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Today I tried something new to me. My father-in-law was a long time shooter in the International Benchrest Shooters. He lost his fight with leukemia this winter. He wanted me to shoot with him this year. Well, the IBS did me a favor. They are trying an AR class this year. Because I already owned an AR, and I'd like to see the class stay, I chose to shoot in this class. I ordered a new match upper and added a fancy NM trigger to my lower. The gun shoots better than I can, I stunk today. This shoot was a score shoot. Five relays of five shots for score. A perfect shot is a 10-X. The x is a dot in the middle of the 10 ring. Many experienced shooters shot 250 points and 20 Xs. I shot in the 230s with 6 Xs. It was a real struggle, and I was the only AR (so I won, hehe), but it was a blast. I would encourage anyone with a fine shooting rifle to find a match. They have a factory class, that is just like it sounds, a great shooting factory gun, that no one was shooting. Many people could shoot in this class with a gun they already own, either AR or a varmint type gun.
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Some people say that a competition is you against others. I agree in a way, but I also believe it is you against your past scores. Try your hand at other competitions, but be careful. It can become a full time hobby. Congrats.
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Sounds like a lot of fun! If I had more time I would love to get into competition. I need to take a trip to the range on my next day off!
I'm glad you had the experience and it was a fitting tribute to your Father in law. How you shot doesn't matter in the least. You honored his memory and that's what means something.
That isn't a bad score for your first time. Now you can go back & work on getting a better one. The first time at anything is a hard thing to do. I'll bet your father in law would be proud of you.
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So I shot an IBS group match today, and I brought the suk. Good gracious did I shoot poorly. FYI, score shoots (the first one I shot) are at 5 bulls eyes, groups are just like they sound, small groups. The groups are 5 rounds. Mine were all three, 'plus two you did its' until the last of 5 relays, which was still disrespectful to my rifle. I am still learning, but my message to all shooters is get out there and shoot against a standard. The folks that have been doing it for 100 years will likely beat you in the competition, but trying to reach a defined goal at the range is one of the most satisfying thing I have ever done with a gun.


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OK, not trying to start something here, but did anyone else hear that Brady has a sports hernia? I read it on another site and it was allegedly reported by ESPN as the reason he is not playing in the Probowl. Anyone..anyone?????
I know this to be true and knew about it back in November. I decided to say nothing as my information came from a friend of a trainer, but is quite accurate and very much true. FWIW, he will be just fine when he starts training again.
Can anyone tell me the difference between a regualr hernia and a sports hernia? I've been wondering about it since McNabb's injury.
McNabb's injury after surgery was said to be an 8 week thing so even if surgery is required, fgssand's comment seems correct.
If I had a link I would post it. I'm not one to start rumors. Just what I had heard from another board and apparently it was mentioned on ESPN. If it were true, I would think the papers would have said something as it is significant.
If that is true, it proves again that Brady is a tough SOB. This is very painful and when you get hit it's extremely painful. I saw no signs from Tom that he was in that type of pain. Doesn't mean that he did not have it.
I can't believe he had the courage to struggle on after he pulled his groin.... It must have flared up while he was chasing Champ Bailey. Didn't look like he was in a full out sprint.
Another insignificant troll gets shrunk down in that ignor listing. Even then such wasted space! What's ya say Ian?
I can't speak from the perspective of a pro-athelete nor Tom's situation, but having a congential hernia diagonosed and corrected as a "sports hernia" I don't view this as an exceptionally serious issue Certainly having your intestines slipping out in a hole in your abdominal wall certainly causes periods of discomfort - sometimes its a little and sometimes its a lot. Clearly in McNabb's case it got to be the latter. But the surgery couldn't be more straightforward, inserting a bio-mesh that is eventually replaced by tissue. Its not an injury that I believe is recurring and in the end you have a stronger abdominal wall than you did before, as there are lot of people - athletes and non-atheletes alike, who are prone to such hernias. I'd guess that Tom will take it easy for 1 week after surgery - and be walking around like he normal after that, and completely recovered and ready for the football field even before the draft!
And the legend grows.... To my understanding (and I was at a Holiday Inn last week), is that a sports hernia isn't an actual hernia, i.e. your intestines leaking into your ball-bag. A "sports hernia" is a weakening in the front wall of the stomach. Usually they can be treated with minor surgery.
