any Macon Bank branch, or online at Active.com ("Banking On A Cure"). Registration on race day will open at 8am.
1 Mile: $10 and the 5K is $15 registration fee.
For additional information contact Sherry at 828-524-7000 ext 2449
Huge 50% Sale! Bake Sale, Regreshments, Hot Dogs & Soda, Balloons and a special working train display by Macon County Model Railroad Club.
For additional information contact 524-5273.
Tickets $10
Founded in 1996 as a local community children's choir by Martha Weathers Brown, Voices in the Laurel is now in its 16th season. Voices in the Laurel have grown into a regional non-profit organization with 70 singers and 3 performing groups. Choristers come from four counties in western North Carolina for weekly rehearsals, four ticketed concerts, and performances for many benefits, businesses, church, and civic groups.For additional information visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com or contact 828-524-1598.
Rarely has a new band delivered an album with more emotional punch than Tenth Avenue North's 2008 debut Over and Underneath. Musically inventive and lyrically compelling, the collection helped earn the band the New Artist of the Year accolade at the 2009 Dove Award
Tickets $12 – $18. For ticket information contact 828-524-1598 or www.GreatMountainMusic.com
Fine Jewelry, Rought & Cut Gemstones, Minerals, Fossils & More! Contact 828-524-3161
Wholesale Show. Must have copy of tax id to enter.
Springtime meant that it was time for Spring cleaning and the "Airing of the Quilts" and other bed linens. We'd like to honor this tradition with a "Quilt Airing" of our own here in Macon County. We invite you to participate by hanging quilts made by mom, grandma, and the other special women in your life on porch railings, fences, businesses and more. It's our hope that we can encourage visitors to travel all around Macon County looking for the quilts that are "airing" as well as for the quilt blocks that are a part of the Macon County Quilt Trail. Downtown Franklin will be alive with quilts and have a special celebration from 10am - 4pm. More information at www.maconcountyquilttrail.com
Contact: 828-524-8673
Franklin Daybreak Rotary is having their 4th Annual Ruby Ride in Franklin, NC. The ride benefits several local charities including CareNet, Franklin High School Interact Club, Community Care Clinic, Kids Place, Polio Eradication, International Water Project and many more.Both events will begin from Franklin High School, located at 100 Panther Drive. The run will begin at 8:30 am and the bicycle ride will begin at 9:00 am. Registration and packet pick up will begin at 7:30 am.All participates must sign release at check in and helmets are required to ride!
Register at www.active.com. Visit website at http://www.franklindaybreakrotary.org/rubyride.htm
Tickets $5
The Macon County Senior Follies is the performing arts category of the NC Senior Games. Open to any permanent resident of Macon County over the age of 55, the Senior Follies is a fun and exciting evening of local talent. Enjoy singing, dancing, comedy, poetry, instrumentalist and more as the winner of the gold medal and the chance to perform at the state level games is announced. For information on being a participant, contact the Macon County Recreation Department.For additional information or to purchase tickets visit www.GreatMountainMusic.com or contact 828-524-1598
Prime Rib & Shrimp Buffet with all the Trimmings.
All Mothers will receive a $10 Boiler Room Steak House Gift Card to use on a future visit.
Including hits such as "I'll Still Be Loving You" and "When She Cries" the songs of Restless Heart are driven by the musical force which brought them together over 25 years ago. They continue to thrill old and new fans by doing what they do best - appreciating their audiences and having a good time making great music! The timeless music generated by Little Texas such as "God Bless Texas" and "What Might Have Been" have been featured on hundreds of television and radio stations across the U.S.A. Celebrating 20 years of Rockin' Country! For ticket information contact 828-524-1598 or www.GreatMountainMusic.com
For additional information contact Jan McGee at 421-0265
Dinner and Auction. Tickets $35 and available at FROGS Headquarters
Class: Painting dragons with water color and pen and inkClasses are held at the Uptown Gallery at 30 East Main Street.Students must be at least 8 years old. Preregistration is required.All supplies are furnished through a Community Foundation grant and Macon County Art Association.
For more information contact the gallery at 828-349-4607 on Pat Mennenger at 828-369-0356.
Enjoy tea, finger sandwiches and cookies. Prizes awarded for best hats!Tickets are $8 and available at the Church Office.
Free Movie! "Courageous" from the creators of "Fireproof" will be shown at 4:00 pm on Sunday, May 20th. Sponsored by Franklin First United Methodist Church.
Program: Arthritis & Physical Activity
Make New Friends, Hear Great Guest Speakers, Register for Door Prizes, Snacks and Learn Important Health InformationThese programs are a partnership between Macon County Public Health & Angel Medical Center.For additional information contact Angel Medical Center at 828-524-8411
Tickets: $27 - $34For Allstar Weekend, there's only one path to success: go all the way. They may have seemed like regular kids when they started out, but since the release of their 2010 debut album, "Suddenly Yours," Allstar Weekend emerged as one of the most promising young bands around. Wait until fans hear "All the Way", their new Hollywood Records album. In its 12 tracks, Allstar Weened not only steps up their game as musicians, they reveal themselves as mature pop storytellers, while still maintaining an element of fun.
For more information and tickets contact 828-524-1598 or visit www.greatmountainmusic.com.
Kids Crew Members only get unlimited attractions from 11am until 3pm and a $15 bonus card for only $19.99. Not a member? Join today! www.FunFactoryFranlin.comGames, Contests and Snacks!Check-In at the Registration Desk to receive a pass for one free attraction. (Age & height restrictions apply) RSVP 828-349-8888 by May 25 to receive a FREE goody bag upon arrival.
Contact Reva Sanders for additional information at 828-200-2532 or 828-369-1881.
Rain or Shine. Something for everyone. Fill a Box for one price.
Call shelter at 524-4588 for additional information
For additional information contact 369-5834
Tickets $12 - $15. Clean Comdey Show
Jimmy Travis is a multitalented performer who constantly proves that you can be funny, informative, and entertaining without being offensive! He's funny, creative, spontaneous, energetic, and since he frequently interacts with the audience, no two shows are ever the same!
A Bean and Bailey show includes everything from stand-up comedy to songs and musical parodies... all woven together in a friendship between Bean (an organized conservative personality) and Bailey (a random free spirit). Bradley Bean and Jackson Bailey have been performing their clean comedy act professionally for over 12 years. They were featured on the very first season of NBC's America's Got Talent, and currently you can hear them on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio.
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Mine are Mary Jane slipper socks!
LOL @PurpleFlowers I can only imagine what someone walking by your office would think to see you taking a pic of your socks!
Mine are Mary Jane slipper socks!
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The Great 1984/5 miner's strike, why a film? Why now?
