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MR. DOUGLAS B. WILSON: Afternoon. I'm Doug Wilson. I'm the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs. It's my honor to bring to you Staff Sergeant Salvatore Giunta of the 2nd Battalion, 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade. Staff Sergeant Giunta and his wife Jenny are joining us from Vicenza, live. Welcome.
And, as you know, the White House announced recently that President Obama will present Staff Sergeant Giunta our nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, for his courage and his leadership in Korengal Valley, Afghanistan.
Staff Sergeant Giunta and Jenny, thank you very much for being available to us. And I also, before turning this over to questions and to Colonel Dave Lapan, I just wanted to say on behalf of all of us here at the Pentagon how proud we are of you and how proud we are of your colleagues and comrades, whom I know you have honored in your comments, and I just wanted to say that this is an honor for me to be able to introduce you.
So I'll turn this over to Dave Lapan and we'll begin the questions.
COL. DAVID LAPAN: Okay. Staff Sergeant Giunta, it's Colonel Lapan here at the Pentagon. How do you hear me?
SSGT. GIUNTA: I hear you pretty good, sir.
COL. LAPAN: We've got you here. As I understand, you don't have a statement to make. You want to just jump into questions?
SSGT. GIUNTA: I think that works best, sir. Roger.
COL. LAPAN: Okay.
Q Sergeant, Larry Shaughnessy from CNN. Can you tell us about how that -- how that patrol that the events came out of -- how it began, what time of day it was? What kind of equipment and weapons were you carrying? And lead us up to the point where the Taliban attacked your unit.
SSGT. GIUNTA: The day was like any other day in Afghanistan. I mean, we're all soldiers. We're all out on a mission. This mission in particular was a multi-day mission. It was Operation Rock Avalanche. And it had been going on four days prior to the particular night in question of the 25th.
It was the end of October. The end of October in Afghanistan is -- it's cold in the mornings, it's cold at night, it gets warm in the daytime.
Our particular piece of the mission that day was to overwatch the -- our group of 1st Platoon was to overwatch 2nd Platoon, who was down in the village below us, as they entered the village and kind of engaged the elders and, you know, let them know we're there for them.
And to do that safely, we set up on the ridge line above the village to provide security for them down in the village and then also provide security for ourselves on the back side.
So we just did a 360.
We ended up moving out at just before daybreak from the Korengal outpost. And it was only maybe a two-hour walk to get to our setup location, so we set up before dawn. And we set up in our 360-degree perimeter and emplaced Claymores. We brought SMAW-D's [shoulder launched multipurpose assault weapon-disposable], basic infantry, platoon weapons, so a SAW [squad automatic weapon] for every -- one SAW gunner for every four people; one, two, or three gunner for every four people; two and four rifle gunners; team leaders; squad leaders; radios, lots of radios, so we can all stay in contact with each other.
The day, for the most part, was quiet. They were picking up ICOM [intelligence communication] chatter about: they're setting up, the enemy's setting up, they're going to -- they're going to do something. But I mean, as a soldier in Afghanistan, that -- you expect that. You're going to hear ICOM chatter that says all sorts of crazy, off-the-wall stuff. And be it true or not, I mean, that's what we came there to do. We -- we're waiting for them. We're trying to engage them. We're trying to engage the populace. And part of that is, you know, you could get shot at, they could set upon you. But it's not going to change the mission.
So we sat there all day, and 2nd Platoon engaged the villagers. They came out of the village. We're getting prepared to exfil [exfiltrate]. The sun's just going over the mountains; night's falling; we have Apache attack helicopters above us, flying around, you know, covering us, so they're covering the ground. We're preparing to move out, so we're breaking down. We're bringing in our Claymores we have set up. We're, you know, giving hand-and-arm signals, letting everyone know what's about to happen, that we're going to move back to the Korengal outpost.
And then there's always a specific order of movement that we're moving in. So Sergeant [Joshua] Brennan took Alpha team, first squad, and he moved out first, followed by his SAW gunner, who at the time was Specialist [Franklin] Eckrode; squad leader was Sergeant [Erick] Gallardo; myself; Specialist [Kaleb] Casey was my SAW gunner, and then Specialist [Garrett] Clary was my 203 gunner; followed then by a portion of the headquarters element -- so the platoon leader; the platoon medic; the RTO [radio-telephone operator], the platoon leader's radio guy; and fire -- forward-fire observers, so someone who can call in, you know, mortars if need be or direct the helicopters that are flying around so we have those assets available to us and the troops on the ground can call them in.
Followed -- following the headquarters element was a team from weapons squad, which is the 240 Bravo, consisting of a three-man team, tripods, extra rounds. And after them, we had an attachment of scouts. So we had a couple of different weapons systems with them that would help over watch, have a little more magnification on the weapons and just add a little more people to the patrol, seeing as how we were kind of pushing out into an area we didn't really know what was happening, where it's best to go prepared.
After we pushed out, we pushed out in that order of movement and moved down the trail that we were by, that we sat at all day, probably 50 meters, maybe 100 meters. And that's when we were engaged in the L-shaped ambush.
Q (Off mike) were you personally carrying?
SSGT. GIUNTA: Say again, sir? I didn't hear you.
Q And what kind of weapons were you carrying yourself?
SSGT. GIUNTA: I had -- I was Bravo team leader, so I had my M4 [Colt M4 carbine] and then I also had a SMAW-D across my back, which is a rocket launcher. It breaks down like the AT4 [shoulder fired, disposable anti-tank rocket launcher], just gets a little smaller for convenience of carry. And I had two claymores in my rucksack. Because of our mission that day, we set up so if they -- if the enemy ran into our perimeter, we could blow claymores and really -- really stick it to them.
But we didn't use anything all day. I mean, we sat there in relative quietness just kind of watching the surrounding terrain. So I had all -- everything I left in the morning with, I had that night.
COL. LAPAN: Luis.
Q Sergeant, it's Luis Martinez with ABC News. Can I ask you and your wife what the last week has been like for you, since the news came out? And we've seen many reports of your reactions to President Obama, his call to both of you. Can you describe once again what that was like?
MRS. GIUNTA: For me, the call from the president? I had a little bit of warning from Sal that it was going to happen, so I was at his office.
And, I mean, it was intense. It was exciting. When the call came through, I was really, really proud. I was proud to know Sal and proud to be with him and proud to be his wife, and proud of what he went through.
And I was emotional, of course. There was a lot of emotions running through me; of course good emotions, and sad emotions for those that were lost. But it was also -- it was very intense, a very intense moment.
And the past week has also been exciting, intense. It's been busy, busier usual, of course. But it's for all good things.
Q (Off mike) ask you for your reactions to last week as well?
SSGT. GIUNTA: (Pause.) Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't hear you.
