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57 of 60 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Relax and Enjoy!
A short time ago, my wife and I were joined by a new baby and our remarkable little boy is now at 19 months. The baby was a first for both of us and neither of us had almost any prior experience with an infant. Everything that unfolded was new and a very interesting experience. When my wife spotted the new "Babies" movie, we just had to see it. We both enjoyed it very...
Published on May 27, 2010 by Gary Peterson
37 of 46 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars If Your Biological Clock Is Ticking, Here's an Aw-Shucks Movie for You
I am probably not the best person to review Thomas Balmes' 2010 documentary following the lives of four babies during their first year. The film is only 79 minutes, but it feels awfully long to this childless reviewer especially since it carries the randomness of a string of related YouTube videos. However, I am not a complete curmudgeon since there are several moments of...
Published on May 8, 2010 by Ed Uyeshima
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57 of 60 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Relax and Enjoy!,
Gary Peterson (San Diego, California USA) - See all my reviews
A short time ago, my wife and I were joined by a new baby and our remarkable little boy is now at 19 months. The baby was a first for both of us and neither of us had almost any prior experience with an infant. Everything that unfolded was new and a very interesting experience. When my wife spotted the new "Babies" movie, we just had to see it. We both enjoyed it very much and will be buying the DVD when it becomes available.
The movie is a very unusual documentary of four babies in four different parts of the world (San Francisco, Tokyo, Mongolia and Namibia) and four different cultures. There is no story. There are no spoken words, only background sounds. The movie goes from scene to scene, back and forth, back and forth from baby to baby and location to location. We watched with fascination as each baby learned to adapt and cope with it's new life as it unfolded in it's particular environment. Very interesting to watch. We cringed at some of the baby experiences and laughed at others. Of course, we had our own living example for comparison and it has promoted a wealth of conversation.
If you have a newborn/toddler, be sure to see this movie. You'll enjoy it immensely. Actually,babies are so interesting and humorous that almost anyone could enjoy the film. It's a very unusual movie to view. The photography in the various settings is excellent. The sound is good. Relax and enjoy.
Gary Peterson
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars If you love Babies, you will LOVE these BABIES !,
Kimmy11 (Windy City) - See all my reviews
The concept is deceptively simple: follow four babies from four different countries from birth til they take their first steps ~ 1 year old. As others have noted, there is no (spoken) narrative. Rather, the camera documents the four babies in the same situations : being born, first smile, at play, sleeping, etc. I watched this movie with my daughters and we all absolutely loved it (I was glad that they did not actually show the birth process). We all had our favorite babies - my daughters loved "Hattie" from San Francisco but I fell in love with the baby from Mongolia as he was so adorably mischievous. This multi-cultural perspective on babies is utterly fascinating. You will find yourself asking such questions as "Which baby seems the happiest?" (asked by my 9 year-old daughter); "What do babies REALLY need to thrive?" - toys, shelves FULL of books, or just a loving mom and a roll of toilet paper? There is a particular scene where Hattie bites her mom and instead of reprimanding her (like the Mongolian mother did when the baby was naughty), she pulls out a book entitled ~"No Biting". It's also interesting as an American parent, to see how "sterile" our babies are compared to the babies that grow up in countries like Mongolia and Namibia. Most importantly,as a parent, it makes you appreciate the "magic" of raising a child. A must see for all parents, and lovers of children, including children themselves. It is also a very entertaining movie. My girls laughed out loud and had me rewind it (rented and recorded it on Cable) in several places. Be forewarned: it may increase your urge to have a baby-I luckily slapped sense back to myself.
39 of 44 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars BABIES is cute, funny and sometimes moving.,
RMurray847 (Albuquerque, NM United States) - See all my reviews
BABIES is a feel good movie that arguably has absolutely no point, or is very profound. It is a documentary that essentially films the first year or so in the lives of 4 babies from vastly different parts of the globe. We simply observe them eating, evacuating, smiling, discovering their toes, learning to crawl, learning to play, and so on. Certainly babies are cute, and it's easy to get an adult audience to smile with and laugh at these silly little creatures.
That could be the point of BABIES..."look, how cute." And frankly, it's pretty satisfying on that level alone. But it could also be showing us, and the most basic levels, how we're all so VERY similar, at least when we start out. That all of us, whether from Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo or San Francisco...we all have so very much in common. That's a simple, almost clichéd "lesson", but BABIES presents it in a clear and undeniable manner.
I very much appreciated the underlying points to ponder of BABIES...but mostly it was just a 79 minute delight. It's a wonderful cultural lesson: short after birth, we see the Namibian baby essentially spending his time completely nude and the little Mongolian child swaddled tightly in many layers. Both are valid child-rearing approaches...but are starkly different and both are moving. Seeing the Mongolian child wrapped like a cocoon is a startling image...yet given his stark and cold surrounding environment...it is a way for his family to show their love and caring for this child when they are unable to physically be there holding the baby.
The Mongolian child was my favorite (although I liked all the kids)...and I suspect each person will have their own favorite. For American viewers, the San Francisco baby may either strike a strong chord, or may seem to be the least interesting. The Mongolian child was interesting because he was so darn cute, but also because he had a deep relationship with the animals that were such a part of his family's farm: roosters, cows, goats, cats, etc. You can see how this tiny child will grow up to care for and understand the animals in his charge, because being around them is as natural as breathing. I found all those scenes to be rather touching.