I've had a stomach hernia and even though it cause chest pain and upset, it's nothing like a "sports hernia". I'm sure that there are different degrees but my understanding is that it, a sports hernia, is very painful when moving the wrong way or getting hit. I am surprised the McNabb was able to play as long as he did with it. I guess we don't know when Tom got his, if he does indeed have it. Was it during the Denver game? Prior to that?
I found out about it just before the Dec home Jets game - 12/4/05. He may have suffered it before then, but it was at least dunring the week leading up to that game that I received my information. Again, I did not think it was right to report third hand information on here, although it did turn out to be 100% accurate afterall.
try this: www.orthopedics.about.com/od/sportsinjuries/a/hernia:htm it may be more than you want to know but gives good info as to what is involved.
Couldn't get that link to work. Was looking at this one earlier. http://www.webmd.com/hw/hernia/hw170927.asp
I have one right now...Sometimes it hurts if I bump it, but most of the time I don't notice it. It's turned my inny bellybutton to an outty. It looks bad though...
I believe you when you say you knew and applaud you for keeping it to yourself. A lot of people would have loved to look like a hot shot around here touting their inside knowledge, but obviously you were smart enough to know you had inside information that could have: 1.) backfired on the person who told you and 2.) Potentially been used against the Patriots Bravo for keeping that to yourself!

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Wonderful dining setting, extravagant food presentation, gustatory ecstasy and bottom line value of restaurants can all be trumped by Montezuma's Revenge.
Consider 1/3 of humanity does not have proper access to clean water or proper sanitation.
When I travel my standards are low:
in the end, a good meal is simply not getting diarrhea.
I was initially drawn to this book as potential material for one of the introductory economics courses that I teach. I did not expect to enjoy it as much as I did. I now not only tell my students to read it, but also any friends and family looking for an interesting read.
My own finding relevant to economics is "Fusion Cuisine" means nothing is authentic and there is very little on the plate.
Hunger is an inconvenience that science was supposed to solve by now. Hungry? Take a pill. Where's my stinkin' food pill? Stupid science.
I disagree, the food in Paris seems to be consistently bad. Even the highly rated restaurants I've tried there have been disappointing. Sad to say but I think you can get better French food in New York or Toronto.
"avoid restaurants that display pictures of the main courses on the menu"
I think the idea of not eating red meat is an oversimplification. In Australia, for example, beef grazes on land that could not be used to grow crops. And transport is cheap because cows are dense and stop the meat needing refrigeration.
In other words, the common argument that eating animals is bad because they are fed crops (from land) that could otherwise be used to feed people, is often wrong.
I agree completely. I would rather eat at a restaurant where the chef concentrates on mastering good cooking, not -- insert language of choice here -- as a second language. A picture avoids confusion and makes me more aware of new opportunities. So what is the rationale for avoiding places with pictures on the menu?
"pictures are for people who come and doesn't know how the dish looks or has to be prepared. So it is oriented in low class or in best case scenarios mid-optimistic."
Since I am an adventurous eater, I frequently eat dishes that I haven't the faintest idea about. A picture would certainly help. You seem to limit yourself to only foods you have researched or already know about. That is far to timid for me.
"Restaurants" having menu's with pictures are for people who come and doesn't know how the dish looks or has to be prepared. So it is oriented in low class or in best case scenarios mid-optimistic. And that means, that quality is not going to be guaranteed, but prices might be overwhelming!
As a person from restaurant business family I surely do know this rule. Since how strange it might seem for a regular non-gourmet person, but then best chefs prepare You're not interested in how it looks or what is it going to be, you may choose main ingredient (because no of them shall be shown on menu!) tell about your allergies or preferences and professionals shall make everything perfect for You. That is what a high class restaurant, not a McDonald's type "restaurant" gives You.
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If you mean this logo I believe it is Baskerville Old Face
I can't find any proof, but for some reason I think the Canadian Gov'mnt commissioned its own font for the logo. I remember (way back when) thinking how cool it was that a government would think about graphical things.
Baskerville Old Face is definitly close, but the inside of the "a" is not an exact match...
May be they employed a commission to change "a's"!!!
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Cool stuff Yves, and Jorgé you're right it's just a bit different - there's the 'a' and the ear on the 'n' in the logo is a bit rounder on the right.
Thanks Patty, I keep meaning to clean it up a bit - I was totally into ambigrams after reading Angels&Demons, for a few months. :)
I remember (way back when) thinking how cool it was that a government would think about graphical things.
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This is a common theme I hear echoed from a lot of people I meet.
"Am I normal?"
"I can't wait to feel more normal again."
"Must be nice being so normal …"
The problem is, I don't know what normal is.
