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|John Vachon, Miner's sons salvaging coal during May 1939 strike, Kempton, West Virginia. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black-and-White Negatives Collection, LC-USF34-032709-D.
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Burns, Shirley. "Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia," Southern Spaces, September 30, 2009, http://southernspaces.org/2009/mountaintop-removal-central-appalachia.
Dotter, Earl. "Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment," Southern Spaces, July 16, 2008, http://southernspaces.org/2008/coalfield-generations-health-mining-and-environment.
Fisher, Steven and Barbara Ellen Smith. "The Place of Appalachia," Southern Spaces, January 31, 2013, http://southernspaces.org/2013/place-appalachia.
A few months ago, my husband and I moved from rural Arkansas to the great Atlanta sprawl and settled in Druid Hills, a neighborhood within walking distance of Emory University's campus. The land that constitutes the Druid Hills neighborhood was originally ceded to the Georgia government by Native Americans in 1821 and was subsequently surveyed and sold to white settlers. Today, the area has become a prominent suburban enclave near Atlanta's urban center. Celebrated landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted drew the original plans for Druid Hills in the late nineteenth century, envisioning "healthful living in a country setting, yet not far from the city."
|Sam Fowler, General plan Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta, Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-6.
|Sam Fowler, 1930 City of Atlanta quadrangle map, Druid Hills historic district, US 29, Atlanta,Georgia, 1987. Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey HABS GA-2390-10.
Reverberations of Olmsted's designs are surfacing today in Druid Hills, a suburban space that exists as a borderland, literally "outside the city", but not quite in the country. Having lived in major metropolitan areas, small towns, and rural communities, I did not initially realize that we had moved to "the suburbs." In my mind, Atlanta was one big mass of city and I had prepared myself for an urban jungle. However, while we live one mile from the Atlanta city limits, my new neighborhood hosts a variety of wildlife, including chipmunks, rabbits, foxes, owls, and hawks, not to mention large wooded areas that provide habitat for the band of coyotes whose presence is testing the limits of Olmsted's bucolic vision. Often associated with rural and western spaces, coyotes have been migrating eastward for the past century and now occupy increasingly contested territory in major metropolitan areas, including Atlanta. A 2012 New York Times article noted that "the urban coyote problem has come to Atlanta at last."
In response to increased coyote sightings and several coyote/pet skirmishes, the Druid Hills Civic Association sponsored a community meeting on January 29, 2013, to discuss the concept of coexistence. As the term implies, humans and coyotes exist in shared territories, confounding distinctions we sometimes draw between human and animal worlds. Central to the concept of coexistence is modifying the behavior of both human and animal, requiring an ongoing effort to sustain a dialogue-of-sorts with another species. In essence, coexistence asks us to take coyotes seriously as participants in a community defined by all living beings that inhabit it—plant, human, and animal-life alike.
|Janet Kessler, Coyote coexistence Atlanta, 2009. Courtesy of Janet Kessler, CoyoteYipps.com.
The parish hall of the Church of the Epiphany was packed, as concerned neighbors, and at least one intrigued graduate student, gathered to hear three speakers representing a spectrum of professional backgrounds and perspectives. Chip Elliott, an animal trapper with over ten years of experience in the Atlanta metro area, promoted both education and trapping as important measures to maintain a critical balance between humans and coyotes. While Elliott endorsed trapping as a successful mechanism for coyote control, he acknowledged that the practice would not eliminate the population. Instead, Elliott presented trapping as a controlled human response intended to "put fear" into increasingly bold coyote communities. Dr. Chris Mowry, a biologist at Berry College, provided insight into contemporary research on urban coyote populations, prefacing his presentation with the admission that, "We don't understand the coyote in Atlanta very well." Mowry's presentation highlighted the need for more research on the urban coyote phenomenon and introduced the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project. A collaboration that Mowry spearheads with Zoo Atlanta and the Fernbank Science Center, the Metro Atlanta Coyote Project studies behaviors and activity patterns of urban coyotes in order to develop more effective management strategies of these populations. Mary Paglieri of the Little Blue Society for Human-Animal Conflict Resolution concluded the evening's presentations. As a professional tracker, Paglieri emphasized the concept of "just balance," which weighs human and animal needs as equally important parts of a larger ecosystem. Paglieri described the coyote's ability to adapt to most human behaviors and responses, requiring a sustained "management co-existence program" that responds to coyote's "natural instincts," as opposed to "aberrant behaviors" the animals learn from contact with humans.
|Coyote Meeting, Druid Hills Civic Association, Church of the Epiphany, Atlanta, Georgia, January 29, 2013.
From the outset of the meeting, it was clear that meeting attendees had strong feelings about what the moderator identified as the "coyote matter." As such, many of the questions revealed tensions between ideals of human compassion and their application. In a moment of levity, a Druid Hills resident asked whether peeing on a trapped coyote might deter it from establishing territory in human spaces, enabling it to be released into the neighborhood, as opposed to euthanizing it according to state law. While the question resulted in laughter, it highlighted one of the central concerns in the room: Can we demarcate space and establish identifiable boundaries that coyotes both recognize and respect? As all three speakers agreed that coyotes will maintain a permanent presence in the Druid Hills landscape, it is apparent that we need to learn how to speak across the human-animal divide. The coyote matter provides an opportunity to reflect on the limitations of distinctions we draw between oppositional binaries such as rural/urban, domesticated/wild, human/animal that have profound implications for our understanding of the spaces we inhabit. As a new resident of Druid Hills, the neighborhood coyotes challenge me to consider Olmsted's vision of a "country" neighborhood within the Atlanta landscape and to look across the boundaries of my comfort zone, identifying opportunities for meaningful coexistence with both humans and animals in the suburban wild.
The Suburban Wild: Coyotes in Druid Hills»
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- The Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to re-open murder cases stemming from the civil rights era that had initially been shelved as "cold cases." A recent New York Times article describes the cold-case initiative, which was launched in 2006, as an effort to provide closure to both victims' families and the general public. The initiative was written into law in 2008 when Congress passed the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act, although the impact of this legislative agenda has been limited due to both budgetary constraints and lack of prosecutorial resources. Today, approximately twenty cold cases remain open and unresolved. While one re-opened case has resulted in a successful prosecution, the remainder of the 112 cases investigated as a part of the initiative have been closed.
- Two teenage defendants in a controversial rape trial held in Steubenville, Ohio, were found guilty on Sunday, March 17, and sentenced to serve time at a juvenile detention facility until their twenty-first birthdays. Located in one of Ohio's thirty-two Appalachian counties, news outlets have described Steubenville as both an impoverished town in the Rust Belt of Ohio and as an industrial Appalachian city, tacitly connecting the crime to longstanding regional stereotypes. The case has garnered national attention due to both the severity of the crime and the defendants' use of social media to record and publicize their actions.
- The Project on Fair Representation, a conservative advocacy group that supports litigation challenging racial and ethnic classifications in state and federal courts, filed the complaint Lepak vs. City of Irving in 2010. Responding to a redistricting plan that numerically impacted the weight of individual votes in one Irving district, the case highlights ambiguity in the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 that outlawed discriminatory voting practices, but which did not clarify whether "one person one vote" requires districts to be measured by number of people or by number of eligible voters. A recent New York Times article describes the potential implications of a Supreme Court decision to define districts by voting eligibility, especially in communities with high numbers of ineligible voters. The Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether to hear this case in the coming weeks.