My -- this last week has been definitely a wild and crazy ride. It's been exciting, it's been -- I'm a regular line soldier, so this is a new world, sitting out here under these lights in the field with these cameras pointed on us, talking with a little, secret earpiece. And it's definitely interesting and exciting.
COL. LAPAN: Dana.
Q Dana Hedgpeth at the Washington Post. Having had some time to reflect, does it seem a bit surreal, or what kind of emotions can you describe from the time -- since the time of the ambush versus now you're sitting there with lights on you, an earpiece, with your wife? Have you been sleeping much? Have you been just running, still, on adrenaline? What's the emotions you've been going through, sir?
SSGT. GIUNTA: This -- this whole process has been, from the time I actually knew that they were going to put me in for the Medal of Honor to now, it's almost been three years now. So that's not something that I really thought about until this last week.
As far as emotions after finding out about -- that I'm going to receive the Medal of Honor, it's very -- it's bittersweet, because it's such a huge, huge honor, and right now the 173rd's deployed, and they are doing the same thing they did, everything that's asked for them, in Afghanistan, all over again.
And that's where a lot of my friends are right now.
So for me to fully, you know, accept this, I have to have everyone who's been by me every time I needed them, and that's really my brothers in arms. And some of then are out of the Army now and some of them are in Afghanistan now.
And it -- it's emotional and it's great. All of this is great. But it does bring back then, you know, a lot of -- a lot of memories of all the people that I would love to share this moment with, and I'm just not going to have that opportunity because they're no longer with us, and they gave everything for their country. And in doing that, we're not going to be able to enjoy this together.
Q Hello. I'm Allen Abel from the National Post. I was with the president at that appearance here in Virginia on Monday in a suburban backyard. For an hour and a half he took questions from the residents of this neighborhood. Not once in those 90 minutes was the war with Afghanistan, was Iraq, was the military ever mentioned, either by the president or any of about 20 people who asked him questions. How do each of you view this apparent lack of interest or weariness with what's happening there?
SSGT. GIUNTA: I think, for a lack of interest or weariness for all the people who didn't speak about it or think about it, I think there's millions more Americans that really do understand what the American soldier is going through. And I'm not doing it right now. I'm still a soldier. But at the same time, I'm proud, I'm so proud to say I'm with the 173rd. I am -- I'm stoked that I can say I'm with the Rock.
Battle hard. I'm proud right now being on rear detachment team, and I'm serving those dudes, and they're out there doing it again. And if other people don't know, well, hopefully they'll listen to this and they'll remember that there's out -- there's men and women out there every single day giving everything for their country.
Q Do you have an answer or reaction to that?
SSGT. GIUNTA: I'm sorry, I didn't hear you again.
Q I was asking Jenny the same question, how she viewed this apparent or possible disinterest or lack of interest on the part of many people here.
MRS. GIUNTA: I feel the same way that Sal does. I mean, it goes to show -- just while Sal was deployed and I would, you know, call family, call friends, talk to people, just hearing those that were aware of things and those that weren't aware of things, it's just kind of how sometimes it happens.
And you just have to keep thinking that there's more people out there that are aware of it than maybe you're talking to. You just have to keep that in mind, and that hopefully people that are aware of it will spread the awareness, and that hopefully this award will spread the awareness as well to those people.
COL. LAPAN: Courtney.
Q Hi, Staff Sergeant. This is Courtney Kube from NBC News. I wanted to bring you back to your answer to Dana's question, when you mentioned that this award really is bittersweet to you. Have you spoken to any of the other soldiers who were with you that night? And then -- and then I -- do you still keep in touch with the family members of any of the soldiers, your friends who were lost that night? Have any of them had any reaction, reached out to you since the announcement last week offering any feelings about your honor?
SSGT. GIUNTA: I talked with my squad leader at the time who was there that night, Staff Sergeant Gallardo. And he gave me a call from Afghanistan -- one of the soldiers that's out there just doing it again. And he just told me that he's there for me and he's proud of me and he's happy, he's happy for me, and this means a lot to the guys.
And honestly, that -- hearing him say that to me, someone I look up to telling me this, it means a lot to me; and especially that he can say that from the guys, too, that I -- I think, you know, are the heroes right now. They're out there fighting enemies of the United States, while I'm just sitting here.
The -- as far as bittersweet and speaking -- speaking to the families of the soldiers that were lost that night, I keep in touch with Josh Brennan's father. He's a -- he's a real stand-up guy. I like -- I like Mike a lot. We talk here and there, off and on. And he's -- he's expressed his gratitude to me -- which, you know, that's kind of a hard one to stomach, because that's still a loss. I -- I'm glad that we could bring Josh back, but I wish it was under different circumstances.
We actually -- we got married -- Jenny and I got married last November, and we just had a -- I guess a -- our wedding party.
MRS. GIUNTA: Reception.
SSGT. GIUNTA: Reception. (Laughs.) We just had a reception back in Iowa just this summer, so the family could come, because there was, you know, a lot of people that couldn't make it to the wedding. And I asked Mike to come down, and he came down with his brother, and it -- it's just always good to see him.
COL. LAPAN: Anna.
Q This is Anna Mulrine, with the Christian Science Monitor.
And I just wanted to follow up a little bit on Courtney's question. And there have been so few Medals of Honor awarded for the war in Afghanistan. And a lot of what we hear at -- here at the Pentagon is that it's a different kind of war; there's more technology versus, say, World War II, for example.
And I just wanted to get your take on that. You know, I mean, how does it feel to be the only living recipient [sic - only living recipient of the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq] of such a tremendous honor? And I was also curious, too, just what the reaction has been among your fellow soldiers there in Italy.
SSGT. GIUNTA: Kind of -- kind of what I was going back -- or going back to what I was saying before, in this job, I am only mediocre. I'm average. This was a situation that we were put into. And by no means did I do anything that anyone else wouldn't have done in that situation.
Looking at it as, like, a picture, I was just one brush stroke in that picture, and everyone else was one brush stroke in that picture. And what I did wasn't the first brush stroke of the picture, and it wasn't the last brush stroke in the picture, and it wasn't the best; it was just another brush stroke that helped, you know, complete this picture or this moment in time.
And the guys here are proud of me. It means a lot. This is -- this is a huge, huge honor. But they know that and I know that, and I hope that I can convey, you know, to the world how great the average soldier is. Because, I mean, you're sitting here talking to me, so you must think that. And I think that about them. And I think -- I think it's -- it means a lot to say that.
And hopefully, you know, more people start thinking about Afghanistan or Iraq or the men and women that are out there.
Regardless of what they're doing, they are away from their families and their loved ones, in a different country, trying to improve the country -- whether it be handing out stuff, or helping them learn new trades or different things that can pull them away from their troubled past that they've been having. The American soldier has been everything that the American people have asked for, and it's important to remember that.