Do be sure to enjoy contrasting the American child-raising to the styles around the world. One of my favorite moments: we see a toddler aged Namibian baby enjoying sitting outside his hut with his extended family, enjoying tribal music in the very area of the world it originated in. It feels integrated and RIGHT. Then we cut to the American girl, who is with her father participating in a group with lots of other kids and parents, sitting in a circle in a classroom, singing "Native American" songs and clapping their hands in a "tribal" rhythm. The American baby leaps up and runs screaming to the door of the room, trying to get out. The audience I saw this with just busted out laughing...we all saw the irony of an African child enjoying African music and an American child balking at enjoying "fake" African music. Draw your own political conclusions.
If you've seen the trailer for this film and enjoyed it...then you WILL enjoy the movie. It's just more of that. Simple and sometimes moving. And while there's lots of baby nudity and topless women in Africa...the movie is suited for the whole family, in my opinion.
(PS: It's a French movie, but that makes no difference. There is no "dialogue" or narration...nor is it needed. Sure, you understand what the American parents are saying...but believe me, when you hear the Mongolian boy say "papa" for the first time...you don't need a translator.)
37 of 46 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars If Your Biological Clock Is Ticking, Here's an Aw-Shucks Movie for You,
Ed Uyeshima (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
I am probably not the best person to review Thomas Balmes' 2010 documentary following the lives of four babies during their first year. The film is only 79 minutes, but it feels awfully long to this childless reviewer especially since it carries the randomness of a string of related YouTube videos. However, I am not a complete curmudgeon since there are several moments of delight to be found in Balmes' extended-shot approach which rarely goes above the eye-line of an infant. The director goes to four distinct places to highlight cultural dissimilarities and the universality of babies' experiences in responding to the world around them - pastoral Mongolia, heavily urban Tokyo, the Namibian desert, and kid-friendly San Francisco. There is no voiceover narration, just the gurgling noises, crying jags and first words from the babies in a fashion closer to a wildlife documentary.
As for the babies who could technically be up for leading-category Oscars, there is Mari of Tokyo, who appears to show both a contemplative curiosity about the family cat and an artist's temperament in her epic fit when she falls to the floor and pounds her legs on the playroom floor. Hattie of San Francisco takes to her jumpy chair and her playground race car like Evel Kneival and actually has the film's funniest scene when she tries to escape her parents as they perform an unbearably pretentious Native American earth chant. Bayarjargal of Mongolia displays the most perseverance as he confronts the mayhem caused by a bullying older brother, thirsty goat, and an aggressive rooster. However, it's Ponijao of Namibia who steals the movie as the model of stoicism as she replicates her mother's domestic actions with just pebbles, dirt and the occasional piece of food. In fact, you might be amazed like me at how self-sufficient all these adorable babies are.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A lesson for our modern life!,
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I watched this documentary recently in whilst on holidays in Europe. There was no spoken commentary and that was a bonus for a film like this.
If you are interested in human development - here it all is before you in the first year of life of four healthy babies growing up in caring environments. All the milestones from a Child health and development point of view and interesting observations of baby caregiver interactions are here to see in 4 different cultural environments.
This documentary also brings home the vast differences in the two more western environments -US and Japan, and the contrast of the Mongolian environment and the baby growing up in a very different environment in Namibia.
What we can learn from this documentary is that normal healthy human babies growing up in loving families and stable environments develop physically and emotionally in much the same ways despite all the things that we tend to think are essential in our western culture.
We see a vast contrast in the cultural environment in which the Namibian baby lives, for example, and our western culture where we tend to feel we need to have a vast array of purchased toys for each stage of development, lots of fashionable clothing, and often we are so isolated we really do need to attend mothers groups for contact with other mothers and to and learn from each other, and then there are baby gym classes to attend.
We can see from the other environments how all this tends to happen quite naturally in the Namibian group and in the Mongolian family it is different again due to the family's need to survive in their environment.
As a bonus, there are also the beautiful scenic backdrops of the locations.
Whilst this documentary is delightful to watch for anyone who adores babies, the important message here could be that healthy babies who are born into caring families who interact with them and give provide opportunities for learning end up developing normally in much the same ways, in these vastly different cultural environments.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting view of International child rearing,
I watched this movie with my husband, toddler and baby and we all loved it. It has plenty of "maternal nudity",
which consists of breasts (when the babies feed) and pregnant bellies. No vaginal or birth scenes here. I got a
lot more out of it than most other people did because I am interested in natural birth, cloth diapering and
organic living in general. I just wish they showed more about how the primitive mothers took care of their babies
when they were sick or injured, baby food preparation, more about how they diaper or potty train- things like that.
It made me realize how absorbed we "civilized" folks are in all of our gadgets from the moment we are born.