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- On March 3, 2013, doctors announced that a baby born in rural Mississippi had been "functionally cured" of HIV infection. The case is groundbreaking because the mother did not undergo prenatal care to prevent her baby's infection. The baby, now two-and-a-half years old, received antiretroviral drugs thirty hours after birth. The baby continued to undergo treatment for eighteen months; the mother then stopped giving the child medication. Five months later, the mother returned with the baby and, upon performing tests, doctors discovered no trace of HIV in the baby. As The New York Times reported, transmission of HIV from mother to baby is rare in the United States, about two hundred cases per year, as mothers generally receive prenatal care to prevent transmission. This is the second reported case of a person cured of HIV. The first was a middle-aged male named Timothy Brown, who was cured in 2007 as a result of bone-marrow transplant from a "donor genetically resistant to HIV infection." The New York Times also stated that, if this practice is demonstrated to work with other newborns, it will be widely recommended for use around the world.
- Marco McMillian, an openly gay African American mayoral candidate in Clarksdale, Mississippi, was found murdered on Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The body of the Democratic candidate was discovered near the base of the Mississippi River after having been missing for a day. The next day, a suspect named Lawrence Reed was arrested. While the victim's family claims that the murder was "not a random act of violence," officials are not investigating the murder as a hate crime. As the Chicago Tribune reported, McMillian was "one of the first viable, openly gay" candidates in the state.
- On February 7, 2013, one hundred forty-eight years after the state received the Thirteenth Amendment from Congress, the state of Mississippi finally ratified the amendment that outlaws slavery. As reported in the Washington Times, the ratification was inspired by the movie, Lincoln. After watching the film, a citizen looked into the history of the state's ratification of the amendment. He then discovered that, while the Legislature voted to ratify the amendment in 1995, the documentation was never sent to the United States archivist and thus was never officially ratified.
The Bulletin—March 5, 2013»
In November of 2011 I wrote for Southern Spaces on the first Ireland Sacred Harp Convention, a key marker and catalyst of the growing presence of Sacred Harp singing in Europe. In September of 2012, I returned to Europe to attend three Sacred Harp events: the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention, the oldest Sacred Harp convention in Europe; the first session of Camp Fasola Europe, held near Gdansk in northern Poland; and the first Poland Sacred Harp Convention, held in Warsaw. Like the Ireland Convention, these events exceeded organizers' expectations for attendance, brought together an unprecedentedly international group of Sacred Harp singers, and served as revelatory and emotionally overwhelming experiences to attendees. These events also served as sites around which singers negotiated their associations of Sacred Harp singing with place.
|Lauren Bock, 196-86, Gdansk Airport, Poland, 2012. The song on page 196 in The Sacred Harp is titled "Alabama"; the song on page 86, "Poland." This fortuitous image, spotted on the side of a taxi at the Gdansk airport signified for disembarking singers both the physical distance some of them had traveled to attend Camp Fasola Europe and the Poland Sacred Harp Convention, and the metaphorical space Sacred Harp singing itself had traveled to make these events possible.
Ties between Sacred Harp singing and specific places have long been a part of the musical form. These connections are even indexed in The Sacred Harp songbook. Composers of many Sacred Harp songs chose titles referring to the towns, counties, and US states where the composers lived or visited. Still others named tunes for distant countries and continents, perhaps seeking to imbue their music with a sense of mystery or exoticism by associating it with a far-off place. Like these composers, European Sacred Harp singers have related songs to place in cases where their titles have coincided with the names of European cities and countries where Sacred Harp singing now occurs. Singers such as Cath Saunt and Fynn Titford-Mock of Norwich in the United Kingdom frequently lead a song in The Sacred Harp titled "Norwich," a sprightly fuging tune named by its composer D. P. White in 1850 for a community in Taylor County, Georgia. And the song "Poland," named for the European nation in 1783 by Massachusetts composer Timothy Swan, unsurprisingly became something of a theme song for the events this September, sung by visiting singers just after arriving in Gdansk, by Polish singers themselves at numerous occasions, and by David Ivey, director of Camp Fasola, as an expression of thanks at the Poland Convention.1
|Jesse P. Karlsberg, Sacred Harp singing flyer at the seventeenth United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention advertising "American shape-note singing," Winnersh, United Kingdom, 2012.
In November, I remarked that "many new singers," such as those in Europe, associate authentic, traditional Sacred Harp practice "with prominent singing families from Alabama, Georgia, and Texas who have long histories of Sacred Harp participation." While this association has led to a tendency in the United States for new singers to "imagin[e] this locus of tradition . . . as 'southern,'" in Europe, teachers at Camp Fasola, and new European singers alike used a wide range of place names to refer to Sacred Harp singing's source. For many, "southern" sufficed as a term with the capacity to both generalize Sacred Harp singing's historical roots and evoke a "white, rural South" as the imagined home of this style of singing. Yet numerous others referred to "American Sacred Harp singing," relying on this broader term to associate Sacred Harp singing with the authenticity, folkloricity, and exoticism that the term "southern" carries for audiences in the United States.
Other singers explicitly associated the practices of Sacred Harp singing with particular places and time periods. P. Dan Brittain—a teacher at Camp Fasola Europe from Harrison, Arkansas who began singing Sacred Harp in 1970 as a military band director stationed at Fort McPherson, Georgia—explicitly framed his singing school as teaching the style of Sacred Harp singing practiced in West Georgia in the early 1970s. Other singing teachers such as Ivey, originally from Henagar, Alabama, and Judy Caudle, from Eva, Alabama, taught aspects of Sacred Harp singing they described as associated with their families and localities.
|Jesse P. Karlsberg, P. Dan Brittain teaches a "rudiments of music" class at Camp Fasola Europe, Chmielno, Poland, 2012.
A key concern of European singers was how they should negotiate between their interest in emulating these practices associated with regional singing traditions and their desire to adapt Sacred Harp singing to their European locales. Camp instructors encouraged these students to learn about and adopt practices long-associated with Sacred Harp singing, yet also seemed to view "tradition" as something that could change, evolve, and develop around Sacred Harp singing in its new European homes. Singers were also aware of the potential for these conventions and Camp Fasola Europe to shape practices in European Sacred Harp singing places for years to come.
|Music for "Novakoski," composed by P. Dan Brittain in 1989, (p. 481 in The Sacred Harp). Used by permission of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company.
At the end of one of his classes, Brittain—who has four compositions in The Sacred Harp, three of which were already popular among several groups of European singers—described rediscovering a draft of his song "Novakoski," a version different than the one he published in The Sacred Harp. His draft began slowly in 2/2 time before switching to a brisker 4/4 at the start of the song's fuging section. The published version, however, is in 4/4 throughout, which in The Sacred Harp indicates a moderate tempo (itself different from the version Brittain submitted, which was in 2/2 throughout and intended to be sung slowly). The time change in Brittain's draft translates into music notation an oral tradition associated with two other Sacred Harp songs which, though notated in 4/4, are sung with a slow plain section leading to a brisker fuging section.
Brittain noted he had never heard "Novakoski" sung with this change in tempo, and the class of singers immediately asked to sing the song that way. The singers were delighted with the result, and Brittain decided he was happy to have the song sung in either fashion. During the remainder of Camp Fasola, "Novakoski," sung with a time change, was a popular leading choice for campers—and was a frequent topic of discussion among campers in the evening, some of whom half-jokingly spoke of the incident as the beginning of a new "local tradition." This process was cemented the next weekend at the Poland Convention when an Irish singer stood before the class, called out the page number, and asked to sing the song "Poland style." As Sacred Harp singing continues to spread, singers are finding ways to create new local traditions drawing on conceptions of their practices as tied to the histories of broad geographical expanses such as the "South" and "America," and to specific times and places, from West Georgia in the 1970s, to Poland today.
|Singers at Camp Fasola Europe sing "Novakoski" by P. Dan Brittain "Poland style," switching to a quicker tempo at the start of the fuging section, as Brittain had notated the song in an early manuscript copy. Chmielno, Poland, September 18, 2012. Audio recording by Jesse P. Karlsberg.