Q If we could go back to that night on October 25th -- this is Larry from CNN again -- you stopped when you talked about you'd gone about a hundred meters and that's when the enemy engaged you. Can you talk now about that engagement? How did it play out? What kind of -- how many enemy were you facing? What were -- what -- and what weapons were they using against you?
And how it is -- from what I understand, it was over in a matter of minutes. Did you make a lot of conscious decisions, or were you reacting subconsciously to the point where it was over with and the medevac helicopter was coming in?
SSGT. GIUNTA: When the ambush happened, I would say there's probably -- I don't know -- 10 to 20 people. It's kind of -- it all kind of goes blurry. And I think that kind of leads into your second part of -- there wasn't a whole lot of thinking. There wasn't a whole lot of thinking that I needed to do. This is my job. This is my profession, and I don't -- I don't have anything else on the side. This is what I've chose to do with my life for the past, you know, six years now. And everyone else I'm with is in the same boat: all professionals, all conducting themselves as professionals. So there wasn't a whole lot of thinking that any of us needed to do.
It's something we train and it's something that we prepare for, because you have to train how you fight.
And this is something everyone was aware that could happen. So everyone just kind of played their part, followed their leaders and conducted themselves how they were trained. So, you know, you don't know exactly how it's going to go, but at the end, I mean, everyone played their role completely.
And we didn't really talk about it. There was no time. I mean, just because all this happens, after the medevac bird comes in and starts picking people up, it's not over. You're not out of Afghanistan. You're not off the side of the mountain. You're just minus some buddies. And there's no time to talk. You still have to complete the mission. And we're still an hour and a half walk away from where we needed to be, and now we have extra equipment and less men.
So there wasn't a whole lot of even talking afterwards. Everyone knew -- or had an idea of what had happened, but no one really knew, because -- even when I speak about this, I don't know what the whole line was doing. I only know what, you know, directly the six people that I was actively with, you know, roughly what they were doing, and they only know what I was doing, because everything else was behind us. We were all just playing our piece. And that's part of training.
Q To follow up, you've made the point a couple times that you're not doing -- you didn't do anything any other soldier wouldn't have done. But there were other soldiers there, and something told you, when you were being shot at by the Taliban from your left, that the real threat was ahead. And you went forward towards Eckrode, towards Sergeant Brennan. And basically, you were going towards where some of the firing from the Taliban was coming from, while other soldiers who were involved in the fight were focused on the enemy attack from your left.
At what point did you -- did you determine that the best thing that you could do was to go forward on the trail and catch up with Eckrode and Brennan as opposed to turning to your left and facing the immediate threat of a large group of Taliban with a lot of heavy weaponry?
SSGT. GIUNTA: Well, sir, I wasn't alone, because Staff Sergeant Gallardo, who's the squad leader, and I was the team leader, he was trying to push forward. And I did have kind of a -- well, before we started pushing forward, I was -- I was hit in the -- in the SAPI [small arms protective inserts] plate from a different direction. It wasn't from the direction that everyone else was shooting or I was shooting.
And, so, you know, there's nothing to do with it at that time, but that's something to always keep in the back of your mind. And I definitely felt that I got hit from that direction. So when we pushed forward, Staff Sergeant Gallardo, myself, Specialist Casey and Specialist Clary, we pushed forward together. But when we were pushing forward, we were also throwing grenades. So we're throwing grenades; we're moving when the grenades explode.
And Casey is the one that was on the SAW, which is -- it's a mass-casualty-producing weapon. It -- he's shooting more rounds than everyone else. So it's more important for him to be playing his part, and his part was to do more shooting than moving, at that time.
And we made it to Specialist Eckrode. And I was out of grenades, so there was no need for all -- you know, all four of us to be with Eckrode when there was still further to go and I didn't have any more grenades and I had the forward-momentum going. So I didn't run up to do anything heroic or to save -- to save Brennan. Brennan, in my mind, wasn't in trouble. I was just going to go up and I'm going to find Brennan and we're going to shoot together, because it's better to shoot with a buddy than be shooting alone.
So there was no fear in my mind. The fear was the same: Everyone's getting shot at. Everyone's in the same boat. No sense leaving five people there. I'll just keep on going. I'm running anyway. I'm out a grenade. Might as well just run. And the direction was forward. But that was the direction we were all going.
Q Jenny, do you know where you were on that night in 2007? I don't know the background of your relationship. Did you know Sal then? Where would you have been in the fall of 2007?
MRS. GIUNTA: I was in Vicenza, Italy. I didn't know that the incident had happened that night, but I found out the next day.
Q So you knew Sal already? You were a couple already at that point?
MRS. GIUNTA: Yeah, we met in 2004, so this was the second deployment that I had known him to go through. The first deployment I was just in the States; the second one I stayed in Vicenza.
Q Hi, it's Courtney Kube from NBC News again. You mentioned that you're just a -- an average guy there, but once you get this Medal of Honor in a few weeks, you really won't be the average soldier anymore. You're going to -- you'll be in an elite group. And it probably means you may not deploy in the future. How do you feel about that? Are you -- are you disappointed? Will you fight against that? Do you still want to be putting yourself in these kinds of situations in the future?
SSGT. GIUNTA: Right now the future is an open book for us. And we're talking some time in the future and some time down the road, and I think we'll just cross that bridge when we come to it.
Q Jenny, how do you feel about him deploying again?
MRS. GIUNTA: I don't want it to happen. (Chuckles.) Having your husband, your boyfriend, your son, your loved one get deployed and knowing that they're going to be somewhere that's dangerous, and you know that they're without water, without electricity, it's an awful feeling.
Going through the whole time, for a year, it's -- the days drag on; you're constantly worried. And you don't want anything to happen to him, so why would you want him to go back again?
Q Jenny, could you tell us a little bit about yourself -- first, most importantly, the correct spelling of your name?
MRS. GIUNTA: Could you say that again?
Q How would I spell your first name -- Jenny or Jennifer, or what do you prefer?
MRS. GIUNTA: You can just call me Jenny. And it's spelled J-E-N-N-Y.
Q How old are you, and where are you from, Jenny?
MRS. GIUNTA: I'm 26 years old, and I'm from Dubuque, Iowa.
Q (Off mike) do for a living?
MRS. GIUNTA: Excuse me?
Q What do you do?
MRS. GIUNTA: Currently, right now I work as a youth assistant at the teen center on post. And I teach yoga at the gym twice a week. And I'm also taking a couple online classes to try and get into an ultrasound program next fall.
Q Busy. (Chuckles.)
MRS. GIUNTA: Yeah, a little bit of a lot of things.
Q Staff Sergeant Giunta, this is Justin Fishel from Fox. Tell me what your family said when they heard you were picked for this honor. How did they react? What did they say to you?