Mike Simons and others
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Work Motivation Experiments at the Interwar Cocoa Works
Michael Weatherburn (Imperial College London)
3 Mar 2014
Late-medieval methods of poor relief
Christopher Dyer (University of Leicester)
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Spanning the world: how global are business archives?
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Global questions about objects and archives: understanding how, when, and why, the Indian rupee became the currency of East Africa
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Des toits sur la grève. Le logement des travailleurs et la question sociale à Bombay (1850-1950)
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The use of cash and credit in local market transactions
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The economic impact of clothmaking on rural society, 1200 to 1550
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The Crown and capitals in the Wars of the Roses: London and Bristol, 1460-1471
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Mon, Nov 19, 2007
HAI tells ANN this year's
Aviation Maintenance Technician Award recipient is Milton K. Geltz,
Director of Maintenance for Metro Aviation, Inc. in Shreveport,
He holds an FAA Airframe and Power Plant License, Inspection
Authorization and Designated Airworthiness Representative
(Maintenance and Manufacturing) Original and Recurrent part 25, 27,
29 aircraft and parts, and a Designated Mechanic Examiner, FAA
Aviation Safety Counselor, and recipient of the FAA Southwest
regions Technician of the Year award. He also has a Bachelor of
Science degree in Professional Aviation Management from Embry
Riddle University.
Geltz has also completed course work in Aeronautical
Maintenance, studied Piston and Jet Engine theory and maintenance,
as well as live aircraft inspection, repair and modification. He
successfully completed HAI's Management Course, and has
completed course work at several factory schools.
In 1976, Geltz went to work for Petroleum Helicopters, Inc., as
an A&P Mechanic. In 1977, he was hired as a line mechanic for
Special Jet Services, and quickly advanced to lead mechanic. In
1978 he joined Offshore Helicopters, Inc. as the first A&P
mechanic, where he later was promoted to Director of Maintenance.
In 1979 Geltz went to work for Horizon Helicopters, Inc. He then
worked as a Helicopter Field Services and Engines Technician for
Commercial Helicopters and Turbines.
Geltz was hired by Metro Aviation, Inc. in 1983 as line mechanic
to work on Hughes 500 and 300 Model aircraft, among others. He
quickly advanced to Director of Maintenance. Geltz helped Metro
develop and implement the current Part 145 Repairs Station Manual
and the current PMA Manual and he successfully obtained
Supplemental Certificates for Rotary-Wing (Part 27 & 29) and
one STC for a Beech C90 (CAR 3, Part 23) aircraft in 1987, and
currently maintains a PMA for the STC's.
Geltz has been responsible for final assembly and company
conformity inspections, process specifications for STC projects,
supervising company Repair Station NDT Programs, and insuring
airworthiness in aircraft after installation of STC products in
preparation for FAA conformity inspections.
HAI says Geltz's knowledge, experience, and commitment to
safety have earned him the respect of his peers and are qualities
that make him worthy to receive the 2008 Aviation Maintenance
Technician Award.
All winners will be recognized at HELI-EXPO 2008's annual
"Salute to Excellence" Awards Banquet on February 25,
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Six-day mission to open new avenues for two-way trade and investment; promote Maryland as ideal U.S. business location For detailed schedule of the Governor's trip, click here. For detailed schedule of the First Lady's trip, click here. ANNAPOLIS, MD (November 15, 2011) – More than 100 Maryland business leaders, educators and elected officials will join Read the Rest…
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First Maryland Trade Mission includes Meetings in Mumbai, New Delhi and Hyderabad ANNAPOLIS, MD (September 30, 2011) – To build on Maryland's strong relationship and boost trade and investment with one of the world's fastest growing economies, Governor Martin O'Malley today announced that he will lead a delegation of business leaders and elected officials on Read the Rest…
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10-day mission to include stops in China, Korea and Vietnam ANNAPOLIS, MD (April 19, 2011) – In an effort to strengthen ties and increase trade and investment with one of the world's fastest growing economic regions, Governor Martin O'Malley today announced that he will lead a 10-day economic development mission to Asia departing in late Read the Rest…


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Tom, if one applies Boaz's own third-grade method of argumentation, one would have to conclude that he and his fellow beltway GOP lapdogs must be defenders of murderers and rapists. After all, none of his writings ever explicitly renounces murder and rape; therefore, he must be for it, or just doesn't care one way or the other.
Boaz's asinine argument reminds me of occasional emails I receive from the knuckle-dragging/mouthbreathing crowd asking, "Why don't you LewRockwell.com columnists spend more time denouncing slavery?" The few times I have bothered to respond, the answer is: "For the same reason we don't spend time denouncing rape and murder. Who on earth is NOT against slavery, for godsake?!"
In addition, Boaz is simply lying when he asserts that, unlike his sanctimonious self, we ignore the issue of slavery. In The Real Lincoln I wrote that "the one unequivocal good that came of Lincoln's war was the abolition of slavery." These beltway champions of centralized governmental power always ignore such aspects of our writing because their goal is to defend the centralized state, which they foolishly believe can be tamed by the charming wit and wisdom of the David Boazes of the world.
One more thing: Boaz complains that there are too many "straight white males" in the population of libertarians. This may be true of the Cato Institute in particular, and beltway "libertarians" in general, but one gets a very different picture if one attends a Campaign for Liberty/Ron Paul rally, something that Boaz would never be caught dead doing.8:09 am on April 7, 2010 Email Thomas DiLorenzo


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Sony downtime continues this week as additional security work on Playstation Network, Qriocity and Sony Online Entertainment systems remains in testing. Details of 2500 contest entrants were leaked and removed from a dated Sony website last week following rumored reports of a weekend attack. Is Sony secure enough to have services restored by the end of the month as many speculate?
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I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer -- A group of teenagers in Colorado find themselves being stalked and killed one-by-one by a mysterious figure with a hook, exactly one year after they covered up a friends' accidental death...
Husk -- Trailer for Husk
Pearl Harbor -- Recreation of Pearl Harbor and the harrowing wartime aftermath.
Trailer for Husk.
When a murder of crows smash into their car windshield, a group of young friends are forced to abandon the vehicle, leaving them stranded beside a desolate cornfield. Hidden deep within the cornfield they find a crumbling farmhouse but they soon discover that instead of a sanctuary, the house is actually the center of a terrifying supernatural ritual that they are about to become a part of
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History comes alive in the unforgettable epic motion picture Pearl Harbor, the spectacular blockbuster brought to the screen by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay. Astounding visual and audio effects put you at the center of the event that changed the world -- that early Sunday morning in paradise when warplanes screamed across the peaceful skies of Pearl Harbor and jolted America into World War II. This real-life tale of catastrophic defeat, heroic victory, and personal courage focuses on the war's devastating impact on two daring young pilots, Ben Affleck (Armageddon) and Josh Hartnet (Black Hawk Down), and a beautiful, dedicated nurse, Kate Beckinsale (Serendipity). Pearl Harbor is extraordinary moviemaking -- a breathtaking reenactment of the "date which will live in infamy" and a heartfelt tribute to the men and women who lived it.
