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However, you should now be ready to increase the amount of exercise you do. That's provided you feel up to it. Check with your doctor (Nice 2010) first if you:
- have had a caesarean section
- have experienced any complications since having your baby
- are still struggling with your pelvic floor exercises
- are experiencing back or pelvic pain
- are leaking urine when you exercise
What type of exercise is it best for me to try?Yoga and pilates are ideal forms of exercise after you have had your baby. Yoga and pilates classes for new mums are available in many areas and your health visitor may have details of these. You can also contact the Guild of Pregnancy and Postnatal Exercise Instructors, which has a list of trained exercise teachers.
To lose weight as well as tone your muscles, exercise so that you get out of breath and speed up your heart beat. This is called aerobic or cardiovascular exercise. Something as simple as brisk walking or swimming will give your heart and lungs a workout.
Try to build up to 30 minutes of exercise, five times a week (DH 2011). Work up to this gradually if you don't feel ready straight away. Aim for moderately intense exercise. This means that you'll get warmer and will breathe harder, but you'll still be able to carry on a conversation (DH 2011).
The key is to pick an activity that you enjoy and feel comfortable with. Then you're much more likely to continue with it. You can always build up the intensity over time (Ekkekakis et al 2011).
You may find it easier to exercise with other new mums. Look out for pram-pushing exercise class, which are held outdoors around the country. Powerpramming, Pushy Mothers and Buggyfit classes are some examples of these.
The jury is out as to whether exercise can treat postnatal depression (Daley et al 2009). One small study showed that attending a postnatal exercise class helped new mums to feel better after their baby's birth (Norman et al 2010).
You don't need to join a class to get fit, though. Just getting out each day and having a brisk walk with your baby in her pram is easy and excellent exercise (NICE 2010, NHS 2011). And it's free!
Is there any exercise I shouldn't do after six weeks?Don't go to an aerobics class or go running for the first three months. This is to allow your muscles and joints to recover fully from pregnancy and birth. Don't go swimming until a week after your lochia (postnatal bleeding) has stopped, as there's a small risk of infection from the water (ACPWCH 2010).
If you go to an exercise class that isn't designed for new mums, make sure that the class teacher knows that you've had a baby. You'll need to take good care of your back and avoid any exercises that you could damage it (NHS 2011).
Remember to begin steadily, listen to your body and increase the amount of exercise that you do gradually. If you feel pain, stop exercising until you have seen your doctor or a physiotherapist.
It's safe to exercise when you are breastfeeding. And exercise won't affect the quality or quantity of your breastmilk (NICE 2010).
Which muscle-strengthening exercises can I do at home?These exercises focus on the areas most of us have problems with after pregnancy: tummy, bottom and thighs.
Start by reading our article on exercises for the first few weeks after birth. You need to be sure you can perform those exercises first before progressing to these.
Begin each exercise session with a warm-up. Do five minutes of brisk walking, walking on the spot or walking up and down stairs. Roll your shoulders backwards and forwards a few times and twist from side to side with your hands on your hips.
Lower tummy muscle exercises
By the time your baby is at least six weeks old, you can do this exercise on your hands and knees. You will be able to feel your tummy muscles contracting more in this position:
- Get down on your hands and knees, either on the bed or on the floor. Make sure your back is level and your tummy muscles are relaxed.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out, tighten your pelvic floor muscles. The feeling is one of squeeze and lift. Imagine that you are trying to stop yourself from passing wind and doing a wee. Try to pull your belly button in and up at the same time.
- Hold the squeeze for up to 10 seconds, breathing normally. Try not to hold your breath or arch your lower back while you are doing this (easier said than done!).
- Relax everything for at least five seconds before repeating up to 10 times.
- Stay on your hands and knees, either on the bed or on the floor. Keep your back level and relax your tummy muscles.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out, tighten your pelvic floor muscles and pull your belly button in and up.
- Lift your left arm straight out in front of you and hold it there for up to 10 seconds. If you lose your pelvic floor or tummy muscle contraction, stop and start again. Remember to breathe!
- Repeat up to 10 times with the left arm and then do the whole thing again with the right arm.
Bridging exercises
These exercises help to tone your tummy, bottom and thigh muscles:
- Lie on your back on the floor or on your bed.
- Bend your knees by sliding your feet up towards your bottom.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out, tighten your pelvic floor and belly button.
- Lift your bottom into the air as high as is comfortable.
- Keep breathing normally and hold this position for about five seconds while breathing normally.
- Slowly lower your bottom back to the floor.
- Relax your pelvic floor and lower tummy muscles. Repeat these exercises up to 10 times.
- Lie on your back on the floor or on the bed.
- Bend your right knee by sliding your right foot up towards your bottom.
- Keeping your left leg straight, lift it slightly off the floor.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out, tighten your pelvic floor and belly button.
- Lift your bottom into the air. Try not to allow your left knee to wobble and keep your hips level.
- Keep breathing normally and hold this position for about five seconds.
- Slowly lower your bottom back to the floor.
- Relax your pelvic floor and lower tummy muscles. Repeat up to 10 times.
- Now do the same with the other leg.
Hip exercises
- Lie on your right side with both your knees bent towards your chest.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out, tighten your pelvic floor and lower tummy muscles.
- Keeping your heels together, lift your left knee up towards the ceiling. Don't allow your hips to roll backwards. You may find that you can only lift your knee a small amount before your hips want to roll backwards. Don't be tempted to lift your knee higher.
- Hold for up to five seconds and then lower. Repeat up to 10 times.
- Switch over so that you are now lying on your left side. Repeat the exercise up to 10 times with your right leg.
You may begin a form of gentle sit-up exercises at this stage. This exercise works on your lower tummy muscles:
- Lie on your back on the floor or on the bed.
- Bend your knees by sliding your feet towards your bottom.
- Breathe in and as you breathe out, tighten your pelvic floor and lower tummy muscles. Squash the small of your back into the bed or floor.
- Holding this position, gently lift your head and shoulders off the floor or bed.
- Hold for three seconds and then slowly lower. Only relax your pelvic floor and lower tummy muscles once your head and shoulders are back down. Try to breathe normally throughout this exercise.
- Repeat up to 10 times.
Last reviewed: June 2012
ACPWCH. 2010. Fit for the future: essential exercises and advice after childbirth. Association of chartered physiotherapists in women's health. www.csp.org.uk [pdf file, accessed June 2012]
Daley A, Jolly K, MacArthur C. 2009. The effectiveness of exercise in the management of post-natal depression: systematic review and meta-analysis. Fam Pract. 26(2): 154-62. fampra.oxfordjournals.org [Accessed June 2012]
DH. 2011. Physical activity guidelines for adults (19-64 years). Department of Health. www.dh.gov.uk [pdf file, accessed June 2012]
Ekkekakis P et al. 2011. The pleasure and displeasure people feel when they exercise at different intensities: decennial update and progress towards a tripartite rationale for exercise intensity prescription. Sports Medicine. 41(8): 641-71
NHS. 2011. Healthy diet and fitness. Birth to five planner. www.nhs.uk [Accessed June 2012]
NICE. 2010. Weight management before, during and after pregnancy. National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence. NICE public health guidance 27. www.nice.org.uk [pdf file, accessed June 2012]
Norman E, Sherburn M, Osborne RH, et al. 2010. An Exercise and Education Program Improves Well-Being of New Mothers: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Physical Therapy. 90(3): 348-355. www.physicaltherapyjournal.com [Accessed June 2012]

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'Tis the season…
… for long, golden walks!
This weekend I strolled through the sunlit trees and city streets quite a bit. My friend Greg was in town for a few days, so we crunchcrunchcrunch!-ed through the leaves for a couple hours while we caught up.
Charley loves the fall, too. Those big fluffy piles are fun to run around in! He tuckered himself out.
And when there's time to walk, why take the subway? I subscribe to a few podcasts, whose authors kept me company on a particularly pleasant 5 mile walk on Sunday afternoon.
So, this weekend was just as relaxing and social as I'd hoped. On Saturday night, Danielle and I met Caitlin (who was visiting from Connecticut) for dinner at Josie's. It was fun to finally meet her in person! Note to self: do not be afraid of the camera! Can't you tell how awkward I am being on film?!