SSGT. GIUNTA: My parents were proud, and they've expressed that throughout my whole life.
Even -- I don't know -- tying my shoes made them proud; riding my bike without my training wheels made them proud. They're very -- they're very proud parents. And this was -- this was one more thing.
They were proud when I joined the Army. They were -- they're always going to be proud of me. They expressed that pride to me and -- I mean -- (chuckles) -- they're very proud. I don't -- I don't know -- even have another word for it. I'm having a hard time articulating how they feel.
Q (Off mike) American Forces Press Service.
Can you tell me, what is your most enduring impression of the two deployments you spent in Afghanistan?
SSGT. GIUNTA: My most enduring impression of both deployments in Afghanistan are the quality of people that continue to be pushed to Afghanistan and go to Afghanistan time after time after time again, and how they are willing to do something most people won't do, and then they're willing to do it again. And I guess my most enduring thought is how tough the guys around me really are.
COL. LAPAN: Larry.
Q I've interviewed half-a-dozen Medal of Honor recipients from Vietnam, Korea, and I always ask them the same question, and I get the same answer over time. So I'm going to give you a chance.
Are you a hero?
SSGT. GIUNTA: If I'm a hero -- if I'm a hero -- every man that stands around me, every woman, in the military, everyone who goes into the unknown is a hero; so if you think that that's a hero -- as long as you include everyone with me.
COL. LAPAN: Okay. Staff Sergeant Giunta and Jenny, Colonel Lapan again from the Pentagon. Thank you for your time. I know it's getting late there in Vicenza.
Thank you again for your service, both of you. And we look forward to seeing you at the White House here pretty soon.


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This place is, unfortunately, just not good. Our food came out cold and the okra was hard. The hummus is surely not as good as advertised. They treat people very rudely and without care. Would never go back and highly recommend finding a different place for Turkish fare.
Posted by CCK on 07/17/2008
A great place to eat some seriously tasty food. The atmosphere could be better, but the menu offers a lot of variety, which is a great issue for big tables. The staff is always nice to us, no matter if I was with a Turkish group or a foreign group. Sometimes the wait can be a little long on the weekend, but in general the service and the food is pretty good. All the appetizers are great by the way!
Posted by Anonymous on 05/01/2008
I've been to Sip Sak three times, twice for late dinners and once for a Sunday lunch. Dinners were nothing too exciting - the meat dishes were usually quite nice, but the bread, rice, veggies, and many of the appetizers were mediocre they tasted like they'd been made hours ago, too many hours ago. The service has always been nice and fairly attentive when I've been there, even when it's been pretty busy. Everything was fantastic when I went for lunch one time though - that meal was certainly the best Turkish food I've had in New York, and I've been to a number of other Turkish restaurants that I found to be quite good. I guess you need to try to go Sip Sak earlier in the day when the food is all likely to have just been prepared and the kitchen hasn't gotten lazy. The atmosphere in the restaurant is pleasant enough.
Posted by Rudest Service Ever on 04/25/2008
I recently phoned Sip Sak cafe for some more information on their restaurant. I spoke with at least three people on the phone and every last one of them was so rude. It was such a turn off that I don't ever plan to go there. I also plan to tell everyone I know how rude and snooty they are. There are too many amazing places in NYC to eat and I refuse to give my hard-earned money to restaurants that have a bad attitude. Imagine if they are annoyed when they are cooking your food? Who knows what special 'surprise' they might add to your dish...Eat at your own risk!
Posted by rk on 04/23/2008
The food was OK. atmosphere not great. food nothing to brag about. definitely a miss!


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Sunday, October 31, 2010
On Being a Soccer Mom, and Lasts
In reality, I am having a hard time adjusting to being a soccer mom. This is purely selfish. I don't like getting up early on Saturday mornings, I don't like the impossible hassle of which-field-which-kid-what-time of having TWO boys in soccer, and (slap me, here), sitting on the sidelines is (maybe, a bit, sometimes) a little bit boring. I'd rather be doing something else. Soccer practice twice a week (once per child) is way worse. It's at dinnertime, and I don't have the advantage of a husband who is home at 5 pm to help with evening activities. 4 of every 8 days, he's working during the supper-soccer rush. Once the kids are old enough to help cook, it will get easier. Once they are old enough to leave in the house for short periods, it will be fine! But right now I have to plan a dinner around leaving the house at 5:45 for an hour and a half. Load three boys in the van, unload, mind two of them while the other one has practice, load them back in the van, unload, either eat (if we haven't eaten yet: usually the case), or start with bedtime, and I'm. Fricksausted.
Once 4:30 pm hits, I'm usually running full tilt til 8. Make dinner, monitor child behavior, (possibly practice violin with Ayden if I can leave dinner cooking), feed/eat dinner, monitor child behavior, clean up from dinner, monitor child behavior and unsuccessfully try to initiate bedtime clothing and tooth brushing from the kitchen sink, get children in pyjamas (any who have not done this task have no idea how hard it is--any transition is difficult for children, but transitioning in and out of CLOTHING is absolutely ridiculous), brush teeth, read stories, give cuddles, monitor child behavior, practice violin with Ayden if not done yet, replace errant two year old in bed, settle Ayden in bed, fall onto couch, and check time. Oh, 8 pm. Sometimes later.
Squeezing soccer practice into all this makes me very....cranky.
Luckily, the kids looooooooove soccer. And they are really getting so good at it. And I'm adjusting, slowly. By the time I get accustomed to this routine, soccer will be finished! Soccer season is six months. The kids play in sun, frost, rain, mud, thundershowers, but not snow.
If Brent was around to help with soccer all the time, I would enjoy it much more. It's the single soccer parenting I detest so much.
It's also not reeeeeeeeeeally kosher to drop your kids off at soccer practice just yet. I'm wondering what age that happens? Because it would be much less disruptive to drop them off and go back to dinner, which is what we actually did last Wednesday with Matthew. I'm not sure WHY everyone stays on the sidelines for practice every week? In case their kid gets hurt? Moral support? Discipline? Tying shoelaces? But we do. So I follow the herd. Except for Wednesday.
Part of this is also that dinnertime is Riley's worst time of day. He's overtired and wants to nap, but it's too close to bedtime. If he'd sleep at noon he'd be fine but he's not tired enough then so we just put up with dinnertime freakouts. So loading Riley in the van generally requires the use of a bomb suit to protect all my body parts from flailing angry feet and arms and head, including those sharp little teeth, while I lift and buckle him into his carseat. And yet we just keep breeding.