Mary-Kate and Ashley are spending Winter Break in the Bahamas. Their parents bring them along, but that means they have to miss their school trip to Hawaii with their best friends. Determined to make the best of the situation, the girls decide there's only one thing to do: unleash a tropical hurricane of off-the-hook action and head-over-heels romance!
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It was the Keynesian era of full employment – when, after all, more people were 'contributing' – that delivered ever higher proportions of contributory spend that rose to 71 per cent by the mid-1970s Keynesian collapse.
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It was Conservative governments that fundamentally undermined the contributory principle
An incoming Labour government will need an iron discipline on public spending and a bold plan for growth
In 2010 George Osborne set out his plan to rescue the UK's economy, but this week we'll once again see his failure laid bare. He told the country he would balance the books in this parliament, but his failure to get the economy moving again means that whoever is in government after May 2015 will inherit a deficit of over £90 billion.
Comment: Macmillan never quite broke with small 'c' conservatism – One Nation Labour must be more dynamic
TweetRichard Carr is a research fellow at the Labour History Research Unit As Ed Miliband's 'Mansion Tax' speech proves, for perhaps the first time Harold Macmillan is in fashion right now. At first glance this is odd – in the 1950s and 1960s he was viewed as a stuffy, Edwardian figure ill-suited to the modern […]
Miliband backs mansion tax and 10p tax rate
Ed Miliband will try to press home the Labour party's lead in the polls today in a speech criticising the coalition for its failed economic policies.
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No. 21 UCF Versus Houston With Ryan Bass
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Houston-area voters began deciding Tuesday whether to pump money into converting the shuttered Astrodome into a convention center or to allow the iconic but dilapidated stadium to proceed toward a likely date with the wrecking ball. A referendum facing
Mike White's First Start For USF
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Cards picked to win the AAC Hoops title
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Matt Schaub Confronted By Fans
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Book your room at Hilton St. Louis Frontenac
One king bed deluxe roomMax Occupancy: 2 guests (up to 1 child, 1 infant)
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One king bed junior suiteMax Occupancy: 5 guests (up to 4 children, 4 infants)
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Frontenac hotel with an outdoor pool
Situated in the business district, this hotel is close to Creve Coeur Golf Club. Area attractions also include St. Louis Art Museum and St. Louis Zoo.
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In addition to a restaurant, Hilton St. Louis Frontenac features an outdoor pool. Other amenities include a bar/lounge and complimentary wireless Internet access.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Hilton St. Louis Frontenac provides a sauna and a 24-hour fitness center. The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. High-speed wired and wireless Internet access is complimentary.
This 3.5-star property offers access to a 24-hour business center and limo/town car service. 17 meeting rooms are available. This business-friendly hotel also offers gift shops/newsstands, coffee/tea in the lobby, and concierge services. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests during limited hours. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Number of buildings/towers - 3
- Total number of rooms - 263
- Number of floors - 3
- 24-hour fitness facilities
- Outdoor pool
- Sauna
- Airport transportation (complimentary)
- Concierge services
- Use of nearby fitness center (complimentary)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Limo or Town Car service available
- Conference space
- 24-hour front desk
- Porter/bellhop
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- Gift shops or newsstand
- ATM/banking
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- Elevator/lift
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Complimentary newspapers in lobby
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- 24-hour business center
- Free self parking
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Available in all rooms: Free Wi-Fi
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- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
- Connecting/adjoining rooms available
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Premium bedding
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- Complimentary weekday newspaper
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
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- Private bathroom
- Complimentary toiletries
- Hair dryer
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- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Rollaway/extra beds available
- Free Wi-Fi
- MP3 docking station
Eat and drink
Buffet breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 6:30 AM and 11 AM.
Provinces Restaurant - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Provinces Bar and Grille - Onsite bar.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Recreational amenities at the hotel include an outdoor pool, a sauna, and a 24-hour fitness center.
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Mexican Navy captain, Enrique Ponce de Leon, the director of press and media of the National Commission of Security, Carlos Cervantes, the Under-Secretary of Media for the Interior Ministry, Eduardo Sanchez, the Under-Attorney for Organized Crime, Cleominio Soreda, and Mexican Army Lieutenant Colonel, Tomas Amador, attend a press conference on the capture of Ines Coronel Barreras, father-in-law of drug trafficker Chapo Guzman and alleged member of the Cartel of Sinaloa, in Mexico City, on April 30, 2013.
Yesterday, the Treasury Department announced its yearlong investigation had identified eight key players in Mexico's drug business. The government also introduced financial sanctions which it believes will weaken the powerful and violent Sinaloa cartel.
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Nothing seems to provoke President Obama more than being challenged by the progressive base. Maybe that's why it's a tactic that works.
Remember when you believed that if we just elected enough Democrats to Congress and took the White House, we could take this country back? We could stop giving tax breaks to people who didn't need them so that we would have a shot at creating jobs, providing for those in need, and still break even. We could end government-inspired discrimination against people because of the way they look, who they love, or where they were born. And we could actualize "the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal," to quote Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama.
That was 2008.
As Keith Harrington, an environmental activist, wrote last month:
Three years ago, I spent a number of weekends going door to door in Virginia urging people to vote for our president. In that campaign I found a sense of pride, a sense of excitement, a sense of energizing virtue.
This weekend, I spent a good chunk of time training to do civil disobedience at President Obama's door in the desperate hope that he'll fulfill the promise that drove me onto the streets for him in 2008. And in so doing I've found the same sense of pride, the same excitement, and the same energizing sense of virtue that I did three years back.
Harrington is one of more than a thousand Americans who traveled from every corner of the country -- California, Florida, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas, Vermont -- to sit for arrest in front of the White House over the course of two weeks toward the end of August.
But his actions and those of his fellow activists embody a realization that many progressives have had: It wasn't enough to elect historic Democratic majorities to Congress and place a Democrat in the Oval Office.
This was a revelation that began to dawn on many gay rights advocates sometime in 2009. I'm not exactly sure why we were one of the first progressive constituencies to conclude that we needed to make our voices heard loud and clear to President Obama and Democratic lawmakers -- that we needed to let them know in no uncertain terms that we weren't going to sit by quietly while they abandoned campaign promises only to reemerge like an impulsive suitor come 2012.