The two developed nation babies quickly had learning toys surrounding them, while the primitive babies played
outdoors with what nature provided. The primitive moms did not worry about their babies crawling naked outdoors
in the dirt, crawling in and drinking from a moving stream, crawling under livestock or on rusty barrels. When I
let my son crawl outdoors he tries to eat every stone he sees, so I don't know how they keep them from choking
on stuff! Meanwhile we developed nation mommas are concerned about each milestone, counting how many words the
child is learning and whether they will be ready for grade school, so why do we complicate things? We tend to go
for the man-made answer to everything. As a mom I felt this movie taught me not to worry so much about the small
things (like back when my son ate a bug & I nearly passed out) and I was reminded that babies are all the same no
matter where they are born, they just adapt differently to the environment they were brought into & this movie lets
us watch that happen.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Questions Raised, Answers Not Provided,
I couldn't get through this film until I was 4 months pregnant. Otherwise, without dialog, it was too boring. (I found the cats more entertaining to watch.) I'm not one of these people that thinks babies are cute so perhaps if you are, you'll like it more.
As a parent-to-be, I found the contrast between the consumer lifestyle of first world countries with third-world countries very interesting. I was also intrigued with other culture's hands-off approach to parenting. But, after watching the movie, I find that it didn't probe these differences enough for me to make a decision about which method is healthier. In fact, it mostly confused the issue. (Some might say that the movie was not trying to indicate one method was better than another... but I think, very subtly, it was definitely criticizing first world methods and presenting the "Noble Savage" methods as something more respectful.)
For instance, in one scene, an African baby takes the toy of his older sibling. The older sibling takes it back. The baby hits him. The older sibling hits back. The baby cries and no one comes to comfort him because no one is watching them. As a viewer, my first reaction was, "Well, that will teach the baby not to take toys and hit! I'm glad the mother didn't rush in and scold the older sibling."
But, then, later, I watched an older Mongolian toddler full out attack his younger baby brother and no one intervened. He simply kept hitting the baby until he got bored. All the while, the baby was crying. No one came to his rescue. Then, the minute that little baby learned to stand the first thing he did was reach over and grab someone who was smaller than him and made her cry. What had he learned? If you are bigger, you can beat up on those smaller than yourself.
So, which is best? Give children less supervision and let them sort it out for themselves, risking that one child will abuse the other, or intervene and risk over-protecting your child? Which is the worse evil? Over protection or a bullied/bullying child? The film did not answer these questions or even probe these questions deeply.
Also, I found it a little distasteful that the film makers rushed to make fun of "first-worlders". The scene where the little girl in Japan had a room full of toys and seemed bored and unhappy was contrasted with the little boy in Mongolia who was tied to a bed and was SOOO happy to get a roll of toilet paper to play with. The message, "We give our children too much!" was loud and clear throughout the film. But at this point, I thought, "WAIT! We don't know if the baby in Japan was bored and unhappy because of her toys. She could simply be overdue for a nap! Also, I bet the boy in Mongolia has similar, cranky, overstimulated days and moments, also!" It got me wondering if I was actually being presented with the truth of the situation or with a trendy message about American consumerism.
And the little clips of the San Fran couple singing tribal songs about the earth mother with their children while inter cut with clips of the real African tribe... come on! Everybody knows we're suppose to laugh at the stupid Americans at this point. All that did was make me wonder at the agenda of the film-makers and if they were presenting an accurate picture of both American parenting and other culture's.
So, was it worth my time to watch as a parent-to-be? Yes. It will definitely make me think more about being too over-protective and too involved in my child's life. But other than as a "caution sign" in the back of mind, I'm not sure if this film is actually going to change any of my parenting behaviors (I'm still going to buy tons of learning toys because is it better to risk over-stimulating the child, sometimes, or risk under stimulating the baby's brain and s/he lags in development?) So, see it but expect it to confuse you a little bit about how to parent and don't expect it to answer any questions.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good, but Some Suggestions to Make it Better!,
David Baltazar (SAN JOSE, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is for; Babies
As proud parent of my 16-month old son, my wife & I enjoyed watching "Babies". The DVD has no narration. Just rotating clips of four newborns from four different cultures taken from the time of their birth to their first steps. The babies come from a barren desert in Nambia, Africa, an open-field farm in Mongola, a crowded part of town in Tokyo and San Francisco. Honestly my wife & I found the clips from Africa & Mongola to be more interesting because of the extremely, different living conditions than you might not expect from any Western living conditions. Funny clip about the goat trying to drink the baby's bathing water from the window. When you live in such open environments such as a dessert or an open field farm it was interesitng to see the babies just roam as far as they could with minimal, adult supervision. There wasn't anything special about viewing the Tokyo & San Francisco clips that looked very ordinary to me although the scene of the San Francisco baby opening and eating a bananna was very funny to watch!
I thought it would be more interesting if the film makers could have included a Middle Eastern or Indian culture or a Hispanic culture to add more variety besides or in addition to the cultures already represented. It would also been interesting to include a culture that raises a baby in a extreme, cold weather climate such as Alaska, Canada or somewhere in Europe. As for extra's on the DVD there is a short clip of all four babies revisited three years later after they were filmed.
Overall "Babies" is an enjoyable DVD to watch if you appreciate the innocence and beauty of young babies looking at the world for the first time!