- 1. "Poland" was so popular in in the years after its publication that residents of two Maine communities subsequently named their towns after "Poland" and another tune by Swan titled "China"—leading to the incorrect yet common assertion that both songs were named after the Maine towns, not the European and Asian countries.
Sacred Harp, "Poland Style"»
This series of photographs by Arthur Rothstein depicts men and women in canning and packing plants in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida. While photographs of agricultural work appear throughout the Library of Congress's Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives Collection, I thought that these images of Floridian workers packing and canning grapefruits and oranges were dramatically different than other, more nostalgic images of small farmers in the US South during the 1930s. Arthur Rothstein seems to have taken a particular interest in migrant workers during his time in Winter Haven and Fort Pierce, Florida in 1937.
|Arthur Rothstein. Packing fruit in the packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002342-M5.
|Arthur Rothstein, Packing fruit in association packinghouse at Fort Pierce, Florida. Some migratory labor is employed here, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002343-M3.
|Arthur Rothstein, Juicers in the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida. Many of these men are migrants, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002370-M2.
|Arthur Rothstein, Sectioners at work canning grapefruit. About half of these girls are migrants. Winter Haven, Florida, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33- 002369-M4.
|Arthur Rothstein, At work in the grapefruit canning plant at Winter Haven, Florida, January 1937. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, FSA/OWI Black & White Negatives Collection, LC-USF33-002368-M1.
Grapefruit Workers in Florida, January 1937»
The Bulletin compiles news from in and around the US South. We hope these posts will provide space for lively discussion and debate regarding issues of importance to those living in and intellectually engaging with the US South.
- In the wake of the thirty four-minute power outage that interrupted the Superbowl—held February 3, 2013 at the Superdome in New Orleans—journalists identified "last-minute, multimillion-dollar . . . upgrades to the Dome's electrical system, intended to bolster the stadium's reliability" as potential causes. As reported in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, electrical switchgear installed during these recent repairs detected a power anomaly and triggered the shutdown. Entergy continues to investigate the "root cause" of the incident. Meanwhile, Sara Kugler noted on MSNBC because the Superdome "is both a reminder of the city's revival after Hurricane Katrina, and the suffering and loss that happened under its roof during and after the storm," the outage brought to mind the recent outages during Hurricane Isaac and the slow and unequal pace of development of the city's electrical grid post-Katrina.
- Recent analysis reveals that residents of several southern states had to wait disproportionately longer to vote in the 2012 Presidential election than people from other areas. Black and Hispanic voters, Democrats and Independents, and those living in cities were three other groups that had longer waits than their counterparts (whites, Republicans, non-urban dwellers). As reported in The New York Times, long waiting times depressed turnout in states like Florida, where residents waited an average of forty-five minutes to cast their votes. "[M]ore than 200,000 voters in Florida 'gave up in frustration,'" according to an Orlando Sentinel report. Maryland, South Carolina, and Virginia also faced long lines at the polls, and a New York Times graph reveals that seven of the eight states with the longest waiting times are in the southeast.
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The Summerville girls' basketball team defeated a determined West Florence squad Tuesday in the opening round of the state playoffs.
In a fast-paced affair, the Lady Green Wave defeated the Lady Knights 69-59 to advance to the second round. Summerville improved to 20-5 on the season and will host Aiken at 7 p.m. Friday while West Florence ends its season at 15-9.
Turnovers plagued both teams throughout the game but were more damaging to West Florence. However, the Lady Knights did a good job on the boards, pushing the ball inside and striking quickly with some long passes against the relentless Summerville press to create scoring opportunities.
The game was tied at 44-all entering the final period and then the Lady Wave pulled away.
"While we watched film on them, we went into the game not knowing exactly what to expect," Summerville senior Tinara Brown said. "At the beginning it was tough but at the end we started working hard and really crashing the boards. We pulled together as a team to get the win. It was a strong finish for us so that should help us with momentum but we need to make sure we don't get a big head because I'm sure every game from here will be tough."
A.J. Scudder scored 18 points for the Lady Knights, but Summerville junior Kwanza Murray answered with a game-high 27 points. Heather Chapman, Zuri Green and Brown also scored in double digits for Summerville.
The Lady Wave took advantage of several early West Florence turnovers to take a 14-12 lead into the second period. With the help of one of its only two three-point baskets of the evening, West Florence pulled out to a five-point lead early in the second. But Summerville turned the tables largely with some fast-break points and free throws to carry a 32-27 lead into the half.
The Lady Knights controlled the boards and made a lot of second-chance baskets to tie the game entering the final period.
Murray hit her third shot from behind the arc with 2:43 remaining to give Summerville a 60-53 lead. In the following minute-and-a-half, Murray made three steals and hit a pair of free throws while Green hit a 3 to shift the momentum to Summerville for good. The Lady Wave carried a 10-point lead into the final minute of play and matched the Lady Knights' shots in the final 60 seconds.
"We played hard, but hopefully we will play a little sharper Friday because Aiken is a high-quality basketball team," Summerville coach Matt Legare said. "We don't normally give up 59 points so we will work on that. Overall I'm proud of the girls."
Summerville (69): Tinara Brown 11, JaKaylah Ravenell 2, Heather Chapman 13, Rodnesha Capers 5, Zuri Green 11, Kwanza Murray 27
West Florence (59): Destinee Walker 8, Kendall Corbin 7, A.J. Scudder 18, Quantaysia Lauery 9, Shaleka Taylor 8, Maya Jackson 9
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
BTT: "Best" Recent Read
What's the best book you've read recently?
I think I can narrow my choice to two recent reads. My first choice would be The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein, primarily because it was my most recent read and I thoroughly enjoyed it (you can find my review here). I liked this book on so many levels, not the least of which is that it is told from Enzo's Point of View, a wonderfully loyal dog who garnered my sympathy right off the bat. The story has other memorable characters and well-developed, classic themes such as love and friendship. I am sure that this book will be one of my top 10 reads for 2009.
The second book that would qualify as a favorite recent read would have to be The Help by Kathryn Stockett (review found here). It has been nearly 5 months since I read this novel and I still find myself thinking about life in Mississippi in the early 1960s and the memorable voice of Aibileen. This is another book that will definitely make the list of this year's top 10 favorite reads.
So how about you, have you read either one of these books? What did you think? What are your favorite books of the year so far?
22 comments:
- JoAnn said...
Your review convinced me to start looking for a copy of The Art of Racing in the Rain! The Help is my favorite audiobook so far this year.
- August 20, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- Susan B. Evans said...
It was hard for me to pick just one, so I did a top five :) Here's my BTT.
- August 20, 2009 at 9:06 AM
- Leslie said...
i actually haven't read either one but im putting them on my tbr list on goodreads =)
here's mine
- August 20, 2009 at 9:58 AM
- gautami tripathy said...
Both are on my wish list!
Booking through recent best
- August 20, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Mel (He Followed Me Home) said...
I just picked up The Art of Racing In The Rain & keep hearing how great The Help is, guess I really should add this to my wish list too!