Maybe it's because we were tired of paying the same taxes and not being able to pursue our happiness with equal fervor. Maybe it's because for decades we had been told by Democrats, "Elect us and we'll help you," yet we had only seen discriminatory measures like "Don't ask, Don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act enacted into law. Maybe it's because once your intelligence has been insulted flagrantly enough and your humanity denigrated deeply enough, you've got nothing left to lose. Whatever it was, many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans had had enough.
And that's why LGBT activists started handcuffing themselves to the fence that forms the perimeter around the White House, showing up at presidential events and sometimes shouting down Obama -- even at fundraisers for progressive allies like California Senator Barbara Boxer. In fact, nothing seems to provoke the president more than being challenged by the progressive base. After studying Obama as a member of the press corps for nearly four years, the only time I have seen the fire of true indignation flare in his eyes is when he feels as though the left is questioning the authenticity of his progressive ideals.
To be candid, not all gay rights advocates agreed with these tactics -- some found them unseemly. But in retrospect, "Don't ask, Don't tell" was essentially the only piece of legislation passed during President Obama's first two years to address the concern of a specific progressive constituency. The one exception to that rule was the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act that relaxed the statute of limitations on when women could file a complaint for not being compensated at an equal level to men. That sailed through Congress in the first couple weeks of Obama's presidency.
The politics of ensuring women equal pay for equal work was a no-brainer for Democrats. But the politics of climate change, immigration reform, enabling labor unions to organize, ensuring access to abortion, and advancing LGBT equality -- those issues proved tricky. Lawmakers and the White House -- which had enormous sway over the congressional agenda in Obama's first two years -- needed to be convinced that they were worth the effort. Before they would act, they needed to see that the progressive left could be just as loud and boisterous and electorally essential as the conservative right. And that's what some queer activists set out to prove.
The lessons of that effort were not lost on advocates from other communities. Although immigration activists staged some direct actions during the 111th Congress, they have ramped up their aggressive efforts in recent months. Rep. Luis Gutierrez of Chicago was arrested in July along with 11 other activists during a 1,000-person protest outside the White House in Lafayette Park. Their beef? President Obama's deportation rates were exceeding those of President Bush's and he passed the milestone of one million people deported by mid-September.
The day before the arrests, Obama had tried to explain in a speech to members of the National Council of La Raza -- the nation's largest Latino group -- that he couldn't change the laws by himself, he needed the help of Congress. But Obama's words were met with a new twist on a familiar refrain. "Yes, you can! Yes, you can!" they shouted at the president.
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Eating watermelon cubed or right off the rind has become an All-American pastime, but this large melon is more versatile than you think. The cool, lush and fragrant watermelon is a natural for fruit salads and sorbets. Toss watermelon with cucumber cubes and top with a sweet yogurt or poppy seed dressing. Or serve red and yellow melon balls with soft cheese and basil. The taste will say, "Welcome to summer!"


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ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - A bill introduced by a New Mexico lawmaker would have computer programming count as a foreign language under the state's academic requirements for public schools.
Sen. Jacob Candelaria says enactment of his proposal would encourage students to learn an important and potentially lucrative skill.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, the 27-year-old Albuquerque Democrat's bill says any modern, widely-used computer program would satisfy the requirement.
New Mexico high school students now must complete at least 24 academic units to graduate. At least one of those units must come from a category of classes that includes a language other than English.
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BEREA, Ohio (AP) -- Browns running back Montario Hardesty has injured his right hand in practice.
Hardesty jumped to catch a direct snap from center during 11 on 11 drills and appeared to hurt either his hand or thumb on Monday. A trainer put a large wrap on Hardesty's hand, and the 26-year-old stayed on the field watching drills before he was escorted to the locker room for treatment and presumably X-rays.
Hardesty has been slowed in training camp by a hamstring injury. He did not play in Thursday's exhibition opener and the former second-round pick's roster spot is in jeopardy.
He rushed for 271 yards and one touchdown in 12 games last season.
The arrival of versatile back Dion Lewis has hurt Hardesty's chances of making Cleveland's roster, and any injury could make it even tougher on him.
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Four major tobacco companies filed a lawsuit in federal court earlier this month to fight the Food and Drug Administration's infamous new cigarette warning labels — those half-pack, graphic images of rotting lungs and teeth, dead bodies and presumed smokers on respiratory machines. Anyone who's looked at the images — due to appear on packs in September 2012 — couldn't be surprised that Big Tobacco balked.
The companies are arguing that the new warnings violate their First Amendment rights to, in essence, not be forced to carry gross pictures designed to discourage sales on their products.
That logic, especially in a post-Citizens United world, sounds ripe for a headline from The Onion: Cigarettes have free-speech rights, too. The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids shrugged off the suit, calling it "frivolous."
First Amendment scholars, though, say this legal battle has been years in the making and raises real questions about what happens when the government's interest in promoting public health collides with the Constitution.
"This is anything but frivolous," said Richard Kaplar, a commercial speech expert with the Media Institute. "Quite the contrary."
Considerable social science and psychology research has gone into determining whether such labels are effective and how best to prod people into making smart decisions for their health. And many countries outside the U.S., such as Canada, have opted for even more gross warnings that they say have curbed smoking. But all of those findings are moot if the Supreme Court strikes down the whole graphic-labeling strategy.
"To me, it's just a classic case of compelled speech and government overregulation, and I think it does infringe on tobacco companies' First Amendment rights, which may not be a popular opinion," said David Hudson, a scholar with the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt. "The sheer size of these ads, and the graphic nature of them, if you think about it, it's an advertiser being forced to put 'don't buy this product' on the product."
That tobacco companies have First Amendment rights is not in question. "Commercial speech," or advertising copy, however, has long been a second-class citizen in the First Amendment family.
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"Historically, it's been seen to somehow be of lesser value because it involves commercial transactions," Kaplar said. "It was thought that if you're just talking about 'I'm trying to sell you something,' that's not as important as if we're having a discussion about democracy, or this candidate or that candidate, the big issues of the day."
And so government regulation of commercial speech is measured against a four-part test that dates to a 1980 Supreme Court case, Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. v. Public Service Commission of New York. The test poses four questions: Is the speech lawful, truthful and not misleading? Does the government have a substantial interest in regulating it? Does the regulation directly advance the government's interest? And is the regulation a narrowly tailored and reasonable fit for doing that?
The fight over the FDA's cigarette labels could touch on all four. Tobacco companies will certainly argue that their existing packaging is lawful and truthful. But, said Robert O'Neil, director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Speech, the government could counter that it's misleading not to show people shocking images of what cigarettes can do to your lungs.
The government will also undoubtedly argue that it has a substantial interest in protecting public health (and paying for the health care costs of people who wind up with lung cancer). But the last two questions are trickier. Will these images actually discourage smoking and enhance public health, as the government hopes they will? Research on this question is mixed. And even if the images were effective, couldn't the government warn people about cigarettes with a less drastic tool — like, say, the messages already in use?