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely Babies,
Liliana "Liliana Holtzman" (Michigan) - See all my reviews
Babies follows the development of four infants for about a year, from birth until their first words and steps.
The babies inhabit four very different societies: Ponijao is from a village in Namibia; Bayar lives in a yurt (nomadic tent) in Mongolia; Mari resides in a modern high rise in Tokyo; and Hattie lives in San Francisco.
I loved the movie. It also made me sad.
My own three babies had childhoods not unlike Mari and Hattie. They have all grown into happy and well adjusted people. Maybe it is my own sentimentality that gets in the way, when I wish their early years back so that I could do it all over again.
I found aspects of Ponijao's childhood most comforting. She lives in a communal society with few material belongings. Mostly what we see is women and children of different ages spending time together. The women sit and talk to each other, tell stories, make jewelry out of rope. They grind flower for food with stones. They hold their babies, or hand them over to older children. Babies crawl around on the dirt floor. They put things in their mouth. They taste, smell, hear, see. They are fed when hungry and reassured when frustrated. Expectations are clear. There is time for everything.
Punjao meets all the milestones that babies in other societies do at a similar rate of development. She (together with Bayar from Mongolia) seems to have gotten there at a more relaxed pace, though.
Mari and Hattie have wonderful childhoods, also. Their fathers are present and involved in their upbringing. But these two girls and their parents are living hectic, distracted lives. With their busy schedules they seem to be trying to recreate in baby classes what Ponijao and Bayar have as a starting point. And even though they live in large, populated cities, their existence seems more isolated and restrained than Bayar's and Pujao's. Punjao has her community; Bayar has his animals as companions and the expansive landscape around him is wide open for him to explore.
What do infants need to grow and flourish? Love, time and patience from their parents; response to their needs and concerned company of other beings (both human and animal). These seem to be the ingredients of a happy childhood. Most other activities seem to be a distraction.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Watch this with your child!,
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I had watched this movie alone when it first came out, but when I came across it again as I sorted through our videos, I got the idea to watch it with my nine-year-old son. He has always adored babies and he is an only so hasn't had much experience with how babies are raised. I wanted him to see the cultural differences, I wanted him to see how babies could grow up happy and healthy with almost NO material things(unlike him),and I wanted him to see that mothers all over the world love and care for their babies, albeit in different ways, and the babies thrive from that love.
My son LOVED it. I loved watching it with him. We laughed. A lot. We added our own dialogue to what the baby must be thinking at the time (WHY can't I get this STICK to stay in the CIRCLE?). AND as a bonus it led to lots of questions from my son, questions about "did you do that with me?" and "did I do that?". I also am very pro-breast feeding and had no problem with his seeing the breasts of these mothers as they fed their children.
He did go around afterward and tell his friends about the movie - especially the breastfeeding part. I may have some parents upset with me that my son made their kids come home with questions ("is that really what breasts are FOR?") but I realy don't care. I hope it opened up dialogues at other homes, to be honest.
So yes, there are lots of breasts. But my son simply accepted that this is a natural part of raising a baby and in some places it is the only option.
It was a wonderful experience for both of us. I really liked watching the babies in Mogolia and Africa, in cultures SO different from our own. I wish there would be a Babies II with 4 new babies in 4 new, exotic locale, so we can see how even more cultures raise their babies. But it brought my son and I closer, and we are keeping the movie to watch again some time in the future.
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But wildlife officials are warning that the wrong kind of retaliation could lead to trouble with the law.
Ground zero for the attack is the Lake Ridge Condominium Complex near 1500 West and 430 North. The newest residents, thousands of barn swallows and cliff swallows, are making themselves unwelcome by building mud nests under the eaves.
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A blizzard caused about $10,000 worth of damage to the existing home and forced the family to reconsider building on their site.
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"We really liked our neighborhood, but there was very little on the market here," explains John of the family's search for a new home that could accommodate their growing kids and desire for more stay-at-home space. "We had the house for sale when the blizzard hit, and it did quite a bit of damage, so we quickly changed course and decided to build on our site."
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Just a really quick sketch for those who may still be having trouble visualizing what the new mini touchscreen iPod nano-shuffle-micro might look like.
Though the radiuses are pretty close here, the real thing's surely going to be a little different. Expect less metal around the screen, the Dock Connector to be centered below the screen with the headphone port off to its right, and the top to have some nice iPhone 4-style buttons. We're expecting a clip on back, coming from the right side of the chassis rather than the left like the second-generation shuffle, and like the third-generation shuffle, a little smaller than the rest of the iPod's back surface. The aluminum will most likely wrap around the top and bottom of the device a la the iPhone 4 and third-generation iPod shuffle; the clip and part of the rear housing would come off for professional servicing purposes, but a plastic core is always a possibility.
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Without a comparison shot of another iDevice, it's hard to tell just how useful a touchscreen device of that size would be, but personally, I see it as a dilution of the immensely popular Touchscreen iPod/iPhone range. Is that a bad thing? Hard to say, but Apple rarely do things by halves, so if this turns out to be accurate, it could turn out to be the head-turning music device that re-defines the whole sector once again, like the original Nano did several years ago.