I suppose for some of the people, they mean "without the symptoms of my disorder." That makes sense, especially as some symptoms of some disorders can be pretty severe and debilitating toward living their everyday life.
But then I realize that even people without a diagnosed condition still don't often feel "normal." We live our lives, we have our stresses, we hate our bosses or the 9-to-5 routine, we get into arguments with our significant others. Is this "normal?"
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Heh. This was a recent topic on Philosophy Talk.
The best description I've heard of normal was "a setting on a washing machine." I love that!
What a wonderful article! I always feel like other people are normal and I'm just weird. But I get what you are saying here, and it makes sense.
Thanks for sharing.
This is a great post. It's a question I spend a lot of time obsessing about and I'm guessing I'm not the only one. You want to know how you measure up. How do you compare what's going on in your head to what's going on in the head of the guy next to you? And the real message of course is – don't bother trying.
Indeed, I suspect it's a part of our innate human nature to want to measure ourselves against others. Which, if done occasionally and not as a major part of one's self-worth, is probably okay.
But when we try and measure ourselves against this ideal of "normal," we're committing a fallacy of thinking, because there is simply no such thing. Once we accept that, perhaps life can be a little bit easier because what we strive for is simply improving our own lives on our own scales, measuring only against ourselves.
What's normal is simply answered by statistics. But is it desirable? Remember that the exceptional is never normal, and normality can mean something soul crushing.
Thank you, that was just what I needed to hear right now. I mean it.
"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."
I am a hairdresser….and what I thought was not "normal" in my life or what I thought was "normal" in my life… Just remember, you that are having doubts about your "normalcy", is that everyone has a story, believe me, I hear them all. And come to find out, I am pretty normal!!
Being laid off and out of work now for almost 3 months; I often get up and think "this is not normal" getting up with no place to go after 35 years….however after reading this article "not one of us alive is normal". Thanks for the article it is what I needed right now. Back to searching for work!!
liked this article very much. i think u said true that what we see is not always like that.
All I know is that "normal" is not the norm. Norms are statistical constructs==bell curves and all that jazz. Everyone has their pain and their joy. Some folks are better at hiding it or accepting it than others–and their ability to do either varies from minute to minute. Ward and June Cleaver messed us all up.
At this moment I feel extraordinarily sad–and in ten minutes I may feel full of joy and wonder because my older dog has a wheelchair and can now run again.
The most freeing thing I ever did in my life was stop trying to be normal. It seems so ridiculous to me now. To me normal is boring and it's agreeing to missing out on a lot of the more beautiful things in life. Never be afraid to color outside the lines or make up your own songs.
What is important to me is being healthy. I want to be around to enjoy being "abnormal" as long as I can, and that isn't always easy.
It may not be normal to fight for yourself and be an advocate and a partner in your own healthcare, especially your mental health. But it is right.
Learn the difference between caring what is normal and caring what is right and the health and the happiness will follow.
Whew! I feel better…Thanx for the thoughtful comments. I will definetly share.
I found this article to be very informative, if you have to try and be normal, that's not normal. There are certain behaviors that were acceptable when I was a child, such as the friendly neighborhood drunk. I found out ten years ago that one of those friendly drunks had touched both of his daughters sexually (intercourse) and the one I was dating was searching for normalacy. I knew she was messed up when she rushed in to take a bath after having sex with a man her dads age. I'm back with wife and I never look back. The behaviors we exhibit towards one another are behaviors that are acceptable to us.
I love being myself people tell me I'm weird and I am weird but I love it.
Normal is trying to make other poeple believe that your life is running almost perfect. Weird is when you stop worrying about what others will think about you and just be the person you are show your true colors. Some people won't like you and that's fine but the rest will love you for who you are and you'll be happy with yourself because you can finally be free to be yourself.
It's funny that I read your article. My boyfriend of six years said because of all trials and tribulations we went through all theromance went out of our relationship, and it also affected our sex life, and he ended it with me. I can tell you I don't feel normal.
I do lead a very predictable life with kids and a teaching job, and I wonder if that is nomal? I guess you're right, there may not be a normal.
Thanks for your insights.
Just last week, I asked this same question? There is you and you are special in your own way. Knowing yourself and valuing yourself maybe normal to you, even though others may not value you. You are not responsible for the opinions of others about you, only what you think of yourself. We are all created differently and we have to embrace these differences about each other. Please, don't misunderstand me, I'm not talking about a murderer or an evil person, I'm speaking of individualilty of a person, and that can be hard especially if we think the other person is abnormal, so we make these assumptions of others based on that they are different. I once heard a Preacher say that he is different, but not dysfunctional, I agree with that statement and believe a lot of us are afraid of accepting the differences of others. Love you for who you are and know that God loves you because He created you in His image and after His own likeness.