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This last point is the most compelling for armchair legal scholars: Is there a constitutional line to be drawn somewhere between a text-based surgeon general's warning and a full-color photo of a smoking man with a hole in his throat?
"That's a fascinating distinction," O'Neil said. "When this issue gets into court, I'm sure there will be some very strong arguments on both sides, because it basically is open-ended."
Still, he and Kaplar both come down alongside Hudson: The Tobacco companies are probably in the right here. Kaplar believes that they willingly agreed to some restrictions on their rights to keep the peace — and continue selling their products — in the wake of the 1998 "Master Settlement Agreement" with the states. That settlement did away with cartoon pitchmen like Joe the Camel and other ad tactics that critics said targeted children.
These graphic new labels, though, have upended that balance.
"To force someone to put that on their product is really going into a new territory, across a line that hasn't been crossed before," Kaplar said. "Probably the government thought they could get away with it, that maybe tobacco companies wouldn't put up much of a fight since they've been relatively complacent the last several years."
But as fascinating as this case is, O'Neil doesn't expect the outcome to impact many other government health campaigns. In many ways, tobacco has always been unique.
"Regulating the speed at which an automobile can be driven, that's handled by speed limits," O'Neil said. "Or if you're worried about sugar content in children's cereal, regulate the sugar content."
Tobacco, though — as long as it remains a legal product — doesn't really have such an analogous government solution.
"I've thought a lot about the alternative," O'Neil said, "and I have not really ever been able to come up with anything."
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Michael Conlan, Paddy Barnes, Michaela Walsh, Alanna Audley-Murphy, Steven Donnelly and Connor Coyle were all victorious on Wednesday to ensure they will return to Northern Ireland with medals.
It follows wins for Joe Fitzpatrick, Sean Duffy and Sean McGlinchy on Tuesday - and means Team NI now has 11 guaranteed medals across all sports, exceeding the 10 won in Delhi four years ago.
Belfast man Conlan started a day of remarkable success as he beat Bashir Nasir of Uganda on a unanimous decision to secure his place in the last four of the men's bantam division.
The 22-year-old will now face Sean McGoldrick of Wales in Friday's semi-finals, where he will have a shot at competing for gold.
Conlan tweeted: "Well guys that's no.3 down, did what I needed to do and won easy without any damage, box defending champ from Wales on Friday I can't wait!!"
Paddy Barnes, who won gold in the light flyweight at the 2010 Delhi Games, beat Charles Keama of Papua New Guinea by technical knockout in round three of their fight.
The defending champ and favourite will go on to face Fazil Juma Kaggwa of Uganda on Friday.
Barnes said: "Sometimes I rushed it a bit much but it was good. Bronze medals are only a token of appreciation for entering the competition. All it means it that you took part in something."
Unless you get the gold it's not worth talking aboutPaddy Barnes
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Michaela Walsh also secured bronze in Glasgow on Wednesday after winning all four rounds of her women's fly quarter-final.
The 21-year-old from Belfast, who made history by becoming the first female to box at the Commonwealth Games, beat Sarah Joy Rae of Jamaica.
She will now fight Pinki Rani of India on Friday.
Walsh said: "I believe if I perform to the best of my ability I can go all the way. People ask me about Adams but that's not until the final. I'm a big fan of Nicola and I've followed her throughout her career. I'm going for one colour and one colour only."
And team captain Barnes also backed Walsh to give Adams a run for the gold should they meet.
He said: "She spars with me and she gives me lots of trouble. You heard it from me first - if they fight in the final, I'm telling you she'll beat Nicola Adams."
Belfast boxer Alanna Audley-Murphy also secured her bronze medal following a tough women's light quarter-final against Valerian Spicer of Dominica.
The 28-year-old won on a split decision and will fight Shelly Watts of Australia on Friday.
Alanna said: "I'm glad it's over and I'm glad I got the win, the nerves are out of the way and on to the next one on Friday."
Steven Donnelly, who is 25 and from Ballymena, upset Custio Clayton of Canada in the men's welterweight to book a semi-final meeting with Mandeep Jangra of India.
After beating the world number eight, the Co Antrim man said: "He was a high-quality opponent.
"He was the favourite and I was treating that as my final, but that doesn't mean that the rest will be easy. He was world number eight so my confidence has definitely gone up."
Last to fight was Derry 24-year-old Connor Coyle.
He won by unanimous decision over Siphiwe Lusizi of South Africa in their men's middle fight to become the ninth NI boxer to secure at least bronze.
Connor said: "It's a magnificent feeling to win a medal and gives you much more adrenaline. It's unbelievable but I'm nowhere near as good as I can perform yet."
Sports Minister Carál Ní Chuilín praised the success of the boxing team.
She said: "This is a truly remarkable achievement by the boxers. We sent a team of 11 to the Commonwealth Games and nine of them will return home with medals. I congratulate these boxers on their herculean efforts and offer them my best wishes for their next contests on Friday."
RESULTS: @mickconlan11 wins on unanimous decision, secures bronze & moves to semi's for shot @ making finals #TEAMNI pic.twitter.com/k3OcC18qr5— Northern Ireland CWG (@GoTeamNI) July 30, 2014
RESULTS: @mickconlan11 wins on unanimous decision, secures bronze & moves to semi's for shot @ making finals #TEAMNI pic.twitter.com/k3OcC18qr5
— Northern Ireland CWG (@GoTeamNI) July 30, 2014
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Over the past two seasons, Hull RUFC recruited two full time Rugby Development officers with the remit of spreading the gospel of rugby union in the rugby league hotbed that is inner city Hull, a somewhat daunting prospect to say the least. This was initially possible thanks to a Sportsmatch award, with the club managing to raise £50,000 through various fundraising activities which was then matched by sponsors and put into Sportsmatch.
The club's aim was to try to recruit players of all ages to the Mini and Youth section, which then consisted of around 10 players. Working in conjunction with the RFU Community Rugby Coaches, the club managed to forge relationships with a number of local junior and high schools and began recruiting players through those avenues. Continuity was the key as links with local junior schools were developed. The development team have delivered sessions into around 50 local schools, including special needs schools, and have managed to increase the size of the Mini and Youth section dramatically to now approaching 200 with teams at Under 9s, 10s, 12s, 14s and 19s.
The club runs after school and lunchtime rugby clubs, deliver coaching sessions to all year groups and have travelled across Yorkshire to tournaments with school teams. Teacher support has been key to the continuation of rugby union with Hull RUFC providing various resources including equipment, literature and details of coaching and refereeing courses. The club's highlight last season was having a team play Tag rugby at Twickenham prior to the England vs. Wales game. Many interschool tournaments have been held including a 'World Cup' Tag tournament involving 16 primary schools with Tag rugby sets and balls as prizes.