- August 20, 2009 at 11:06 AM
- Amy Reads Good Books said...
Nice picks! It's fun to highlight our best books of late.
- August 20, 2009 at 11:16 AM
- Diane said...
I have to agree with you 100% on these two books - loved them both!
- August 20, 2009 at 11:43 AM
- bermudaonion said...
I loved The Art of Racing in the Rain and hope to read The Help soon.
- August 20, 2009 at 12:46 PM
- Melissa - Shhh I'm Reading said...
The Help was wonderful and I hope to get to Art of Racing soon.
- August 20, 2009 at 1:07 PM
- Belle said...
It really sounds like The Help stuck with you - I love books that have the power to continue to stir up strong and warm memories long after reading them.
- August 20, 2009 at 1:09 PM
- alitareads said...
This is the second pick for The Help I've seen today...must be a good book!
My BTT
- August 20, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- Nise' said...
Got both books on my every growing mountain of TBR.
- August 20, 2009 at 4:37 PM
- lilly said...
If I had to choose one, The Art of Racing in the Rain would definitely be it. Awesome ,awesome book deserving of every rave review it ever got. I lent it to my sister who is not a big reader at all hoping that this one will catch her attention.
- August 20, 2009 at 4:42 PM
- Susan said...
I haven't even heard of any of these books! lol I like that you could so easily choose your best reads lately, too :-D
- August 20, 2009 at 5:24 PM
- rhapsodyinbooks said...
Quite a few people have mentioned The Help today!
- August 20, 2009 at 5:44 PM
- Melody said...
I need to read The Help soon! I've heard nothing but raves about that book!!
- August 20, 2009 at 7:06 PM
- Stephanie said...
Those two books are both going to be on my top 2009 list - they were both excellent!
- August 20, 2009 at 7:09 PM
- Jenners said...
I've heard nothing but raves about both ... and your reviews were excellent. : )
- August 20, 2009 at 7:38 PM
- Margot at Joyfully Retired said...
I agree with you about books that stay with you months after you've set it down. For me, too, that is the joy of good reading.
- August 20, 2009 at 10:00 PM
- Trish said...
I liked The Art of Racing but didn't love it as much as I wanted to. I've been hearing that The Help is fantastic, though. So glad it was great for you! Hopefully it will be in paperback soon (or is it?).
- August 20, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- Cathy said...
Just a little something for you, Molly!
- August 21, 2009 at 6:47 AM
- booklineandsinker said...
ohh, goody! i've got 'the help' on my nightstand and i can't wait to jump into it!
the best book i've read? ummm...the gargoyle. it was suggested to me by another blogger and i LOVED it.
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PRESTONSBURG — The closure of the Strand Twin Theater two weeks ago might not be the end of the line for the historic venue, as plans are now in the works that could transform the facility from a first-run cinema to an arts center hosting classic films and a variety of live acts.
Prestonsburg Economic Development Director Mike Vance announced Monday a temporary plan to use the theater through February, in order to test the waters to determine if Prestonsburg can support an arts center in the venue.
At least two events are planned for February. Appalachian Community Theatres, a local acting troupe, will stage a production of "Arsenic and Old Lace" at the theater Feb. 22 and 23. The acting group has been without a home since September, when it was informed after its production of "Schoolhouse Rock Jr." that it would no longer be able to use the Mountain Arts Center.
The are also plans for Deadpit Radio to continue using the Strand for its "East Kentucky Fear Festival" midnight showings of classic horror movies, with the next screening to be "Poltergeist." No firm date for the "Poltergeist" screening has been set, although Vance said it could take place as early as mid-February. Vance said the film series has been a financial bright spot for the theater and for organizers, who include his son, Wes.
Vance said the fear festival already plans to continue its midnight showings past February, and might also screen other types of classic movies, such as "Coal Miner's Daughter," on weekday evenings.
But the February events are important, Vance said, because they will give organizers and city officials an indication of whether the Strand could be a viable venue for different types of events.
"Everybody's interested to see if we can draw folks into the Strand for something other than first-run movies," Vance said.
Appalachian Community Theatres board president Jason Kretzer confirmed his group would be staging "Arsenic and Old Lace" at the Strand, and said the group would use the event as a trial run for the theater. However, he could not comment on whether the Strand could become a permanent home for the group.
"We have to see how it works out before we make any further plans …" Kretzer said. "At this point, we don't know what the future holds."
Kretzer said the group does have some concerns whether the Strand would be suitable for some of its larger productions. He also said there are some other venues that could also compete to be Appalachian Community Theatres' new home, but he declined to identify them.
Vance said if the events prove there is enough community support for a variety of events at the Strand, one potential consequence could be to convert the theater into an arts center.
Appalachian Community Theatres has received a $10,000 Flex-E-Grant from the Brushy Fork Institute. Part of the money will be used to send some members to Colquitt, Ga., to study how that community used the arts to revitalize its economy.
Colquitt is a city in southwestern Georgia that turned an old cotton warehouse into a 284-seat theater to show performances of the locally-produced "Swamp Gravy" folk-life play. The play was such a success that the acting group has toured the United States and South America to perform the play.
The remainder of the grant could be used toward studying the feasibility of creating an arts center in an attempt to replicate Colquitt's success.


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The Carroll County Sheriff's Office is awaiting autopsy results to see if a body found Saturday in the Hilltown section of Fries is that of a missing Carroll County man.
Samuel "Sam" Joseph Sheehi, 32, was last seen on Oct. 10 at his residence in the Hilltown section of Fries. The sheriff's offices from both Carroll County and Grayson County began looking for him shortly after that. According to Carroll County Sheriff J.B. Gardner, a body was found around noon Saturday not far from Sheehi's residence. The body has been sent to the Medical Examiner's Office in Roanoke, Gardner said. Until the autopsy results return, he couldn't say for sure if the body was Sheehi.
"We found a body not very far from his house. No positive identification has been made at this moment," Gardner said. "The truth is I can't say if it is him yet. We hope to have the autopsy back soon."
Gardner said Sheehi's brother found the body while searching the area around the residence. He then called the Carroll County Sheriff's Office, who worked the scene along with special investigators from the Virginia State Police. Meanwhile, Sheehi's family has already made funeral arrangements. His obituary appears in the Nov. 14 edition of The Carroll News.


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From the first trickle of rain on Jan. 30 until the final drop, heavy flooding impacted the construction of Ashe County's airport, the county's infrastructure, and local businesses; the county is still repairing these damages.
One of the most noticeable damages were to the expansion efforts taking place at Ashe County's airport, where the flood literally washed away months of work.
In order to extend the airport's runway, contractors have been adding dirt to fill in an embankment at its end. Once the dirt was level with the runway, paving and other construction was set to begin.
However, the flood eroded some of the dirt embankment.
According to Ashe County Manager Dr. Pat Mitchell, the damage to the airport resulted in $80,000 worth of damage for repairs.
Mitchell said repairs to the embankment are already underway.
In order to fill the runway's embankment, dirt was removed from a nearby area. This large graded area was also damaged from the flood, said Mitchell. Unlike the embankment, repairs on this area are not yet in progress.
"There's only so much you can do for a flood," said Eric Payne, the manager of Ashe County's airport.
Both Mitchell and Payne said the flood was classified as a 50-year flood, and both called the heavy flooding an "act of God."
Contingencies were taken by the engineers working on the airport expansion project.
Any kind of construction of more than one acre requires the implementation of an erosion and soil plan, regulated by the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
In order to contain excessive rain water, trenches called catchment basins were installed into the project's work area. However, they were developed to handle a 10-year flood event, according to Payne.