The grass IS always greener, but it is just as hard to cut!!!
Normal is when good and bad are concurrent yet good is desired and bad is not.
DOC: Allow me to quote Joe Ances[Rodney Dagerfield's closest friend who would critique his jokes]"Normal is what EVERYONE is —until you get to know them"
It seems like to be normal one has to give up individuality. Peaple say its not normal not to have many friends, but friends always want to make you over, into who they think you should be that is very confusing. To be normal do what you want within reason.
I think there are things that are "normal" and things that are not. I believe it is the way you choose to live and respond to everyday life. Is bickering with a friend or family member normal … Yes. Is it normal to beat them up when you bicker … NO. Is it normal to have bad feelings about something or someone … yes. Is it normal to act on them in a violent hurtful way … NO. Is it normal to hear about bad things happening yes but I do not think those bad things are normal. Is anyone normal no. No one is perfect no one is normal but I do not choose to say weird messed up things or act in a way that is weird and messed up. Some people may but that doesn't make it normal. Maybe what I just said doesn't make sense but I hope you get what I'm laying on you.
Is Dick Cheny normal? George Bush?
Don't worry about a thing!
To XInsomniaX: You have hit the nail on the head. A more true statement has not been made. Bravo!
Live and let live!
I have a necklace with a pendant that says, "The only normal people are the ones you haven't met yet." So true. Still, I keep wishing I was "normal". Which for me means not bipolar, no OCD. But that "normal", I shall never achieve.
Normal?I have been searching for that feeling for years.Feelings of success'and failures,physical and emotional daily roller coaster rides.Thoughts and ideas of others constantly bombarding me.Who is right? who is wrong?I have come to the conclusion that nobody knows what normal is so they come up with titles like bi-polar.(show me a person who isn't to some extent)I found it alot easier to take life as it comes and deal with it in a way that will not hurt anyone and be as productive as possible to keep myself pointed in the right direction.(Whatever that is!I wish I had a compass)
Yeah…but I have suicidal ideation, and it's strong. I really don't think that is normal because I have asked people and that isn't even a thought to them. I want to speed up the process to die. I don't have enthusiasm for other things. I feel like I lived a full life already. I'm 38.
All feelings are normal. They came from some where. When you stop thinking it is you thats messed up, think about it again and maybe repressed emotiions of a life time will surface to give you the answers to Why you thiink you are not Normal, I personally hate that word anymore.
I think it's normal to be abnormal…if that makes any sense.
I don't know what's normal. I just know what my heart tells me isn't healthy. I have a fiance who probably isn't normal. She sleeps her days away….is nearly paralyzed with indecision, hates her body, worries about fading beauty, cries herself to sleep, creates her own set of job and life challenges by her behaviors and mounting unaccountability, drinks almost daily, takes prescription pills to sleep and to stay calm, blames her every challenge on others…mostly me…because I won't cooperate now that I recognize how I've helped her do all this to herself in our time together. Her behavior goes back many years before meeting me. And I don't live a lifestyle that's condusive to this at all.
So why did I choose to write about this here? Because, it's as good a place as any to answer such a tough, but basic, question. What's normal?
I believe it's normal to love, to feel joy, pain, fear, pleasure and not mute those feelings all the time. It's normal to not want those we care about to suffer…so many of us go to great lengths to try to ease that pain…to give of ourselves those things they seem to be missing. It's normal to feel massive, crushing guilt and sour dissapointment when we fail at living for someone else. It's normal to feel the shame that comes with that failure. Because surely, if I love this person enough, they'll get it and come to a point of healing..RIGHT? NO. Not unless they determine that for themselves.
So again, what's normal? To live, to question, to wonder, to act even when you're not certain at all. To live and let live. To give and give. To do things in the face of knowing nothing better to do. And to get up tomorrow…tired….and do it all over again.
For me….Normal is all about hope. So, I hope I'm normal. I hope being normal is a good thing. I hope normal presents me the chance to see the good things in life I want to see.
Great article!! I love it!! My husband is always comparing our life to others, and saying things like "our life isn't normal, or 1 out of 10 people would do things this way or that way, or they'd agree with me." I'm always telling him that he can't really know that because he doesn't know how others truely live, or how others think, but he tells me I am "crazy," that it's just the way "society is." I guess it appears that I am not so "crazy" afterall, am I? Go figure!!