The "Lasts" part of this post is about me being at work today, at quite possibly my final shift with BC Ambulance. Tuesday I am going to ask my midwife for a note to start my maternity leave early, on account of the painful contractions I get when I lift anything heavier than 15 lbs. My ultimate plan is to not come back here after my leave, although I'm keeping that option open in case I need to, financially. My hope is to get my own personal craft/doula/artwork business running while I'm off, enough to replace at least part of my paramedic income, so I can work from home. With 3 kids (and soon to be 4), we're finding it a bit strenuous not to have at least one parent home for the logistics of running the house, and I'm ready to move on anyways. It will help me bide my time until I get into midwifery school (if I get into midwifery school), which I'm seeing will be much easier to manage as a career if my kids are a bit older anyways.
So I'm at work. And on the one hand, I feel sad to just leave it all behind. We have some really fun times, and I'm definitely not sick of taking care of injured people. Sick people, somewhat. But major trauma is what we all sign up for, and none of us ever get enough of it. =) Most people are all, EW GROSS HOW CAN YOU HANDLE IT??? And most of us paramedics are all, How can you live without it? Variety. So good.
On the other hand, I'm tired. I have to get up at 4 a.m. to be on time for day shifts. That SUCKS. I'm a peeon. I'm sick of the heirarchy. I'm sick of working with cranky partners. I'm sick of the stupid ambulance always getting dirty again right after you wash it, and the tanks always draining (fuel and oxygen), and the supplies always disappearing, and the batteries always needing replacing, and the drugs always expiring, and it just is a neverending cycle, much like laundry.
I get enough of laundry type cycles at home, thank you very much!
It's sad to walk away from it all though. I invested a lot into this job, thinking I'd be here for longer than I was. But I got OUT as much as I put IN, which is a ton, so I'm grateful for that! It's not your average desk job, that's for sure.
Goodbye, BC Ambulance. You haven't been good to me, but I had fun anyways =)
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- tamie said...
Hey Mel, I have an idea for you. You know me, full of ideas. A good friend of mine has recently moved back to Trinity for grad school (she did her undergrad there too). She's super lonely. She's also super with kids. I think that she should take your boys to soccer practice for you! She could do the standing-on-the-sideline thing, and you could do the cooking-dinner thing. And I think you two should get to know each other in general. You are both very, very cool.
If you like my idea, e-mail me and I can maybe put you two in touch!
- October 31, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- lori said...
Oooh, Tamie. Do you know anybody like that who just moved to southern Texas?
Melissa, your last line really cracked me up and made me wish again that I could meet you.
- November 2, 2010 at 8:48 PM
- tamie said...
Lori, Jon's cousin, Sharla, lives in the Austin area, and she is an amazing person and an amazing mom. She has three young children (ages 3-9, I think). But I realize Austin's a ways away. I'll keep thinking!
- November 3, 2010 at 5:09 PM


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Oct 03 2006
Working Ranch 101: Shipping Cattle
It's shippin' time! Yes, cattle ranchers eventually do have to actually sell the cattle they raise.
The cattle we shipped today are the same ones we weaned a few weeks ago. Out of that weaned bunch, we separated off the larger ones and sold them to a cattle buyer for a large feed yard in Texas. Once there, our little bovine buddies will live out the rest of their days eating whenever–and however much–they want.
Oh, how I'd love to be bovine…
On shipping day, the cattle trucks show up early and line up on the road to our house. The drivers hang out and shoot the breeze while we prepare the cattle for shipping.
The cattle are gathered and taken to the pens. They follow the call of the sook truck…
…while the rest of the guys bring up the rear on horseback.
Here's Marlboro Man with our oldest girl, keeping the herd moving along. I just love watching them ride together.
And now for the Moment of Truth: it's time to weigh the cattle and see just how much they've fattened up on our ranch. The formula's very simple: pounds equal $$$!
My pesky brother-in-law, Tim, pushes the cattle in groups onto the large scale.
After M.M. weighs the cattle in the small scale house, he hustles out to open the other side of the scale and count them as they file out.
After all the cattle are weighed, the trucks pull in, one-by-one, right up to the loading chute.
Our cowboy pushes them in groups up the loading chute and into the truck for their long journey to Texas.
"Aww, man! And I was JUST starting to like this place.
Oh, well…so long!"
Bye bye, girl. Thanks for the memories.
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Marni On Tuesday, October 3 at 6:31 am
Dayum… I want to come live with you. My daughter would have so much fun helping MM and your oldest. You would never get her off the horses!
Swampwitch On Tuesday, October 3 at 7:20 am
Ree, what do you use to load ALL those wonderful pictures? If you tell me BloggerGlobber, I'm going to choke my BloggerBugger.What an education you are giving us with your play-by-play story of your life. It seems like only yesterday that law's d.d. was playing the audio of Juice Bag for me. (I would put a link here if I knew how.) Little did I know I would step into your world for just a few minutes everyday. This is very much like your childhood in the tudor house, right? Thanks for sharing. Will we ever see a pic or Gin (T's wife)on horseback?
CPA Mom On Tuesday, October 3 at 9:01 am
Thanks! I love seeing all the ranch life pictures. It's a real education for us "city folk."
Pam On Tuesday, October 3 at 9:02 am
Morning Ree. Hamburgers on the hoof. Great story. You know, I have a theory, that one of the problems with our society….maybe even most of western civ, is that we are too far removed from our production of food and the removal of our trash. People forget what it takes to put that lovely steak in that convenient plastic and styrofoam package at their local grocer's. They also haven't a clue what happens to that stinky ole bag of trash that someone carts away every week. Thanks for this latest installment of WR 101.?Pam
Beth On Tuesday, October 3 at 9:18 am
Thanks for the detailed account of ranch life. I enjoy learning about something I know very little.And your pics are GREAT!! What kind of camera and editing software do you use? Which one plays a bigger part in the quality of the pics you capture? I'm asking b/c I hope to upgrade on both fronts soon.
brian On Tuesday, October 3 at 9:52 am
Hi Ree,Barngoddess is teasing me all the time about how cows are the dumbest creatures on the planet. I'm a vegetarian, *loud thud* as the readers here fall down. :)Doesn't bother me if other people eat meat…or anything else. ;)SW,We have the new iMac with iPhoto and blogger pulls the photos from outr computer, Very easy.
momto3cubs On Tuesday, October 3 at 10:15 am
Thanks, Ree. Very interesting – it's all new to me. Great photos! Thanks for the story behind what we see in the store. My boys just got back from a hunting trip, so they too realize where meat comes from and that it's not to be wasted.
Renee On Tuesday, October 3 at 10:26 am
My husband does this, on a much, much smaller scale. How many did y'all load up to sell?
wetsy On Tuesday, October 3 at 10:32 am
I'm sneezing just scrolling through these pictures.
Karmyn R On Tuesday, October 3 at 1:06 pm
Have I told you I LOVE your Working Ranch series?