Every time I eat at Josie's I order a tofu salad or stir-fry which is certainly delicious, but it was time to branch out and try something new! So I ordered the All Veggie Meatloaf, made with organic lentil, seitan, shiitake mushroom & sweet potato loaf; served over sautéed bok choy with miso gravy.
Ooh, so good! Before I was a vegetarian I never ate "real" meatloaf, but I found this to be just delicious. I know there are so many recipes out there for it so I'm going to have to try one myself!
On Sunday morning, my friend Caitlin and I visited the New York Chocolate Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion. One of my friends was able to give us guest passes, so we jumped the (enormous) line and saved the $40 ticket price! I'm so glad we were able to go… along with the rest of the city! It was so crowded.
Different chocolate artisans set up there stalls, showcasing everything from hand-ground cocoa for hot chocolate (what George Washington would have sipped! see photo below) to raw vegan chocolate to chocolate couture. Very, very cool. And of course, there were tons of free samples… we certainly quenched our chocolate cravings!
Chocolate for the Spirit Antidote Gnosis MOHO Cocoa
We loved many of the truffles (including old favorite 5th Avenue Chocolatiere and prize-winning Des Lis), but we both agreed our favorite treat at the event was Salt of the Earth Bakery's chocolate chip cookie. Holy. Moly. The cookie was perfectly chewy and gooey and the sea salt dusting made it phenomenal. I ate many bites, but they were not enough!
I've been craving chocolate chip cookies for weeks now and am going to make my own soon. Sadly, that will have to wait a few more days.
The contents of our kitchen has moved from the kitchen to the dining and living rooms (where there has already been an unfortunate incident involving a poodle and a bag of flour) while we wait for the exterminator's visit on Friday.
Oh, city life.
Goal for 2011 update: Cook One New Recipe A Week
Week 1: Lemony Spaghetti with Bitter Greens & Chickpeas
Week 2: Lentil Chili
Week 3: Chickpeas in Star Anise & Date Masala
Week 4: Thai-Style Black Beans w/ Mango & Cilantro
Week 5: Ten Minute Tasty Asparagus & Brown Rice, Brussels Sprouts Salad with Cheddar and Toasted Almonds, Warm Red Lentil Salad, Garlicky Sesame-Cured Broccoli Salad.
Week 6: Beets, Spiced Quinoa & Yogurt, Sesame-Cooked Eggs Over Rice
Week 7: Curried Parsnip Fries
Week 8: Curried Lentils & Sweet Potatoes
Week 9: Rutabagas with Buckwheat, Black Beans & Kale, Garlicky Mushroom Greens
Week 10: Tamarind Lentils, The Double-Shift Scramble
Week 11: Spicy Chickpea Salad, Butternut Squash Mac 'n Cheeze, Spicy Red Lentil, Peanut & Pumpkin Soup
Week 12: Sunday Night Supper Salad, Peanut Butter Banana-Berry French Toast Sandwich
Week 13: Grilled Cheddar-Mushroom Sandwich
Week 14: Black Bean Soup, Sweet Pumpkin Pudding
Week 15: Green Rice
Week 16: Matzoh Buttercrunch Candy, Quinoa with Moroccan Winter Squash and Carrot Stew
Week 17: Truffled Turnip Soup, Nutty Lemon Brussels Sprouts, Cookie Dough Smoothie
Week 18: Raw Chocolate Fudge Cake, Spring Pasta
Week 19: Chopped Kale w/ Hot Pepper Vinegar
Week 20: Ultimate Veggie Burgers, Mmm Sauce
Week 21: Ribbed Asparagus Salad with Lemon, Spinach & Chickpeas, Chocolate-Chip Blondies, Chocolate-Chip Cookie Dough Pancakes, Leek Zucchini Pasta Salad
Week 22: Sesame Ginger Kale Salad, Hoisin Ginger Tofu with Smoky Tahini Slaw
Week 23: Pan-Seared Asparagus Salad with Frisée and Fried Egg, Baked Ziti, Brown Butter Banana Strawberry Bread, Green Bowl
Week 24: Quinoa Cookies, Chocolate Mousse
Week 26: Sweet Potato Stuffed with Caramelized Tempeh and Sautéed Kale, Shaved Fennel Salad, Summer Pesto
Week 27: Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
Week 28: Choco-holic Pancakes
Week 29: Green Israeli Couscous Salad
Week 30: Swiss Chard with Currants and Pine Nuts
Week 31: Babaganoush Soup, Freekeh Risotto, Brown Butter (Plum) Cake or Cobbler
Week 32: (Modified) Tomato Salad on a Roll
Week 33: None
Week 34: None
Week 35: Pappardelle with Spiced Butter
Week 36: Cucumber Peanut Salad, Grilled Peach and Avocado Salad
Week 37: Nut-Butter Crusted Fries
Week 38: Harvest Bread, Red Lentil Soup, Halibut with North African Spices, Warm Shrimp Salad with Red Chili, Kamut and Tarragon
Week 39: Roasted Garbanzo Beans and Garlic with Swiss Chard, White Bean and Parmesan Baked Orzo, Rustic Plum Crostata with Lemon Thyme
Week 40: Chocolate Cherry Pumpkin Bread
Week 41: Pumpkin Boatmeal for One
Week 42: Hot Apple Pie Pancakes, Lentil Stew with Pumpkin, Tamari Roasted Chickpeas
Week 43: Pear-Apple Compote, Four Easy Pizzas
Week 44: Pumpkin Softies, Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie for One
Week 45: Rice + Beans for One, Rosemary Kale Chips
Week 46: One-Minute Chocolate Cake
1. Do you like long walks? Do you go alone or with friends, with headphones or silent?
2. What is your favorite chocolate dessert? And please share your favorite cookie recipes!


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TT with HD: Kathryn Bosher
[Ed. note: Open to the public is a production of Aristophones' The Assemblywomen, which will be performed at the Classics and Feminism Conference here in Ann Arbor:
HD: Welcome to the teeter totter!
KB: Thank you.
HD: So you walked over here--did you walk from Central campus or did you take the bus part way?
KB: Actually, I drove. We rented a car.
HD: Oh, really, okay.
KB: We rented a car and drove from Chicago to Ann Arbor.
HD: Okay, I figured you would have a tale of a train trip to tell me, but I guess not this time?
KB: Usually. But this time we stopped to see relatives in Kalamazoo.
HD: Ah. The train goes through Kalamazoo, though, right? It's just that scheduling, I imagine, would have been somewhat difficult.
KB: Right. Because we needed to get in relatively early this morning, and we had limited time [inaudible].
HD: So as I understand it, you are in town to set up logistics or coordinate with people for the [Classics and Feminism] conference that's coming up in May, is that right?
KB: Yes. I'm just doing a small part of it, which is sort of an elaborate skit--adaptation of an Aristophanes play.
HD: This is the one where the title translates as The Assemblywomen?
KB: Yes. That's right.
HD: So, is this your adaptation?
KB: No, it's the adaptation of a man called Greg Robic who was a master's student at the University of Toronto when I was an undergraduate. So I knew him then, and I worked on some of his productions. They are musical versions.
HD: Oh! So, there's going to be singing in this?
KB: Yes, there is. They're all parodies of opera and operetta.
HD: But the original Aristophanes was not meant as a parody of any kind of operatic form, was it?
KB: Actually, I think it's really hard to know what ancient music was like. We don't know. But he parodies tragedy a lot in his lyrics. And so one can assume that some of the music was parodied from tragedy, because so many of the lines are. Some of the verse is clearly taken from other recognizable forms. For example, in our play there is what's known as the Song of the Locked-out Lover--which is a familiar form, it's just imported into the play and used as a moment where everybody would 'get' it.
HD: ... so, is all the dialogue sung?
KB: No. There were many more songs. We had to lift a lot of them out, because the college version he adapted for eight professional opera singers, which we couldn't manage. We're a group of students and some faculty from Northwestern and from some other universities. And we couldn't sing that much.
HD: Okay, so, you know, I do try to do some manner of preparation for these rides, and so I thought I would find a copy of The Assemblywomen and read through it.
KB: Great!
HD: The first version I tried to read through was through the GoogleBooks Project and it was an edition from like the 1830's. And that would have been fine. I would have just skimmed through that, but GoogleBooks kept crashing my computer. Or, I attribute it to GoogleBooks, I don't know if it was maybe just my machine.