I believe that everyone is living their lives the way that is "normal" for them. For instance: I grew up in a life that was "normal" to me at the time, and as I knew it, but now in my life,I can see that compared to what I do now and the way that I live now, that was not normal!
Yes, grammamjj, I totally agree with you on how you thought in your early years that everything was as it should have been, but growing older or up, whatever you want to call it, there were always reasons and causes for how you thought, felt about yourself, esteem issues that maybe were not truly yours, but pput on you by others. id. family etc. I finally learned to live for myself just the way I was and am and guess what, I have more caring friends and other family members who never brought their opinions up until much later, but they all saw situation as not so perfect. Trust yourself or get into a group or therapy or just live your own damn life the way you feel good about and you will find yourself much more content and proud of who you really are.
What is the author's advice for those of us who *do* have a disorder? A "range of life experiences where we can live the life we want, without significant health or mental health impediments" is simply not possible for all of us. Predictability does not exist for someone like me. It is so hard not to compare myself to my peers who I perceive to be so much happier, more successful and confident than I am. If only I could achieve that…
PS To the editor: "their" should be "they're"
try also reading "why normal isn't healthy" by Bowen F. White M.D… just for additional scoop in the article.
pls change their to they're, readers might be confused…
And by "normal" we mean balanced! I use it all the time.
I actually take a bit of offense to this concept. My wife is very sick with a severe mental illness. Her experience, and likewise mine as her husband, has been extremely abnormal, and so in contrast, there is such a thing as normalcy. I think you can only talk about "normal" not existing when you're dealing with a "normal" population, which is to say a flawed group of people. But when you're talking about major mental illness, in which people are more broken than flawed, you're in a whole new world. I've expanded upon my thoughts in much more depth at my blog, you can get to it through this link. http://bit.ly/dfJlx4
While I admire the attempt to make mostly-well people remember that it's not worth longing for a perfect life that doesn't exist, it ignores the experience of extremely unwell people who have suffered tremendously.
I actually think everyone who has commented here is right (as contradictory as that may sound). On one hand, we all have issues, we have all experienced suffering and we all have flaws, and whether or not these experiences fall into what is "normal" doesn't matter because they are a part of life. To some extent.
But if this were completely true then psychologists and mental health professionals wouldn't exist, because our job revolves around treating people with mental illnesses and making them more "normal". So obviously while a certain degree of suffering is normal, there is a point at which it becomes a serious problem that needs treatment, and I'm glad that point has been raised too.
It's great to see so much thought has been given to such an important issue
Who's to say what's normal?
What I know for sure is this: everybody has their "bag of sh%#'"…everybody has different abilities to handle the items in their bag, so small to me may be overwhelming to others…however there are those in denial and they seem to set the bar for normal in a way that makes us question ourselves.
Beware of this person who tells u their life us perfect…..their bag of sh%#* is far larger than any of ours will ever be!!
I also get the question a lot – What is normal…? It is indeed an interesting question, but can be answered based on past principles, but we also have to take into account the "new world" that brought in new things that are normal. Normal depends on the group we are approaching as in every group there are things that are normal that are not normal to another group. If we zoom further out however, normal can be pinned to the average mind and the thoughts of such a mind. Average mind being derived from the majority of the population. I would exclude the African Countries and other countries that have tribes where the local people have still traditions of their own and have not yet been integrated properly into the modern world / rest of the world. Let's ignore these for now.
Now, a normal person would consist of having a middle class job, maybe none or a well paid job, but still has a lifestyle where she/ he can afford a living. Will have an orderly live with a daily routine that this person adheres to. He / she will have the intention to marry and maybe have a child or two, maybe more. Will belong to some kind of religion or be an atheist. Might or might not do sport on a regular basis to tone the body. Have a healthy appetite, maybe more then he she should or less than average. This is all still normal. Has thoughts about other ladies or men and may fantasize about sex a lot or other weird fetishes. This is also still perfectly normal to the human mind, but normally gets suppressed. Having thoughts of all strange things are also normal. The abnormality comes when some of the thoughts become actual desires and needs, whereas some strange thoughts are still normal, even when they become a desire. Some people think of killing someone, then they might get the desire, but that is where it stays. This is already a slight abnormality, but could also be seen as something normal that is taboo and hence gets suppressed. However, when it becomes a need, then we can talk about abnormal.