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I'm sure it will be fine but I just can't figure out what is the reason for making everything smaller. Seems sort of impractical, easy to fumble and drop, not to mention lose it.. I guess we'll see. The ipod touch is really the right form/function factor for my money.
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So to quickly catch up on happenings since my last entry...
Monday morning I weighed 152.0. I'd gained about 2 pounds for no reason, considering I stuck to my plan all weekend. School was canceled on Monday because of a snowstorm. I kept eyeing a jar of nuts that was sitting on my counter, waiting to be portioned into single-serving baggies. I kept not eating them, instead choosing items to eat off my daily menu. But by the late afternoon I'd finished eating everything from my plan and finally dug into those nuts...and anything else I could find. And I didn't go to the gym. Lesson learned (or confirmed - I already knew this):
It is dangerous for me to hang around near food with nothing special to do when I'm alone. That's when I'm likely to eat out of boredom or just because it's there and nobody will see me. Also, counter-intuitive maybe but true - the less busy I am, the less I get done. I go to the gym almost always after work, but find it hard to make myself go when I don't go to work (unless Jess goes with me). Oh, also, once I get into this binge mode, as much as I know it's best to snap out of it, I find it really hard and usually it takes at least a few days. Case in point: it's now Thursday and I'm still not fully back on track! Grr!
How to prevent this from happening in the future? Part of it is just a mindset - I have to believe that I won't allow this to happen. Don't make "I eat when I'm bored" a self-fulfilling prophecy!! Another part is physiological - I need to eat enough every day so that I'm not desperate to eat more whenever I can get away with it. But I really don't think that's where I went wrong this time, since I had been eating a healthy 1,600-1,800 calories per day the few days before Monday. I think there is something about me that loves to binge. I guess I need to figure out a way to not love it so much. I know it is unhealthy for me and that it just sets me up for other unhealthy choices, and it makes me discouraged and unhappy with my progress and my appearance. I need to play up SOMETHING else to replace it. Sure food is food and nothing else is quite the same, but I could have some delicious, nuturing tea or some calorie-free coffee (decaf if late in the day) or seltzer or gum. I could find something to do to get my mind off the temptation. I was watching The Office on my laptop when I binged. Even though that's non-food and fun, it's not a good choice because it's too easy to eat while I'm doing it. A better choice would be playing the piano, cleaning/organizing, writing, or going out walking or shopping. And then reward myself heavily for making the right choice even though I was tempted.
Anyway, I didn't weigh myself on Tuesday or Wednesday. I did go to the gym both days but continued the binge habit. I did weigh myself this morning - Thursday - and was relieved that I'd only gone up to 154.2 (or was it .4? whatever) which is only about a 2 pound gain. I have a theory that the more I weigh, the less weight I will put on when I binge, but I'm not sure if it's true. I hardly used SparkPeople at all since Monday pre-binge...I hate to log in when I'm not doing well. I did log in once and mentioned on the WW team main thread that I wasn't doing well, but nobody responded. I guess they're sick of hearing me say that I'm falling off the wagon. It has happened way too often.
Anyway, I really need to dig down to my inner resources and realize that I can make the right choices in the heat of the moment and that this is something I must do if I want to reach my goals for Jamaica. I don't have to go crazy with rules, but I do have to realize that the fewer extra nibbles, the more successful I will be. It is my choice to be thin and fit and healthy and attractive, so it has to be my choice to say no to food I know I shouldn't eat.
As far as the medical stuff is concerned, I still really don't have any answers, but I do have a bunch of good "probably"s. I probably don't have hypothyroidism - my doctor thinks that being on the pill messed up my TSH level (which was still elevated - 5.36 I think? on the 2nd test) so I will be tested again in about a month - halfway through February - once I've been off the pill for a while. There is some confusion as to whether they actually did the genetic test but I'm thinking they didn't or I would have heard by now. I guess chances are, I don't have the condition, but I will get tested when I go back for my third thyroid test. I have been off the pill now for almost a week and the bleeding stopped by around Tuesday night (1/15). I think it went on for about 4 days, which is about what it would have if I were just in my week of placebo pills. Now I get to wait and see if my cycle settles into a regular pattern.
I weigh 150.2 today. Well I weighed 150.8 at 7 a.m. and 150.2 at 11 a.m. so I'll go with the lower of the two. :) Jess said, "This will be your big week," and I said, "Oh, you mean because I'll find out if I'm hypothyroid and if I have a blood clotting condition?" and he said, "No, you'll get under 150!" But I've only lost a pound this past week and it only showed up on the weekend, so if I follow that same pattern again I won't see a weight under 150 until next weekend. If I lose a pound a week I'm only at 145 for Jamaica. :( A far cry from my goal of 130-135. I asked Jess whether he thinks it's a good idea for me to reduce calories for the last couple weeks before we go and he said he'd rather see me try to stick to my plan consistently in Jamaica, and if I diet hard before we go I might end up eating too much while there and end up weighing more. He is right. This is not a race. It's a lifestyle. I just have to work out as hard as I can and as much as I can and say no as often as I can to little extra calories and whatever I do, no binges. I am so much better off to stay consistent and healthy and not too hungry, not too full every day. We'll see what happens.