Ree On Tuesday, October 3 at 1:20 pm
Marni, send her on! We need more help. :)Swampwitch, not so much like the tudor childhood.CPAMom…long time, no see! How've you been?Pam, "Hamburgers on the Hoof"–heehee!Beth, I use a NikonD70, though I think the D50 is pretty much just as good. I use Adobe Photoshop Elements, and that can make as much of a difference sometimes as the camera. Mostly, though, I think you do have to start with a somewhat decent photo…but that editing software is a dream.Brian…I was a veg. for seven years, BEFORE I met my husband, of course. You're always welcome here.Mom23…I'll be you had some great laundry to do when they got home!Renee…oooo, I'm not sure how many we did that day. I'm not very good at looking at a herd and estimating how many. I think there were about seven or eight truckfulls, if that helps. :)Wetsy, get your Allegra.Kamryn, so glad you like it! Some folks might prefer the juice bag clips. Different strokes for different folks.
Lisa S. On Tuesday, October 3 at 1:49 pm
What a cool blog entry. I was especially charmed to see that little girl up on that big horse and doing it so well. I am a "little" bit fearful of horses so this intrigues me. Love the photos as always. I also use a D70 and LOVE IT LOVE IT!
Devon On Tuesday, October 3 at 3:25 pm
I loved this blog post! I grew up in a rural area. My dad was the local cop, but my friends had ranches. I loved to help drive the cattle! What great memories!I was a vegetarian, but when pregnant with my DD 10, I craved meat only! To this day if she sees a cow, she'll point and say, "steak".
Pamela On Tuesday, October 3 at 4:00 pm
I also enjoy the working ranch series. Do you ever get attached to any of those long lashed creatures?(I remember crying when I was a kid when we had to sell our young steers. Of course we only raised a few.)
mom On Tuesday, October 3 at 7:00 pm
I need the shot of MM and oldest girl in a 16×20 on my wall!!
Tiggerlane On Tuesday, October 3 at 8:13 pm
It must be prime cow-selling time!! My uncle just came into my office today, waving around big fat checks he had received from taking his latest calf crop to the sale at Oklahoma City. It's quite a drive from here – how far is it for you??
islaygirl On Tuesday, October 3 at 9:17 pm
ok, stupid city girl question for today:all right, so once the cattle are on the trucks, don't they get hungry and thirsty on the way to texas? i'm not a veg but i'm all bleeding-heart-animal-lover. but absolutely gorgeous photos.
Shauna On Tuesday, October 3 at 10:43 pm
My grandparents had a ranch and I grew up on a small farm. . .This brings back many memories. . .Thanks!
Ree On Tuesday, October 3 at 10:57 pm
Tig…OKC is a couple of hours from us. We usually just sell 'em directly to the feed yard, though, so we don't get to spend much time in the city. Islay…at most, the ride is 10 hours but usually less. The cattle are in really good shape when we ship them, and just like people, they make the trip just fine. I'm sure they're ready for a drink and a bite to eat when they get to their destination, but they're never dehydrated or in any kind of danger, health-wise.Don't worry, I love 'em, too.
No On Wednesday, October 4 at 8:12 am
Man, that last photo is heartbreaking…almost reminds me of Bambi!
Anonymous On Thursday, October 5 at 8:36 am
I think the cows would prefer this post to be called "Read It and Weep". I understand how you've chosen to slaughter cattle for a living, but those pictures are just too sad for me.
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Today was a complete loss. I've just been hanging out doing nothing. I've more or less been doing nothing. I can't be bothered with anything recently. I guess it doesn't bother me.


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People are being offered the chance to gain a qualification while helping out at a park.
The seven-week Community Volunteer Qualification (CVQ) course will run at Leicester's Spinney Hill Park from Friday, May 2.
The free course is open to anyone aged 16 or over.
Volunteers will be given the opportunity to develop a range of skills by working alongside the Leicester City Council's parks team and helping out at events held on the park, as well as taking part in classroom sessions.
The course is being funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of its wider support for the £2.5milllion Spinney Hill Park restoration project, which was completed in 2012.
Course organiser Anna Southward said: "The CVQ course is a great way to enhance your CV while, at the same time, helping your community and meeting new people.
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For Jersey Shore Season 6 to Be a Hit, Sammi & Ronnie Need to Get Back Together
One of the reasons why Jersey Shore Season 5 was a bit of a snooze (among others) was the lack of drama between everyone's favorite couple to hate on, Sammi and Ronnie.
In past seasons, there have always been some excellent SamRon storylines, from the cheating accusations in Miami to the furniture fisticuffs in Season 3. But this past season, while they were together, they were cool as cucumbers — except for the time Sammi got into a fight, but since it wasn't with Ronnie, did it matter?
Back in Season 1, watching Sammi develop her crush on Ron Ron was, in retrospect, kind of adorable. Sure, Sammi had to reject The Situation in the process, but he had it coming. Then in Season 2, the first relationship explosions began, with Sammi accusing Ronnie of cheating on her in the South Beach clubs.
FurnitureGate, of course, happened in Season 3, and despite Pauly D's protestations that watching them fight was making him want to kill himself, you had to admit that it was entertaining television. And we also felt like we were watching the way this couple honestly fought, with no staging or subtle direction from Jersey Shore producers on the side.
And who can forget how the fight between The Situation and The Cement Wall from Season 4? It was all thanks to a SamRon fight about whether or not Ronnie was bringing a girl to visit him while he was still a single dude in Europe.
But Season 4 in Florence was ultimately amusing — watching Sammi try to win back Ronnie's love. The rooftop scene! And when they were filmed out together, you could see how much fun they were having being around each other. This was an actual love story.
So what gave on Season 5? We have a feeling that SamRon was well aware of how annoying they could be to most viewers, so they purposely turned down their passion a notch or two. Unfortunately, there wasn't anything else of note going on this season, except for The Situation's mind slowly unraveling.
To make Season 6 a real success like previous JS seasons, those two crazy kids need to fall in love (and out, and get back together, and tell each other they're "done," etc.) one last time.
Need a Jersey Shore fix? Catch the next new episode of The Pauly D Project on Thursday, April 12 at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT on MTV.
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It is April. Spring. To say it is a time of transition — in the year and in my life — is to put it mildly. I have been quiet here of late as my whole world has been turned upside down. I'm s-l-o-w-l-y coming back to ground, back to right-side up. Searching and discovering whatever this new version of "normal" is going to be.
Every single day of January and February, and even into March, felt hard. As in "I've never gone through anything this difficult" hard. I had a constant wish that my heart would stop hurting, that the pit in my stomach would go away, that I would wake up from the nightmare I felt my life had become. Those wishes never actually came true. Not in the instantaneous way I had wished for, anyway.