As a normal person you feel your average up and down and if you suffer under depression you have probably been helped with drugs and it works for you. Possible.
Normal has many guidelines and their mind fits quite well into the system.
Now that we have discussed normal, lets pull everything out of proportion… The human mind is vast and many things were suppressed in the olden days and were forbidden and were totally abnormal… then the modern age came and many exploded as what once was abnormal, taboo, forbidden, was now allowed… suddenly people saw how much they have in common / shared with others and what they felt was abnormal suddenly became normal, even denial / self-denial is normal… Normal is moving with the age / era / decade we live in.
The mind is capable of so much and should be seen as normal as it is the human mind which is nature and nature is normal in all its abnormalities. But nature makes no difference, it is only the human mind that creates these border lines, which not even humans can pin down. But if nature is normal and treats everything as normal, then why can't we. Aren't we part of nature too? Does nature not treat its abnormalities as normal too? So, who are we to judge what is normal and what not? If it does not fit into our way of understanding or into the way of the masses, we see it as abnormal… just because it does not fit into our small minds of which we only use such a small percentage, does not mean that it is abnormal… it just says that we don't understand and have actually no idea of what is normal and what not. If we would use our full capacity, everything would be normal and then we would probably be not here anymore as we would either have destroyed each other or just seize to exist as human beings… who knows.
Ultimately it is us, our minds and the lives we create that create abnormalities with all the emotions that control us . Maybe. I am not here to assume, only discuss. That is what humans do, they research, discuss and give their opinion, hence, even when we are not specialised researchers or medicals, we still have a right to an opinion.
I think it's different to be normal and to be common, and to be normal is balance. To be different, to be special is suffering. Someway all of us are different, it's individuality, and that difference is in expression, not about complexity. To be normal is equilibrium into our own individuality,
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Normal is being content with yourself without hurting yourself or others in the process. It is living up to your full potential by taking all that you have and doing the best you can with what you have. That means that you must have some type of concept about what is good, better and best. We choose nothing at birth and must "Play the cards that God has dealt us.
The main thing is what separates us from other created beings is that we have "Free will" and we exercise it one second at a time. Human beings have confused the difference between, normal and perfect. So normal is basically being in complete peace with God, yourself and others, accepting what you cannot change about yourself or others and being wise enough to choose the way you live in the same way you choose your friends. Now you must decide what is the meaning of "friend".
Interesting article. I would like to just share a few things with anyone who is reading these comments. First of all when someone asks themself if they are normal it depends what aspect of their life they are reffering too. Are they normal psychologically, do they have normal penis size , etc. There are certain standards, social values averages in which people gauge each other. If someone has a learning disability or mental handicap they are deemed as being not normal in my opinion, does anyone disagree with me?
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Jim Caldwell has emerged as the leading candidate for the Detroit Lions' head-coaching vacancy, according to multiple sources.
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Earlier Monday, while the Lions were waiting on a decision from Ken Whisenhunt — who ultimately took the Tennessee Titans job — they kept open communications with Caldwell and his representatives.
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This was a pretty audacious scheme, though: they literally would walk out of an Akihabara SofMap (think a Japanese Best Buy) with games and consoles, no questions asked. Then they would sell the games and consoles back at another nearby store...also owned by SofMap.
But the best part? Upon arrest, one of the suspects said: "Stealing is simple in Japan. Japanese people shouldn't be so easily trusting of people."
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It's hard to get out from under the covers on a Monday morning mid-winter--unless, that is, there's something to celebrate. And when I have nothing to actually celebrate, that's when I dig through my drawers and find an outfit that at least convinces me that there is. Because let's say you were to pull on a lilac top and pastel pants with just enough metallic threading on them, you'd totally end up dancing as you brushed your teeth and made your morning smoothie. Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack optional, of course.
The Face: Lorac Cobra Mascara
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Time to mark those calendars: The State of the Union is tomorrow, and it's kinda a big deal since it's where the President lays out his big goals for the next year. If you want to get a sneak peek of it, here's what the New York Times is hinting at: Expect Obama to emphasize the fact that he will bypass congressional gridlock if need be.
The Inspiration: National Geographic's Instagram
There are so many reasons to follow National Geographic's Instagram feed (@natgeo)--in this past weekend alone there were incredible snaps of sharks, Nepalese mountains, and coffee time in the West Bank--but my favorite might be getting to see a side of the world you never knew existed. Including a livestock show in Texas, as a recent photo did; how awesome is Halee Johnson stepping into the ring?!