TMI alert - I stopped taking the pill as of Friday, two days ago, because of the blood clot risk, and today I started bleeding. This has happened before when I did as little as just forget one pill one day, and also I read that it happened to others who stopped taking it, so I am not at all concerned. Just want to keep track of what happens to me.
By the way, I've been feeling pretty fantastic lately, just physically in general. I certainly don't feel like someone who is hypothyroid - tired, cold, cranky. But sometimes I do feel that way. I'll probably find out tomorrow, I guess.
Just peeked at the sparkpages of some of the people who've been featured in Woman's World and People magazine. It is amazing how successful they've been! In the real world (outside of SP) people are getting fatter and when they do lose weight they gain it right back. SP is like a magical fairy tale land where everyone loses weight, gets fit and healthy, and supports everyone else to keep it off. I want to be one of those people! I thought I was - went from being overweight my whole life to weighing in the ***130s*** - a feat I'd never thought I'd accomplish, but then I didn't stay there. But I consider myself a success because I learned about myself and about how to live healthfully, making mistakes and turning them around, and throughout it all I've managed to stay in a healthier weight range than I was at before SP. But I do have higher ambitions for myself, and those involve being at my IDEAL weight and staying there, feeling great, being very fit, and feeling very attractive. I know I am on the right track right now.
Thanks SP for all the motivation - and of course for all the right tools!!
PS - 150.4 today
Today was the first day I didn't take the pill in several years. (7 or 8, I think!) I just did some reading on the web about side effects of going off the pill and wasn't happy with what I read - cramps, bloating, dizziness, panic attacks, and depression. But then again, a few people said that their issues got BETTER going off the pill, and I would imagine that most people who were happy or feeling neutral about it wouldn't bother to go find a website to post their experiences on. So I'm not going to worry too much.
Today I weighed 151.8 which is higher than yesterday by 0.2 but it was on my own scale, which always gives a higher weight than the scale at Jess'. I like to weigh in on the weekends because I weigh less when I sleep in and don't get on the scale til 10 or 11. I really wish this weight were coming off faster, but I know that I am eating a good amount these days (generally just over 1,600 calories per day). I could lose faster eating less, but I'd feel a lot more uncomfortable.
Today I didn't feel as good at the gym as I did yesterday, and I quit about halfway into my strength training (15 minutes instead of 30) after doing my usual 45 minutes of cardio. It was still an hour-long workout though, so that's fine. I think the difference was that I didn't eat enough before my workout today. I did have a 70-calorie yogurt before the gym, but that's not enough for me.
I've been slightly tempted to go off-plan tonight, but I won't. I really want to look good in Jamaica and shouldn't get off track at all for the next 5 weeks, 3 days. This weekend could be a bit of a challenge with me feeling this way, but this is a DECISION I am making - I will exercise my free will and NOT go off-plan! Going to a restaurant is fine, just try to eat about 500 calories there and about 1,100 calories the rest of the day. Choose something healthy, no bread, and no calories in my drinks.
I'll have to decide what my next batch-bake is going to be. I usually do crockpots, but this week had good results with a veggie lasagna that I split into 6 separate containers.
I'm staying on track in a very balanced, moderate way. I've made healthy choices at restaurants twice so far, and I've gone to the gym and made improvements already there - as measured by the way my heart rate rises and lowers, and also I can now finally make it through my whole 75 minute routine without feeling weak toward the end! I've been eating about 1,615 calories per day most days and today I had an extra 50 or so without freaking over it. I haven't felt overly hungry at all and have no desire to eat everything I have planned for the day too early. It's good-feeling levels for me and definitely something I could do long-term. The weight isn't falling off - I've been hovering around 151-153 for 6 days now, but before that I dropped quickly from 158 so I've still lost at least 5 pounds.
I do have a few new issues though. I have a blood clot in my left arm and will find out around Monday whether I have the same genetic mutation as my brother that makes him prone to getting clots (50/50 chance). The biggest impact this is having on me is that I have to stop taking the pill. Tomorrow will be my first day without it in several years. I'm nervous because I don't know what to expect and have no idea what I'm going to replace it with, even, but I'm also excited because I've read that people sometimes lose weight when they stop taking it. Maybe my blood pressure will go down - it was weirdly high the other day at the doctor's especially considering that I do exercise regularly - 132/90.
Also I should find out very soon whether I'm hypothyroid. Another issue that affects weight. hmm!


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Things have been a little hectic here in the Gravel Pit as of late, and I must apologize to my loyal readers for going AWOL the last two weeks. No worries, though - I'm back now, and I suppose that's all that matters.
The main reason I haven't produced anything recently should come as no surprise to those who know me well: I can't seem to write anything non-sports related. And who can blame me? The NFL off-season is kicking into gear (the draft will be upon us before we know it), March Madness is here, baseball is right around the corner and - perhaps most importantly - the NBA just keeps getting more entertaining with each passing day.
That being said, I need to wax poetic on sports this week - if I don't, I'll slowly start developing a tumor on my frontal lobe.
Every once in a while, there's a story that sort of transcends sport. Remember the autistic teenager a few years ago who came off the bench to score 21 points for his high school team? That's the kind of story I'm talking about. The one that doesn't just lead-off Sports Center, but makes headlines nationwide.