KB: Or the obscenity of the play, maybe!
HD: What's that?
KB: The obscenity of the play--maybe they don't want you to actually read it!
HD: It could be! See, though, from that version I wasn't able to work with it long enough to get to any of the 'good' parts. But I did find another version that seemed like it was a fairly modern adaptation by a guy named George something-or-other [Theodoridis].
KB: A 2005 version, right?
HD: Yeah, it could be. You can sort of tell it's a very modern version because there is this joke in there about the Coalition of the Willing. So that's sort of a flag where you can say, Yeah that's relatively modern. So I wasn't sure based on the fact that it was clearly a modern adaptation--in prose not in verse--I mean, ah this, um, it takes 'bawdy' to a whole 'nother level.
KB: Yes!
HD: Really, I don't think it would be so unfair to characterize it as pornographic almost.
KB: I think that's right. [laugh] Actually, in the fall I did a Greek class. We read the play in Greek. And it was really embarrassing to read it in class. I had never done that as a student. We had always read them on our own. We had never sat there and read line by line through it.
HD: So you assigned parts and people had to read through it?
KB: Yes, because it was a Greek language class.
HD: So, ancient Greek.
KB: Yeah, and translating those things, very often the dictionary just says 'an obscenity', it won't tell you. Or it translates it into Italian or something. Because it's too direct. It is. But Greg's version removes a lot of that, because it's so shocking to us. And it would distract for modern audiences. And he takes a lot of that out. We put some of it back in, but not nearly as much as there is.
HD: Distract, well, I was going to suggest that it might actually attract modern audiences.
KB: Oh! Yes!
appeal of The Assemblywomen versus Antigone to young readers
HD: Because you know my experience with classical Greek theater tradition was high school, we read Antigone, and it was a compare-and-contrast--I can't even remember now--was it Sophocles who wrote the original?
KB: [affirmative]
HD: So compare and contrast Sophocles version with the version of a French guy named Anouilh?
KB: Yes!
HD: So that was our treatment of Antigone--to read both versions, and compare and contrast them. And I just remember thinking, you know, Okay, there is no real connection to me, I never really got why she wanted to bury her brother. And why kill yourself over it--that didn't seem like a good thing to do. But you know reading through this play [The Assemblywomen] I'm thinking, Ah, if that had been served up to me as a high school student, that would have captured my imagination, I think, as a 15 or 16-year-old kid growing up in southern Indiana. I would've said, Huh, the Greek classical tradition, that sounds like something that I perhaps wanna look into! Southern Indiana, though, I don't imagine that an English teacher could get away with teaching this play. What would you guess would be the reaction say in a Canadian public school? Because you're Canadian, right?
KB: Yes, I am. And I certainly never read--actually I didn't read any Greek plays in high school. However, about 10 years ago I met a man who helped found the Toronto Film Festival and he had had a Jesuit education in, I think, Toronto. And they studied Latin and Greek, 30 teenagers, they were reading Sophocles, and they heard about Aristophanes. And they all went out in Toronto--15-year-olds--and bought it to read. Sometimes they do recommend it--sometimes people teach it in school because the Greek is difficult and so it's ...
HD: ... it's got the longest word in all the Greek language, I read!
KB: Yes, that's right!
HD: So, like in Canada, could you have gotten away with, do you think, teaching that play as a public school teacher?
KB: In a high school?
HD: In high school. I mean, would that have brought out the parents protesting, or?
KB: I don't know. I'm actually not sure what the official restrictions are. My guess would be that it would depend what translation you used. Because there are some very gentle translations you can use. There is a very long history of Aristophanes being performed in very elegant versions. The women's suffragette movement put on Lysistrata in 1912 in New York and it was described in the newspaper as this lovely version, where they all looked like angels in brightly-colored pastel costumes. And there was clearly no obscenity, but the play is full of obscenity. They just took it out.
HD: And this was Lysistrata?
KB: Lysistrata. Lysistrata is a very, very--I mean they all are obscene, but I think there is a really long-standing tradition of removing the obscenity when you need to.
performance history of ancient plays at University of Michigan
HD: In terms of this production then, are you thinking about this at all in terms of the history of classical productions at the University of Michigan? I mean, where it fits into that scheme? Or is this something that you're just planning to document and add that documentation to what you've already done?
KB: Ah, that's interesting. Actually, I should think of it in terms of the production history at the University of Michigan.
HD: Because there have been some really elaborate productions. The swimming pool one is pretty striking. I don't suppose there is video of that? Just still pictures?
KB: I didn't come across any. Perhaps there is somewhere. But not, I don't think, in the archives open to the public. Aristophanes comes relatively late at Michigan and I didn't have the translation they used, so I don't know. But, yeah, you know, I should think of it in those terms.
HD: So are you taking any pains to document this performance in a way so that people, say in 100 years from now, who are trying to fit this in to either the performance history at the U of M specifically or for Aristophanes in general, so that they will be able to say, Oh, this is exactly what it was like. I mean, are we going to see this on YouTube?
KB: We did film it. We did a rough version at Northwestern and we filmed it.
HD: So will we see that on YouTube?
KB: Well. That's a good idea! Put it on YouTube. I filmed it to give to all the people in the class to have a record.
HD: Just sort of as a memento.
KB: But it's a good idea to [inaudible]. But we're actually in the process of putting together an archive of performances of Greek and Roman plays, or plays based on antiquity, in Chicago. And we'll put a record of this in, even though it's a small production. And maybe there will be room in that database to upload a video.
HD: So do you know exactly what the venue is going to be for the performance? Because the tentative schedule sort of ironically--all the items that are unknown as yet, they just fill in XXX, so it's going to be in 'room XXX'. That's sort of fitting based on the version that I read of the play, anyway.
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KB: Actually, I do know. It's going to be in the Ballroom at the Michigan Union. And it's going to be at 4:45pm on Saturday, May 10. Everybody's welcome!
HD: Really? That was going be a question I wanted to ask, because it seemed like certainly if you were an attendee of the conference, you obviously could get in. So it is open to the public?
KB: Yes. I spoke to the conference organizer, who is Ruth Scodel at the University of Michigan, and she said that that performance and the keynote speaker--which is I think on Thursday--both of those are public. So I think it would be great.
HD: Especially because, I mean there's not going to be nudity, but some obscenity at least?
KB: Yes! A little bit of obscenity, yes.
HD: And let me see if I can phrase this delicately. There's this scene at the end where these women are tugging back and forth on the guy using his 'handle'?
KB: Ah, hah, yes.
HD: So is that going to be depicted?
KB: Actually it's interesting that you say that, because one of the students in my class, who worked on an adaptation--just read her paper, she wrote an essay in which she suggests that we put this back in. So quite possibly by the time we get to Michigan it will be there. We did a gender inversion in that scene. Because one of the things about Greek comedy is that we know it was all performed by men. We tried in an early stage of this class ...
HD: ... so in this play that would have meant men playing women who were playing men?
KB: Yes. Which really changes everything. Unless--you could argue that they were so used to men playing all the parts they didn't notice. But that seems to me probably to mistake the point, since there are so many female comic female characters with so much discussion of their gender, or of their markers of gender. And there are quite a lot of articles written about how this men-playing-the-women-playing-the men really subverts any idea that we might have of a 'feminist' play. I mean, it becomes feminist in our modern reading of the play, because we just read it as women taking over the government.
HD: [laugh]
KB: But at the moment it's not there!
HD: Okay! [laugh] Okay so maybe something to look forward to. So how many people are going to be at this conference? I got the impression, just from presenters, I mean I lost count after about 50. But it's going to be a sizable gang of people here just for this, right?
KB: Yes, this morning they estimated about 150 people at the conference. It happens every four years, this Classics and Feminism Conference. This is the fifth one.
accomodations for conference attendees, University of Michigan
HD: I thought it was interesting that in the listing of possible conference accommodations that I don't think there was a single commercial hotel listed. It was all stuff internal to the University of Michigan, including dormitories. And I thought, Man, how are they got to pull that off? And then you realize, Oh, well school is going to be out by then! So that becomes a possibility.
KB: That's right. And the organizer, Ruth Scodel, very much believes in this low-key, not too enormously expensive ...