The 50-year flood event overwhelmed the catch basins, leading, in part, to the airport's damage.
Just before the flooding, Payne said the airport was over 80 percent complete.
Besides the damage to the airport, the Jan. 30, flood also caused damage to the county's infrastructure and some business and private properties.
According to Mitchell, the N.C. DOT estimated the flood caused $3.7 million worth of damage to bridges and roads in Ashe County.
The flood also caused damages to small businesses, prompting the Ashe County Board of Commissioners to establish a two-week grace period for county businesses to dispose damaged materials into the county's sanitary landfill without having to pay the landfill's tipping fee.
During the commissioner's March 4 meeting, Mitchell reported three businesses took advantage of this two-week waiver, resulting in those businesses saving a total of approximately $1,000.
Also, other small businesses in the West Jefferson area have been impacted by mud slides caused by the flood. The businesses were not damaged, but the threat of another mudslide in the future.
Mitchell said the Ashe County Emergency Management Department attended a meeting about getting grant money for "stabilization," which would endow money to prevent such mudslides in the future. However, this money would not pay for damages to the businesses themselves.
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Hamburg-based CORE Teamrider Tim Kummerfeld greets you all with a very nordic "Moin Moin" and "Guten Tach"! Who's not familiar with this; trying to learn new tricks often ending in sorrow. Depression haunts you in sleepless nights and worries about your style overcome. There's an end to it! "Tim´s Kummerkasten", which is german for an "agony column", "une Boîte à chagrins" or in simple and plain spanish "Anuncios personales relativos a personas u objetos perdidos", you'll get the essential tips to learn proper tricks. Tim won't be beating around the bush, he is a straight talker, and will cut to the chase.
Serves me right, last time I went on about global warming and how the weather was warming up nicely – and true to form I am left scraping ice – on the 17th April! If only I'd kept my mouth shut it would probably be warm by now. But I'd rather not complain as there are worse things than scraping ice – such as getting into a (wet) wetsuit at 2⁰C because you want to have glassy conditions at St Peter-Ording, Germany. At least I was rewarded with a couple of awesome days over Easter. However, it was such a mission trying to get someone to film you – it's difficult convincing someone when you're freezing you're a** off on the water.
But back to the task at hand – we have been receiving a lot of questions about hooked-in kite loops lately, such as the Marc and George's question from down under. Let's get started.
For a hooked-in kite loop you need to be pretty powered up, or at least be flying a small kite. In the short clip I'm flying a 9m GTS with enough power, but to be honest I usually only perform hooked-in kite loops with a 7m and pumping wind. The key with kite loops is to get the kite back to the zenith which allows for a soft landing after the down-wind sling - but we'll get back to that.
I approach with lots of speed. The kite is at 11 o'clock, slightly higher than for a normal big air. Now you have to edge hard to get the tension in the lines. Whilst edging I pull in the bar and steer the kite aggressively, resulting in the kite flying explosively towards the top right of the wind window – 11 o'clock to 13 o'clock. This gives me the maximum amount of lift. You'll notice on the video – if you watch closely – that I let the lift "work" at first without any further bar input. Only then do I power the bar up and start the loop.
You're probably bored of hearing this every time but I'll repeat it again: the take-off is the most important part of any (and every) jump. This trick will not work without a good take off.
Common Error 1:
A lot of kiters loop the kite too early. The result is a lack of height whilst being flung down wind – your knees will not thank you!
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Lack of commitment results in the kite not looping fully and the bar is not pulled in fully. The result is a slow looping kite which does not come around to the Zenith quick enough resulting in high level beat downs.
Commit to the loop – pull the bar in completely and pull aggressively with the back hand. As soon as the front tube of the kite looks up again start to depower. As a result the kite will fly faster to the Zenith and catch up with you. As soon as you notice this feeling, the kite catching up with you and you're flying under the kite, power the kite up again and initiate another (smaller) loop. You can loop the kite forwards or backwards (personal preference dependant). I prefer to fly the kite backwards on the front loop and will loop the kite frontwards for the "up-loop". This results in the jump becoming a transition.
If your timing is right you'll perform the second loop directly overhead resulting in additional lift. The resultant landing will be super soft (and super smooth!). To start off with you could always leave out the second loop. If you're jump wasn't too high it will be enough to simply dive the kite down before landing.
The kite loop is a difficult trick, and requires commitment. Practice with a 7-9sqm kite with enough power for high jumps. Edge hard, send the kite aggressively – pause for the lift – and then smoothly (and with commitment) loop the kite. Keep the bar pulled in and powered up. As soon as the kite starts flying up depower a little and then repower when it hits the zenith. For a smooth landing fly a second over-head loop and ride away smoothly!
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I could use some help trying to understand what the baseline 24-hour urine I did means for my current pregnancy. I am currently 13 weeks and BP is steady at my normal 110/62. I did a baseline 24-hour urine at 9 weeks and it came back 210.
Here is my history from my first pregnancy. At 28 weeks, I complained of some pretty significant foot swelling. My midwife ordered a 24-hour and it came back 546. My BP was 135/80. I was put on immediate strict bedrest without any up time except bathroom and shower (maybe a little severe?). From 28 weeks and on, my protein went 765. 492, 506, 928, 624, 468, 555, 525 (last reading was just before 37 week induction). During this time the highest my BP was was 126/72 and that was just one reading. It floated mostly around 105/65 after starting bedrest. It was 106/61 the day before I was induced. No headaches ever, or any RUQ pain. Liver and kidney function tested always tested normal. My BP was great during labor and I never needed mag. I had a 5 lb healthy girl who didn't need any assistance after birth.
About 1 year post-postpartum and before becoming pregnant again, I did a thrombophilia panel (negative all around) and a non-pregnant 24 hour. The results of the 24 hour still bug me. Apparently they dip it with a special dipstick (different from what's in an OB office) and it was negative. Because of that, they don't run the entire sample as a 24 hour test. The results were negative < 5. I would feel more confident with these results if they had actually run the entire sample. So all I have to go off is that my non-pregnant sample is negative.
I am currently at an OB practice since I am now high risk. My OB mentioned that I could have some sort of underlying kidney problem or that my first pregnancy may have damaged my kidneys. Is this something serious that I would need to have evaluated by a specialist? I also do not have an MFM... I never thought my experience with pre-e was bad enough to warrant one, but any advice or suggestions would be appreciated.
This time around I am taking better prenatal vitamin with DHA + EPA and a baby aspirin. That's about all that is different. The prenatal I took during my first pregnancy was a weird one from Whole Foods and required me to take 6 / day and 3 different times.... which basically meant I only ever took 2 and never got enough vitamins.
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Titans signed TE Chase Coffman.
Seahawks SS Kam Chancellor was a no-show for the start of training camp on Thursday.
Broncos GM John Elway wants the running game to be Peyton Manning's "best friend" in 2015.
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Giants signed WR James Jones, formerly of the Raiders, to a one-year contract.
FOX Sports' Mike Garafolo reports a "sizable gap" remains between Russell Wilson and the Seahawks ahead of Friday's artificial extension deadline.
Victor Cruz (knee) has avoided the PUP list to begin training camp, but will be "eased in."
ESPN reports the Rams have had "continued dialogue" with contract-year QB Nick Foles about an extension.
Tyler Eifert declared himself 100 percent on the first day of Bengals camp.
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As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose.
The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree.
A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances - and lives - are bought and sold.