Before I go any further, I need to make two points: (1) I hate the North Carolina Tar Heels and (2) I hate the Duke Blue Devils even more.
But Sunday night, as I watched Duke fall to UNC in one of sports' greatest rivalries, I saw that indelible, inspirational aspect of sport personified as Tyler Hansborough (whom I also resent, but that's beside the point) walked to center court and stood before his home crowd one last time.
For those of you who wondered why Hansborough opted to finish his four-year career at UNC and forego millions of NBA dollars, I recommend that you look up the video of Tyler as he waves to the mammoth powder-blue crowd. The scene speaks for itself. His parents, standing court side, weep tears of joy as their son welcomes the accolades of some 20,000 crazed fans.
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Seven players on the 2012 BYU football team were recognized Thursday by the National Football Foundation & College Hall of Fame (NFF) as members of the 2013 NFF Hampshire Honor Society. BYU's seven players represented the most selections among FBS Division I programs.
The Cougars topped Nebraska's six and Army's five honorees to take the top three spots. BYU has had 32 total selections in the seven years of the award and has had the most selections in three of the past four seasons.
fyi, Utah had four, Utah State had one.
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Wes's father, Connor, is more annoyed than troubled by this unexpected detour into Ulan Bator. Connor, who sells next-generation CAT- and PET-scan equipment to major medical centers, survives on his ability to make up other people's minds, to blunt dissent with reason.
At dinner he shouts at our son, one word at a time: "Who are you?"
"I'm a yak herder, sir."
"Who are you really, though?"
Wes considers the question carefully. "For now," he says, "you can call me Baltnai."
Connor refuses to call his son Baltnai. On the seventh day, at breakfast, we all sit in silence and glare: I at Connor, Connor at Wes, Wes at no one in particular. When Wes is in the bathroom, Connor seriously suggests that we stage a midnight raid, rip off the kid's costume while he's asleep, and toss it in the trash compactor. End of Mongolian story.
"A fledgling imagination is at stake here," I say. "We can't just crush it."
"I've got this weird stomach thing again," Connor says, tossing away his pumpernickel bagel. "Every morning."
"Connor, he's only nine. The developing brain is wacky."
"Wes is not going to be wacky."
I touch my hand to his shoulder. "What I'm saying is, he has a lot of good reasons."
Wes comes out of the bathroom dragging a huge ball of toilet paper, at least three quarters of the roll, wrapped into an amorphous blob and hitched to his wrist with mint-flavored floss.
"What in the world are you doing?" Connor asks.
"Now I have a flock," Wes says. "A little lamb."
"What about Ethel?" I worry all the time about my son's fading allegiance to our elderly dachshund, about his breaking her very fine heart.
"She's a dog. This is a lamb."
"You're not dragging that pile of crap to school," Connor says with a snort.
"It's not a pile of crap," Wes states, entirely cool. "And Dad, even in Mongolia sheep don't go to school."
In our usual routine, Connor drops Wes in front of Hawkins Elementary and me at the equally dour-looking community center. Wes gets a kiss, but I don't.
"Why don't you ask one of your freaky child-psych friends," he says when I'm already halfway out of the car.
"Connor, you're making too big a deal. Do you know my brother swore he was Spider-Man for a month? One day he started up our garage and he actually thought his hands would stick. The fricking moron broke his leg, pissed off my dad, and ended the superhero summer."
"Lovely. Your brother. Alise, let me ask you something." Connor doesn't even turn off NPR. "You ever had any Mongolian students?"
"Probably. We cover the globe here in the Pacific Northwest."
"You think that has anything to do with it?"
"It's going to be my fault now—is that the concept?" I zip my jacket high over my throat.
"It's just a question," Connor says. "A line of inquiry."
"It was a National Geographic Special, Con. That's what Wes says. Ask him yourself, Mr. Inquiry."
"That damned Discovery Channel," Connor says. "They act as if all information is equal."
"I think it's TBS," I say.
"He watches too much TV as it is," Connor says.
"Con, it's not like we let him watch Wild Police Videos."
"Let's review this later," he says.
"Have a nice day," I say.
I teach English as a Second Language. My students come from Mongolia or Turkey or Laos, yet I rarely know it. They are the tired, the huddled, the oddly uniform masses who yearn for Oprah and Wolfgang Puck and Intel. They all wear Gap-ish clothing, even if it's secondhand or Kmart. They bring lunches that have nothing to do with where they come from—the Polish woman eats supermarket sushi, the Japanese teenager downs a burger, the Somali carries in boxes of Chinese takeout and snakes cold spicy noodles into his mouth with his equally serpentine fingers.
I used to love all this, used to get off on the very odor of the classroom—a volatile magic of knockoff perfumes, ethnic spices, and cheap wet leather. I could smell the hunger to fit in, to regenerate into fatter, tanner, more legend-worthy versions of themselves, and it aroused me intellectually. I wanted to feed that hunger, wanted to snake American customs and social niceties and the correct use of adjectives into their heads like so many cold spicy noodles. But that was before burnout set in, before I saw too many of my students get nowhere or get terminally frustrated or get deported, their well-taught English turned to spite.