HD: ... yeah, it's only like 100 bucks for the conference registration and then as best I could tell, based on like double occupancy in a dorm you could get away with under 150 bucks for the entire package deal. Plus a couple of dinners, or maybe it's just one dinner. At the Blue Nile?
KB: Yes, one dinner at the Blue Nile, and there are lunches and breakfasts. There are three lunches and three breakfasts.
HD: So is this the first time you have been back to Ann Arbor since you defended your thesis? Or if you been back multiple times?
KB: I guess I've been back a few times, I came back for a wedding.
HD: So it wasn't like when you came into town today, that you were able to notice any physical changes that were dramatic?
KB: No, it doesn't seem very different. Always, coming back to a place that was so much a part of your daily life, it's a bit strange to come back.
HD: When you were here studying for your Ph.D., did you find yourself over in this part of town much at all?
KB: I came to some concerts here [at the bandshell]--in the summer. And actually I lived on West Ann Street, which is not very far away. So, a little bit.
HD: So, when one Googles your name and adds 'Ann Arbor', one of the things that comes up is the result of a 2003 regatta in Victoria?
KB: Oh, yes.
HD: So I wasn't quite sure how to interpret the results, but it seemed like it was possible that you were the Canadian national champion in that event?
KB: Oh, thank you very much! Unfortunately, though, I won the B Final.
HD: Well, that was going to be my question. That was the one thing that made me doubt. The B Final, what does that mean exactly?
KB: That race was a preliminary qualifying race for the national team. I can't remember exactly, but I would have had to do well in the A Final. Like many races, you have these preliminary rounds and secondary and there are sub-finals and various things, and you get into an A, a B, a C, a D--I don't know how many finals there were, and I didn't get into the A Final. And then I won the B Final. I was very pleased, but I didn't get on the team.
HD: Dang.
KB: It was fun.
HD: So how much longer is--I was gonna say 'boat'--but is that the wrong word for that? Can you use the word 'boat'?
KB: Yeah, that's fine.
HD: How much longer is one of those boats than this teeter totter? I mean, this is like 12 feet.
KB: I think it's a bit more than twice the length.
HD: Wow.
KB: 26 feet, or.
HD: Even one of the single sculls? That was a single scull event, right?
KB: Yes. And they are very narrow.
HD: Narrower than this?
KB: No, not narrower--well, at the bottom end they are narrower--they're narrower than this, they go down to a point. So when you sit on it, my hips, for example, are slightly wider, but not very much.
HD: So probably kind of comparable. Do you have any experience with those--there was some controversy with the oars, there was like a double linkage that someone invented for the oars that gave you a mechanical advantage, do you remember that? It was the Olympics one year, I thought, and then they disqualified them--or maybe I'm thinking of speed skates?
KB: Well, that is familiar. There have been various inventions which I think have been, although I don't know specifically. That's right, there was a sliding--normally your seat slides and everything else stays, but instead I think everything else moved, and your seat stayed. I can't remember exactly how it worked, or maybe both things moved, or.
HD: Yeah it was some mechanical innovation they gave a distinct advantage, I guess.
KB: Right, I don't think that's around.
HD: You never used one of those, at any rate,?
KB: No. I have seen--I mean, sometimes there are some incredible things you can see if you watch the Olympics. They had some bizarre contraptions. There was one--was it a Japanese crew--who had what looked like turtle shells on their backs, which were to try to make the wind ...
HD: ... oh, to reduce wind resistance. I wouldn't think that wind resistance would be a huge percentage of the resistance for that.
KB: You can win and lose by a fraction of a second.
HD: But you won your B Final by over two seconds, so.
KB: Thank you! [laugh]
HD: So do you still get a chance to get out on the water?
KB: A little bit. Not much.
HD: Is that in like a Northwestern University facility?
KB: Actually, the Northwestern rowing team rows there and there are some very kind coaches who let us row with them. They row on a drainage canal, which is on the border of Evanston and Skokie. It's actually a perfect place, because there's no other boat traffic, it's long and very calm.
HD: And straight?
KB: And relatively straight. So sometimes I do, but not very much.
HD: So you've been there now--is this your first year or your second year?
KB: Second year.
HD: So you are fully acclimated to Northwestern University at this point? Was there any sort of orientation that they gave new faculty? [Ed. note: phone rings.]
KB: Oh, I'm so sorry!
HD: If you'd need to get that, go ahead!
KB: No, that's all right.
HD: No really, go ahead.
KB: No, no.
HD: People have answered their phones on the teeter totter before. Seriously.
KB: Hello, Ann? I'm sorry, I'm just in the middle of an interview, can I call you back? Okay. Okay, thank you. Bye! Sorry!
HD: No, no, quite all right. Actually, it's fun when people have side conversations, it adds to the texture of the transcript. Let's see, what were we talking about?
KB: Northwestern and ...
HD: ... ah yes, your introduction to Northwestern. Did they give you like an orientation you know like, This is the fight song, This is our mascot, This is how to be a loyal Northwestern University patron, anything like that?
KB: Ah well, no, not like that. I don't know the fight song. No, but they did ...
HD: ... it's, "Go U. Northwestern fight for victory, for our colors blue and white we'll cheer with all our might--rah, rah, rah."
KB: Did you go to Northwestern?
HD: No, I went to Northside Junior High in Columbus Indiana, and what junior high schools do in the midwestern United States do is they just take some Big Ten university fight song and alter the words slightly. So instead of "Go U. Northwestern," it was "Go Northside Spartans!" [Ed. note: The revisions of NU's fight song to fit the requirements of Northside Junior High were more drastic than what HD reported here, and he should have realized it at the time. NU colors, for example, are purple and white, and 'purple' doesn't scan properly in that line. The actual text of the NU fight song is similar in spirit, but readers who are trying to learn the NU fight song are urged to use other online resources.]
KB: [laugh]
HD: So Spartans is consistent with the whole Greek theme. So anyway they didn't give you an orientation of that flavor?
KB: No, but they organize a lot of cocktail parties, and they take you out to lunch. The very senior people, the deans, they take junior people out to lunch and they answer your questions.
HD: So was that surprising to you that there was that dimension, or did you just sort of figure Well, yeah, of course they would do that.
KB: I had no idea. This was my first job. Everything feels a bit surreal. And so I don't know how it compares to other places. But it's nice! It's nice of them to do that. They have a very generous policy for beginning faculty. Your first year you are essentially a postdoc. So you teach much less. And so really this year is my first year on the tenure track, even though it's my second year.
HD: So your tenure calendar, or your tenure clock, you're only one year into it?
KB: Yes.
HD: That's nice, I guess.
KB: Yes, it is.
HD: I would see that as an advantage. So do you have like a graduate student assistant who is at your disposal for teaching purposes?
KB: On specific occasions. When you teach a class that has a lot of people, then there are graduate student assistants. And actually, this spring and last spring I had and have a graduate research assistant--we are researching history of the production of ancient drama in Chicago together in the archives.
HD: The reason I asked whether you had a graduate teaching assistant is that--I don't know if you followed the current news about the University of Michigan--but they walked out on Tuesday. They picketed the Stadium, which was sort of a brilliant move because they are doing the reconstruction of the Stadium, so the union construction laborers honored the picket line. It actually had a direct impact on the University administration, because that construction deadline, I think, is pretty tight already, to get it done for the next season.
KB: I didn't follow that, I didn't know that part of it.
HD: That was an interesting tactical decision. But they seem to have basically gotten most of what they wanted. I know you were the GEO steward for the Classics department when you were here?
KB: For one year, I was. I was a co-[steward] with a friend who is in archaeology. We traded off meetings. Yeah, I mean the GEO has done terrific things. Unions function to help groups that are particularly under-served, and I think that just before that year when I was on the GEO, they had worked very hard to make sure that people couldn't be given small fractions of an appointment, so that they would have enough fractions to add up to a full appointment, but they wouldn't get their tuition paid, and wouldn't get health care. The GEO is really good about that kind of thing.
HD: Yeah, actually I think that this year that was one of the issues addressed explicitly, a 'small-fraction issue', where even people with small fractions of an appointment would receive essentially the full benefit of the health insurance.