Although the club has had a continuous battle trying to recruit and retain youngsters in a city with two teams in Super League (Hull K.R. and Hull F.C.) and a newly promoted Premiership football team (Hull City), there has being real progress made. The club are determined to not stop here as they have now created a club that the whole community is starting to enjoy.
Throughout the 2008-2009 season, Basildon RFC ran three major projects with local schools, applying for, and receiving, funding to the value of almost £13,000.
The first was an 'Awards for All' project taking Tag rugby coaching for Year 3 & 4 children into 20 Basildon based primary schools. Each school took part in around 11 sessions, with the total number of participants in the order of 400 children and the number of 'attendances' around 4000. Each primary school then took part in mini-tournaments at the secondary schools with which they were associated.
Second was an Active Sport programme that delivered coaching to Year 7, 8 & 9 students and developed twelve Student Leaders as Tag rugby coaches in two senior schools in Billericay. The standard of the rugby in the secondary schools improved so much that one of the teams reached the County Quarter Final for the first time ever.
While the Year 7 to 9 students were receiving coaching at the secondary schools, volunteer Sports Leaders from Year 12 were given formal RFU training and allocated in pairs to one of the primary schools in their own 'cluster group'. The students were provided with clothing identifying them as coaches and equipment to deliver weekly Tag sessions. The programme ran in all selected schools throughout the September term, and is still running at certain schools as both the primary school children and secondary school students enjoyed it so much. This project became the pilot scheme for what will be a district wide initiative in the 2009/10 season, involving 90 student leaders from nine secondary schools and up to 50 primary schools.
Third was a 'Sport Unlimited' after-schools project that delivered full contact rugby coaching to eight secondary schools across Basildon, Wickford and Billericay. Each school received up to ten sessions delivered between January and March 2009.
Both the club and the schools involved have benefitted from all the projects. In many cases, for a majority of the children, it has been their first introduction to the game of rugby for some of the teachers, they have been exposed to new coaching techniques, and the club has increased their membership with 59 new members this season.
Set in the heart of rural Staffordshire and in competition with three large, local clubs for Junior members, Eccleshall has, against the odds, managed to carve its own individual character into the community, providing a superb rugby experience for all age groups. The club's ability to achieve this is based solely on its ethos of taking part and having fun.
The senior club players, both men and women, past and present, provide a strong, committed coaching team and injecting this energy and motivation into the children's weekends has helped the club's message spread into the schools via their players. The club were approached by local schools to provide rugby coaching as part of the PE curriculum and with just three dedicated coaches, they managed to offer a weekly programme to three junior schools. No easy task when full time jobs are involved!
The programme consisted of Tag rugby training to Years 4, 5 & 6 during the school day and then revisiting the schools to provide an 'after school' club. The after school clubs were hugely popular and went a long way to securing further members in Eccleshall's Junior ranks.
The coaches devoted extra time to providing assessments for the players and reports for the teachers and all players were presented with achievement certificates at the end of the programme. The coaches also provided further information about playing rugby and Eccleshall RFC at the schools' assemblies.A schools tournament held by the club brought all the kids together to show off their skills, introducing even more members to Eccleshall.
With match and tournament experience behind them, the coaches then accompanied the school teams to the Staffordshire schools Tag Rugby tournament organised by the local authority, an immense achievement for such a small club to achieve this level of responsibility. Such was the popularity of the courses within the schools, that one of the club's coaches was nominated for a Staffordshire Sports Coach Award and went on to win the accolade on the night.
The club's reputation for its talent in this sphere of school/club relations has led to further requests for their services. The Eccleshall Junior section, as a result of the time devoted to their local schools, has enjoyed phenomenal success in generating a huge increase in membership and volunteers. This together with a successful management team has grown this once small, one team group, into a Mini/Junior section that now boasts age groups from Mini to U17s with over 100 members, all achieved in just two seasons!


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This Artist Paints with Her Lips
Who needs paintbrushes when you have lips?
Houston-based artist Natalie Irish creates her artworks through experimenting with different mediums.
She has painted with an original method of inked thumbprint by inked thumbprint—but this time, she puts her lips to work.
Irish pairs her lips with red lipstick, and puckers up, to create detailed portraits on paper canvases. She kisses her canvas until her desired result is achieved.
It sure sounds like a lot of lip service, but she sure has created amazing masterpieces.
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It's an old idea, combining exercise equipment with video games. But no one has nailed the design yet. I'll try to do that today.
For starters, let's assume the videogame/exercise hybrid device exists in a professional gym designed for just this reason. That allows us to design something more expensive and more space-hogging than you might want at home.
Imagine that your exercise equipment is in a three-walled bay, open to the back, with the front and sides featuring large video screens that are synchronized. When you are faced forward, you are immersed in this artificial video world as if you were in a car driving forward.
Now let's talk about the exercise equipment before we design the actual game play. I imagine a variety of pulleys, bars, and pedals that satisfy most of a person's cardio and weight training needs. The hard part is organizing those physical assets to match game play in a way that makes sense. So let's jump to the game itself so you can better understand how to organize the exercise "cage."
The game is called Morph Herder of LowGrav 9. The game player is one of many people in the far future who work as morph herders on low gravity planets. Morphs are vaguely cow-shaped creatures that were genetically engineered to produce valuable pharmaceuticals in their milk. The morph herders fly ultra-light planes over the planet by pedal power alone, which works great because of the low gravity. Your job is to fly low over the alien terrain until you find a morph and tag it while it tries to escape. The tagging allows the mother ship, from which you just descended with your ultra-light, to lock onto the morph with a tractor beam, bring it up to the ship and milk it, then release it unharmed. No morphs die in this game. When you tag them with your tagger gun, they instantly freeze and zip up to your mother ship in a beam of light.
The gym's exercise device would mimic the controls of the ultra-light. You're fighting the wind, so simply turning left requires some muscle to adjust the wings. And you are pedaling from a reclined or standing position whenever you need to pick up speed or altitude. Your glide distance is very long on this low gravity planet, so you need not pedal continuously.
Your arms would need to work hard to navigate your ultra-light, pulling and pushing on the physical control bars in your exercise cage. It also takes some energy to aim the tagging gun because of the wind friction. I can imagine having actual fans in your exercise cage that simulate your movement through the air. And perhaps your entire exercise cage leans left, right, back, and forth to match the motion you are picking.
The idea is to have a full set of arm, chest, abs, and shoulder exercises while in a reclining seat that has bike-like pedals. The resistance would be the equivalent of perhaps 5-10 pound weights, but the catch is that you'll be moving and lifting and pulling for a solid hour. Kids might use less resistance, big people would use more.