But…my heart is healing. The pit in my stomach is subsiding. The nightmare still goes on, yet it is becoming less terrifying. And as these transitions have been occurring, I find that my mind has allowed for just a bit of space to dream. I'm feeling the cracks of openness to glimpse the hopefulness this season brings — of renewal, of awakening. As my birthday comes this week, as I embark on an altogether different chapter of my life, one that I never planned and certainly never expected, I wonder what new wishes I might be making…
I've been swirling for the past few weeks. Most days have felt like a struggle. Getting out of bed has been difficult. Pushing through the day has required inordinate effort. I've been looking forward to the end of the day when I can come home, change into my pajamas, and pour a glass of wine, with far too much gleeful anticipation.
I'm having tumultuous dreams and flashback images of my mother. A dear friend's wife died, bringing up all of the feelings associated with the knowledge that friends my age shouldn't be dying and that I, too, will die. My tendencies toward existential crisis lie just below the surface, and needless to say, have been spilling over. My self-efficacy regarding writing a memoir, telling my story and telling it well, has been dangerously circling the drain. Oh, and Mercury was in retrograde. I can't see the forest for the trees.
I have been stuck. In a fragile, emotional, crying-three-times-a-day funk. For a few weeks. But I'm coming out of it. I'm clawing my way to the surface. I have to. I need to see the big picture. I need to remember that life is short and I will die, and to use that knowledge to embrace the life I have rather than retreat from it. I need to remember that revisiting my past opens old doors, and that dreams and flashbacks are part of the process. I need to remember that I've never written a memoir before, that this is all new territory for me, and that my self-efficacy will grow as I keep writing.
Yes, I'm shaking the devil off. Casting off the stuck-ness. Starting to glimpse the forest again.
I interrupt my re-capping of our summer travels to Spain and Paris to share some of the instant photography shots I recently unveiled for Autumn Polaroid Week. For this now twice-a-year extravaganza of all that is wonderful about instant photography, I saved a few of the portraits I took of my amazing friend, Melissa, to share. I posted my very favorite black and white photos of her that I took during our shoot in Oregon, but was hoarding these color images shot on IMPOSSIBLE Project film to share last week for Polaroid Week.
These four photos are some of my very favorite portraits I've ever taken and they make me itch to do more portrait work. So, who's up for a portrait shoot?
In my last post, I shared my new love affair with black and white film. The affair is still in full bloom with no signs of fading. I also hinted about a photo shoot with my Tribe sister, Melissa. For her amazing, year-long Project Adventure, Melissa decided she wanted portraits of herself taken in an intimate photo shoot. I was flattered and humbled when she asked me to be the photographer behind the lens. Before meeting up in Oregon for our retreat and the backdrop for this photo shoot, we compared notes about ideas for shots and made our respective packing lists: Melissa's for wardrobe and mine for photo gear. I knew I wanted to primarily shoot film for these photos of Melissa, so I brought along three film cameras — Polaroid 195, Polaroid SLR680, and Canon AE-1 — and lots of film for each.
Rather than do the photo shoot all at one time, Melissa and I found ourselves allowing some space and freedom for these photos to emerge over the few days we had together. This gave us room to experiment with different locations, various lighting, and divergent moods. It also let us have some fun with costume changes. More importantly, giving ourselves the time to spread the shoot over a few days let us learn that pushing or forcing a photo session when something feels off or isn't quite vibe-ing does not make for good portraits.
Since I've been immersed in self-portraiture for the past year, taking portraits of Melissa also let me hone skills I haven't used in quite some time. I got to work through posing Melissa and positioning myself for good angles. This included working collaboratively to find the sweet spot of what I wanted as a photographer and what felt good to Melissa in her body.
I practiced how to talk with Melissa during the photo shoot. This might sound odd — she's one of my best friends, after all — but making someone feel at ease while having her portrait taken is harder than it seems. It's especially hard when using a rangefinder or other manually-focused cameras, as the process of shooting a photo becomes more of an ordeal, taking longer to get proper focus. Additionally, I became more aware of my own discomfort when taking the time to focus properly with these old-school cameras. I noticed how I start to rush myself out of concern that the person I'm shooting is getting annoyed or uncomfortable waiting for me to get my focus and position settled. This rushing is definitely not good for my process, and I was able to recognize and begin to work it out during our time together.
Best of all, I learned how totally fun a portrait session can be! I'm so used to shooting self-portraits and being alone during the process, I had forgotten the joy it brings me to create photos of someone else who is equally invested and into the session. Despite me being behind the lens and she in front of it, Melissa and I felt like a team. I think that collaborative spirit comes through in these images and makes these photos that much better.
Melissa was so open, so vulnerable, allowing me to really see her. I feel like I was able to capture her beauty — inside and out — in an authentic way. I hope she feels the same. I'm so grateful Melissa wanted to do a portrait session and that she selected me from the many talented photographers with whom she works in the wedding and film industry. It was truly my pleasure and honor.
All of the photos shown here were shot with my Polaroid 195 camera and Fuji 3000B film. This last photo makes me swoon. Shooting this film and seeing these portrait results breaks my heart that this film was recently discontinued. Melissa is sharing many more photos and her experience of being on the other side of the lens over at The Long Haul Project. Check it out HERE.
I don't want summer to end. The slower pace, the lessened responsibilities, the lack of structure. That all sounds just so very good as I write these words. Yes, it sounds good to me, in theory. If I get quiet with myself and I'm really honest, I know these kinds of days don't equate to the feelings in myself for which I long. The truth is, I'm restless. I'm antsy. I'm a little down.
Knowing myself — really knowing and accepting myself — is a work in progress. I heard Gretchen Rubin give a great talk last year on this very subject, and I'm only now hearing all of its reverberations. Over time, and particularly of late, I'm becoming more and more clear that my personality is wired for structure. Spontaneity, free-flowing time, and days without set plans all seem enticing to me. It sounds great. But it isn't great for me. Those type of days make me feel more restless, more antsy, more depressed. I realize I have been holding on to some notion that those kind of days are supposed to be awesome and fun and freeing. After all, I can sleep in if I want. I can stay home in my pjs all day, be with Parker, and work on my manuscripts. I don't have scheduled meetings, so the day can just flow. Sounds good, right? As much as I don't want to let the idea go that I could be "unstructured, free-flowing Meghan," I have to accept the truth that these kind of days are not good for me. I have to know and honor my true Self enough to accept who I am.