Brilliantly plotted and morally complex, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment of John le Carré's renowned Karla trilogy, and a riveting portrayal of post-colonial espionage.
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"Conrad's Ghost Floats & Haunts this Sad Spy Novel"
Well sport, this was a messy, sometimes uneven AND occasionally even a plodding novel but I absolutely loved every single word of it. Le Carré is often compared to Graham Greene, but the only real literary comparison for this novel is Joseph Conrad. I was wondering why I kept thinking of Victory and Nostromo, and why I was overcome with this desire to read The Secret Agent? Conrad's ghost floats and haunts almost every page of this wonderful, beautiful, and an ultimately sad spy novel.
How can the characters in this year's True Detective be worse? Ferrill is asexual, drunk, corrupt, a child abuser and worse!
"Patience Pays Off With Le Carre!"
If you want a super hero and action that defies belief turn to the Reacher, Gray Man, John Rain or Mitch Rapp series. I've enjoyed all of those and more. But I find Le Carre's Smiley series more than clever and even challenging.
I know reading this seems more like plodding at times, but in the end I found every moment, each conversation and every event has a purpose in this series. Indeed, even the remotest characters are used masterfully.
Take your time and let Le Carre introduce you to real spycraft!
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Two. Smart. Dickensian.
I have always loved the beginning, the Typhoon Saturday in the Hong Kong Press Lounge.
Smiley and Guillam. Of course, Jayston played Guilliam in the original BBC series of Tinker Tailor, and has an advantage.
Sure, but that would be a tall order.
In the same way that Alec Guinness was probably the greatest casting choice in history as George Smiley, Michael Jayston's reading of Le Carre's works is nothing short of brilliant.
"I wish the story grabbed me more..."
Yes. No. I don't know. Mr. Jayston does a great job reading a book that isn't my favorite JLC book.
Anything to do with George Smiley was interesting and engaging. Jerry Westerby is a great character but his part of the story just doesn't grab me. I may need to give it another go someday, but it won't be soon.
He's got a great handle on the characters and his Smiley is a great impersonation of Alec Guiness.
When I realized Smiley has the ability to be an uber-jerk. I didn't get it from reading the book.
The Honourable Schoolboy a byzantine and (maybe) overly long novel that takes almost a full day to listen to. It doesn't move like a bat out of anything but it does have lots of character development and a lot to say about how the world works, not all of it complimentary. It's a story that hasn't been translated into a dramatic form, except for the recent radio version with Simon Russel Beale (I've heard rumors that there was a version in the early 80s, but I haven't tracked it down), probably because of the complex nature of the story. Some folks think it's the best JLC book out there. I don't, and I think the novels on either side of this one are much better. JLC at his worst is better than many authors at their best. His command of the English language is immense and his stories are always thought provoking.
This applies to all the Jayston readings...excellent in general, but he gets a bit tripped up on accents in this one, although admittedly a challenge to manage Chinese, American and other accents. But his rendering of Ricardo's Mexican accent was more of a bland eastern European sound. At times I just wish he didn't bother. The story is vintage Le Carre, verging on less believable at times as he goes international.
"enjoying Smiley series"
aside from the mystery/thriller aspects of the series I'm very much enjoying the writing style as I've mentioned previously. I don't normally do series as they tend toward diminishing returns as you go along and in general the 1st is usually the best as it is usually something new. But thus far I've liked all the books and though they get a bit convoluted at times and the politics get a bit confusing keeping track of, I like many of the characters and each novel is basically a stand alone though Tinker does in a sense lead into this one. But what i again find myself mentioning is the writing, though it may not be Nabokovian or Melvillian in its use of language, there is some nice writing and lines stand out with a beautiful metaphor that reveals itself in a nice picture; and there have been a sentence and a chapter that I thought were laugh out loud funny. Very colorful speech and attitude. British and European authors have hidden depth in nearly every sentence.
"The Honourable Schoolboy"
Very interesting book.
Plot was very interesting and keeps you on the edge of your seat.
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Charlie Brown is the one person I can identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
Chris Rock
Charlie Brown is the one person I can identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.
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Halloween. A holiday that puts joy into the hearts of children and terror into the hearts of dieters. Is it the result of the tiny little costumes we are supposed to be wearing or the abundance of junk food that infiltrates our lives? Perhaps a little of each. Also, it might be that Halloween is the gateway holiday to dieting disaster. For many of us, it begins with trick-or-treat, and finally ends with a New Year's Day hangover and five extra pounds. Since avoiding sugary goodness for three months is virtually impossible, how can you approach the weeks of mini candy bars, Halloween parties, and alcohol-abounding punch? Here are some "tricks" that might actually keep Halloween Horror in the movies, and off of your thighs.
Make wise choices. We've already established that you will probably not avoid all contact with candy this holiday, so know exactly what you are choosing when you reach into that jack-o'-lantern. One mini candy bar has around 80 calories in it, between 3 and 5 grams of fat, and is so small that just one would not satisfy 99 percent of the population. Some wiser choices, for around 50 calories, include:
We realize that the difference between 50 to 80 calories seems rather negligible, but as most of us might indulge in more than one serving over the holiday, those calories can really add up.
Eat before attending a party. This is an age-old dieting trick, but one that is extremely effective. It is tempting to indulge in sweet treats when faced with a table full of them. It is even worse when you haven't eaten since lunch and your workout has left you completely depleted. Consuming a healthy meal, snack, or even a meal replacement like Shakeology® can keep hunger at bay and your hands off the devil's food cake.
Choose a costume that shows off your accomplishments. There is a belief that Halloween is an excuse for women to dress inappropriately, and for men to show off their muscles. And why not? This is in no way a suggestion that you attend an event in a Speedo or bikini, but something a little sexy, in a safe environment, that shows off all of your hours with P90X® can be the perfect motivation to avoid overeating. Most of us respond better to short-term, tangible goals, and wearing the Spider-Man costume without the built-in abs is certainly attainable. So be a little daring one night, and save the costume for future motivation.
Work out before attending an event. Many studies have been done that conclude we tend to eat less—and absorb less of the bad stuff when we do—after a good workout. Also, the rush of endorphins tends to make us a bit happier, which means we don't seek joy in Reese's Peanut Butter Cups®. A really intense INSANITY™ workout just before the big party might save you countless more to undo the damage.
Avoid the punch bowl. For some reason, there is always a bowl of sherbet-stuffed punch around at Halloween. Perhaps it is the festive orange color, or the fact it mixes nicely with vodka? Regardless, run in the opposite direction. One serving can equal a couple hundred calories and send your blood sugar levels through the roof. Always stick to beverages that you can determine a calorie count for, and preferably, those that have few or no calories.
Try the "two-to-one" theory. When out on the town, my friends and I used to employ the strategy that for every alcoholic beverage we consumed, we had to follow it up with two glasses of water. Why not try this for sugary snacks at parties? For every mini candy bar you consume, follow it up with two veggies off of the crudités tray. All of the fiber will help fill you up fast, and following up a Milky Way with broccoli is really not so appealing. It could help you eat less, or maybe just stick to the broccoli.
Host your own event. If you simply can't say no to Halloween goodies at a party, host your own and take control of what is on the table. Low-fat brownies, cookies, and even cakes taste incredibly similar to the full-fat version, but will leave less residual damage. Choose from the selection of candies we suggested above, serve air-popped popcorn, and make a light punch with diet sherbet that everyone will enjoy. And don't forget the fruit and veggie platters. Also, taking the focus off food with a scary movie or some fun games can often make the party much more enjoyable. After all, we stand around, talk to people, and eat every day. Why not try to make your event a little bit different?