KB: The Classics Department was good to its students. I think other professional schools, the Ph.D. students fall a bit to the wayside, because they are really concentrating on turning out lawyers or whatever it is--I don't know exactly. But in Classics they were really good about giving us funding, and good funding all the way through. So we didn't have so much a personal stake, it was just sort of an ideological stake. Seems like a good idea in general, especially for big departments. But Classics is a tiny department.
HD: Well, listen, is there anything you wanted to make sure we talked about on the totter before we dismount here?
KB: Well, I would like to ask you a question.
HD: Absolutely!
KB: Which it not traceable on the Web, the answer to this, which is, what you mostly do in between tottering?
HD: What I mostly do in between tottering. You know it's evolved so that this is the way I spend the majority of my time. Recruiting people to ride, writing up--hey, how's it going?
Photog: What are you doing?
HD: We are riding a teeter totter, man.
Photog: Can I take a picture?
HD: Absolutely. [to KB] You don't mind, do you?
KB: Oh, no.
Photog: You're a traveling movie crew?
HD: Not exactly, but we are documenting it in a very subtle way.
Photog: Am I in the way or something?
HD: No, no you're fine.
Photog: You're in the Film Festival? [Ed. note: The 2008 AA Film Festival ran from 25-30 March.]
HD: No, we're not in the Film Festival. This is actually for an interview website where all the interviews take place on a teeter totter.
Photog: Where do I find that?
HD: Google 'Ann Arbor teeter totter' and it should come up.
Photog: Are there pictures?
HD: There's pictures, lots of pictures.
Photog: Ann Arbor teeter totter.
HD: The URL is homelessdave.com.
Photog: If you Google 'Jeff Lamb' on Flickr you'll see me, or go to 'Jeff and Leyla' and you'll see everything on Ann Arbor.
HD: I'll do it. Okay. Will do.
Photog: This is pretty amazing. [inaudible]
HD: Yeah, well thanks, I think it's pretty amazing. In fact I think it's amazing enough to want to explore the idea turning this into a revenue-generating enterprise.
KB: In what way?
HD: By developing an advertising program for the website. So you may have seen the left-hand column or left sidebar, is largely blank. So the layout was designed that way with the idea that eventually advertising would go there. But the idea is not to use these Google or Yahoo! ads--or there are any number of various programs out there. I actually want to do business with bricks-and-mortar merchants, so there will be more or less conventional print-style ads--where there's a nice graphic and lots of copy, words to read, and sure, links to people's websites.
KB: It seems like a nice way to talk.
HD: To be perfectly honest though, I think that for me this is more or less an elaborate defense mechanism. Because if I was simply doing an interview website and I invited people to come talk to me just across the desk, or in my living room, or over the phone, or what have you, and if they said, No, then I wouldn't be able to blame it on anything other than me, and that's tantamount to a personal rejection, right? But a requirement that well, you have to ride a teeter totter, then if someone says, No, then I can say, Well they just didn't want to ride a teeter totter, that's all [laugh].
KB: [laugh]
HD: I don't think that my fragile psyche could handle the idea of being flat-out rejected just because it's me. It could well be that that is the reason that some people don't want to ride. Maybe they would be willing to ride a teeter totter, just not with me.
KB: It sounds as if Bill Clinton earlier on this year got cold feet?
HD: Well, he had to leave early. He was called away to do something and cut things short. Now seriously, when you bring this up you get that the Bill Clinton thing was a spoof, right?
KB: Yes!
HD: Because some people didn't. And I felt bad, because of the reaction that some people had when I told them it was meant as a prank, spoof, a joke--it wasn't meant to fool people, I thought it was pretty obvious--and I thought people would just have fun with it. But there were some folks who didn't take kindly to being 'fooled' in that way.
KB: That's a compliment! It means that perhaps in the long run you'll have presidents knocking on the door to get onto your teeter totter! [laugh]
HD: [laugh] Well, maybe. I don't know. I feel like now, I could just put anyone on the end of the teeter totter and get away with it, because there is a precedent. Just put them on the other end, and have them say pretty much anything I want them to say. So there is an implicit threat, I think. I will invite you to actually ride, and if you don't, well, you're going to ride anyway! And you're going to say exactly what I want you to say.
KB: I see, yes!
HD: But not everybody has a photograph out there that is easily adaptable. For Clinton, that was the Esquire cover, I don't know if you saw that. But he sitting on a stool and he's pretty much posed exactly like that, and I saw that picture and I thought, Man, all I gotta do is get rid of that stool and slide a teeter totter under there, add some gloves and we're golden. So I've been trying to get people to wear the gloves. And a couple people have. Just to ...
KB: ... oh, should I wear them, or no?
HD: Well, we've already taken the portrait, but that sure is nice of you to play along! [laugh] And other than teeter tottering, I am hauling books, and that might also expand to include other things.
KB: I understood that you made a washing machine run by a bicycle?
HD: Yeah, that's how I wash my clothes. Actually I should say I have this handcranked Amish washing machine that I do the washing in. But I have done that for years and years. And I noticed that I had a psychological barrier to the wringing-out phase because--you've probably seen these rubber rollers where you crank the clothes through the rollers and squeeze out all the water. Well, it doesn't do that great a job compared to, say, the spin cycle of an automatic washer. And it's really a pain in the ass. This jacket that I'm wearing, to wrestle that through--if you can get it through at all--it's going to do a terrible job. Jeans you can't get through. So I said, You know, you really can't beat the centrifuge of an automatic washer and that shouldn't be too hard to power using pedal power. So I still wash in the same old washer but I do the spin cycle with the bike.
KB: You should advertise that.
HD: You know it's interesting, out of all the pages on the website, that is by far the most popular. It is more popular than any of the actual Talks. Which I suppose is understandable because most of the Talks are with people who are interesting from a local perspective or are interesting to a local audience. But there was some website that picked [the pedal-powered washer page] up recently, I'm not even sure what the the script is. I think it's Hebrew, but when I popped it into a Hebrew translator one of these online things, it gave me no results.
KB: Wow.
HD: So I'm not sure what it is. But it attests to the fact that it has a certain international appeal. Well, then let's dismount. And listen, thank you much teeter tottering with me!
KB: Well, thank you!


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Bryan Adams' Hit-Heavy Fox Show
By Jeremy Essig
Lightning Bolt's Sharp New Sound
By Jason Robinson
Fleetwood Mac Back with Classic Lineup
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Here's Who's Making STL Noisy This Spring
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Beatles Sister Louise Harrison Departs the Midwest
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Working Class Dogs to Honor Rick Springfield
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"I mean, there are books on Radiohead, theories," he said. "As far as a theoretical point of view for my generation, I'm probably the most successful theoretician. I mean, double albums and concepts and dresses and major disasters and wonderful successes and yet you don't see the critical review of my work. Why? Because it's all focused on the persona. Billy Corgan."
We here at B-Sides always aim to please, so in lieu of writing about the synthpoppin' TheFutureEmbrace -- which wants desperately to be the Cure's Disintegration, so much so that Robert Smith shows up to sing -- we're indulging Corgan's narcissistic whining. Here's a review of the Smashing Pumpkins' catalog using the highfalutin jargon he apparently craves.
Album: Gish (1991)
Highlight: An Achtung Baby-meets-Red Hot Chili Peppers rave-up, "I Am One"
Analysis: An embryonic attempt to forge a unique identity, thwarted by early-'90s production values and the type of proto-grunge squalling and neo-psychedelic dreamscapes that its peers executed much more successfully. The band clearly is desperate to find its niche and knows no other way than to ape the nuances of its predecessors.
Album: Siamese Dream (1993)
Highlights: The fuzzy chords and joyful Corgan mews on "Rocket"
Analysis: Using a photo of children on the cover is a manipulative device aimed to garner sympathy and attention but perfectly suits the album's tunes, which strike the perfect balance between post-adolescent angst and future-looking hopefulness.
Album: Pisces Iscariot (1994)
Highlight: A delicate cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide"
Analysis: Releasing a rarities album so soon after a sophomore disc hints at an inflated sense of self-importance. At the same time, Iscariot smells of fear -- that if the band moves out of the public eye for too long, its fans will forget about it.
Album: Mellon Collie & the Infinite Sadness (1995)
Highlight: The brooding metal jag "Zero"
Analysis: The very concept of a double album connotes delusions of grandeur, which the band attempts to camouflage by filming fantastical videos and conjuring nostalgic remembrances that convey innocence.