This acceptance fills me with some excitement. Getting closer to my truth is GOOD! I'm already thinking through my plans to kick this restlessness to the curb. Although it still only the first week of August, my summer is just about over. I leave this week for the American Psychological Association conference and and when I return, preparations for the semester will be in full swing as classes begin a few short days later. Thus, with the new semester on the horizon, I'm thinking through the structure I want to build for myself. I'm making plans for how and when I want to spend my time — writing my book, working on research manuscripts, teaching class, meeting with students, yoga, lunches/walks/happy hour with friends, dates with Tony. These are all the parts of my life I want to really sink into, and for me to really sink in, I need to prioritize and schedule it all. As well, I need to wake up, get dressed, and leave the house. As a true (and extreme) extrovert, I need to be with other people, even if it's working and writing at the coffee shop. Staying at home in my pjs all day, alone, is a recipe for disaster. That's knowing myself, being secure in who I am, and living my truth.
Sayonara, restlessness.


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""" Boy Racer" unmasks the manic, brutal world of professional cycling from the candid viewpoint of the sport's brash young superstar, Mark Cavendish. Written off as fat and useless in his youth, Cavendish's hunger for success and his sheer natural ability has forged him into one of cycling's youngest phenoms -- and one of cycling's most accomplished sprinters. Some have called him cocky, but to those who dislike his style, Cav will shrug his shoulders and reply, "I know I'm good. There's no point lying about it." Cav's fearlessness in the saddle and on the record has earned him controversy and the respect of his competitors and fans. "Boy Racer" brings readers into Cav's head as he sprints into cycling's canon of larger-than-life riders.
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Born and raised on the Isle of Man, Mark Cavendish became a world track champion as a teenager in 2005, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist a year later, and in 2008 regained his world title on the track with British teammate Bradley Wiggins. After switching his focus to the more glamorous world of road cycling, Cavendish set a new record of four stage wins in the 2008 Tour de France, and won the prestigious Milan-San Remo one-day classic in 2009. Widely regarded as the most exciting and charismatic young rider to grace the sport in years, Cavendish rides for the American cycling team HTC-Columbia and will be the most closely watched sprinter in the pro peloton in 2010.
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Sarah Weddington, who successfully argued the landmark Roe v. Wade case before the U.S. Supreme Course in 1973, will speak on Feb. 12 in the University of Miami's Storer Auditorium. Weddington's lecture is titled "Some Leaders are Born Women!"
Weddington, fresh out of college, joined a group of graduate students at the University of Texas, Austin, who were looking to challenge anti-abortion statutes. Weddington volunteered to head a lawsuit, representing "Jane Roe," that opposed the Texas law. She was later elected to serve three terms in the Texas House of Representatives.
A law professor and women's rights advocate, Weddington was awarded the Margaret Brent Award for Lifetime Achievement from the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession and the Planned Parenthood Federation of America's Margaret Sanger Award, its highest honor. PBS will feature Dr. Weddington in a documentary on the organized women's movement airing this month.
The Feb. 12 lecture, at 5:30 p.m., will be hosted by the University of Miami School of Law, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, the Department of Student Activities and the Division of Student Affairs. The Storer Auditorium is at 5250 University Drive on the Coral Gables campus.
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In iMovie 11 Essential Training, author Garrick Chow illustrates the process of creating high-quality video using iMovie 11. The course covers the entire post-production process, from importing audio, video, and still images to adding effects, creating trailers, and sharing your finished projects on social networks. Also included are tutorials on adjusting audio levels, automatically identifying clips that include faces, and using green screen effects. Exercise files accompany the course.
As I mentioned earlier, iMovie '11 is pretty much a single-window application. The majority of your work is going to happen in one of these panes, but you will frequently have to make adjustments to your clips, and that's where the items found in the toolbar come in. So let's quickly run through the items found here in the toolbar. I'll go into much more detail with each of these as they come up in later movies. We've already seen the Import from camera button in action, which allows you to capture footage from a connected camera, and we've seen this button here, which allows you to switch the Project and Event panes. This slider here lets you adjust the size of the filmstrips in the Project and Events Browser.
So go to the right if you want to see bigger images, or go to the left to see smaller images, but this allows you to see more of them at once. It does snap back to the middle, if you want to get back to the default size. Next, we have a series of buttons. Now you may have a slightly different arrangement of buttons here if you've been playing around with iMovie's preferences, but this is the default set you're seeing here. If you see more than this right now, go to iMovie > Preferences and under General make sure Show Advanced tools is unchecked for now. We'll get into the advanced tools a little bit later.
But this first button here is for adding a selected clip to your project. This is in lieu of dragging the clip up, so I can still select the portion of the clip I want, say this clip of surfer putting on his boots--just make a quick selection here-- but instead of dragging that into the Project pane, I just click the Add selected video to Project button. So it's not really a big deal. It's just a matter of how you prefer to work. Next, we have buttons for rating our clips, which are useful when it comes to organizing your clips and sorting the good from the bad, and we'll talk about those in the next chapter.
The next three buttons are for adding voiceovers, cropping your image, and viewing the inspector. As you can see, each one of these opens a separate panel, or reveals additional tools, but only one panel can be open at a time. We'll get to each of these panels eventually, too. We've already seen that this button here is for muting or un-muting the audio when you are skimming through clips. And this is an audio level meter, so you can make sure you're not making the audio in your project so loud that it starts distorting, but you'll see later how to adjust the audio levels of your project. And these first two buttons of the last set of buttons here are for browsing through and adding music and photos to your project.
Respectively, they give you access to your iTunes music and any GarageBand music you might have created, and your iPhoto library, or your Photo Booth pictures if you have Photo Booth installed on your Mac. You also have the buttons to open the Titles pane to add titles, and transitions, and backgrounds to your project. And again, we'll be getting to each of these. So, in a nutshell, that's the iMovie toolbar.
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KUALA LUMPUR: National women's singles shuttler Ho Yen Mei may not be a household name just yet, but that is all set to change this year.
The ambitious junior shuttler, who draws inspiration from the wives of the two best badminton players in the world, has now started full-time training after graduating from the Bukit Jalil Sports School (BJSS).
Last year, her badminton career took a backseat as she concentrated on her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations.
Yen Mei said that she draws inspiration from former world champion Xie Xingfang and 2007 China Open winner Wong Mew Choo.
Xingfang is the wife of five-time world champion and two-time Olympic champion Lin Dan while Mew Choo is married to Malaysian hero and world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei.
"I admire Xie Xingfang because of her skills, movements, body language and fire on court. She anticipates her opponent's movements very well and she is very calm on the court," she said.
KUALA LUMPUR: National junior shuttler Cheam June Wei will never forget his first experience of playing with his childhood idol, world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, during a training session recently.
It was only a seven-point match but it is still one that he will cherish.
"The first time I played against Chong Wei, I was only able to get one or two points. I was so nervous... I couldn't believe I was playing a one-on-one match with him. But after that I was able to perform better and pick up like four to five points," said the soft-spoken June Wei after a training session at Stadium Juara in Bukit Kiara on Friday.
He said that Chong Wei "is my inspiration because of his intelligent style of play and skills".