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The grainy effect is NOT post proccessing but salt spray. Yours truly and his camera (my faithful panasonic fz50) took a bit of a battering this morning.
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Korn return with their 11th album proper this week (October 8). Paradigm Shift made SPIN's list of the 50 Fall Albums You've Gotta Hear not only because it's the nü-metal crusaders' first since reinventing their sound with an assist from Skrillex on The Path of Totality, but also because it's the first in a decade to feature founding co-guitarist Brian "Head" Welch. Apropos, the new set will arrive in a deluxe edition that includes Reconciliation, a documentary film about the ax-slinger's return to the fold following a struggle with addiction, and his religious conversion.
Above, you'll find an excerpt from the film which documents the reunited Korn's first show in Pennsylvania earlier this year. The 10 minutes above give us a window to the band through drummer Ray Luzier, who joined full-time in 2009. His view is equal parts fan and insider, and at one point, he endearingly says of his position at the kit behind the original members: "I got the best seat in the house." We also see Luzier's nearby hometown, the church where he played his first notes, and his sister's zoo.
Spoiler alert: there will be lemurs.
As for the rest, interviews with each of Korn's members are interspersed with performance footage. We see and hear "Blind," "Ball Tongue," "Chi," "Did My Time," and "Helmet in the Bush," plus get a good look at frontman Jonathan Davis' incredible, custom H.R. Giger-made microphone stand. Paradigm Shift arrives on Tuesday via Prospect Park.


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When I went to the San Francisco stop on the book tour for Cris Beam's "Transparent: Love, Family, and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers," I got a chance to chat with Christina, the trans girl Beam primarily wrote about in her book. While Beam was busy signing books, we went outside on Castro Street for a quick chat for Oasis. Having read about the shy, withdrawn Eduardo in the book, it was certainly a much different story being with the boisterous Christina, who had such a great energy about her:
So, you first met Cris when you were how old?
I was around... 15? 14? It was briefly that I met her at the school, the first time. As she explained, I was always running off. I never wanted to be in class. I was just not a school for learning. Everybody was doing their own thing, having their CD players, going to the computer room. The teacher was never, like, around so...
What kept you showing up at all?
Exactly, huh? When I could have hung out anywhere else? I think the fortunate thing was my parents were always implementing education on me? And even though they weren't demonstrating how, because my parents never graduated, or completed junior high.. so it just gave me a reason to keep on going. I wanted to prove how good I can be.
So Cris shows up... she doesn't know how to teach. She wants you to make a magazine. What's your impression when she shows up?
Oh God, here goes someone else trying to tell me what to do. (laughs)
And she follows up and then she's showing up and you're going out to eat. Now, I'mjust starting the book, but you were the one she took to all the different restaurants, the Ethiopian and such?
Yeah, and it was gross. It was all these weird foods and I never quite wanted them. One time she wanted to go get sushi. That was the grossest part. I had yellowtail. That yellowtail, man, I was tasting it, savoring it, and smelling it, and my mother used to give me bacalao oil (cod liver oil) when I was a kid. Do you know what that is? It was really gross, and I was forced to drink that.
So, what are you thinking when you keep getting together and she's recording your conversations...
I wasn't expecting what was going to come out of it. I thought I was just opening up about issues that, as teenagers, we go through. Like the ditching, the boys, the drinking, which... I never really got into drinking. But it's just that constant stuff that all your friends are doing. I did get into smoking cigarettes, because I was all 'this is not going to lwaste my brain too much. I'm not going to get all crazy-retarded.' But Cris and Robin, that's her partner, they just kind of changed me. They guided me in stuff I always wanted, but I just didn't know how to get to.
And I guess it's hard because, even myself growing up, you know you're different. I just went right to gay, but kids on the site aren't sure if they're trans, gay, bi... and now some people will transition and be gay after they transition...
Yeah, it's awesome. I'm getting girls that will come in to my agency, telling me that they have a girlfriend who's a biological female, and here they are feeling like a woman inside, wanting breasts, wanting their beard to go away, and still wanting to have sex with their partners, but they're lesbian, and it's so awesome to see that. It's so awesome to see people finding out who they are.
What was your own journey like?
I always loved men. (laughs) Even when I was in elementary school, I never knew the different until junior high that 'this is the girl's bathroom, this is the boy's bathroom, and the locker rooms.' And I'm, like, I felt really uncomfortable even showering in the boys locker room, and I would go in there with my little underwear and cover up as much as I could, because I was shy, I'm petite, I'm little... so it was just scary.