Album: Adore (1998)
Highlight: The trembling, Depeche Mode-inspired synthrock of "Daphne Descends"
Analysis: The Pumpkins' teenage-rebellion album, where the band is clearly embracing pretentiousness to banish its child-like whimsy and cover up ever-increasing insecurity. Adore also exhibits tendencies of gender confusion -- i.e., promo pictures featured male members of the band wearing skirts -- although the similar outfits the band sported hint at pressure to nonconform in a conformist way.
Album(s): MACHINA/The Machines of God (2000)
Highlights: The soft, New Order-esque thrum of "I of the Mourning"
Analysis: Abstract song titles and meandering tunes signal that the Smashing Pumpkins lost their unique identity when they strayed from the formula that first brought them success -- which happened as they started to take their music way too seriously. -- Annie Zaleski
Punk Rock 101
Take an icon of a major pop movement and pretend the movement never happened. Consider, say, Ice Cube without gangsta rap, Ken Kesey without LSD or John Lydon without punk. What's left over? Would we have ever even heard of these guys? Like Lydon, Joe Strummer rose with punk and will always be associated with it. But if punk had never happened -- or if his band the Clash had never happened -- Strummer would have. At least, that's the possibility presented by Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited and Walker, two long-lost Strummer documents reissued this month by Astralwerks.
Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisited is a gussied-up version of the original post-breakup LP by Strummer's first band, the 101ers, which Strummer abandoned in 1976 to form the Clash, despite the 101ers' strong London following. "I lost a mate, my musical cohort and my band when he left," says 101ers drummer Richard "Snakehips" Dudanski, from his home in Spain. "For a year or so I was well angry with him, but after a time, we renewed our friendship and worked together on bringing out the first edition Elgin Avenue Breakdown in 1981."
It was in this quartet of pseudonym-loving London squatters that John Mellor became Joe Strummer and helped make some of the most interesting music of the so-called "pub rock" scene. Like the music of Graham Parker and Dr. Feelgood, these recordings are meaty, beaty and soaked in the mythos of early rock & roll. But the 101ers sound like a junk shop come rollickingly to life, with Strummer's gravelyard vocals balanced on a pile of Telecasters, saxophones and pots 'n' pans.
Like a lot of songwriters more concerned with communication than introspection, Strummer's first instincts were crowd-pleasing ones, from the catchy "Keys to Your Heart" to the grooving metaphor for the clap in "Rabies (From the Dogs of Love)." The Astralwerks edition includes live tracks that show Strummer forming his lifelong obsession with Americana (a blazing rendition of Chuck Berry's "Maybelline") and Caribbean music (his first stab at the Jamaican rarity "Junco Partner").
"I think that there's a lot of curiosity and depth in the 101ers that other pub-rock acts didn't aspire to," says Astralwerks general manager Errol Kolosine, who helped leverage the American release of both albums from parent company EMI. "To me this is a welcome opportunity to understand Strummer's roots certainly, but it's also just a great, rockin' record."
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Vicki Carr | 'Hard work and dedication can get me where I want to go'
I struck up a conversation recently with a tall, young man wearing a Central Washington University sweatshirt, called Central Washington State College when I graduated there in 1966. I called out, "Go Wildcats!" to him to break the ice and find out if we were both Central alums.
And an amazing story unfolded. A story about an immigrant's son, and how our schools and communities are doing to prepare and help our sons and daughters to become full-blown, successful Americans.
Daniel Lee Zavala graduated from CWU in the winter of 2012 with a BS in clinical physiology, and two minors. His minor in Spanish was earned during a three-month independent study in Guadalajara. His minor in athletic training began with CWU classes, and ended with a 400-hour internship shadowing Chelan High School football coach Darren Talley from June to November last year.
"Coach Talley put me under his wing and has made an impact on my life ... he's the reason I am where I am right now in my career," Zavala said. "Coach Steve Stamps has also helped me as a lifelong mentor."
Zavala won a large scholarship from the Lake Chelan Community Hospital Foundation which helps fund students going into health-related professions. His choice was clinicial physiology, a tough major that prepares students to enter clinical areas of health care, graduate school or certification programs in a variety of programs.
Zavala has also become certified as a Strength and Conditioning Specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is working fulltime at the Wenatchee Valley YMCA Fitness Center and teaching strength and conditioning classes at Wenatchee Valley College.
Zavala's next goal is to get a master's degree in the field of preparing high level, elite athletes for competition. He hopes to get involved as a graduate assistant at one of the universities endorsed by the NSCA. "I know where I have to get," he says, "but I just don't know how I'm going to get there yet."
Dan's father Arturo was 15 when he left Mexico for California. Dan's mother Maria was born in California; one of her parents was also an immigrant. She was able to help Arturo secure his American citizenship by age 25.
The Zavalas' Lake Chelan landscaping and yard care service has flourished into a major commercial enterprise in the valley. Daniel's brother Arturo, now 27, is a 2009 graduate of the University of Washington. He has returned to Chelan and is working on getting his real estate license.
Daniel Zavala says without hesitation that his motivation comes from within his family. "My parents' strength and struggles have shown me that hard work and dedication can get me where I want to go. They are my inspiration." And he added with a big smile, "I intend to work hard and have fun while I'm doing it!"
Daniel Lee Zavala has also proven that America is still the same Land of Opportunity.
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THE average household water bill is to rise by more than 2 per cent over the next year in North Lincolnshire, regulator Ofwat has said.
The two water providers serving the people of North Lincolnshire are Severn Trent and Anglian Water.
Households in North Lincolnshire with Severn Trent will pay an average of £335 from April 2013 to March 2014, a rise of 2.2 per cent.
Households with Anglian Water will pay an even higher average bill, of £434, a rise of 2.8 per cent.
On average, households in England and Wales will see their water bill rise by about £13 for the year from April.
Regina Finn, Ofwat chief executive officer, said: "When we set limits on prices, we listened to customers. They told us they wanted bills kept down, while maintaining safe, reliable water supplies. We challenged companies hard to deliver this. Our decision meant that, before inflation, average bills would remain broadly stable between 2010 -15.
"We understand that any bill rise is unwelcome, particularly in tough economic times. Inflation feeds through into water bills, and this is driving these rises.
"We will make sure customers get value for money. Companies are investing £22 billion by 2015 – more than £935 for every property in England and Wales. This will deliver benefits to us all – from continuing to improve reliability of supplies to cleaner rivers and beaches.
"If companies don't deliver on their investment promises, we will take action."


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CLEMSON — Prior to Clemson's first spring practice Wednesday, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney was in excellent spirits. He high-fived players during stretching and laughed and chatted with visitors, which included New York Jets coach Rex Ryan, whose son, Seth, is a hopeful walk-on player at Clemson.
Swinney has reason to be enthusiastic as Clemson begins preparation for the 2013 season. For the first time in two years, Clemson is not introducing a new coordinator or scheme on either side of the ball. Clemson is not breaking in green linemen, nor do the Tigers have a quarterback controversy. Clemson is expected to be a preseason top 10 team because of the continuity it will enjoy coming off an 11-win season.
"We are way ahead of where we were last (spring)," Swinney said. "Last year we were replacing both lines and we worried about winning six games. … (Defensive coordinator) Brent (Venables) didn't know anybody, we were trying to get the chemistry right. We are going to be pretty good on defense — I'll be very disappointed if we're not. We have some guys who played through a whole season as freshmen and sophomores and gained a lot of experience.
"We are in the third year of our system, offensively, we have our starting quarterback back, and we got a lot of guys back up front who have got experience."
Star receiver Sammy Watkins is back, entering his junior season more fit than he was a year ago. He moved around well Wednesday.
His spring status appeared to be in doubt Dec. 31 when he left the Chick-fil-A Bowl with what appeared to be a serious lower leg injury. It was just a scare.
Watkins dedicated his offseason to improved diet and is in better shape physically this spring at 208 pounds.
"I think last year what I did was I was so weak, I had aches and bruises, because I wasn't eating right," Watkins said. "Same thing what DeAndre (Hopkins) did, he got healthy and big his junior year and that's what I'm trying to do."