I imagine the game being multi-player, so you can see the ultra-lights of the other gym users at the same time on your screen. You'd plug in your headphones to talk with them as if by radio, and either coordinate or compete for "Morph Herder of the Week" honors.
But here's the interesting part of this idea. I have a hypothesis that the body will more readily build muscle for what the brain perceives as
. I'll defend that idea in a moment, but first allow me to point out that a movie will stimulate a human's mind in the same way as reality. In other words, a sad movie makes you cry, a scary movie makes you afraid, and so on. You can be fully aware that the movie is fiction while still experiencing it as if your body thought it was real. The videogame I'm describing would have the same impact. You would be aware that it was an artificial story yet your body would likely respond with adrenaline and whatever else happens when you feel competitive.
I have no evidence for my hypothesis that your body builds muscles faster for tasks it feels are necessary for survival. But let me explain my thinking.
We know that people who win competitions experience spikes in testosterone, and that testosterone helps you build muscle faster. And you know that listening to your iPad makes it easier to exercise because it gets you all pumped up. Your brain is continually adjusting your body chemistry to fit the situation. My hypothesis is that the brain distinguishes between important tasks, such as survival (including fictional survival situations), versus unimportant tasks such as yoga. Morph herding is designed to mimic the primal urge for hunting. It is also designed to feel like a job that satisfies our need to complete physical tasks. And because one wrong move in an ultra-light means death, the simple act of steering your vehicle will seem important to your brain. Put all of that together and my hypothesis is that your brain would produce an ideal mixture of chemistry in your body to keep you exercising longer and harder, and to build muscles faster.
At the very least, the videogame distraction might make the time go faster and seem more interesting. But I think the potential
be far more. I think if the set-up stimulated just the right chemistry in your body you would get faster results than you would in a treadmill in the corner of your bedroom. With the treadmill, your brain has no reason to juice up your body chemistry so you can perform better in this trivial and boring task.
I described one type of videogame, but I could imagine lots of variations that use different combinations of the exercise cage. One might involve nothing but pedaling your bike through virtual streets in Paris or other exotic places, following a path of your choice.
I'll be the first one to say the business model I just described probably doesn't work. It would be nearly impossible to sell enough gym memberships to make back the investment of the game design and building out the facilities. But I'm curious whether manipulating body chemistry in just the right way, by controlling external stimulation, produces faster muscle growth. I think it would. It seems to me that evolution would have given us the tools to quickly "tune" our bodies - at least in terms of specific muscle growth rates - for the challenges of survival in any given environment.
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Feb 19, 2013
Far less sophisticated, but correspondingly less expensive - Zombies, Run!
Just running, only audio input, but it has the advantage of actually existing.
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Feb 19, 2013
I'm not sure that the business model wouldn't work - at least at some niche level. Plenty of people spend a sizable sum each week for personal trainer. This sounds like a lot more fun, and perhaps even better at motivating (at least for some people).
VR goggles would also drop the cost dramatically. At that point you only need a specialized exercise multi-use station (modified off-the-shelf device) and some electronics connected to the goggles. I do think you'd need to develop alternative programming scenarios to keep users interested, but that's no biggie.
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Feb 19, 2013
xbox kinect... What's your next already been realized into practical reality idea?
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Feb 19, 2013
We already had a semi-perfect exercise game. Dance Dance Revolution. Unfortunately Copyright more or less killed the idea. Once music companies saw that there was money, you suddenly needed millions of dollars for licensing, a fleet of lawyers in limousines, and musicians wanted direct involvement in the games. At this point, few companies are capable of wading through licensing deals for the sake of a game. And those companies are primarily concerned with marketing fancy graphics than getting people to move.
The result: The newest games (*cough* Just Dance *cough*) got way more complicated, more expensive, the scoring is bizarre, it requires little movement, and the only real priority is licensing popular songs. Frankly, I'm not sure why we need copyright to last forever 70 years. 30-year-old songs should be fair game for companies trying to help people exercise.
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Feb 19, 2013
What you really need is something to stimulate the paleolithic in all of us. Lions and tigers and bears chasing us with simulated bites when they catch up with us.
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Feb 19, 2013
[I think using game consoles for exercise is the direction we should be going, though the folks who run gyms would be horrified by this idea. That said, frankly, most of the current games don't do the job very well. Games are not designed to get you standing up and moving, and the "exercise games," are boring. Finding the point where the two mesh is the true trick.]
I hear the Nike personal trainer for the XBox360 comes pretty close. Even if that isn't sufficient I agree that game consoles are the way to go and believe that, sooner or later, they will do the job well enough. And do it in your home for $60 or less plus the cost of the console.
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Feb 19, 2013
Sorry to get all geeky and serious on you but I believe that this is not necessarily the case. Titan has air density 4 times thicker than Earth and gravity lower than the moon. Flying should be possible there a la Icarus and Daedalus. It is a bit cold though.
Ref: http://what-if.xkcd.com/30/
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Feb 19, 2013
Finally a blog post that's not stark raving mad.
The three-wall-display you are describing is called a CAVE (Cave automatic virtual environment wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_automatic_virtual_environment). For the game you describe it needs floor and ceiling displays in addition to the tree walls. That's total of five synchronized high power 3D capable projectors aimed at a cube measuring about 2.5 meters per dimension. That is to say, running ONE of these things is expensive, inconvenient and very cool. Running ~20 in a single gym would be epic.
Forget the exercise crap and flying cows. Build an arcade with dozens of CAVEs for people to battle with invading aliens.
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Feb 19, 2013
The 'pedaling your bike through streets in Paris' idea reminds me of the gym equipment I used in Japan. The treadmills and bike machines had screens with various things you could do while clocking up your kilometres. You could watch movies, read things, or like you said, take a 'virtual walking/cycling tour' of some Japanese cities, where you could see your icon moving around the streets of Kyoto or similar, and showing the landmarks you passed along the way.
Actually most of the machines there had pretty cool gimmicks that made them enjoyable. There was one machine where you had to swing from side to side; they made it a coordination game where you had to copy the movements on the screen and got a score at the end.
I've not been to a gym anywhere but Japan recently so I don't know if these sorts of machines are the norm but they're still fun, albeit a good way off the kind of immersive/interactive game you describe in the rest of your post.
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Feb 19, 2013
Last time I wanted to get back in shape I used a video game that had sensors to detect my arm movement and a fighting game. It requires a large space, but basically no pulleys or pedals, and I got arm, leg, and torso muscles worked out to the point that I was sore. Not naming the game or system cause I don't want to seem like I'm advertising, but this takes space, a TV, and a console. You don't even have to leave the house.