And did you ever think you were gay at some point?
Yeah, after a certain point of thinking there was nothing different with me, the kids were the ones who were the cruelest. But I guess that comes from the adults' fear, and they implement these thoughts onto the kids. So guys would call me that, girls would sometimes be shady, but in the end it's just something... you have to know who you are. Even among us sometimes, we'll say, 'Oh, that bitch is a man,' but in the end it's not about how manly you look or talk. It's about who you are in your head.
Once you accept yourself, there is no questioning anymore.
It sucks. Sometimes we're too concerned with what others are going to say, what others are going to think... they're always going to talk. You're never going to satisfy the world.
So, I'm sure a lot of people would like their teen years to not be documented. You'll always have a book where you're always going to be the awkward boy, wanting to dress up, and this relic will always be sitting out there constantly in your past.
It's beautiful. In the beginning, I was very scared, like I told you. You're sharing so much with someone. I didn't know this woman seven years ago. And then that constant abandonment that goes on sometimes, you know? Well, it went on in my life. I don't like to generalize it because I can only speak for one person. But that constant abandonment can traumatize you, so I was thinking, 'Oh, she's going to leave. She's going to disappear.' And that's how I felt when she moved to New York. But they're still around. But it was scary, because I was sharing so much, opening up so much. And the journey and the struggle and the stuff... and the partying, it was fun, but there's no shame in my game. (laughs) Everything's beautiful. In the end it's about holding through and not falling in the cracks.
And you graduated high school. You're in college now.
Yeah, I'm very glad I did that. I'm going to college. I found people who surrounded me with their love, and it's great.
And Cris is your foster parent? That's an official thing?
Yeah, they gave her that after I was in a group home. They didn't quite know what to do with me, because they changed my group home after some incident had occurred at a high school, and the probation officer was going on vacation, and the first thing out of his mouth was, 'Send her to juvenile hall.' And they didn't want to send me there, so the staff just said 'Get out.' I ran away and was staying with them for a moment, and they were making me call my probation officer. I was just going to say, 'Fuck it, I'll run until I'm 18 and get off probation.' But they were constantly, 'Call your probation officer, call your probation officer.' And I would have probably stayed on the streets and screwed up my life.
And you always hear teens saying if they go to Los Angeles, or San Francisco, or New York, their life will get better. Your whole book is set in Los Angeles, so do you think that's true?
No, that's running from your fears. But I have a MySpace page and I'm totally up for answering questions from the girls or the boys. I have a girl who is beginning to transition into male, and we're just starting to talk. It's cool, because she read the book and it's super-fun. The more people know about themselves at a young age, and the more they're able to explore their bodies or minds, it's cool. Then at least they know what they like.
And what are you studying in college?
Right now I'm getting my AA, but I want to major in psychology and, at some point in my life, open up a center for transgender women and men, because it's pretty damned hard. There are resources out here now, which are amazing, but I just hope I can help with the evolution and be of service or some assistance.


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I get a 3 page essay, I write five pages to get a good grade. She fails me. I get a makeup assignment for 5 pages, I write 6 to get an A. She fails me. Lesson learned. Don't try in school?
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Interesting. The lesson I would have learned is quality over quantity.
Maybe you should learn to follow directions. In court, if a judge says "Don't write a brief over 25 pages", and you write a 30 page brief, he will lay down the smack on you, question your professional integrity, competency, and ability (in front of your client), and then maybe fine you. And if he doesn't give you leave to amend your brief, you just might be SOL.
Quality over Quantity.
When you're told to write an X page paper, you stick strictly to X. Its not an exercise in rambling. Its an exercise in expressing a view in a limited number of pages. Any slack jawed idiot can write a 200 page thesis on ****ed near anything. But you're going to have plenty of pages that have little to no substance to them.
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Cable TV in Bowen
At CableTV.com, we have a lot of information to share about television in Bowen, IL. For example, were you aware that around 97% of Americans watch traditional TV even as 48% have also started watching TV content online? Because you can watch your favorite shows online, more and more people bundle their cable and Internet services. In fact, 72% of Americans do this. Which means that in your city approximately 466 people tune into their favorite shows every night. And because there are 346 people with a cable and Internet bundle, 230 people stream TV online. But those aren't the only ways TV viewing is changing. Watching content from DVRs has increased from 2.2% in 2006 to about 7% today. However, 398 of local viewers still follow network scheduling.


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