Get rid of the evidence. For those of you who hate to waste, this might be a difficult one. But, however you do it, get rid of ALL of the trick-or-treat candy the following day. If you work in an office, set it out in the lunchroom. If you work from home, anonymously mail it to your high school enemy. It is too hard to say no to a bowl of Snickers® bars, especially after a rough day, if they are sitting in a cabinet calling your name. Most of us will not get in a car to go buy candy, but if it is there, we will eat it. Just get it out of the house as quickly as you can.
Don't forget the parents. When you're handing out treats on trick-or-treat night, it's a great time to treat some of the parents in your neighborhood with a packet of Shakeology or a P90X Peak Performance Protein Bar to give them the energy for a long night of going door to door with their little goblins. Then, you can wish them a Happy Health-oween!
Halloween is only one night, so don't make it your gateway to a gluttonous holiday season. Instead, use it as a motivator for looking great! Holidays can be the very best time of the year, even on a diet and fitness plan. Just remember how it will feel when, at that Christmas party, everyone comments on how great you look. That will make any holiday seem a lot less frightening.
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Core is the new abs.
Translation: Those chiseled six-packs you see adorning magazine covers these days are achieved by working the entire midsection, not just the abdominal muscles. So chuck your Ab Lounge®, your Ab Roller®, and your 30-second ab routine, and read on to see what could land you on the cover of Maxim.
This is the part where I confess to a bit of hyperbole. Those six-packs are mainly a function of the individual's body-fat percentage, not how strong their core muscles are. Those gimmicky ab workouts can be okay as part of your program. And hiring a publicist will do far more for your hopes of appearing in Maxim than any amount of time in the gym. Oh, and one more thing: most of those models don't look like that all of the time. As one of them put it to me at a shoot, "I can't wait to eat. You think I look like this all the time? That would be sooooo unhealthy."
Now that we've got that out of the way, let's get down to the business of creating a healthy core.
The crunch phenomenon
Isolation training, or training individual muscle groups, was all the rage for a couple of decades. Probably spurred on by Arnold in the iconic bodybuilding movie, Pumping Iron, people were creating exercises to isolate one muscle at a time and blast it into submission. As these exercises trickled away from Muscle Beach and into the mainstream, the one that stuck more than any other was the crunch.
The crunch is a great isolation movement. Plus, it's relatively easy and you can work your abdominal muscles into a state of rigor mortis within minutes. And, actually, it worked pretty well for bodybuilders. After all, they aren't movement-based athletes. And, since they spent so much time in the gym, isolating the abs wasn't so bad because they isolated every muscle group. By skipping that last tidbit, this spawned an entire industry of quick-fix workout gimmicks promising that you, too, could look like Arnold. But instead of dedicating your entire life to body sculpting, these promised similar results in a few minutes of ab isolation.
The rise of functional training
Functional training is basically exercising using movements that you'll encounter in everyday life. It grew out of physical therapy, which makes sense as more and more people were landing in PT units because they'd been injured due to isolation training. What they found was that isolation training was creating muscular imbalances. This is, essentially, where one muscle group becomes stronger than it's supposed to be compared to others. When this happens it's easy to get injured.
It's hard to create a muscular imbalance in your natural life. If you run, for example, your body naturally responds in a way where it uses all the muscles it can to help the movement. This includes what are called your prime mover muscles and your stabilizer muscles. In isolation training, the prime movers would get isolated because those were the muscles that you could see. This would create major imbalances, and the stabilizers would often get no attention at all.
Your core and its function
Functional training starts with your core: the middle of your body where virtually all movements begin. A strong core creates a base to work from. If this base is solid, your chances of getting injuries decrease greatly. Because of this, functional training programs spend the majority of their time working on this area.
This might sound like isolation but it's not, because your core is not just your abs but all the muscles that connect to your spine and pelvis. It's essentially all of the prime mover and stabilizer muscles that you use to stay standing. For this reason, core exercises often include balance movements. These include using gadgets like balance balls, boards that wobble, golf balls, soft balls, and foam rollers, but it also includes simple old-school movements like push-ups, squats, and many yoga stances. All of these movements require body awareness (balance) to keep you from falling over. It's exactly the opposite of a Nautilus® exercise machine or, say, a crunch.
Is isolation the root of injury and evil?
Some functional trainers like to tell you this, but it's not true. There are many reasons why isolation movements still exist. The main one is sports. Sports create a reason for an athlete to attempt to exceed their natural physique's strength ability in certain areas. In order for a muscle to exceed its natural capacity for strength, it must first grow. Isolation exercises are great for this. So, while fine tools, these are only a piece of the athlete's pie. To avoid injury and increase performance, athletes periodize their training, which means they do various cycles of training that target different goals. Athletes may isolate a muscle group for a training cycle, but then they must switch their training to functionally train this new muscle to work within the limitations of their bodies.
Your abs and you
So how does this affect you and how you'll look at the company beach party? First, the bad news: You won't look like Maria Sharapova by watching Oprah on your Ab Lounge. The good news, however, is that you can create a great-looking midsection by training in the way that's most beneficial to your body.
This is the point where I tell you that a true six-pack is a phase. Like I said before, even most fitness models don't walk around looking chiseled all the time. They try to stay fit and thin, but the duration of the ultra six-pack is fleeting. It's the same for many athletes, who will often reduce their body fat to below healthy levels for increased sports performance (because reduced weight at the same strength = increase in power output). But they aren't always in this state. For a six-pack to appear, most men need to get below 10 percent body fat and women under about 14 percent—abdominal muscle strength has nothing to do with it. Athletes are better off doing most of their training a little above this and losing the last bit for competition. This is because body fat helps your defense mechanisms. Some fat is needed to avoid injury and illness. Where you are concerned, the state of the six-pack should be something you target for some photos or, perhaps, a beach party. Your daily life goal should be a slim midsection. Brett Hoebel's RevAbs™ workout is ideal for reducing body fat while strengthening your core.
Creating a healthy core
If you will commit to exercising, it's not all that difficult to ensure that your core is sound. Functional trainers love to use the word balance. And not just in regards to standing on a wobbly board. Balance in both your life and how you exercise will help you center yourself in more ways than one. Here are a few tips to ensure you're getting to the core of your workouts.
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The Palace Residents
Count Silva-Tarouca
The Portuguese nobleman Emanuel Teles da Silva Conde Tarouca (1696-1771) entered the Habsburg state administration in 1720. In recognition of his loyalty and statesmanlike refinement, Emperor Carl VI (1685-1740) had him appointed tutor to his eldest daughter, Maria Theresa (1717-80), to provide instruction in political affairs and moral behaviour. He would serve the Empress as her lifelong advisor and cherished friend. In 1744, she granted him permission to convert his offices into a residence on the southwestern end of the Hofburg palace.
Count Tarouca lived in his new home, the future Albertina, until he retired in 1757 as court building surveyor and president of the Netherlands Council, and moved to his estates in Bohemia.
Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen and Archduchess Marie Christine
Duke Albert of Saxony (1738-1822) married Maria Theresas favourite daughter, Archduchess Marie Christine (1742-98), in 1766. The Duchy of Teschen in Silesia was part of her dowry, Empresss new son-in-law took the name
Duke Albert of Saxe-Teschen. Albert and Marie Christine became governors of the Austrian Netherlands in 1780. In 1792, as French revolutionary troops advanced on Brussels, the couple fled back to Vienna and took up residence in Count Silva-Taroucas former palace, which Emperor Franz II/I had bestowed on them (1768-1835).