Clemson starting corners Darius Robinson (leg) and Bashaud Breeland (groin) and nickel corner Martin Jenkins (sports hernia) all participated in practice and appeared to be near full health after missing time last season.
Clemson offensive coordinator Chad Morris worked with the quarterbacks Wednesday, a group that included Heisman hopeful Tajh Boyd. This offseason it was unclear if either Morris or Boyd would be back for 2013.
Morris interviewed for several head coaching positions, and after the bowl win Boyd was leaning toward turning pro.
Of course, Swinney notes every college team has some questions to answer.
Clemson has to replace a record-setting receiver in Hopkins and a 1,000-yard running back in Andre Ellington. Still, Swinney is confident the Tigers have the playmakers to remain a productive offense.
"(Charone Peake) is ready for more," Swinney said. "He's going to get more. (Adam Humphries) is a guy we feel good about. I'm hoping Martavis (Bryant) stays on track. We have a lot of good candidates at receiver. We'll be fine.
"I think that anyone who watched us play last season saw that (running back) Roderick McDowell has a lot of promise."
Also in the new $9 million indoor practice facility Wednesday was redshirt freshman quarterback Chad Kelly, who could be the future of the program at quarterback but is behind Cole Stoudt in the race to be the team's No. 2 quarterback this spring. That a backup quarterback competition is one of the most interesting storylines this spring says much about where Clemson is in 2013: it's entering March at its strongest point in any of the five springs under Swinney.
"We have a lot of work to do before (Georgia on Aug. 31)," Swinney said. "It's a new journey."
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After a sluggish outing against Charlotte, Boston looks to rebound at home tonight against Chicago.
The first key is for the Celtics to be active and play with energy at the defensive end. The Bulls have scored over 95 points in seven of their last eight games, going over one hundred in three of those contests.
The main ingredient to Chicago's offensive success is balance. With Avery Bradley out, Courtney Lee and Jason Terry will be responsible for running around and fighting through screens, to keep up with Richard Hamilton. When he leaves the game, things do not get any easier, as the second-unit features sharpshooter Marco Belinelli. Luol Deng is averaging 17.8 points per game and is incredibly effective off the dribble. Paul Pierce will have to keep up with the taller, more-athletic Deng, compromising his ability to get to the rim, while being able to contest the pull-up-jumper, which is one of his go to moves.
Down low, Chicago features the hyperactive Joakim Noah, who is an adept passer, and Carlos Boozer, who is averaging 24 points per game and 10.8 rebounds in the month of January.
Derrick Rose remains sidelined and the offense has received plenty of criticisms even when he was in the line up; however, when x-factors such as Hamilton, Deng and Boozer are producing at such a high level, the offense becomes lethal.
The second key to the game is rebounding. Tom Thibodeau's team is very active on the glass, and ranks seventh in rebounds per game, producing 43.7 a night.
If the Celtics can force misses and box out, they can control this game. This combination will create significantly easier scoring opportunities against a Chicago team that ranks third in points allowed per game, surrendering just 91.7 a contest.
The third key to tonight's game is the bench. If Boston's second-unit continues to play physical, and with energy, it will help to wear down the Bulls and go a long way towards earning a victory.


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Joseph Fiennes is close to signing a deal to join the cast of FX's "American Horror Story" as a series regular for Season 2.
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Updated: 10/23/2012 10:50 PM KSTP.com By: Chris Egert
Tuesday night was moving night for a local program that provides horse therapy to people with disabilities.
The organization called "We Can Ride" found out it cannot ride at the University of Minnesota St. Paul campus anymore, much to the dismay of client Nadine Anthony.
Her life is horses.
After a stroke three years ago, she thought she'd never ride again.
"They saved my life, literally," Anthony told us.
Thanks to "We Can Ride" she and 300 adults and children in the metro with disabilities, get to dust off the saddle once a week. Riding the horse makes her feel like her body still works again, she said it makes kids who sit in a wheelchair all their lives feel proud, and tall, if only for a short time.
But she and around 120 other clients will no longer be able to use the University of Minnesota's Equine Center in St. Paul for their therapy. There are other locations around the area, but this one is the only one in the city.
The U has decided it isn't renewing the lease.
Brad Thorsen is the group's executive director. Thorsen admits, "We did not plan for this to happen."
We were there as volunteers packed up Tuesday night to start relocating this part of the operation to Hastings.
Trevor Ames is dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine. Ames says he takes this cut personally, "For me it is a sad day that we can't continue our relationship with this very valuable program."
The U of M says it needed the space for its programs, couldn't afford to assist the non-profit anymore, and faced losing accreditation because of the group's animals being on university property.
Tuesday it was saddles; Wednesday it will be the horses that head off to Hastings. Nadine Anthony says she may follow them, she's now considering moving from her South Minneapolis retirement community.
Anthony told us, "I don't feel whole unless I'm with a horse, on a horse, and smell like a horse."
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Originally Posted by AgX
I consider this an internet myth.
FED2 owner here.
It's not a myth.
5x7 Eastman-Kodak kit, under the knife for a bit
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On topic, I recently acquired a J-8 lens, a black one from 1975. Sample size of one here, not statistically significant.
After de-oiling the aperture and blackening the blades, and removing an amazing quantity of nasty grease from the rest of the lens mount and aperture ring, and removing some incredibly stubborn haze from the internal glass surfaces - I'm very pleasantly surprised with a lens that behaves just like a coated version of the 5cm/2 uncoated Sonnar I had on a prewar Contax II. The focussing is as silky smooth as any lens I've owned. It's not a modern lens and don't expect it to act like one, but it's more than sharp enough at say f;4/5.6 and a lot of fun to use!
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But it's not a sample of one!
I've read an article about using vibrations to center lens elements during re-assembly. Hence my I-61 remark, I just need a spanner wrench.
Russian glass was made really well, metal parts have measurable tolerances, that were rather strict, and the main problem was the assembly made by hand and the toll that the time took afterwards. Workers were working in a society, where sober people usually cooperated with the regime, vodka was the common way to control the masses, it was used to survive the working day, as well as to socialize on Sundays and holidays, cure diseases and survive the bitter Siberian cold. Also, there was a system of quantity standards (rather, than quality). So if there was a plan to make X lenses, plus 20% to please some people, the lenses could have been produced incomplete, out of incompatible or rejected parts (mixing parts from two production series would be a hypothetical example here).
So yes, cleaning and careful re-assembly will sometimes make things better.
Use the Force, Luke!
If you want to start using rangefinder cameras, a Zorki is probably not the best place to start.
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Originally Posted by AgX
I consider this an internet myth.
Depends on how the shutter dial is constructed. With an early camera that has the pointer on the top of the camera, after you fire the shutter you don't know what speed is set on the dial, so you don't know where the dial rotation stops. I would suppose a heavy handed person could twist the dial around past the stopping point and damage the pin/plate system. With later cameras where the pointer is in the center of the speed dial you know where the stopping point is and you know how to set the dial.
Second E von Hoegh and j-dogg. I have a Leica IIIa and IIIf and a Kiev 4a, and I'm very careful about cocking the shutter first. After a while, this becomes second nature.
Wow!! Just checked back on this post and saw all the fantastic replies so far. Lots of great info. I'll have to save this thread as a user manual..... Thanks to all!!!
Incredibly detailed info! Thanks for taking the time to post this. It is definitely appreciated.
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I've owned several Zenit cameras (E, 12 XP, 3M) FED 5 and Zorkis S and 4. These are hard to beat, some parts are interchangeable across whole family. Funky breed, but as long, as the job is done, I won't complain. I prefer bottom-loading models, but it's a matter of taste.
My suggestions:
Take notes like mad.
Take a note which lens was on which camera (note SN). Note which camera was in which case. I hope your cameras have modern 1/4'' tripod threads BTW, but it may be not the case, old models come with wider 3/8'' threads.
Unscrew the lens, take off the rear plate. Clean the camera thoroughly. Check for loose screws. Clean the pressure plate carefully - this is the only place where a stubborn metal particle will scratch the film.
Look how the camera behaves. Cock the shutter, change speeds, fire a couple of times. The shutter should travel really quickly. Sprocket wheel should turn. You should see shutter curtains moving as you wind the knob.