I think using game consoles for exercise is the direction we should be going, though the folks who run gyms would be horrified by this idea. That said, frankly, most of the current games don't do the job very well. Games are not designed to get you standing up and moving, and the "exercise games," are boring. Finding the point where the two mesh is the true trick.
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Feb 19, 2013
Great idea and some really funny comments.
You might include handicapping the equipment, e.g. 1, have a heart monitor and as long as the heart rate is on target or better you are catching up or overtaking, e.g. 2, as long as the weight pushed/pulled per time unit etc.
Having some competition is also stimulating so you might have the zombies chasing you be other members of the gym (franchise), or be told that they are... same effect. Hunting alternating randomly with being hunted would likely increase the testosterone/adrenaline flush. No science there sorry... just a guess.
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Feb 18, 2013
Love the concept. !$%*!$%*!$%*!$ has essentially become an RPG with "points" and such. See the wired article about this: http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2008/08/gamesfrontiers_0811
My gym has video game built into the recumbent bicycle where the harder you pedal the faster you move to catch dragons and such. FPC (first person "chaser"?) Their fatal flaw is that the game is not fun enough. You never really get good speed so everything drags and you always end up lazily inching towards the goals.
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Feb 18, 2013
With the right software, you could theoretically use standard, in-place gym equipment with "Augmented Reality Glasses": http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/12/vuzix-wrap-1200ar-augmented-reality-glasses/
Say the exercise class theme was "Zombie Adventure", participants could run from zombies on a treadmill, pull off a zombie's arm, push a zombie out a window, and all kinds of other push/ pull scenarios.
If the software was flexible enough, ARG users could hold class right in the midst of regular gym users. If the theme for the ARG class that week was "Jungle Adventure", non-participants could be depicted as sloths or cheetahs depending on their rate of movement, body hair, smell, etc.
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Feb 18, 2013
Muscle building is optimal doing 40-60 reps, with sets of 6-12 reps. Thats a generalisation, and any resistance training will stimulate muscle growth to an extent, but thats what the studies suggest is best.
High resistance builds muscle, basically. (Compare muscley sprinters and the legs of sprint cyclists to their spindly lower intensity distance running/cycling counterparts).
Something like this would burn calories, and put some muscle mass on the average couch potato, but for anyone moderately used to strength training, low effort over a period of time won't help much.
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Feb 18, 2013
No...it will never work. A planet with gravity so minimal that cows can fly would not have an atmosphere dense enough for an ultra light peddle powered plane to work.
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Feb 18, 2013
This thing as two disadvantages: You need to set aside valuable spare time for exercise and sooner or later even this game will get boring.
I'm still waiting for VR glasses and a bunch of cameras plus a VisualStudio (or Eclipse) plugin that lets me walk and jump around the office, stepping on class names and plucking variable names and control structures from the air with my hands, possibly with weighted gloves.
Everyone of us accepts that we have to work for decades, most even in the same job, for many hours per day, without grumbling. No hobby or other activity (bar sleeping) can compare with that. If you want to get people to move, make them work out while working.
Remember that cartoon of yours?
What would be the computerized equivalent for an office worker, sitting and typing all day?
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Feb 18, 2013
I have experimentally tried a similar idea (years ago) by deciding to ride an exercycle while playing an interesting playstation game. After an hour and a half I'd stumble off the cycle and my legs would be like jelly. Several days later I got fed up with the game and stopped playing it completely - couldn't be bothered with all the exercise. (I'd played the game a lot before that, so the exercise made the difference).
Variation might have helped plus having the effort counting towards something might have helped also, but the idea was a flop.
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Feb 18, 2013
That's a very interesting hypothesis, Scott.
As you were describing your idea, I had the same thought you put in at the end of the post as to its business viability. It sounds like building each pod, or cage, or whatever you want to call it, would be so expensive that it would not be profitable. It's a great idea, though.
Now the other part of your post that is interesting is the mind-muscle connection. Of course, as we all know there is no such thing as a mind, so let's just say the robotic programming that resides in our head. Ha! Gotcha.
But to your point: I recall reading a study a number of years ago where two groups of people who did not exercise had their fitness measured. Then, both groups were asked to go about their daily lives as they had before, with one exception. Half of them were told to just keep doing what they were doing, while the other half were asked to think about exercising. In other words, they were told to visualize a workout as though they were actually doing it, but not to actually do any new exercises.
After a month, their fitness levels were measured again. The group that had thought about exercising had significantly increased their fitness level over those who had not.
Now, disclaimer city: it's impossible to do a double-blind study of this type. Also, the mechanism behind the fitness increase was not known. Was it the mind (robotic programming) increasing the fitness level because of a perceived need to become more fit, or was there something else at work - such as unconscious flexing of muscles as you visualized becoming more fit, resulting in better muscle tone.
Your body is extremely efficient. If you were a car, you would get 600 miles to the gallon. If you suddenly get denied food, your body will not only consume fat, it will consume muscle. The idea, if you can call it that, being that the body doesn't need all that muscle if you have no way to get food. That's why diet experts tell you not to try to lose too much too fast; you'll defeat your own purpose if you start to lose muscle along with fat.
Your body mechanism gets rid of that which is not used. Fitness experts will tell you that it only takes about three days of not exercising for your fitness level to begin to decline. Use it or lose it is the way your body works.
Here's a business idea built on the 'think your way to fitness' concept: you could call it the Professor Henry Hill (Google it) fitness regimen. You purchase a membership in the Henry Hill Spa and come in for your non-workout. Your fitness guru says, "OK, now, think about holding 30-pound weights in each hand, and think about doing fifteen curls with each."
Your spa doesn't need a shower because your patrons don't sweat, so you save a bunch of money. Since they're not actually using any equipment, you don't have to buy any. All you need is some chairs and maybe some workout benches. "Lie back and think about doing bench presses."
No guarantees, of course, because there's no way for your virtual trainer to know if you're actually visualizing the workout that he tells you to, or fantasizing about that hot babe you saw at the mall. That would obviously have to be part of the contract you'd sign.
Every time they come into the spa, their thought trainer says to them, "Boy, you sure look a lot more fit than you did the last time you were here!" So the people think they're getting fitter, and keep coming back for their virtual workout.
Virtual fitness centers. Coming to your town soon. Ka-CHING!!!
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Feb 18, 2013
This is a very good idea. Be aware, though, that you can't build muscle with high-repetition low-weight exercise, except for particular muscles such as the calves and abs.
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Feb 18, 2013
It is a strange and great comfort that there is at least one person in the world that has more ideas that will never be acted upon than myself.
As long as you are successful at just one idea - you now have permission to dream on endlessly.
Thank you Scott.
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