In 1805, Duke Albert installed his celebrated collection of graphic art in the palace on the Augustinian bastion. In the will he drew up in 1816, he created a fideicommissum, or entail, ensuring that the collection would remain an inalienable Habsburg family inheritance.
The collection was referred to for the first time as la collection Albertina in 1870, by its director, Gallery Inspector Moritz von Thausing.
Archduke Carl and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
Archduke Carl (1771-1847), the third son of Pietro Leopoldo, Grand Duke of Tuscany, (1747-92; from 1790 Emperor Leopold II), inherited the palace in 1822 as the adopted son of Duke Albert, an outstanding strategist and tactician,
he was a formidable opponent of Napoleon Bonaparte, defeating him at Aspern on 21-22 May 1809, the first battle Napoleon had lost as emperor. Archduke Carl withdrew from public life because of political conflicts with his older brother, Emperor Franz II/I, and in 1815 he married a Hessian princess,
Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg (1797-1829). In 1823, soon after the couple had moved into todays Albertina, Princess Henriette introduced a Protestant tradition to Catholic Austria by putting up a decorated Christmas tree in the Audience Hall.
Archduke Albrecht and Princess Hildegard of Bavaria
Archduke Albrecht (1817-95), the eldest son of Archduke Carl, was destined from childhood for a military career. In due course he was appointed lieutenant general, married Princess Hildegard of Bayern (1825-64) in 1843,
and came into his inheritance upon his fathers death in 1847.
By introducing modern agricultural technology such as steam-powered tractors, he made a fortune from his estates in Hungary, Bohemia and Silesia. Under Archduke Albrechts command as field marshal, the Austrian army defeated the Italians in the Battle of Custozza in 1866. In honour of that victory, in 1899 Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830-1916) erected a monumental equestrian statue of the late archduke in front of todays Albertina.
Archduke Albrecht oversaw the education of Crown Prince Rudolph (1858-89) and Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914).
Archduke Friedrich and Princess Isabella of Croy-Dülmen
Archduke Friedrich (1856-1936) was the last Habsburg owner of todays Albertina. After the death of his father, he was adopted by Archduke Albrecht in 1874, whose enormous wealth he inherited in 1895.
He and his wife, Princess Isabella of Croy-Dülmen (1856-1931), subsequently moved to Vienna from Pressburg (now Bratislava) to live in the Albertina palace. In addition to preparing for his military career, Archduke Friedrich studied mining and metallurgy, forestry, agriculture and dairy farming. The dairy empire he built up on his estates in the Duchy of Teschen made him the richest man in the Empire. At the beginning of World War I, he was appointed Supreme Commander of the Austro-Hungarian Army, retaining the position until 1916. After the dissolution of the Monarchy in 1919, the newly established Republic of Austria expropriated the Albertina palace together with the collection of graphic art. Friedrich and his family went into exile in Magyaróvár (Ungarisch-Altenburg) in Hungary, where Friedrich, the last Habsburg owner of the Albertina, died in 1936.


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I found Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why troublesome to my understanding of the translation process of the bible. It has made me review my understanding of the bible. However, this is just one book of many from different authors. I am wondering if Dr. Ehrman is well respected in the study of biblical hermeneutics. I personally have little experience and understanding of the field.
Professor Bart D. Ehrman's Curriculum Vitae reveals an academic with impeccable credentials. Perhaps the most important line is:
His doctoral adviser was none other than Bruce Metzger, who wrote the book on textual criticism of the New Testament. Ehrman doesn't simply ride on the coattails of Dr. Metzger either—he's the co-author of the fifth edition of The Text of the New Testament.
Dr. Ehrman has written many academic papers on the topic of textual criticism, which are routinely cited by other scholars. When it comes to specific determinations of which textual variation is most likely authentic, other scholars often agree with him and usually admit that his arguments are sound. Daniel B. Wallace, who often disagrees with Ehrman's opinions, nevertheless lists him among many "heroes in textual criticism":
As a scholar of textual criticism and history, his work has been widely and rightly praised.
But of course, Bart Ehrman is more than a scholar and teacher—he is easily the most famous textual critic who has ever lived. More than anyone else, Ehrman has brought the arcane sub-field of Biblical Hermeneutics into popular conciseness. Misquoting Jesus is likely the first and last book on the topic that anyone outside of the field will ever read on the topic. It's likely in this role that history will judge the man.
And the reviews are literally mixed. Daniel B. Wallace notes that the first 4 chapters of Misquoting Jesus are essentially "textual criticism 101". Besides being extremely readable, these chapters represent some of the very best scholarship available. Dr. Wallace notes some important omissions and a generally pessimistic attitude toward ancient scribes:
Reading a number of reviews, it strikes me that Ehrman begins to get lost when he shifts from a critical examination of the texts to interpretation of what the textual variations mean and their impact on theology. In my own reading of the book, I was struck by Ehrman's argument that seems to run:
Philosophically, this entire line of reasoning is flawed:
It's natural to assume that an expert in a very specialized field is also an expert in general. That's a mistaken assumption, however. Dr. Ehrman's work has been invaluable to me as a check to my particular prejudices, but I would not take any of it without critical examination. His style of writing in his popular books allows him to move very subtly from his considered opinions on the history of the text to his less reliable opinions on the consequences of that history. This unfortunate tactic prevents me from wholeheartedly recommending Bart Ehrman's books.
In his field, Bart Ehrman should be (and is) considered an expert textual critic. As an author of popular books (which are not peer-reviewed in advance), he should be considered a very interesting, but somewhat biased, proponent of a secular reading of the New Testament.
He is not respected by most conservatives when he slips into theology. Textual criticism, he is very good and knows what he is doing. However, I find him sloppy in his work if it pushes his agenda. What's worse is that he knows how to do the work, but since his faith lapsed, he misapplies and misquotes the rules of determining historicity. For example, one rule is "An event that is multiply attested is more likely to be actual than one that is only singly attested." Makes sense. However, Ehrman uses it as if it says "An event that is only singly attested is probably not actual." Completely different things.
He also fails this same test on the account of the resurrection. Even though it is attested by all four gospels, Acts, and several epistles, Ehrman concludes it can't have happened. Why not? It can't be because it lacks attestation.
Contending with Christianity's Critics has a chapter by conservative scholar Daniel Wallace that deals with Ehrman's claims in detail.


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When Katlyne passed away we left the hospital with all of her things (3 1.2 months worth of things) and that was it. It was at her Memorial Service that her Nurses gave me very special things that I am very thankful for. We were given a plate with her hands and footprints, photo's that were taken after we had left (Kat's primary Nurse took her back up to the garden to take her picture in the tulips (my favorite picture)). We were also given a few books but the best book was Empty Crandle, Broken Heart surviving the Death of your baby written by Deborah L. Davis,Ph.D. This book has helped in many ways that I could never had thought of. If you haven't read it I do suggest reading it as it might be of some help to you....
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Life is sweet -- or at least suite -- for identical teenage twins Zack and Cody Martin after their mom, Carey, lands a job headlining at the five-star Tipton Hotel in Boston, which comes with an upper-floor suite. From that new roost, the twins turn the hotel into their playground, although the pranks are usually instigated by girl-obsessed Zack, not the more mature and intellectual Cody. When her schedule permits, the boys are ``handled'' by Maddie Fitzpatrick, the teenage candy-counter girl who also is the somewhat unlikely best friend of spoiled London Tipton, the daughter of the hotel's owner.
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