Shutter curtains should be black/dark gray cloth, even, flat, looking like new, with black metal tapes on the ends. Blow the dust out of it, don't ever dare to touch it. If the curtains are looking dirty, funky or cracked, check out if there are no pinholes in it.
If one or both curtains travel slowly, the camera will need a service. Don't believe in flexing "stalled grease" - if it's dense now, it will only get denser later. It ay behave better just to get worse afterwards or in the cold. (Part of my own testing usually takes place in seriously sub-freezing conditions, but that's just me). CLA, however, can be done with a Swiss Army Knife literally, and a borked camera is an opportunity here.
Check if slow speeds are working normally. Go through all shutter times, though 1s will show what's going on really. Play a lot and watch carefully for anything suspicious, like non-parallel curtains.
Check if self-timer is OK: cock the shutter, cock the timer, press the button above the timer lever. If timer is malfunctioning, you may simply avoid using it.
Check if the rewind collar works. You should be able to rotate the collar around the shutter, it should go down a bit. To wind the film later, use the rewind knob (rotating it will make the sprocket wheel turn freely). The shutter button also rotates (for shooting with "T" time, when "B" time is set). After rewinding the film, the shutter button may stuck in "locked" position.
Set the shortest time. Fire against something bright. Be sure to watch carefully if the light goes through on all the edges of a frame. If the light gets through at the edges, you're done with visual tests of the body. Clean it all one more time.
Now the lens. Jupiter lenses have no clicking f-stops. Be sure the f-stop scale rotates all the way and that it's aligned properly (= doesn't go outside of the range, isn't shifted etc.)
Clean the lenses carefully, but really well. You want to do this once only, so do this like you will only do this once. Blow, brush, microfiber with rubbing alcohol, in this order. Check for scratches, internal dust and fungus. You'll have to live with whatever there will be.
Check if the lenses operate smoothly through full focus range - often the grease (I believe they've used thick animal lard for the lenses and self-timer, hence the funky smell) polymerizes and becomes waxy. I'm a lousy, lazy person, so I lube them without disassembling - a single drop or twoo between the coupling ring (the part sticking out on the back of the lens as you change the focus) and the outer barrel gets the job done. People here will hate me for this, but it doesn't oil up glass or blades, at least in my case. The focus should be easier to move than the aperture ring - it's not a rule, but it's good that way. Loose aperture ring is a disaster.
Screw the lens back, cover it with the lid.
Check if the rangefinder works. There's an green-ish or yellow-ish image patch in the middle of the viewfinder with the imposed image moving together with a movement of a coupler sticking out a bit from the lens mount. Two images should become one when a given thing is in focus. Check the rangefinder with the lens set for infinity (any distant object will work), forget the close range for now. If there's a slight vertical misalignment - live with it, it needs the top of a camera to be disassembled to fix, but it's not critical to focus correctly. Horizontal misalignment is relatively easy to adjust: unscrew a short screw in front of the camera, right next to the viewfinder (to the bottom left corner). Behind it there's a tiny screw that regulates horizontal alignment. Just be gentle, it's a small screw on a small, moving part inside. Use no force. Adjust, check, adjust, check.
If the lever visible in the lens mount isn't as agile, as it should, and sticks in a given position or doesn't move at all, it may need some oil.
Check if diopter adjustment works. It should zoom-in zoom-out the image while looking through the viewfinder. I leave mine zoomed out, I wear something like -4d glasses, so I'm able to work this way. Despite what people here say, Zorki 3/4 is not glasses-friendly, there's not much of an eye point - Zorki 1/Zorki S type of viewfinder works better for me, I don't have to fiddle with my glasses. If you're worried with scratching glasses, use a single piece of electrical/duct tape on the top of the ring and you're set for a while. However, you won't be able to frame correctly with glasses on.
If there are no obvious flaws so far, put a test roll in the camera. Prepare a "test scene". With Jupiter lenses at f/8-f/11 you should be barely able to tell apart millimeter lines on a ruler from around 3m (close to image center). Set a tripod or put a camera on a table, measure the distance. Use moderately flat subject, like a bookshelf or a small table. Put something 30 cm closer, keep something slightly in the back. Use something with a small regular pattern, like a ruler or a printed page. Make two blank exposures, frame the subject carefully, draw on a piece of paper at least a postcard-size sketch of what's in frame and what's outside of it - this way you'll know how to frame these marvels next time. Diffused or flat (a lamp directly above the camera) lighting works better, but the test subject should consist of contrasty non-reflective objects.
Be sure to make one exposure at f/2 and one at f/11 and whatever you need in between. There's not much sense of shooting test images above f/11. Note the parameters of each shot. The first is to test the focus accuracy, the second - to test the maximum lens resolution, so you may repeat the same test with your best lens and compare the results. Be 200% sure the camera is stable and doesn't move between the shots too much, and that it's focused in the way, that makes you sure you know what you're doing: measure the distance with a tape measure, and check if the rangefinder shows ore or less the same. Note down the difference, when measuring both ways (I'd go with whatever rangefinder wants). Put something heavy on a camera if it would wobble. Shoot 1-2 more frames around the house. Change the lens and repeat. Take the camera outside. Make sure the camera got some sun from all six sides (this is how I check for light leaks, with a lens cap on). Shoot some more as you would shoot normally. Take notes. Shoot something at the fastest shutter speed. Be sure to shoot something totally even and featureless, best if at 1/60 - as said before: blue sky works great. The sun may burn a hole in the curtain, so use a cap when not shooting. Use a flash for some shots if you use flash at all. I don't.
Get back, develop the film ASAP. Check for signs of light leaks on the film. Check frame spacing and alignment. Check for even exposure across the frame on the sky photo - an uneven exposure with lighter and darker vertical band(s) is called banding. One reason is for these is disturbed curtain movement (=camera needs cleaning), the other - if eg. one edge is not exposed at all - is a sign of misaligned or unevenly tensioned curtains, it happens at the fastest shutter speeds mostly. One edge totally black is most likely a case of stalled grease in the curtain rolls.
Cut the film, scan it or make prints. Use a DSLR and enlarger if you don't want to waste paper - I'm puting DSLR body directly under the enlarger and use the sensor instead of a photo paper (focusing the enlarger is tricky). I'd only care for some specific parts of the image. First, I'd check if the focus is OK on the f/2 shot, or if BF/FF needs to be taken care of. Later, I'd go for the regular pattern in the center. I'd enlarge enough to see the grain really clearly and digitize this part of each test frame.
If you're lucky, you'll have two working marvels with two great Sonnar-like lenses. More likely both cameras will be off here and there and the lenses will differ in image quality. Nevermind what people write, Jupiter 8 is worse than, let's say, Pentax-M lens, but it may not be that far. It's a soft-ish, magical lens wide open and a good, sharp lens closed down.
Those are the things to look at when the cameras arrive. Quite a lot of things. This is how it looks in my case. A new camera is at least half of wasted roll. But if it works - it works, and I have my mind clear afterwards and I can focus on what to photograph and how, not how the tool will behave on a given date.
Those are old, crudely made, but reparable cameras, most likely serviced every decade or so. What went wrong with my four rangefinders: 100% had rangefinder misalignment, one stuck rangefinder cam (corroded Fed 5 body), one shutter with an old grease, all FSU lenses needed relubing, one (I-61 L/D) isn't sharp at all and has a fungus, so I think I'll learn something new with that buddy. All needed serious cleaning. All had good curtains.
Apart from that - curiously similar FSU SLRs are more prone to failures. I've got some broken ribbons and missing teeth somewhere under the wind lever. Also silver coming off of the prism.
Good luck!
Be careful of the eyepiece if you wear glasses. Can scratch.
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Lamar, well, this is Soviet gear. It was made to work, not to be smooth, comfortable or intuitive. I've figured you might need the info not to get frustrated. And some luck to have a pair of working cameras ("working" is the key word here, not "fully operable" )
After shooting for 22 years with "Warsaw Pact" cameras only (that's FSU, Polish and East Germany gear) I have to say I love Ricoh and Pentax, even though it's delicate. And I'm still making errors, like converting a FED 5 rangefinder into a pinhole camera with ~24mm focal length - it's hard to guess that in advance, but the rangefinder cam made some considerable changes to the image.
Please, drop us a line, show us some photos as soon as you have it