This year, for the first time in a long while, I have a favorite. I actually find myself bouncing to class, pleased to sit authoritatively behind my desk waiting for Ismail to walk in, always with that loose neon-blue backpack bumping toward his high ass, always with the slightest, smoothest shift of the eyes, always catching my eyes with the very corner of his.


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Existing as a "virtual group" since 2006, the arts council has a new home at the Savage Library.
The Savage Arts Council has organized a running art wall exhibit at city hall. It now has its own place to call home, at the Savage Library.
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Have a story idea? Interested in pastels? If so, and you live in Scott County, you won't have to go far to broaden your artistic horizons.
A little more than a year after the closing of a joint public-private art gallery, the nonprofit Savage Arts Council (SAC) has celebrated the grand opening of a 2,000-square-foot space at the Savage Library for displaying, teaching and making art.
The grand opening of the Savage Arts and Cultural Center, in operation since last November as a meeting space and gallery, opens the door for new art classes and workshops starting March 3. It also returns a physical presence for the arts after the January 2013 closure of Savage Art Studios and Gallery, which also offered classes and showcased art. Despite reduced rent and a property tax subsidy, the business couldn't make enough money to stay open.
The City Council initially decided not to subsidize the SAC for the gallery space in autumn 2012. Then, later in the year, the city learned that the Scott County Library administration would be moving. That opened space that both the SAC and the Savage Senior Club needed. Using $15,000 from a grant by the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, the city renovated the space for the two groups, which started sharing the space late last fall. Under a draft agreement with the SAC, the city will not charge rent over the course of a four-year agreement, which has an option to renew.
"It's really nice to have this place to call home," said Heather Mathews, the new center's program director and a board member of the SAC, which has been "virtual" since its founding in 2006. "We've been meeting in coffeehouses and little shops and anybody that will let us have a little space to meet."
The group now has a space for classes in literary and visual arts as well as a place to show and market the works of local artists. It will also host an "open studio" on Sundays for members and use the space in its annual events, such as the Savage Juried Art Competition and Show and the Scott County Art Crawl.
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One thing the new location can't replace is the studio space lost with the closure of the downtown gallery. "There is [still] a need" for studios, said Mathews, who said that some artists had to move their work to Bloomington and some started working from home when the Savage location closed.
She said that SAC is "not actively pursuing" new studio space, and that the new library location is too small for studios. "We see classes as our next step," she said, as well as gauging the art interests of residents.
And there is interest, she said. After the group sent out a brochure of its new classes last week, she received the most calls she ever had — from "people just wanting to talk to me, saying 'We're so glad you're here.' "
Mayor Janet Williams is also pleased. A community needs more than sports, she said. "To be a well-rounded person, you shouldn't focus on one single thing. We're recognizing that we think the arts are important, too."
Williams said that the city's next investment in the arts could be a statue of the city's namesake, Marion W. Savage. But like the new space for arts and seniors and the remodeling of the Savage Depot, both of which were paid for from the tribe grant, the mayor said that public money should not be spent on a new arts project.
For now, the SAC's fostering of area artists seems to be doing well relying mostly on grants, donations and volunteer time. If Mathews is right, that nurturing will have long-term public benefits. She cites studies showing that arts promote greater tolerance of diversity and freedom of expression. It also can bring new people to town.
"It attracts people to your community," she said.
Graison Hensley Chapman is a Twin Cities freelance writer.


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Cod wallop: So long, New England fishermen?
Last week, the New England Fishery Management Council cut the cod quota in the Gulf of Maine by 77 percent and off Georges Bank by 61 percent. Some fishermen will be able to fish cod for only a day, or less, this year. The South Coast Today newspaper quoted John Bullard of the National Marine Fisheries Service as saying, simply, "The fish aren't there."
But fishermen say the cod have moved north, and these catch limits will devastate the industry for no good reason. There is scientific evidence to support their claim.
Cod do migrate to colder waters when their native waters warm.
In 2005, Institute of Marine Research scientist Kenneth Drinkwater wrote in the ICES Journal of Marine Science that a temperature increase of 4 degrees celsius would lead to collapse of the cod fishery off Georges Bank and sharp decline in the Gulf of Maine as the cod migrated north. "It is quite clear that, with future warming, there will be a northward migration of cod," he wrote.
In the past year, the temperature in the Gulf of Maine reached record highs. "At some point, (the gulf) is going to be inhospitable to cod. We're getting close to that now," said Jeffrey Runge, biological oceanographer at the University of Maine. In the past four years, the surface temperature in the gulf has risen between 2 and 3.5 degrees fahrenheit a year, more than enough to cause the near-collapse due to migration that Drinkwater predicted in 2005.
The government acts as though the only issue is overfishing. So it does what it always has done: it cuts the quotas. This approach is so inflexible and burdensome that even politicians like Carol Shea-Porter and Jeanne Shaheen, reflexive supporters of empowering government to control industries through the regulatory process, have expressed opposition to it.
Maybe last week's action, which could decimate the New England fishing industry, will finally open the eyes of those who assume that bureaucrats always know, and do, what is best.
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